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CENTENNIAL   HISTORY 

OF 

MISSOURI 

(THE  CENTER  STATE) 

One  Hundred  Years  in  the  Union 

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ILLUSTRATED 


VOLUME  III 


ST.  LOUIS— CHICAGO 

THE  S.  J.  CLARKE  PUBLISHING  COMPANY 

1921 


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TO  NEW  YORK 
■PUBLIC  LIBRARY 


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JULIUS   S.  WALSH 


Biographical 


JULIUS  S.  WALSH. 


Julius  S.  Walsh,  long  a  leading  figure  in  financial  and  commercial  circles  of 
St.  Louis  and  recognized  as  one  of  America's  most  able  financiers,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 1,  1842,  in  the  city  which  is  still  his  place  of  residence.  He  is  a  son  of  Edward 
and  Isabella  (de  Mun)  Walsh,  the  former  of  Irish  extraction  and  the  latter  of 
French  lineage.  Edward  Walsh  emigrated  from  Ireland  to  the  United  States  in 
1815,  settling  first  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  whence  three  years  later  he  removed 
to  St.  Louis  and  here  organized  the  firm  of  J.  &  E.  Walsh,  with  which  he  was  con- 
tinuously identified  to  the  time  of  his  death  in  1866. 

In  the  acquirement  of  his  education  Julius  S.  Walsh  attended  the  St.  Louis 
University  and  also  St.  Joseph's  College  at  Bardstown,  Kentucky,  from  which  institu- 
tion he  was  graduated  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1861.  He  began  reading  law 
under  the  direction  of  the  Hon.  John  M.  Krum,  a  distinguished  attorney  of  St. 
Louis,  and  subsequently  entered  the  law  department  of  Columbia  College  of  New 
York  city,  winning  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  upon  his  graduation  in  1864.  St.  Louis 
University  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  in  186  5  and  about  four 
decades  later,  or  in  1904,  he  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  from  the  same 
institution.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  state  of  New  York  and  left  college 
with  the  intention  of  becoming  an  active  member  of  the  legal  profession,  but  the 
death  of  his  father  occurred  soon  afterward  and  his  time  and  energies  were  demanded 
in  other  directions.  He  had  been  his  father's  associate  in  business  for  two  years 
prior  to  his  demise  and  knew  more  intimately  than  anyone  else  the  nature  of  the 
operations  in  which  the  firm  had  been  engaged.  Accordingly  he  was  chosen  to 
settle  the  estate  and,  although  scarcely  twenty-four  years  of  age,  took  up  the  tasks 
in  connection  therewith  and  discharged  them  so  capably  that  he  won  the  favorable 
recognition  and  approval  of  prominent  financiers  of  the  city.  He  became  his  father's 
successor  on  the  directorate  of  various  large  corporations  and  in  his  opinions  con- 
cerning intricate  business  problems  displayed  a  thorough  knowledge  and  mastery 
of  the  situation,  with  a  keen  outlook  into  future  possibilities.  Thus  led  through  the 
force  of  circumstances  into  active  connection  with  business  enterprises  rather  than 
professional  life,  he  passed  on  to  positions  of  executive  control.  He  was  identified 
with  the  street  railway  lines  of  St.  Louis  from  1870  and  was  chosen  to  the  presi- 
dency of  the  Citizens'  Railway  Company  and  of  the  Fair  Grounds  &  Suburban 
Railway  Company,  while  a  few  years  later  he  became  the  president  of  the  Union  Rail- 
way Company,  the  People's  Railway  Company,  the  Tower  Grove  &  Lafayette  Railway 
Company,  and  the  Cass  Avenue  &  Fair  Grounds  Railway  Company.  He  also  pro- 
jected and  built  the  Northern  Central  Railway.  His  operations  were  continu- 
ally broadening  in  extent,  and  his  ability  to  plan  and  perform  made  his  cooperation 
sought  in  various  directions.  His  work  in  behalf  of  the  St.  Louis  Agricultural 
&  Mechanical  Association,  of  which  he  was  elected  president  in  1874,  is  particularly 
noteworthy.  Previous  to  that  year  the  fair  grounds  were  kept  closed  except 
one  week  each  year.  Mr.  Walsh  saw  the  opportunity  for  utilizing  them  in  many 
directions  and  during  the  four  years  when  he  occupied  the  chief  administrative 
office  of  the  association  the  grounds  were  beautified,  new  buildings  erected,  the 
zoological  gardens  established  and  various  other  improvements  made  that  con- 
verted the  grounds  into  one  of  the  favorite  places  of  amusement  and  recreation  for 
the  people  of  St.  Louis.  Recognizing  further  opportunities  iA  the  business  world, 
he  began  investigating  the  subject  of  making  improvements  at  the  mouth  of  the 
Mississippi  river  and  in  1875  was  elected  president  of  the  South  Pass  Jetty  Com- 
pany and  thus  served  until  the  improvement  was  completed,  giving  a  full  navigable 
depth  from  the  mouth  of  the  Mississippi  to  the  port  of  New  Orleans  for  the  largest 

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sea-going  vessels.  From  1875  until  1890  he  was  the  president  o£  the  St.  Louis  Bridge 
Company,  his  work  in  that  connection  proving  of  the  utmost  benefit  to  the  city  at 
large.  In  1882  he  was  elected  to  the  directorate  of  the  Third  National  Bank,  one 
of  the  strongest  moneyed  institutions  of  St.  Louis,  and  he  was  also  identified  as 
a  director  with  the  Laclede  National  Bank,  the  Merchants-Laclede  National  Bank, 
the  North  Missouri  Railroad  Company,  the  St.  Louis,  Kansas  City  &  Northern  Rail- 
road Company,  the  Wabash  &  Western  Railroad  Company,  the  Ohio  &  Mississippi 
Railroad  Company  and  the  Batlimore  &  Ohio  Southwestern  Railroad  Company,  while 
in  1888  he  was  chosen  chief  executive  officer  of  the  Municipal  Light  &  Power  Com- 
pany. In  1895  Mr.  Walsh  was  elected  vice  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Terminal 
Railroad  Association  and  the  following  year  was  chosen  to  the  presidency  of  an 
organization  controlling  the  terminal  privileges  of  twenty-two  lines  of  railroad 
centering  at  St.  Louis  and  later  became  chairman  of  the  board  of  directors,  which 
position  he  now  retains.  During  his  term  of  office  as  president,  he  brought  about 
the  unification  of  the  terminal  situation  at  St.  Louis.  In  1890  he  organized  the 
Mississippi  Valley  Trust  Company,  which  developed  under  his  guidance  until  it  is 
now  one  of  the  strongest  institutions  of  its  kind  in  the  west.  He  was  first  president 
of  the  Trust  Company,  which  office  he  occupied  until  January,  1906,  when  he 
resigned  to  become  chairman  of  the  board  of  directors,  of  which  position  he  is  the 
present  incumbent.  He  is  also  president  of  the  Mississippi  Glass  Company,  and  a 
member  of  the  board  of  commissioners  of  Tower  Grove  Park.  Mr.  Walsh  was  one 
of  the  directors  of  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  Company  and  acted  as  a 
member  of  the  committee  on  agriculture  and  as  chairman  of  the  committee  on 
transportation.  Various  other  corporations  have  felt  the  stimulus  of  his  coopera- 
tion and  the  benefit  of  his  wise  counsel  and  discriminative  judgment.  The  power 
he  has  displayed  in  bringing  into  harmonious  working  order  varied  and  complex 
Interests,  his  inflexible  adherence  to  a  high  standard  of  commercial  ethics  and  his 
thorough  understanding  of  a  business  situation,  its  uses  and  abuses,  have  gained 
him  recognition  as  one  of  the  country's  "captains  of  industry." 

On  the  11th  of  January,  1870,  Mr.  Walsh  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Josie  Dickson,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Charles  K.  Dickson,  of  St.  Louis.  Their  chil- 
dren are  seven  in  numiier,  namely:  C.  K.  Dickson;  Julius  S.,  Jr.;  Robert  A.  B.; 
N.  S.  Chouteau;  Isabelle,  the  wife  of  Charles  L.  Palms;  Ellen  Humphreys,  who  is  the 
wife,  of  William  Maffitt;  and  Mary  Josephine,  who  gave  her  hand  in  marriage  to 
Captain  John  S.  Bates.  That  Mr.  Walsh  is  appreciative  of  the  social  amenities  of 
life  is  indicated  in  his  membership  in  the  St.  Louis,  University,  Kinloch,  Noonday 
and  Country  Clubs  of  St.  Louis  and  the  Union  Club  of  New  York.  He  has,  moreover, 
served  as  vice  president  of  the  Mercantile  Library  Association  and  as  president  of 
the  St.  Louis  Association  of  the  Columbia    (New  York)    University  Alumni. 


WILLIAM    ROCKHILL   NELSON. 

Kansas  City  with  its  splendid  park  and  boulevard  system,  its  beautiful  homes,  its 
public  baths,  its  art  museum,  its  high  standards  of  civic  virtue  and  of  civic  pride,  is 
a  monument  to  the  life  of  William  Rockhill  Nelson,  for  in  all  these  things  and  many 
others  of  potent  worth  he  had  deep  concern  and  was  most  influential  in  bringing  about 
progress  along  these  lines.  Said  one  who  knew  him  well:  "In  his  view  nothing  was 
too  big,  nothing  too  good  for  Kansas  City."  To  the  world  he  became  known  as  the 
editor  of  the  Kansas  City  Star,  and  the  Star  was  recognized  as  the  exponent  and  the 
defender  of  all  that  has  to  do  with  the  uplift  of  the  individual,  the  community  and  the 
commonwealth. 

Mr.  Nelson  was  born  in  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana,  March  7,  1841.  For  three  cen- 
turies his  ancestors  had  lived  on  the  American  continent  and  his  forefathers  were 
among  the  builders  of  cities,  including  Harlem,  Brooklyn  and  Poughkeepsie,  New  York 
and  others  farther  west.  The  ancestral  line  was  also  represented  in  the  early 
colonial  Indian  wars  and  in  the  Revolution.  His  great-grandfather,  John  Nelson, 
fought  for  the  cause  of  independence  and  his  valor  and  loyalty  was  later  recognized 
in  the  gift  of  five  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Tompkins  county.  New  York.  John  Nelson's 
son,  Leonard  Nelson,  a  farmer,  wedded   Mary   De  Groff,  daughter  of   Moses  De  G;:off,  a 


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representative  of  a  family  conspicuous  for  their  patriotic  service  during  the  Revolu- 
tionary war  period.  Isaac  De  Groff  Nelson,  son  of  Leonard  and  Mary  Nelson,  and 
father  of  William  Rockhill  Nelson,  was  born  in  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  and  in  1836 
removed  with  his  three  sisters  to  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana.  He  was  at  that  time  a  young 
man  of  twenty-six  years.  At  his  death  in  1891,  the  Times  of  South  Bend,  Indiana, 
spoke  of  him  as  a  "broad-gauged,  noble-hearted,  public-spirited  man  who  gave  prestige, 
stability  and  fame  to  the  Summit  City  and  to  Allen  county."  He  was  one  of  the 
commissioners  appointed  to  oversee  the  construction  of  the  statehouse  in  Indianapolis 
and  whose  frugal  management  led  to  the  construction  of  the  building  not  only  within 
the  amount  allotted  for  the  purpose  but  also  left  a  surplus  to  be  returned  to  the 
state  treasury.  Isaac  D.  Nelson  married  Elizabeth  Rockhill,  daughter  of  William 
Rockhill,  a  native  of  New  Jersey,  who  in  1819  removed  to  Indiana  and  became  promi- 
nently identified  with  the  upbuilding  of  the  state,  being  one  of  its  first  representatives 
in  congress.  He  engaged  extensively  in  farming  and  was  probably  the  first  man  in 
the  world  to  plant  a  thousand  acres  of  corn.  Such  is  the  ancestry  from  which  William 
Rockhill  Nelson  sprang. 

The  boyhood  of  the  future  editor  of  the  Star,  as  he  himself  described  it,  was  a 
period  of  insurgency.  He  chafed  at  restraint  and  rule,  but  there  came  into  his  life 
certain  influences  which  turned  this  spirit  of  insurgency  into  a  fighting  force  for 
the  right.  He  would  never  succumb  to  the  domination  of  injustice  to  the  many  and  he 
did  not  hesitate  to  express  his  honest  convictions.  On  one  occasion  in  his  youth,  after 
participating  in  some  mischievous  prank,  he  was  called  before  his  father  and  on  being 
questioned  told  the  full  truth.  The  father's  response  was:  "Well,  thank  God,  you  are 
not  a  liar,  anyway."  He  then  told  the  son  to  come  to  him  when  in  trouble  and  he 
would  see  him  through.  The  incident  made  a  deep  impression  upon  the  mind  of  the 
youthful  culprit.  That  he  had  early  become  a  factor  of  force  in  his  home  community 
is  indicated  in  his  being  called  to  act  as  secretary  when  a  meeting  of  the  substantial 
business  men  of  his  town  was  held  to  draft  resolutions  opposing  secession.  As  a 
young  man  he  read  law.  Later  with  a  partner  he  engaged  in  growing  sea-island  cotton 
in  Georgia,  but  the  venture  proved  unsuccessful.  Returning  to  his  native  city  he 
took  up  contracting,  building  roads,  bridges  and  buildings.  In  this  connection  he  was 
instrumental  in  promoting  the  first  good-roads  law  passed  in  Indiana  and  forever 
afterward  was  a  stalwart  champion  of  the  good  roads  movement. 

From  young  manhood  Mr.  Nelson  was  deeply  interested  in  politics  and  his  great 
admiration  was  won  by  Samuel  J.  Tilden  through  the  latter's  courage  in  fighting  the 
Tweed  ring.  He  ever  regarded  him  as  one  of  America's  constructive  statesmen  and 
carried  as  a  guiding  factor  in  his  own  life  the  words  which  he  heard  Tilden  utter: 
"While  it  is  a  great  thing  to  lead  armies,  it  is  a  greater  thing  to  lead  the  minds  of 
men."  Throughout  his  life  the  pictures  of  Tilden,  Cleveland  and  Roosevelt  hung 
above  his  desk  as  those  of  three  great  constructive  leaders  in  American  citizenship. 

Mr.  Nelson  was  thirty-five  years  of  age  when  he  turned  to  what  really  became  his 
life  work.  With  his  cotton  growing  venture  in  Georgia  there  had  been  established  by 
himself  and  his  partner  a  store  which  the  latter  conducted  for  several  years  after  they 
ceased  attempting  to  raise  cotton.  Then  the  store  failed  and  in  its  failure  was  involved 
most  of  Mr.  Nelson's  fortune.  He  had  merely  enough  remaining  to  purchase  an  interest 
in  the  Fort  Wayne  Sentinel.  With  undaunted  enthusiasm  he  turned  to  the  work  Of 
editing  this  newspaper,  in  which  he  saw  an  instrument  that  promised  far  greater 
opportunity  for  achievement  than  the  field  of  politics.  After  a  year  or  two  he  sought 
still  greater  scope  for  his  efforts  in  this  direction  and  in  1880,  after  carefully  looking 
over  the  entire  western  field,  he  and  his  partner  in  the  Fort  Wayne  Sentinel,  Samuel  E. 
Morss,  established  the  Kansas  City  Evening  Star,  the  first  issue  appearing  September 
18,  1880.  A  year  later  he  became  sole  owner  and  from  that  time  put  forth  every  effort 
to  transform  "the  muddiest  city  in  the  country"  into  a  metropolis  of  beauty.  His 
financial  limitations  made  the  publication  of  the  paper  uphill  work  at  first,  but  he 
persevered  and  as  his  capital  increased  he  put  it  back  into  the  paper,  enlarging  and 
improving  it.  In  1882,  with  borrowed  money,  he  bought  The  Mail,  a  small  paper 
with  an  Associated  Press  franchise,  thus  acquiring  the  needed  telegraph  news  service. 
The  development  of  the  Star  was  indicated  in  the  removal  to  a  new  building  in  1889, 
with  the  installation  of  two  new  Potter  presses,  and  in  1894  the  growth  of  the  paper 
necessitated  still  larger  quarters,  which  were  secured  in  what  was  then  one  of  the 
finest  newspaper  buildings  in  the  country.  Another  removal  was  made  in  1911  and 
after  two  years  the  equipment  of  the  plant  was  increased  until  its  capacity  was 
four  hundred  and  twenty  thousand  sixteen-page  papers  an  hour — a  marvelous  growth 


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from  the  little  six-column,  tour-page  sheet  originally  printed.  On  the  29th  of  April,  1894, 
the  first  Sunday  edition  of  the  Star  was  issued  and  on  the  18th  of  November,  1901,  the 
first  morning  edition  was  brought  forth,  following  the  purchase  of  the  Times.  The 
morning,  afternoon  and  Sunday  editions  of  the  paper  were  all  furnished  to  its  sub- 
scribers without  increase  of  the  price — ten  cents  per  week.  On  the  6th  of  March,  1890, 
Mr.  Nelson  brought  out  the  Weekly  Kansas  City  Star,  an  eight-p?ge  paper  for  farmers, 
at  a  subscription  price  of  twenty-flve  cents  per  year,  and  its  circulation  grew  so  rapidly 
that  ere  his  death  it  had  reached  three  hundred  and  fifty  thousand,  being  sent  into 
every  state  of  the  Union  and  into  many  foreign  countries.  Mr.  Nelson  always  had  the 
encouragement  and  support  of  his  wife,  who  in  her  maidenhood  was  Ida  Houston,  a 
daughter  of  Robert  Houston  of  Champaign,  Illinois.  They  were  marriel  November  29, 
1881,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  a  daughter,  Laura,  now  the  wife  of  Irwin  R, 
Kirkwood  of  Kansas  City. 

Mr.  Nelson's  contribution  to  newspaper  pul)lication  included  three  distinct  and 
valuable  innovations:  the  supplying  of  seven  papers  to  subscri))ers  for  ten  cents  weekly, 
followed  by  a  morning  and  evening  edition  and  Sunday  paper  with  no  increase  of  price; 
and  the  publication  of  a  complete  farm  weekly  at  twenty-five  cents  per  year.  These 
prices  were  continued  until  mounting  costs,  during  the  war,  forced  an  increase.  That 
he  was  recognized  as  a  most  prominent  figure  in  newspaper  circles  is  indicated  in  the 
fact  that  he  was  chosen  vice  president  of  the  Associated  Press  in  1902-3  and  from  1905 
until  1914  was  a  me.iiber  of  its  board  of  directors.  His  newspaper  policy  was  expressed 
in  his  instruction  to  his  staff  and  employes:  "Always  keep  in  mind  the  family  that  is 
paying  us  ten  cents  a  week — and  particularly  its  women  members."  One  of  his 
biogi'aphers  said:  "Mr.  Nelson's  methods  in  the  conduct  of  the  Star  were  as  individual 
as  everything  else  he  did.  His  interest  extended  to  the  smallest  details.  But  particu- 
larly in  his  later  years  he  paid  little  attention  to  the  business  aspects  of  the  news- 
paper. His  attention  was  absorbed  in  editorial  duties.  .  .  .  He  almost  never  wrote 
anything  for  the  paper  with  his  own  hand.  He  was  too  busy  for  that.  But  the  day 
rarely  passed  when  he  did  not  outline  one  or  more  articles  of  some  sort.  Almost  always 
in  these  outlined  articles  there  would  be  striking  sentences  which  could  be  used  ver- 
batim. He  was  a  master  of  nervous,  epigrammatic  English.  .  .  .  One  of  his  axioms 
was  that  under  all  circumstances  the  Star  must  be  a  gentleman.  His  staff  knew  that 
he  would  not  sanction  the  publication  of  articles  reflecting  on  the  private  life  of  any 
person,  unless  a  court  proceeding  made  it  necessary.  ...  'I  don't  enjoy  traveling 
in  a  well-trodden  path.'  he  would  say.  'The  Star  should  pioneer.'  If  a  poem  by  Rudyard 
Kipling  or  a  story  by  S.  G.  Blythe  was  the  most  interesting  thing  that  had  come  into 
the  office  on  a  day,  his  instructions  were  to  'play  it  up'  on  the  first  page."  It  was  Mr. 
Nelson's  custom  to  speak  of  "the  Star  family"  and  he  had  the  keenest  personal  interest 
in  all  of  his  staff  of  assistants  and  employes.  His  biographer  has  said;  "It  took  more 
than  brilliancy,  more  than  the  mere  ability  to  write  well,  to  get  a  permanent  position 
on  the  Star.  A  man  had  to  be  the  right  sort,  in  character,  in  reliability,  as  well  as  in 
ability.  But  when  he  had  proved  his  wort'n.  and  had  been  taken  into  the  Star  family, 
Mr.  Nelson  was  his  loyal  friend  through  thick  and  thin,  and  nothing  could  happen,  no 
tongue  could  utter  flings  enough  to  shake  the  loyalty  of  Mr.  Nelson  to  the  men  he 
trusted  and  had  faith  in.  ,  .  .  The  men  who  worked  for  Mr.  Nelson  knew  on  all 
occasions  exactly  what  the  policy  of  the  Star  would  be  upon  any  question,  as  soon  as  it 
arose.  As  soon  as  a  man  was  mentioned  as  a  candidate  for  office  anyone  on  the  Star 
could  tell  you  whether  the  paper  would  oppose  him,  and  the  same  with  political  move- 
ments, and  civic  movements  of  all  kinds.  Were  they  on  the  square  for  the  public 
good?  That  was  all.  If  they  weren't,  it  was  all  settled  beforehand  that  they  could  never 
have  the  support  of  the  Star." 

Throughout  his  editorship  of  the  Star,  Mr.  Nelson  was  the  champion  of  progress  in 
Kansas  City.  He  worked  untiringly  to  promote  its  improvement  and  its  beauty.  He 
labored  indefatigably  for  reform.  He  was  vigorous  in  attacking  measures,  men  or  move- 
ments that  he  deemed  to  be  inimical  to  the  public  good.  When  for  three  months  he 
was  unable  to  leave  his  home  during  his  last  illness,  he_  continued  to  direct  the  editorial 
policy  of  his  paper  and  when  the  Star  was  promoting  a  campiign  to  raise  money  for  the 
Provident  Association  and  he  was  too  weak  to  sit  up,  he  had  the  telephone  held  to 
his  lips  as  he  lay  in  bed  and  dictated  a  sentiment  to  be  printed  across  the  top  of  the 
Sunday  morning  paper:  "On  this  His  day  the  Lord  asks  only  for  His  poor.  If  the  people 
of  Kansas  City  were  as  generous  to  the  Lord  as  the  Lord  has  been  gool  to  them,  there 
would  be  here  no  hunger,  no  poverty,  no  want." 

In  1902,  some  years  after  he  had  established  a  summer  home  in  the  east,  Mr.  Nel- 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  11 

son  built  a  paper  mill  with  capacity  sufficient  to  supply  all  the  white  paper  used  in 
issuing  The  Daily  and  Weekly  Star  and  continued   the  operation  of  the  mill  until  the  _ 
market  conditions   for   ground   wood   pulp,   used   in   paper   manufacture,    would   have 
necessitated  the  building  of  his  own  pulp  mill  in  Canada;   but  he  felt  that  this  venture 
would  have  added  too  great  a  burden  to  him  in  his  advancing  age. 

One  of  his  first  interests  in  Kansas  City  was  to  create  a  public  spirit  and  a  com- 
munity feeling,  and  he  started  out  to  create  public  opinion  in  favor  of  street  paving. 
When  he  advocated  a  cause  he  kept  it  constantly  before  the  people  in  editorials,  in  news 
write-ups,  in  quotations  from  men  who  were  authority  upon  the  subject,  in  cartoons  and 
in  every  possible  way  until  public  opinion  was  with  him.  In  this  connection  it  has 
been  said:  "Street-paving  was  the  first  public  improvement  he  advocated,  and  he 
dealt  not  in  generalities,  but  in  facts  and  figures,  and  modern  instances  and  ancient. 
His  first  triumph  as  a  defender  of  the  faith  was  in  preventing  the  gift  of  the  city's 
streets  to  a  transportation  company  that  had  demonstrated  its  unwillingness  to  fur- 
adequate  street-car  service.  The  greatest  municipal  achievement  in  which  Mr.  Nelson 
aided  (the  parks)  is  inseparable  from  the  interlacing  and  interlinking  system  of 
parkways  and  boulevards — streets  of  superfine  quality,  demonstrating  by  the  manner 
of  their  construction  and  their  systematic  maintenance  what  intelligent  road-making 
might  mean."  In  connection  with  transportation  interests  he  evolved  the  slogan  "Navi- 
gate the  river"  and  advocated  water  transportation  as  a  preventive  measure  of  high 
freight  rates.  He  never  faltered  in  this  until  a  line  of  boats  and  barges  was  put  into 
operation,  connecting  Kansas  City  with  the  greater  waterways  of  the  country.  He  pro- 
moted the  campaign  that  resulted  in  the  building  of  a  six-million-dollar  Union  Station 
in  Kansas  City  and  the  development  of  a  terminal  system  sufficient  to  care  for  the  traffic 
of  the  growing  city,  involving  the  expenditure  of  about  fifty  million  dollars.  On  the 
19th  of  May,  1881,  he  began  a  fifteen-year  campaign  that  at  length  brought  to  Kansas 
City  one  of  the  finest  park  and  boulevard  systems  on  the  face  of  the  globe,  and  in  con- 
nection with  the  boulevards  he  promoted  the  tree  planting  which  has  constituted  one 
of  the  greatest  features  of  beauty  in  Kansas  City.  High  ideals  of  citizenship  which  he 
entertained  made  Mr.  Nelson  a  dominant  force  for  good  government.  Kansas  City  was 
at  one  time  notorious  for  its  gang  rule  and  its  election  frauds.  These  reached  a  climax 
in  1894,  but  the  Star's  work  in  denouncing  and  exposing  election  crooks  was  so  effective 
as  to  arouse  the  city  and  county  and  resulted  in  the  defeat  of  the  gang  ticket  at  the 
polls.  He  labored  untiringly  for  the  passing  of  better  election  laws  by  the  state  legisla- 
ture and  "his  fundamental  democracy  made  him  the  earnest  supporter  of  movements 
to  increase  the  control  of  the  people  over  their  government — the  direct  pirmary,  popu- 
lar election  of  senators,  the  initiative,  referendum,  and  recall  and  the  commission 
form  of  government."  Writing  of  Mr.  Nelson's  policy,  the  New  York  Evening  Post 
said:  "As  a  result  of  all  this,  the  hold  of  the  Kansas  City  Star  upon  its  community  was 
such  that  in  any  situation  that  arose  in  the  affairs  of  the  city — the  location  of  a  park, 
the  undertaking  of  public  works,  or  what  not — its  voice  was  always  potent  and  usually 
decisive.  This  does  not  by  any  means  imply  that  it  could  decide  elections.  It  carried 
no  'vote'  in  its  pocket.  That  is  impossible  for  a  truly  independent  paper:  such  a  paper 
must  always  be  ready  to  fight,  when  necessary,  for  the  side  that  is  almost  sure  to 
lose,  and  to  take  defeat  with  equanimity,  after  having  done  its  best  for  the  cause  it 
thinks  right.  This  is  what  happened  again  and  again  to  the  Kansas  City  Star,  but  its 
influence  and  standing  were  left  quite  unimpaired  by  the  adverse  count  of  noses." 

It  was  characteristic  of  Mr.  Nelson  that  he  never  allowed  one  defeat  to  discourage 
him  but  kept  on  with  his  work  though  it  might  take  years  until  the  reform  or  bene- 
ficial project  for  which  he  was  laboring  had  become  an  established  fact.  He  continued 
a  campaign  for  an  auditorium  in  Kansas  City  for  five  years;  his  campaign  for  viaducts 
and  highways  to  connect  the  two  Kansas  Citys  covered  several  years,  and  it  was  fre- 
quently his  habit  to  send  a  reporter  into  a  community  to  work  up  public  opinion.  He 
became  the  champion  of  municipal  ownership  of  street  railways  and  labored  untir- 
ingly to  secure  protection  from  floods  in  the  Missouri  and  Kaw  rivers,  for  the  lessen- 
ing of  the  smoke  nuisance,  the  installation  of  smoke  consumers,  the  abolition  of  railway 
grade  crossings,  the  suppression  of  unnecessary  noises,  the  support  of  the  annual  clean-up 
of  the  city,  the  improvement  of  alleys  and  back-yards,  the  encouragement  of  the  love 
of  birds,  the  planting  of  trees  and  the  suppression  of  insect  pests,  the  betterment  of 
public  school  conditions  and  in  fact  everything  that  had  to  do  with  the  city's  welfare 
and  progress.  He  did  more  than  almost  any  one  man  to  stimulate  agriculture  in  the 
vicinity  of  Kansas  City.  He  was  untiring  in  his  advocacy  of  the  workmen's  compensa- 
tion bill,  and  his  love  of  democracy  and  his  loyalty  to  the  rights  of  the  people  was 


^2  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

shown  by  his  constant  opposition  to  fraudulent  home  cooperative  comnaniP,   lntt.r,-.= 
policy  games,  loan  sharks,  fee-grabbers,  and  to  lawyers  and  to  doctm^  X  wp  ,    ' 

credit  to  the  profession.     He  became  so  convinced  of  the  evils  of  ^.  L  .J"  '^''" 

1905  he  decided  to  accept  no  more  liquor  adve  tisements  for  hi  ^^Z^'^T"  ^"'■''' 
the  reason  why  the  Star  so  strongly 'opposed  the  sXn  ^e  sa  :  "  C'wHl'^'nf 
me  one  man,  just  one,  that  whisky  has  ever  benefited,  I  will  give  up  my  fight  againsf 
t  and  they  can  have  the  whole  country  to  search  in  for  thft  one  m^n  >  WhT  his 
nterests  centered  m  Kansas  City,  he  was  continually  putting  forth  most  effecUve  effort 
in  the  championship  of  right  and  progress  throughout  the  southwest  and  indeed  in  aU 
sections  of  the  country.  It  was  seldom  that  he  did  not  have  a  crusade  on  hand  for 
the  beneht  Of  his  fellowmen.  Just  before  war  with  Spain  was  declared  he  sent  a  le 
porter  to  Cuba  to  investigate  the  reports  of  starvation  among  the  non-combatanti 
there  and  as  the  result  of  the  report  he  inaugurated  a  movement   for  relierthat^ed 

KansTs  Sty  Them  '""^  '^''"""'  "'  "^^  '""'"■"'  '°"^  °'  ^°-'  -^  clothing  from 
Kansas  City.    The  movement  was  warmly  commended  by  President  McKinlev.     Through 

the  columns  of  the  Star  he  advocated  the  separation  of  the  poor  and  the    nsane    who 

were  boused  together  in  most  miserable  quarters  in  Kansas  City,  and  though  it  .equh-ed 

Zf"^  ''"T  °  ^'■°"''  "'^  ''"'""^'  ''''  '^°""*y  Home.-commodious.  sanitary  and  com- 
fortable-stands  as  a  monument  to  his  humanity,  while  the  insane  of  the  "county  are 
now  cared   for  in  excellent  state   institutions.     Having  improved   poor-farm   conditions 

with^giSi^rresuits"™^' ""''  ^"'^'^"°"  ^°  '^^  ^^"'•'^  ^'^'-  -•  ^^'--"-^  -^''  ^--^ 

FundSnTRS^'A^'^T-r'^"  '°°^  ''''  '°''"^'  ^'"P  '"  establishing  The  Santa  Claus 
Fund  in  1886.  A  contribution  of  nine  hundred  and  thirty-five  dollars  and  ninety-five 
cents  was  secured.  To  this  he  added  two  hundred  and  fifty  pairs  of  shoes  Td  veir 
.J  fH""  'it'  ^"'^  °'  Christmas  distribution  was  carried  on  through  the  ^ircuiaUon 
staff  o  the  Star  until  it  became  too  big  for  the  paper  to  handle.  Every  organ iza  ion  ha" 
desired  to  raise  funds  for  public  purposes  sought  the  cooperation  of  the   S  ar    wS 

fhl  y"m    c\     t'heV'd  P  """^^  Settlement,  the  Boys'  Hotel,  the  Provident  Socilt'on 
tne  Y.  JM.  c.  A.,  the  Red  Cross  and  other  organizations 

In  politics  Mr.  Nelson  ever  maintained   an  independent  course.     He  believed   that 
po  itics  should  be  a  constructive  force  and  he  supported  those  men  who  s  ooi  t^r  con 

ftUuZ'^'"'''T""-    i""' J"'  "'  "°  "'"^  '^°"°^1  '^^  ^"y  P^'-ty  «««  and  his  indepencLnt 
attitude  was  shown  by  his  advocacy  of  Cleveland  for  president  and  at  the  same  tin?e 
his  support  of  Major  William  Warner,  the  republican  candidate  for  governor      Twelve 
years    later    he    championed    the    cause    of    Theodore    Roosevelt    for    president    anT  o^ 
Joseph  W   Polk,  democrat,  for  governor.     Feeling  that  the  progress"  e 'partv  was  taking 
a  forward   step  along  the  line  of  constructive  politics,  he  became  again  the  supporter 
of  Roosevelt  when  he  headed  that  ticket,  and  after  the  election  he  gave  just  as  vgoious 
support  to  the  progressive  policies  promoted  by  Woodrow  Wilson.     He  had  not  the 
slightest  desire    or  public  office,  and  though  he  knew  many  of  the  eminent  men  o'  the 
country,  he  would  never  ask  for  a  political  appointment  or  favor  for  any  of  his  friends 
Mr.  Nelson  s  private  charities  were  most  extensive,  but  he  never  spoke  of  these  if 
It    could    be    avoided.      There    were    almost    countless    recipients    who    benefited    by    hi. 
bounty    which  always  came  in  the  form  of  friendship  and  not  of  duty.     His  was  an 
intensely  religious  nature  and  yet  not  one  that  held  to  dogma  or  creed.     His  religion 
was   of   the   most    practical   character.     In    this    connection    one    long   associated    with 
him  said:     He  felt  that  he  could  best  show  devotion  to  God  by  doing  justly  and  loving 
mercy.     It   was   a   matter   of   religion   with   him    that   the    Star   should    fight    for   high 
Ideals   and   great   causes.     *     *     *     His   reverence   for   God   was   as   real   and   profound 
as   his   devotion   to   his   fellowmen.     In    those    rare    moods   when    he    could    talk    with 
his  associates  about  his  deepest  convictions  he  would  speak  of  his  faith  in  the  Power 
not  ourselves  that  makes  for  righteousness  and  of  his  own  sense  of  obligation      He 
was  serenely  confident  that   the  universe  was  the  expression  of  a  Righteous  Creator 
1     L'°     i*;-,!°     "^^  '''°""'   *""°'Pl^;    and  that  no  evil   could   befall   a  good   man   in 
death.        Wilham    Rockhill    Nelson    passed    from    this    life    April    13,    1915       According 
to  the  terms  of  his  will,  the  income  from  his  estate  was  to  go  to  his  wife  and  daugh- 
ter   and  when  they  pass  on  his  fortune  goes  to  the  city,  the  income  to  be  devoted 
to  the  purchase  of  art  works.     His  agricultural  porperty,  Sni-a-Bar  farms,  comprising 
seventeen  hundred  and  fifty  acres,  is  to  be  conducted  as  a  model  farm  for  the  benefit 
of  the  public  for  several  years  and  then  to  be  sold  and  the  income  from  the  proceeds 
to  be  used  according  to  the  terms  of  his  will  for  art  purposes   in  Kansas  Citv      His 
wife  and   daughter,  as  executors  of  the  estate,  are   continuing  the   publication"  of   the 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI'  13 

Star,   carrying  out   the   spirit   of   its   founder.     After    their   death    the   Star,   too,    is    to 
be  sold   for  the  benefit  of  the  art  fund. 

An  editorial  in  the  Des  Moines  Capital  comments  upon  his  will  as  follows:  "Wil- 
liam R.  Nelson,  owner  and  editor  of  the  Kansas  City  Star,  in  making  arrangements 
for  the  final  disposition  of  his  estate,  turns  it  over  to  Kansas  City  for  an  art  gallery. 
The  income  from  his  property,  carefully  guarded,  will  go  to  the  wife  and  daughter 
during  their  lifetime.  After  that  it  will  pass  into  the  hands  of  a  board  of  trustees 
to  be  sold  and  the  proceeds  used  for  the  purchase  of  art  treasures  for  the  enjoyment 
of  the  people  of  Kansas  City.  We  look  upon  this  as  a  wise  bequest.  With  Colonel 
Nelson  art  was  not  merely  a  rich  man's  fad.  He  was  a  lover  of  the  beautiful.  He 
appreciated  its  refining  power.  He  knew  that  an  appreciation  of  art  is  a  matter 
of  education.  He  loved  Kansas  City,  the  arena  of  his  life  struggles  and  his  life 
triumphs,  and  in  his  desire  to  leave  a  perpetual  monument,  he  has  chosen  wisely.  In 
his  life  he  made  service  to  the  people  a  dominating  passion.  It  was  an  honest  desire 
to  benefit  the  masses  which  caused  him  to  provide  for  the  future  art  enjoyment 
of  the  city  which  he  loved — a  munificent  gift  which  will  make  the  name  of  William 
R.  Nelson  a  treasured  memory  for  generations  to  come."  Collier's  at  the  time  of 
his  death  said:  "Mr.  Nelson  was  much  more  than  merely  a  great  newspaper  man. 
He  was  one  of  the  dozen  important  personalities  of  his  time  in  America.  The  liberal 
and  progressive  movement  which  arose  in  the  middle  west  between  ten  and  twenty 
years  ago  and  came  to  dominate  the  political  and  social  forces  of  the  period,  centered 
largely  around  the  Kansas  City  Star  and  the  other  forces  of  public  opinion  which 
took  their  leadership  from  the  Star."  In  the  same  publication  William  Allen  White 
wrote:  "Mr.  Nelson  literally  gave  color  to  the  life  and  thought  and  aspirations 
of  ten  millions  of  people  living  between  the  Missouri  river  and  the  Rio  Grande  in 
the  formative  years  of  their  growth  as  commonwealths — part  of  the  national  com- 
monwealth. He  and  they  together  were  dreaming  states  and  building  them,  each 
reacting  upon  the  other.  The  aspirations  of  the  people  were  caught  by  his  sensitive 
brain,  and  he  gave  these  aspirations  back  in  the  Star  policies.  Kansas,  Western 
Missouri,  Oklahoma,  Northern  Texas,  New  Mexico,  and  Colorado  form  a  fairly  homo- 
geneous section  of  our  population.  That  section  has  grown  up  on  the  Star.  Its 
religion,  its  conceptions  of  art,  its  politics,  its  business,  its  economic  scale  of  living, 
reflect  the  influence  of  the  indomitable  mind  of  the  man  behind  the  Star,  just  as  he 
gathered  and  voiced  the  latent  visions  of  these  people  and  gave  them  conscious 
form."  Hundreds  of  papers  and  magazines  throughout  the  country  bore  testimony 
to  the  great  work  and  noble  character  of  Mr.  Nelson.  The  Outlook  said  he  "stood 
sincerely,  and  without  a  trace  of  cant,  for  public  welfare."  Harper's  Weekly  said: 
"Colonel  William  R.  Nelson  did  not  wait  for  others  to  set  fashions.  He  began  things 
himself.  For  more  than  thirty  years  he  made  the  Kansas  City  Star  a  force,  a  leader, 
a  help.  He  feared  nobody.  The  forces  and  trenches  of  money  and  society  found  him 
undismayed.  And  he  was  hard-headed  about  it.  His  specialty  was  not  hot  air. 
The  causes  for  which  he  contended  were  immediate,  concrete.  He  dealt  not  in  isms 
but  in  the  next  hard-fought  step  ahead.  He  never  faltered.  He  was  big,  strong 
and  sure.  The  Kansas  City  Star  has  been  the  most  powerful  journal  of  light  between 
the  Mississippi  and  the  Pacific,  and  Colonel  Nelson  was  the  Star."  The  directors 
of  the  Associated  Press  adopted  the  following  resolution:  "That  the  death  of  a 
private  citizen,  who  was  not  the  incumbent  of  a  public  oflnce  and  never  had  been, 
should  be  seriously  characterized  as  a  public  calamity  is  a  high  testimonial  of 
Individual  worth  and  a  conclusive  evidence  of  unusual  accomplishment  in  the  serious 
activities  of  life.  We,  who  enjoyed  the  intimacies  of  personal  association  with 
William  Rockhill  Nelson  during  the  nine  years  he  served  as  a  member  of  this  board, 
feel  that  there  is  no  exaggeration  of  phrase  in  speaking  of  his  passing  from  life 
as  a  public  loss  of  such  moment  that  it  may  be  deliberately  and  truthfully  said: 
'It  was  a  public  calamity.'  Sharing  in  an  exceptional  degree  the  feeling  of  distinct 
personal  bereavement  the  decease  of  a  friend  inevitably  occasions,  we  attest  not  only 
that  sentiment  in  this  formal  record,  but  our  sense  of  the  service  Colonel  Nelson  ren- 
dered to  his  profession,  to  the  city  and  state  in  which  he  lived  and  to  the  whole 
country  during  his  long  and  uccessful  career  as  an  editor  and  publisher.  We  had 
peculiar  opportunities  to  appraise  the  rugged  force  of  his  character,  the  unwaver- 
ing courage  with  which  he  adhered  to  personal  convictions  when  once  established. 
We  know  that  he  made  a  newspaper  that  was  big  enough  to  make  and  shape  the 
development  of  the  community  for  which  it  was  published,  that  it  was  an  exemplar 
of   the    best   and   highest    standards    of   journalism,   and    we    know    as    well    that    this 

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14  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

newspaper   was   in   every  characteristic   feature   merely   a   material    emhotiiment   of   the 
man  who  was  its  owner  and  director." 

President  Wilson  wired:  "The  whole  country  will  mourn  the  loss  of  a  great 
editor  and  citizen,"  while  Ex-President  Taft  spoke  of  him  as  "a  man  of  most  excep- 
tional ability,  great  power,  and  the  widest  influence,  which  he  exercised  with  un- 
daunted courage  for  the  right  as  he  saw  it."  The  message  from  Theodore  Roosevelt 
was:  "We  have  lost  literally  one  of  the  foremost  citizens  of  the  United  States,  one  of 
the  men  whom  our  republic  could  least  afford  to  spare."  E.  A.  Van  Valkenburg.  of 
the  Philadelphia  North  American,  said:  "His  death  is  a  national  calamity."  In  an 
ediotrial  the  Jackson  County  Examiner  said:  "Kansas  City  will  always  bear  the 
impress  of  the  thirty-four  years  in  the  life  of  William  R.  Nelson  as  a  citizen.  His 
work  was  one  of  service,  his  success  was  because  the  people  came  to  know  that  the 
man  and  his  paper  were  trying  to  reach  the  liest  things,  his  proof  of  success  the 
enmity  and  hate  of  so  many  men  upon  whose  selfish  purposes  he  trampled  and 
whose  iniquitous  plans  he  exposed."  The  Republican  of  Springfield,  Missouri,  summed 
up  his  great  life  work  in  the  words:  "The  Greater  Kansas  City  of  today  is  in  no 
slight  degree  the  monument  of  William  R.  Nelson.     He  was  indeed  a  mighty  man." 


WILLIAM    KEENEY    BIXBY. 

William  Keeney  Bixby,  retired  manufacturer  and  art  collector,  whose  deep  in- 
terest in  St.  Louis  and  her  advancement  along  cultural  lines  has  been  manifest  in 
his  many  generous  contributions  to  the  Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  has  after  a  period  of 
substantial  successes  in  business  reached  a  point  where  leisure  enables  him  to 
gratify  his  taste  for  all  the  ennobling  influences  of  life. 

Mr.  Bixby  was  born  in  Adrian.  Michigan,  January  2,  1857.  a  son  of  Alonzo 
Foster  and  Emma  Louisa  (Keeney)  Bixby,  the  former  a  lawyer  by  profession.  The 
family  is  of  English  lineage,  founded  in  America  by  one  of  the  name  who  was  a 
native  of  Suffolk  county,  England,  and  on  crossing  the  Atlantic  became  a  resident 
of  Ipswich,   Massachusetts. 

Completing  a  high  school  course  at  Adrian.  Michigan,  as  a  member  of  the  class 
of  1873,  W'illiam  K.  Bixby  went  in  1874  to  New  Orleans  and  afterward  to  Texas 
where  he  served  as  station  baggage  master  at  Palestine.  He  was  subsequently 
made  train  baggage  master  and  later  became  substitute  railway  mail  agent  and 
then  station  baggage  master  at  Houston.  Further  advancement  brought  him  to  the 
position  of  general  baggage  agent  for  the  International  &  Great  Northern  Railroad 
at  Palestine  and  also  for  the  Texas  &  Pacific  Railroad  at  that  place.  For  a  time  he 
acted  as  general  baggage  agent  for  the  Texas  &  Pacific  and  the  International  & 
Great  Northern  Railroad  and  also  as  station  agent  at  Palestine,  whence  he  removed 
to  St.  Louis,  where  he  has  since  maintained  his  home.  For  a  time  he 
was  stationary  agent  for  the  Missouri  Pacific,  and  the  St.  Louis,  Iron  Mountain  & 
Southern  Railway  at  St.  Louis  and  also  held  a  similar  position  with  the  Wabash. 
On  leaving  the  railroad  service  he  became  connected  with  the  Missouri  Car  & 
Foundry  Company,  originally  filling  the  position  of  lumber  agent,  while  subse- 
quently he  became  purchasing  agent  and  later  was  elected  the  secretary  of  the 
company.  From  that  point  he  advanced  to  the  vice  presidency  and  at  the  same 
time  was  made  general  manager.  At  length  he  became  the  first  president  of  the 
American  Car  &  Foundry  Company  and  afterward  chairman  of  the  board  and  so 
continued  until  his  retirement  from  active  business  in  1905,  having  through  suc- 
cessive stages  of  promotion  and  achievement  gained  a  place  of  distinction  in  busi- 
ness circles  and  a  measure  of  prosperity  that  now  enables  him  to  live  retired.  As 
the  years  passed  he  became  more  or  less  closely  associated  with  many  other  impor- 
tant business  concerns  both  in  St.  Louis  and  elsewhere.  He  was  chosen  to  the 
presidency  of  the  Laclede  Gas  Company,  also  of  the  Provident  Association,  the  Essex 
Investment  Company  and  the  Temple  Realty  Company.  He  became  a  director  of 
the  Missouri  Pacific  Railway,  of  the  St.  Louis  Union  Trust  Company,  of  which  he  was 
made  a  member  of  the  executive  committee,  of  the  First  National  Bank,  the  Wagner 
Electric  Manufacturing  Company,  the  Union  Sand  &  Material  Company,  the  Con- 
solidated Investment  Company,  and  also  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Lake  George, 
New  York.  He  was  appointed  one  of  the  receivers  of  the  Wabash  Railroad  Com- 
pany by  the  late  Judge  E.  B.  Adams. 


WILLIAM   K.   BIXBY 


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The  executive  force,  keen  discrimination  and  marked  business  ability  of  Mr. 
Bixby  were  also  sought  along  other  lines,  many  of  which  were  directly  of  a  public 
character.  He  became  the  vice  president  of  the  Washington  University  and  the 
vice  president  of  the  Missouri  Historical  Society  and  is  president  of  the  board  of 
control  of  the  City  Art  Museum.  All  those  things  which  are  of  interest  and  value 
to  his  fellow  men  have  awakened  his  interest  and  the  breadth  of  his  activities  is 
indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  was  one  of  the  national  incorporators  of  the  American 
Red  Cross,  is  a  member  of  the  Society  for  Study  and  Cure  of  Tuberculosis,  the  St. 
LuTve's  Hospital,  of  which  he  is  also  a  director,  the  Hospital  Saturday  and  Sunday 
Association,  the  Bolton  Improvement  Association  of  New  York,  the  St.  Louis 
Academy  of  Sciences,  the  Bibliophile  Society  of  Boston,  the  Artists'  Guild  of  St. 
Louis,  the  American  Historical  Preservation  Society,  the  American  Anthropological 
Association,  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  the 
New  England  Society  of  St.  Louis,  the  Society  of  Iconophiles  of  New  York,  the 
Antiquarian  of  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  the  New  England  Historical  and  Genea- 
logical Society  of  Boston,  the  Society  for  Preservation  of  New  England  Antiquities 
of  Boston,  and  still  others  which  indicate  the  nature  and  breadth  of  his  interests 
and  his  deep  concern  in  all  those  things  which  promote  intellectual  progress  or 
which  have  their  root  in  broad  humanitarianism.  He  was  appointed  by  the  gov- 
ernor as  a  member  of  the  commission  for  the  decoration  of  the  state  capitol. 

Throughout  his  entire  life  Mr.  Bixby  has  been  a  man  of  strongly  marked  lit- 
erary tastes  and  is  a  member  of  various  book  clubs,  including  the  Grolier  Club  of 
New  York  city,  the  Bibliophile  Society  of  Boston,  the  Caxton  Club  of  Chicago,  the 
Society  of  Dofobs  in  Chicago  and  the  Club  of  Odd  Volumes  of  Boston.  He  is 
president  of  the  Burns  Club  of  St.  Louis  and  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  direc- 
tors of  the  public  library.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Noonday,  Country,  Franklin 
and  the  Bogey  Golf  Club  of  St.  Louis,  the  Lake  George,  the  Saratoga  and  Glens  Falls 
Golf  Clubs  of  New  York  and  the  Middle  Bass  Club  of  Ohio,  and  in  many  of  these  he 
has  held  office. 

In  San  Antonio,  Texas,  on  the  13th  of  June,  1881,  Mr.  Bixby  was  married  to 
Miss  Lillian  Tuttle,  a  daughter  of  Sidney  and  Sarah  (Stewart)  Tuttle.  They  have 
become  the  parents  of  seven  children:  Sidney  T. ;  Emma  Stewart,  the  wife  of  Albert 
Hastings  Jordan;  William  Hoxie,  who  married  Stella  Fresh;  Harold  McMillan,  who 
wedded  Elizabeth  Wise  Case;  Ruth,  the  wife  of  I.  A.  Stevens;  Ralph  Foster;  and 
Donald  Church.  The  religious  faith  of  the  family  is  that  of  the  Congregational 
church  and  Mr.  Bixby  is  also  a  stanch  believer  in  the  principles  and  tenets  of 
Masonry,  in  which  be  has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree.  He  has  served  as 
senior  deacon  in  the  blue  lodge  and  as  a  high  priest  in  the  chapter.  His  political 
support  was  given  to  the  democratic  party  until  the  Bryan  campaign,  since  which 
time  he  has  voted  with  the  republican  party.  Since  leisure  has  permitted  he  has 
given  much  time  to  travel  and  he  and  his  wife  and  son,  Ralph  Bixby,  have  recently 
returned  from  an  extended  trip  to  the  Orient,  where  Mr.  Bixby  improved  his  oppor- 
tunity of  adding  to  his  own  private  collection  of  Oriental  art  and  securing  most 
interesting  art  treasures  of  this  character  for  the  City  Art  Museum  of  St.  Louis, 
thus  giving  to  his  fellow  townsmen  the  opportunity  to  study  the  art  development  of 
China  and  Japan.  It  has  always  been  his  desire  to  share  his  treasures  with  others 
as  proven  by  his  many  gifts  to  St.  Louis  institutions. 


DAVID  BRUNSWICK. 


David  Brunswick,  of  St.  Louis,  who  is  southwestern  manager  for  the  American  Win- 
dow Glass  Company,  has  throughout  his  entire  career  been  connected  with  the  glass  busi- 
ness. His  study  thereof  and  long  experience  have  well  qualified  him  for  the  responsibili- 
ties that  now  devolve  upon  him.  He  is  a  native  son  of  the  city  in  which  he  makes  his 
home,  his  birth  having  here  occurred  November  30,  1873.  His  father,  Julius  J.  Brunswick, 
came  to  America  in  1850  from  Langnau,  Switzerland,  and  for  a  half  century  was  success- 
fully engaged  in  the  hide  and  wool  business  in  St.  Louis.  At  the  time  of  the  Civil  war 
he  responded  to  the  country's  call  for  troops  and  served  as  a  private  for  a  year. 

David  Brunswick  pursued  his  education  in  the  grammar  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  for 
a  year  was  a  high  school  pupil.  He  then  put  aside  his  textbooks  to  provide  for  his  own 
support  and  when  fifteen  years  of  age  became  connected  with  the  glass  business  as  a 

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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 


col  ector  acting  >n  that  capacity  until  he  reached  the  age  of  nineteen,  when  he  was  pro- 
moted  to  the  position  of  city  salesman.  The  same  year  he  was  sent  out  upon  the  road  as  a 
raveling  salesman  and  continued  to  act  in  that  capacity  until  he  reached  the  age  of 
twenty-six,  when  he  began  the  manufacture  of  mirrors,  to  which  he  devoted  the  succeed- 
ing two  years.     He  then  sold  his  busine.ss  to  the  Hadley-Dean  Glass  Company  and  acted 

LI  'r'T  ■'"^'\',f.^'".^'"'  ^  P^"°''  °^  '^''^^  ^^^''^-  He  next  became  local  sales  manager 
tor  the  American  Window  Glass  Company  and  since  has  been  promoted,  eventuallv  win- 
ning the  position  of  southwestern  manager,  in  which  capacity  he  continues  to  the  present 
time    most  capably  and  faithfully  discharging  the  duties  that  devolve  upon  him 

Notw^ithstanding  his  activities  in  business  Mr.  Brunswick  took  a  most  helpful  part 
m  promoting  Liberty  Loan  and  Red  Cross  drives  and  gave  much  time  to  war  work  In 
politics  he  IS  an  independent  republican,  for  while  he  usually  supports  the  part^  he 
does  not  teel  himself  bound  by  party  ties  and  does  not  hesitate  to  cast  his  ballot  as  his 
judgment  dictates  with  regard  to  the  best  interests  of  the  public  at  large     He  belongs  to 

I^:'Z^frl"^"f'':  •^'°-  '''•  ^-  ^-  ^  ^-  ^-  ^"^  ""^^  ^"-"«'  ^'-  thirty-second  Se  of 
the  Scottish  Rite,  having  taken  the  work  in  the  Lodge  of  Perfection,  Rose  CroTx  and 
Consistory,  ,n  1918.  He  belongs  to  the  City  Club,  also  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
o  he  Triple  A  Club,  and  is  keenly  interested  in  all  that  has  to  do  with  the  upbuTuHng 
and  welfare  ot  his  native  city.  uijuunujiig 


GEORGE   WARREN   BROWN. 

The  name  of  Brown  has  been  linked  with  the  great  shoemaking  industry  ot  St 
Loui^  since  its  inception.  It  was  the  broad  vision,  the  keen  sagacity  and  the  initia 
tive  ot  George  Warren  Brown  that  made  him  the  pioneer  in  the  shoe  manutactur  ng 
business  m  St.  Louis.  Opportunity  is  not  local-it  is  universal:  and  the  success  i^  he 
outcome  of  enterprise  adaptability,  progressive  spirit  and,  above  all,  unfaltering  ndustry 
An  analyzation  of  the  career  of  Mr.  Brown  shows  that  he  is  the  possessor  of  these 
qualities,  and  after  founding  the  first  shoe  manufacturing  enterprise  ot  St  Louis 
these  traits  constituted  the  basic  elements  of  the  upbuilding  of  a  business  of  large 
propor  ions,  of  which  he  remained  the  head  for  thirty-five  years  and  still  retains  his 
connection    therewith   as   chairman   of   the   bojrd. 

George  Warren  Brown  was  born  on  a  farm  in  the  town  of  Granville  New  York 
March  21  1853,  his  parents  being  David  and  Malinda  (Roblee)  Brown  The  ancestral 
me  on  the  paternal  side  has  been  traced  back  by  The  American  Genealogicarsoc  ety 
to  John  Browne,  a  shipbuilder  who  was  born  in  the  north  ot  England  May  •>  1584 
and  Who  joined  the  Pilgrims  at  a  very  early  day,  becoming  one  of  their  trusted  coun: 
selors  in  Holland.  He  c-,me  to  America  in  1635  and  was  soon  elected  one  of  the 
governors  assistants.  He  was  also  one  of  the  commissioners  of  the  colonies  o?  New 
England  from  1644  to  1655  and  the  records  state  that  he  was  "a  man  of  talenT 
integrity  and  piety."  He  became  proprietor  of  large  landed  interests  at  Taunton 
Massachusetts,  and  with  Miles  Standish  under  appointment  of  the  general  court  fixed 
the  boundaries  of  that  town.  He  was  also  on  terms  of  friendship  wifh  Roger  WUIiams 
who  in  fact  was  a  distant  relative.  The  father  of  George  W.  Brown  was  a  thrifty 
farmer,  as  was  also  his  mother's  father,  Thomas  Roblee.  The  latter  was  'a  devout 
member  of  the  Baptist  Church,  as  was  Mrs.  David  Brown,  who  exerted  a  strong 
religious  influence  over  her  son  in  his  early  childhood.  He  was  but  seven  years  of 
age  when  he  joined  the  Band  ot  Hope,  thereby  agreeing  to  abstain  from  all  intoxi- 
cating liquors  as  a  beverage-an  incident  which  constituted  a  real  epoch  in  his  lite 
Another  intere.sting  incident  of  his  boyhood  was  that  of  being  entrusted  to  drive  a  horse 
and   buggy   to   conduct   two  soldiers   of  the   Civil   war   who   had    been    home   on   a   fur- 

•  f.  ''^■,  J^'"  ^°'"^  ^'-"^^  '°  '^^  ^'■""t-  "^  '^■■°^e  t*^^™  three  miles  over  the  hills 
.0  the  Middle  Granville  railway  station  in  the  evening  after  dark,  when  he  was  but 
ten  years  of  age. 

The  boyhood  years  of  George  Warren  Brown  were  like  those  of  most  farm  lads  who 
spend  their  summers  in  the  work  of  the  fields  and  attend  school  beginning  with  the 
fall  term  and  extending  through  the  winter  and  early  s/ring  months.  When  nineteen 
years  of  age  he  was  graduated  on  the  completion  of  a  course  in  the  Bryant  &  Stratton 
Business  College  at  Troy,  New  York.  His  entire  capital  in  starting  on  life's  highway 
and  the  only  money  that  came  to  him  from  his  home  was  made  on  the  farm    the  pro- 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  21 

ceeds  of  the  sale  of  a  young  horse,  of  which  he  had  become  the  owner  when  the  animal 
was  a  colt.  This  horse  brought  him  one  hundred  and  seventy-five  dollars,  and  added 
to  this  he  had  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  about  two  hundred  bushels  of  potatoes 
which  he  had  raised  on  one  acre  of  ground,  during  one  of  his  last  summers  at  home. 
On  the  7th  of  April,  1873,  a  few  days  after  reaching  the  twentieth  anniversary  of  his 
birth,  he  severed  home  ties  by  bidding  adieu  to  his  father,  mother  and  three  sisters 
and  his  neighbors  of  that  locality  and  started  for  the  west,  hoping  to  find  a  business 
opening  which  would  afford  him  opportunity  for  success  in  life.  He  planned  to  go  to 
Missouri  or  Texas,  but  his  first  objective  was  St.  Louis,  the  gateway  to  either  state. 
His  elder  brother,  A.  D.  Brown,  had  the  previous  year  embarked  in  the  wholesale  shoe 
business  in  St.  Louis  in  connection  with  James  M.  Hamilton,  under  the  style  of  Hamilton- 
Brown  &  Company.  Upon  the  arrival  of  George  W.  Brown  in  St.  Louis,  April  10,  1873, 
his  brother  was  at  the  river  ferry  landing  to  give  him  a  cordial  welcome  and  an  invitation 
to  remain  with  him  a  few  days,  suggesting  that  he  look  around  St.  Louis  before  going 
to  Texas.  He  accepted  the  proffered  hospitality  and  a  few  days  later  his  brother 
secured  him  a  clerkship  with  a  retail  merchant  of  the  name  of  Shepard  at  Springfield, 
Missouri.  George  W.  Brown  had  about  decided  to  go  to  Springfield  and  accept  the 
position  when  Mr.  Hamilton  offered  him  the  position  of  shipping  clerk  with  the 
firm  of  Hamilton-Brown  &  Company  and  he  gladly  accepted,  entering  upon  his  duties 
May  1,  1873.  During  the  months  that  followed  Mr.  Brown  not  only  discharged  the 
duties  of  shipping  clerk  but  found  time  to  become  well  posted  on  every  line  of  shoes 
carried  by  the  house,  informing  himself  regarding  leather,  styles,  etc.,  so  that  within 
less  than  a  year  he  was  made  traveling  salesman,  starting  on  the  road  March  17,  1874. 
He  soon  gave  unmistakable  proof  of  his  worth  expressed  in  honesty,  good  habits,  hard 
work  and  salesmanship — a  combination  which  explains  his  later  success. 

It  was  while  occupying  this  position  as  traveling  salesman  with  the  St.  Louis 
wholesale  shoe  house,  of  which  his  brother,  A.  D.  Brown,  was  a  member  and  which 
was  engaged  in  the  jobbing  of  eastern  made  shoes,  that  G.  W.  Brown,  then  only  twenty- 
four  years  of  age,  first  became  impressed  with  the  greater  possibilities  of  St.  Louis 
for  the  manufacture  of  good  shoes.  He  promptly  imparted  these  Ideas  to  his  brother, 
A.  D.  Brown,  who  gave  some  consideration  to  them,  but  concluded  not  to  undertake 
the  project  in  the  face  of  the  fact  that  nearly  all  such  ventures  in  the  past  had  been 
failures,  and,  as  he  pointed  out  to  George  W.  Brown,  they  had  a  prosperous  business 
and  it  seemed  unwise  to  undertake  the  manufacture  of  shoes  with  the  probability  of 
failure  before  them.  After  waiting  for  about  a  year  George  W.  Brown,  becoming  more 
and  more  interested  in  his  plan  as  the  result  of  his  study  of  the  business  situation 
and  conditions,  invited  two  other  men  to  join  him  in  establishing  a  shoe  factory.  The 
combined  available  capital  of  the  three  amounted  to  only  twelve  thousand  dollars. 
Nevertheless,  after  returning  from  one  of  his  trips  in  November,  1878,  Mr.  Brown 
informed  his  brother,  as  the  head  of  the  firm  tor  which  he  was  working,  that  he 
intended  to  undertake  the  project.  The  brother  used  every  argument  in  his  power 
to  dissuade  him,  but  he  could  not  be  moved.  There  was  no  written  agreement  with 
his  friends,  but  he  had  given  his  word  to  them  and  the  word  of  George  Warren  Brown 
has  ever  been  as  conclusive  as  any  bond  fortified  with  signature  and  seal.  The  brother 
even  offered  him  a  partnership,  as  he  felt  sure  that  the  venture  would  not  succeed, 
but  G.  W.  Brown  resigned  his  position  and  in  so  doing  displayed  another  of  his  character- 
istics inasmuch  as  before  leaving  the  firm  he  had  secured  the  services  of  another 
young  man,  subject  to  the  firm's  approval,  for  the  important  territory  which  he  was. 
giving  up;  and  it  is  also  worthy  of  mention  here  that  this  friend  whom  Mr.  Brown 
had  selected  when  he  himself  was  a  young  man  of  twenty-four  years  became  one  of  the 
leading  men  of  his  house  and  is  today  a  director  in  the  Hamilton-Brown  Shoe  Company. 

The  new  venture  which  George  W.  Brown  and  his  partners  launched  proved  suc- 
cessful and  three  years  later,  Hamilton-Brown  Shoe  Company  followed  In  his  footsteps 
and  also  began  the  manufacture  of  shoes,  and  while  the  two  organizations  competed 
in  the  same  line  of  business,  during  all  the  years  since  the  most  cordial  and  friendly 
feeling  has  always  existed  between  them.  The  enterprise  in  which  G.  W.  Brown 
embarked  was  launched,  becoming  the  first  successful  shoe  manufacturing  organization 
of  St.  Louis,  and  it  has  been  the  pride  of  his  fellow  townsmen  to  the  present  day. 
Since  then  the  years  of  his  life  have  passed  quickly  in  interested  devotion  to  his 
business  and  he  has  always  held  steadfastly  to  the  principle  of  high  grade  methods 
and  of  placing  only  high  grade  men  in  positions  of  responsibility.  His  success  has 
been  continuous,  each  forward  step  with  its  consequent  broader  outlook  and  wider 
opportunity  enabling  him  to  help  in  the  promotion  of  every  good  work. 


22  CEXTEXNIAI.  [IlSToRV  OF  MISSOURI 

The  Brown  Shoe  Company.  Incorporated,  originally  known  as  Bryan-Brown  and 
Company,  was  founded  in  November.  1878.  and  associated  with  Mr.  Brown  in  its  organi- 
zation were  A.  L.  Bryan  and  J.  B.  Desnoyers.  A  man  of  vision,  ambition,  courage,  and 
enterprise,  with  a  faith  and  a  character  that  kept  his  heart  and  purpose  right,  Mr. 
Brown  developed  the  business  along  unassailable  lines.  The  original  capital  was 
twelve  thousand  dollars,  of  which  about  one-third  was  invested  in  shoe  machinery, 
lasts,  patterns  and  other  equipment.  Their  first  employes  were  five  Rochester  expert 
shoe  workers,  and  in  order  to  persuade  these  men  to  remove  to  St.  Louis,  it  was 
necessary  to  furnish  their  railroad  fares.  Something  of  the  rapid  growth  of  the  enter- 
prise is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  in  less  than  one  year  the  factory  was  removed  from. 
its  first  location.  104  South  Eighth  Street,  to  larger  quarters  in  the  Cupples  building  at 
Eighth  and  Walnut  Streets,  first  occupying  the  top  floor  of  this  building,  while  not 
long  afterward  the  next  floor  below  was  secured  and  later  the  owner  erected  an  addi- 
tional story  for  the  use  of  the  firm.  The  growth  of  the  enterprise  is  largely  the  history 
of  the  shoe  trade  of  St.  Louis.  The  business  has  constantly  increased,  demanding 
various  removals  from  time  to  time  in  order  to  secure  enlarged  quarters.  In  1885 
Mr.  Brown  purchased  A.  L.  Bryan's  holdings  in  the  company,  as  Mr.  Bryan's  health 
made  it  necessary  for  him  to  move  to  California,  and  in  1893  J.  B.  Desnoyers,  then 
Tice  president  retired  from  the  company  and  the  corporate  name  became  The  Brown 
Shoe  Company.  The  company's  business  thereafter  grew  with  more  rapid  strides  each 
year,  so  that  the  shipments  during  its  last  year  in  the  Eleventh  and  Washington 
Avenue  building  amounted  to  more  than  eight  million  dollars.  For  fifteen  years  the 
company  occupied  the  west  third  of  this  block,  which  is  now  used  by  the  Rice-Stix 
Dry  Goods  Company. 

The  continued  growth  led  to  the  formulation  of  plans  for  the  erection  of  a  build- 
ing especially  for  this  company — plans  that  were  vigorously  prosecuted  until  on  the 
1st  of  January,  1907,  the  Brown  Shoe  Company  opened  to  their  customers  and  friends 
the  White  House.  The  occasion  was  a  record  one  of  the  kind.  The  large  lobby  of  the 
first  floor  was  beautifully  decorated  with  palms  and  cut  flowers,  many  of  which  were 
contributed  by  competitors  and  other  wholesale  houses  of  St.  Louis.  A  reception  was 
held  and  refreshments  served,  the  guests  of  that  occasion  numbering  many  of  the  tore- 
most  citizens  of  St.  Louis.  Addresses  were  made  by  Ex-Governor  D.  R.  Francis,  E.  C. 
Simmons,  Colonel  George  W.  Parker,  Rev.  Napthali  Luccock,  Hon.  C.  V.  Anderson  and 
A.  B.  Groves,  architect  of  the  building,  after  which  the  guests  were  shown  through 
the  building.  Thus  was  dedicated  to  commerce  the  White  House  building  in  St.  Louis, 
used  for  assembling  and  distributing  shoes  produced  in  all  the  factories  of  the  company 
and  also  used  for  its  sales  headquarters,  general  and  executive  offices.  This  building  is 
the  largest  and  finest  used  by  any  shoe  house  for  the  same  purpose  in  America.  The 
company  was  reorganized  January  2,  1913,  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  New  York, 
as  Brown  Shoe  Company,  Incorporated,  with  a  capital  stock  of  ten  million  dollars. 
Mr.  Brown  was  president  of  the  first  incorporated  organization  in  1880  and  so  continued 
until  May  18,  1915,  a  period  of  thirty-five  years,  which  is  probably  the  record  for 
any  man  whose  business  grew  from  so  small  a  beginning,  with  steady  advancement 
each  year  on  a  single  foundation  without  the  absorption  of  any  other  concern. 

After  thirty-five  years  as  president  Mr.  Brown  resigned  and  was  then  elected 
chairman  of  the  board  of  directors,  which  position  he  continues  to  hold,  and  he  is 
also  a  member  of  the  executive  committee.  Seven  large  plants  of  the  company  are 
located  in  St.  Louis  and  six  in  the  St.  Louis  shoe  zone  of  Missouri  and  Illinois.  About 
eight  thousand  employes  are  now  on  the  pay  roll.  Two  hundred  and  fifty  salesmen 
sell  the  company's  goods  all  over  the  United  States  and  in  many  foreign  countries, 
including  the  far  east.  In  1920  the  company's  shipments  amounted  to  thirty-seven 
million  dollars.  To  Mr.  Brown  is  attributable  the  development  of  one  of  the  largest 
shoe  concerns  in  the  world  and  high  grade  business  methods  have  been  followed  con- 
tinuously, applied  to  all  transactions  in  both  the  buying  and  selling  sides  of  the 
business. 

On  the  7th  of  April.  1885,  the  anniversary  of  Mr.  Brown's  leaving  home  personally 
to  take  up  the  battle  of  life,  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  George  Warren  Brown 
and  Bettie  Bofinger.  The  wedding,  which  occurred  in  the  Southern  Hotel  in  St.  Louis, 
was  a  notable  occasion.     They  have  a  son,  Wilbur  George  Brown,  born  March  21,  1896. 

Mr.  Brown  believes  "a  man's  a  man  for  a'  that"  and  has  always  manifested  an 
Interest  in  every  employe  entitled  to  recognition  through  his  ambition,  energy,  hon- 
esty, application  and  ability,  and  such  have  been  promoted  from  time  to  time  until 
nearly  all  of  those  who  now  are  directors  of  the  company  and   heads  of  departments 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  23 

have  worked  up  from  humble  positions  in  the  company's  employ.  It  has  always  been 
one  of  the  aims  and  purposes  of  his  life  to  assist  young  men  in  gaining  a  start  and 
he  does  many  things  unknown  to  the  general  public  for  the  good  of  the  coming  genera- 
tion. He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Mercantile  Club  and  also  of  the  oH  Business 
Men's  League,  now  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  has  ever  been  anxious  and  willing 
to  do  for  St.  Louis,  to  assist  in  its  upbuilding  and  promote  its  growth  in  every  laudable 
way.  He  is  a  sincere  member  of  the  Methodist  church  and  eyer  ready  with  his  purse 
for  this  cause.  During  the  period  of  the  "World  war  he  was  chairman  of  several 
important  committees,  was  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Council  of  Defense  and  also  a 
member  of  the  National  War  Work  Council  of  the  International  Y.  M.  C.  A.  For  many 
years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  International  Committee  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  was 
former  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  is  still  on  its  board  of  directors. 
He  has  been  a  member  of  three  general  conferences  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church 
and  is  a  director  of  the  St.  Louis  Provident  Association.  Aside  from  his  large  business 
interests  he  has  within  the  past  fifteen  years  promoted  or  erected  more  of  the  modern 
new  business  buildings  on  upper  Washington  Avenue  and  Locust  Street  in  St.  Louis 
than  all  others  put  together.  In  politics  he  is  an  independent  republican.  He  has 
membership  in  the  St.  Louis,  St.  Louis  Country,  Noonday  and  City  Clubs.  In  a  review 
of  his  life  and  record,  it  will  be  seen  that  one  of  the  salient  characteristics  of  George 
Warren  Brown  has  been  thoroughness;  another  element  that  of  unwavering  resolu- 
tion to  merit  the  trust  reposed  in  him  and  at  no  time  to  sell  out  principle  to  produce 
business  advancement.  This  was  manifest  in  his  career  as  an  employe  and  has  char- 
acterized his  record  as  a  successful  business  man.  Moreover,  he  has  always  keenly 
realized  his  individual  responsibilities  to  his  t'ellowmen  while  on  life's  highway  to  a 
life  more  abuadant  and  more  enduring. 


WILLIAM  S.  WOODS. 


William  S.  Woods,  chairman  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Security  National  Bank 
of  Kansas  City,  was  born  in  Platte  county,  Missouri,  July  4,  1855.  His  father,  Washington 
T.  Woods,  was  a  native  of  Ohio  and  came  to  Missouri  as  a  pioneer  in  his  boyhood  days, 
becoming  a  resident  of  Weston,  in  Platte  county.  Having  arrived  at  years  of  maturity, 
he  married  Nancy  Elizabeth  McKinney,  a  native  of  this  state,  who  passed  away  about 
eight  years  ago  at  the  very  advanced  age  of  eighty-six  years.  In  their  family  were  eight 
children,  seven  of  whom  are  living,  William  S.  Woods  being  the  eldest.  The  father  was 
a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  South,  and  was  a  Knights  Templar  Mason, 
active  and  prominent  in  the  organization.  He  was  a  captain  of  the  Home  Guard  during 
the  Civil  war  and  was  ever  keenly  interested  in  everything  that  pertained  to  the  welfare 
and  progress  of  the  state. 

William  S.  Woods  was  a  pupil  in  the  graded  and  high  schools  of  Leavenworth, 
Kansas,  and  initiated  his  business  career  as  bookkeeper  with  the  H.  D.  Rush  Milling 
Company.  After  a  year  he  became  connected  with  the  firm  of  Keith  &  Heney,  coal 
dealers  of  Kansas  City,  whom  he  represented  as  bookkeeper  and  collector,  remaining 
with  that  firm  for  two  years  as  an  employe,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  was  admitted 
to  a  partnership.  Two  years  later  Mr.  Heney  sold  out  and  John  Perry  joined  the  other 
partner  under  the  style  of  Keith  &  Perry  Coal  Company,  which  firm  existed  for  twelve 
years.  During  Mr.  Woods'  connection  with  the  business  the  annual  sales  increased  from 
seventy-five  thousand  to  a  million  and  a  half  dollars.  He  was  an  active  factor  in  the 
development  of  the  trade  and  in  the  extension  of  the  business,  with  which  he  was  con- 
nected until  failing  health  caused  him  to  retire  and  he  went  to  California,  where  he 
remained  for  two  months.  Since  his  return  to  Kansas  City  he  has  been  identified  with 
banking  interests  and  with  the  real  estate  and  loan  business  and  is  chairman  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  Security  National"  Bank.  For  eight  years  he  was  also  trust 
officer  of  the  Pioneer  Trust  Company  and  is  a  well  known  figure  in-  the  financial  circles  of 
the  state.  Aside  from  his  other  connections  he  is  a  director  of  the  North  Kansas  City  Bank 
and  he  is  largely  interested  in  farming  and  the  raising  of  live  stock.  His  various  busi- 
ness activities  have  been  most  carefully  and  wisely  directed  and  have  been  productive  of 
splendid  results. 

On  the  11th  of  April,  1883,  Mr.  Woods  was  married  to  Miss  Mattie  Gary,  a  daughter 
of  Judge  Lucius  Cary,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Missouri  and  a  Mayflower  descendant. 


24  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Woods  have  been  born  three  children:  Clay,  mentioned  elsewhere  in 
this  work;  Martha  Elizabeth,  the  wife  of  Philip  H.  Noland  of  the  Moline  Plow  Company 
of  Moline,  Illinois,  and  Lucia,  now  the  wife  of  Farwell  Winston  and  the  mother  of  one 
child,  Ann. 

Mr.  Woods  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Club,  is  a  member  of  the  Real  Estate  Board 
and  of  the  Commercial  Club.  He  is  keenly  interested  in  all  those  activities  which  feature 
in  the  business  development  and  consequent  upbuilding  of  the  city  and  his  cooperation 
can  at  all  times  be  counted  upon  to  further  any  plan  or  measure  for  the  public  good. 
In  politics  he  is  a  democrat  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  South, 
in  which  he  is  serving  as  deacon,  and  in  the  work  of  the  church  he  is  deeply  interested. 
He  stands  as  a  splendid  type  of  the  self-made  man  to  whom  opportunity  has  ever  been  a 
call  to  action,  his  intense  industry,  intelligently  directed,  constituting  the  basis  of  his 
success,  which  now  places  him  among  the  men  of  aflBuence  in  Kansas  City. 


JOHN    BARBER   WHITE. 


Throughout  his  active  life  John  Barber  White  has  been  connected  with  the 
lumber  industry  and  was  foremost  among  those  engaged  in  the  exploitation  and 
development  of  yellow  pine.  His  activities  have  been  of  far-reaching  importance 
and  yet  have  constituted  but  one  phase  of  his  career,  for  he  has  done  much  im- 
portant public  service  and  throughout  his  entire  life  his  studious  habits  have  made 
him  a  man  of  scholarly  attainments.  Kansas  City  has  long  numbered  him  among 
her  foremost  residents,  although  his  connection  with  the  lumber  trade  has  cov- 
ered many  sections  of  the  country.  A  native  of  New  York,  Mr.  White  was  born 
in  Chautauqua  county.  December  8,  1847,  his  parents  being  John  and  Rebekah 
(Barber)  White.  His  ancestry  can  be  traced  back  to  John  White,  of  South  Peth- 
erton,  Somerset,  England,  who  in  1638  crossed  the  Atlantic  and  became  identified 
with  colonial  interests  in  the  new  world  as  a  settler  at  Salem,  now  Wenham, 
Massachusetts.  A  son  of  John  White,  and  his  wife  Joana  was  Josiah  White,  the 
direct  ancestor  of  John  Barber  White  in  the  second  generation.  He  married  Mary 
Rice  and  they  were  the  parents  of  Josiah  White,  who  wedded  Abigail  Whitcomb. 
The  ancestral  line  is  traced  down  through  their  son  Josiah  and  his  wife,  Deborah 
House;  through  Luke  and  Eunice  White,  the  latter  a  granddaughter  of  Colonel 
Jonathan  White,  to  their  son  John  and  his  wife,  Rebekah  Barber.  The  family 
has  figured  prominently  in  both  England  and  America  through  several  centuries, 
especially  in  connection  with  valuable  public  service  rendered.  In  this  connec- 
tion it  is  noted  that  Robert  White,  the  father  of  John  White,  the  emigrant,  was 
guardian  and  church  warden  at  South  Petherton,  Somersetshire,  as  early  as  1578, 
as  was  also  his  grandfather  before  him.  To  the  son,  John  White,  was  accorded 
a  grant  of  sixty  acres  at  Salem,  now  Wenham,  Massachusetts,  and  later  he  received 
several  other  grants  of  land.  He  built  the  first  saw  and  grist-mill  at  Wenham 
and  thus  aided  in  laying  the  foundation  of  business  development  there.  His  son, 
Josiah  White,  served  as  a  private  in  King  Philip's  war  and  was  sergeant  in  com- 
mand of  a  garrison  on  the  west  side  of  the  Penicook  river,  called  fhe  Neck.  His 
son,  Josiah  White  (II),  rendered  military  aid  in  the  Colonial  war  and  was  a  man 
of  considerable  prominence  in  Lancaster,  where  he  acted  as  tithing  man  in  1718 
and  was  also  one  of  the  first  seven  selectmen  of  the  town,  filling  that  position  for 
five  years.  For  a  year  he  acted  as  town  treasurer  and  for  three  years  was  rep- 
resentative to  the  general  court.  In  1729  he  became  a  deacon  of  the  first  church 
of  the  community  and  so  continued  until  his  death,  or  tor  a  period  of  forty-three 
years.  Josiah  White  (III)  was  the  builder  of  the  first  sawmill  in  Leominster,  the 
dam  of  which  is  still  in  use.  His  brother,  Jonathan  White,  was  a  large  land- 
holder and  one  of  the  first  proprietors  as  well  as  an  officer  of  the  town  of  Charle- 
mont,  Franklin  county,  Massachusetts.  At  the  time  of  the  French  and  Indian 
war  he  was  commissioned  captain  in  a  Worcester  regiment  commanded  by  Colonel 
Ruggles,  this  command  marching  from  Crown  Point  in  17  55.  Captain  White 
was  later  promoted  to  the  rank  of  major  and  afterward  became  lieutenant  colonel 
and  colonel.  The  name  of  White  again  figures  in  connection  with  the  military 
history  of  the  country  through  the  service  of  Luke  White,  who  was  a  member 
of  Captain  Warner's  Company  of  Colonel  Marshall's  Regiment  in  the  Revolution- 
ary   war   and   later   acted   as   clerk   in    the   commissary    department.     Thus    in    sue- 


JOHN  BARBER  WHITE 


>f^'^^^^A 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  Ol-   MISSOURI  27 

ceeding    generations    the    family    has    rendered    valuable    service    to    the    country    in 
one   connection   or  another. 

John  White,  father  of  John  Barber  White,  became  a  representative  of  the 
teaching  profession  and  afterward  engaged  in  tlie  manufacture  of  lumber  and 
veneer.  In  1843  he  became  a  resident  of  Chautauqua  county.  New  York,  and 
thus  it  was  that  Jolin  Barber  White  was  born,  reared  and  educated  in  that  county. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  and  afterward  became  a  student  in  the  Jamestown 
(N.  Y.)  Academy.  He  initiated  his  business  career  as  a  partner  of  the  two  Jenner 
brothers,  witli  whom  he  purchased  a  tract  of  pine  land  near  Youngsville,  Penn- 
sylvania, in  18  68.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  continuously  connected  with  the 
lumber  industry.  In  1870  he  opened  a  lumberyard  at  Brady  and  another  at  Pet- 
rolia,  Pennsylvania,  in  connection  with  R.  A.  Kinnear.  and  in  1874  he  purcliased 
the  Arcade  mill  in  Tidioute,  Pennsylvania,  and  established  a  lumberyard  at  Scrub- 
grass,  that  state.  He  further  extended  his  activities  when  in  187  8  lie  purchased 
a  stave-heading-  and  shingle-mill  in  Irvineton.  Pennsylvania,  and  in  the  conduct 
of  that  business  met  with  the  same  substantial  success  which  had  characterized 
his  activities  in  other  relations.  In  1880  he  joined  E.  B.  Grandin,  J.  L.  Grandin, 
Captain  H.  H.  Cummings  and  John  L.  and  Livingston  L.  Hunter,  of  Tidioute, 
Pennsylvania,  in  organizing  the  Missouri  Lumber  &.  Mining  Company,  which 
was  one  of  the  first  to  become  identified  with  the  yellow  pine  industry.  The  com- 
pany opened  offices  and  mills  at  Grandin,  Missouri,  where  headquarters  were  main- 
tained for  twenty  years  and  then  removed  to  West  Eminence,  Missouri.  In  1892 
the  opportunities  offered  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  attracted  the  firm  and  offices 
were  here  established.  Prom  the  inception  of  the  company  Mr.  White  has  been 
general  manager  and  tor  a  number  of  years  has  occupied  the  presidency.  From 
the  beginning  the  enterprise  has  grown  and  prospered  and  has  become  one  of  the 
extensive  lumber  interests  of  tliis  section  of  the  country.  Nor  has  Mr.  White  con- 
fined his  efforts  alone  to  the  operations  of  this  firm.  In  1899  he  was  associated 
with  Oliver  W.  Fisher  and  others  in  organizing  the  Louisiana  Long  Leaf  Lumber 
Company,  with  mills  at  Victoria  and  at  Fisher,  Louisiana.  Upon  the  organiza- 
tion he  was  elected  a  director  and  secretary  of  the  company.  A  further  step  in  the 
expansion  of  his  business  interests  was  made  when  he  formed  the  Louisiana  Cen- 
tral Lumber  Company  in  1901,  with  mills  at  Standard  and  at  Clarks,  Louisiana, 
and  from  the  beginning  he  has  been  the  president  thereof.  He  is  likewise  the 
president  of  the  Forest  Lumber  Company,  which  has  established  a  chain  of  retail 
lumberyards.  They  also  have  a  mill  located  at  Oakdale,  Louisiana,  which  makes 
a  specialty  of  large  timbers  and  foreign  shipments.  On  a  tract  of  one  hundred 
thousand  acres,  purchased,  from  the  Gould  heirs  in  January,  1918,  the  associated 
companies  of  Mr.  White  have  established  two  new  lumber  plants^the  Louisiana 
Sawmill  Company,  Inc.,  located  at  Glenmora,  Louisiana,  and  the  White  Grandin 
Company  located  at  Slagle,  Louisiana.  He  is  interested  in  seven  manufacturing 
plants  in  Louisiana.  He  is  the  president  and  general  manager  of  Missouri  Lum- 
ber &  Land  Exchange  Company  at  Kansas  City,  Missouri.  The  Grandin  Coast 
Lumber  Company,  which  has  large  holdings  in  Washington,  claims  him  as  vice 
president.  His  efforts  have  not  been  confined  alone  to  his  extensive  and  success- 
ful operations  in  lumber,  for  he  is  identified  with  a  number  of  otlier  profitable 
business  interests.  In  1874  at  Youngsville,  Pennsylvania,  he  founded  a  weekly 
paper  called  the  Warren  County  News,  which  he  afterward  purchased  outright 
in  connection  with  E.  W.  Hoag,  and  removed  to  Tidioute.  From  1886  until  1907 
he  was  closely  associated  with  banking  interests  at  Poplar  Bluff,  Missouri,  as 
president  of  a  bank  there.  He  is  likewise  a  director  of  the  New  England  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Kansas  City  and  is  the  vice  president  of  the  Fisher  Flouring  Mills 
Company,  with  mills  at  Seattle,  Washington,  and  Belgrade,  Montana.  He  has 
been  prominently  connected  with  organized  effort  to  promote  the  development  of 
the  lumber  industry  and  bring  about  conditions  most  favorable  thereto.  In  1882 
he  organized  the  first  lumber  manufacturers'  association  in  the  southern  states 
which  operated  for  many  years  as  the  Yellow  Pine  Manufacturers'  Association, 
of  which  he  was  president  for  the  first  three  years  of  its  existence.  He  is  also 
a  representative  of  the  directorate  of  the  Southern  Pine  Association  and  is  a 
member  of  the  board  of  governors  of  the  National  Lumber  Manufacturers'  Asso- 
ciation. Another  line  of  interest  in  the  life  of  Mr.  White  is  indicated  in  the  fact 
that    he    is    a   life    member    of   the    Holstein-Friesian    Association. 

Before   his   removal   to   the   middle   west   Mr.   White   was   married   on    the    2 2d 


28  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

of  July,  1874,  to  Miss  Arabell  Bowen,  of  Chautauqua  county,  New  York,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Daniel  Washington  and  Eliza  (Smith)  Bowen.  They  became  the  parents 
of  two  children:  John  Franklin,  now  deceased;  and  Fanny  Arabell,  the  wife 
of  Alfred  Tyler  Hemingway,  general  manager  of  the  Forest  Lumber  Company  of 
Kansas  City.  For  his  second  wife  Mr.  White  chose  Miss  Emma  Siggins,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Benjamin  Baird  and  Elizabeth  (Walker)  Siggins.  of  "Voungsville,  Penn- 
sylvania. Their  marriage,  celebrated  on  the  6th  of  December,  1882,  has  been 
blessed  with  three  children:  Emma  Ruth;  Jay  Barber,  now  deceased;  and  Ray- 
mond Baird.  The  last  named,  like  his  father,  has  become  prominently  identified 
with  the  lumber  trade.  He  owns  a  lumberyard  in  Newark,  Ohio,  and  also  in 
several  nearby  towns,  and  is  associated  with  his  father  as  assistant  general  man- 
ager of  the  Missouri  Lumber  &  Land  Exchange  Company  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri. 
Failing  to  pass  the  physical  examination  for  entrance  into  the  navy  school  at 
Detroit  and  also  at  Chicago,  he  was  given  a  position  by  the  government  in  charge 
of  selecting  the  lumber  for  airplane  stock  used  in  the  manufacture  of  airplanes 
at  Dayton,  where  he  worked  until  the  close  of  the  war,  rendering  valuable  serv- 
ice  to  the  government   because   of  his   experience   as   a   lumberman. 

John  B.  White  was  also  active  in  connection  with  war  interests.  He  was  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  sliipping  board  by  President  Wilson  upon  its  organiza- 
tion in  1917  and  so  served  until  forced  to  resign  on  account  of  ill  health.  His 
activities,  however,  have  been  of  a  most  extensive  character  and  have  been  of 
direct  service  to  the  country  in  various  ways,  aside  from  the  line  of  commercial 
and  industrial  development.  Something  of  the  nature  of  his  interests  is  indicated 
in  the  fact  that  he  is  deputy  governor  of  the  Missouri  Society  of  Colonial  Wars 
and  was  made  the  fourth  vice  president  from  Missouri,  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolu- 
tion. He  is  a  life  member  of  the  American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social 
Science  and  he  has  similar  connection  with  the  New  England  Historical  and 
Genealogical  Society,  also  with  the  Heath,  Massachusetts,  Historical  Society.  He 
has  a  life  membership  in  the  Kansas  City  Historical  Society,  of  which  he  has  been 
made  president,  and  he  is  a  director  of  the  National  Conservation  Association  and 
the  American  Forestry  Association.  His  membership  relations  extend  to  the  Vir- 
ginia Historical  Society,  the  Old  Northwest  of  Ohio,  the  Missouri  Historical  Society 
and  the  Harleian  Historical  Society  of  London.  England.  From  1912  until  1914 
he  served  as  a  member  of  the  Trans-Mississippi  Commercial  Congress.  He  has 
been  a  trustee  of  of  the  Kidder  Institute  and  of  Drury  College  at  Springtield,  Mis- 
souri, and  he  is  a  member  of  the  National  Geographic  Society  and  the  American 
Society  of  International  Law.  He  is  likewise  connected  with  the  International 
Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Pollution  of  Rivers  and  Waterways  and  he  belongs 
to  the  American  Academy  of  Political  Science  of  New  York  city.  While  residing 
at  Youngsville,  Pennsylvania,  he  served  as  president  of  the  board  of  education 
from  1877  to  1879  and  1880  to  1883,  and  in  187  8  he  was  elected  to  represent  his 
district  in  the  lower  house  of  the  Pennsylvania  general  assembly  and  was  made 
a  member  of  the  committee  of  seven  elected  by  the  Pennsylvania  legislature  in 
1879  to  prosecute  cases  of  bribery.  In  November,  1905,  he  received  appointment 
from  President  Roosevelt  as  his  personal  representative  to  investigate  affairs  on 
the  Cass  Lake  (Minn.)  Indian  i-eservation  and  to  report  as  to  the  advisability  of 
opening  up  the  reservation  for  settlement.  Pi-esident  Roosevelt  also  appointed 
him  a  member  of  the  forestry  department  on  the  commission  on  conservation  of 
natural  resources  in  19  07  and  two  years  later  he  was  appointed  a  member  of  the 
state  forest  commission  by  Governor  Hadley  of  Missouri.  His  next  official  posi- 
tion was  that  of  aid-de-camp  with  the  rank  of  colonel  on  the  governor's  staff. 
He  served  as  chairman  of  the  executive  committee  during  the  first,  second  and 
third  national  conservation  congresses,  and  when  the  fourth  congress  convened 
in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  in  September,  1911,  he  was  elected  president.  Gen- 
ealogical research  has  always  been  a  matter  of  keen  intrest  to  him  and  in  1909 
he  published  the  "Genealogy  of  the  Ancestors  and  Descendants  of  John  White 
of  Wenham  and  Lancaster,  Massachusetts,  1574-1909,"  in  four  volumes,  and  also 
the  "Genealogy  of  the  Descendants  of  Thomas  Gleason  of  Watertown,  Massa- 
chusetts, 1607-1909,"  and  the  "Barber  Genealogy,  1714-1909,"  since  which  time 
he  has  published  another  volume,  "Ancestry  of  John  Barber  White  and  of  His 
Descendants."  His  wife,  Emma  Siggins  White,  is  equally  interested  in  geneal- 
logical  work  with  Mr.  White  and  the  most  recent  volume  they  have  brought  out 
is,   "Genesis  of  the  White  Family,"  a  connected  record  of  the  White  family  begin- 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  AIISSOURI  29 

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ning  in  900,  at  the  time  of  its  Welsh  origin,  when  the  name  was  Wynn,  and  trac- 
ing the  family  into  Ireland  and  England."  Several  of  the  name  entered  England 
with  the  Norman  conquerors.  Representatives  of  the  English  branch  emigrated 
to  America  in  1638.  He  has  frequently  been  heard  on  the  lecture  platform, 
speaking  on  questions  relative  to  the  conservation  of  the  forests  and  other  natural 
resources,  and  some  of  these  addresses  have  since  appeared  in  pamphlet  form, 
being  freely  distributed  by  the  conservation  congresses,  the  Trans-Mississippi  Con- 
gress and  Lumber  Associations.  Mr.  White  is  well  known  in  Masonic  circles, 
having  attained  the  thirty-second  degree  of  the  Scottish  Rite.  As  a  clubman,  too, 
he  is  well  known,  belonging  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Mid-Day,  City,  Knife 
and  Fork  Clubs,  the  Kansas  City  Club,  and  the  Mission  Hills  Golf, Club,  all  of 
Kansas  City.  While  he  maintains  his  winter  residence  in  Kansas  City,  he  has 
a  fine  summer  home  at  Bemus  Point,  Chautauqua  county.  New  York,  and  thus 
he  maintains  associations  with  the  district  in  which  his  birth  occurred.  He  has 
long  been  a  man  of  broad  vision  and  of  high  ideals  whose  life  has  never  been  self- 
centered.  While  he  has  attempted  important  things  and  has  accomplished  what 
he  has  attempted,  his  success  has  never  represented  another's  losses,  but  has 
resulted  from  effort,  intelligently  applied,  and  the  generous  use  which  he  has 
made  of  his  means  in  assisting  others  marks  him  as  a  man  of  kindly  spirit,  who 
recognizes    the   obligations    and    responsibilities    of    life. 


WILLIAM  W.  BUTTS. 


.  Starting  out  to  provide  for  his  own  support  when  a  youth  of  fifteen,  William  W. 
Butts  has  since  been  dependent  upon  his  own  resources,  and  along  the  line  of  orderly 
progrression  has  advanced  until  he  is  at  the  head  of  a  profitable  business  conducted  under 
the  name  of  the  Butts  Realty  Company  of  St.  Louis,  of  which  he  is  the  president.  He 
was  born  in  Riverton,  Iowa,  June  10,  1875,  and  is  the  son  of  the  Rev.  Christopher  L.  and 
Wayne  (Dennis)  Butts.  The  father  was  a  Baptist  minister,  who  was  born  in  Clay 
county,  Missouri,  and  was  a  son  of  William  L.  Butts,  who  followed  the  occupation  of 
farming  in  northwest  Missouri  and  was  at  one  time  county  judge  of  Andrew  county. 
Christopher  L.  Butts  filled  a  number  of  pastorates  in  Missouri,  the  last  one  being  at 
Cameron,  and  he  was  also  a  trustee  of  the  William  Jewell  College,  at  Liberty,  this  state. 
He  departed  this  life  at  Cameron  August  4,  1889,  being  forty-five  years  of  age.  His  wife 
survived  him  for  several  years,  passing  away  in  Craig,  Missouri,  February  14,  1897,  at 
the  age  of  fifty-three.  She  was  born  in  Boonville,  Missouri,  and  was  there  reared  by 
her  grandparents.  At  the  time  of  the  Civil  war,  Mr.  Butts  joined  General  Price's  army 
and  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Wilson  Creek,  where  he  was  captured  and  later  was  incar- 
cerated at  St.  Joe,  Missouri,  having  been  taken  prisoner  by  his  uncle,  who  was  a  federal 
major.  To  Rev.  and  Mrs.  Butts  were  born  two  sons  and  a  daughter,  the  latter  being 
Mrs.  Ada  B.  Smith,  the  widow  of  William  M.  Smith,  while  the  brother  of  William  W. 
Butts  is  Cornelius  L.  Butts,  sales  manager  of  the  Wood  Shovel  &  Tool  Company,  of  Piqua, 
Ohio. 

William  W.  Butts  pursued  his  education  in  a  private  school  at  Cameron,  Missouri, 
and  in  the  public  schools  of  Maryville,  Missouri,  which  he  attended  to  the  age  of  fifteen 
years,  and  then  started  out  to  earn  his  own  livelihood  by  becoming  a  clerk  in  the  employ 
of  his  brother-in-law,  William  M.  Smith,  who  was  the  proprietor  of  a  drug  store  at  Craig, 
Missouri.  Under  his  direction  Mr.  Butts  studied  pharmacy  and  when  nineteen  years 
of  age  became  a  registered  pharmacist.  In  1897  he  went  to  Denver,  Colorado,  where  he 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Bridaham-Quereau  Drug  Company,  wholesale  druggists,  and 
was  made  secretary  of  the  firm.  There  he  continued  in  business  until  1902,  when  he  sold 
out  and  went  to  Philadelphia  to  become  manager  of  the  National  Gum  &  Mica  Company. 
In  1903  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  H.  K.  Mulford  Company,  of  Philadelphia,  as  a 
traveling  salesman,  and  after  four  years  spent  in  that  position  came  to  St.  Louis  in  1907, 
and  turned  his  attention  to  the  real  estate  business  in  connection  with  his  brother, 
Cornelius  L.  Butts.  Later  the  brother  withdrew  from  the  partnership  and  the  business 
is  now  conducted  uti,der  the  name  of  the  Butts  Realty  Company  with  William  W.  Butts 
as  the  president.  He  has  become  widely  and  favorably  known  in  real  estate  circles  and 
has  gained  a  good  clientage  that  has  enabled  him  to  promote  many  important  property 


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transfers.    He  was  formerly  the  secretary  and  also  a  director  of  the  St.  Louis  Real  Estate 
Exchange,  filling  office  in  that  body  in  1915  and  1916. 

On  the  15th  of  October  in  1903,  at  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Butts  was  married  to  Miss  Susan 
Parker,  a  daughter  of  Charles  A.  and  Susan  (Fuller)  Parker.  Her  father  removed  to 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  he  became  vice  president  of  the  Fere  Marquette  and  also  of  the 
Cincinnati,  Hamilton  &  Dayton  Railroad  Company.  He  died  in  November,  1904,  at  the 
comparatively  early  age  of  forty-nine  years  and  the  mother  is  now  living  with  lier 
daughter,  Mrs.  Butts,  at  6907  Washington  Boulevard,  in  University  City.  Both  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Parker  were  natives  of  the  state  of  Massachusetts.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Butts  have 
been  born  two  children,  Katherine  L.  and  Frances  W.,  aged  respectively  fifteen  and  twelve 
years.  The  parents  are  members  of  the  First  Congregational  Church.  Mr.  Butts  is  a 
republican  in  his  political  views,  and  is  now  the  acting  mayor  and  acting  president  of 
the  board  of  aldermen  of  University  City,  following  the  death  of  Mayor  August  Heman, 
who  passed  away  a  short  time  ago.  He  is  keenly  interested  in  all  that  pertains  to 
general  welfare  and  progress,  and  his  aid  and  co-operation  are  given  on  the  side  of 
all  those  activities  which  promote  material,  intellectual,  social  and  moral  progress  of 
the  city  and  state.  Mr.  Butts  was  active  in  connection  with  the  liberty  loan  drives.  He 
belongs  to  Clayton  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  Rabboni  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  and  loyally 
follows  the  teachings  of  the  craft.  He  is  interested  in  golf  and  belongs  to  the  Midland 
Valley  Country  Clifb,  also  has  membership  with  the  Automobile  Club  and  with  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  of  St.  Louis. 


WALKER   HILL. 


Walker  Hill  is  now  one  of  the  executive  managers  of  the  First  Xational  Bank 
of  St.  Louis,  which  came  into  existence  in  July,  1919,  as  a  consolidation  of  the  St. 
Louis  Union  Bank,  the  Mechanics-American  National  Bank  and  the  Third  National 
Bank  of  St.  Louis.  Mr.  Hill  had  long  been  a  well  known  figure  in  the  financial 
circles  of  the  city  and  had  occupied  the  presidency  of  the  Mechanics-American 
National  Bank  from  1905.  Chance  has  had  no  part  in  shaping  his  career.  His  plans 
have  been  clearly  defined  and  promptly  executed  and  at  all  times  he  has  been  actuated 
by  a  legitimate  and  honorable  ambition  that  has  brought  him  out  of  humble  sur- 
roundings to  a  place  of  leadership  in  the  financial  world.  He  was  born  in  the  beau- 
tiful old  city  of  Richmond,  Virginia,  May  27,  1855,  his  parents  being  Lewis  and  Mary 
Elizabeth  (M.iury)  Hill,  the  former  a  commission  merchant  of  Richmond  and  a 
descendant  of  one  of  the  prominent  old  families  of  Virginia.  The  granlfather 
and  great-grandfather  of  Walker  Hill  owned  and  conducted  Rumford  Academy  in 
King  and  Queen  county,  Virginia,  in  which  institution  they  prepared  young  men 
for  the   universities. 

The  early  education  of  Walker  Hill  was  acquired  through  the  instruction  of  his 
parents  and  he  also  spent  four  years  as  a  pupil  in  the  private  school  of  William 
F.  Fox  of  Richmond.  He  made  his  initial  step  in  the  business  world  in  June,  1871, 
and  his  youthful  fondness  for  athletic  sports,  in  which  he  freely  indulged,  especially 
baseball,  was  undoubtedly  a  source  of  the  development  of  a  strong  physical  manhood 
that  well  qualified  him  for  the  duties  which  he  assumed  in  the  business  world. 
On  the  1st  of  July,  1871,  Mr.  Hill  became  messenger  in  the  Planters  National  Bank 
of  Richmond,  Virginia,  and  his  capability  won  him  promotion  to  assistant  teller 
in  1872.  The  following  year  he  was  made  teller  of  the  bank  and  occupied  that  posi- 
tion until  1881,  when  he  was  appointed  cashier  of  the  City  Bank  of  Richmond.  Wlien 
six  years  had  elapsed  he  left  the  south  tor  St.  Louis  and,  following  his  arrival  in  this 
city  in  1887,  he  became  cashier  of  the  Union  Sivings  Institution,  the  predecessor 
of  the  American  Exchange  Bjnk.  His  developing  powers  further  qualifying  him 
for  executive  control  and  administrative  direction  of  large  financial  interests,  he  was 
elected  president  of  the  American  Exchange  Bank  in  1894  and  in  1905  was  called  to 
the  presidency  of  the  Mechanics-American  Xational  Bank  of  St.  Louis,  the  successor 
of  the  Mechanics'  National  and  American  Exchange  National  Banks.  The  new  organi- 
zation was  capitalized  lor  two  million  dollars  and  it  was  not  long  before  its  surplus 
exceeded  its  capitalization.  Mr.  Hill  remained  at  the  head  of  the  bank  and  when  it 
was  merged  into  the  First  National,  together  with  the  Third  National  and  the  St.  Louis 
Union  Bank,  he  became  one  of  the  executive  directors  of  the  new  institution.  His 
name  and   reputation   have   long  been  an   enviable  one   in   the   financial   circles   of   the 


WALKER  HILL 


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city  and  in  1897  he  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  American  Bankers'  Association. 
During  the  lollowing  year  he  served  as  vice  president  and  in  1900  was  elected  to  the 
presidency.  It  is  a  recognized  fact  that  the  simple  processes  are  those  which 
win  results — not  the  intricate,  involved  plans — and  thus  it  is  that  analyzation  Ijrings 
to  light  the  fact  that  the  successful  men  are  those  whose  rules  of  business  are  simple 
in  plan,  even  though  there  be  a  multiplicity  of  detail.  Investigation  into  the  career 
of  Mr.  Hill  shows  that  it  has  been  through  close  application,  ready  discrimination 
between  the  essential  and  the  non-essential  and  indefatigable  energy  that  he  has 
reached  the  commanding  position  which  he  now  occupies  as  one  of  St.  Louis' 
financiers. 

On  the  14th  of  October,  1885,  in  St.  Louis,  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Mr. 
Hill  and  Miss  Jeanie  Morrison  Locliwood,  daughter  of  Richard  J.  and  Angelica 
Peale  (Robinson)  Lockwood.  They  have  become  parents  of  three  children:  Lock- 
wood,  Walker  and  Maury  Hill.  The  family  attend  the  Episcopal  church  and  Mr. 
Hill  has  for  some  years  been  junior  warden  in  St.  Peter's.  His  interests  are  broad 
and  varied  and  his  assistance  is  at  all  times  found  on  the  side  of  reform,  advance- 
ment and  improvement.  He  has  been  treasurer  of  the  Hospital  Saturday  and  Sunday 
Association  and  also  of  the  Humane  Society  of  Missouri  and  has  served  the  Business 
Men's  League  of  St.  Louis  in  the  same  capacity  and  as  president.  He  has  ever 
voted  with  the  democratic  party  but  has  never  cared  to  enter  politics  save  as  a  sup- 
porter at  the  polls  of  the  principles  in  which  he  believes.  The  duties  and  obligations 
of  citizenship,  however,  have  been  fully  met  by  him  and  his  work  has  been  of  the 
utmost  benefit  in  the  business  development  of  St.  Louis.  He  possesses  initiative 
and  a  genius  for  devising  the  right  thing  at  the  right  time,  combined  with  every- 
day common  sense.  As  a  factor  in  financial  circles  he  has  held  to  the  highest 
standards  of  business  integrity,  while  at  the  same  time  he  has  used  every  legitimate 
means  for  increasing  the  scope  of  his  acitvities. 


DAVID    ROWLAND   FRANCIS. 

"What  an  engine  in  breeches!"  commented  William  H.  Taft,  then  secretary  of 
war,  when  he  came  to  St.  Louis  to  arrange  tor  the  representation  of  the  Philippines 
at  the  World's  Fair  of  1904.  The  varied  activities  of  David  R.  Francis  prompted 
from  the  secretary  this  latter-day  application  of  Sydney  Smith's  apostrophe  made 
in  an  earlier  generation.  Like  expressive,  but  less  classical,  was  the  common  saying 
of  those  days  that  David  R.  Francis  had  more  partners  than  any  other  man  in 
St.  Louis.  Threefold  have  been  these  activities  of  Mr.  Francis.  They  began  when 
Missouri  was  fifty  years  old  in  statehood.  They  have  continued  *down  to  Missouri's 
centennial.    In  business,  in  education,  in  politics,  these  activities  have  been  incessant. 

When  Mr.  Francis  completed  his  full  four  years'  course  at  Washington  Univer- 
sity in  1870,  he  had  a  balance  sheet  that  showed  a  credit  of  one  college  diploma 
and  a  debit  of  tour  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  borrowed  to  complete  the  course.  He 
thought  he  wanted  to  be  a  lawyer,  but  the  opportunity  that  knocked  was  some- 
thing altogether  different.  The  offer  ot  a  place  as  shipping  clerk  in  a  grain  com- 
mission house  at  sixty  dollars  a  month  was  the  best  thing  in  sight,  and  Mr.  Francis 
took  it.  He  tramped  the  railroad  yards  and  the  levee;  he  went  on  'change;  he 
wrote  the  weekly  trade  letter  to  country  customers;  he  devoted  himself  to  the 
business  so  zealously  that  his  salary  was  increased  to  seventy-five  dollars  a  month. 
And  during  these  months,  with  his  foot  on  the  lowest  rung,  he  was  carrying  his 
lunch  in  a  paper  parcel.  The  surplus  at  the  end  of  every  month  was  paid  on  the 
college  debt.  The  cost  of  beginning  that  college  course  had  been  earned  by  the 
sale  of  the  Cincinnati  and  Lexington  papers  at  Richmond,  Kentucky,  the  boyhood 
home  of  Mr.  Francis.  Then  was  laid  the  foundation  of  thrift.  The  boy,'  "Davie," 
had  formed  the  habit  of  walking  out  the  pike  to  meet  the  stage  coming  in.  He 
had  won  the  confidence  of  the  driver  in  such  degree  that  he  was  allowed  to  hold 
the  lines  over  the  four  horses.  The  driver  proposed  a  commercial  partnership  by 
which  the  boy  was  to  take  the  bundle  of  daily  papers  and  sell  them  on  commission. 
"I'll  give  you  a  cent  apiece,"  he  offered. 

"I  don't  want  any  pay."  the  boy  said.     "If  you'll  just  let  me  drive  these  tour 
horses  into  Richmond  every  day  I'll  sell  all  the  papers  you  bring." 
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But  the  stage-driver  took  no  advantage  of  the  boyish  enthusiasm  and  the  first 
lesson  that  "a  bargain  is  a  bargain"  was  taught.  As  the  pennies  accumulated  they 
were  put  in  bank.  When  in  1866  the  youth  started  for  St.  Louis  to  get  a  college 
education  he  had  saved  sixty  dollars  in  gold  which  he  traded  for  ninety-six  dollars 
in  greenbacks,  thereby  learning  another  lesson  in  finance  before  entering  Washing- 
ton  University. 

The  months  of  experience  with  the  grain  commission  house  determined  the 
business  vocation.  Seven  years  Mr.  Francis  worked  on  a  salary  and  then  with  his 
savings  set  up  in  the  commission  business  for  himself.  The  conclusion  drawn  from 
a  lifetime's  experience  is  more  interesting  than  the  details  of  the  years.  And 
especially  at  a  time  like  the  present  with  so  much  discussion  about  the  relations 
of  producer  and  consumer.  Not  long  before  he  went  abroad  as  .ambassador  to 
Russia,    Mr.    Francis   said: 

"1  have  always  followed  attentively  all  conditions  that  affect  the  grain  trade 
of  this  country  and  of  the  world.  The  farmers  may  plant  and  the  railroads  may 
water,  but  the  increase  cannot  come  without  the  agency  of  the  merchant  who  is 
the  connecting  link  between  the  producer  and  the  consumer.  Before  the  great 
transportation  systems  were  established,  before  railroads  carried  freight,  before 
the  potentialities  of  steam  were  applied  on  land  or  on  sea,  the  grain  dealer  was 
performing  his  very  important  function  in  promoting  the  commerce  of  the  world. 
Today  he  is  no  less  a  factor  in  the  great  commercial  system  because  the  packhorse 
and  ox  team  have  been  supplanted  by  the  locomotive  and  the  dynamo.  He  still 
stands  ready  to  buy  from  the  producer  and  is  willing  to  deliver  to  the  consumer 
when  the  demand  requires.  Who  can  say  that  the  merchant  does  not  add  to  the 
value  of  the  raw  product  and  at  the  same  time  diminish  the  cost  of  necessities? 
He  has  been  at  all  times  abreast  of  the  increase  of  production  and  of  the  growth 
of  transportation." 

Such  was  the  impression  Mr.  Francis  made  upon  his  business  associates  that, 
at  the  age  of  thirty-three,  he  was  elected  president  of  the  Merchants'  Exchange, 
the  youngest  man  to  fill  that  exalted  position.  And  then,  while  he  was  attending 
to  business  one  day,  there  came  a  shout  and  a  crowd  gathered  around  him  with, 
"You've  been  nominated  tor  mayor."  Mr.  Francis  was  elected  by  a  plurality  of 
one  thousand  two  hundred.  Four  years  previous  the  candidate  of  the  opposition 
party  had  carried  the  city  by  fourteen  thousand.  A  business  administration  in  the 
strictest  sense  followed.  A  former  mayor  of  St.  Louis  of  the  opposite  political  party, 
Cyrus  P.  Walbridge,  told  at  the  farewell  banquet  just  before  the  departure  of 
Ambassador  Francis  for  Russia,  some  of  the  constructive  achievements  for  the 
city.  As  mayor,  Mr.  Francis,  so  said  Mr.  Walbridge,  reduced  the  interest  on  the 
municipal  debt  from  six  to  four  percent  and  even  to  three  and  sixty-five  one  hun- 
dred per  cent  on  part  of  the  bonds.  Mayor  Francis  acquired  for  one  million  dollars 
the  site  of  the  new  waterworks  at  the  Chain  of  Rocks,  thereby  giving  St.  Louis  the 
ideal  location  for  the  system  of  water  supply,  protected  for  all  time  against  pollution 
from  sewerage.  Mayor  Francis  brought  down  the  cost  of  gas  from  two  dollars  and 
fifty  cents  to  one  dollar  and  twenty-five  cents  per  one  thousand  cubic  feet.  It  was 
the  result  of  the  work  Mayor  Francis  began  that  St.  Louis  became  at  the  time  the 
best  paved  city  in  the  United  States.  Mayor  Francis  collected  from  the  Missouri 
Pacific  one  million  dollars  due  the  city. 

"But,"  concluded  Mr.  Walbridge,  "he  is  not  to  be  judged  by  what  he  did  in 
that  office  but  by  what  the  office  did  in  him.  It  prepared  him  for  the  big  things 
which   he  has  since  done." 

And  among  those  big  things  are  to  be  enumerated  four  years  as  governor  of 
Missouri,  a  part  of  a  term  in  the  cabinet  of  President  Cleveland,  the  presidency  of 
the  World's  Fair  of  1904  and  the  most  important  position  in  the  diplomatic  service 
of  the  United  States  during  the  World  war — ambassador  to  Russia. 

A  year  and  more  before  this  country  joined  the  allies,  after  he  had  been  con- 
firmed as  ambassador  witliout  reference  to  a  committee  and  by  unanimous  vote, 
Mr.  Francis  raised  his  voice  with  no  uncertain  note  for  preparedness.  He  met 
unflinchingly   the  sadly  mistaken   position   of  the   pacifists.      He  said: 

"I  do  not  share  the  belief  cherished  by  some  that  preparedness  on  the  part  of 
a  great  nation  is  more  likely  to  involve  it  in  war  than  if  it  were  not  prepared.  The 
instinctive  love  of  peace  which  pervades  this  republic,  the  conservative  sentiment 
which  characterizes  our  citizens,   are   ample  safeguards   against  intemperate   action. 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  35 

If  the  equipment  of  armies  were  the  same  as  they  were  during  our  War  of  the 
Revolution,  or  even  the  same  as  they  were  during  our  Civil  war,  there  would  be 
no  necessity  tor  preparedness;  the  intelligence  and  the  courage  of  our  people  and 
their  love  of  our  institutions  would  prompt  and  enable  them  to  organize  and 
mobilize  opportunely  for  any  emergency.  The  implements  of  modern  warfare,  how- 
ever, and  the  use  made  thereof,  have  established  beyond  controversy  that  the 
country  which  is  not  properly  and  securely  equipped  is  at  a  great  disadvantage,  if 
not  in  continued  jeopardy." 

With  the  constructive  record  made  as  mayor  of  St.  Louis,  it  was  natural  that 
his  party  should  look  to  David  R.  Francis  for  the  head  of  the  state  ticket.  Three 
months  before  his  four  years'  term  as  mayor  expired  Mr.  Francis  was  inaugurated 
governor.  And  now  a  long  record  of  constructive  work  was  placed  to  his  credit. 
Dignities  and  honors  of  office  seemed  never  to  dull  his  energies  or  repress  his 
activities.  The  first  appropriation  since  the  Civil  war  tor  the  National  Guard  was 
passed.  The  first  Australian  ballot  law,  the  school-book  commission,  the  uniform 
text-book  law,  reduction  of  the  tax  rate,  appointment  of  a  geological  survey, — these 
were  only  samples  of  the  legislation  which  came  from  Governor  Francis'  recom- 
mendations  and  personal  arguments. 

But  the  regeneration  of  the  University  of  Missouri  was,  perhaps,  the  chief  and 
most  enduring  benefit  to  the  state  which  came  about  in  the  Francis  administration. 
When  the  United  States  government  paid  to  Missouri  six  hundred  thousand  dollars, 
the  long  delayed  refund  of  the  direct  tax,  Governor  Francis  made  his  convincing 
appeal  for  the  addition  to  the  endowment  of  the  university.  There  was  prejudice, 
on  various  grounds,  against  the  conduct  of  the  institution.  With  sweeping  reforms 
through  legislation  the  objections  were  overcome.  A  bipartisan  board  of  nine 
curators  was  provided. 

The  institution  had  entered  upon  a  new  era  with  encouraging  prospects  when 
in  February,  1892,  the  main  buildings  burned.  Immediately  Governor  Francis 
called  a  special  meeting  of  the  legislature.  Taking  the  first  train  for  Columbia  he 
addressed  the  students,  advising  them  to  remain  and  go  on  with  their  studies  in 
temporary  quarters,  and  promised  them  rebuilding  should  begin  at  oncis.  ^For  years 
successive  legislatures  had  been  threatening  to  separate  the  agricultural  college  and 
move  it  from  Columbia.  Such  was  the  hostility  occasioned  by  previous  unpopular 
management  that  there  was  grave  danger  the  fire  mighi  cost  Columbia  either  the 
university  or  the  college  of  agriculture.  The  special .  session  was  convened  as 
quickly  as  the  legal  limit  permitted.  Governor  Francis  recommended  an  appropria- 
tion of  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  to  rebuild  and  the  measure  was 
passed  promptly.  From  that  day  the  University  of  Missouri  has  forged  ahead  in 
strength  and  influence  at  a  rate  that  has  been  the  surprise  of  educators  everywhere. 
For  his  policies  and  his  acts  as  governor,  David  R.  Francis  is  called  "the  second 
father  of  the  University."  He  ranks  with  James  S.  Rollins  as  one  of  the  two  men 
who  have  done  most  for  the  institution. 

The  entrance  of  David  R.  Francis  into  politics  dated  back  to  1884,  the  year 
before  he  was  elected  mayor  of  St.  Louis.  Representing  the  Merchants'  Exchange 
Mr.  Francis  headed  a  committee  which  extended  hospitality  to  the  delegates 
assembled  to  choose  Missouri's  delegates-at-large  to  the  Chicago  convention  which 
nominated  Mr.  Cleveland  for  his  first  term.  The  delegates  reciprocated  the  local 
courtesies  shown  and  chose  Mr.  Francis,  though  not  an  avowed  candidate,  as  one 
of  the  four  delegates-at-large.  From  1884  Mr.  Francis  became  active  in  politics, 
taking  forceful  part  in  convention  after  convention,  always  applying  the  practical 
on  broad  lines.  Notwithstanding  the  attitude  of  his  party  on  the  silver  question 
he  stood  firmly  for  sound  money,  just  as  a  generation  later  he  took  his  unswerving 
position   against   Bolshevism. 

During  the  second  term  of  Mr.  Cleveland  Mr.  Francis,  who  had  been  one  of 
the  pronounced  advocates  of  the'  renomination,  held  relations  perhaps  closer  than 
any  other  Missourian  to  the  administration.  In  the  summer  of  1896  he  was  asked 
to  take  the  secretaryship  of  the  interior.  His  term  of  office  was  not  quite  one  year, 
but  in  that  time  he  added  millions  of  acres  to  the  forest  reserves  and  instituted 
reforms  in  the  government  service  which  were  ratified  and  continued  in  the 
McKinley   administration. 

Soon  after  he  retired  from  the  interior  department  Mr.  Francis  delivered  an 
address  before  the  Business  Men's  League  of  St.  Louis  in  which  he  spoke  of  the 
coming  centennial   of  the  Louisiana  Purchase  and  advised  preparation   for  a  fitting 


36  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

celebration.  In  June,  1898,  Mr.  Francis  was  made  one  ot  a  committee  of  fifteen 
to  select  a  larger  committee  representative  of  the  entire  city.  Out  ot  this  developed 
the  World's  Fair  of  1904.  Not  the  least  interesting  or  significant  of  the  motives 
which  prompted  him  to  give  so  generously  his  energies  and  time  to  the  World's 
Fair  is  embodied  in  this  expression  regarding  the  influence  such  a  movement  would 
have  upon  the  people  of  St.  Louis.  "St.  Louis  has  needed  something  like  this," 
reasoned  Mr.  Francis.  "We  are  a  peculiarly  self-centered  people.  We  own  our 
own  city.  We  have  always  stood  ready  to  furnish  capital  to  others.  We  are 
strong  and  prosperous  financially.  But  we  are  perhaps  too  independent.  We  need 
to  be  brought  more  closely  into  contact  with  the  outside  world.  We  need  to  have 
a  certain  narrowness  ot  vision  altered.  We  need  to  learn  something  .of  our  own 
merits  and  possibilities,  so  that  many  of  our  own  people  will  realize  a  little  better 
than  they  do  that  St.  Louis  is,  in  its  own  way,  as  great  a  city  as  any  on  the 
continent." 

"Every  exposition  is  a  great  peace  congress,"  said  Mr.  Francis,  on  another 
occasion,  in  further  explanation  of  his  intense  interest  in  the  World's  Fair.  "Each 
is  another  step  forward  in  the  progress  of  man.  It  is  a  source  of  growing  education 
to  the  human  race,  and  brings  the  civilized  races  closer  together." 

President  Francis  gave  the  years  ot  service  to  the  World's  Fair  without  one 
dollar  of  compensation.  To  the  committee  of  directors  appointed  te  confer  with 
him  on  the  matter  ot  salary,  he  said:  "I  cannot  serve  for  a  commercial  reward, 
but  the  best  in  me  will  be  given  cheerfully  to  promote  the  success  of  the  enterprise 
fraught  with  such  consequence  to  St.  Louis  and  the  country." 

After  a  career  full  of  successful  activities  and  attendant  honors,  what  prompted 
Mr.  Francis  to  accept  the  ambassadorship  to  Russia,  a  charge  by  which,  as  he  said, 
"the  very  hinges  of  my  heart  are  sorely  tried"?  He  had  previously  declined  a 
high  diplomatic  position,  removed,  however,  from  the  European  crises.  He  had 
asked  himself  that  question. 

"The  reply  made  to  myself  is  that  I  consider  the  call  one  of  duty,  to  which  it 
would  be  recreant  not  to  respond.  To  the  many  comforting  remarks  made  to  me 
to  the  effect  that  the  opportunity  is  great  and  should  not  be  permitted  to  pass  by, 
my  response  has  been  and  will  be  that  I  hope  I  may  be  equal  to  rise  to  it. 

"If  my  government,  in  its  wisdom,  calls  me  to  an  important  post,  which  it 
thinks  I  am  competent  to  fill  on  account  of  my  years  or  my  experience  in  domestic 
government,  or  in  national  or  international  commerce,  I  would  be  a  poor  citizen 
indeed  it  I  permitted  personal  interests,  or  friendly  associations,  or  love  ot  ease, 
or  even  ties  of  consanguinity,  to  interfere  or  to  prevent  a  favorable  response  on 
my   part. 

"Fear  ot  jeopardizing  whatever  of  reputation  I  may  have  gained  in  public 
affairs  or  In  commerce  is  not  one  of  my  guides  of  action.  If  it  were  I  should  be  a 
coward,  and  unworthy  of  the  respect  of  my  fellows. 

"To  say  that  I  am  confident  of  being  able  to  discharge  successfully  or  credit- 
ably the  delicate  duties  of  the  position  I  have  accepted  would  be  presuming  indeed, 
but  to  affirm  that  I  approach  such  duties  with  sincerity  of  motive,  and  imbued  with 
an  honest  desire  to  serve  my  country  and  to  promote  the  welfare  ot  humanity,  is 
but  expressing  the  sentiments  ot  one  whose  love  of  his  fellows  increases  as  the 
shadows  lengthen." 

Under  the  monarchy,  through  the  republican  revolution  and  into  the  chaos  ot 
Bolshevism,  Ambassador  Francis  remained  at  his  post  until  five  days  before  the 
armistice  was  signed.  And  then  he  was  carried  on  a  stretcher  by  eight  American 
sailors  aboard  an  American  warship  to  go  to  a  United  States  army  base  hospital. 
During  almost  three  years  in  Russia  the  drafts  on  a  magnificent  physique  had  been 
honored  by  nature.      On  November   6,   1918,   they  went   to  protest. 

As  head  of  the  United  States  Commission,  appointed  by  President  Wilson, 
Charles  R.  Crane  went  to  Russia  in  the  midst  of  revolution  and  counter  revolution. 
When  he  came  back  to  the  United  States,  he  said: 

"If  Francis  was  to  quit  his  post  I  do  not  know  where  in  all  of  the  United 
States  we  would  find  a  man  to  fill  his  place." 

Only  when  the  diplomatic  files  are  opened,  and  the  white  books,  the  red  books, 
the  blue  books  and  those  other  official  publications  ot  confidential  correspondence 
between  nations  appear  will  the  full  measure  of  this  Missourian's  historic  stature 
in  the  World's  war  be  realized  by  his  fellow  citizens.     At  intervals  there  came  out 


'     CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OE  MISSOURI  37 

of  Russia  fragments  of  information,  througii  various  ctiannels,  showing  tliat  lite 
at  tlie  American  embassy  had  been  strenuous.  When  Ambassador  Francis  went 
to  Russia  he  was  accredited  to  a  monarchy  and  held  official  relations  with  the 
government  of  a  czar.  Then  came  revolution,  the  constitutional  assembly,  Kerensky 
and  the  military  regime,  soldiers'  and  sailors'  councils,  Soviets  and  the  Bolsheviki. 
And  later  the  efforts  of  law  and  order  elements,  scattered  and  struggling,  under 
various  leaders  and  names,  to  throw  off  the  demoralizing  influence  of  anarchy. 
Through  all  the  American  Ambassador  stayed  on,  moving  from  place  to  place,  living 
on  trains,  issuing  his  courageous  counsel  to  the  Russian  people,  urging  continuance 
of  alliance  with  the  entente  countries  as  against  the  German  intrigue.  For  weeks 
at  a  time  he  was  without  communication  from  Washington.  Again  and  again  it 
was  left  to  his  discretion  whether  he  should  leave  Russia.  But  not  until  the 
American  embassy  staff  was  reduced  to  fewer  than  half  a  dozen  persons  and  physical 
breakdown  came,  did  the  Ambassador  permit  himself  to  be  taken  away  from  Russia 
on  a  stretcher. 

Stronger  testimony  to  the  importance  of  the  service  Ambassador  Francis  was 
giving  could  not  have  been  contributed  than  the  reply  of  the  administration  at 
Washington  when  Governor  Gardner  telegraphed  his  purpose  to  offer  to  the  am- 
bassador the  United  States  senatorship  made  vacant  by  the  death  of  Senator  Stone, 
if  he  could  be  spared  from  the  diplomatic  duty.  The  reply  was  that  it  was  con- 
sidered so  necessary  for  the  ambassador  to  continue  in  Russia,  it  was  impossible 
to  consent  to  the  plan  of  Governor  Gardner. 

Leaving  the  hospital  before  complete  recovery  from  an  operation,  the  am- 
bassador was  in  Paris  during  the  peace  conference  giving  firsthand  testimony  to 
the  false  principles  and  baneful  practices  of  Bolshevism.  He  came  back  to  the 
United  States  to  find  insidiously  spreading  the  doctrines  of  the  internationale.  By 
testimony  before  Congressional  committees,  by  speeches  which  taxed  his  weakened 
system,  by  interviews  in  the  newspapers,  the  ambassador,  still  carried  in  the  diplo- 
matic corps  but  on  the  inactive  list,  which  means  service  without  salary,  maintained 
his  convincing  opposition  to  official  recognition  of  and  to  mistaken  sympathy  with 
Bolshevism. 

In  1876  Mr.  Francis  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss  Jane  Perry,  a  daughter 
of  John  D.  Perry,  of  St.  Louis,  and  a  lady  whose  social  and  domestic  graces  have 
contributed  not  a  little  to  the  success  of  her  husband.  Their  six  sons  are:  John 
D.  Perry,  David  R.,  Charles  Broaddus,  Talton  Turner,  Thomas  and  Sidney  R. 


FRED  W.  POWERS. 


Fred  W.  Powers,  vice  president  of  the  Moore  &  Mullins  Banking  Company  of  Lin- 
neus,  has  at  different  periods  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in  Linn  county  and 
in  the  conduct  of  farming  and  other  business  interests,  at  all  times  proving  a  pro- 
gressive citizen  and  one  who  has  made  valuable  contribution  to  the  upbuilding  and 
development  of  this  section  of  the  state.  He  is  a  native  son  of  Linn  county,  his  birth 
having  occurred  May  6.  1841,  on  his  father's  farm  three  miles  north  of  Bucklin,  his  parents 
being  Dr.  John  F.  and  Isabel  (Brownlee)  Powers,  both  of  whom  passed  away  many 
years  ago.  In  the  paternal  line  the  ancestry  can  be  traced  back  to  an  old  colonial 
family.  The  grandfather  of  Mr.  Powers  was  Isaac  Powers,  who  was  born  on  Long  Island, 
New  York,  in  1776,  and  in  early  manhood  removed  to  what  is  now  Mahoning  county, 
Ohio,  where  he  passed  away  in  1863.  He  married  Leah  Frazee,  whose  death  occurred  in 
Mahoning  county  in  1865.  The  maternal  grandfather  of  Fred  W.  Powers  was  the  Rev. 
John  Brownlee,  "a  Presbyterian  clergyman  of  Ayr,  Scotland,  who  there  passed  away  at 
the  age  of  forty-three  years,  while  his  wife  died  in  Linn  county,  Missouri,  about  1842. 

Dr.  John  F.  Powers,  the  father  of  Fred  W.  Powers,  was  born  in  Mahoning  county, 
Ohio,  October  15,  1814,  while  the  mother's  birth  occurred  in  Ayr,  Scotland,  December  25, 
1815.'  At  an  early  age,  however,  she  left  the  quaint  little  village  made  -immortal  through 
the  poems  of  Burns  and  came  to  the  new  world.  In  Ohio  she  met  Dr.  Powers,  who 
sought  her  hand  in  marriage.  In  1841  they  left  the  Buckeye  state  and  proceeded  down 
the  Ohio  and  up  the  Mississippi  and  Missouri  rivers  to  Brunswick,  Chariton  county, 
Missouri,  and  from  that  point  journeyed  across  the  country  to  Linn  county.  Throughout 
his  remaining  days  Dr.  Powers  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  medicine  to  the  last 


38  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

six  months  of  his  lite,  when  he  was  in  the  military  service  of  his  country  as  captain  of 
Company  I,  Forty-second  Missouri  Infantry,  and  while  thus  engaged  he  passed  away  at 
Jefferson  City,  Missouri.  February  20.  1865.  His  wife  survived  him  tor  a  little  more 
than  four  years,  her  death  occurring  April  9,  1869. 

Fred  W.  Powers  was  one  of  a  family  of  five  children  and  was  reared  to  manhood  In 
Linn  county,  beginning  his  education  in  one  of  the  old-time  subscription  schools  near  his 
father's  home.  More  advanced  opportunities  came  to  him  in  later  life.  In  1859  he 
entered  Central  College  at  Fayette.  Missouri,  and  in  1861  became  a  student  in  McGee 
College  at  College  Mound.  Macon  county.  Like  his  honored  father,  he,  too.  entered  the 
military  service  of  his  country,  his  company  becoming  a  part  of  the  Second  Provisional 
Regiment.  Enrolled  Missouri  Militia.  In  the  early  part  of  1864  he  became  second  lieu- 
tenant of  Company  L.  Twelfth  Missouri  Cavalry,  with  which  he  served  to  the  close  of 
the  war.  He  participated  in  the  battle  of  Nashville.  Tennessee,  and  other  important 
engagements  and  later  did  work  as  a  builder  of  pontoon  bridges  in  connection  with 
Wilson's  cavalry.  When  the  war  was  over  Mr.  Powers  returned  to  Linn  county  and 
concentrated  his  energies  and  attention  upon  farming  pursuits  until  1871.  In  the  tall 
of  1870  recognition  of  his  ability  and  devotion  to  the  welfare  of  his  community  came  to 
him  in  election  to  the  office  of  circuit  clerk,  which  position  he  filled  for  five  consecutive 
terms — a  fact  that  stands  in  incontrovertible  evidence  of  his  caoability  and  fidelity  in 
office.  In  the  fall  of  1891  he  became  a  resident  of  Nashville,  Tennessee,  where  for  two 
years  he  engaged  in  the  abstract  business,  but  on  the  expiration  of  that  period  he 
returned  to  Linn  county  and  for  three  years  continued  in  the  practice  of  law  as  well 
as  in  the  conduct  of  an  abstract  office.  In  1896  he  was  made  cashier  of  the  Moore  & 
MuUins  Banking  Company  of  Linneus  and  continued  to  fill  that  position  until  January, 
1916,  when  he  was  chosen  vice  president  and  remains  in  that  position  to  the  present 
time.  He  likewise  continues  in  the  practice  of  law,  dividing  his  attention' between  the 
profession  and  the  work  of  the  bank. 

On  the  23d  of  June,  1870,  Mr.  Powers  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Annie  L. 
Roberts,  a  daughter  of  Morris  and  Jane  Roberts,  of  Linn  county,  Missouri.  They  became 
the  parents  of  two  children,  of  whom  one  is  living,  Fred  Harold  Powers,  of  Kansas  City. 

In  his  fraternal  relations  Mr.  Powers  is  a  Mason  and  is  also  connected  with  the 
Odd  Fellows  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  His  life  has  been  actuated  by 
high  ideals,  prompting  the  most  efficient  service  in  public  office  and  the  utmost  loyalty 
and  honor  in  the  conduct  of  private  business  affairs,  and  thus  it  is  that  he  has  won  and 
enjoyed  the  esteem  and  goodwill  of  all  with  whom  he  has  been  brought  in  contact. 


HON.  ROLLA  WELLS. 


Hon.  RoUa  Wells  has  long  been  an  outstanding  figure  in  connection  with  the 
banking,  street  railway  and  political  interests  of  St.  Louis.  The  soundness  of  his 
views  on  all  questions  of  public  policy  has  made  him  a  recognized  leader  of  public 
thought  and  action  and  there  has  never  been  any  question  as  to  the  sincerity  of 
his  purpose  and  the  integrity  of  his  views.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
June  1,  1856,  and  is  a  son  of  the  Hon.  Erastus  and  Isabella  Bowman  (Henry)  Wells. 
The  father  was  a  prominent  railroad  man  of  Missouri  who  for  more  than  forty  years 
figured  in  the  public  life  of  the  state  and  from  1869  until  1877.  or  for  a  period  of 
four   consecutive   terms,   was   a   member   of   congress. 

In  the  acquirement  of  his  education  RoUa  Wells  attended  Washington  Univer- 
sity of  St.  Louis  and  afterward  Princeton  University  of  New  Jersey.  He  then  entered 
the  offices  of  the  street  railway  company  of  which  his  father  was  president,  but  his 
advancement  was  won  through  individual  merit  and  ability  and  his  developing  powers 
brought  him  to  the  position  of  assistant  superintendent.  In  1879  he  became  general 
manager  of  the  road,  succeeding  A.  W.  Henry,  under -whom  he  had  previously  served. 
He  continued  in  that  position  until  1883  and  in  that  period  brought  about  many 
improvements.  He  then  retired  from  the  railroad  business  in  order  to  take  up 
the  management  of  his  father's  various  business  enterprises  and  was  thus  active  until 
the  death  of  the  father  in  1893.  In  that  year  he  became  the  president  of  the  Ameri- 
can Steel  Foundry  Company  and  as  such  identified  with  one  of  the  important  cor- 
proations  of  the  city.  The  prompt  execution  of  well  formulated  plans  has  been 
one  of  the  strong  elements  in  his  growing  success. 


HON.  ROLLA  WELLS 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  41 

In  St.  Louis,  in  1878,  Mr.  Wells  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Jennie  Howard 
Parlier,  who  passed  away  April  8,  1917.  Their  children  are  Mrs.  J.  Clark  Streett, 
Erastus,  Lloyd  Parker,  Mrs.  Tom  K.  Smith  and  Mrs.  Elzey  M.  Roberts.  The  sons  are 
graduates   of   Princeton   University. 

The  honorary  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  was  conferred  upon  Mr.  Wells  by  Wash- 
ington University  in  June,  1912,  and  by  Princeton  University  in  June,  1916.  He  Is 
a  prominent  figure  in  the  club  circles  of  St.  Louis,  having  membership  with  the 
University,  St.  Louis,  Racquet,  Noonday,  City,  St.  Louis  Country,  Log  Cabin  and 
Cuivre  Clubs.  He  was  decorated  with  the  Third  Class  Order  of  Red  Eagle  in  1902, 
the  Chinese  Order  of  the  Double  Dragon  and  the  Japanese  Order  of  the  Rising  Sun 
in   1905. 

Mr.  Wells  was  long  a  dominant  figure  in  democratic  circles  in  St.  Louis  and  the 
state.  He  has  taken  keen  interest  in  politics  from  fhe  time  when  age  conferred  upon 
him  the  right  of  franchise.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  democratic  national  convention 
held  in  Indianapolis  in  1896  and  in  the  same  year  became  president  of  the  Sound 
Money  Democratic  Club  of  St.  Louis.  In  the  spring  of  1901  he  was  nominated  for 
mayor  of  the  city  on  the  democratic  ticket  and  was  elected  for  a  four  years'  term, 
and  that  his  administration  was  businesslike,  progressive  and  fraught  with  various 
measures  of  public  improvement  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  was  reelected  for 
the  succeeding  term.  While  he  was  mayor,  every  department  of  the  city  government 
was  placed  on  a  sound  business  basis  and  the  affairs  of  the  municipality  were  in 
excellent  shape  at  the  end  of  his  second  tefm.  In  1912  he  was  treasurer  of  the 
national  democratic  committee,  during  the  first  Wilson  campaign,  and  during  the 
first  campaign  after  the  corrupt  practices  act  was  passed,  which  involved  endless 
details  to  be  kept  of  all  campaign  funds.  He  was  governor  of  the  Federal  Reserve 
Bank  of  St.  Louis  from  October  28,  1914,  to  February  5,  1919,  when  he  resigned  to 
devote  himself  to  his  personal  affairs.  In  April,  1919,  he  was  appointed  receiver  for 
the  United  Railways  Company  »f  St.  Louis.  He  belongs  to  that  class  of  prominent 
business  men  who  recognize  that  life  holds  its  obligations  for  every  individual  in 
the  matter  of  citizenship.  He  feels  that  it  should  be  the  duty  and  the  business  of 
every  man  to  aid  to  the  extent  of  his  ability  in  solving  the  vital  public  problems  that 
are  continually  arising  and  to  render  such  service  in  public  affairs  as  lies  within  his 
power.  When  every  man  does  meet  his  obligations  the  perplexing  questions  of  the 
republic  will  be  solved.     Mr.  Wells  has  set  a  splendid  example   in  tliis  direction. 


HARRY  A.  FRANK. 


Harry  A.  Frank,  member  of  the  bar,  engaged  in  the  general  practice  in  St.  Louis, 
his  native  city,  has  ever  been  actuated  by  a  laudable  ambition  to  progress,  and  it  was 
this  that  caused  him  to  meet  the  entire  expense  of  his  educational  preparation  for  his 
professional  career.  He  was  born  January  1,  1886,  a  son  of  August  and  Anna  (Sears) 
Frank.  The  father,  a  native  of  Germany,  coming  to  the  new  world  when  about  twelve 
years  of  age,  and  the  mother  was  born  on  the  ocean  while  the  parents  were  en  route  to  the 
new  world,  and  comes  of  English  and  Spanish  ancestry.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  August  Frank 
were  married  in  St.  Louis,  where  the  mother  is  still  living  at  the  age  of  seventy-five 
years,  but  the  father  has  passed  away.  In  the  family  were  eight  children,  five  sons  and 
three  daughters,  of  whom  Harry  A.  is  the  youngest.  The  father  was  for  many  years 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  cigars  under  the  name  of  A.  Frank  &  Brother,  maintaining 
an  establishment  at  Carondelet,  the  house  being  recognized  as  an  old  and  reliable  one. 

Harry  A.  Frank,  whose  name  introduces  this  review,  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  in  the  Washington  University,  in  which  he  pursued  his  law  course,  winning 
his  LL.  B.  degree  in  1908.  He  certainly  deserves  much  credit  for  what  he  has  accom- 
plished, as  he  met  the  expenses  of  his  entire  course  and  in  his  determined  purpose 
displayed  a  characteristic  that  always  means  well  for  a  successful  future.  He  has  since 
engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  law  and  has  specialized  on  federal  tax  and  income 
matters,  being  now  senior  partner  of  the  iirm  of  Frank  &  Stamm,  a  firm  that  is  enjoying 
a  liberal  clientage.  Mr.  Frank  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  and  American  Bar  Associa- 
tions and  he  enjoys  the  respect  and  confidence  of  his  fellow  members  of  the  bar,  because 
of  his  close  conformity  of  his  practice  to  the  highest  ethical  and  professional  standards. 

On  the  6th  of  June,  1912,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Frank  was  married  to  Miss  Mabelle 


42  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Schoenfleld,  a  (laughter  of  Louis  and  Alice  Schoenfield.  Mrs.  Frank  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Missouri  University,  in  which  she  won  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  and  Bachelor  of  Science 
degrees  in  1908.  She  taught  in  the  high  school  at  Troy  and  at  Brookfleld,  Missouri, 
making  a  splendid  record  in  the  educational  field.  Her  father  is  the  proprietor  of 
Schoenfield  &  Company,  manufacturers  of  neckties  in  this  city,  and  he  and  his  wife 
still  make  their  home  in  St.  Louis.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  have  one  child,  Richard  Schoen- 
field Frank,  who  was  born  September  12,  1914.  Mrs.  Frank  was  the  secretary  of  the 
Carondelet  Chapter  of  the  Red  Cross.  During  the  war  period  Mr.  Frank  was  one  of  the 
tour-minute  speakers  and  was  also  chairman  of  the  Legal  Advisory  board  of  Division 
No.  12.  Fraternally,  he  is  connected  with  Cache  Lodge,  No.  416,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  also 
with  the  Royal  Arcanum,  and  his  religious  belief  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  served 
as  secretary  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Carondelet  Presbyterian  church  for  over  ten 
years.  He  is  now  a  member  of  the  West  Presbyterian  church,  and  resides  at  5600  Vernon 
Ave.  In  a  word,  his  life  has  been  actuated  by  high  and  honorable  purposes  and  those 
who  know  him  esteem  him  greatly  as  a  man  and  as  a  citizen,  for  his  professional  col- 
leagues and  contemporaries  bear  testimony  to  his  ability  in  the  line  of  his  chosen  life 
work. 


WILLIAM    C.    SCARRITT. 


William  C.  Scarritt,  lawyer,  is  a  representative  of  one  of  the  most  prominent 
and  honored  families  of  Missouri,  his  parents  being  the  Rev.  Nathan  and  Martha 
M.  (Chick)  Scarritt.  Born  on  March  21,  1861,  in  Westport,  which  later  became 
a  part  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  he  has  resided  in  that  city  ever  since.  After  at- 
tending the  public  schools  in  Kansas  City,  he  afterward  attended  Central  College 
at  Fayette,  Missouri,  where  he  was  graduated  with  a  master's  degree  in  the  class 
of  1881.  He  took  his  law  course  in  the  law  school  of  Boston  University,  where 
he  received  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  in  1883,  and  then,  on  the  first  of  July,  1883, 
began  practice  in  Kansas  City  in  association  with  his  brother,  Judge  Edward  L. 
Scarritt,  under  the  firm  style  of  Scai'vitt  &  Scarritt,  a  connection  that  was  main- 
tained for  ten  years,  until  the  elevation  of  his  brother  to  the  bench  of  the  state 
circuit   court. 

William  C.  Scarritt  afterward  practiced  alone  for  three  years,  and  then  organ- 
ized the  firm  of  Scarritt,  Griffith  &  Jones,  of  which  Judge  Scarritt  became  a  member 
upon  his  retirement  from  the  bench  in  1899.  The  members  of  this  firm,  with  the 
exception  of  Mr.  Griflith,  who  died  in  1906,  have  continued  together  in  the  practice 
until  the  present  time,  the  firm  name  having  been  changed,  first  to  Scarritt,  Scarritt 
&   Jones,   then   to   the  present   name   of   Scarritt.   Jones,    Seddon   &   North. 

For  many  years  William  C.  Scarritt  has  been  recognized  as  one  of  the  lead- 
ing members  of  the  Kansas  City  bar,  and  as  one  of  the  ablest  practitioners  before 
the  state  and  federal  appellate  courts.  Devotedly  attached  to  his  profession,  sys- 
tematic and  methodical  in  habit,  sober  and  discreet  in  judgment,  untiring  and 
conscientious  in  caring  for  the  interests  of  his  clients,  and  courteous  and  fair  in 
his  dealings  with  his  adversaries,  these  qualities  served  to  win  for  him  the  respect 
and  high  regard  of  Ihe  bench  and  bar  of  Missouri  and  the  confidence  of  his 
clients.  For  many  years  he  has  been  an  active  member  of  the  Kansas  City,  the 
Missouri   State   and   the   American    Bar   Associations. 

Mr.  Scarritt  has  always  taken  an  interest  in  civic  and  political  affairs.  He 
has  been  an  active  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Kansas  City  practic- 
ally since  its  organization.  In  politics  he  is  an  earnest  democrat  and  has  done 
much  to  shape  the  policy  of  the  party  in  his  city  and  state.  He  was  one  of  those 
who  performed  the  legal  work  in  connection  with  the  development  of  Kansas  City's 
great  park  system.  Through  appointment  by  Governor  Stephens,  he  served  one 
term  as  police  commissioner  of  Kansas  City,  and  in  1917  he  was  appointed  by  the 
mayor  one  of  a  commission  of  seven  to  draft  a  new  charter  for  Kansas  City. 

In  1884  Mr.  Scarritt  was  married  to  Miss  Prances  V.  Davis,  a  daughter  of 
Temple  Davis,  of  Hannibal,  Missouri,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  four 
children,   William   H.,   Frances  M.,   Arthur   Davis  and   Dorothy  Ann. 

Mr.  Scarritt's  father  was  one  of  the  pioneer  preachers  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal   church.    South,    and    Mr.    Scarritt,    as    a    result    of    his    father's    influence   has 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI        .  45 

always  been  an  active  member  of  that  church,  and  has  become  a  dominating  figure 
in  its  affairs.  Since  maturity  he  has  been  one  of  the  board  of  stewards  of  Melrose 
church  in  Kansas  City.  In  1903  he  organized  the  Methodist  Church  Society  of 
Kansas  City,  a  corporation  formed, for  the  purpose  of  promoting  new  church  proj- 
ects, was  elected  its  first  president,  and  has  always  served  as  a  director  and  as 
its  counsel.  In  1892  he  was  elected  a  curator  of  Central  College,  at  Fayette,  Mis- 
souri,   his   alma   mater,   and   has   ever  since   served   in   that   capacity. 

Mr.  Scarritt  has  always  loved  the  state  and  the  city  of  his  birth  and  has  taken 
just  pride  in  being  identified  with  their  development.  Few  lawyers  have  made 
a  more  lasting  impression  on  the  community,  both  for  legal  ability  and  devotion 
to  the  public  welfare. 


WASHINGTON  ADAMS. 


Washington  Adams,  since  1870  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  bar.  was  born  in  Boon- 
ville,  Missouri,  April  16,  1849.  He  was  one  of  a  family  of  nine  children  whose  parents 
were  Andrew  and  Sarah  (Flournoy)  Adams.  His  father  was  a  Santa  Fe  trader  who 
went  as  far  south  as  Chihuahua,  Mexico,  and  in  his  business  interests  in  the  southwest 
in  pioneer  times  met  with  gratifying  success,  so  that  in  his  old  age  he  retired  from  active 
life  to  spend  his  remaining  years  in  the  enjoyment  of  well  earned  ease,  surrounded  by 
many  comforts.  He  married  Sarah:  Flournoy,  of  Independence,  Missouri.  Washington 
Adams,  an  uncle  of  Washington  Adams  of  this  review,  was  a  distinguished  Missouri 
lawyer  who  for  many  years  was  a  judge  of  the  supreme  court  and  left  the  impress  of  his 
ability  and  his  individuality  upon  the  judicial  history  of  the  state.  In  the  maternal  line, 
too,  the  ancestors  of  Mr.  Adams  figured  in  connection  with  the  records  of  the  bench  and 
bar,  for  his  mother  was  a  sister  of  Chief  Justice  Boyle,  who  occupied  a  position  upon  the 
court  of  appeals  bench  of  Kentucky  for  a  number  of  years  and  who  refused  an  appoint- 
ment as  justice  of  the  supreme  court  of  the  United  States,  tendered  him  by  President 
Thomas  Jefferson,  and  also  refused  the  same  position  proffered  by  President 
Madison.  John  Boyle  built  his  own  house  in  Kentucky  and  from  it  went  to  congress, 
and  history  records  that  four  members  of  congress  were  elected  while  living  in  that  house. 

Reared  in  his  native  city,  Washington  Adams  whose  name  introduces  this  record, 
acquired  his  early  education  in  the  Kemper  School  at  Boonville  and  later  matriculated 
in  vne  University  of  Virginia,  where  he  completed, a  part  of  the  literary  course  and  also 
pursued  the  junior  law  course  with  the  class  of  1869.  He  then  returned  to  Boonville  and 
for  one  year  read  law  under  the  direction  of  his  uncle,  for  whom  he  was  named.  He 
was  then  admitted  to  the  bar  and  in  1870  he  entered  upon  the  active  practice  of  his 
profession  in  Kansas  City.  No  dreary  novitiate  awaited  him,  for  although  advancement 
at  the  bar  is  proverbially  slow,  he  made  steady  progress,  his  powers  developing  through 
the  exercise  of  effort  until  he  found  himself  capable  of  crossing  swords  in  forensic 
combat  with  the  ablest  representatives  of  the  profession  in  Kansas  City.  The  thorough- 
ness with  which  he  prepares  his  cases,  his  clear  and  cogent  statements,  his  logical  deduc- 
tions and  his  convincing  arguments,  have  all  been  potent  factors  in  the  attainment  of 
the  success  which  has  placed  him  in  the  front  rank  among  the  representatives  of  law 
practice  in  Missouri.  Almost  from  the  beginning  he  has  been  accorded  a  distinctively 
representative  clientage  and  several  political  positions  in  the  direct  path  of  his  profes- 
sion have  been  accorded  him  through  popular  suffrage.  In  1874  he  was  elected  city 
attorney  and  the  following  year  was  re-elected.  He  was  twice  appointed  counselor  of 
Kansas  City,  serving  in  1880  and  again  in  1884.  In  1893  he  became  county  counselor  of 
Jackson  county  and  was  continued  in  the  office  through  reappointment  in  1895.  As  county 
counselor  he  insisted  that  every  officer  should  send  quarterly  an  account  of  all  fees 
received  by  him  and  he  was  instrumental  in  establishing  the  office  of  county  accountant 
in  order  to  obtain  the  surplus  fees  to  which  the  county  was  entitled.  The  abuse  thus 
exposed  led  to  the  abolition  of  the  fee  system  in  Jackson  county  and  brought  about  a 
gi-eat  saving  to  the  people.  It  has  been  said  of  Mr.  Adams:  "His  is  a  natural  discrimi- 
nation as  to  legal  ethics  and  he  is  so  thoroughly  well  read  in  the  minutiae  of  the  law 
that  he  is  able  to  base  his  arguments  upon  thorough  knowledge  of  and  familiarity  with 
precedents  and  to  present  a  case  upon  its  merits,  never  failing  to  recognize  the  main 
point  at  issue  and  never  neglecting  to  give  a  thorough  preparation.  His  pleas  have  been 
characterized  by  a  terse  and  decisive  logic  and   a   lucid   presentation   rather   than  by 


46  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

heights  of  oratory,  and  his  power  is  the  greater  before  court  or  jury  from  the  fact  that 
it  is  recognized  that  his  aim  ever  is  to  secure  justice  and  not  to  enshroud  the  cause  in  a 
sentimental  garb  or  illusion  which  will  thwart  the  principles  of  right  and  equity 
involved." 

On  the  5th  of  June,  1877,  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Adams  and  Miss  Ella 
B.  Lincoln,  of  Clinton  county,  Missouri,  a  daughter  of  John  K.  Lincoln,  a  farmer  by  occu- 
pation and  a  distant  relative  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  They  have  one  son,  John  W.,  who  was 
graduated  from  Harvard  with  tlie  class  of  1904  and  afterward  studied  law,  being  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1908,  since  which  time  he  has  been  engaged  in  practice  with  his  father. 

Politically  Mr.  Adams  is  a  democrat  who  at  all  times  keeps  well  informed  on  the 
political  issues  and  questions  of  the  day,  yet  has  never  been  an  aspirant  for  public  office, 
outside  of  his  profession  of  law,  for  his  constantly  increasing  professional  duties  make 
steady  demands  upon  his  time  and  energy.  However,  when  America  was  actively  engaged 
in  war  with  Germany  he  supported  every  organized  plan  and  project  for  the  support  of 
the  federal  government  in  the  prosecution  of  the  war  and  in  connection  with  the  allied 
countries.  He  was  counsel  for  the  food  administration  of  Kansas  City,  being  appointed 
at  the  suggestion  of  the  local  food  administrator,  Frank  Dean,  the  appointment  coming 
from  the  state  federal  food  administrator,  F.  D.  Mumtord.  Mr.  Adams  also  served  on  the 
legal  advisory  board  of  Division  No.  13,  of  Kansas  City  and  February  8,  1919,  he  received 
a  letter  and  copy  of  a  resolution  from  the  local  board,  expressing  appreciation  and  thanks 
for  the  valuable  services  rendered  the  selective  service  division  of  the  state  of  Missouri 
during  the  war,  and  also  the  personal  thanks  of  John  A.  Kuetz,  chairman  of  the  board. 
Under  date  of  April  6,  1919.  Mr.  Adams  received  a  letter  from  General  Crowder,  provost 
marshal  general  of  the  United  States,  thanking  him  tor  the  services  rendered  the 
government  in  his  work  as  a  member  of  the  legil  advisory  board  of  Division  No.  13 
of  Kansas  City. 

His  son,  John  W.  Adams,  who,  owing  to  defective  eyesight,  was  unable  to  join  the 
army  as  he  desired,  entered  the  ambulance  service  of  the  Red  Cross  at  Kansas  City  and 
was  sent  to  Camp  Funston.  \Vhile  he  was  there  it  was  decided  to  select  two  out  of  his 
company  for  overseas  service  and  after  special  examination  he  was  one  of  the  two 
selected.  He  was  then  transferred  to  the  infantry  at  Camp  Funston  and  from  there  was 
sent  to  Camp  Green,  North  Carolina,  and  sailed  for  France  in  February,  1918.  He  was 
ordered  for  duty  in  Fi'ance  April  14,  1918,  was  appointed  sergeant  in.  the  intelligence 
department  at  First  Army  Headquarters  Regiment,  under  Colonel  Michael  J.  Healey, 
and  was  stationed  at  Brest  and  Rennes.  After  serving  for  nineteen  months  he  was  hon- 
orably discharged  at  Fort  Dodge,  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  October  3,  1919.  Thus  father  and 
son  rendered  most  active  and  valuable  service  to  the  country  and  at  all  times  are  actuated 
by  a  spirit  of  the  utmost  loyalty  and  devotion  to  the  interests  and  welfare  of  city,  com- 
monwealth and  country. 


EDWARD  LAWRENCE  ADREON. 

Throughout  all  the  history  of  the  world  there  have  been  but  one  or  two  indi- 
viduals who  have  been  remembered  because  of  their  great  wealth.  It  is  character 
that  indelibly  impresses  itself  on  the  minds  of  others  and  aids  in  shaping  the  his- 
tory of  each  generation.  Abraham  Lincoln  said:  "There  is  something  better  than 
making  a  living — making  a  life,"  a  truth  which  finds  its  embodiment  in  the  record 
of  Edward  Lawrence  Adreon,  who,  capable  and  efficient  in  public  office,  prominent 
and  successful  in  business,  is  yet  remembered  for  the  countless  good  deeds  which 
he  did — "the  little  ministries  which  fill  the  every  days."  St.  Louis  was  honored 
to  claim  him  as  a  native  son  ant^  one  who  throughout  his  entire  life  remained  a  resi- 
dent of  the  city.  He  was  born  December  23.  1847,  and  passed  away  on  the  29th  of 
December,  1913.  He  was  descended  from  Revolutionary  war  ancestry,  his  grand- 
father. Captain  Christian  Adreon,  having  fought  in  the  war  for  independence,  while 
later  he  served  as  a  captain  in  the  Fifth  Regiment  of  Maryland  during  the  War  of 
1812.  His  father,  Stephen  W.  Adreon,  was  born  in  Baltimore  in  1806  and  was 
liberally  educated,  being  graduated  from  the  University  of  Maryland  with  the 
M.  D.  degree.  In  1831  he  removed  to  St.  Louis  and  after  engaging  for  a  time  in 
commercial  pursuits  took  up  the 'practice  of  medicine,  in  which  he  continued 
throughout  his   remaining   days.      He   was  also   prominent  in   connection   with   civic 


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affairs  and  served  as  a  member  of  the  common  council  under  Mayors  Kennett,  King 
and  Filley.  He  was  also  for  a  number  of  years  president  of  the  board  o£  health, 
was  for  two  years  health  officer,  and  during  the  last  year  of  his  life  was  a  member 
of  the  board  of  managers  of  the  House  of  Refuge  and  ward  physician  for  the  poor 
of  the  eighth  ward.  Death  called  him  December  9,  1S67,  at  which  time  one  of  his 
biographers  wrote  of  him  as  "a  high-minded,  liberal  and  courteous  gentleman,  ever 
ready  to  give  a  willing  ear  and  helping  hand  to  those  who  stood  in  need." 

His  son,  Edward  Lawrence  Adreon.  supplemented  his  public  school  training 
by  study  at  Wyman's  University,  then  called  the  City  University,  displaying  marked 
proficiency  in  mathematics.  At  the  same  time  he  was  very  popular  among  his 
fellow  students.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  entered  the  office  of  the  comptroller 
of  the  city  of  St.  Louis  in  a  clerical  capacity  and  he  there  remained  for  twenty 
years,  filling  the  office  through  varying  political  administrations,  although  he  was 
ever  a  stanch  republican.  When  Comptroller  Kayser,  a  democrat,  resigned  his 
position  on  account  of  ill  health  in  1873  he  presented  to  Mr.  Adreon,  who  was 
then  serving  as  his  deputy,  a  beautiful  silver  salver,  in  the  center  of  which  was 
engraved: 

HENRY  KAYSER  TO  E.  L.  ADREON 

As  a  Token  of  His  Appreciation  of  Fidelity 

In  the  Service  of  the  City 

St.   Louis,   Mo.,   September   10,    1873. 

"Not  a  word  was  said  by  Mr.  Kayser  as  he  handed  the  beautiful  gift  to 
Mr.  Adreon,  but  his  moist  eyes  told  of  a  feeling  which  words  could  not  adequately 
express.  The  latter,  at  once  appreciatin-g  the  sentiment  that  prompted  the  bestowal 
of  the  gift,  found  himself  overcome  by  his  feelings  and  could  only  take  the  proffered 
souvenir  in  silence.     It  was,  however,  a  silence  more  eloquent  than  words." 

Mr.  Adreon  was  retained  by  Captain  Pepper,  the  successor  of  Mr.  Kayser  and 
also  a  democrat,  and  in  1877  he  became  a  candidate  for  the  office  of  comptroller, 
on  which  occasion  a  local  newspaper  wrote:  "Among  the  names  of  suggested  can- 
didates, for  the  comptrollership  none  has  been  better  received  by  republicans  than 
that  of  Mr.  Adreon.  His  familiarity  with  the  duties  of  the  office  and  his  popularity 
with  the  members  of  all  parties  contribute  to  render  him  one  of  the  strongest 
candidates  to  be  presented.  For  comptroller  we  most  heartily  endorse  Mr.  Adreon 
as  the  most  fitting  candidate  for  this  office.  He  has  been  an  attache  of  the  office 
ever  since  a  boy,  being  at  present  deputy,  and  consequently  thoroughly  understands 
all  the  Intricacies  of  the  position.  Mr.  Adreon  is  a  young  man  of  an  unblemished 
reputation  and  is  in  every  way  worthy  of  hearty  endorsement  upon  next  Tuesday. 

"Edward  L.  Adreon  is  a  gentleman  in  every  way  fitted  for  the  office  to  which 
he  has  been  called.  A  twelve  years'  experience  as  a  deputy  in  the  comptroller's 
office  has  given  him  opportunity  to  acquaint  himself  thoroughly  with  the  duties 
required  of  him.  The  comptroller  exercises  a  general  supervision  over  the  fiscal 
affairs  of  the  city,  transacts  all  its  financial  business,  has  access  to  the  books  of  any 
department,  is  ex  officio  a  territorial  member  of  either  house  of  the  assembly  and 
must  be  a  man  of  brains  and  strong  intellect."  Mr.  Adreon  won  the  election  by  a 
handsome  majority  and  when  in  1881  he  became  a  candidate  for  reelection  it  was 
said  of  him:  "The  city  owes  to  Mr.  Adreon  much  of  the  success  due  its  very 
excellent  financial  management,  and  his  experience  and  honesty  eminently  fit  him 
for  the  place."  "Under  his  management  the  city  finances  have  gradually  Improved 
until  they  are  now  in  a  thoroughly  healthy  condition.  The  present  fiscal  year  is  the 
first  one  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  or  more  that  the  city  has  not  had  to  borrow 
money.  I  don't  see  how  the  democrats  are  going  to  improve  on  Mr.  Adreon."  For 
eight  years  Mr.  Adreon  was  continued  in  the  office  of  comptroller  and  a  newspaper 
of  that  period  said:  "There  probably  never  was  a  time  when  the  comptroller  was 
surrounded  by  greater  difficulties  and  embarrassments  than  during  the  past  fiscal 
year,  and  yet  Mr.  Adreon,  the  comptroller,  presents  a  better  financial  showing  than 
any  of  his  predecessors.  Instead  of  deficiencies,  as  reported  by  nearly  every 
comptroller  for  ten  years  past,  Mr.  Adreon  has  not  only  confined  the  expenditures 
within  the  revenue,  but  shows  a  surplus  and  a  financial  condition  of  the  city  hereto- 
fore unprecedented."  In  this  connection  it  has  also  been  written:  "Altogether 
he  was  for  twenty  years  in  the  comptroller's  office — twelve  years  as  clerk  and  eight 
as  comptroller.     When  we  consider  that  he  entered  the  office  at  the  age  of  eighteen 

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and  left  it  at  thirty-eight,  we  marvel  that  so  young  a  man  should  perform  such  a 
tremendous  amount  of  work  with  such  marked  ability  and  wisdom.  Not  only  was 
he  the  youngest  comptroller  the  city  has  had,  but  he  was  confronted  by  a  com- 
plexity of  affairs  greater  than  ever  faced  by  any  incumbent  before  or  since.  By 
the  separation  of  the  city  of  St.  Louis  from  the  county  of  St.  Louis  and  the  adop- 
tion of  a  new  charter  in  1S76,  the  functions  of  the  comptroller  were  greatly  enlarged 
and  extended.  The  changes  involved  in  the  deputies  of  the  various  city  officials 
under  the  new  charter  were  rather  confusing  to  all.  and  Mr.  Adreon  had  to  straighten 
out  the  tangles  and  set  the  new  machinery  in  running  order.  In  all  this  work  of 
reorganization  he  displayed  consummate  administrative  and  executive  ability. 

"He  was  always  on  the  lookout  for  betterments  in  the  manner  of  handling  the 
city's  finances.  He  made  new  rules  for  expediting  the  payment  of  claims  against 
the  city;  set  in  operation  measures  against  tax  dodgers;  drew  up  a  bill  in  1879 
which  provided  that,  'for  the  purpose  of  state,  county  and  municipal  taxation,  mer- 
chandise held  by  merchants  and  the  raw  material,  finished  products,  tools,  machinery 
and  appliances  used  by  manufacturers  shall  constitute  a  class  separate  and  distinct 
by  itself,  and  all  counties,  cities  and  towns  in  the  state,  for  local  purposes,  are 
hereby  authorized  to  license,  tax  and  regulate  the  occupation  of  merchants  and 
manufacturers,  and  may  graduate  the  amount  of  annual  license  imposed  upon  the 
occupation  of  a  merchant  or  manufacturer  in  proportion  to  the  sales  made  by  such 
merchant  or  manufacturer  during  the  year  next  preceding  any  fixed  date.'  He 
visited  Jefferson  City  and  made  an  address  before  the  joint  committee  on  ways  and 
means  of  the  legislature,  in  which  by  the  clearest  arguments  he  urged  the  passage 
of  the  bill.  It  is  stated  that  it  was  largely  through  his  efforts  that  the  bill  became 
a  law,  and  thus  a  most  important  advance  was  made  in  the  ethics  of  taxation." 

It  was  while  he  was  still  serving  in  a  clerical  capacity  in  the  office  of  the 
comptroller  that  Mr.  Adreon  was  married  on  the  23d  of  December,  1871,  to  Miss 
Josephine  L.  Young,  then  of  St.  Louis,  who  was  born  in  Allegheny  City,  Pennsyl- 
vania, July  19,  1844,  and  passed  away  December  21,  1911.  Three  children  were 
born  to  them:  Edward  L.,  Jr.,  who  was  born  October  14,  1872,  and  died  November 
18,  1913;  Josephine  May.  who  was  born  May  3,  1874,  and  died  July  25,  1895;  and 
Robert  Enos,  who  is  now  at  the  head  of  the  American  Brake  Company  and  is  men- 
tioned elsewhere  in  this  work. 

After  retiring  from  the  comptroller's  oflnce  Mr.  Adreon  spent  two  years  as 
advisor  to  several  industrial  companies.  On  the  4th  of  April,  1887,  he  became 
connected  with  the  American  Brake  Company  as  its  secretary  and  treasurer.  He 
bent  his  energies  to  a  mastery  of  every  detail  of  the  business  as  well  as  its  more 
important  features  and  he  became  successively  general  manager,  then  vice  president 
and  general  manager,  and  on  the  30th  of  November,  1910,  was  succeeded  in  the 
ofl^ce  of  general  manager  by  his  son  Robert,  while  Mr.  Adreon  retained  the  vice 
presidency    until   his   demise. 

Mr.  Adreon  combined  in  a  most  eminent  degree  all  the  qualities  necessary  to 
the  successful  manager.  In  addition  to  his  thoroughness,  his  insistence  on  prompt 
and  correct  work,  he  had  the  human  qualities  that  endeared  him  to  his  subordi- 
nates: geniality,  kindness,  magnanimity.  He  inspired  men  with  enthusiasm  and 
loyalty.  In  addition  to  Mr.  Adreon's  duties  as  vice  president  and  general  manager 
of  the  American  Brake  Company,  he  was  also  for  many  years  southwestern  manager 
of  the  Westinghouse  Air  Brake  Company,  which  position  he  also  held  until  his 
death.  His  dealings  with  the  patrons  of  the  company  were  always  marked  by 
fairness  and  liberality  and  the  good  impression  thus  made  on  the  railroads  and 
locomotive  companies  of  the  country  continues  to  this  day  a  business  asset  beyond 
computation.  Without  in  the  least  disparaging  the  able  labors  of  others,  it  must  be 
set  down  as  a  fact  that  to  Mr.  E.  L.  Adreon  more  than  to  any  other  man  is  due 
the  success  and  present  high  standing  of  the  American  Brake  Company.  For  a 
quarter  of  a  century  he  was  with  it  as  its  guiding  spirit;  to  it  he  gave  the  best 
endeavors  of  his  life,  and  it  stands  a  living  monument  to  his  genius,  energy  and 
devotion. 

All  through  the  long  years  in  which  Mr.  Adreon  was  proving  so  important  a 
factor  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  business  of  the  American  Brake  Company  he  never 
lost  his  keen  interest  in  civic  affairs  and  in  many  ways  contributed  to  the  welfare, 
upbuilding  and  betterment  of  St.  Louis,  doing  important  committee  work  in  con- 
nection with  various  civic  organizations  to  which  he  belonged.  He  was  a  ihember 
of  the  city  lighting  committee  of  the  Civil  League;   a  member  of  the  committee  on 


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outer  park  boulevard  system,  vice  president  from  Missouri  of  the  Trans-Mississippi 
Congress;  member  of  the  advisory  board  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  National 
Irrigation  Association  of  the  Missouri  Section;  member  of  the  Business  Men's 
League's  committees  on  transportation  and  taxation,  and  a  delegate  to  the  deep 
waterway  convention  in  St.  Louis.  In  1909  he  was  called  upon  to  give  expert  opinion 
to  the  board  of  freeholders  elected  to  revise  the  city  charter.  He  explained  the 
system  of  checks  and  balances  then  in  use  in  the  offices  of  comptroller,  treasurer 
and  auditor,  which  he  had  devised  during  his  incumbency  in  the  first  mentioned 
office  and  which  was  termed  by  Statistician  W.  J.  Barrow  of  the  United  States 
Census  Bureau  "the  best  of  any  city  in  the  country." 

Mr.  Adreon's  public  and  business  activities,  which  were  of  great  value  to  the 
city,  were  supplemented  by  a  nobility  of  character  that  won  for  him  the  confidence 
and  love  of  all  who  knew  him.  While  he  displayed  great  force  and  determination, 
he  also  showed  extreme  kindliness  and  gentleness  and  his  ready  smile  bespoke  his 
geniality.  His  conversation  was  as  instructive  as  it  was  delightful.  His  pleasant 
disposition,  his  animation  and  the  charm  of  his  personality  impressed  all  with  whom 
he  came  in  contact.  He  was  an  adept  in  judging  human  nature;  he  intuitively  per- 
ceived and  was  constitutionally  hostile  to  all  forms  of  wrong-doing  and  yet  the  sun- 
shine of  his  optimism  was  such  that  it  illumined  and  set  in  relief  the  best  traits 
in  all  whom  he  met.  His  love  of  mankind  is  well  illustrated  in  verses  which  were 
found  upon  his  desk  after  his  death. 

TRUST 

"When  your  brother  man  you  measure, 

Take  him  at  his  best; 
Something  in  him  you  can  treasure. 

Overlook   the   rest. 
Though,  of  his,  some  trait  or  fetter 
May  not  suit  you  to  the  letter, 
Trust   him — it   will   make   him   better; 

Take  him  at  his  best. 

Praise  will  make  him  worth  the  praising; 

Take  him  at  his  best. 
Keep  the  fire  of  purpose  blazing 

Ever    in    his    breast. 
Do  not  frown  upon  nor  scold  him. 
In  the  strength  of  faith  enfold  him; 
To  his  highest  yearnings  mold  him; 

Take  him  at  his  best." 

In  resolutions  adopted  by  the  board  of  directors  of  the  American  Brake  Com- 
pany the  organization  bore  testimony  to  his  business  ability  in  the  words:  "To  an 
unusual  degree  the  success  of  the  company  has  been  built  upon  his  ability,  integrity, 
courtesy  and  kindliness.  *  *  i"  It  has  been  said  that  our  organization  has  been 
peculiarly  unique  in  that  we  have  had  associated  with  our  various  activities,  from 
time  to  time,  many  men  of  great  capacity  and  resource  with  exceptional  qualities 
of  mind  and  heart.  There  can  be  no  better  illustration  of  the  truth  of  this  state- 
ment than  Mr.  Adreon's  life  and  character,  which  has  been  a  constant  inspiration 
to  all  his  associates.  With  a  charming  personality  he  combined  a  kindly  shrewd- 
ness with  a  warm  breadth  of  vision,  and  with  large  business  capacity  a  dominating 
Integrity  and  a  sense  of  fair  dealing  which  not  only  established  him  as  a  successful, 
man  of  large  affairs  throughout  a  long  life  but  endeared  him  to  thousands  with 
whom  he  came  in  contact." 

In  its  memorial  the  Missouri  Chapter  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution 
bore  testimony  to  his  splendid  citizenship  as  follows:  "St.  Louis,  the  city  of  his 
birth,  and  where  he  resided  during  the  entire  period  of  his  long  and  useful  life, 
mourns  him  as  a  citizen  beyond  reproach,  a  civic  officer  of  great  service,  a  man  of 
business  of  incorruptible  integrity  and  a  lover  of  life  and  nature  in  their  sincerest 
and  purest  forms.  To  the  members  of  the  Missouri  Chapter  he  was  always  the  true 
friend,  the  wise  counselor,  the  dignified  yet  cordial  companion,  the  model  patriot. 


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His  devotion  to  tlie  principles  of  our  society  was  real,  hearty  and  continuous,  the 
ever  inspiring  example  of  patriotic  sentiment  and  endeavor." 

In  his  funeral  address  the  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  J,  Niccolls  said;  "It  was  my 
privilege  to  know  Mr.  Adreon  under  circumstances  that  revealed  his  inmost  nature 
to  me.  It  was  in  the  intimacies  that  grew  up  around  the  camp  fire  and  were 
nourished  by  silent  watches  in  the  great  wilderness,  that  1  came  to  have  th-e  truer 
and  larger  knowledge  of  him  whom  I  called  my  friend.  Under  such  conditions 
men  lay  aside  the  restraints  that  custom  and  the  formalities  of  life  place  upon  them 
and  reveal  their  true  selves.  I  found  in  him  an  unselfish  soul,  not  ambitious  for  pre- 
ferment, but  only  desirous  of  rendering  obedience  to  the  right  as  he  saw  it.  He 
had  visions  of  the  future  and  of  duty  which  were  at  once  purifying  and  quickening 
to  the  soul.  He  was  a  man  strangely  without  guile  and  envy,  full  of  sympathy  for 
others  who  were  beaten  down  in  life's  struggles,  yet  clear  ai\d  positive  in  his  condem- 
nation of  unrighteousness.  He  was  loyal  in  friendship  and  had  a  profound  abhor- 
rence of  ingratitude.  Quiet  and  unobtrusive  in  disposition  and  seeking  no  honors 
for  himself,  the  character  that  formed  within  him  drew  to  him  the  attention  and  con- 
fidence of  others. 

So  it  was  that  in  a  time  of  confusion  and  financial  distress  in  the  affairs  of  our 
city,  he  was  chosen  as  the  one  best  qualified  to  bring  order  out  of  contusion  and  to 
restore  public  confidence.  Some  of  you  here  today  can  remember  a  very  dark 
period  in  the  financial  affairs  of  our  city,  when  dishonesty  and  peculation  had  wasted 
its  financial  resources  and  when  Us  accounts  were  in  such  confusion  that  there 
was  suspicion,  distress  and  apprehension  for  the  future.  It  was  at  this  juncture 
of  affairs  that  Mr.  Adreon  was  called  to  the  position  of  comptroller,  and  such  was 
his  ability  and  such  the  manifest  integrity  of  his  character  that  very  soon  the  dis- 
order was  brought  to  an  end  and  public  confidence  restored.  So  faithfully  and  effect- 
ively did  he  discharge  the  duties  of  his  responsible  office  that  he  was  reelected  to  it. 
A  third  term  was  offered  him,  but  this  he  declined  that  he  might  enter  upon  private 
business.  Havin^g  devoted  so  many  years  tor  the  advancement  of  public  welfare,  he 
felt  that  it  was  a  duty  which  he  owed  to  his  family  to  provide  for  their  maintenance 
and  their  future  support.  All  of  his  business  affairs  were  characterized  by  the  same 
unfaltering  integrity.  The  modest  fortune  which  he  acquired  had  on  it  no  stain  of 
dishonesty.  No  ill-gotten  gains  came  into  his  treasury  or  helped  to  swell  his  for- 
tune. It  is  no  small  praise  to  a  man  struggling  in  the  midst  of  the  temptations  of 
t^is  life  that  he  has  secured  the  reputation  for  spotless  integrity  and  has  merited 
the  confidence  of  his  fellowmen. 

"There  is  much  that  I  might  say  with  reference  to  the  loving  relations  of  his 
life  in  his  family  and  in  the  inner  circle  of  his  friends,  but  from  these  things  1 
need  not  lift  the  veil.  It  is  pleasant  to  remember  the  life  that  he  lived  and  yet 
the  song  of  memory — sing  it  as  we  will — has  in  its  minor  strains  that  move  our  hearts 
to  sadness.  We  shall  miss  his  sweet  and  strengthening  fellowship,  but  we  thank 
God  for  the  life  that  he  lived  among  his  fellowmen." 


ROBERT   EXOS   ADREON. 


Robert  Enos  Adreon,  president  and  general  manager  of  the  American  Brake 
Company  of  St.  Louis  and  also  identified  with  various  other  prominent  manufactur- 
ing interests,  was  born  November  1,  1876,  in  the  city  where  he  still  resides  and  in 
which  he  has  spent  his  entire  life,  his  parents  being  Edward  Lawrence  and  Jose- 
phine M.  (Young)  Adreon.  The  mother,  who  was  born  in  Allegheny  City,  Penn- 
sylvania, died  December  21,  1911,  while  the  father  passed  away  December  29,  1913. 
Extended  mention  of  them  is  made  on  another  page  of  this  work,  for  he  was  one 
of  the  representative  business  men,  capable  public  officials  and  honored  citizens  of 
St.  Louis,  who  left  an  indelible  impress  for  good  upon  the  history  of  the  city. 

Robert  E.  Adreon.  after  attending  the  public  schools,  continued  his  educa- 
tion in  Smith  Academy  of  St.  Louis  and  then  went  to  La  Fayette,  Indiana,  where 
he  matriculated  in  Purdue  University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1902  with 
the  degree  of  Mechanical  Engineer.  Immediately  following  his  graduation  he 
accepted  a  position  as  chief  draughtsman  with  the  Imperial  Electric  Light  &  Power 
Company  of  St.  Louis,  which  was  later  absorbed  by  the  Union  Electric  Light  & 
Power  Company.     In   1903   he  became  connected  with   the  Westinghouse  Automatic 


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Air  and  Steam  Coupler  Company,  and  his  expanding  business  powers,  initiative 
and  efficiency  made  him  successively  mechanical  engineer,  general  manager,  a 
director,  vice  president  and  ultimately  president  o£  that  company.  In  1908  he 
entered  the  employ  ot  the  firm  of  Westinghouse,  Church.  Kerr  &  Company,  con- 
tracting and  consulting  engineers  with  their  principal  offices  in  New  York  city. 
In  1911  Mr.  Adreon  was  elected  assistant  general  manager  of  the  American  Brake 
Company,  and  thoroughly  acquainting  himself  with  every  phase  ot  this  business, 
he  has  come  more  and  more  largely  into  positions  of  administrative  direction  and 
executive  control.  He,  was  advanced  to  the  position  of  general  manager,  after- 
ward became  vice  president  and  general  manager  and  on  the  10th  of  April,  1919, 
when  the  board  of  directors  met  to  elect  officers  he  was  chosen  president  and  gen- 
eral manager.  He  is  likewise  a  director  of  the  Safety  Car  Device  Company,  of 
the  National  Brake  and  Electric  Company  of  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  and  many  other 
prominent  manufacturing  interests  of  St.  Louis  and  other  cities. 

On  the  29th  of  April,  1914,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Adreon  was  married  to  Miss 
Grace  Valle  Price,  who  is  a  granddaughter  of  Dr.  McPheeters,  a  well  known  phy- 
sician of  this  city.  They  now  have  one  child.  Marguerite  McPheeters  Adreon, 
born  November  11,  1919.  The  religious  faith  of  the  parents  is  that  of  the  Epis- 
copal church,  their  membership  being  in  the  Church  of  the  Ascension. 

Mr.  Adreon  was  a  member  of  the  officers  training  camp  at  St.  Louis  at  the 
outbreak  of  the  World  war.  His  political  allegiance  has  always  been  given  to  the 
republican  party  and  while  he  has  never  sought  or  held  political  office,  he  has 
cooperated  with  many  interests  of  vital  importance  in  municipal  affairs,  serving 
on  several  of  the  committees  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  which  are  working 
for  civic  advancement  and  uplift,  also  serving  as  chairman  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  Grant^Dent  Memorial  Association.  He  belongs  as  well  to  the  Mis- 
souri Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  of  which  he  has  been  the 
president,  and  he  has  membership  with  Sigma  Chi,  a  college  fraternity.  He  is 
equally  well  known  in  club  circles,  having  connection  with  the  Missouri  Athletic 
Association,  the  Noonday  Club,  St.  Louis  Club,  the  University  Club  and  the 
Bellerive  Country  Club,  being  a  director  of  the  last  named.  In  December,  1919, 
he  was  elected  director  of  the  Mercantile  Trust  Company,  and  in  February,  1920, 
he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  board  of  governors  of  St.  Louis  Arc  League.  He 
is  spoken  of  as  "a  man  who  possesses  the  same  fine  qualities  as  his  father;  very 
energetic  and  progressive;  very  considerate  of  others;  broad  in  his  views;  a  man 
who    will   add    luster    to    the    family    name;    a    man    of    marked    ability." 


ROSCOE  E.  GOODDING. 


Roscoe  E.  Goodding,  president  of  the  Bank  of  La  Plata  at  La  Plata,  Missouri,  has 
spent  his  entire  lite  in  Macon  county,  having  been  born  on  a  farm  in  Lyda  township, 
March  10,  1875,  his  parents  being  John  B.  and  Malissa  J.  Goodding.  Reared  in  La  Plata, 
he  attended  the  public  schools  and  completed  an  academic  education  in  the  Missouri 
Valley  College  at  Marshall.  When  his  textbooks  were  put  aside  he  secured  the  position 
of  deputy  county  clerk  in  the  office  of  his  father,  thus  initiating  his  active  career  after 
leaving  school.  Later  he  was  appointed  to  the  position  of  assistant  cashier  of  the  Bank 
of  La  Plata,  a  position  which  he  filled  until  1903,  when  he  was  advanced  to  that  of 
cashier.  In  1919  he  was  elected  to  the  presidency  of  the  institution  and  is  now  the 
chief  executive  head,  giving  his  attention  to  constructive  effort  and  administrative 
direction.  His  efforts  have  been  a  strong  feature  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  institution 
and  the  development  and  improvement  of  business  conditions  throughout  the  community. 
Recognizing  fully  just  what  a  bank  can  do  in  the  way  of  upbuilding  the  district  and 
maintaining  a  position  of  public  leadership,  Mr.  Goodding  and  his  associates  have  done 
everything  in  their  power  to  further  development  and  progress  and  at  the  same  time 
have  most  carefully  directed  the  growth  of  their  own  bank  and  placed  it  upon  the  roll 
of  honor,  such  a  bank  being  one  that  possesses  surplus  and  profits  in  excess  of  capital, 
thus  giving  tangible  evidence  of  strength  and  security.  Of  the  twenty-five  thousand 
banks  in  the  United  States  only  one  in  ten  occupies' this  proud  position  and  the  BanU 
of  La  Plata  has  reason  to  be  congratulated  upon  maintaining  a  place  in  the  front  rank. 
Its  capital  stock  is  twenty-five  thousand  dollars,   its   surplus   is  of  equal  amount  and 


56  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

its  deposits  have  reached  more  than  three  hundred  and  eighteen  thousand  dollars. 
A  contemporary  biographer  has  said  of  Mr.  Goodding  and  his  business  activities:  "There 
are  men  who  can  put  into  the  tamest  monotony  of  daily  toil  a  spirit  of  life  and  energy 
that  creates  event  and  incident  and  makes  the  progi-ess  of  the  work  a  march  of  triumph. 
Mr.  Goodding  is  one  of  these.  Without  aiming  to  do  anything  startling  or  spectacular, 
he  sees  unsuspected  possibilities  around  him  and  puts  his  forces  in  motion  to  make 
the  most  of  them.  He  has  originality  in  initiative  and  method  and  makes  it  serviceable 
to  the  bank  in  increasing  the  volume  of  its  business  and  the  measure  of  its  usefulness. 
Under  his  vigorous  and  enterprising  management  it  has  grown  rapidly  in  the  extent 
of  its  operations  and  the  spread  and  the  elevation  of  its  reputation  and  influence  in 
the  financial  world.  It  is  now  considered  one  of  the  best  directed  and  most  progressive, 
as  well  as  one  of  the  soundest  financial  Institutions  of  its  kind  in  the  state,  and  is  on  the 
way  to  still  gi-eater  achievements  and  higher  standing." 

On  the  14th  of  August,  1906,  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  R.  E.  Goodding 
and  Miss  Bessie  Williams,  a  native  of  La  Plata.  His  political  allegiance  Is  given  to  the 
democratic  party  and  he  is  a  firm  believer  in  its  principles,  but  has  never  been  an  ofBce 
seeker.  He  belongs  to  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  also 
has  membership  in  the  Presbyterian  Church — associations  that  indicate  the  nature  of 
his  interests  and  the  rules  which  govern  his  conduct.  His  has  been  a  well  spent  life, 
fruitful  of  good  results  for  the  material,  intellectual  and  moral  progress  of  his  com- 
munitv. 


FESTUS    J.   WADE. 


There  may  be  those  who  look  with  envious  eyes  at  Festus  J.  Wade,  president 
of  the  Mercantile  Trust  Company  of  St.  Louis,  but  they  are  only  such  as  have  not 
manhood  enough  to  acknowledge  their  own  deficiency,  tor  it  is  through  effort  and 
diligence  that  Mr.  Wade  has  become  an  outstanding  figure  in  the  financial  circles 
of  his  city.  His  educational  advantages  were  less  than  most  boys  enjoy;  no  oppor- 
tunity came  to  him  save  that  which  he  sought  and  no  promotion  save  that  which 
he  won.-  He  was  only  eleven  years  of  age  when  he  started  out  to  make  his  way 
In   the  world   and   from   that    time   he   has   depended    upon   his   own   resources. 

He  was  born  in  Limerick,  Ireland,  October  14,  1859,  a  son  of  Thomas  and 
Catherine  (McDonough)  Wade,  who  sought  to  instill  into  the  minds  of  their  children 
principles  which  would  prove  of  value  to  them  throughout  life.  The  family  home 
was.  established  in  St.  Louis  in  1860  and  in  1870  Festus  .lohn  Wade  obtained  a  posi- 
tion as  cash  boy  in  the  dry  goods  store  of  D.  Crawford  &  Company.  His  limited 
education  barred  him  from  many  positions  that  a  lad  of  more  liberal  training  could 
have  filled.  In  those  early  days  he  was  a  clerk  in  an  oil  store,  was  employed  in  a 
photographic  studio,  worked  as  water  boy  In  connection  with  the  building  of  the 
railroad  tunnel  along  Washington  avenue  and  was  a  clerk  in  a  Franklin  avenue 
store.  When  fourteen  years  of  age  he  entered  upon  an  apprenticeship  to  the  carpen- 
ter's trade,  but  three  months'  work  of  that  character  convinced  him  that  It  was  not 
the  calling  for  which  nature  intended  him.  He  afterward  drove  a  cart  while  looking 
for  something  better  and  in  the  season  of  1874  worked  at  the  St.  Louis  fair.  At  its 
close  he  entered  a  safe  manufactory  and  during  the  next  season  drove  an  Ice  wagon. 
When  seventeen  years  of  age  he  began  manufacturing  elder  on  his  own  account, 
but  the  enterprise  did  not  prove  successful  and  he  accepted  a  position  as  clerk  and 
paymaster  with  a  contractor  on  the  Wabash  Railroad.  In  the  summer  of  1876  he 
drove  one  of  Green's  sprinkling  carts  and  afterward  became  a  street  car  driver  on 
the  old  Northwestern  line,  which  later  became  the  Mound  City,  the  property  which 
John  Scullin  and  James  Campbell  developed  into  a  part  of  the  great  street  railway 
system  of  St.  Louis.  Mr.  Scullin  is  now  one  of  the  directors  of  the  trust  company, 
the  presidency  of  which  is  today  occupied  by  his  former  driver  of  a  bobtail  street 
car.  Such  are  the  changes  which  can  be  wrought  In  the  business  life  of  the  new 
world,  where  opportunity  is  not  hampered  by  caste  or  class. 

Through  summer  seasons  Mr.  Wade  was  employed  at  the  fair  grounds  until 
■1878  and  was  then  given  a  permanent  place  In  the  city  offices  of  the  Fair  Association 
and  was  gradually  advanced  to  the  secretaryship.  It  was  about  this  time,  when  he 
was  twenty  years  of  age,  that  he  realized  the  necessity  of  further  educational  train- 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  59 

ing  and  spent  four  years  as  a  student  in  the  Bryant  &  Stratton  Business  College, 
acquainting  himself  with  various  branches  of  learning  that  qualify  the  youth  for 
successes  in  the  business  world.  From  that  time  forward  his  advancement  has  been 
continuous.  In  April,  1883,  he  was  elected  secretary  of  the  St.  Louis  Agricultural 
and  Mechanical  Association  as  the  successor  of  G.  0.  Kalb,  who  had  occupied  the 
position  tor  twenty-seven  years.  Recognizing  that  he  could  advance  no  farther  with 
that  company,  Mr.  Wade  then  at  the  age  of  twenty-eight  years  formed  a  business 
connection  with  the  August  Gast  Lithographing  Company,  but  again  he  found  that 
he  had  entered  a  field  in  which  his  native  powers  and  talents  could  not  be  developed. 
He  then  entered  into  the  real  estate  business  with  Lorenzo  E.  Anderson  and  here  he 
found  a  field  where  his  efforts  counted  for  substantial  results.  He  organized  realty 
companies  and  erected  office  buildings,  hotels,  mercantile  and  industrial  structures 
to  the  number  of  more  than  half  a  hundred.  With  the  development  of  the  real 
estate  business  it  naturally  followed  that  the  Mercantile  Trust  Company  was  organ- 
ized by  Mr.  Wade,  the  organization  being  effected  in  1899.  From  the  beginning  the 
new  corporation  was  recognized  as  a  forceful  factor  in  the  business  life  of  the  city  and 
has  long  figured  as  one  of  the  most  prominent  financial  concerns.  The  notable  success 
which  Mr.  Wade  achieved  in  that  connection  led  to  his  being  named  as  chairman 
of  the  committee  on  ways  and  means  for  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  Com- 
pany, and  recognizing  the  need  for  larger  and  better  hotels  at  the  time  of  the  exposi- 
tion, he  became  one  of  the  builders  of  the  Jefferson  Hotel. 

There  was  a  long  period  in  which  his  business  'career  seemed  in  the  experimental 
stage,  but  when  once  he  had  entered  real  estate  and  financial  circles  he  made  most 
rapid  progress,  calling  forth  his  powers  of  organization  and  initiative,  displaying 
marked  enterprise  and  originality  in  his  business  methods  and  never  losing  sight  of 
a  plan  till  it  was  brought  to  successful  completion.  A  contemporary  writer  has 
said  of  him:  "Somebody  asked  Festus  J.  Wade  one  day  what  his  theory  of  banking 
was.  His  answer  was:  'To  get  in  every  dollar  I  can  and  make  it  earn  as  much  as 
it  will  with  perfect  security.'  The  answer  was  characteristic  of  the  man's  straight- 
forward, clean-cut  ways  of  managing  the  business.  The  faculty  of  doing  everything 
in  the  quickest  and  easiest  way,  which  Mr.  Wade  comes  by  naturally  and  which  he 
applies  to  financial  affairs  great  and  small,  was  illustrated  when  the  East  St.  Louis 
Trust  &  Savings  Bank  was  established.  Mr.  Wade  had  been  one  of  the  managing 
spirits  in  that  organization.  The  day  had  been  set  for  the  opening.  The  capital  as 
subscribed  had  been  paid  into  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce  while  the  subscrip- 
tions were  being  collected.  Mr.  Wade  went  to  the  bank,  drew  out  the  capital — two 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars — for  the  new  institution  in  large  bills.  He  placed 
the  bills  in  the  inside  pocket  of  his  coat  and  left  the  bank.  Entirely  alone  he  walked 
to  the  Eads  bridge  and  got  on  a  street  car.  When  he  reached  the  Illinois  side  he 
traversed  several  blocks  to  the  location  of  the  new  bank  and  handed  the  money  to 
the  cashier.  It  never  seemed  to  occur  to  him  that  there  was  anything  unusual  in 
carrying  a  quarter  of  a  million  dollars  in  his  coat  pockets  through  the  streets  and 
across  the  bridge  without  escort  or  weapon." 

Not  only  has  Mr.  Wade  figured  prominently  as,  the  president  of  the  Mercantile 
Trust  Company  but  has  also  been  a  director  of  the  Metropolitan  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany, the  North  American  Company,  the  Frisco  Railroad  and  the  Scullin  Steel  Com- 
pany. In  1914  he  organized  a  hundred-million-dollar  cotton  pool  in  order  to  stabilize 
prices  of  cotton  and  save  the  south.  In  May,  1920,  he  was  elected  director  of  the 
Cleveland,   Cincinnati,   Chicago  and    St.   Louis   Railway   Company    (Big   Four). 

On  the  28th  of  August,  1883,  Mr.  Wade  was  married  to  Miss  Kate  V.  Kennedy 
and  to  them  have  been  born  four  children:  Stella  Marie,  who  is  now  the  widow  of 
Charles  L.  Scullin  and  the  mother  of  one  child;  Marie  L.,  the  wife  of  C.  Sewell  Thomas, 
a  civil  engineer  of  St.  Louis;  Florence  J.,  at  home;  and  Festus  J.,  who  is  a  student 
at  Yale  University.     The  religious  faith  of  the  family   is  that  of  the  Catholic   church. 

In  early  manhood  Mr.  Wade  became  a  leading  member  in  one  of  the  great  Catholic 
temperance  organizations  of  the  city — the  Knights  of  Father  Matthew,  of  which  he 
was  supreme  secretary.  He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis,  Commercial,  Noonday,  Country 
and  Log  Cabin  Clubs  of  St.  Louis  and  the  Bankers  Club  of  New  York.  At  the  time 
of  the  World  war  he  became  a  director  of  the  War  Savings  and  Thrift  Stamps  cam- 
paigns and  was  a  member  of  the  advisory  committee  of  the  finance  section  of  the 
United  States  Railroad  Administration.'  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  St.  Louis  Chapter  of  the  Red  Cross.  He  has  ever  made  his  wealth  a 
source  of  benefit  to  his  fellows  and  nothing  is  foreign  to  his  interests  that  promotes 


60  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OE  AIISSOURI 

the  welfare  of  mankind.  Charles  Sumner  has  said,  "Peace  hath  its  victories  no  less 
renowned  than  war,"  and  no  discerning  person  can  read  the  record  of  Festus  J.  Wade 
without  feeling  a  thrill  over  the  conquests  which   he  has   won. 


AUGUST  M.  BRINKMAN. 


August  M.  Brinkman,  who  is  engaged  in  law  practice,  with  offices  in  the  Title 
Guaranty  building  of  St.  Louis,  in  which  city  he  was  born  October  21,  1890,  is  a  son  of 
Emil  A.  Brinkman,  a  native  of  the  state  of  New  York,  who  spent  the  greater  part  of  his 
life  in  the  service  of  the  government.  He  wedded  Miss  Elise  Kohring,  their  marriage 
being  celebrated  on  the  5th  of  November,  1889,  in  St.  Louis.  To  them  were  born  two 
children,  the  younger  being  a  daughter,  Jeanette.  who  is  now  a  high  school  teacher. 

August  M.  Brinkman  acquired  a  public  and  high  school  education,  completing  his 
course  in  the  latter  institution  in  June.  1909.  He  then  attended  the  Washington  Uni- 
versity, in  which  he  completed  a  law  course  by  graduation  in  1913,  and  in  the  same  year 
was  admitted  to  the  bar.  Through  the  intervening  period  he  has  continued  successfully 
in  practice  and  has  won  a  substantial  clientage.  During  the  war  period  he  served  on  the 
legal  advisory  board  of  the  fourteenth  ward  and  actively  supported  all  the  Liberty 
Loan  and  Red  Cross  drives. 

On  the  7th  of  January.  1914.  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Brinkman  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Gertrude  Heitz  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  two  children,  William  A. 
and  Louise. 

In  his  fraternal  relations  Mr.  Brinkman  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Occidental  Lodge, 
No.  163.  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  in  which  he  was  raised  on  the  1st  of  March.  1915.  He  has  since 
attained  the  thirty-second  degree  of  the  Scottish  Rite  and  is  a  loyal  follower  of  the  craft. 
In  politics  he  is  a  republican  and  was  elected  to  the  state  legislature  as  representative 
in  the  forty-ninth  and  fiftieth  general  assemblies,  his  course  there  being  marked  by 
progressiveness  in  support  of  all  measures  calculated  to  advance  the  interests  of  the 
commonwealth.  He  is  a  member  of  the  republican  city  central  committee  of  the  four- 
teenth ward,  and  belongs  to  St.  Aldemar  Commandery,  Knights  Templar.  Those  who 
know  him,  and  he  has  many  friends,  speak  of  him  as  one  of  the  rising  young  lawyers 
of  the  St.  Louis  bar. 


CHARLES  W.   SCARRITT. 


Charles  W.  Scarritt  has  since  1907  given  his  attention  to  the  realty  business  as 
manager  of  the  Scarritt  estate  and  outside  interests  and  in  the  conduct  of  both  displays 
notably  sound  judgment  and  keen  discernment.  It  would  be  to  give  an  impartial  and 
incomplete  view  of  him,  however,  to  mention  him  merely  as  a  successful  and  capable 
business  man.  He  was  formerly  identified  with  the  ministry  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  and  there  is  scarcely  any  board  for  the  betterment  of  city  affairs  of  which  he  is 
not  a  member.  His  activities  in  behalf  of  his  fellowmen  cover  a  very  wide  scope  and 
have  been  notably  resultant.  Mr.  Scarritt  is  one  of  Kansas  City's  native  sons  and  a 
representative  of  the  oldest  family  here.  He  was  born  at  the  family  homestead  July  20, 
1869.  his  father  being  Nathan  Scarritt,  who  is  mentioned  elsewhere  in  this  work.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  and  afterward  went  to  Nashville,  Tennessee,  where  he  matric- 
ulated in  the  Vanderbilt  University,  completing  his  course  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts 
degree  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1892.  Wishing  to  devote  his  life  to  the  work  of 
the  church,  he  entered  the  Drew  Theological  Seminary  at  Madison,  New  Jersey,  and 
was  graduated  in  1894.  He  entered  the  ministry,  to  which  he  devoted  the  succeeding 
ten  years  of  his  life,  being  a  preacher  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  South,  in 
Kansas  City  and  in  other  points  of  Missouri.  His  health  then  failed,  obliging  him  to 
give  up  the  active  work  of  the  pulpit,  and  he  spent  two  years  in  the  west  recuperating. 
With  his  return  to  Kansas  City  in  1907  he  entered  the  real  estate  field  and  is  the  manager 
of  the  Scarritt  Estate  and  outside  interests,  being  himself  one  of  the  largest  holders  of 
real  estate  in  Kansas  City.  His  judgment  is  sound,  his  vision  broad  and  his  enterprise 
unfaltering,  and  the  management  of  his  property  holdings  has  developed  in  him  splendid 
business  qualifications. 

In  1893  Mr.  Scarritt  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Clara  M.  Spencer  of  Warrenburg, 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  AIISSOURI  61 

Missouri,  daugliter  of  the  Rev.  Joab  Spencer,  a  minister  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church,  South.  They  have  become  parents' of  Ave  children:  Katherine  M.,  now  the  wife 
of  Harry  B.  Hansell,  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri;  Nathan  Spencer,  twenty-one  years  of 
age,  who  was  a  law  student,  is  now  engaged  in  teaching  and  has  a  military  record  as  a 
second  lieutenant  of  the  World  war;  Charles  W.,  eighteen  years  of  age,  who  was  grad- 
uated from  the  Kansas  City  high  school  with  the  class  of  1920;  Clara  Lois,  also  a  high 
school  pupil;  and  Edward  L. 

Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Scarritt  are  very  active  and  prominent  members  of  the  Melrose 
Methodist  Episcopal  church,  South,  and  Mrs.  Scarritt  is  particularly  noted  for  her  char- 
itable and  philanthropic  work.  She  is  the  president  of  the  Young  Woman's  Christian 
Association  and  Mr.  Scarritt  is  serving  on  the  board  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation. He  is  also  a  member  of  the  board  of  the  Spofford  Receiving  Home  for  Children 
and  has  been  superintendent  of  the  Institutional  church.  He  belongs  as  well  to  the 
University  Club,  to  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club,  to  the  Hill  Crest  Golf  Club  and  to 
the  Phi  Delta  Theta  fraternity,  belonging  to  the  Vanderbilt  University  Chapter,  and 
other  leading  social  organizations  of  the  city.  He  is  a  man  6f  delightful  personality, 
beloved  by  all  of  his  friends.  He  is  not  unknown  to  the  world  as  a  writer  on  religious 
subjects  and  also  on  art.  He  has  traveled  extensively,  having  completed  his  education 
in  France  and  gaining  that  broad  and  liberal  culture  and  experience  which  is  acquired 
only  through  travel,  his  ideals  of  lite  are  most  high.  A  modern  philosopher  has  said, 
"Not  the  good  that  comes  to  us,  but  the  good  that  comes  to  the  world  through  us,  is 
the  measure  of  our  success,"  and  while  Mr.  Scarritt  has  most  capably  managed  important 
and  extensive  business  interests,  judged  by  the  indicated  standard,  his  life,  too,  has 
been  a  most  successful  one. 


JESSE  M.  FISHER. 


Jesse  M.  Fisher,  one  of  the  youger  representatives  of  the  bar  of  Kansas  City,  having 
been  admitted  to  practice  in  1917,  has  already  made  progress  which  indicates  that  his 
future  career  will  be  well  worth  watching.  He  was  born  at  Tonganoxie,  near  Leaven- 
worth, Kansas,  September  26,  1890,  a  son  of  Charles  W.  and  Sarah  (Carter)  Fisher. 
The  father  was  born  in  West  Virginia  in  1851  and  in  1854  was  taken  to  Kansas  by  his 
parents.  Their  son,  Bernard  Fisher,  was  the  first  white  child  born  in  Leavenworth, 
Kansas,  and  the  family  passed  through  all  of  the  experiences,  privations  and  hardships 
incident  to  the  settlement  of  the  frontier.  When  Charles  W.  Fisher  was  but  fourteen 
years  of  age,  at  which  time  the  Civil  war  was  in  progress,  he  rode  into  town  one  day 
with  his  father,  and  just  as  they  arrived  saw  a  man  shot  and  fall  from  his  horse  in  a 
fight  that  started  between  the  two  factions.  This  was  all  of  war  the  boy  wished  to  see 
and  he  told  his  father  he  was  going  home.  After  arriving  at  years  of  maturity  he  took 
up  the  occupation  of  farming,  which  he  followed  as  a  life  work,  and  is  now  living  retired, 
enjoying  a  rest  which  he  has  truly  earned  and  richly  deserves.  He  has  always  taken 
a  keen  interest  in  educational  matters  and  has  served  as  a  member  of  the  school  board 
in  his  town.  He  married  Sarah  Carter,  who  belongs  to  one  of  the  old  families  of  Ohio. 
Their  marriage  was  celebrated  at  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  in  1872  and  they  became  the 
parents  of  seven  children,  six  of  whom  are  living:  William  B.,  Jennie,  Charles  E. 
Rosa  Rae,  James  0.  and  Jesse  M.  The  third  member  of  the  family,  Marshall,  has 
passed  away. 

In  the  Daffer  district  of  his  native  county  Jesse  M.  Fisher  began  his  education  and 
afterward  attended  the  high  school  at  Tonganoxie,  where  he  was  graduated  with  the 
class  of  1911.  During  his  high  school  days  he  won  the  county  oratorical  medal,  delivering 
an  address  upon  national  disarmament.  He  also  won  a  scholarship  which  paid  his 
first  year's  tuition  at  Washburn  College.  While  in  high  school  he  won  three  gold 
medals  in  athletic  contests — one  for  a  quarter-mile  run,  another  tor  a  fifty-yard  dash  and 
the  third  for  the  two  himdred  and  twenty  yards  low  hurdle.  Following  his  graduation 
from  high  school  in  1911  he  matriculated  in  Washburn  College  at  Topeka,  Kansas,  in 
which  he  studied  for  three  years.  While  a  freshman  he  was  president  of  his  class  and 
for  two  years  was  president  of  the  Intercollegiate  Prohibition  Association.  He  was 
also  president  of  the  Gamma  Sigma,  .a  literary  society.  During  his  fourth  year  at 
Washburn  College  he  took  up  the  study  of  law  and  afterward  devoted  two  years  to  law 
study   in   the   University  of  Kansas  at  Lawrence,  there   winning  his   LL.   B.   degi'ee   in 


62  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

1917.  He  was  then  admitted  to  the  Kansas  bar  and  in  the  fal|  of  the  same  year  was 
admitted  to  practice  at  the  bar  of  Missouri,  after  which  he  opened  an  office  in  Kansas 
City  and  has  since  given  his  attention  to  the  active  work  of  the  profession,  save  for  the 
period  of  his  connection  with  the  United  States  army.  In  September,  1918,  he  enlisted 
and  was  at  the  officers'  training  school  at  Camp  Pike,  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  remaining 
in  the  service  until  December  15,  1918,  when  the  armistice  having  Ijeen  signed,  he 
returned  to  Kansas  City  and  resumed  the  practice  of  law.  He  has  made  rapid  progi-ess 
in  his  profession  and  already  is  accorded  a  clientage  that  many  an  older  representative 
of  the  bar  might  well  envy. 

On  the  14th  of  September,  1916,  Mr.  Fisher  was  married  at  Bonner  Springs,  Kansas, 
to  Miss  Margaret  Fredericks,  whose  father  is  connected  with  the  Bonner  Portland 
Cement  Company  at  Bonner  Springs.  Mrs.  Fisher  is  an  accomplished  musician,  having 
received  her  degree  from  the  Bush  Conservatory  of  Music,  Chicago,  and  the  Chicago 
Fine  Arts  Institute,  where  she  taught  music  for  a  year.  In  religious  faith  Mr.  Fisher 
is  connected  with  the  Christian  church.  He  belongs  to  the  Phi  Alpha  Delta,  a  law 
fraternity,  and  he  has  already  taken  the  initial  degrees  in  Masonry.  Mr.  Fisher  early 
displayed  the  elemental  strength  of  his  character,  which  is  carrying  him  steadily 
forward.  In  his  youth  he  sold  insurance  to  pay  his  way  through  high  school  and  college, 
being  connected  during  that  period  with  the  Home  Mutual  Insurance  Company  of 
Topeka,  Kansas.  He  is  a  young  man  of  exceptionally  high  and  fine  ideals  who  looks  at 
life  with  a  broad  vision,  keeps  thoroughly  in  touch  with  the  questions  and  problems 
of  the  day,  is  a  stanch  supporter  of  advanced  civic  standards  and  at  all  times  is  working 
for  right  and  justice. 


HON.   ELMER   BRAGG   ADAMS,   LL.   D. 

Hon.  Elmer  Bragg  Adams,  who  for  many  years  was  judge  of  the  United  States 
circuit  court  of  appeals  at  St.  Louis,  was  numbered  among  those  men  whose  careers 
have  reflected  credit  and  honor  upon  the  state  that  has  honored  them.  Missouri 
has  always  been  distinguished  for  the  high  rank  of  her  bench  and  bar  and  among 
the  ablest  of  her  lawyers  and  judges  there  was  none  who  displayed  a  more  master- 
ful grasp  of  legal  principles  than  did  Judge  Elmer  B.  Adams.  But  he  was  even 
much  more  than  an  eminent  jurist.  He  studied  closely  the  vital  problems  and 
questions  of  the  day  and  did  much  to  influence  public  thought  and  opinion.  More- 
over, his  entire  career  was  permeated  by  a  Christian  faith  that  made  the  injunction 
"Bear  ye  one  another's  burdens"  a  ruling  force  in  his  life.  Not  only  was  he  just, 
but  he  was  kindly  and  considerate  and  men  looked  up  to  him  not  only  because  of 
the  dominant  quality  of  his  intelligence  but  also  because  of  the  love  which  he  con- 
stantly manifested  towards  his  fellowmen. 

Judge  Adams  was  born  at  Pomtret,  Vermont,  October  27,  1842,  and  his  life 
span  covered  the  intervening  years  to  the  24th  of  October,  191.6,  when  he  passed 
away  in  St.  Louis,  where  for  so  many  years  he  had  made  his  home.  He  was  a  son 
of  Jarvis  and  Eunice  H.  (Mitchell)  Adams,  both  of  whom  were  of  English  lineage. 
The  ancestral  line  was  traced  back  directly  to  Henry  Adams,  of  Braintree,  Massa- 
chusetts, who  came  from  England  to  the  new  world  in  1634  and  was  the  progenitor 
of  the  famous  Adams  family  of  Massachusetts,  which  has  furnished  two  presidents 
to  the  country  and  many  distinguished  statesmen  to  the  nation.  His  preliminary 
education  was  acquired  at  Meriden,  New  Hampshire,  and  he  then  entered  Yale, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1865.  on  the  completion  of  a  four  years'  course, 
the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  being  at  that  time  conferred  upon  him.  He  maintained 
high  rank  in  scholarship  during  his  collegiate  course  and  became  a  member  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa.  He  was  also  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  Psi  Upsilon,  the  Wolf's  Head 
and  also  the  Glyuna  Boat  Club. 

After  leaving  Yale,  Judge  Adams  traveled  through  the  south  for  a  year,  estab- 
lishing free  schools  for  the  poor  white  children,  under  the  auspices  of  the  American 
Commission,  and  these  became  permanent  institutions.  Determining  upon  the 
practice  of  law  as  a  life  work.  Judge  Adams  in  1866  began  his  law  reading  at  Wood- 
stock, Vermont,  and  afterward  spent  a  term  .as  a  student  in  the  Harvard  Law 
School.  He  then  resumed  his  study  at  Woodstock  and  in  1868  was  admitted  to  the 
Vermont  bar.     The  opportunities  of  the  growing  west  attracted  him,  however,  and 


HON.  ELMER  B.  ADAMS 


"  THl  NIW  T31M     I 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  65 

in  April  of  the  same  year  he  became  a  resident  of  St.  Louis  and  was  admitted  to 
the  Missouri  bar.  While  advancement  in  law  is  proverbially  slow,  no  dreary  no"vitiate 
awaited  him.  Almost  immediately  there  came  to  him  recognition  of  his  ability  and 
as  the  years  passed  his  clientage  grew  in  volume  and  importance.  After  ten  years 
spent  in  St.  Louis  he  was  elected  judge  of  the  circuit  court  of  the  city  in  1878  and 
occupied  the  bench  for  the  full  term  of  six  years,  after  which  he  declined  not  only 
reelection  but  promotion.  In  1885  he  resumed  the  private  practice  of  law  as  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Boyle,  Adams  &  McKeigham,  which  later  became  Boyle  & 
Adams  and  for  many  years  occupied  a  place  of  eminence  at  the  St.  Louis  bar.      In 

1895  he  was  again  called  upon  for  judicial  service,  through  appointment  of  Presi- 
dent Cleveland,  who  made  him  United  States  district  judge  for  the  eastern  district 
of  Missouri.  He  served  upon  that  bench  until  1905,  when  still  greater  distinction 
and  honor  came  to  him  in  his  promotion,  through  appointment  of  President  Roose- 
velt, to  the  office  of  United  States  circuit  judge  tor  the  eighth  judicial  circuit.  It 
was  the  bigness  of  one  man  who  could  recognize  the  ability  of  a  political  opponent 
of  equal  broadmindedness  as  well  as  professional  ability.  Judge  Adams  was  a  warm 
personal  friend  of  President  Taft  and  it  is  said  that  the  latter  would  have  appointed 
him  to  fill  a  vacancy  on  the  United  States  supreme  court  bench  had  it  not  been  for 
his  age.  His  rulings  were  always  strictly  fair  and  impartial  and  he  presided  over 
many  notable  cases.  Mention  might  be  made  of  his  concurrence  in  the  dissolution 
of  the  Standard  Oil  Company  into  its  constituent  companies,  though  he  did  not 
prepare  the  opinion.  He  was  also  one  of  the  four  circuit  judges  who  heard  the 
Harriman  merger  case  of  the  Union  and. Southern  Pacific  Railroads,  the  opinion 
being  delivered  by  him.  The  famous  phrase,  "the  man  higher  up,"  now  so  extensively 
used  by  the  American  people,  was  coined  by  Judge  Adams.  In  charging  the  federal 
grand  jury,  which  was  investigating  naturalization  frauds,  he  said:  "Look  not  tor 
the  little  man  who  is  made  a  tool,  but  tor  the  man  higher  up."  Judge  Adams 
appointed  the  receivers  of  the  Wabash  Railroad  in  the  spring  of  1912  and  directed 
its  management  for  four  years  until  its  reorga^hization  and  sale  to  the  bondholders' 
committee,  confirming  the  sale  for  eighteen  million  dollars.  Likewise  the  receiver 
of  the  Missouri  Pacific  and  Iron  Mountain  Railways  was  appointed  by  him  in  August, 
1913,  but  on  account  of  the  press  of  other  court  matters  he  was  relieved  of  the 
management  of  these  railroads  in  December  of  the  same  year.  In  September,  1915, 
the  Missouri,  Kansas  &  Texas  Railway  was  placed  in  the  hands  of  a  receiver  at  his 
order  and  at  the  time  of  his  decease  was  under  his  management.     When   Utah   in 

1896  was  granted  statehood.  President  Cleveland  appointed  Judge  Adams  to  organize 
the  federal  court.  He  spent  three  weeks  at  that  time  in  Salt  Lake  City  until  the 
first  judge  was  installed.  He  became  one  of  the  best  known  jurists  in  the  states 
comprising  the  eighth  judicial  circuit  and  ranked  with  the  most  eminent  men  who 
have  been  connected  with  judicial  service  in  Missouri.  He  was  also  celebrated  as 
a  lecturer  on  legal  topics  and  acted  as  special  lecturer  on  succession  and  wills  at 
the  University  of  Missouri.  The  honorary  LL.  D.  degree  was  conferred  upon  him 
by  that  institution  in  1898,  also  by  Washington  University  in  1907  and  by  Yala 
in  1916.  He  belonged  to  the  Commercial,  Noonday  and  St.  Louis  Clubs,  the  New 
England  Society,  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  and  was  a  director  of  the  American 
Peace  and   Arbitration   League. 

On  the  10th  of  November,  1870,  Judge  Adams  was  married  to  Miss  Emma  U. 
Richmond,  daughter  of  Lorenzo  and  Ursula  Richmond,  of  W-oodstock,  Vermont.  He 
held  the  Presbyterian  faith  and  was  a  member  of  the  Washington  and  Compton 
Avenues  church.  Judge  Adams  spent  part  of  each  summer  at  Woodstock,  Vermont, 
where  he  was  living  when  entering  upon  the  study  of  law.  In  the  summer  of  1916, 
when  he  went  back  to  the  Green  Mountain  state  for  his  annual  vacation,  he  did  not- 
put  aside  professional  labors  but  spent  his  time  in  the  preparation  of  opinions 
although  he  needed  rest.  Physicians  say  that  it  was  this  that  brought  on  the  stroke 
of  paralysis  resulting  in  his  death.  After  being  stricken  he  requested  to  be  taken 
to  his  home  in  St.  Louis,  where  he  passed  away  October  24,  1916.  He  was  buried 
in  the  village  cemetery  at  Woodstock,  Vermont.  On  the  afternoon  when  the  funeral 
services  were  held  all  of  the  offices  in  the  federal  building  connected  with  the  depart- 
ment of  justice  were  closed  out  of  respect  to  his  memory  and  on  the  8th  of  January, 
1917,  most  impressive  memorial  services  were  held  under  the  auspices  of  the  United 
States  circuit  court  of  appeals  of  the  eighth  circuit,  six  judges  presiding  on  that 
occasion.  The  press  throughout  the  country  commented  upon  his  career.  The 
St.  Louis  Republic,  writing  of  him  as  "an  upright  judge  and  a  kindly  and  modest 

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66  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

gentleman,"  said:  "He  believed  in  the  jurist's  absorption  in  his  profession  and  he 
lived  up  to  his  belief.  He  spent  his  whole  life  and  strength  in  the  work  to  which 
his  country  had  called  him.  His  simplicity  of  manner  and  generosity  of  appreciation 
of  good  men  and  things  will  long  live  in  the  memory  of  those  who  had  the  good 
fortune  to  come  into  contact  with  him.  To  him  work  was  its  own  reward.  Such 
a  life  may  well  be  pondered  by  the  young  and  rising  members  of  the  legal  pro- 
fession today."  In  the  Globe  Democrat  appeared  the  following:  "Judge  Elmer  B. 
Adams  died  before  his  time  because  he  placed  the  claims  of  duty  above  consideration 
for  his  own  health.  He  spent  his  last  vacation  period  in  writing  opinions  instead 
of  in  resting.  He  could  have  retired  from  the  bench,  under  the  law,  at  full  pay 
some  time  ago,  but  he  preferred  to  discharge  the  duties  for  which  he  was  so 
admirably  fitted  by  native  ability  and  long  experience.  He  added  luster  to  the 
fame  of  one  of  America's  most  distinguished  families.  His  private  and  public  life 
was  spotless.  He  believed  in  American  institutions  and  in  his  long  career  as  a 
United  States  district  and  circuit  judge  he  kept  their  spirit  ever  in  mind.  He 
believed  that  the  sturdy  and  steady  enforcement  of  laws  was  more  beneficial  than 
the  cumbering  of  the  statute  books  with  experimental  legislation."  There  is  no 
man  who  has  ever  stood  more  firmly  for  justice  and  right,  yet  Judge  Adams  ever 
tempered  justice  with  mercy  and  there  was  something  in  his  own  life  to  which  the 
good  in  others  always  responded. 


CHARLES  H.   PECK. 


Charles  H.  Peck  was  one  of  the  most  distinguished  financiers  and  citizens  of 
St.  Louis  and  among  those  who  have  been  actively  connected  with  the  substantial 
and  brilliant  achievements  of  this  great  middle  west.  He  was  numbered  among 
those  men  whose  personal  influence  and  example  have  reflected  credit  and  honor  upon 
the  city.  The  vigorous  strength  of  character  and  fine  qualities  and  Christian  life 
which  he  has  shown  in  public  and  private  life  came  to  him  as  a  legitimate  inheritance 
from  a  long  line  of  worthy  ancestors  in  both  the  paternal  and  maternal  lines;  yet 
there  is  much  about  him  that  can  with  proflt  be  set  down  here  as  an  illustration 
of  what  can  be  done  if  a  man  with  a  clear  brain  and  willing  hands  sets  himself 
seriously  to  the  real  labors  and  responsibilities  of  life.  His  was  never  a  record  of 
commonplaces.  It  was  because  he  learned  to  use  to  the  utmost  the  talents  with 
which  nature  endowed  him  and  to  value  correctly  life's  contacts  and  experiences. 
Coming  to  the  west  during  its  formative  period,  he  was  among  the  promoters  of  its 
greatness,  and  in  nearly  all  that  he  did  the  public  was  a  large  indirect  beneficiary. 

Charles  Henry  Peck  was  born  in  New  York  city,  September  21,  1817,  a  son 
of  Stephen  Peck  and  Catherine  Barclay  (Walter)  Peck,  both  of  whom  were  of  Eng- 
lish lineage,  closely  related  to  some  of  the  oldest  and  most  infiuential  families  of 
New  England.  Edward  Peck,  father  of  the  emigrant  ancestor,  William  Peck,  was 
an  eminent  lawyer  in  London,  sergeant  at  law  to  His  Majesty  Charles  II.  The  family 
name  is  of  very  ancient  origin  and  its  coat-of-arms,  used  as  early  as  the  fifteenth 
and  sixteenth  centuries,  is  now  preserved  in  the  British  Museum.  The  father  was 
born  in  Connecticut  and  was  descended  from  William  Peck,  who  was  born  in  Lon- 
don, England,  in  1601  and  came  to  America  with  his  wife  and  son  in  the  company 
of  Governor  Eaton  and  Rev.  John  Davenport  and  others  in  the  ship  Hector,  arriving 
at  Boston  June  26,  1637.  William  Peck  became  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of 
New  Haven,  his  autograph  signature  being  affixed  to  the  fundamental  agreement 
or  constitution,  dated  June  4,  1639,  for  the  government  of  the  infant  colony.  This 
is  said  to  have  been  one  of  the  first  examples  in  history  of  a  written  constitution 
organizing  a  government  and  defining  its  powers.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman 
October  20,  1640,  and  was  a  deputy  to  the  general  court  from  1640  until  1648. 
The  famous  old  historic  house  built  by  Hezekiah  Peck  at  Attleboro,  Massachusetts, 
has  been  secured  and  preserved  as  a  relic  by  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion. It  has  stood  for  more  than  two  hundred  years,  having  been  built  in  1700, 
and  has  always  remained  in  the  possession  of  the  Peck  family,  six  generations 
residing  there.  Isaac  Peck,  of  the  fifth  generation,  served  in  the  Revolutionary 
war  and  died  at  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  in  1827.  Stephen  Peck,  of  the  sixth 
generation,  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in   1792  and  died  in 


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1820,  at  the  early  age  of  .twenty-eight  years.     On  the  1st  of  January,  1817,  he  mar- 
ried Catherine  Barclay  Walter,  daughter  of  John  and  Lydia  (Stout)  Walter. 

Through  this  marriage  Charles  H.  Peck,  whose  name  Introduces  this  record, 
was  a  direct  descendant  of  Colonel  David  Barclay  of  the  barony  of  Ury,  Scotland, 
who  married  Lady  Katharine  Gordon,  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Gordon  of  Gordons- 
town  and  known  as  the  White  Rose  of  Scotland.  This  marriage  into  the  Walter 
family  brings  the  line  of  descent  down  from  Robert  Walter,  member  of  the  king's 
council  from  1698  until  1730  and  the  thirty-third  mayor  of  New  York  city,  serving 
from  1720  to  1725.  The  ancestral  line  goes  back  to  Philip  Pieterse  Schuyler,  who 
emigrated  from  Holland  in  1645,  and  Captain  Arent  Schuyler,  who  wedded  Mary 
Walter,  daughter  of  Robert  Walter.  Colonel  Peter  Schuyler,  who  became  governor 
of  New  York  in  1719,  was  a  son  of  Arent  Schuyler  and  his  second  wife,  Swantie 
Dyckhuse.  Colonel  Peter  Schuyler  married  Hester  Walter,  granddaughter  of  Robert 
Walter  and  daughter  of  John  Walter,  Esq.,  who  resided  at  Hanover  Square,  New 
York.  Catharine  Schuyler,  the  only  child  of  Colonel  Peter  Schuyler,  was  the  sole 
heiress  of  her  grandfather,  John  Walter,  inheriting  a  vast  estate  that  had  been 
accumulating  for  several  generations  and  was  equaled  by  few  in  either  province. 
She  married  Archibald  Kennedy  of  the  Royal  Navy,  Earl  Cassillas,  who  at  her  death 
married  Anne  Watts.  In  17  65  Governor  Colden  said  that  Archibald  Kennedy  pos- 
sessed more  real  estate  in  New  York  than  any  other  man,  owning  the  greater  part 
of  it  by  right  of  his  wife,  Catharine  Walter  Schuyler. 

Stephen  Peck,  the  father  of  Charles  H.  Peck  and  who  married  Catherine  Barclay 
Walter,  was  buried  in  New  York  city,  December  12,  1820,  in  St.  Paul's  churchyard, 
at  the  corner  of  Fulton  and  Vesey  streets,  where  they  attended  service.  This  is 
the  oldest  public  building  and  the  only  colonial  church  building  in  New  York,  erected 
in  1766.  Immediately  after  his  inauguration  George  Washington  with  both  houses 
of  congress  went  in  procession  to  St.  Paul's  chapel,  where  service  was  held  by 
Bishop  Provost,  chaplain  of  the  senate.  Charles  H.  Peck  was  connected  by  mar- 
riage with  General  George  Washington  through  Jerusha  Sands,  who  was  his  great- 
grandmother,  a  descendant  of  Robert  Sandy's  of  Rattenby  Castle,  St.  Bees,  Cumber- 
land, England,  in  1399.  The  ancestral  line  is  traced  back  to  Captain  James  Sands 
of  Sands  Point,  Long  Island,  or  Captain  James  Sands,  who  was  born  at  Reading, 
England,  in  1622  and  came  to  America  in  1638.  He  settled  first  at  Portsmouth, 
Rhode  Island,  while  in  1660  he  became  a  resident  of  Block  Island,  Rhode  Island. 
His  father  was  Henry  Sandy's  of  England,  a  younger  son  of  Dr.  Edwin  Sandes,  arch- 
bishop of  York  in  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth.  While  occupying  the  bishopric 
Dr.  Edwin  Sandes  leased  Scrooby  Manor  to  the  father  of  Brewster,  who  was  one 
of  the  band  of  Pilgrims  that  landed  at  Plymouth  Rock  in  1620.  At  his  death 
the  eldest  son,  Sir  Samuel  Sandy's,  leased  Scrooby  Manor  to  Brewster  and  there 
the  first  Separatists  church  was  formed.  All  the  sons  of  Archbishop  Sandes  were 
interested  in  the  London  Virginia  Company,  his  second  son,  Sir  Edwin  Sandes, 
being  governor  of  the  colony  in  1620.  He  also  assisted  the  Mayflower  company 
in  the  settlement  of  New  England.  A  cousin  of  the  family  became  the  owner  of 
Warner  Hall,  the  estate  of  George  Washington's  father  in  Virginia.  Another  matter 
of  historical  interest  concerning  the  ancestry  is  that  the  London  Times  was  owned 
by  the  Walter  family  for  three  generations.  Th^y  were  also  the  owners  of  Bear-- 
wood  estate  of  about  three  thousand  acres,  at  one  time  forming  a  part  of  the  Windsor 
forest  and  purchased  from  the  crown  about  1810.  At  the  close  of  the  Peninsular 
war  King  Ferdinand  of  Spain  sent  a  table  service  of  solid  gold  to  John  Walter  (II) 
as  an  acknowledgment  of  his  service  rendered  to  the  cause  of  Spain.  Mrs.  Rebecca 
Peck  Dusenbery  and  Mrs.  Max  Bryant,  daughters  of  Charles  H.  Peck,  have  in  their 
possession  the  old  Walter  family  bible,  now  one  hundred  and  fifty  years  old,  con- 
taining the  Walter  family  records  back  to  Robert  Walter  of  England.  This  bible 
was  handed  down  from  John  Walter  (II),  also  the  old  English  psalmbook  over  two 
hundred  years  old,  which  also  contains  the  Walter  records,  and  a  jeweled  knee 
buckle  which  he  wore,  these  heirlooms  passing  from  generation  to  generation. 

Charles  H.  Peck,  long  a  most  prominent  and  honored  resident  of  St.  Louis, 
was  but  four  years  of  age  when  his  father  died  and  he  afterward  went  with  his 
mother  to  New  Jersey,  being  reared  there  on  a  large  farm  belonging  to  his  maternal 
grandfather.  He  made  excellent  use  of  his  opportunities  to  acquire  an  education 
and  early  gave  evidence  of  the  elemental  strength  of  his  character — a  strength  that 
enabled  him  in  later  years  to  recognize  and  utilize  all  of  the  opportunities  that  came 


70  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

to  him  in  a  business  way  and  eventually  to  gain  a  place  of  prominence  in  the  busi- 
ness circles  of  his  adopted  city.     During  his  teens  he  went  to  New  York,  where  he 
served  an  apprenticeship  under  an  architect  and  master  builder,  developing  marked 
efnciency  along   those  lines.     At  length   he  heard  and   heeded   the  call  of  the  west 
and  by  the  river  route  along  the  Hudson  to  Albany,  the  canal  to  Buffalo  and  thence 
by  the  Great  Lakes  he  made  his  way  to  Chicago,  then  a  place  of  little  importance. 
He  and  his  partner  then  built  a  fiat-bottomed  boat,  in  which  they  proceeded  down 
the  Fox  and  Illinois  rivers  to   Peoria  and   thence   traveled  by   keel-boat  to   Beards- 
town,    Illinois,    and    across    the    country    to    Alton.    Illinois,    proceeding    thence    by 
steamer  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  arrived  in   1838.     Of  him  it  was  written:      "He  was 
at   that   time   twenty-one   years   of   age,    mentally   and   physically   a   vigorous   young 
man,  firm  in  the  determination  to  win  his  way  to  position  and  affluence.     St.  Louis 
was  not,  however,  a  great  city  in  those  days:    fortunes  were  not  made  rapidly,  as 
now,  nor  was  money  accumulated  as  a  rule,  except  by  earnest  effort  and  persistent 
application  to  business  pursuits  only  moderately  remunerative.     While  it  was  then, 
as  now,  a  substantial  city,  conservatism   was  a  distinguishing  characteristic  of  the 
business  men  of  St.  Louis,  and  men  of  enterprise  and  energy  were  needed  to  stimu- 
late commercial   and  industrial  activity.      Mr.   Peck   became  one  of   the  pioneers  of 
this  class,  and  from  the  beginning  of  his  career  as  a  citizen  of  this  city  was  fore- 
most in   encouraging   the  development   of   latent  resources   and   the   building   up   of 
industries  in  the  city  and  throughout  the  state.     From   that   time   he   was  engaged 
in  the  conduct  and  management  of.  or  pecuniarily  interested  in.  many  of  the  largest 
and    most    successful    manufacturing   enterprises   of    St.    Louis."      He    possessed    the 
characteristics   that   enabled   him    to   make   steady   progress   in    his    business   career. 
His  early  training  received  in  New  York  constituted  the  foundation  upon  which  he 
builded  his  prosperity.     He  became  an  active  factor  in   promoting  the  growth   and 
development  of  St.  Louis  through  his  operations  as  a  contractor.     He  erected  most 
of  the   government  buildings  in   the  old   arsenal,   now  called   Lyon    Park,   and   also 
built  the  magazines  in  Jefferson  Barracks.     The  city  and  country  residences  of  Henry 
Shaw   were   erected    under   his   supervision   and    he   assisted   also   in    laying   out   the 
first  outlines  of  Shaw's  Gardens.      His   building   operations   constantly   increased   in 
volume    and    importance,    with    the    result    that    the    energetic    young    man    had    in 
hand  a  reserve  fortune  that  permitted  his  active  promotion  of  and  connection  with 
various   industrial   and   commercial    pursuits   that   have   been   of   the    utmost   benefit 
not  only  to  St.  Louis  but  to  the  state  as  well.     At  the  time  of  his  death  the  local 
press  said:      "He   was  one  of  that  coterie   of   men,   who   in   the   turbulent   times   of 
Civil   war  and  reconstruction,   kept  an   ever-watchful  eye   upon  the  interests  of  the 
'future  great'  and  made  the  city  what  it  is  today."     In  all  of  his  financial  operations 
he  manifested  the  keenest  discernment  and  notable  power  in  harmonizing  complex 
interests  and  adjusting  diverse   relations,   so  that  the   utmost  possibility  of  success 
was  achieved.     He  studied  the  natural  resources  of  the  state  and   became  a  factor 
in  its  mining  operations,  its  railroad  building  and  the  promotion  of  its  manufacturing 
and    banking    interests.      His    work    was    especially    noteworthy    in    connection    with 
the  utilization  of  Missouri's  mineral   wealth.      He  was  president  of  the  Pilot   Knob 
Iron    Company   in   ante-bellum    days,    but    during    the   period    of    the    Civil    war    the 
wortts   were   destroyed.      Mr.    Peck,   in   company   with   James   H.    Lucas   and   John   S. 
McCuue,  then  purchased  ground  at  Carondelet  and  established  there  the  first   fur- 
nace  built   west   of   the   Mississippi    river   to   smelt    Missouri    iron   ores    with    Illinois 
coal.     It  was  believed  that  this  could  not  be  done  but   Mr.   Peck  soon   proved   that 
it  was  no   useless  experiment  and.   after   the  first   successful   operation   of   the   new 
plant,  he  was  joined  by  other  substantial  business  men  in  the  erection  of  the  Vulcan 
Iron  Works  and  Steel  Rail  Mill,  which  became  a  most  important  industrial  concern, 
ranking  among  the  extensive  iron  manufactories  of  the  country.     In  1876  he  served 
with   the  committee   which  met   in   Philadelphia  and   organized   the   Bessemer   Steel 
Association,  which  became  a  potent  factor  in  the  extension  and  development  of  the 
iron  trade. 

His  resourceful  ability  led  him  into  various  other  fields  of  activity.  He  became 
one  o£  the  directors  of  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad  Company  and  an  active  factor 
in  the  extension  of  its  line  from  Sedalia  to  Kansas  City.  He  was  also  associated 
with  Daniel  R.  Garrison  and  others  in  constructing  a  railway  from  Kansas  City  to 
Atchison  and  became  one  of  the  owners  of  the  road  and  one  of  its  directors.  He 
was  long  connected  with  the  directorate  of  the  St.  Louis  Gas  Company  and  was 
again  and  again  honored  with  its  vice  presidency.     He  was  likewise  connected  with 


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the  Carondelet  Gas  Light  Company,  nor  was  he  unknown  In  insurance  circles, 
serving  at  different  times  as  president  ot  the  City  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company 
and  the  St.  Louis  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company.  He  was  a  prime  moving  force 
in  the  organization  and  control  of  many  building  and  manufacturing  concerns  and 
for  many  years  what  was  the  city's  finest  hotel  owed  Its  existence  in  large  measure 
to  him.  He  became  a  director  of  the  Lindell  Hotel  Company  and  when,  at  the 
beginning  of  the  war,  work  was  suspended  for  lack  of  means,  he  furnished  the 
capital  necessary  for  its  completion  and  then  negotiated  for  Its  furnishing  and 
occupation  by  Spar  &  Parks,  proprietors  of  the  Planters  House.  He  was  the  repre- 
sentative of  Jesse  Lindell  in  perfecting  leases  which  led  to  the  improvement  of 
the  north  side  of  Washington  avenue,  between  Eleventh  and  Thirteenth  streets,  in 
1857,  and  was  one  of  the  commissioners  for  the  apportionment  of  the  large  estate 
o£  Peter  Lindell.  A  factor  in  the  city's  industrial  development  as  early  as  1847, 
he  became  interested  in  the  planing  mill  business,  erecting  a  mill  at  the  corner  of 
Eighth  street  and  Park  avenue  in  connection  with  his  brother.  He  was  an  incor- 
porator, director  and  treasurer  of  the  St.  Louis  Mutual  House  Building  Company, 
the  pioneer  institution  of  this  kind  in  the  city.  He  was  one  of  the  incorporators 
o£  the  Insurance  Exchange  Building  Company,  which  in  1868  erected  the  Insurance 
Exchange  building,  then  one  ot  the  finest  office  buildings  of  the  west.  For  many 
years  he  served  as  a  director  of  the  Provident  Savings  Bank  and  also  of  the 
Mechanics  Bank,  which  he  aided  in  organizing  and  incorporating.  From  the  date 
ot  its  organization  he  was  a  member  of  the  Merchants  Exchange  and  in  1870 
became  one  of  the  first  trustees  of  Vandeventer  Place  and  at  his  death  was  the 
last  member  of  the  original  board.  His  enterprise  has  added  much  to  the  general 
welfare  and  wealth  of  the  city.  He  desired  success  and  rejoiced  in  the  benefits 
and  opportunities  which  wealth  brings,  but  he  was  too  broad-minded  a  man  to 
rate  it  above  its  true  value  and  in  all  of  his  mammoth  business  undertakings  he 
found  that  enjoyment  which  comes  in  mastering  a  situation — the  joy  of  doing  what 
he  undertook.  The  business  record  of  Mr.  Peck  was  ever  an  unassailable  one,  for 
he  always  followed  constructive  methods,  his  path  never  being  strewn  with  the 
wreck  of  other  men's  fortunes. 

In  1840  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Peck  to  Miss  Rebecca  Adams,  of 
Philadelphia,  and  to  them  were  born  nine  children,  of  whom  three  survive:  Rebecca 
Adams,  who  is  the  widow  of  Joseph  Warren  Dusenbery,  of  New  York  city,  and  now 
resides  in  St.  Louis;  Belle,  the  wife  of  Max  M.  Bryant,  of  St.  Louis;  and  John 
Adams,  also  of  this  city.  Mrs.  Dusenbery  is  a  member  of  the  National  Society  of 
the  Colonial  Dames  of  America  through  New  York  and  Mrs.  Bryant  of  the  National 
Society  of  Colonial  Daughters  of  American  Founders  and  Patriots. 

The  death  of  Mrs.  Peck  occurred  May  10,  1909.  Before  her  demise  it  was 
written  of  her:  "Her  husband  always  acknowledged  her  helpfulness,  for  her  counsel 
and  advice  were  of  great  value  to  him  and  her  words  of  encouragement  also  con- 
stituted an  element  in  his  success.  She  is  connected  in  ancestral  lines  with  some 
of  the  oldest  and  most  prominent  New  England  families,  from  whom  have  come 
those  strains  of  culture  and  refinement  which  have  dominated  her  whole  life  and 
have  not  only  made  her  a  leader  in  social  circles  but  one  who  has  enjoyed  the 
admiration  and  love  of  those  with  whom  she  has  come  in  contact.  She  is  today 
one  of  the  oldest  residents  of  St.  Louis,  not  only  by  reason  of  the  years  which 
have  been  allotted  to  her,  but  also  from  the  length  of  her  connection  with  the  city. 
Coming  here  in  her  girlhood,  she  witnessed  its  marvelous  development  and  the 
growth  of  the  great  middle  west,  as  St.  Louis  has  been  transformed  from  a  little 
French  settlement  to  the  fourth  city  of  the  Union.  Mrs.  Peck  has  long  been  an 
active  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  church,  to  which  Mr.  Peck  also  belonged. 
Mrs.  Peck  was  the  oldest  and  the  only  living  member  of  the  original  members 
present  at  the  celebration  of  the  seventieth  anniversary  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
church,  in  which  she  was  married,  which  was  held  in  St.  Louis.  October  10,  1908. 
She  was  selected  as  the  Missouri  representative  of  the  National  Longfellow  Memorial 
Association  of  Washington,  D.  C,  and  is  one  of  the  hundred  regents  of  this  organ- 
ization." 

Charles  H.  Peck  possessed,  too,  a  most  kindly  and  genial  nature  and  held 
friendship  inviolable.  Those  with  whom  he  came  in  contact  learned  to  prize  him^ 
no  less  for  his  personal  worth  and  agreeable  manners  than  for  his  business  capacity. 
Honorable  in  purpose,  fearless  in  conduct,  he  stood  for  many  years  as  one  of  the 
most  eminent  and  valued  citizens  of  St.  Louis  and  the  memory  of  his  life  remains 


72  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

as  an  inspiration  and  a  benediction  to  those  who  knew  him.  Throughout  his  entire 
career  he  guided  his  life  by  those  rules  which  have  their  root  in  the  Christian 
religion.  He  was  charitable  and  benevolent,  willing  at  all  times  to  share  his  success 
with  those  who  were  less  fortuate  and  needed  assistance,  and  yet  his  giving  was 
of  a  most  unostentatious  character.  He  had  reached  his  eighty-second  year  when 
he  passed  away  July  3,  1899,  leaving  to  his  family  the  priceless  heritage  of  an 
untarnished  name.  His  life  was  ever  honorable  in  its  purpose  and  measured  up 
to  the  highest  standards  of  manhood  and  citizenship.  He  strove  always  to  reach 
the  high  ideals  which  were  his  inspiration  and  he  used  his  talents  and  his  opportu- 
nities wisely  and  well,  not  only  for  his  own  benefit,  but  for  the  benefit  and  assistance 
of  his  fellowmeu. 


HON.  LAWRENCE  VEST  STEPHENS. 

Hon.  Lawrence  Vest  Stephens  is  known  as  one  of  the  statesmen  of  Missouri — 
one  whose  opinions  command  the  widest  attention  and  whose  views  are  regarded 
as  the  outcome  of  his  studies  in  what  may  be  termed  the  post  graduate  school  of 
experience.  He  is  loved  by  his  friends,  honored  by  his  followers  and  respected  by. 
even  his  political  opponents.  No  one  has  ever  doubted  his  personal  integrity  nor  his 
belief  in  the  causes  which  he  has  espoused  nor  the  course  which  he  has  pursued. 
He  is  still  in  the  prime  of  his  intellectual  vigor  and  his  opinions  awaken  the  keenest 
interest  of  all  who  are  concerned  in  questions  of  state  and  national  importance. 

Mr.  Stevens  is  a  native  of  Missouri,  his  birth  having  occurred  at  Boonville, 
December  21,  1858,  his  parents  being  Joseph  L.  and  Martha  (Gibson)  Stephens. 
Liberal  educational  advantages  were  accorded  him  and  after  leaving  the  public  schools 
he  attended  Cooper  Institute,  also  the  Kemper  Family  School  at  Boonville,  Missouri. 
and  later  entered  upon  his  college  and  university  work,  attending  the  Washington 
and  Lee  University  at  Lexington,  Virginia,  where  he  completed  his  education.  In 
1898,  however,  the  University  of  Missouri  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Laws.  Some  one  has  written  of  his  "catholicity  of  intellectual  enthusiasm."  Noth- 
ing that  concerns  his  fellows  is  foreign  to  him  and  he  has  sought  the  views  of  the 
master  minds  of  the  world  in  the  literature  of  the  ages. 

In  young  manhood  Mr.  Stephens  began  learning  the  printer's  trade,  his  father 
being  the  owner  of  a  local  paper.  He  took  up  the  work  more  as  a  pastime  than  with 
any  definite  idea  of  using  it,  but  his  training  became  of  the  utmost  value  inasmuch 
as  it  constituted  a  school  in  which  he  studied  the  acts  and  the  motives  of  men, 
the  trend  of  modern  thought  and  public  events  in  their  broader  scope.  He  also 
became  an  export  telegrapher  and  was  in  charge  of  the  Western  Union  Telegraph 
office  at  Boonville.  Advancing  continuously  in  connection  with  newspaper  publication, 
he  eventually  became  editor  of  the  Boonville  Advertiser  and  remains  to  this  day 
a  contributor  to  the  columns  of  that  paper,  occasionally  writing  articles  which  are 
most  widely  read.  Abandoning  newspaper  writing  as  an  occupation,  he  entered  bank- 
ing circles,  becoming  bookkeeper  in  the  Central  National  Bank  of  Boonville  and  gain- 
ing recognition  of  his  ability  and  trustworthiness  in  promotions  that  made  him 
successively  assistant  cashier,  director  and  vice  president.  Since  that  time  his  experi- 
ence in  banking  circles  has  been  broad  and  varied.  He  was  appointed  by  the  comp- 
troller of  the  currency  receiver  of  the  Fifth  National  Bank  of  St.  Louis  in  1887  and 
so  controlled  its  affairs  that  he  paid  the  depositors  ninety-eight  cents  on  the  dollar, 
when  thirty-three  and  one-third  per  cent  was  all  the  government  bank  examiner 
in  charge  thought  could  possibly  be  realized  for  the  depositors.  This  masterly 
conduct  of  involved  financial  interests  won  to  him  the  attention  of  the  business 
public,  so  that  it  was  but  a  logical  step  to  his  appointment  by  Governor  David  R. 
Francis  to  the  position  of  state  treasurer  of  Missouri  in  1889.  By  election  he  was 
continued  in  the  office  for  a  second  term  of  four  years,  or  until  1897.  He  was  then 
chosen  chief  executive  of  Missouri,  being  nominated  by  acclamation  and  receiving 
a  majority  of  forty-four  thousand  votes,  running  nine  thousand  votes  ahead  of 
the  state  ticket.  In  this  connection  a  prominent  Missourian  said  of  him:  "During 
the  free  silver  movement  he  wrote  Silver  Nuggets  for  a  weekly  newspaper  and  his 
work  became  so  popular  that  thousands  of  copies  were  demanded.  As  a  result 
he  became  the  foremost  leader  of  the   '16   to   1'   cause   in  Missouri   and   was  swept 


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into  the  office  of  governor  by  the  largest  majority  ever  received  by  any  Missouri 
governor  in  a  straight-out  fight  between  the  two  great  political  parties.  *  *  « 
In  politics  he  has  been  upright  and  clean.  He  served  the  state  of  Missouri  seven 
years  as  state  treasurer  and  four  years  as  governor,  and  for  clean-cut  progressive- 
ness,  business  integrity  and  civic  advancement  his  official  record  is  unsurpassed 
in  this  state." 

In   an   article    concerning    Governor    Stephens    appearing    in    St.    Louis    Mirror, 
written   by  William  M.  Reedy,  is  the  following:      "It  was  a   lively   governorship — - 
because  a  live  man  exercised  it.     The  Governor  was  no  dilettante  in  politics.     He 
believed  in  his  friends;   believed  the  more  if  others  disbelieved  or  denounced  them. 
He  put  them  in   office.     They  were  men  who  believed  that  'all  other  things   being 
equal,   democrats   should   have  a   shade   the   best   of   it.'      And   that   was   not   at   all 
inconsistent  with  public  service.     There  was  a  deal  of  raving  by  opposition   politi- 
cians  to   political   aspects   of   the  Stephens   administration,   but   there   was   no   criti- 
cism at  all  of  its  administrative  or   business   or   service   side.      It  was   the   politics 
of  the    Stephens   administration    that   made    St.    Louis   a   democratic    city   and   kept 
it  so  for  eight  years.      The  Governor   was  a  progressive  in   the   true   sense,   and   his 
achievements  are  written  into  the  statute  books.     It  was  under  his  administration 
that   the   street   railroads   were   consolidated   in   St.   Louis,   and    while  consolidation 
brought   evils   in   its   train,   it   brought    much    good,    first    in    better    service   and   in 
transfers  and  finally  in   getting  the  great  institution  together   so   that  it  might   be 
more  easily  regulated  by  the  people.     If  regulation'  has  not  yet  come,  it  is  because 
the    people    have    not    exerted    their    own    power,    which    Governor    Stephens    has 
pointed  out  to  them.     He  was  the  first  Missouri  governor   to  recommend   the  'fel- 
low-servant'   bill    and   referendum   and    initiative    which    he    did   in    a    special    mes- 
sage  to   the   legislature.      He   gave   the   State    University   the   collateral   inheritance 
tax,    from   which   it   has   received    millions   of   dollars.      He    inaugurated    the   move- 
ment for  the  Louisiana   Purchase  Exposition   and   established  a   State   Fair,   located 
at  Sedalia.     He  also  established  the  Confederate  Home,  the  Federal   Home,  a  fruit 
experiment    station,    an    institution    for    epileptics    and    feeble-minded    and    another 
asylum  for  lunatics.      After  a  hard  fight  he  had  the  pleasure  of   signing   Missouri's 
'fellow-servant'  bill.     His  administration  was  a  business  administration,  and  he  did 
things.      Politically    stormy,    the    Stephens   administration    was    thoroughly    efficient 
in  all  state  business  and  the  credit  of  the  state  was  never  so  high.     The  Governor 
enjoyed  the  fighting  thoroughly,  and  whether  in  spoken  words  or  Advertiser  editorial 
or  in  practical  political  manoeuvering,  he  was  more  than  a  match   tor  all  his  foes, 
most  of  whom  liked  him  personally,  while  lambasting  him  politically.     His  retire- 
ment from  office  left  both  the  state  and  his  party  in  excellent  condition  and  position." 
With  his  retirement  from   office  Mr.   Stephens   did  not  cease  to   be   a   political 
power  in  the  state.     There   is   no   vital   question    that   comes   up    for   settlement   in 
Missouri  on   which   his  opinion   is  not   sought  and   in   considerable  measure  he   has 
decided   on   the   policy  of  democracy   in   Missouri   for   many   years.     His   position   is 
never  an  equivocal  one.     He  speaks  directly  to  the  point  at  issue  with  a  clearness 
that  leaves  no  one  in  doubt  as  to  his  opinion  and  his  position.     He  has  frequently 
been  a  delegate  at  large  to  the  democratic  national  convention,  where  his  influence 
has  been  a  potent  force  in  molding  public   opinion.      He  was  strongly   urged  by  all 
the   state   officers,    supreme   judges,    the    leading    mayors    of    Missouri,    the    banking 
fraternity  of  the  country  and  others  prominent  in  the  state  and  nation  for  appoint- 
ment to   the   position   of   comptroller   of   the   currency   when   President   Wilson   was 
elected,    but   the   honor   has   never   come   so   far   west.      Since    his   retirement    from 
office  he  has   been  prominently   identified  with   financial   interests   of   the   state  and 
had  promoted  various  important  corporations,   being   the   organizer   of   the   Central 
Missouri   Trust   Company   of   Jefferson    City,   of   which   he   became   president   and   a 
director  and  also  the  Bank  of  Bunceton,  Missouri.     Returning  to  St.  Louis  in  1903, 
Mr.  Stephens  devoted  his  time  to  putting  his  own  affairs  in  order  and  turned  down 
all  business  except  that  of  trustee  of  the  Barnes  Hospital,  being  appointed  to  suc- 
ceed Samuel  Cupples  in  that  connection.     As  trustee  for  the  hospital  his  time  was 
largely  occupied  in  looking  after  all  the  building,  equipping  and  organizing   of   the 
hospital   from   the  start   until   it   was   complete   in   every   detail.      He   kept   in   close 
touch    with    the   work   throughout   the    entire    period,    requiring    about    three    years' 
time,  and  then  resigned  his  position  as  trustee  when  the  hospital  was  in  good  run- 
ning order.     On  war  being  declared  Mr.  Stephens  made  a  most  generous  and  notable 
offer  to  the  United  States  government  of  the  use  of  his  fortune  of  two  hundred  and 


76  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

fifty  thousand  dollars  in  cash  if  the  government  would  agree  to  pay  him  six  per 
cent  interest  on  that  amount  so  long  as  he  should  live,  while  at  his  death  the  entire 
amount  was  to  go  to  the  government.  An  act  of  congress  and  special  legislation, 
however,  would  have  been  necessary  to  accept  this  offer,  which  clearly  showed  the 
spirit  of  patriotism  of  Mr.  Stephens.  He  was  very  active  in  all  war  work,  espe- 
cially in  promoting  the  Liberty  Loan  drives  and  in  advancing  the  work  of  the  Red 
Cross. 

On  the  5th  of  October,  1880,  at  Boonville,  Missouri,  Governor  Stephens  was 
married  to  Miss  Margaret  Nelson,  a  daughter  of  the  late  J.  M.  Nelson  of  that 
place.  Mrs.  Stephens  gave  her  husband  most  valuable  support,  and  the  Governor 
has  often  said  that  what  credit  attached  to  his  administration  was  largely  due 
to  her  unwavering  loyaty,  her  heart's  interest  and  her  wise  counsel.  No  governor's 
wife  has  ever  left  the  mansion  more  beloved  than  was  Mrs.  Lon  V.  Stephens. 
Mr.  Stephens  is  well  known  in  club  circles,  belonging  to  the  Jefferson,  Mercantile, 
St.  Louis  and  Bellerive  Country  Clubs,  and  also  to  the  Delta  Psi  fraternity  of  Wash- 
ington and  Lee  University.  He  has  attained  the  Knight  Templar  degree  in  Masonry, 
has  served  as  curator  of  the  Central  College  of  Fayette,  Missouri,  and  has  also  been 
a  member  of  the  official  board  of  the  Cabanne  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  South, 
of  St.  Louis.  He  is  now  the  treasurer  of  the  board  of  finance  of  the  Union  church. 
South,  which  has  a  fund  of  over  a  million  dollars  at  the  present  time,  a  sum  which 
is  growing  rapidly,  and  it  is  hoped  that  it  will  reach  ten  million  dollars.  This 
fund  is  devoted  to  the  care  of  the  superannuated  ministers  of  the  church.  Mr. 
Stephens  devotes  much  of  his  time  to  this  work,  acting  in  an  advisory  way  without 
salary.  Thus  he  has  given  most  freely  of  his  time,  his  energy  and  his  means  to 
those  great  interests  which  make  for  the  uplift  of  humanity,  the  betterment  of  the 
race  and  the  improvement  of  conditions  which  affect  the  welfare  of  the  entire 
country.  He  stands  today  as  a  splendid  example  of  American  manhood  and  citi- 
zenship, of  American  honor  and  chivalry.  A  contemporary  writer  has  said  of 
him:  "A  man  of  unswerving  integrity  and  honor,  one  who  has  a  perfect  apprecia- 
tion of  the  higher  ethics  of  life,  he  has  gained  and  retained  the  confidence  and 
respect  of  his  fellowmen  and  is  distinctively  one  of  the  leading  citizens  of  the  state, 
with  whose  interests  he  has  been  identified  throughout  his  entire  life.  While  he 
has  not  been  entirely  free  from  that  criticism  which  always  meets  the  political 
leader,  the  opposition  entertains  the  highest  esteem  for  his  personal  worth  and  the 
integrity  of  his  motives.  He  has  the  enviable  reputation  throughout  the  state 
as  a  man  'who  never  went  back  on  a  friend.'  Distinguished  honors  have  come  to 
him  in  his  political  life,  the  democratic  party  gaining  a  valuable  accession  to  its 
ranks  when  he  became  one  of  its  stalwart  supporters.  If  other  men  who  have 
control  of  industrial  and  commercial  enterprises  would  realize  that  they  owe  a 
duty  to  their  country  and  would  enter  into  politics,  the  welfare  of  the  nation 
would  be  greatly  augmented,  for  what  the  world  needs  is  men  in  charge  of  its 
affairs  who  have  keen  foresight,  business  sagacity  and  sound  judgment  and  whose 
patriotism  is  above  question."  Many  charitalile  deeds  figure  in  the  life  history  of 
Mr.  Stephens,  all  unostentatiously  performed.  Friendship  is  his  in  notable  measure, 
for  he  has  those  qualities  which  "bind  men  to  him  with  hoops  of  steel."  He  has 
held  high  ideals  and   has  ever  endeavored   to   raise  himself   to   their   level. 


WILLIAM  B.  COWEN. 


For  forty-two  years  William  B.  Cowen  has  been  a  representative  of  the  National 
Bank  of  Commerce  in  St.  Louis.  His  lite  record  is  the  stimulating  story  of  earnest 
endeavor,  resulting  in  a  consistent  progress  that  has  brought  him  to  a  position  of 
executive  control  in  connection  with  one  of  the  strongest  financial  concerns  of  the  city. 
Moreover,  he  is  a  native  son  of  St.  Louis,  his  birth  having  here  occurred  May  28,  1861, 
his  parents  being  Alexander  H.  and  Maria  (May)  Cowen.  The  father,  a  native  of 
Eagland,  came  to  St.  Louis  in  1848  from  Kingston.  Jamaica,  and  in  this  city  engaged  in 
the  merchandise  brokerage  business,  handling  southern  products.  He  departed  this  life 
December  8,  1890,  while  his  wife,  a  native  of  Ireland,  passed  away  on  the  22d  of  May, 
1906. 

The  early  educational  advantages  enjoyed  by  William  B.  Cowen  were  of  the  Catholic 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  77 

parochial  schools;  later  he  became  a  pupil  in  Miss  Bryne's  private  school  and  subse- 
quently passed  through  consecutive  grades  in  the  public  schools  until  he  became  a  high 
school  student.  Before  the  time  of  graduation,  however,  he  had  made  his  initial  start 
in  business  life  by  accepting  a  position  in  the  Bank  of  Commerce  on  the  1st  of  October, 
1878.  FVom  a  humble  clerkship  he  has  gradually  progi-essed,  learning  more  and  more 
of  the  banking  business  with  the  passing  years,  and  in  1898  his  developed  powers  secured 
for  him  the  position  ef  assistant  cashier.  He  thus  served  for  a  decade  and  in  February, 
1908,  was  elected  vice  president  and  director  of  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce.  It  has 
been  said  of  him:  "Mr.  Cowen  is  a  man  of  decision  and  in  business  expression  is  short, 
direct,  decisive  and  substantial.  His  views  do  not  need  elaboration,  as  he  has  the 
faculty  of  making  his  statements  so  graphic,  concise  and  transparent  that  they  are 
easily  comprehended.  While  he  seems  to  arrive  at  conclusions  quickly,  it  is  because  he 
has  pondered  over  the  question  previously;  not  because  he  knew  that  he  would  be 
called  on  to  meet  it,  but  because  he  desired  to  inform  himself  concerning  every  phase 
of  the  business  and  to  prepare  for  any  contingency  that  might  arise.  His  position  upon 
any  question  of  vital  importance  is  never  an  equivocal  one,  for  he  stands  firm  in 
support  of  what  he  believes  to  be  for  the  best  interests  of  the  business  or  of  the  general 
public.  One  of  the  elements  in  his  success  is  his  capacity  for  giving  infinite  attention 
to  details,  without  which  no  man  can  fully  master  any  enterprise."  The  Bulletin  of 
Commerce  characterized  Mr.  Cowen  as  "quiet,  unostentatious,  sagacious,  candid,  quietly 
aggressive,  always  out  of  the  public  clamor,  a  man  of  high  ideals  and  unassailable 
morals,  whose  personality  can  creditably  stand  the  closest  analysis." 

While  the  years  have  brought  to  Mr.  Cowan  a  wide  acquaintance  in  business  and 
financial  circles  he  is  equally  well  known  to  the  representatives  of  the  club  life  and  social 
interests  of  St.  Louis.  He  has  membership  with  the  Bellerive  Country  Club,  the  Racquet 
Club,  St.  Louis  Club,  the  Missouri  Amateur  Athletic  Association  and  with  the  Amateur 
Triple  A  Athletic  Club  of  St.  Louis,  and  of  the  last  named  was  one  of  the  organizers. 
His  religious  faith  is  indicated  by  his  connection  with  the  Catholic  cathedral.  In  all 
matters  of  citizenship  he  has  closely  studied  the  needs  and  opportunities  of  St.  Louis 
and  has  sought  to  promote  civic  standards  of  the  highest  worth.  He  has  never  allowed 
business  so  to  monopolize  his  time  and  attention  as  to  shut  out  opportunity  for  plans 
and  movements  tor  the  general  good;  on  the  contrary,  he  fully  meets  the  obligations  and 
duties  of  citizenship  while  at  the  same  time  enjoying  its  opportunities  and  its  privi- 
leges, and  in  St.  Louis  where  he  has  spent  his  entire  life,  Mr.  Cowen  is  held  in  the 
highest  esteem,  not  only  by  reason  of  what  he  has  accomplished  in  financial  circles, 
but  also  owing  to  his  personal  worth. 


FRED  A.  WISLIZENUS. 


Fred  A.  Wislizenus,  member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar,  was  born  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
May  21,  1851.  His  father,  Dr.  Adolph  W.  Wislizenus,  who  passed  away  in  1889,  was  of 
Polish  descent.  His  ancestors  went  to  Hungary  because  of  religious  persecution  and 
after  a  generation  there,  settled  in  Germany.  Dr.  Wislizenus  was  prominent  in  an 
attempt  to  overthrow  the  Prussian  government  and  because  of  this  was  compelled  to 
fiee  to  Switzerland.  It  was  there  that  he  obtained  his  professional  degree  of  M.  D.  in 
1833,  and  in  1835  he  came  to  the  United  States.  He  was  a  man  of  high  standing  in 
scientific  circles  and  made  several  trips  of  investigation  which  created  much  interest 
at  that  time.  One  of  his  trips  was  to  Mexico  a  short  time  prior  to  the  Mexican  war. 
He  was  captured  by  the  Mexicans,  but  escaped  after  many  hardships.  An  account  of 
this  trip  was  published  under  the  auspices  of  the  United  States  government.  In  1839  he 
made  a  trip  into  the  Rocky  Mountains,  then  an  almost  unknown  and  unexplored  region, 
in  which  he  obtained  much  information  of  scientific  value,  and  his  journal  of  that  trip, 
written  in  German  and  translated  into  English  by  his  son,  is  still  a  rare  and  valued  book. 
He  was  married  in  Constantinople,  to  Miss  Lucy  Crane,  who  was  there  residing  with 
her  sister,  Mrs.  Marsh,  and  in  1852  they  removed  to  St.  Louis.  Mrs.  Wislizenus  was  a 
representative  of  an  old  New  England  family,  her  ancestors  having  settled  in  Massa- 
chusetts in  1730.  Her  sister  was  the  wife  of  George  P.  Marsh,  United  States  ambassador 
at  Constantinople  in  1850,  and  afterward  United  States  ambassador  to  Italy,  where  he 
served  for  many  years  beginning  in  1861.  The  death  of  Mrs.  Wislizenus  occurred  in 
1895.     It  was  in  1852  that  the  parents  of  Fred  A.  Wislizenus  became  residents  of   St. 


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Louis,  so  that  his  boyhood  and  youth  were  passed  in  this  city,  where  he  attended  a 
private  German  school,  also  the  public  school.  He  afterward  prepared  tor  college  at 
the  Smith  Academy  in  St.  Louis  and  was  graduated  from  Washington  University  with 
the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  in  1870.  In  1872  he  won  the  LL.  B.  degree  upon  the  com- 
pletion of  the  course  in  Washington  University.  Following  his  graduation  he  spent  two 
years  in  Europe,  making  his  headquarters  at  Rome  and  Florence.  In  1875  he  entered 
upon  the  practice  of  law  in  St.  Louis  and  therein  continued  active  until  1906  when  he 
became  one  of  the  professors  in  the  Washington  University  Law  School,  occupying  this 
position  for  ten  years.  He  has  since  resumed  the  private  practice  of  law,  principally 
in  an  advisory  capacity. 

On  the  23d  of  August,  1882,  at  Breckenridge,  Colorado,  Mr.  Wislizenus  was  married 
to  Miss  Maud  Berman,  of  St.  Louis,  who  died  here  January  15,  1902.  In  politics  Mr. 
Wislizenus  is  independent  and  religiously  he  is  connected  with  the  Unitarian  church. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Historical  Society  and  also  of  the  St.  Louis  Academy 
of  Science. 


JOHN  FRANCISCO  RICHARDS. 

John  Francisco  Richards  of  Kansas  City,  who  has  been  instrumental  in  the 
upbuilding  of  one  of  the  largest  hardware  enterprises  of  the  west,  operating  under 
the  name  of  the  Richards  &  Conover  Hardware-Company,  has  also  been  a  recognized 
factor  in  the  promotion  of  public  interests  of  worth  and  was  largely  instrumental  in 
bringing  about  the  municipal  ownership  of  the  waterworks  of  Kansas  City.  His 
residence  in  this  state  dates  from  an  early  day,  although  he  was  born  at  Warm 
Springs,  Bath  county,  Virginia,  October  23,  1834,  his  parents  being  Walter  and 
Nancy  (Mayse)  Richards,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  the  Old  Dominion,  the  lat- 
ter being  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Mayse,  who  served  in  the  Indian  wars  of  Virginia 
and  on  one  occasion  was  wounded  by  the  red  men,  causing  the  amputation  of  his 
leg  twenty  years  later.  He  also  served  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary war.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  Richards  were  born  several  sons  and  daugh- 
ters, namely:  Elizabeth  Ann,  Louisa,  Maria,  Mary  Matilda,  William  C,  George, 
Blackwell  Shelton,  Thomas  and  John  F.  In  the  year  1836  the  father  started  with 
his  family  from  Virginia,  to  Missouri,  proceeding  to  Guyandotte,  a  small  town  on  the 
Ohio  river,  where  the  parents  and  younger  children  embarked  on  a  steamboat  for 
Cairo,  Illinois,  approaching  thence  by  boat  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  The  elder  sons 
took  teams  and  servants  overland  from  Guyandotte.  joining  the  family  at  St.  Louis. 
On  leaving  that  city  they  went  to  St.  Charles,  Missouri,  and  while  there  the  father 
became  ill  and  passed  away.  Not  long  afterward  the  family  took  up  their  abode  at 
New  Franklin,  opposite  Boonville,  Missouri,  and  the  first  distinct  recollections  of 
John  F.  Richards  center  about  that  town.  At  a  subsequent  period  the  family  re- 
moved to  Rocheport  on  the  Missouri  river  and  in  1842  became  residents  of  Boonville, 
where  for  several  years  the  elder  sons  engaged  in  business.  John  F.  Richards  can 
well  remember  the  great  flood  of  184  4,  although  he  was  but  ten  years  of  age  at  the 
time.  In  184  6  his  mother  removed  to  St.  Louis,  where  she  resided  until  her  death  In 
September,  1848. 

With  the  removal  to  St.  Louis  John  Francisco  Richards  became  a  pupil  in  the 
public  schools  of  this  city,  which  he  attended  to  1848.  Following  the  death  of  his 
mother  he  resided  at  Arrow  Rock,  Missouri,  during  the  winter  of  184  8-9  and  there 
attended  school  while  making  his  home  with  his  sister  Louisa,  the  wife  of  Henry 
C.  Miller.     She,  however,  was  one  of  the  victims  of  the  cholera  epidemic  of  1849. 

In  September  of  that  year,  when  a  youth  of  fifteen,  John  F.  Richards  went  to 
Jackson  county,  Missouri,  and  obtained  employment  in  a  country  stQre,  in  which 
he  continued  until  the  spring  of  185  3.  The  store  was  located  at  Sibley,  at  a  point 
where  the  Santa  Fe  bridge  now  crosses  the  Missouri  river,  and  the  town  was  the 
old  outfitting  station  and  in  the  early  days  was  the  site  of  Fort  Osage,  the  military 
garrison,  which  was  afterward  removed  to  Fort  Leavenworth.  Mr.  Richards  spent 
the  winter  of  1852-3  as  a  student  in  an  academy  at  Pleasant  Hill,  Missouri,  and  in 
the  spring  of  the  latter  year  became  a  clerk  in  the  employ  of  Captain  John  S.  Shaw, 
a  well  known  Indian  trader,  formerly  of  St.  Charles,  Missouri,  who  had  a  govern- 
ment license  to  trade  with  the  Sioux,  Cheyenne  and  other  Indian  tribes.     Ox  teams 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  81 

were  made  up  at  Westport,  Missouri,  and  proceeded  thence  to  Port  Leavenworth, 
where  they  loaded  for  the  Indian  country,  which  at  that  time  comprised  the  territory 
within  the  present  borders  of  Kansas,  Nebraska,  Wyoming  and  Colorado.  Most  of 
the  trading  was  done  along  the  North  Platte  river  from  Scottsbluff  to  Green  River, 
on  the  Salt  Lake  trail,  and  it  required  about  fifteen  months  to  make  a  trading  trip 
with  a  large  train.  < 

In  1854  Mr.  Richards  returned  to  St.  Louis  and  was  clerk  on  a  Missouri  river 
steamboat  until  September  when  through  the  influence  of  Captain  Shaw  he  was 
given  a  position  with  Child,  Pratt  &  Company,  hardware  merchants  of  3t.  Louis, 
and  thus  started  out  along  the  line  in  which  he  has  since  been  so  successfully  and 
prominently  engaged.  His  initial  salary  in  this  connection  was  twenty-five  dollars 
per  month,  a  sum,  however,  that  was  increased  from  time  to  time  during  the  four 
years  of  his  connection  with  that  house.  In  185  7  he  began  business  on  his  own 
account  by  establishing  a  store  in  Leavenworth,  then  one  of  the  Important  cities 
along  the  Missouri  river.  The  firm  by  which  he  had  been  employed  extended  to 
him  credit  and  he  also  invested  his  modest  capital  in  a  stock  of  hardware  which 
he  transported  by  steamboat  to  Leavenworth,  where  he  arrived  March  4,  1857,  the 
stock  being  valued  at  seventeen  hundred  dollars.  About  a  week  was  consumed  by 
the  boat  in  making  the  trip  from  St.  Louis  to  Leavenworth.  In  the  meantime  Mr. 
Richards  had  covered  the  same  ground  on  a  passenger  boat  and  by  the  time  the 
stock  arrived  he  had  rented  one-half  of  a  frame  building  twenty-tour  by  forty  feet 
at  the  southwest  corner  of  Second  and  Cherokee  streets,  to  be  used  for  store  pur- 
poses. At  that  time  the  freight  rate  was  thirty-five  cents  per  hundred  pound  with- 
out classification.  Mr.  Richards  slept  in  his  store  in  those  days  and  bent  every 
energy  toward  the  upbuilding  of  his  trade.  Leavenworth  was  at  that  day  an  out- 
fitting place  for  points  west,  especially  the  frontier  military  posts.  As  emigration 
into  Kansas  rapidly  increased  there  was  heavy  demand  for  the  merchandise  which 
he  carried  and  he  was  soon  obliged  to  seek  larger  quarters,  removing  to  a  building 
three  stories  and  basement  in  height  and  considered  at  that  time  the  finest  buiding 
of  the  town.  Recognizing  the  value  of  pictorial  advertising  even  at  that  early  day, 
Mr.  Richards  had  a  large  poster  two  and  a  half  by  three  feet  printed  in  St.  Louis 
as  an  announcement  of  his  new  store  at  Leavenworth.  This  poster  is  now  one  o£ 
the  interesting  documents  of  the  pioneer  mercantile  history  of  the  Missouri  river 
valley.  The  poster  advertised  the  various  things  handled  by  Mr.  Richards,  includ- 
ing plows,  horse-power  mills  and  the  first  combined  mower  and  reaper,  and  on  the 
poster  appeared  the  words:  "Hardware  for  Emigrants,  Farmers  and  the  whole  of 
Kansas  and  Missouri  at  the  new  three  story  brick  building,  corner  of  Delaware  and 
Third  streets.  Call  at  J.  F.  Richards'  pioneer  hardware  store  and  agricultural  ware- 
house, Leavenworth  City,  K.  T."  The  initials  stood  for  Kansas  Territory,  for  the 
state  at  that  time  had  not  been  admitted  to  the  Union.  In  1862  Mr.  Richards  con- 
solidated his  interests  with  those  of  W.  E.  Chamberlain  under  the  firm  style  of 
Richards  &  Chamberlain,  but  in  1866  purchased  the  stock  of  his  partner  and  at 
that  time  John  Conover  became  identified  with  the  business  as  the  pioneer  hard- 
ware traveling  salesman  of  Kansas.  In  18  70  he  was  admitted  to  a  partnership  under 
the  style  of  J.  F.  Richards  &  Company  and  they  operated  very  successfully  in  Leaven- 
worth until  18  84,  when  they  sold  the  business  to  Park-Crancer  &  Company.  In 
the  meantime,  or  in  1875,  they  had  established  a  house  at  Fifth  and  Delaware  streets 
in  Kansas  City  and  the  growth  of  their  trade  here  now  requires  their  undivided 
attention.  Owing  to  the  increase  in  their  business  it  became  necessary  to  secure 
larger  quarters  in  18  81  and  they  erected  a  building  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Fifth 
and  Wyandotte  streets,  while  in  1882  the  business  was  incorporated  under  the  name 
of  the  Richards  &  Conover  Hardware  Company.  In  1902  they  erected  a  new  build- 
ing at  the  northwest  corner  of  Fifth  and  Wyandotte  streets,  thus  securing  a  fioor 
space  of  seven  acres.  In  19  06  they  established  a  branch  house  at  Oklahoma  City. 
Since  coming  to  Kansas  City  more  than  a  third  of  a  century  ago  Mr.  Richards  has 
been  connected  with  the  commercial  development  here  and  his  labors  have  been  an 
Important  element  in  bringing  about  present-day  conditions  in  mercantile  circles. 
Six  years  after  embarking  in  business  on  his  own  account  the  firm  name  of  J.  F. 
Richards  &  Company  was  adopted  and  the  business  has  broadened  in  its  scope  to 
include  both  the  wholesale  and  retail  trade.  In  1881  it  was  incorporated  as  the 
Richards  &  Conover  Company  and  under  that  style  one  of  the  largest  enterprises  of 
the  kind  in  the  west  has  been  developed.  Mr.  Richards  is  a  man  of  sound  judgment 
and  keen  discrimination  and  it  was  after  his  removal  to  Kansas  City  that  his  estab- 

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82  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

lishment  became  recognized  as  one  of  the  foremost  commercial  interests  here.  He 
also  became  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Kansas  City,  was 
made  a  member  of  its  board  of  directors  and  is  now  chairman  of  the  board.  He 
had  formerly  been  vice  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Leavenworth,  Kansas, 
which  was  the  first  national  bank  established  in  the  state,  and  he  still  retains  his 
place  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  that  institution.  He  is  now,  however, 
practically  living  retired  from  active  connection  with  business,  but  the  enterprises 
with  which  he  has  been  associated  still  stand  as  monuments  to  his  initiative,  his 
progressiveness  and  business  discernment. 

During  the  period  of  the  Civil  war  Mr.  Richards  was  a  member  for  a  short  time 
of  Company  C,  Nineteenth  Kansas  Militia,  and  participated  in  the  battle  of  Westport 
on  the  23d  of  October,  1S64,  it  being  the  thirtieth  anniversary  of  his  birth.  His 
political  support  has  ever  been  given  to  the  democratic  party  and  he  has  long  been 
accounted  one  of  the  strong  factors  in  the  organization,  yet  he  has  never  sought  or 
desired  political  preferment.  He  has  ever  stood  for  those  interests  which  make  for 
the  public  good  and  has  cooperated  heartily  with  every  movement  of  civic  worth. 
His  efforts  in  behalf  of  municipal  ownership  of  the  waterworks  resulted  most  suc- 
cessfully. He  recognized  the  value  of  city  control  of  this  public  utility  and  was 
untiring  until  the  results  desired  were  accomplished.  He  has  been  the  champion  of 
many  other  progressive  public  measures  and  his  labors  have  been  far-reaching  and 
beneficial. 

On  the  16th  of  June,  1857,  Mr.  Richards  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Martha 
A,  Harrelson,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  A.  Harrelson,  of  Sibley,  Missouri.  His  wife 
passed  away  in  1874,  leaving  seven  children,  of  whom  four  are  living:  May,  now  the 
wife  of  John  G.  Waples,  of  Fort  Worth,  Texas;  Helen,  the  wife  of  Dr.  J.  E.  Logan, 
of  Kansas  City;  Walter  B.,  who  is  the  vice  president  of  the  Richards  &  Conover 
Hardware  Company;  and  George  B.,  who  is  the  secretary  of  the  company.  Mr.  Rich- 
ards was  again  married  December  1,  1877,  when  Mrs.  L.  M.  Durfee,  of  Fairport,  New- 
York,  became  his  wife.      She  passed  away  in-  Kansas  City,  December   19,   1906. 

Mr.  Richards  has  long  been  identified  with  Masonic  interests  and  has  attained 
the  Knight  Templar  degree  in  the  York  Rite,  exemplifying  at  all  times  the  benefi- 
cent spirit  of  the  craft  and  its  teachings  concerning  the  brotherhood  of  mankind  and 
the  obligations  thereby  imposed.  In  connection  with  Mr.  Richards'  services  as 
president  of  the  Commercial  Club  in  1902  and  1903  he  was  very  active  during  the 
flood  in  the  spring  of  1903.  The  damage  done  to  the  city  and  surrounding  country 
was  very  great,  the  water  rising  to  a  height  of  thirty-five  feet  above  low  water  gauge, 
covering  the  low  lands  to  a  depth  of  ten  feet.  The  suffering  caused  by  such  a  flood 
was  promptly  met  by  the  city  officials  in  cooperation  with  the  Commercial  Club,  so 
that  within  a  month  the  life  of  the  city  rapidly  recovered  and  business  was  fully 
resumed.  He  was  a  member  of  the  park  board  at  the  time  Mr.  Swope  gave  to  the 
city  thirteen  hundred  acres  of  land,  constituting  what  is  now  Swope  Park.  Mr. 
Richards  was  a  most  active  member  of  the  board  at  that  period  and  was  largely 
instrumental  not  only  in  having  the  park  laid  out  but  in  erecting  the  building  at 
the  entrance,  the  shelter  house  and  many  other  buildings,  and  otherwise  promot- 
ting  the  work  of  development  and  improvement.  His  lite  has  ever  been  actuated 
by  a  public-spirited  devotion  to  the  general  good.  He  stands  for  progress  and  im- 
provement in  all  that  has  to  do  with  the  welfare  of  his  city  and  state  and  his  has 
been  a  most  active  and  useful  life,  attended  with  beneficial  and  far-reaching  results. 
He  is  now  nearing  the  eighty-sixth  milestone  on  life's  journey,  a  man  who  can  look 
back  over  the  past  without  regret  because  of  the  wise  use  which  he  has  made  of  his 
time,  his  talents  and  his  opportunities. 


W.   PALMER   CLARKSON. 


Longfellow  said:  "The  talent  of  success  is  nothing  more  than  doing  what  you 
can  do  well,  without  a  thought  of  fame,"  and  this  is  perhaps  no  more  clearly  illus- 
trated in  any  life  record  in  this  work  than  in  that  of  W.  Palmer  Clarkson,  who,  utiliz- 
ing his  opportunities,  has  won  success  and  prominence  in  professional  and  business 
circles  and  at  the  same  time  has  found  opportunity  to  render  needed  aid  to  his  fellow- 
men  and  to  give  assistance  to  those  forces  which  are  looking  to  the  uplift  of  the 
individual  and  the  benefit  of  mankind  in  general.     The  purpose  of  his  life  seems  to 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  85 

be  to  make  his  native  talents  subserve  the  demands  which  conditions  ot  society  im- 
pose at  the  present  time,  and  by  reason  of  the  mature  judgment  which  characterizes 
his  efforts  he  stands  today  as  a  splendid  representative  o£  the  prominent  lawyers 
and  manufacturers  to  whom  business  is  but  one  phase  of  life  and  does  not  exclude 
his  active  participation  in  and  support  of  the  other  vital  interests  which  go  to  make 
up  human  existence. 

Mr.  Clarkson  is  a  native  of  Essex  county,  Virginia,  and  is  desecnded  from  Eng- 
lish ancestry,  the  family  having  been  founded  in  the  new  world  by  his  great-great- 
grandfather, James  Clarkson,  who  became  a  resident  of  Essex  county  in  1777.  The 
ancestral  home,  known  as  Maple  Valley,  was  built  by  his  son,  John  Clarkson,  and  is 
a  characteristic  Virginia  plantation  home,  which  lay  in  the  path  of  the  contending 
armies  during  the  Civil  war,  but  the  devastation  then  caused  has  been  since  wiped 
out  and  the  place  remains  one  of  the  attractive  old  residences  of  that  part  ot  the 
state,  having  been  in  possession  of  the  family  for  more  than  a  century. 

It  was  in  the  old  family  residence  that  James  Livingston  Clarkson  was  born 
and  reared  and  when  a  youth  of  sixteen  years  he  joined  the  Confederate  army  as  a 
member  of  the  Ninth  Virginia  Cavalry  under  command  of  General  J.  E.  B.  Stuart. 
Following  the  close  of  the  war  he  became  a  resident  of  Iowa  and  nine  years  later 
removed  to  southeastern  Missouri,  where  he  established  a  lumber  business,  and  the 
growth  and  development  of  the  business  made  him  in  time  the  president  of  the  Clark- 
son Sawmill  Company  and  also  of  the  Missouri  Southern  Railroad  Company.  Suc- 
cess attended  his  various  undertakings  until  189  3,  when  he  was  able  to  retire  from 
active  business,  establishing  his  home  on  a  farm  near  Poplar  Bluff,  Missouri.  In 
early  manhood  he  married  Loulie  C.  Turner,  a  native  of  King  and  Queen  county, 
Virginia,  who  was  left  an  orphan  at  the  age  of  three  years.  Both  her  father  and 
grandfather  bore  the  name  of  Benjamin  Harrison  Turner  and  were  relatives  ot 
William  Henry  Harrison  and  Benjamin  Harrison,  former  president  of  the  United 
States.     The  death  ot  Mrs.  Clarkson  occurred  in  1901. 

W.  Palmer  Clarkson,  son  of  James  Livingston  and  Loulie  C.  (Turner)  Clarkson, 
was  born  February  13,  1867,  was  taken  to  Iowa  in  his  infancy  and  became  a  resi- 
dent of  Missouri  when  a  young  lad.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis, 
being  graduated  from  the  Central  high  school  in  1887,  and  afterward  became  a  student 
in  the  St.  Louis  Law  School,  receiving  the  degree  ot  Bachelor  of  Laws  upon  graduation 
with  the  class  of  1889.  He  entered  at  once  upon  active  practice  and  so  continued 
until  August,  1902,  winning  a  place  among  the  prominent  lawyers  of  the  city,  in 
which  connection  he  represented  the  Missouri  Southern  Railroad  Company,  the 
Fidelity  &  Casualty  Insurance  Company,  the  Clarkson  Sawmill  Company,  and  other 
important  corporations.  For  the  past  eighteen  years,  however,  his  attention  has 
been  largely  concentrated  upon  the  Interests  of  the  Pioneer  Cooperage  Company,  of 
which  he  is  vice  president  and  attorney.  This  company  is  operating  extensively  in 
St.  Louis  and  Chicago  and  also  has  numerous  stave  and  heading  factories  in  the 
south,  its  business  having  reached  extensive  proportions.  In  this  connection  Mr. 
Clarkson  has  acquainted  himself  with  every  phase  of  the  cooperage  business  and 
for  many  years  has  bent  his  energies  to  administrative  direction,  executive  control 
and  constructive  effort.  His  path  has  never  been  strewn  with  the  wreck  of  other 
men's  fortunes,  the  business  being  upbuilded  through  fair  and  progressive  methods, 
through  well  formulated  plans  and  indefatigable  energy.  In  addition  to  his  othet 
Interests  Mr.  Clarkson  is  the  president  of  the  Brown  Estate  Company  of  St.  Louis, 
of  the  Clark-Gay  Manufacturing  Company  of  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  and  is  a  direc- 
tor ot  the  Merchants  Laclede  National  Bank  of  St.  Louis. 

On  the  18th  ot  October,  1897,  Mr.  Clarkson  was  married  to  Miss  Marie  Soulard 
Turner,  daughter  ot  the  late  General  John  W.  Turner,  who  tor  eleven  years  was 
street  commissioner  of  St.  Louis.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clarkson  have  two  sons  and  a 
daughter,  John  Turner,  Marie  Louise  and  Palmer  Livingston,  born  in  1900,  1902 
and  1906  respectively. 

Mr.  Clarkson  has  always  voted  with  the  democratic  party  and  in  1902  received 
the  mayoralty  appointment  to  fill  a  vacancy  on  the  board  of  education  and  in  April, 
1905,  was  elected  tor  a  short  term,  being  chosen  vice  president  of  the  board  in  Octo- 
ber of  that  year.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Noonday  Club,  the  St.  Louis  Club  and  the 
Bellerive  Country  Club,  of  which  he  was  vice  president  for  two  years.  He  also 
belongs  to  the  Chamber  ot  Commerce  and  is  serving  on  its  executive  committee. 
Professionally  his  membership  connections  are  with  the  St.  Louis  and  Missouri 
Bar  Associations  and  he  is  identified  also  with  business  organizations,   being  now 


86  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

the  president  ot  the  Manufacturers'  Association,  of  which  he  was  also  chief  execu- 
tive in  1919.  He  was  liliewise  president  of  the  National  Coopers'  Association  in 
1908  and  1909  and  is  a  member  ot  the  executive  committee  of  the  Employers' 
Association.  He  is  thus  closely  studying  many  problems  having  to  do  with  labor 
conditions  and  civic  affairs  and  in  connection  with  all  of  the  great  political,  sociologi- 
cal and  economic  questions  of  the  day  he  is  so  well  versed  that  his  expressed  opin- 
ions always  receive  earnest  consideration  and  carry  much  weight.  A  contemporary 
writer  has  said  of  him:  "In  spirit  he  is  democratic,  recognizing  true  worth  in  others 
and  willing  at  all  times  to  accord  the  courtesy  of  an  interview.  He  has  been  a 
student  of  those  questions  which  are  a  matter  of  vital  interest  to  the  statesman 
and  the  man  ot  affairs  and  keeps  abreast  with  the  thinking  men  of  the  age  in  the 
trend  of  modern  development  and  progress.  None  question  the  integrity  ot  his 
purposes  or  the  honesty  ot  his  actions.  With  him  success  in  life  has  been  reached 
by  the  employment  of  most  honorable  methods  and  such  is  the  regard  held  tor 
him  personally  and  in  a  business  way  that  his  opinions  and  counsels  are  eagerly 
sought  and  in  many  cases  are  received  as  authoritative." 

That  which  above  all  other  things  actuates  Mr.  Clarkson  and  permeates  and 
directs  his  relations  with  his  fellowmen  is  his  religious  faith.  He  has  long  been 
a  member  of  the  Christian  church  and  for  nine  years  has  been  president  of  its 
National  Benevolent  Association,  which  conducts  eleven  orphanages  and  old  people's 
homes  and  a  hospital,  these  institutions  being  located  in  various  states  of  the 
Union.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  United  Christian 
Missionary  Society  of  the  Christian  church  and  it  was  largely  through  his  efforts 
that  the  great  organization  has  just  voted  to  establish  its  general  headquarters  in 
St.  Louis.  He  is  likewise  chairman  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Christian 
Board  of  Publication  in  St.  Louis  and  is  an  elder  of  the  Union  Avenue  Christian 
church,  serving  also  as  chairman  and  treasurer  of  the  building  fund  committee 
ot  this  church  since  1900,  during  which  time  there  has  been  erected  a  large  ediiice 
on  Union  and  Enright  avenues  at  a  cost  of  two  hundred  and  ten  thousand  dollars. 
Mr.  Clarkson  is  likewise  a  member  ot  the  executive  committee  of  the  Missouri  State 
Sunday  School  Association  and  a  trustee  of  Christian  College,  Columbia,  Missouri, 
In  fact  there  is  no  good  work  done  in  the  name  of  charity  or  religion  in  which  he 
is  not  interested  and  he  has  long  been  recognized  as  one  of  the  most  prominent  and 
helpful  members  of  the  Christian  denomination  in  Missouri.  His  business  has 
always  balanced  up  with  the  principles  of  truth  and  honor,  and  while  less  tangible 
none  the  less  potent  have  been  the  results  which  he  has  accomplished  tor  the  benefit 
of  his  fellowmen.  His  growing  professional  and  commercial  success  has  meant  to 
him  increased  opportunities  for  good  in  behalf  of  humanity  and  he  is  in  hearty 
sympathy  with  the  broader  spirit  of  the  new  century,  which  is  attacking  many  of 
the  great  problems  to  which  a  former  generation  gave  no  heed,  that  each  individual 
may  have  his  opportunity  for  normal  healthful  growth  and  the  development  of  his 
powers. 


WILLIAM  W.   DAVIS. 


William  W.  Davis,  who  from  the  age  ot  twenty-two  years  has  engaged  in  the 
practice  ot  law  at  Chillicothe  and  in  a  profession  where  advancement  depends  entirely 
upon  individual  merit,  has  gained  a  prominent  position  at  the  bar,  was  born  in  Utica, 
Livingston  county,  Missouri,  March  9,  1872,  and  is  a  son  of  Judge  James  M.  and  Sevilla 
(McKay)  Davis.  His  father  was  for  many  years  a  prominent  lawyer  and  jurist  of  the 
state,  where  he  entered  upon  the  practice  of  law  in  1860.  He  was  born  in  Clark  county, 
Illinois,  September  25,  1837,  a  son  of  Alexander  and  I^riscilla  (McKay)  Davis,  who 
became  pioneer  farming  people  of  Livingston  county,  Missouri.  The  father  acquired 
wild  land,  which  he  gradually  transformed  into  productive  fields,  from  which  he  annu- 
ally gathered  large  crops,  and  as  the  years  passed  he  continued  the  work  of  developing 
his  place  according  to  the  ideas  of  modern  agricultural  improvement.  He  passed  away 
in  Livingston  county  in  1893,  while  his  wife  died  in  1889,  and  both  were  laid  to  rest 
In  Monroe  cemetery  in  Grand  River  township,  Livingston  county.  The  Davis  family 
comes  of  Welsh  ancestry  and  was  founded  in  Virginia  in  early  colonial  days,  the  great- 
great-grandfather  of  William  W.  Davis  being  a  soldier  of  the  Revolutionary  war.     The 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  87 

McKay  family  was  of  Scotch  descent  and  was  established  in  Maryland  prior  to  the  war 
which  brought  independence  to  the  nation. 

Judge  James  M.  Davis,  the  father  of  William  W.  Davis,  was  a  lad  of  fifteen  years 
when  in  1852  the  family  home  was  established  in  Livingston  county.  Missouri,  where  he 
continued  his  education  in  one  of  the  old-time  log  schoolhouses  common  at  that  period. 
In  the  summer  months  he  worked  on  the  farm  and  when  eighteen  years  of  age  started 
out  to  provide  tor  his  own  support.  For  one  season  he  was  employed  in  a  sawmill  in 
Livingston  county.  While  attending  school  he  had  displayed  special  aptitude  in  his 
studies  and  in  1858  took  up  the  profession  of  teaching,  devoting  the  summer  months  to 
that  calling,  while  in  the  winter  season  he  studied  law,  it  being  his  earnest  purpose  to 
enter  upon  the  practice  of  law  as  a  life  work.  In  1860  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and 
at  once  engaged  in  practice.  That  he  was  a  close  student  of  the  principles  of  juris- 
prudence was  soon  manifest,  tor  he  was  seldom  if  ever  at  fault  in  the  application  of  a 
legal  principle  or  in  the  citation  of  a  precedent.  In  1913  it  was  written  of  him:  "Gradu- 
ally he  made  a  name  for  himself  and  won  favorable  criticism  for  the  careful  manner 
in  which  he  handled  his  cases.  He  has  remarkable  powers  of  concentration  and  appli- 
cation and  his  retentive  mind  often  excites  the  surprise  of  his  colleagues,  and  as  he 
gathered  experience  he  became  more  and  more  at  home  in  handling  legal  problems 
and  soon  manifested  before  court  and  jury  such  comprehensive  knowledge  of  the 
law,  and  took  his  point  so  well,  that  he  seldom  lost  a  case.  His  reasoning  is  logical 
and  his  deductions  sound,  and  he  is  not  often  surprised  by  an  unexpected  attack  of 
opposing  counsel."  In  1880  he  was  elected  circuit  court  judge  and  served  upon  the  bench 
for  eleven  years,  his  record  being  in  harmony  with  his  record  as  a  man  and  a  lawyer, 
characterized  by  marked  fidelity  to  duty  and  distinguished  by  a  masterful  grasp  of 
every  problem  presented.  On  retiring  from  the  bench  he  resumed  the  private  practice 
of  law.  He  also  presided  for  two  years  over  the  county  court  and  had  filled  the  office 
Of  prosecuting  attorney  for  the  county  for  a  two  years'  term. 

Judge  Davis  was  married  October  18,  1863,  to  Miss  Sevilla  McKay,  a  daughter  of 
James  and  Rebecca  McKay,  of  Wapello,  Iowa,  where  the  mother  passed  away,  while 
the  father  died  while  en  route  to  California  in  1850.  Judge  and  Mrs.  Davis  became  the 
parents  of  two  children,  both  sons  and  both  well  known  members  of  the  bar.  The  elder, 
Archibald  B.  Davis,  like  his  father  has  served  as  judge  of  the  thirty-sixth  judicial  circuit 
and  following  his  admission  to  the  bar  the  younger  son,  William  W.,  became  his  father's 
partner  in  practice.  Aside  from  his  profession  Judge  Davis  became  widely  known. 
He  made  extensive  investments  in  property,  becoming  the  owner  of  three  thousand 
acres  of  valuable  farm  land  and  large  city  realty  holdings.  He  was  also  one  of  the 
organizers  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Chillicothe  and  its  first  president,  and  likewise 
founded  several  other  banks  in  Livingston  county.  He  was  a  lifelong  member  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  and  ever  a  most  interested  supporter  of  its  work.  One  of 
his  biographers  has  said  of  him:  "From  whatever  angle  we  may  consider  the  life  work 
of  Judge  Davis,  we  find  that  in  all  relations  he  has  done  his  full  share  of  work  and  has 
done  It  well.  His  record  is  indeed  remarkable  and  he  can  look  back  proudly  upon  his 
career,  no  phase  or  wrinkle  of  which  needs  to  fear  the  light.  He  is  a  man  strongly 
marked  by  character  yet  soft-hearted,  kind  and  genial  and,  though  a  forceful  element 
in  the  community,  popular  and  beloved,  enjoying  the  highest  regard  and  esteem  of  all 
who  know  him.  He  is  successful  in  the  truest  sense  of  the  word,  broad-minded  and 
tolerant,  yet  shrewd  and  of  wide  experience.  Never  grasping  or  mercenary,  believing  in 
something  greater  than  mere  material  wealth,  he  has  in  the  course  of  a  long  life,  simply 
and  unostentatiously  spent,  become  a  factor  for  good  in  almost  every  phase  of  endeavor." 
He  continued  practicing  law  until  his  death  on  August  27,  1918.  His  widow  still  occupies 
the  old  home  mansion  in  Chillicothe. 

His  son,  William  W.  Davis,  resided  at  the  family  home  at  Utica  until  sixteen  years 
of  age  and  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  that  town,  while  following 
the  removal  of  the  family  to  Chillicothe  in  1887,  he  continued  his  education  in  the 
Chillicothe  high  school.  He  then  entered  upon  the  study  of  law  under  the  direction  of 
his  father,  who  at  that  time  was  circuit  judge.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  when  but 
eighteen  years  of  age  and  when  a  young  man  of  twenty-two  entered  actively  upon  the 
work  of  the  profession,  to  which  he  has  since  given  his  attention,  gaining  a  creditable 
position  as  a  representative  of  the  legal  fraternity  of  this  part  of  the  state.  Other 
interests,  too,  have  claimed  his  energy.  For  several  years  past  he  has  conducted  a  farm 
and  is  engaged  successfully  in  the  breeding  of  hogs  and  other  live  stock.  His  law 
practice  has  always  been  of  an  important  character  and  he  now  represents  three  banks 


88  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

in  Chillicotlie,  also  the  Wabash  Railroad  and  several  banking  institutions  of  surrounding 
counties. 

In  1909  William  W.  Davis  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Lula  Hicklin,  a  daughter 
of  F^'ank  Hicklin,  of  Livingston  county.  They  occupy  an  enviable  position  in  social 
circles  and  enj5y  the  warm  regard  of  many  friends.  Mr.  Davis  is  a  republican  in  his 
political  views  and  his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  The 
sterling  traits  of  his  character  are  widely  recognized,  while  his  ability  has  gained  for 
him  the  high  position  which  he  occupies  at  the  bar  and  as  a  business  man. 


JOHN  FRANCIS  QUEENY. 


John  Francis  Queeny,  who  without  invidious  distinction  may  be  termed  one  of 
the  leading  business  men  and  citizens  of  St.  Louis,  being  known  throughout  the 
country  as  the  "father"  of  the  American  chemical  industry,  became  president  and 
treasurer  of  the  Monsanto  Chemical  Works  at  the  time  of  incorporation  in  19  01 
and  is  now  serving  as  chairman  of  the  board  of  directors.  He  was  born  in  Chicago, 
Illinois,  August  17,  185  9,  a  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Flaherty)  Queeny,  who  were 
natives  of  Ireland  and  emigrated  to  the  United  States  in  young  manhood  and  young 
womanhood,  locating  in  Chicago,  where  they  were  subsequently  married.  The 
father,  an  architect  by  profession,  became  identified  with  contracting  and  building 
interests  in  that  city  and  was  thus  actively  and  successfully  engaged  until  the  great 
Chicago   fire  of   1871   brought  financial   disaster. 

,  John  Francis  Queeny,  the  eldest  of  five  children,  attended  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  city  to  the  age  of  twelve  years,  when  occurred  the  great  conflagration 
which  totally  destroyed  his  father's  property  and  rendered  the  family  penniless. 
Thus  obliged  to  provide  for  his  own  support,  he  secured  a  position  in  the  whole- 
sale drug  establishment  of  Tolman  &  King  of  Chicago,  being  employed  as  office 
boy  at  a  salary  of  two  dollars  and  a  half  per  week.  He  remained  with  that  concern 
for  a  period  of  eleven  years  and  won  gradual  promotion  until  his  weekly  remuneration 
had  been  increased  to  eighteen  dollars.  In  1881  he  made  his  way  south  to  New 
Orleans,  where  he  became  connected  as  purchasing  agent  with  the  wholesale  drug 
house  of  I.  L.  Lyons  &  Company,  which  he  thus  represented  for  a  decade.  From 
1892  until  1894  he  served  as  buyer  in  the  drug  department  of  the  Meyer  Brothers 
Drug  Company  of  St.  Louis  and  subsequently  became  manager  of  the  sales  depart- 
ment of  Merck  &  Company,  chemical  manufacturers  of  New  York,  continuing  in 
that  connection  from  1894  until  1897.  In  the  latter  year  he  again  became  buyer 
for  the  Meyer  Brothers  Drug  Company,  acting  in  that  capacity  until  1906,  when 
he  opened  a  local  branch  as  manager  for,  the  Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten 
Company  of  Philadelphia.  In  1907  he  resigned  in  order  to  devote  his  entire  time 
to  the  interests  of  the  Monsanto  Chemical  Works,  which  had  been  incorporated  in 
1901   and   of  which   he   became   president  and  treasurer. 

The  following  is  an  excerpt  from  a  review  of  his  business  career  which  ap- 
peared in  "Greater  St.  Louis,"  the  official  bulletin  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce: 
"While  connected  with  the  Meyer  Brothers  Drug  Company,  the  largest  concern 
of  its  kind  in  the  world,  Mr.  Queeny  had  all  the  opportunity  necessary  for  observing 
the  conditions  surrounding  both  the  drug  and  chemical  markets.  His  first  deduc- 
tion from  this  study  was  concerning  the  sulphur  mines  of  Louisiana  and  their  near- 
ness to  St.  Louis.  Mr.  Queeny's  idea  was  that  this  city  would  be  the  proper  place 
for  the  refining  of  this  product.  Three  years  after  his  arrival  here,  therefore, 
he  invested  six  thousand  dollars  of  his  savings  in  an  East  St.  Louis  plant  for  the 
refining  of  sulphur.  *  *  *  He  applied  for  and  received  the  consent  of  his 
employers  to  establish  the  plant  under  a  hired  manager  and  still  retain  his  position 
with  Meyer  Brothers.  That  he  might  keep  in  constant  touch  with  his  East  St. 
Louis  plant,  he  had  a  telephone  installed,  and  on  a  given  date  he  anxiously  awaited 
the  word  of  his  manager  that  the  sulphur  refining  plant  had  been  successfully  in- 
augurated. The  call  came  a  little  earlier  than  he  expected,  but  not  over  his  plant 
phone,  and  the  message  was  in  the  nature  of  a  surprise  if  not  a  calamity.  The 
manager  of  his  plant  informed  him  that  some  way,  in  handling  the  sulphur,  the  plant 
had  been  ignited,  and  all  that  remained  of  his  carefully  saved  six  thousand  dollars 
was  the  concrete  foundation.  *  *  *  This  wiped  the  slate  clean  again  for  Mr. 
Queeny,   but  only  added  to  his  determination  to   battle   upwards.     By   1901,   there 


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was  fifteen  hundred  dollars  credited  to  Mr.  Queen's  savings  account.  Observa- 
tion had  made  him  decide  first  upon  the  manufacture  of  some  of  the  chemicals 
in  which  he.  as  sales  manager,  dealt.  Next,  his  choice  narrowed  down  to  saccharin. 
Saccharin  had  been  coming  gradually  into  growing  use  throughout  the  world,  but 
its  production  was  limited  to  a  few  manufacturing  plants  in  Germany.  It  wasn't 
fully  apparent  to  Mr.  Queeny  why  Germany  should  have  the  monopoly  in  such 
a  product  or  why  American  minds  were  not  capable  of  evolving  the  method  of 
manufacturing  saccharin.  It  was  an  unblazed  trail  which  he  was  traveling,  with  no 
guideposts;  but  with  a  paltry  thousand  dollars  and  a  half,  plus  a  friend's  thirty-five 
hundred,  he  began  his  explorations  over  the  uncharted  course  of  American-produced 
chemicals.  It  is  said  to  his  credit  that  many  of  the  signposts  along  this  big  and 
growing  avenue  of  chemical  manufacture  today  are  Queeny-made.  With  his  lim- 
ited capital,  he  rented  a  part  of  a  one-story  building  at  the  corner  of  Second  street 
and  Lafayei^te  avenue.  One  of  the  first  things  he  encountered  was  the  customary 
German  commercial  competition.  No  sooner  had  they  learned  of  his  experiments 
and  proposal  to  manufacture  saccharin,  than  they  transported  bodily  here  the  nucleus 
of  a  German  syndicate  which  opened  a  plant  in  New  Jersey.  For  three  years  It 
was  a  losing  fight,  the  syndicate,  with  unlimited  capital,  sometimes  holding  the 
market  down  to  half  the  cost  of  production.  But  John  was  a  fighter.  He  continued 
to  work  by  day  with  the  Meyer  Brothers  Drug  Company,  putting  into  the  infant 
concern  all  of  his  earnings  aside  from  bare  living  expenses.  His  nights  he  spent 
in  straightening  out  the  business  snarls  that  developed  at  his  plant  and  in  devising 
means  to  meet  German  competition.  It  took  ten  years  to  lay  the  actual  physical 
manufacturing  basis  of  his  present  success.  Starting  out  with  two  employes,  he  had 
at  the  end  of  five  years  fifteen,  but  after  weathering  the  first  three  years,  the  little 
industry  commenced  to  climb  over  the  line  between  profit  and  loss,  gradually  increas- 
ing his  plant  until  it  occupies  the  entire  block.  When  the  World  war  started,  it  cut 
off  the  imports  of  the  German  product,  and  later  the  sugar-shortage  days  were  con- 
tributive  causes  of  the  enormous  growth  of  the  Queeny-conceived  industry.  While 
saccharin  was  his  first  and  perhaps  'sweetest  love'  in  the  chemical  line,  the  inability 
of  America  to  secure  German  chemicals  in  all  lines  caused  him  to  enter  the  manu- 
facture of  many  other  products.  *  *  *  Before  the  entrance  of  the  United 
States  into  the  conflict,  the  war  abroad  changed  the  industrial  complexion  of  the 
country,  due  to  the  shutting  off  of  German  imports,  and  opened  avenues  of  possi- 
bilities to  the  foresighted  and  venturesome.  It  is  this  condition  which  furnished  the 
setting  for  the  ultimate  business  triumph  of  John  F.  Queeny.  It  was  not  long  after 
the  outbreak  of  hostilities  overseas  that  Mr.  Queeny  began  to  see  the  true  vision 
of  American-made  chemicals.  Heretofore,  not  only  the  dye,  but  the  chemical  markets 
of  the  world  were  in  the  hands  of  Teutonic  scientists  and  chemists.  It  was  the  Ger- 
mans who  first  realized  that  the  study  and  research  in  chemical  lines  was  the  real 
backbone  of  industrial  progress.  Forty  years  of  intense  training  and  development 
along  this  line  had  produced  a  school  of  learned  chemists,  upon  whom  the  world 
depended  for  not  only  its  supply,  but  for  most  innovations.  This  St.  Louisan  was  a 
firm  believer  in  American  adaptability,  and  undaunted  by  the  disasters  which  had 
characterized  his  struggle  upwards,  John  F.  Queeny  carefully  but  quickly  weighed 
the  situation.  As  a  result,  he  not  only  backed  his  faith  in  American  ingenuity  with 
his  savings,  but  his  enthusiasm  won  for  him  the  support  of  friends.  With  indomi- 
table courage  and  'stick-to-itiveness,'  this  man  who  had  never  accepted  failure 
as  a  master  has  aided  in  doing  for  the  American  chemical  industry  what  it  had 
taken  the  Kaiser  and  his  cohorts  four  decades  to  develop.  This  accomplishment 
Justly  brought  into  his  own  possession  the  success  to  which  many  years  of  faithful 
endeavor  entitled  him.  *  *  *  jje  acquired  the  Commercial  Acid  Company  in 
East  St.  Louis,  and  he  is  also  now  interested  in  making  the  basic  products  for  all 
manufacturing  industries  *  »  *  Blunt — yes,  but  courteous;  square-jawedly 
determined,  with  the  happy  faculties  of  rare  judgment  and  business  acumen,  as 
delicately  balanced  as  the  exactest  of  his  chemical  scales — this  is  the  Queeny  equa- 
tion." In  addition  to  his  extensive  and  important  interests  as  a  manufacturer  of 
chemicals,  Mr.  Queeny  is  a  director  of  the  Mercantile  Trust  Company  and  the 
Lafayette  South  Side  Bank. 

On  the  5th  of  February,  1896,  Mr.  Queeny  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Olga  Mendez  Monsanto,  a  native  of  St.  Thomas,  Danish  West  Indies,  who  came  to 
the  United  States  as  a  child  of  five  years  with  her  parents  in  1875.  The  family  home 
■was  established  in  Hoboken,  New  Jersey,  where  Miss  Monsanto  was  residing  at  the 


92  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

time  of  her  marriage.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Queeny  have  two  children:  Edgar  Monsanto, 
who  served  in  the  European  war  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant;  and  Olguita  Monsanto, 
at  home. 

In  politics  Mr.  Queeny  is  a  stanch  republican  while  fraternally  he  is  identified 
with  the  Masons  and  the  Elks.  He  also  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis,  Noonday,  Sunset 
Country  and  Riverview  Boat  Clubs  and  is,  moreover,  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis 
Manufacturers'  Association,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Royal  Society  of 
Arts  and  the  Society  Chemical  Industry  of  England,  the  American  Electrochemical 
Society,  the  Chemists'  Club  of  New  York  and  the  New  York  Press  Club. 


JUDGE  GEORGE  HOWELL  SHIELDS. 

Few,  if  any,  lives  have  meant  more  for  good  in  connection  with  the  history  of  St. 
Louis  and  its  development  than  has  that  of  Judge  George  Howell  Shields,  now  judge  of 
the  circuit  court  of  the  city.  His  career  has  ever  been  fraught  with  high  purposes  and 
exalted  ideals  concerning  man's  relation  to  his  fellownien  and  to  the  community  at 
large.  While  upon  the  bench  his  rtllings  have  been  strictly  fair  and  impartial,  he 
nevertheless  possesses  a  kind,  gentle  spirit  which  has  prompted  him  to  reach  out  a  helping 
hand  or  speak  an  encouraging  word  whenever  he  believed  that  by  so  doing  he  could 
follow  the  admonition  of  Browning  to  "awaken  the  little  seeds  of  good  asleep  throughout 
the  world."  His  influence  is  immeasurable,  but  none  doubt  its  eflRcacy  as  a  factor 
for  progress  and  the  right  in  the  world's  work. 

Judge  Shields  was  born  in  Bardstown,  Kentucky,  June  19,  1842,  his  parents  being 
George  W.  and  JMartha  A.  (Howell)  Shields.  The  father  became  a  civil  engineer  of 
Kentucky  and  Mississippi  and  built  many  of  the  turnpike  roads  in  those  states.  He 
was  also  the  builder  of  the  Hannibal  and  Paris  gravel  road  and  the  Hannibal  and 
London  plank  road,  and  as  engineer  was  connected  with  the  construction  of  the  first 
railroad  in  Mississippi.  He  removed  with  his  family  from  Kentucky  to  Hannibal, 
Missouri,  in  1844,  and  there  turned  his  attention  to  the  pork  packing  business,  in 
which  he  was  very  successful,  becoming  the  leading  representative  of  trade  interests 
in  that  town.  He  was  also  very  active  in  all  public  matters  and  was  elected  mayor  of 
the  city  on  five  different  occasions.  His  record  was  in  harmony  with  that  of  a  distin- 
guished and  honorable  ancestry.  His  father  and  his  grandfather  had  been  officers  of 
the  Revolutionary  war.  The  Shields  family  had  come  originally  from  Ireland,  settle- 
ment by  the  emigrant  ancestor  being  made  in  Westmoreland  county,  Pennsylvania,  while 
the  Howell  family  was  long  represented  in  Virginia  and  Kentucky. 

Judge  Shields  of  this  review  attended  private  schools  in  Hannibal,  Missouri, 
and  continued  his  education  in  Westminster  College  at  Fulton,  Missouri,  but  did  not 
graduate  because  of  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war,  at  which  time  he  joined  a  Missouri 
regiment  in  support  of  the  Union,  while  his  brother  joined  the  Confederate  army.  Judge 
Shields  served  throughout  the  period  of  hostilities  on  the  Union  side,  while  his  brother. 
Doctor  D.  H.  Shields,  remained  equally  loyal  to  the  cause  that  he  had  espoused.  The 
former  was  one  of  the  assistants  to  the  provost  marshal  at  Hannibal,  Colonel  William 
P.  Harrison,  who  was  afterward  judge  of  the  circuit  court  at  Hannibal.  Judge  Shields 
graduated  at  the  Louisville  Law  School  in  the  spring  of  1865  and  began  the  practice 
of  law  in  Hannibal.  He  came  into  almost  immediate  prominence  in  connection  with  the 
political  and  public  life  of  his  home  town  and  was  elected  city  attorney  of  Hannibal  in 
1865,  re-elected  thiee  times  thereafter,  and  was  elected  to  the  twenty-sixth  General 
Assembly  of  Missouri  in  1870,  serving  through  the  sessions  of  1871-72  as  chairman  of 
the  committee  on  constitutional  amendments.  In  1872  he  was  nominated  by  the  republi- 
can party  for  the  supreme  bench  of  the  state,  but  was  defeated,  with  the  whole  repub- 
lican ticket. 

In  1873  Judge  Shields  removed  to  St.  Louis  and  continuing  an  influencing  factor  in 
the  public  lite  of  the  state,  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  convention  of 
1875,  which  framed  the  constitution  and  still  remains  the  organic  law  of  Missouri. 
He  is  one  of  three  surviving  members  of  that  body.  In  1876  he  was  made  chairman  of 
the  republican  state  central  committee  and  so  continued  until  1880.  Part  of  the  same 
time  his  brother.  Dr.  Shields,  was  chairman  of  the  democratic  state  central  com- 
mittee, and  thus  in  politics,  as  in  the  war  period,  the  two  brothers  were  upon  opposing 
sides.     Dr.    Shields   afterward   became    judge   of   the   county   court   of    Marion    county. 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  93 

Judge  Shields  was  also  president  of  the  Board  o£  Freeholders  which  framed  the 
charter  of  the  city  of  St.  Louis  in  1876,  under  which  St.  Louis  was  governed  until  1914, 
and  is  now  the  sole  surviving  member  of  that  body.  It  was  also  in  1876  that  he  received 
from  Judge  Samuel  J.  Treat  appointment  to  the  position  of  master  in  chancery  of  the 
United  States  District  Court,  and  so  continued  for  a  period  of  thirty  years,  or  until 
1906.  In  1890  he  won  his  LL.  D.  degree  from  Westminster  College.  In  1889  he  was 
appointed  by  President  Harrison  to  the  position  of  assistant  attorney  general  of  the 
United  States,  in  charge  of  the  legal  business  of  the  interior  department,  of  which 
General  John  W.  Noble,  also  of  St.  Louis,  was  then  secretary.  In  1893  he  was  appointed 
by  President  Harrison  as  attorney  and  counsel  to  represent  the  United  States  in  the 
cases  before  the  United  States  and  Chilean  Claims  Commission,  returning  to  St.  Louis 
in  1894  after  the  successful  completion  of  his  task. 

For  forty-seven  years  Judge  Shields  has  been  connected  with  the  practice  of  law  in 
St.  Louis,  and  before  taking  his  abode  here  he  had  practiced  for  a  time  in  Hannibal  and 
Marion  and  RoUa  counties,  Missouri.  For  a  considerable  period  after  moving  to  St. 
Louis  he  was  a  partner  of  Senator  John  B.  Henderson,  under  the  firm  style  of  Henderson 
&  Shields,  and  in  that  connection  enjoyed  a  large  and  lucrative  practice,  handling  much 
of  the  important  bond  litigation  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis  and  in  the  state  of  Missouri. 
As  stated  before,  with  the  election  of  General  Harrison  to  the  presidency  he  was 
called  to  Washington,  where  as  legal  adviser  of  the  Department  of  Interior  he 
rendered  conspicuous  service,  handling  all  the  flood  of  litigation  which  was  con- 
nected with  the  department  and  conducting  its  legal  affairs  with  conspicuous  ability. 
General  Noble  and  Judge  Shields  returned  to  St.  Louis  after  the  Harrison  admin- 
istration, and  entered  into  a  partnership  for  the  practice  of  law  under  the  firm 
style  of  Noble  &  Shields  which  continued  for  ten  years.  Both  were  men  of  the  strongest 
character  and  of  wide  experience  and  they  enjoyed  a  large  and  varied  practice.  When 
this  partnership  was  dissolved  Judge  Shields  joined  the  firm  of  Barclay  &  Fauntleroy, 
under  the  style  of  Barclay,  Shields  &  Fauntleroy,  his  associates  being  Judge  Shepard 
Barclay  and  Thomas  T.  Fauntleroy.  This  firm  enjoyed  a  large  and  growing  practice, 
and  after  two  years  Judge  Shields  withdrew  to  go  upon  the  bench  of  the  circuit  court 
of  the  city  of  St.  Louis,  to  which  position  he  was  elected  in  1906,  serving  until  1912, 
when  he  was  defeated  for  reelection  with  the  whole  republican  city  ticket,  on  account  of 
the  disaffection  in  the  ranks  of  the  republican  party.  In  1914,  however,  he  was  re- 
elected for  the  full  term  from  1915  until  1921.  An  eminent  member  of  the  St.  Louis 
bar  has  said  of  him:  "No  judge  upon  the  bench  of  the  circuit  court  of  the  city  of 
St.  Louis  has  more  completely  enjoyed  the  confidence  of  the  people;  none  has  more 
faithfully  nor  more  intelligently  nor  more  satisfactorily  filled  that  great  ofiice  in  the 
administration  of  justice.  He  has  a  strong,  calm  mind,  a  pure  heart,  and  possesses  a 
fearless  spirit  which  neither  the  persuasion  of  opportunity  or  of  profit,  nor  the  fear  of 
man,  could  ever  cause  him  to  swerve  from  the  path  of  what  he  conceived  to  be  his 
duty.  He  has  a  kindly,  gentle  spirit,  is  faithful  to  his  friendships,  his  life  has  been  a 
pure,  faithful  and  simple  one,  and  in  all  his  actions  he  has  been  guided  by  the  fear  of 
God."  In  all  public  affairs  he  has  taken  an  active  part,  being  always,  as  he  believes, 
on  the  side  of  right,  striving  ever  for  the  best  interests  of  the  community. 

On  the  1st  of  February,  1866,  Judge  Shields  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary 
Harrison  Leighton,  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  John  Leighton,  D.  D.,  of  Hannibal,  Missouri, 
who  was  one  of  the  pioneer  Presbyterian  preachers  of  the  state,  and  for  seventeen 
years  was  pastor  at  Palmyra,  Missouri,  for  thirteen  years  at  Hannibal,  Missouri,  and 
afterword  was  pastor  of  the  Rock  Hill  church  in  St.  Louis  county.  His  wife  was  Sarah 
Bainbridge  Richardson,  a  representative  of  one  of  the  prominent  families  of  Kentucky 
and  related  to  many  of  the  old  Virginia  families.  Mrs.  Mary  H.  Shields  was  the  first 
secretary  general  of  the  National  Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution, 
and  was  president  of  the  Missouri  Society  of  the  D.  A.  R.,  president  of  the  St.  Louis 
Society  of  Colonial  Dames,  and  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Descendants  of  Colonial 
Governors  and  of  the  Huguenot  Society,  and  was  greatly  beloved  by  all  who  knew  her. 

Judge  and  Mrs.  Shields  became  the  parents  of  four  children,  of  whom  the  first- 
born, John  Leighton,  died  in  infancy.  George  H.,  Jr.,  a  graduate  of  Princeton  University 
and  of  the  Washington,  D.  C,  Law  School,  was  a  member  of  the  United  States  army 
in  the  Spanish-American  and  Philippine  wars  and  obtained  the  rank  of  captain  of 
the  United  States  regulars.  He  entered  the  army  in  the  great  German  war,  was  pro- 
moted to  lieutenant  colonel,  and  was  one  of  the  executive  oflScers  under  General  Kenly, 
who  had  entire  charge  of  the  aviation  department  of  the  United  States  army  during  the 


94  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

last  months  of  the  World  war.  While  stationed  at  Washington,  his  work  took  him  to 
all  the  various  aviation  fields.  He  married  Miss  Florence  M.  Streett,  daughter  of 
J.  D.  Streett,  one  of  our  prominent  business  men.  Sarah  Bainbridge  Shields,  the  third 
of  the  family,  is  the  wife  of  Dean  William  M.  Warren,  Dean  of  Boston  University. 
Their  oldest  son.  Shields  Warren,  was  enlisted  in  the  late  war  and  assigned  to  Camp 
Taylor  at  Louisville  in  the  artillery  service.  Leighton  Shields,  the  fourth  of  the  Shields 
family,  was  graduated  from  Harvard  University  and  from  the  St.  Louis  Law  School  and 
is  now  practicing  in  this  city.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Twentieth  ward  draft  board 
during  the  late  war  and  was  appointed  as  captain  in  the  Reserve  Corps  of  the  army. 
He  married  Miss  Harriette  Krause,  daughter  of  E.  J.  Krause,  a  prominent  business  man 
of  St.  Louis. 

As  a  boy  Judge  Shields  was  particularly  fond  of  hunting  and  fishing,  being  an 
exceptionally  good  shot,  and  he  still  enjoys  a  day  in  the  open  with  rod  and  line.  He 
belongs  to  the  Amateur  Athletic  Association  of  St.  Louis,  and  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution,  and  has  been  a  lifelong  Presbyterian  in  religious  faith.  He  served  as  elder 
of  the  Lafayette  Park  Presbyterian  church,  St.  Louis,  was  elder  of  the  Church  of  the 
Covenant  in  Washington,  D.  C,  and  is  now  an  elder  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  church 
of  St.  Louis.  He  has  always  been  a  wide  reader,  is  a  man  of  accurate  knowledge,  a  fluent 
and  forceful  writer,  and  a  speaker  of  unusual  ability.  He  has  been  untiring  and  faithful 
in  his  efforts  to  promote  the  spiritual  life  and  welfare  of  every  community  in  which  he 
h-'s  lived.  As  a  friend  and  companion  there  are  none  more  faithful.  He  has  now 
passed  beyond  the  Psalmist's  span  of  threescore  years  and  ten  and  in  life's  sunset  hour 
he  can  review  a  task  fraught  with  good  deeds,  characterized  by  high  principles,  an 
influencing  factor  for  the  right  and  for  advancement  through  nearly  a  half  century's 
residence  in  this  city,  so  that  his  memory  will  linger  long  after  he  has  passed  on, 
cherished   in  the  hearts  of  all  who  know  him. 


JOHN    THOMAS    HARDING. 

John  Thomas  Harding,  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Harding,  Deatherage, 
Murphy  &  Stinson,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  November  15,  1866.  His  father 
was  Joseph  Nathan  Monroe  Harding  and  his  mother  was  Emily  Dyer  Badger 
Harding.  His  father  was  born  in  Baltimore  and  after  finishing  a  medical  course 
came  to  Missouri  which  was  then  the  far  west.  He  settled  at  Pappinsville,  then  a 
trading  post  on  the  Osage  river  near  where  Nevada  is  now  located.  Here  he  prac- 
ticed his  profession  until  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  war,  when  he  moved  to  St.  Louis. 
After  the  war  he  located  in  Vernon  county,  Missouri,  where  he  lived  until  his  death 
in  August,  1869.  Doctor  Harding  was  a  Mason  of  high  rank  and  was  a  man  of 
fine  training  and  ability.  He  was  married  to  Emily  Dyer  Badger  in  Baltimore 
March  25,  1846.  Mrs.  Harding  was  a  native  of  Connecticut  and  one  of  the  first 
graduates  of  Mount  Holyoke  Seminary.  She  was  from  a  strong  outstanding  family 
which  perpetuated  its  history  with  definiteness  back  to  Giles  Badger  who  came  from 
England  and  settled  in  Newbury,  Massachusetts,  in   1635. 

Following  this  lead  we  quote  from  a  well  known  history  of  the  Badger  family: 
"About  1642  Giles  Badger  wedded  Elizabeth  Greenleaf,  daughter  of  Captain  Edmund 
and  Sarah  (Dole)  Greenleaf.  He  died  in  Newbury,  Massachusetts,  July  17,  1647. 
His  only  child  was  Sergeant  John  Badger,  who  was  born  in  Newbury,  Massachusetts, 
June  30,  1643,  and  who  on  the  16th  of  June,  1663,  married  Elizabeth  Hayden,  who 
died  April  8,  1669.  On  the  23rd  of  February,  1670-1,  Sergeant  Badger  married 
Hannah  Swett,  who  was  born  October  7,  1651.  He  had  an  oatmeal  mill  operated 
by  horse  power  and  he  served  as  a  sergeant  in  the  militia.  He  died  at  Newbury, 
March  31,  1691.  His  son,  Nathaniel  Badger,  was  born  in  Newbury.  January  16, 
1675  or  1676,  and  was  married  March  27,  1693,  to  Mary  Lunt.  They  resided  at  New- 
bury until  about  1715,  when  they  removed  to  Norwich,  Connecticut,  and  later  resided 
at  Union,  Connecticut,  Nathaniel  Badger  following  the  occupation  of  farming  as  a 
life  work.  His  wife  died  in  Coventry,  Connecticut,  August  29,  1763,  in  her  eighty- 
seventh  year.  The  children  of  Nathaniel  Badger  were  ten  in  number,  the  second 
being  Nathaniel,  Jr.,  who  was  born  in  Newbury,  Massachusetts,  November  29,  1695, 
and  who  on  the  6th  of  June,  1731,  married  Rebecca  Simons.  He  resided  at  Norwich 
Farms,    now    Franklin,    Connecticut,    and    later    at    Union,    Connecticut,    where    he 


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was  selectman  for  several  years.  The  line  of  descent  is  traced  down  through 
his  son,  Edmund  Badger,  who  was  born  in  Union,  Connecticut,  in  March,  1738, 
and  who  in  1765  married  Lucretia  Abbe,  who  was  born  March  10,  1749.  a  daugh- 
ter of  Joshua  and  Mary  (Ripley)  Abbe.  Edmund  Badger  spent  the  greater  part 
o£  his  life  in  Windham,  Connecticut,  and  died  at  Bristol,  Pennsylvania,  Septem- 
ber 6,  1825,  after  a  few  years'  residence  there.  His  wife  passed  away  in  Bristol, 
January  2,  1826.  The  seventh  of  their  eleven  children  was  Edmund  Badger,  Jr., 
who  was  born  at  Windham,  Connecticut,  February  14,  1779,  and  who  was  mar- 
ried August  19,  1798,  to  Amelia  Dyer.  Her  birth  occurred  in  1779  and  her 
parents  were  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Ripley)  Dyer.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edmund  Badger, 
Jr.,  resided  at  Windham.  Connecticut,  where  the  latter  passed  away  August  22, 
1823.  '  They  were  the  parents  of  Albert  Allan  Badger,  who  was  born  at  Wind- 
ham, January  16,  1801,  and  was  married  January  16,  1820,  to  Asenath  Crosby, 
of  Mansfield,  Connecticut."  Three  children  were  born  of  this  union:  Albert  Badger, 
Oscar  C.  Badger,  and  Emily  Dyer  Badger.  Dr.  Albert  Badger  was  an  early  settler 
in  Vernon  County,  Missouri.  He  practiced  medicine  there  for  many  years  and  died 
at  Nevada,  Missouri,  in  1912.  Oscar  C.  Badger  became  a  rear  admiral  of  the 
United  States  Navy.  His  son,  Rear  Admiral  Charles  J.  Badger,  was  at  the  time  of 
.his  recent  retirement  commander-in-chief  of  the  North  Atlantic  fleet,  and  his  daugh- 
ter, Anne,  is  the  wife  of  Major  General  George  F.  Elliott  of  Washington,  D.  C. 

The  youngest  of  the  three  children,  Emily  Dyer  Badger,  was  born  at  Windham, 
Connecticut,  in  1826.  She  was  reared  by  her  uncle,  Edmund  Badger,  who  at  one 
time  was  Secretary  of  the  Navy.  She  was  a  woman  of  marked  literary  ability  and 
was  much  loved  by  the  people  of  her  community.  She  died  at  Nevada,  Missouri, 
on  August  12,   1913. 

The  subject  of  this  article  was  her  eighth  child.  He  obtained  his  education  in 
the  public  schools  of  Vernon  county.  The  Scjiithwest  Normal  School  at  Fort  Scott, 
Kansas,  and  the  University  of  Missouri.  In-  addition  to  this  training  he  studied 
law  with  the  iirm  of  Burton  &  Wight  at  Nevada,  Missouri,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  May,  188  9.  He  thereafter  practiced  law  with  Judge  Charles  G.  Burton  until 
in  189  9  he  removed  to  Kansas  City  and  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Brown, 
Harding  &  Brown.  This  firm  was  eventually  merged  into  the  present  firm  of 
Harding,  Deatherage,  Murphy  &  Stinson,  which  is  now  widely  engaged  in  corpora- 
tion  practice. 

Mr.  Harding  belongs  to  the  various  bar  associations  and  is  associated  with 
several  financial  institutions.  He  organized  the  Gate  City  National  Bank  and  has 
been  its  counsel  since  its  organization. 

Mr.  Harding  has  two  children  by  his  marriage  to  Mary  Joel  Atkinson.  His 
daughter  Patti  is  the  wife  of  Taylor  S.  Abernathy,  and  his  son,  Douglas  Dyer  Badger, 
is  now  attending  school  at  Lawrenceville,  New  Jersey. 

Mr.  Harding  is  a  member  of  various  clubs  in  Kansas  City  and  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Mayflower  Society  by  virtue  of  descent  from  the  Badger  and  William  Brad- 
ford lines. 

For  many  years  he  has  been  an  art  collector,  having  purchased  several  canvases 
in  Europe.  His  collection  of  oil  paintings  is  among  the  best  in  the  middle  west. 
Among  them  are  the  names  of  some  well  known  masters,  notably  Corot,  Troyon, 
Diaz,  Mauve,  Jean  Jacques  Henner,  Bouguereau  and  Rico.  He  has  a  large  collection 
of  landscapes,  painted  by  American  masters,  and  among  them  are  some  by  George 
Inness,  Winslow  Homer,  Wyant,  Tryon,  Hassan.  He  is  one  of  the  trustees  of  the 
Kansas  City  Fine  Arts  Institute  and  of  the  Kansas  City  Conservatory  of  Music. 
He  is  also  one  of  the  trustees  of  the'  Liberty  Memorial  Association  and  acted  as 
chairman  of  the  legal  organization. 

Mr.  Harding  has  been  active  in  Masonry  and  is  past  master  of  Osage  Lodge, 
^ast  high  priest  of  Nevada,  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  past  eminent  commander  of 
O'Sullivan  Commandery,  past  venerable  master  of  the  Lodge  of  Perfection,  Scottish 
Rite,  and  past  illustrious  potentate  of  Ararat  Temple.  On  account  of  his  work  he 
was  awarded  the  honorary  thirty-third  degree  which  he  took  in  Washington,  1911. 
He  has  always  been  a  consistent  democrat,  but  has  never  aspired  to  office,  although 
during  the  Thomas  T.  Crittenden  administration  as  mayor  of  Kansas  City  he  served 
as  corporation  counsel. 

Mr.  Harding's  second  marriage  was  on  July  12,  1916,  to  Lucia  Byrne,  daughter 
of  the  late  John  M.  Byrne  and  Lucia  Fox  Byrne. 

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98  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

He  is  a  man  ot  splendid  oratoiical  ability  whose  powers  have  been  developed 
in  many  directions  and  who,  as  the  years  have  passed,  has  had  time  and  opportunity 
to  cultivate  those  interests  of  cultural  value  that  constitute  one  of  the  chief  pleas- 
ures of  life.  While  the  state  ranks  him  as  an  eminently  successful  lawyer  his 
friends  know  him  as  a  connoisseur  ot  art,  as  a  most  agreeable  companion,  as  a 
patron  of  all  those  interests  which  make  tor  uplift  and  at  a  gentleman  with  whom 
association   means   expansion   and   development. 


OLIVER  HAYES   DEAN. 


Oliver  Hayes  Dean  has  been  an  active  and  devoted  member  ot  the  legal  pro- 
fession in  Kansas  City  for  many  years.  His  ambition  has  always  been  to  be  a  lawyer 
representing  the  highest  principles  and  purposes  of  his  profession.  He  has  greatly 
idealized  his  work;  he  believes  it  to  be  the  most  honorable  and  most  useful  and  the 
most  dignified  ot  any  work  to  which  a  man  can  dedicate  his  lite.  He  has  lived  up 
to  his  ideals  and  by  preparation  and  diligence  has  commanded  success  to  an  unusual 
degree. 

Mr.  Dean  is  president  of  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law  and  has  lectured  in 
this  school  on  corporate  and  constitutional  law  tor  many  years.  He  was  one  ot  the 
founders  ot  this  school,  organized  as  it  was  to  enable  those  who  are  ambitious  to 
obtain  a  good  legal  education  in  Kansas  City  and  who  were  unable  to  go  to  some 
distant  place  tor  such  an  education.  It  has  greatly  advocated  and  highly  enforced 
the  ethical  requirements  ot  the  legal  profession.  It  is  believed  that  it  has  exercised 
a  valuable  and  important  influence  in  that  profession  in  the  middle  west.  He  has 
been  pleased  to  give  his  time  and  more  to  the  school  without  compensation.  It  has 
been  unusually  successful  and  now  ranks  among  the  best  law  schools  in  the 
country. 

Mr.  Dean  was  born  in  Montour  county,  Pennsylvania,  near  a  village  called 
Washingtonville,  December  7,  1845.  He  is  the  son  ot  the  Hon.  Joseph  Dean,  who 
served,  when  a  young  man,  as  an  officer  in  the  War  ot  1812  under  General  Scott 
and  for  several  years  was  one  of  the  lay  judges  ot  Montour  county.  The  Dean  family 
on  his  father's  side  is  English  and  Scotch,  and  on  his  mother's  side  Holland  Dutch. 

Mr.  Dean  supplemented  his  early  education,  acquired  in  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  state,  by  study  in  Tuscarora  Academy  in  Juniata  county,  Pennsylvania. 
He  taught  Latin  in  this  academy  tor  a  year  when  in  his  nineteenth  year.  He  after- 
wards attended  the  University  of  Michigan,  from  which  he  was  graduated,  and  on 
the  completion  ot  his  academic  course  in  that  university  in  1868  received  the  A.  B. 
degree.  He  then  continued  his  studies  at  the  same  institution  in  preparation  tor  the 
bar  and  received  the  degree  LL.  B.  in  1870.  He  has  also  received  the  degree  of 
LL.  D.  from  Knox  College,  Galesburg.   Illinois. 

On  account  of  his  health  Mr.  Dean  came  to  a  drier  climate  than  that  of  Penn- 
sylvania and  located  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  May  1,  1870.  He  entered  the 
office  of  Judge  Francis  M.  Black,  who  was  later  one  of  the  supreme  Judges  of  Mis- 
souri. The  friendship  between  Judge  Black  and  him  became  very  intimate  and 
they  were  devoted  friends  until  his  death.  Shortly  after  locating  in  Kansas  City, 
he  became  associated  with  Judge  William  Holmes,  the  firm  then  being  Holmes  & 
Dean,  which  continued  tor  nearly  eleven  years,  and  later  he  became  the  junior 
member  ot  the  firm  of  Tichenor,  Warner  &  Dean.  When  Mr.  Tichenor  retired  from 
general  practice,  the  firm  became  Warner  &  Dean  and  with  other  members  added  at 
different  times,  his  association  with  William  Warner,  United  States  senator  from 
Missouri,  lasted  tor  over  thirty-five  years.  In  memory  of  his  old  partner,  his  firm 
still  retains  his  name  and  today  the  firm  is  known  as  Warner,  Dean,  Langworthy,, 
Thomson  &  Williams,  although  Senator  Warner  has  been  dead  over  three  years. 

As  an  attorney  Mr.  Dean  has  been  highly  successful  in  all  branches  of  the  civil 
practice  which  has  extended  to  every  court  and  to  various  parts  ot  the  country. 
His  ability  has  been  supplemented  by  the  highest  industry.  He  has  been  loyal  to  his 
profession  and  has  not  allowed  any  ot  the  allurements  of  public  place  to  distract 
his  attention  from  it.  He  has  been  for  many  years  an  adviser  to  many  incorporated 
institutions  in  Kansas  City. 

Mr.  Dean  is  an  impressive,  clear  and  forceful  speaker,  his  ability  in  that  direction 
being  coupled  with  a  strong,  earnest  personality  and  a  manifest  sincerity  and  hon- 


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esty  of  purpose.  He  is  well  known  as  a  writer  on  legal  subjects  and  has 'delivered 
addresses  before  the  bar  associations  of  Missouri,  Kansas  and  Illinois,  the  Universi- 
ties of  Missouri  and  Kansas,  his  addresses  usually  being  upon  corporation  and  con- 
stitutional law.  He  also  lectured  on  medical  jurisprudence  in  the  Kansas  City 
Medical  College  and  the  University  of  Kansas  for  several  years. 

Mr.  Dean  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City,  the  Missouri  State  and  American 
Bar  Associations;  the  International  Law  Congress,  which  met  at  Madrid,  Spain, 
in  1913,  and  this  year  (1920)  at  Portsmouth,  England.  He  is  also  a  Fellow  of 
the  Royal  Academy  of  Arts,  London,  England,  and  a  member  of  the  following 
organizations  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri:  Pine  Arts  Club,  University  Club,  Country 
Club,  Blue  Hills  Club  and  Automobile  Club;  and  several  charitable  and  educational 
societies. 

Mr.  Dean  has  two  children,  a  daughter  Alice,  the  wife  of  Alvah  S.  Green,  of 
Galesburg,  Illinois,  and  Mason  L.  Dean,  a  business  man  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri. 

Mr.  Dean  is  much  devoted  to  music  and  art,  but  he  finds  his  recreation  largely 
in  reading,  which  covers  a  broad  and  comprehensive  scope.  His  wide  general 
information  constitutes  one  of  the  basic  elements  of  his  success  at  the  bar.  He  has 
traveled  much  abroad,  and  finds  great  interest  in  studying  the  political,  social 
and  economic  conditions  of  foreign  countries  and  the  relations  and  influences  of 
those  conditions  to  and  upon  each  other. 


WALTER  BROWNLEB. 


Walter  Brownlee,  president  of  the  Brownlee  Banking  Company  of  Brookfield,  was 
born  at  Linneus,  Missouri,  July  24,  1859,  and  is  a  son  of  Judge  Brownlee.  After 
acquiring  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Linneus  and  of  Brookfield  he 
attended  the  State  Normal  School  at  Kirksville, ''Missouri,  tor  three  years,  after  which 
he  returned  to  Brookfield,  where  he  engaged  in  the  grocery  business  with  his  father 
for  two  years.  He  was  afterward  clerk  under  his  father,  who  was  then  filling  the  office 
of  common  pleas  judge.  The  son  continued  in  the  clerkship  for  two  years  and  next 
entered  the  bank  of  W.  H.  DeGraw  &  Company,  remaining  with  that  institution  from 
1879  until  the  organization  of  the  Linn  County  Bank  in  1884.  Of  the  latter  he  became 
assistant  cashier  and  so  continued  until  1887,  when  he  turned  his  attention  to  the  dry 
goods  trade,  being  connected  with  the  H.  Emanuel  Company  until  1888.  The  business 
was  then  sold  and  Mr.  Brownlee  went  to  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  where  he  became  con- 
nected with  real  estate  operations,  there  residing  until  1893.  In  that  year  he  returned 
to  Brookfield  and  when  the  Brownlee  Banking  Company  was  organized  he  became 
cashier  and  so  continued  until  the  death  of  his  father  in  1909,  when  he  succeeded  to  the 
presidency  of  the  institution  and  still  remains  at  the  head  of  the  bank.  This  bank  was 
organized  in  March,  1893.  Its  first  official  statement,  issued  to  the  state  bank  depart- 
ment on  the  16th  of  September,  1899,  showed  deposits  of  forty-six  thousand  four  hundred 
and  eighteen  dollars,  while  the  last  statement,  issued  December  30,  1919,  shows  deposits 
amounting  to  six  hundred  and  fifty-seven  thousand  five  hundred  and  twenty-one  dollars 
and  thirty-four  cents.  The  steady  growth  of  this  institution  is  attributable  in  no  small 
measure  to  the  efforts  and  enterprise  of  Walter  Brownlee,  who  is  a  man  of  sound 
discrimination  in  business,  of  keen  sagacity  and  of  unfaltering  energy. 

Mr.  Brownlee  has  also  figured  prominently  in  connection  with  public  affairs.  He 
served  for  thirteen  years  as  city  treasurer  of  Brookfield  prior  to  1910  and  in  the  latter 
year  was  elected  to  the  forty-sixth  general  assembly  of  Missouri.  In  the  fall  of  1912 
he  was  reelected,  serving  as  a  member  of  the  forty-seventh  general  assembly,  and  in 
the  fall  of  1918  was  elected  on  the  democratic  ticket  from  the  sixth  senatorial  district 
to  the  position  of  state  senator  and  is  now  a  member  of  the  upper  house.  He  has  thus 
served  for  four  consecutive  sessions  in  the  general  assembly  and  his  record  is  one  which 
reflects  credit  and  honor  upon  the  state  that  has  honored  him. 

In  1882  Mr.  Brownlee  was  married  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Howard,  of  Kirksville,  Missouri, 
and  to  them  was  born  a  daughter,  who  is  now  Mrs.  C.  W.  Hill,  of  Brookfield.  The  wife 
and  mother  passed  away  in  1909  and  on  the  14th  of  December,  1911,  Mr.  Brownlee  was 
married  to  Miss  Kate  Vance  Standly,  daughter  of  Dr.  Z.  T.  and  Jennie  (Vance)  Standly. 
Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brownlee  are  well  known  in  Linn  county  and  throughout  this  part  of 
Missouri.    He  has  mastered  the  lessons  of  life  day  by  day  until  his  post  graduate  work 


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in  the  school  of  experience  has  brought  him  to  a  prominent  position  in  connection  witli 
the  financial  interests  of  the  state  and  with  its  legislative  interests  as  well. 

His  wife  is  a  native  of  Linn  county,  Missouri,  having  been  born  at  Laclede,  where 
she  obtained  her  early  education.  She  determined  to  engage  in  the  practice  of  medicine 
and  began  studying  under  the  direction  of  her  father.  In  1898  she  became  a  student  in 
the  medical  department  of  the  Univer.sity  of  Illinois,  fro.Ti  which  she  was  graduated  in 
1902.  She  spent  one  year  as  interne  in  the  Mary  Thompson  Hospital  of  Chicago  and 
then  selected  Brookfield,  Missouri,  as  the  field  of  her  professional  activity,  specializing 
in  the  treatment  of  diseases  of  women  and  children.  She  soon  became  firmly  intrenched 
in  the  confidence  and  regard  of  the  people  of  Linn  county,  proving  her  capability  in  her 
success  in  practice.  She  has  also  pursued  courses  of  study  in  the  Chicago  Post  Graduate 
School  and  through  wide  reading  has  ever  kept  in  touch  with  the  advanced  literature 
of  the  profession.  She  was  an  active  member  of  the  county  and  state  medical  societies 
and  the  American  Medical  Association,  and  for  two  years  served  as  president  of  the 
Linn  County  Medical  Society,  but  gave  up  practice  when  she  became  the  wife  of  Walter 
Brownlee. 


JUDGE  CHESTER  H.  KRUM. 


The  specific  and  distinctive  office  of  biography  is  not  to  give  voice  to  a  man's  modest 
estimate  of  himself  and  his  accomplishments  but  rather  to  leave  the  perpetual  record 
establishing  his  position  by  the  consensus  of  public  opinion  on  the  part  of  his  fellow- 
men.  Judged  by  this  standard.  Chester  H.  Krum  is  one  of  the  best  equipped  and  ablest 
members  of  the  Missouri  bar  and  for  more  than  half  a  century  has  been  actively  engaged 
in  practice,  save  for  the  period  ot  three  years  which  he  spent  upon  the  bench  as  an 
impartial  and  farsighted  jurist.  He  was  born  in  Alton,  Illinois.  September  13.  1840.  his 
parents  being  Judge  John  M.  and  Mary  (Harding)  Krum.  His  father's  judicial  title 
indicates  that  the  family  name  is  one  of  long  connection  with  the  history  of  the  legal 
profession  in  the  Mississippi  valley  and  Chester  H.  Krum  was,  as  it  were,  "to  the  manner 
born."  He  pursued  his  classical  education  in  Washington  University  at  St.  Louis, 
completing  his  course  by  graduation  in  the  class  of  1863.  at  which  time  the  Bachelor  of 
Arts  degree  was  conferred  upon  him.  His  law  course  was  pursued  at  Harvard  University 
and  there  he  won  the  LL.  B.  degree  in  1865. 

The  year  prior  to  his  graduation,  however,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  upon 
the  completion  of  his  Harvard  course  he  at  once  opened  a  law  office  in  St.  Louis.  Here 
throughout  the  intervening  years  he  has  continued  an  active  representative  ot  the  legal 
profession.  In  this  connection  a  contemporary  biogi'apher  has  written:  "Advancement  in 
the  law  is  proverbially  slow  and  in  no  profession  does  success  depend  more  entirely  upon 
individual  merit  and  effort.  Gradually,  however,  Mr.  Krum  won  a  good  clientage  and 
in  1867  joined  the  firm  of  Krum,  Decker  &  Krum  as  its  junior  partner.  Two  years  later 
he  became  United  States  district  attorney  by  appointment  and  served  in  that  capacity 
until  1872.  He  then  resigned  and  in  the  same  year  was  chosen  by  popular  vote  for  the 
office  of  judge  of  the  St.  Louis  circuit  court.  For  three  years  he  remained  upon  the 
bench,  discharging  his  multitudinous  duties  with  strict  impartiality  and  fairness,  his 
legal  learning,  his  analytical  mind  and  the  readiness  with  which  he  grasped  the  points 
in  argument  making  him  a  capable  jurist,  the  value  of  whose  service  was  recognized 
and  acknowledged  by  the  public  and  the  profession.  On  his  retirement  from  the  bench, 
Judge  Krum  resumed  the  private  practice  ot  law  and  has  thus  been  identified  with  the 
St.  Louis  bar  for  more  than  half  a  century.  He  has  not  followed  the  prevalent  tendency 
toward  specialization,  but  in  each  department  of  the  law  is  well  versed  and  in  the 
general  practice  has  shown  himself  eciually  at  home  in  v.irious  branches  of  jurisprudence. 
His  is  a  natural  discrimination  as  to  legal  ethics  and  he  has,  moreover,  been  an  unwearied 
student  of  the  science  ot  the  law  and  of  the  trend  of  pul)lic  thought  and  feeling,  which 
has  so  much  to  do  with  shaping  the  interests  which  come  before  the  courts.  He  is  also 
recognized  as  a  popular  law  educator,  and  for  nine  years,  beginning  in  1873,  was  a 
member  of  the  faculty  of  the  St.  Louis  Law  School." 

The  marriage  of  Judge  Krum  to  Miss  Elizabeth  H.  Cutter,  daughter  of  Norman 
and  Frances  Cutter,  was  celebrated  on  the  26th  of  October,  1866,  so  that  for  fifty-four 
years  they  have  traveled  life's  journey  together.     They  became  parents  of  the  following 


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children:      Mary   F.,   John   M.,  Clara   R.,   Elizabeth   H.   and    Mabel,   of   whom   John   and 
Mabel  have  now  passed  away. 

In  religious  faith  the  family  are  Unitarians,  holding  membership  with  the  Church 
of  the  Messiah.  Through  his  political  connections  Judge  Krum  has  become  well  known. 
He  give  unfaltering  allegiance  to  the  republican  party  from  1864  until  1888.  when  he 
joined  the  ranks  of  the  democratic  party  because  of  a  change  in  his  convictions.  When 
free  silver  was  made  the  political  issue  of  the  country  he  became  a  champion  of  the 
gold  standard  wing  of  the  democratic  party.  He  has  closely  studied  the  vital  questions 
and  issues  of  the  day.  bringing  to  bear  upon  all  such  an  analytical  mind  and  clear 
reasoning.  By  reason  of  the  soundness  of  his  judgment  his  opinions  have  carried 
weight  with  many  and  he  has  exerted  a  wide  influence  over  public  thought  and  action. 


EDWARD  GRIGSBY  TRIMBLE. 

Edward  Grigsby  Trimble,  who  devoted  the  earlier  years  of  his  manhood  to  the 
practice  of  law  and  afterwards  became  the  organizer  of  the  Employers  Indemnity  Cor- 
poration of  Kansas  City,  of  which  he  is  now  the  president,  was  born  in  Princeton, 
Kentucky,  July  4,  1876.  His  father,  Aaron  D.  Trimble,  was  also  a  native  of  Kentucky 
and  was  a  representative  of  a  well-known  family  bearing  the  name,  who  lived  in  Ken- 
tucky for  several  generations,  having  come  from  the  north  of  Ireland  to  the  new  world, 
settling  first  in  Virginia  and  removing  to  Kentucky  about  the  time  of  the  Revolutionary 
war.  Aaron  D.  Trimble  gained  prominence  as  a  minister  and  educator.  He  was  for 
many  years  treasurer  of  the  Mary  Sharp  College  at  Winchester,  Tennessee,  during  all 
of  which  time — more  than  twenty  years — he  was  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist  church  at 
Winchester.  Later,  near  the  close  of  his  life,  he  was  president  of  the  Princeton  ( Ken- 
tucky) college.  At  the  time  of  the  Civil  war  he  served  as  a  captain  of  cavalry  in  the 
Confederate  army  and  after  a  long  life  of  activity  and  usefulness  he  passed  away  in  1879. 
In  early  manhood  he  wedded  Mary  Ellen  Whitman,  a  native  of  Tennessee,  who  is  now 
eighty-srx  years  of  age.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Robert  Mollineaux  Whitman,  who  removed 
from  New  Hampshire  to  the  south  about  1820  and  became  noted  as  a  pioneer  pre-jcher. 
He  was  a  direct  descendant  of  the  well-known  John  Whitman,  of  Weymouth,  Massa- 
chusetts. 

Edward  G.  Trimble,  whose  name  introduces  this  review,  pursued  his  early  education 
in  the  graded  and  high  schools  of  Springfield,  Missouri,  and  later  pursued  a  partial 
college  course  at  the  Baylor  University  at  Waco,  Texas,  remaining  a  student  there  for 
two  years.  He  next  entered  Cumberland  University  at  Lebanon,  Tennessee,  for  the  study 
of  law  and  won  the  LL.  B.  degree  in  1901.  He  afterward  practiced  his  profession  at 
Houston,  Texas,  but  this  did  not  constitute  his  initial  step  in  a  business  career.  When 
but  eighteen  years  of  age  he  had  been  the  owner  of  a  laundry  business  in  the  Lone  Star 
state,  but  became  imbued  with  the  desire  to  enter  a  field  that  offered  a  wider  outlook 
and  turned  to  the  profession  of  law.  He  was  twenty-five  years  of  age  when  he  was 
graduated  from  the  Cumberland  University,  after  which  he  took  up  the  practice  of  law 
as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Harris  &  Harris  of  Galveston  and  Houston,  Texas.  Seven 
ye-rs  were  devoted  to  law  practice  and  in  1908  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he 
organized  the  Employers  Indemnity  Exchange,  which  later  grew  into  and  became  a 
part  of  the  Employers  Indemnity  Corporation,  of  which  he  is  still  the  president  and 
principal  stockholder.  This  is  the  largest  casualty  company  in  the  west  or  south,  and 
specialises  in  reinsurance  of  casualty  lines  from  other  casualty  companies.  He  has 
been  instrumental  in  successfully  building  up  an  insurance  business  on  new  and  original 
lines,  theirs  being  perhaps  the  only  institution  of  this  character  in  the  country  organ- 
ized within  the  past  years  that  has  earned  and  paid  dividends  from  its  inception.  The 
corporation  has  put  out  many  interesting  and  origin il  contracts  affecting  the  insurance 
business  and  the  initiative  spirit  which  Mr.  Trimble  has  manifested  has  produced 
substantial  and  excellent  results.  While  the  largest  stockholder  of  the  Employers 
Indemnity  Corporation,  he  is  also  interested  extensively  in  other  insurance  institutions. 
He  is  connected  with  the  laundry  business  and  is  a  stockholder  in  several  banks  of 
Kansas  City,  while  his  official  connections  include  not  only  the  presidency  of  the 
Employers  Indemnity  Corporation  but  also  the  vice  presidency  of  the  American  Mer- 
chants Fire  Insurance  Company  of  Kansas  City,  presidency  of  the  Exchange  Mutual 
Indemnity  Insurance  Comp.iny  of  Buffalo,  New  York,  and  the  presidency  of  the   Insur- 


104  CEXTEXXIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

ance  Building  Company,  which  is  erecting  a  large  building  to  be  used  by  the  Employers 
Indemnity  Corporation. 

On  the  22d  of  June.  1904,  Mr.  Trimble  was  married  to  iliss  Emily  Woodhead,  of 
Houston,  Texas,  a  daughter  of  John  Woodhead,  now  of  Kansas  Citj",  who  is  the  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Employers  Indemnity  Corporation  and  is  mentioned  elsewhere  in 
this  work.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Trimble  have  been  born  two  sons:  Edward  G..  fourteen 
years  of  age,  and  John  Duff,  a  lad  of  nine. 

Mr.  Trimble  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association  and  also  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  to  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club,  the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  City  Club,  the 
Hillcrest  Country  Club  and  the  Automobile  Club.  He  is  a  Knight  Templar,  thirty-second 
degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  is  a  very  prominent 
and  influential  representative  of  the  Calvary  Baptist  church,  in  which  he  Is  serving  as 
deacon  and  also  as  chairman  of  the  finance  committee.  He  is  likewise  president  of  the 
Baptist  City  Mission  Board  and  of  the  Baptist  Savings  &  Loan  Association.  He  is  a 
director  of  the  national  safety  committee  and  is  keenly  interested  in  all  those  activities 
which  tend  to  advance  the  material,  intellectual,  social  and  moral  progress  of  the  race. 
His  ideals  of  life  are  high  and  he  employs  the  most  practical  methods  in  securing  their 
adoption,  his  labors  being  far-reaching  and  effective  along  all  lines  which  make  for  public 
good. 


CHARLES    S.    KEITH. 


Charles  S.  Keith,  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke 
Company  of  Kansas  City,  has  throughout  his  business  career  been  a  thorough  student 
of  all  problems  essential  to  intelligent  management  of  his  interests  and  thus  is  wisely 
and  effectively  directing  the  further  development  of  the  corporation  of  which  he 
is  now  the  head.  This  business  was  founded  by  his  father,  Richard  Henry  Keith,  a 
pioneer  merchant  and  man  of  affairs  of  Kansas  City,  who  is  mentioned  elsewhere 
in  this  work. 

Charles  S.  Keith  is  a  native  of  Kansas  City,  his  birth  having  here  occurred  on  the 
28th  of  January,  1873.  He  pursued  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools,  while 
later  he  attended  St.  John"s  College  and  afterward  Fordham  University,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1891  with  the  Bachelor  of  Science  degree.  He  then  entered 
business  circles  as  a  representative  of  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Company,  of  which 
he  is  now  president.  He  assumed  connection  with  the  business  in  a  minor  capacity 
but  has  gradually  worked  his  way  upward,  passing  through  all  departments  and 
thoroughly  acquainting  himself  with  every  phase  of  the  business.  Eventually  he  has 
reached  the  presidency  of  this  important  corporation.  His  father  established  the 
business  in  1871  by  investing  his  entire  capital  of  forty  dollars  in  a  little  coal  yard  on 
Bluff  street,  at  which  time  Kansas  City  handled  about  thirty  carload*  of  coil  daily. 
With  the  development  of  the  business  he  organized  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Company, 
of  which  he  became  president,  and  opened  various  mines  in  Kansas  and  later  in  the 
coal  fields  of  Arkansas.  The  company  which  he  founded  now  owns  coal  lands 
that  proluce  four  million  tons  of  coal  annually  and  is  the  largest  enterprise 
of  the  kind  in  the  southwest.  Something  of  the  remarkable  growth  of  the 
business  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  at  the  time  of  the  father's  death  employment 
was  furnished  to  ten  thousand  men  and  the  annual  sales  amounted  to  seven  million 
dollars.  One  hundred  and  twenty  thousand  carloads  of  coal  are  utilized,  taken  from 
mines  in  Kansas.  Missouri.  Oklahoma,  ^\rkansas  and  Wyoming,  while  retail  yards  are 
maintained  at  Wichita,  Kansas.  St.  Joseph,  Missouri.  Omaha.  Nebraska,  and  Salt  Lake 
City,  the  product  being  shipped  throughout  the  south  and  southwest.  The  company  has 
not  confined  its  attention  alone  to  the  coal  trade,  for  with  the  reorganization  under  the 
name  of  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Company  in  May.  1893,  the  company  began  the 
development  of  a  lumber  trade,  which  it  had  hitherto  undertaken  in  a  small  way. 
A  plant  was  acquired  at  Texarkana,  Texas,  and  operations  began  in  January.  1894, 
with  the  most  modern  machinery  and  equipment.  There  the  manufacture  of  lumber 
was  continued  until  the  summer  of  1902,  when  the  plant  was  torn  down  and  a  removal 
made  to  Carson.  Louisiana,  to  obtain  a  new  source  of  timber  supplies.  Other  saw- 
mills  were   erected    at    Keith.    Louisiana,    on    the    line    of    the    Kansas    City    Southern 


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Railway,  and  at  Conroe,  Texas,  on  the  International  &  Great  Northern,  and  the  Gulf 
Coast  and   Santa  Pe  Railroads. 

Thus  a  business  ot  mammoth  proportions  has  been  developed,  of  which  Charles 
S.  Keith  is  now  the  head.  He  has  always  displayed  inflexible  integrity  in  business 
circles,  together  with  aggressiveness  and  thorough  grasp  ot  the  more  important  prob- 
lems. He  is  today  widely  known  as  a  lumberman,  manufacturer  and  coal  operator 
and  one  who  is  capable  ot  making  a  most  keen  and  correct  analysis  of  any  business 
situation.  In  tact  he  has  specialized  in  this  department  of  business  to  a  large  degree 
and  he  has  given  a  great  deal  of  his  time  to  voicing  his  views  in  an  educational 
way  to  the  lumber  and  coal  industries  throughout  the  country  in  the  last  few  years, 
making  speeches  at  various  points  in  the  interests  of  the  lumber  trade.  In  fact  his 
services  are  in  demand  whenever  the  lumbermen  are  assembled  together  in  conven- 
tion. He  is  likewise  a  director  of  the  Fidelity  National  Bank  &  Trust  Company  of 
Kansas  City,  a  director  of  the  Kansas  City  Light  &  Power  Company,  a  director  of 
the  Southern  Pine  Association,  of  which  he  was  formerly  president,  a  director  of 
the  National  Lumber  Manufacturers  Association  and  the  vice  president  and  a  director 
of  the  National  Manufacturers  Association.  With  many  important  corporations  and 
business  enterprises  he  is  identified  as  a  director  and  stockholder  and  his  judgment 
constitutes  one  of  the  potent  elements  in  the  successful  conduct  of  all  business  affairs 
of  which  he  is  a  representative.  He  occupies  a  prominent  position  in  connection 
with  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  activities  and  was  president  of  the  Chamber  of 
Kansas  City  in  1914.  He  has  also  been  a  director  and  a  member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the  United  States  of  America  for  four 
years  and  was  recently  reelected  for  an  additional  term  of  two  years,  representing 
the  natural  resource  production  in  the  Chamber. 

On  the  12th  of  June,  1900,  Mr.  Keith  was  married  to  Miss  Lucile  Hill,  a  daughter 
of  William  E.  and  Sallie  (Scott)  Hill,  of  Keithsville,  Missouri.  They  have  one  son, 
Richard  William,  who  is  now  attending  the  high  school  of  Kansas  City  and  will  soon 
enter   Yale. 

Mr.  Keith  is  very  fond  of  horseback  riding  and  takes  great  delight  in  agricul- 
tural interests,  owning  a  valuable  farm  that  is  most  scientifically  cultivated.  He 
belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Club,  to  the  Kansas  City  Country  Club,  the  Mission  Hills 
Country  Club,  the  University  Club  ot  Kansas  City  and  to  the  Chicago  Athletic  Club. 
His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church.  He  takes  great  interest 
in  civic  and  political  matters  which  pertain  to  his  home  city  and  state  and  is  active 
as  well  in  national  politics.  In  a  word  he  is  a  broad-minded  man  whose  vision  is 
wide,  whose  understanding  is  keen  and  whose  ideals  and  principles  never  permit 
him  to  choose  the  second  best.  In  his  relations  with  his  fellowmen  he  is  actuated 
by  a  broad  humanitarian  spirit  that  is  manifest  in  helpful  support  of  philanthropic 
and   benevolent   projects. 


CLARK  HUDSON. 


Clark  Hudson,  who  is  engaged  in  law  practice  in  St.  Louis,  is  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Hudson  &  Hudson.  He  was  born  in  Carterville,  Illinois,  May  26,  18S9,  and  is  the 
son  of  Alinzor  and  Annie  May  (Shook)  Hudson.  The  father,  now  deceased,  was  born 
In  St.  Louis,  and  was  a  photographer  by  profession.  To  him  and  his  wife  were  born 
two  sons  and  two  daughters:  Louis,  who  is  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Hudson  & 
Hudson,  and  who  married  Grace  Herr;  Linda  Ross,  who  is  the  wife  of  Fred  H.  Abbott, 
foreman  of  the  Electric  Company  of  Missouri;  Clark,  of  this  review;  and  Hattie,  the 
wife  of  Victor  Hugonoit,  who  is  sales  manager  of  the  Brown  Instrument  Company  of 
St.   Louis. 

Clark  Hudson  spent  his  youthful  days  under  the  parental  roof,  giving  his  time 
largely  to  the  acquirement  of  an  education  as  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  of  Sorento, 
Illinois,  and  in  the  high  school  of  St.  Louis,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1907.  He 
afterward  entered  the  Metropolitan  College  of  Law,  now  known  as  the  City  College  of 
Law  and  Finance,  and  was  graduated  therefrom  in  June,  1911.  On  the  2d  of  July,  1912, 
he  was  admitted  to  practice  at  the  state  bar,  and  was  admitted  to  the  federal  courts  on 
the  21st  of  July,  1914.  Since  1912  he  has  been  continuously  and  successfully  engaged 
in  practice  and  is  now  associated  with  his  brother  in  the  firm  of  Hudson  &  Hudson, 


108  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OE  MISSOURI 

in  the  general  practice  of  law  but  with  a  large  corporation  practice.  He  has  studied 
thoroughly  along  that  line  and  his  ability  is  recognized  by  his  clientele  and  by  his  pro- 
fessional colleagues  and  contemporaries. 

Mr.  Hudson  has  always  taken  an  active  interest  in  military  affairs  and  served  in 
Company  E  of  the  First  Missouri  National  Guard  from  1906  to  1909,  retiring  with  rank 
of  sergeant.  He  enlisted  again  in  Company  D,  First  Missouri  National  Guard,  as  a 
private  in  1913-1914.  When  this  country  entered  the  World  war  Mr.  Hudson  attended 
the  second  officers'  training  camp,  but  was  discharged  on  account  of  physical  disability, 
his  arches  not  being  able  to  stand  the  strain.  Undaunted  by  his  discharge  and  deter- 
mined to  enter  the  war,  he  took  treatment  and  was  accepted  for  duty  in  France  in 
Company  A  of  the  Three  Hundred  and  Twenty-Eighth  Battalion,  Light  Tanks,  and  later 
was  transferred  to  Company  A,  Three  Hundred  Forty-Fifth  Battalion,  Light  Tanks. 
He  served  in  the  Argonne  sector  from  October  21  to  January  20,  1919,  and  remained  in 
France  until  March  12,  1919.  Then  he  sailed  for  the  United  States  and  was  discharged 
from  Jefferson  Barracks  April  19,  1919.  Following  his  return  he  served  six  months  as 
adjutant  of  Quentin  Roosevelt  Post  No.  One  of  the  American  Legion  and  is  an  active 
and  interested  member  of  the  order,  serving  as  manager  of  the  post's  ball  team  which 
won  the  championship  of  the  American  Legion  League  in  1920. 

In  St.  Louis,  on  the  22d  day  of  April.  1912,  Mr.  Hudson  was  married  to  Miss  Mollie 
Elizabeth  Allen,  a  daughter  of  James  W.  Allen,  of  Chaffee,  Missouri.  They  have  become 
the  parents  of  two  children,  Ouida  and  Elizabeth.  The  religious  faith  of  Mr.  Hudson 
and  his  wife  is  indicated  by  their  membership  in  the  First  Congregational  church.  He 
is  a  young  man  who  is  alert,  energetic,  actuated  by  a  most  determined  spirit  in  anything 
that  "he  undertakes,  and  in  all  things  measures  up  to  the  highest  standards  of  manhood 
and  citizenship. 


ROBERT  BRUCE  SNOW. 


Robert  Bruce  Snow,  who  has  been  well  known  for  a  long  period  in  connection  with 
the  real  estate  activity  and  financial  interests  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  this  city 
February  18,  1864,  his  parents  being  Robert  B.  and  Catherine  M.  (Cummings)  Snow, 
the  fortner  a  native  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  while  the  mother  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania.  The  father  became  a  wholesale  and  retail  drug  merchant  of 
St.  Louis  and  figured  prominently  in  the  commercial  circles  of  the  city.  His  father, 
however,  was  a  lawyer  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  and  was  a  direct  descendant  of 
Jonathan  Snow  of  Massachusetts,  who  landed  at  Plymouth  Colony  in  1630,  thus  repre-' 
senting  one  of  the  oldest  colonial  families.  In  the  maternal  line  the  ancestry  can  be 
traced  back  to  Virginia.  The  mother  of  Mrs.  Catherine  M.  Snow  died  when  the  daughter 
was  quite  young  and  she  was  reared  by  an  aunt.  It  was  on  the  15th  of  October,  1850, 
in  St.  Louis,  that  she  became  the  wife  of  Robert  B.  Snow  and  for  many  years  they 
occupied  an  enviable  social  position  in  St.  Louis,  in  harmony  with  the  high  place 
which  Mr.  Snow  filled  as  a  merchant  of  this  city  up  to  the  time  of  his  death  in  1865. 

Robert  B.  Snow  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  Smith's  Academy  of  St. 
Louis  and  after  completing  his  studies  traveled  for  two  years  in  the  old  country.  An 
eminent  writer  has  said:  "A  year's  travel  in  Europe  is  equivalent  to  a  four  years  college 
course."  During  his  tour  abroad,  Jlr.  Snow  visited  many  points  of  modern  and  historic 
interest,  gaining  that  broad  and  liberal  culture  which  can  be  acquired  in  no  other  way 
as  thoroughly  as  in  travel.  Upon  his  return  to  St.  Louis  he  made  his  initial  step  in 
business  circles  by  becoming  identified  with  the  wholesale  woodenware  and  willow- 
ware  trade.  At  a  later  period  he  became  connected  with  the  Belcher  Sugar  Refinery 
and  afterwards  went  to  Texas  for  his  health,  remaining  for  about  a  year  in  San  Antonio 
and  Ft.  Worth.  On  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  again  came  to  St.  Louis  and  entered 
the  wholesale  paper  business  in  which  he  engaged  for  about  two  years  or  until  1888. 
He  next  took  up  the  stock  brokerage  business  and  became  one  of  the  fifty  organizers 
of  the  old  St.  Louis  Mining  Stock  Exchange.  In  1896  he  was  associated  with  M.  R. 
Collins,  Jr.,  &  Company  in  the  real  estate  business  and  was  thus  engaged  for  three  years 
or  until  Mr.  Collins'  retirement  from  business  in  1899.  Since  that  time  Mr.  Snow  has 
operated  in  real  estate  and  financial  circles  in  connection  with  the  settlement  of  estates 
as  executor  and  manager,  and  he  is  also  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Chew  Realty 
Company.    He  spent  the  years  1900  and  1901  in  California  for  the  benefit  of  his  health. 


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but  while  absent  from  St.  Louis  at  different  periods  he  has  always  regarded  this  city 
as  his  home  and  is  well  known  in  its  financial  and  business  circles  and  also  through 
a  prominent  social  connection. 

In  1903,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Snow  was  married  to  Miss  Eliza  Pulliam  Wherry,  daughter 
of  Joseph  A.  and  Sallie  (Pulliam)  Wherry.  Her  father  was  recorder  of  the  city  of  St. 
Louis  and  manager  and  owner  of  the  Municipal  Record  Company  of  the  city.  Mr.  Snow 
is  a  Master  Mason,  belonging  to  Ferguson  Lodge  No.  542,  and  in  this  he  follows  in  the 
footsteps  of  his  father.  He  is  fond  of  hunting  and  fishing  and  enjoys  all  manly  sports. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  a  member  of  Company  K  of  the  First  Regiment, 
Missouri  Home  Guards,  during  its  existence.  He  makes  his  home  at  Ferguson  in  St. 
Louis  county  and  the  life  of  the  household  is  the  son,  Robert  Bruce  Snow,  HI,  fourteen 
years  of  age,  who  is  very  active  in  Boy  Scout  work  and  much  interested  in  military 
matters — an  interest  that  has  been  stimulated  by  the  fact  that  his  uncle  was  the  late 
Brigadier  General  Wm.  M.  Wherry  of  the  United  States  army.  The  lad  is  anxious  to  go 
to  West  Point  and  is  a  most  loyal  follower  of  the  Boy  Scout  movement.  He  is  the  third 
generation  of  the  family  in  St.  Louis,  his  paternal  grandparents  having  come  to  this 
city  in  the  first  half  of  the  nineteenth  century,  since  which  time  the  name  of  Snow  has 
been  closely  associated  with  the  business  and  financial  development  of  the  metropolis. 


CLARENCE  C.  NORTHCOTT. 

Clarence  C.  Northcott  is  the  president  of  the  Hicks-Northcott  Title  and  Investment 
Company  at  Macon  and  is  a  well  known  figure  in  financial  circles  of  his  section  of  the 
state.  He  was  born  at  Linneus,  Missouri,  in  1871,  and  is  a  son  of  Benjamin  J.  and  Eliza 
C.  (Ball)  Northcott.  The  father,  a  native  of  Illinois,  was  a  son  of  B.  F.  Northcott,  a 
native  of  Kentucky.  Benjamin  J.  Northcott  was  an  attorney,  who  practiced  law  at 
Linneus  until  he  removed  to  Washington,  D.  C,  where  he  filled  a  position  in  the  pension 
department,  being  still  a  resident  of  the  capital  city.     His  wife  was  born  in  Missouri. 

Clarence  C.  Northcott  of  this  review  pursued  his  education  in  the  schools  of  Linneus 
and  afterward  learned  telegi'aphy,  which  he  followed  for  several  years,  being  connected 
with  all  branches  of  telegraphic  service  for  a  period  of  nineteen  years,  or  until  the  1st 
of  January,  1907,  when  he  purchased  the  interest  of  his  brother  in  a  farm  loan,  abstract 
and  real  estate  business,  in  which  he  has  since  been  engaged.  This  is  operating  under 
the  name  of  the  Hicks-Northcott  Title  and  Investment  Company  and  in  1916  Clarence 
Northcott  was  elected  to  the  presidency  of  the  corporation,  which  now  has  a  large 
clientage  and  is  conducting  a  constantly  growing  and  profitable  business.  His  associate 
oflacers  are  C.  C.  Wood,  vice  president,  and  C.  V.  Goodson,  secretary.  The  company 
negotiates  loans  on  farm  lands,  makes  abstracts  and  writes  farm  and  city  insurance 
and  their  clientage  is  extensive  and  gratifying. 

In  1897  Mr.  Northcott  was  married  to  Miss  Hattie  Wilkinson,  a  daughter  of  Thomas 
P.  and  Mary  F.  Wilkinson.  They  are  both  representatives  of  old  Missouri  families  and 
socially  occupy  a  very  prominent  and  enviable  position  in  Macon. 


GEORGE  W.  CLARKSON. 


George  W.  Clarkson,  who  since  1908  has  been  identified  with  banking  interests  of 
St.  Louis,  is  now  president  of  the  Grand  Avenue  Bank,  having  occupied  the  position 
for  ten  years.  Missouri  numbers  him  among  her  native  sons,  his  birth  having  occurred 
at  Annapolis,  Iron  county,  July  6,  1875.  His  parents  were  Joseph  G.  and  Mary  E. 
(Covington)  Clarkson.  His  ancestors  were  from  Virginia,  and  the  father  was  for  four 
years  a  member  of  the  Confederate  army,  serving  with  Stuart's,  cavalry.  He  and  his 
brother,  James  L.  Clarkson,  became  pioneer  lumbermen  of  Missouri,  hauling  a  complete 
sawmill  outfit  across  the  country  from  Potosi,  Missouri,  to  a  point  where  they  built  a 
mill  and  laid  out  and  established  the  town  of  Annapolis.  There  they  successfully 
operated,  furnishing  all  the  bridge  timber  and  the  cross  ties  to  the  St.  Louis  &  Iron 
Mountain  Railway  at  the  time  of  the  construction  of  the  road.  Their  business  steadily 
increased,  becoming  one  of  the  most  important  industrial  enterprises  of  the  state. 

George  W.  Clarkson,  in  the  pursuit  of  his  education,  attended  the  public  schools  and 


no  CEXTEXXIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

spent  three  years  at  the  Missouri  Military  Academy  at  Mexico.  Missouri,  and  afterward 
studied  in  the  manual  training  school  at  St.  Louis.  On  attaining  his  majority  he  starten 
out  in  the  business  world  in  connection  with  flour  milling,  and  was  active  along  that 
line  for  eight  years,  until  1904,  when  he  left  Missouri  and  went  to  Buffalo,  Xew  York, 
where  he  became  manufacturer's  agent,  specializing  in  the  handling  of  flour  milling 
machinery.  There  he  remained  for  four  years  and  was  very  successful.  In  1908  he 
came  to  St.  Louis  to  engage  in  the  banking  business  and  has  since  been  a  representative 
of  the  financial  interests  of  the  city.  He  his  continuously  been  associated  with  the 
Grani  Avenue  bank  and  has  advanced  through  intermediate  positions  to  the  presidency, 
so  that  he  is  now  active  in  the  control  of  the  institution  and  the  task  of  shaping  its 
policy. 

On  the  14th  of  April,  1897,  Mr.  Clarkson  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Letty  Smith 
at  Potosi.  Missouri,  the  second  oldest  town  in  the  state.  Her  parents  were  James  L. 
and  Ida  Smith  and  their  ancestors  were  from  Kentucky.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clarkson 
have  been  born  two  children,  Hallie  Browne  and  George  W..  aged  respectively  nineteen 
and  seventeen  years. 

Politically  Mr.  Clarkson  is  a  democrat  and  is  muck  interested  in  anything  that  has 
to  do  with  the  upbuilding  and  progress  of  the  city.  He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  and 
Bankers  Clubs,  also  to  the  Associate  Bankers'  Club  of  St.  Louis,  and  Missouri  Society  of 
the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  His  religious  connection  is  with  St.  John's 
Methodist  Episcopal  church.  South.  From  early  pioneer  times  the  Clarkson  family 
have  been  represented- in  this  state,  and  George  W.  Clarkson  has  followed  in  the  foot- 
steps of  his  father  in  his  contribution  to  the  development  and  building  of  the  common- 
wealth. 


HENRY  S.  PRIEST. 


It  has  been  said  that  to  understand  the  nature  of  a  man  one  must  know  some- 
thing of  his  ancestry  back  through  several  generations  and  something  of  his  environ- 
ment, for  those  are  forces  which  help  to  shape  character,  the  third  influence  being 
that  of  the  selective  will.  Henry  S.  Priest  has  lived  through  a  most  momentous 
period  in  American  history  and  the  shaping  of  public  thought  and  opinion  as  the 
years  have  passed  has  had  marked  influence  over  his  career.  Events  which  have  left 
their  impress  upon  the  annals  of  the  nation  have  developed  in  him  the  strongest 
and  best.  His  father,  Thomas  Jefferson  Priest,  was  born  in  Loudoun  county,  Vir- 
ginia, in  1819,  a  member  of  a  family  whose  attachment  to  Thomas  Jefferson  accounts 
for  his  Christian  name;  and  events  which  made  themselves  manifest  in  the  records 
of  the  country,  awakening  the  attention  of  such  men  as  Thomas  Jefferson,  had  to 
do  with  molding  the  character  of  the  father.  In  those  days  education  in  Virginia 
demanded  a  real  knowledge  of  Latin  and  mathematics  and  Thomas  Jefferson  Priest 
was  taught  by  Dodd  of  textbook  fame  and  later  arrived  in  Missouri  as  a  teacher 
of  mathematics  and  Latin  in  St.  Charles  College  at  St.  Charles,  this  state.  How- 
ever, he  became  a  resident  of  Ralls  county.  Missouri,  at  that  period  when  settlers 
from  Virginia,  Kentucky  and  Tennessee  were  becoming  pioneers  of  Missouri,  bring- 
ing with  them  a  trend  of  thought  that  left  its  impress  upon  the  history  of  the  com- 
monwealth under  the  administration  of  Franklin  Pierce  and  still  more  notably  under 
that  of  James  Buchanan.  This  included  a  devotion  to  the  south,  as  demonstrated  on 
such  issues  as  tree  soil  and  squatter  sovereignty  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska,  at  a  time 
when  those  most  devoted  to  the  south,  including  Thomas  Jefferson  Priest,  supported 
Green  against  Colonel  Thomas  H.  Benton.  It  was  following  the  removal  of  Thomas 
Jefferson  Priest  with  his  family  to  Ralls  county  that  Henry  Samuel  Priest  was  there 
born  February  7,  1853.  His  birth  occurred  not  quite  a  month  before  the  Inaugura- 
tion of  Franklin  Pierce,  when  vital  questions  were  coming  to  the  front  having  to 
do  with  the  shaping  of  the  nation's  destiny.  According  to  the  family  recognition  of 
the  value  of  knowledge,  he  was  given  liberal  educational  advantages  and  was  gradu- 
ated from  'Westminster  College  at  Fulton,  Missouri,  in  the  class  of  1872  with  the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  followed  in  due  course  of  time  by  that  of  LL.  D.  His 
mother.  Amelia  E.  (Brown)  Priest,  represented  connections  with  Virginia  through 
Kentucky  and  Tennessee,  including  the  family  of  Samuel  Houston,  founder  of  the 
republic  of  Texas.     Following  the  completion  of  his  more  specifically  literary  course 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  113 

he  became  a  law  student  in  the  office  of  Major  Mark  E.  Houston  at  Taylorsville, 
Kentucky,  and  later  continued  his  studies  under  the  direction  of  Judge  James  E. 
Carr  of  Hannibal,  Missouri,  then  general  attorney  for  the  Hannibal  &  St.  Joseph 
Railroad,  one  of  the  pioneer  lines  of  Missouri  and  the  west,  there  remaining  until 
admitted  to  the  bar  by  Judge  John  T.  Reed  at  Hannibal  in  1873.  At  Moberly  he 
entered  upon  a  career  of  success  as  a  representative  of  the  legal  profession  which 
identifies  him  closely  with  the  history  of  Missouri.  With  the  exception  of  his 
brief  absence  in  Kentucky  during  his  early  law  student  days,  his  entire  life  has  been 
passed  in  Missouri  and  through  the  period  when  not  only  the  destiny  of  the  state 
was  being  shaped  but  when  Missouri  enterprise  was  making  itself  felt  upon  the 
history  of  the  nation.  His  activities,  too,  brought  him  into  close  association  with 
many  men  then  and  later  known  as  eminent  citizens.  His  first  fee  at  the  bar, 
amounting  to  about  ten  dollars,  was  loaned  to  a  young  friend  who  has  occasionally 
been  his  opponent  in  the  practice  of  law  but  always  a  friend.  This  was  Champ  Clark, 
then  of  Pike  county  and  long  an  outstanding  figure  in  national  history. 

It  was  in  1873,  at  the  age  of  fifty-four  years,  that  Thomas  Jeiferson  Priest 
passed  away  and  very  soon  afterward  Henry  S.  Priest  was  admitted  to  practice 
and  was  soon  recognized  as  a  "rising  man,"  for  Moberly  made  him  city  attorney  and 
after  eight  years'  connection  with  the  bar  there  he  was  appointed  assistant  attor- 
ney for  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad,  appearing  in  important  cases  in  this  capacity 
from  October,  1881.  until  the  1st  of  December,  1883,  when  he  was  appointed  attorney 
for  the  Wabash,  St.  Louis  &  Pacific  Railroad,  now  the  Wabash  system.  As  he  passed 
from  the  twenties  into  the  succeeding  decade  of  his  life  he  became  well  known 
throughout  the  state  and.  more  than  that,  the  state  became  equally  well  known  to 
him  in  all  of  those  things  which  have  marked  its  material,  political,  intellectual 
and  moral  progress.  It  has  been  said  that  the  thing  which  differentiates  the  Mis- 
sourian  from  people  of  other  states  is  character — character  that  has  been  developed 
through  the  trying  experiences  through  which  the  commonwealth  has  passed,  and 
furthermore  it  is  said  that  freedom  from  all  assumption  of  superiority  is  one  of  the 
strongly  marked  traits  of  the  Missourian.  When  on  the  1st  of  December,  1890, 
Mr.  Priest  was  appointed  general  attorney  for  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad,  its  inter- 
ests and  those  of  the  development  of  the  state  through  its  railroad  expansion  cer- 
tainly demanded  his  natural  Missouri  qualities  as  much  as  they  did  his  great  and 
increasing  knowledge  of  corporation  law  and  other  branches  of  law  in  legal  combats 
which   were   often   heated   and   always   strongly   contested. 

In  1894,  under  the  second  Cleveland  administration,  Mr.  Priest  was  appointed 
judge  of  the  United  States  district  court  as  the  successor  of  Judge  Thayer.  After 
a  year's  service  on  the  bench  he  resigned  and  resumed  the  practice  of  law  as  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Boyle,  Priest  &  Lehman  and  of  Boyle  &  Priest  after  the  re- 
tirement of  Mr.  Lehman.  In  this  connection  he  tried  many  cases  of  record  importance 
whose  influence  was  felt  beyond  the  city  and  state.  His  effectiveness  as  a  speaker 
is  manifest  in  his  many  condensed  and  epigrammatic  phrases,  which  have  been  in 
circulation  long  after  their  origin  has  been  forgotten.  However  great  the  opposition 
which  he  met  in  the  trial  of  cases  and  no  matter  what  the  "deliberate  unpopularity" 
of  his  clients,  the  personal  qualities  of  Judge  Priest  won  the  friendship  of  his  oppo- 
nents and  in  this  he  displayed  a  quality  too  rare  at  the  bar  and  in  public  life — that  of 
being  able  to  consider  as  friends  those  who  had  tried  hardest  to  defeat  his  purposes. 
All  this  made  for  a  personal  popularity  that  won  for  Judge  Priest  unanimous  election 
as  president  of  the  Missouri  Bar  Association  in  1891. 

It  was  on  the  19th  of  August,  1912,  that  Judge  Priest  wedded  Mabel  C. 
Watrous,  of  St.  Louis,  who  became  his  second  wife.  He  had  been  married  November  9, 
1876,  to  Henrietta  King  Parsell,  who  passed  away  in  1910  and  who  was  a  daughter 
of  George  B.  and  Elizabeth  (Wright)  Parsell,  of  Webster  Groves,  Missouri,  but 
formerly  of  Portland,  Maine.  Her  father  had  been  identified  with  railroad  develop- 
ment as  one  of  the  pioneers,  while  the  family  in  New  England  dates  back  to  the  first 
Pilgrim  settlement.  The  children  of  this  marriage  were  George  T.,  Grace  E.,  Jean- 
nette  B.  and  Wells  Blodgett  Priest. 

In  a  summary  of  the  history  of  Henry  S.  Priest  and  the  characterization  of  the 
man,  one  must  again  revert  to  those  momentous  periods  which  were  shaping  the 
destiny  of  Missouri.  It  was  in  the  fifth  decade  of  the  nineteenth  century  that  Thomas 
H.  Benton  became  the  foremost  promoter  of  railroad  building  in  Missouri.  In 
Lucien  Carr's  "Missouri,  a  Bone  of  Contention,"  appearing  in  the  American  Com- 
monwealth series,  he  said:     "In  the  fourteen  years  that  elapsed  between   1836   and 

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114  CEXTENNIAT.  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

1850.  there  was  a  notable  growth  in  the  wealth  and  population  of  the  state,  and 
with  it  came  a  change  in  the  opinions  of  those  who  had  succeeded  in  the  manage- 
ment of  her  finances.  To  a  certain  extent,  the  departure  which  now  took  place  from 
the  conservative  which  had  hitherto  prevailed,  can  be  justified.  The  state  was  vir- 
tually out  of  debt;  her  revenue  had  largely  increased,  and  granting  that  it  is  ever 
right  for  a  state  to  engage  in  works  of  internal  improvements,  or  'developing  her 
resources,'  as  works  of  this  kind  were  called,  it  is  safe  to  say  that  the  time  had 
now  come  when  the  people  of  Missouri  could  afford  to  indulge  in  such  an  under- 
taking. The  trouble,  however,  when  a  state  embarks  in  a  business  of  this  kind,  is  to 
find  a  stopping  place.  The  doors  of  the  public  treasury  having  been  once  thrown 
open,  local  interests  step  in.  and  as  each  section  of  the  state  has  an  undoubted  claim 
to  recognition,  it  often  ends  in  a  general  scramble  for  the  spoils.  Such  seems  to 
have  been  the  case  in  the  present  instance.  No  sooner  was  it  understood  that  the 
Missouri  Pacific  road  was  to  receive  a  subvention  from  the  public  purse  than  there 
arose  the  demand  for  other  trunk  roads,  to  each  of  which  the  state  was  expected 
to  lend  assistance.  In  quick  succession,  the  Southwest  Branch,  as  the  St.  Louis  & 
San  Francisco  was  then  called,  the  Iron  Mountain  and  the  North  Missouri  roads 
were  chartered,  and  in  the  short  space  of  eight  years,  including  the  sums  voted  to  the 
Hannibal  &  St.  Joseph,  these  different  roads  received  from  the  state  in  the  shape 
of  guaranteed  bonds,  loans  amounting  in  the  aggregate  to  about  twenty-four  million 
dollars.  Upon  this  sum,  the  roads  were  expected  to  pay  the  interest;  but  inasmuch 
as  with  but  one  exception  they  failed  to  do  so,  the  state  became  bound  for  the  entire 
sum  upon  which  default  was  made,  amounting  to  some  twenty  million  dollars.  At 
the  time  this  was  a  heavy  load,  especially  when  supplemented,  as  it  was  soon  after- 
wards, by  the  large  stims  which  the  state  was  called  upon  to  pay  out  during  the  war 
of  the  rebellion.  However,  by  Judicious  management  and  a  willingness  on  the  part 
of  her  citizens  to  meet  these  additional  expenditures  by  a  corresponding  increase  in 
the  rate  of  taxation,  a  goodly  portion  of  this  debt  has  already  been  discharged,  and 
the  balance,  amounting  in  1887  to  fourteen  million  dollars,  has  been  so  placed  that  it 
can  be  met  without  causing  undue  hardship.  To  a  great  extent,  this  result  has 
been  brought  about  by  the  very  development  these  roads  were  intended  to  effect;  and 
to  grieve,  therefore,  over  the  amount  which  they  have  cost,  or  which  is  yet  due,  is  as 
idle  as  would  be  'the  lamentation  of  a  boy  over  the  loss  of  the  bait  with  which 
he  had  caught  the  fish.'  " 

It  was  about  the  time  of  the  beginning  of  railroad  development  in  Missouri  that 
Henry  S.  Priest  was  born.  It  was  in  the  same  decade  that  Thomas  H.  Benton 
made  his  memorable  speech  in  support  of  the  development  of  the  natural  resources  . 
of  the  state  through  railroad  construction,  epigrammatically  expressing  the  situation 
in'the  words:  "There  is  east;  there  is  India."  Great  as  were  the  plans,  the  ideals 
and  the  labors  of  Benton,  destiny  intervened.  Studying  the  history  of  events  and 
the  signs  of  the  times,  recognizing  that  the  question  of  slavery  was  becoming  a  para- 
mount one  before  the  republic,  Benton  endeavored  to  make  the  development  of  inter- 
nal resources  the  dominant  political  issue,  but  the  trend  of  events  was  too  strong  for 
him  in  this  regard.  However,  the  era  of  railroad  building  had  been  instituted,  politics 
had  been  brought  to  play  in  gaining  financial  support  for  the  roads  and  Missouri 
was  thus  taking  its  place  as  a  vital  force  in  the  development  of  the  United  States 
through  the  extension  of  the  railroad  lines  toward  the  Pacific.  Benton  had  appealed 
to  Missouri  to  take  the  lead  in  developing  the  hemisphere  and  his  appeal  met  with 
enthusiastic  response.  Among  his  active  supporters  were  Frank  P.  Blair  and  B. 
Gratz  Brown.  In  connection  with  the  railroad  building  there  sprung  up  an  era  of 
town  founding,  leading  in  later  years  to  the  promotion  of  the  state.  Among  these 
villages  founded  in  the  woods  along  the  lines  of  the  railroads  was  that  of  Webster 
Groves,  where  resided  Judge  Priest.  He  thus  became  interested  in  questions  having 
to  do  with  the  railroad  development  of  the  state.  He  was  a  young  man,  first  a  law 
student  and  later  a  young  practicing  attorney,  at  the  period  when  Missouri,  somewhat 
recovering  from  the  conditions  brought  about  by  the  Civil  war,  was  again  taking  up 
the  work  of  expansion;  and  again  the  questions  affecting  the  commonwealth  were 
of  vital  interest  to  a  man  of  his  character  and  tendencies.  With  his  developing 
powers  as  an  attorney  he  was  chosen  as  the  legal  representative  of  railroad  interests 
and  in  the  tw^enty  years  of  the  period  covering  the  '70s  and  the  '80s  he  came  more 
and  more  into  intimate  association  with  men  who.  as  makers  of  Missouri  history,  had 
realized  in  their  own  lives  the  meaning  of  the  term  "maximum  cost"  in  relation  to  the 


CEXTExYNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  115 

development  of  the  commonwealth  and  the  country.  They  were  men  who  faced  the 
momentous  problems  that  involved  Missouri — men  with  whom  it  was  a  liberal  educa- 
tion to  be  associated,  men  who  in  the  bitterness  of  heated  political  controversy  involv- 
ing the  important  questions  of  the  times  had  come  to  realize  silently  the  nature  of 
their  own  failings  as  well  as  their  own  strength  and  were  thereby  developing  char- 
acters that  left  their  impress  upon  the  annals  of  the  commonwealth.  They  were 
men  who,  while  at  times  they  might  seem  to  display  qualities  least  admirable,  had 
in  them  the  reserve  forces  which  develop  at  crises  and  who  learned  in  time  to  recog- 
nize the  substantial  qualities  even  in  those  who  were  their  strong  opponents.  They 
were  the  men  who  undertook  the  remaking  of  the  commonwealth  interrupted  by  the 
war — men  who  shaped  the  destinies  of  the  state  during  the  period  following  hostili- 
ties, the  men  who  connected  the  generation  of  Benton  and  Blair  with  the  present, 
bridging  over  that  period  of  change  in  political  opinion  that  at  length  brought  Missouri 
again  into  democratic  control.  Under  Phelps,  Crittenden  and  Marmaduke  were  shaped 
the  law  and  the  politics  that  preceded  every  .additional  thousand  miles  of  track 
laying  in  Missouri  and  westward  beyond  the  state.  As  a  young  lawyer  Judge  Henry 
S.  Priest  was  closely  studying  all  these  problems  and  building  the  foundation  for  his 
great  activity  in  railrogd  circles.  With  the  accession  of  Governor  Marmaduke,  a  Con- 
federate general,  as  the  successor  of  Crittenden,  a  Union  general,  the  democratic 
party,  thus  reorganized,  was  held  responsible  for  the  work  of  development  inside 
Missouri  and  for  the  state's  part  in  the  western  development — a  responsibility  that 
was  increased  with  the  election  of  Grover  Cleveland  to  the  presidency.  The  railroad 
policy  of  Benton,  inaugurated  many  years  before,  was  now  put  into  practice,  resulting 
in  railroad  construction,  with  new  towns  founded  along  their  lines  and  homeseekers 
located  in  increasing  thousands  every  year.  It  has  always  been  a  question,  "when 
legislation  becomes  the  supporter  of  projects  of  this  nature,  where  can  the  matter 
stop?"  As  the  American  railroads  were  developing.  Judge  Priest  became  intimately 
concerned  with  every  step  in  Missouri  having  to  do  with  this  work.  As  a  corporation 
lawyer  his  wisdom  was  brought  to  bear  on  the  multiplicity  of  problems  and  he  has 
always  stood  with  those  men  who  have  caught  a  vision  of  the  future,  who  have 
recognized  the  scope  of  possibility  as  bearing  upon  the  development  of  the  common- 
wealth and  of  the  country  at  large.  Not  only  has  he  been  an  associate  of  those  men 
who  have  molded  the  history  of  Missouri  but  has  ofttimes  been  a  leader  among 
those  who  have  shaped  its  destiny  within  the  past  few  decades. 


HUGH  BRAMMER. 


Hugh  Brammer,  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Rotherham, 
England,  July  15,  1873.  His  father,  James  Brammer,  a  native  of  the  same  country,  came 
to  America  in  1889  and  has  been  continuously  employed  as  a  machinist  in  railway 
service.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Mary  L^mb  and  was  also  a  repre- 
sentative of  an  English  family,  has  passed  away.  They  became  the  parents  of  two  sons, 
the  younger  being  James. 

Hugh  Brammer  obtained  a  grammar  school  education  in  his  native  country  and 
after  the  removal  of  the  family  to  the  new  world  continued  his  preparatory  and  academic 
studies  in  St.  Louis.  From  1904  until  1906  he  was  a  law  student  in  the  Metropolitan 
School  of  Law  and  at  various  periods  studied  in  the  City  College  of  Law  and  Finance 
and  received  his  LL.  B.  degree  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1911.  He  passed  the  state 
bar  examination  in  1914  and  was  also  admitted  to  practice  in  the  federal  courts.  His 
law  education  was  secured  while  he  was  working  in  order  to  provide  for  his  living,  his 
studies  being  pursued  in  leisure  hours.  Since  being  admitted  to  the  bar  he  has  continued 
actively  and  successfully  in  the  general  practice  of  law,  making  steady  progress  as  a 
representative  of  the  legal  profession. 

On  the  27th  of  February,  1900,  Mr.  Brammer  was  married  to  Miss  Julia  Hoffman 
and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  two  children,  Hubert  and  Frederick.  The  former 
enlisted  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years  in  the  United  States  Marines  and  served  for  two 
years  in  Cuba  and  Hayti.  Mr.  Brammer  volunteered  for  home  service  in  connection 
with  the  World  war,  solicited  funds  for  the  Red  Cross  and  assisted  in  the  Liberty  Loan 
activities.  He  also  served  on  the  advisory  board  of  the  twenty-seventh  ward  gratuitously 
throughout  the  entire  period  of  America's  connection  with  the  allied  forces. 

Politically  Mr.  Br:  mmer  is  a  republican   and  fraternally  he   is  connected   with   the 


116  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Modern  Woodmen  of  America,  also  the  Protective  Home  Circle  and  the  Loyal  Order  of 
Moose.  He  has  many  warm  friends  in  these  organizations  and  has  made  for  himself 
a  creditable  position  in  his  chosen  profession.  In  fact  he  deserves  much  credit  for  what 
he  has  accomplished,  for  his  education  has  been  acquired  entirely  through  his  own 
efforts,  and  he  has  truly  won  the  proud  American  title  of  a  self-made  man. 


EDWARDS  WHITAKER. 


Various  corporate  interests  have  felt  the  stimulus  of  the  enterprise  and  initiative 
of  Edwards  Whitaker  and  have  been  brought  into  form  as  splendidly  organized  con- 
cerns under  his  guidance.  He  has  indeed  played  a  prominent  part  on  the  stage  of 
business  activity  in  St.  Louis,  where  he  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  financiers. 
The  city  is  proud  to  number  him  among  her  native  sons.  He  was  here  born  April  29, 
1848,  his  parents  being  William  A,  and  Letitia  (Edwards)  Whitalier.  He  was  but 
five  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death  but  was  carefully  reared  by  his 
mother,  a  lady  of  high  character  and  excellent  intellectual  attainment.  He  was  a 
public  school  pupil  to  the  age  of  sixteen  years  and  when  he  left  the  high  school  he 
accepted  a  position  under  Colonel  L.  S.  Metcalf  in  the  quartermaster's  department  of 
the  United  States  army.  During  the  closing  year  of  the  Civil  war  he  served  as  shipping 
clerk  in  that  department  and  thus  gained  his  first  knowledge  of  practical  business.  It 
was  an  excellent  training  school,  tor  the  discipline  maintained  in  all  departments  of 
the  army  constituted  the  basis  of  his  well  known  habit  of  doing  everything  with  military 
precision.  A  modern  writer  has  said:  "Success  does  not  depend  upon  a  map  but  upon 
a  time-table."  This  fact  Mr.  Whitaker  early  recognized  and  throughout  his  life  every- 
thing that  he  has  had  to  do  has  been  done  promptly  and  with  accuracy. 

After  leaving  the  quartermaster's  department  Mr.  Whitaker  obtained  a  clerkship 
in  the  sub-treasury  under  General  A.  G,  Edwards  and  later  became  associated  with 
General  Edwards  in  the  brokerage  and  banking  house  of  Edwards  &  Matthews.  When 
General  Edwards  withdrew  as  the  senior  partner  of  the  firm,  Mr.  Whitaker  joined 
Mr.  Matthews  under  the  style  of  Matthews  &  Whitaker.  a  relation  that  was  continued 
for  fourteen  years.  The  firm  of  Wbitaker  &  Hodgman  was  then  formed,  fpUowing 
the  withdrawal  of  Mr,  Matthews,  and  eventually  the  firm  style  of  Whitaker  &  Company 
was  adopted  and  has  been  so  continued. 

From  each  experience  in  lite  Mr.  Whitaker  has  learned  the  lessons  therein  con- 
tained and  the  knowledge  gained  through  banking  and  brokerage  business  enabled 
him  to  prove  a  prominent  factor  in  the  successful  direction  of  various  other  important 
business  and  financial  interests.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  the  president  of  the 
Lindell  Railway  Company  and  is  now  president  and  one  ot  the  directors  of  the  Boat- 
men's Bank,  the  oldest  financial  institution  of  the  city,  a  director  of  the  St.  Louis 
Union  Trust  Company  and  a  stockholder  in  various  other  business  concerns.  He  be- 
came the  first  president  of  the  United  Railway  Company,  after  having  taken  a  promi- 
nent part  in  the  consolidation  of  the  street  railway  systems  of  the  city.  He  conducted 
the  negotiations  which  secured  the  terminal  property  in  St.  Louis  for  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  Company,  and  many  other  financial  transactions  of 
large  import  to  the  city  have  benefited  by  his  cooperation,  his  keen  business  sagacity 
and  wise  discernment  in  separating  the  essential  features  of  a  situation  from  its 
incidental  or  accidental   circumstances. 

In  1874  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Whitaker  and  Miss  Sophia  A.  Taylor, 
a  daughter  of  Thomas  M.  Taylor,  of  St.  Louis.  Theirs  is  one  of  the  beautiful  and 
attractive  homes  of  the  city,  noted  for  its  warm-hearted  hospitality.  Mr.  Whitaker  is 
keenly  appreciative  of  the  social  amenities  of  life  and  holds  friendship  inviolable. 
He  belongs  to  a  number  of  the  leading  social  organizations  of  St.  Louis,  including 
the  Noonday,  St.  Louis,  Cuivre,  Commercial  and  Country  Clubs,  also  the  Union,  Man- 
hattan and  Mid-Day  Clubs  ot  New  York.  Nor  has  his  attention  been  concentrated 
alone  along  lines  that  have  had  to  do  with  his  business  progress  and  his  social 
activities.  He  has  ever  recognized  the  duties  and  obligations  as  well  as  the  privileges 
and  opportunities  of  citizenship  and  has  cooperated  in  many  movements  which  have 
been  valuable  factors  in  the  upbuilding  and  development  of  St.  Louis  and  the  main- 
tenance ot  its  high  civic  standards.  He  is  the  president  of  the  Missouri  Botanical 
Garden,  a  member  ot  the  Business  Men's  League  and  ot  the  Civic  League.  He  has 
ever  been  a  man  of  broad  vision  and  he  looks  at   all  public  questions   from   the  same 


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wide  standpoint  that  has  characterized  his  understaniding  of  commercial  and  financial 
questions.  To  him  opportunity  has  ever  be«n  the  call  to  action — a  call  to  which  he 
has  made  ready  response  not  only  in  his  business  career  but  in  his  citizenship  connec- 
tions as  well.  Forceful  and  resourceful,  he  never  stops  short  of  the  successful 
accomplisliment  of  his  purpose  and  his  course  of  action  has  ever  been  such  as  will 
bear  the  closest  investigation  and   scrutiny. 


CAPTAIX  JAMES  F.  DAVIDSON. 

Captain  James  F.  Davidson,  who  has  passed  the  eightieth  milestone  on  life's 
journey,  is  now  living  retired  at  Hannibal,  but  tor  many  years  was  an  active  and  well 
known  representative  of  the  Missouri  bar.  He  was  born  at  Eureka,  Woodford  county, 
Illinois,  in  1839,  and  is  a  son  of  Caleb  and  Martha  (Glazebrook)  Davidson,  who  were 
natives  of  Kentucky  and  removed  to  Illinois  the  year  before  the  Black  Hawk  war. 

Captain  Davidson  pursued  his  early  education  in  his  native  city  and  continued  his 
studies  in  Eureka  College  and  in  the  Michigan  State  University,  from  both  of  which 
institutions  he  was  graduated.  When  in  his  junior  year  at  the  University  of  Michigan 
he  entered  the  Union  army,  serving  for  three  years  in  defense  of  the  Federal  government. 
He  joined  the  "Boys  in  Blue"  as  a  first  lieutenant  and  was  promoted  to  a  captaincy  in 
1864.  When  the  country  no  longer  needed  his  military  aid  he  again  entered  college  and 
completed  his  law  course  about  1868.  He  then  went  to  Chicago,  where  he  entered 
upon  the  active  practice  of  his  profession,  remaining  in  that  city  for  about  twelve  years. 
His  law  office  and  law  library  were  destroyed  in  the  great  fire  of  1871.  He  rendered 
valuable  service  during  that  terrible  disaster.  On  account  of  his  health  he  went  west 
about  1880,  remaining  in  Colorado  for  some  time.  In  1881  he  took  up  his  abode  in 
Hannibal,  Missouri,  where  he  entered  the  stock  business  and  invested  heavily  in  real 
estate.  These  enterprises  occupied  all  of  his  time.  He  was  long  acknowledged  one  of 
the  leading  stock  breeders  of  Missouri.  The  Davidson  stock  farm  was  noted  for  its 
thoroughbred  stock. 

In  1881  Captain  Davidson  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  Ann  Helm,  daughter 
of  Judge  John  B.  and  Mary  A.  (Crump)  Helm.  Her  father  was  a  native  of  Kentucky 
and  in  1853  came  to  Missouri,  where  he  practiced  law  for  many  years.  Captain  and 
Mrs.  Davidson  have  two  children:     John  H.,  residing  in  North  Dakota,  and  Mary  A. 

Captain  Davidson  has  long  been  a  stalwart  supporter  of  democratic  principles  and 
on  five  different  occasions  has  been  chosen  by  popular  suffrage  to  represent  his  district 
in  the  state  legislature,  serving  altogether  for  ten  years  as  a  member  of  the  house  of 
representatives,  during  which  time  he  gave  most  thoughtful  and  earnest  consideration 
to  the  vital  questions  which  came  up  for  settlement  and  left  the  impress  of  his  individu- 
ality upon  the  legislative  history  of  the  state.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the 
Masons  and  the  Elks  and  the  guiding  spirit  of  his  lite  is  indicated  in  his  membership 
in  the  Christian  church. 


JOSEPH  LOUIS  HORNSBY. 


Joseph  Louis  Hornsby,  who  for  about  a  quarter  of  a  century  has  maintained  his 
law  office  in  the  Rialto  Building,  in  St.  Louis,  and  who  for  forty-two  years  has  engaged 
in  the  practice  of  law,  long  occupying  a  position  of  leadership,  was  born  September  30, 
1856,  in  St.  Louis,  his  parents  being  Nicholas  L.  and  Madeline   (DeLaureal)   Hornsby. 

In  the  acquirement  of  his  education,  he  was  graduated  from  the  St.  Louis  University 
with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  in  1874,  while  in  1878  the  Master  of  Arts  degree  was 
conferred  upon  him.  In  the  meantime  he  began  preparation  for  the  legal  profession  as 
a  student  in  the  St.  Louis  Law  school  and  won  his  LL.  B.  degree  in  1878.  He  had  also 
studied  in  the  office  and  under  the  direction  of  Hon.  Trusten  Polk,  of  St.  Louis.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1878  and  soon  afterward  became  a  member  of  the  law  firm  ot 
Causey  &  Hornsby.  At  a  later  period  an  exchange  in  the  personnel  of  the  firm  occurred, 
leading  to  the  adoption  of  the  style  of  Bakewell  &  Hornsby,  the  senior  member  being 
Hon.  Roliert  A.  Bakewell,  at  one  time  a  judge  of  the  St.  Louis  court  of  appeals.  Mr. 
Hornsby  afterward  became  a  senior  partner   in   the   firm  of  Hornsby  &   Harris,   which 


120  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

firm  continued  about  five  years,  and  since  1898  Mr.  Hornsby  has  practiced  alone. 
Throughout  the  intervening  years  he  has  enjoyed  a  large  clientage  that  has  connected 
him  with  important  litigation,  and  his  power  as  an  able  lawyer,  a  deep  thinker  and 
logical  reasoner  has  long  been  widely  acknowledged. 

In  June,  1906,  Mr.  Hornsby  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Louise  Shaw,  a  daughter 
of  Philip  and  Amelia  (Cox)  Shaw  and  representative  of  an  old  family  of  St.  Francois 
county,  Missouri.  Her  parents  died  many  years  ago.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hornsby  has 
been  born  a  daughter,  Marie  Louise. 

In  many  connections  outside  the  strict  path  of  his  profession,  Mr.  Hornsby  is  widely 
known.  He  is  a  director  and  vice  president  of  the  Tower  Grove  Bank,  and  has  figured 
prominently  in  connection  with  public  affairs.  His  political  allegiance  is  always  given 
to  the  democratic  party  and  in  1882  he  was  elected  to  represent  his  district  in  the  thirty- 
second  general  assembly  of  Missouri,  of  which  he  remained  a  member  for  the  two-year 
term.  He  was  also  president  of  the  city  council  of  St.  Louis  from  1901  until  1905,  and 
about  1909  Rolla  Wells,  then  mayor  of  the  city,  appointed  him  chairman  of  the  local 
public  service  commission  and  he  so  acted  through  the  existence  of  the  commission,  or 
until  1913,  when  it  was  abolished  and  the  Missouri  Public  Service  Commission  estab- 
lished. Mr.  Hornsby  was  also  a  member  of  the  state  executive  committee  of  the  sound 
money  democratic  party  in  Missouri  in  1896.  He  has  long  been  a  close,  discriminating 
student  of  the  vital  questions  and  issues  of  the  day  and  he  fearlessly  announces  his 
position  and  his  honest  opinion  upon  any  important  public  question.  Mr.  Hornsby  is  a 
member  of  the  Catholic  church,  and  was  at  one  time  president  of  St.  Vincent  de  Paul 
Society  of  St.  Louis.  He  has  membership  with  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  also 
belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  and  the  Missouri  Bar  Association  and  the  St.  Louis  Law  Library 
Association.  During  the  war  period  he  was  chairman  of  the  draft  board  in  Division 
No.  13.  He  finds  recreation  in  travel  and  fishing  to  which  he  turns  when  leisure  per- 
mits, but  the  greater  part  of  his  life  has  been  one  of  close  connection  with  the  practice 
of  law  and  of  active  and  helpful  interest  in  political  circles  and  upon  many  public 
questions.  He  does  not  hesitate  to  express  his  honest  opinion  so  that  men  have  come 
to  rely  upon  his  word  and  know  that  what  he  says  he  will  do. 


J.  R.  HALL,  M.  D. 


Dr.  J.  R.  Hall  is  numbered  among  the  representatives  of  the  medical  profession 
in  Kansas  City  and  has  won  a  most  creditable  position.  While  he  continues  in  gen- 
eral practice,  he  is  specializing  to  some  extent  on  surgery  and  the  diseases  of  women. 
He  was  born  in  Rochester,  New  York,  September  22,  1867,  his  parents  being  John 
and  Mary  Ann  (Gracey)  Hall,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Ireland.  On  leaving 
the  Emerald  isle  they  first  w.ent  to  Canada  and  afterward  to  Rochester,  New  York. 
The  father  died  when  his  son,  Dr.  Hall,  was  very  young,  so  that  the  latter  does  not 
remember  him. 

At  the  usual  age  Dr.  Hall  became  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  of  Rochester,  New 
York,  and  also  studied  under  private  instruction  until  he  came  to  Kansas  City. 
His  desire  to  become  a  member  of  the  medical  profession  led  him  to  enter  the  Kansas 
City  School  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  which  was  afterward  taken  over  by  the 
Kansas  University.  He  was  graduated  therefrom  in  1904,  with  the  M.  D.  degree, 
and  in  the  same  year  opened  an  office  in  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  since  remained! 
He  keeps  in  close  touch  with  modern  research  and  investigation  along  medical  and 
surgical  lines  and  is  ever  ready  to  adopt  new  ideas  and  methods  which  will  prove  of 
real  value  in  professional  work,  yet  does  not  hastily  discard  old  and  time-tried 
methods,  the  value  of  which  has  long  been  proven.  He  has  been  very  successful  in 
general  practice  and  In  recent  years  he  has  done  especially  good  work  in  the  line 
of  surgery  and  in  the  treatment  of  diseases  of  women.  He  is  most  conscientious 
and  careful  in  the  performance  of  all  of  his  professional  duties  and  holds  to  the  high- 
est ethical  standards.  As  he  was  beyond  war  age  for  overseas  service.  Dr.  Hall  did 
his  bit  at  home  during  America's  connection  with  the  conflict  with  Germany.  He 
does  most  of  the  surgical  work  at  the  Wesley  Hospital  and  he  has  a  large  and  dis- 
tinctively representative  patronage.  He  belongs  to  the  Jackson  County  Medical 
Society,  the  Missouri  State  Medical  Society  and  the  American  Medical  Association, 
and  through  these  avenues  and  also  along  other  lines  of  study  and  investigation  be 


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keeps  thoroughly  informed  concerning  the  latest  advancement   in  the  medical   pro- 
fession. 

In  Cobourg,  Canada,  in  1906,  Dr.  Hall  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Lillian 
Woodruff,  who  is  of  English  lineage.  They  have  one  daughter,  Helen,  now  thirteen 
years  of  age.  Dr.  Hall  belongs  to  the  Kiwanis  Club  and  to  the  Masonic  fraternity 
and  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  republican 
party  and  he  is  a  firm  believer  in  its  principles.  His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the 
Presbyterian  church.  Dr.  Hall  bears  the  reputation  of  being  a  big-hearted,  sympa- 
thetic man  of  kindly  spirit — one  who  sheds  around  him  much  of  life's  sunshine  and 
good  cheer. 


LAMBERT   E.   WALTHER. 


Lambert  E.  Walther,  member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar.  and  a  native  of  the  city,  was 
born  July  4,  1872,  his  parents  being  Lambert  and  Sophia  (Gundlach)  Walther.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  then  entered  the  law  depart- 
ment of  Washington  University,  where  he  won  his  LL.  B.  degree  in  June,  1894.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  after  practicing  alone  for  a  time  entered  into  partnership 
with  Julius  T.  Muench,  under  the  style  of  Walther  &  Muench.  This  firm  was  dissolved 
in  1909  when  Mr.  Walther  was  appointed  city  counselor.  He  resigned  that  office  in 
1913  and  again  entered  into  partnership  with  Mr.  Muench  and  his  father.  Judge  Hugo 
Muench,  and  the  firm  today  Is  Muench,  Walther  &  Muench,  with  offices  in  the  Title 
Guaranty  building.     Their  practice  is  large  and  of  an  important  character. 

On  the  6th  of  December,  1898,  Mr.  Walther  was  married  to  Miss  Constance  Lynn, 
and  their  children  are  three  in  number:  Gertrude  L.,  Constance  and  Hugo  M.  Frater- 
nally Mr.  Walther  is  a  Mason,  being  a  member  of  Mt.  Moriah  Lodge,  and  he  belongs  to 
various  organizations  that  indicate  the  nature  of  his  interest  and  activities  outside  of 
his  profession.  He  is  a  member  of  the  City  Club  and  the  Society  for  Ethical  Culture. 
Politically  he  is  a  republican  and  served  as  a  member  of  the  city  council  tor  an  unexpired 
term  in  1908  and  1909.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis,  Missouri  State  and  Amer- 
ican Bar  Associations. 


JOHN  L.  BOWYER. 


John  L.  Bowyer,  who  since  1911  has  been  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  at 
Linneus,  was  born  in  1866,  near  the  city  in  which  he  now  resides.  He  is  a  son  of 
Thomas  Benton  and  Mary  A.  (Alexander)  Bowyer,  the  father  being  the  first  white  male 
child  born  in  Linn  county.  He  was  a  son  of  William  and  Martha  (Tyer)  Bowyer,  the 
former  a  native  of  Tennessee  and  the  latter  of  North  Carolina.  The  grandparents 
came  to  Missouri  about  1828,  settling  in  Howard  county,  and  in  1831  removed  to  Linn 
county,  where  William  Bowyer  engaged  in  farming.  His  son,  Thomas  Benton  Bowyer, 
was  born  December  25.  1833,  and  spent  the  entire  period  of  his  minority  on  his  father's 
farm.  In  fact  he  followed  farming  throughout  his  entire  active  business  life  or  until 
1892,  when  he  removed  to  Linneus  and  there  remained  until  called  to  the  home  be- 
yond on  the  8th  of  January,  1920.  He  was  at  one  time  mayor  of  Linneus,  filling  the 
office  in  1898  and  1899,  and  he  was  also  a  member  of  the  township  board  and  justice 
of  the  peace  for  thirty  years.  His  political  allegiance  was  continuously  given  to  the 
democratic  party  from  the  time  he  attained  his  majority  and  he  was  long  a  member 
of  the  Baptist  church,  with  which  he  united  in  1875.  His  activity  in  connection  with 
public  office,  his  enterprise  as  a  farmer  and  his  devotion  to  the  high  principles  of  the 
church  made  him  one  of  the  most  valued  residents  of  his  section. 

John  L.  Bowyer  was  reared  upon  the  homestead  farm  and  acquired  his  early  edu- 
cation in  the  district  schools.  He  continued  to  give  his  attention  to  agricultural  pur- 
suits until  August  1.  1890,  when  he  secured  a  position  in  a  dry  goods  store  at  Linneus 
and  was  thus  active  until  1898.  He  then  removed  to  Brookfleld,  where  he  engaged 
in  the  furniture  and  undertaking  business  until  1903.  when  he  was  elected  county  re- 
corder, filling  the  office  for  two  terms  of  four  years  each,  or  until  1911.  He  retired 
from  the  position  as  he  had  entered  it— with  the  confidence  and  goodwill  of  all  con- 


124  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

cerned— and  on  putting  aside  official  duties  turned  his  attention  to  the  real  estate  and 
insurance  business,  in  which  he  is  still  engaged,  having  gained  a  good  clientage  in  this 
connection.  In  1914  he  was  appointed  to  fill  a  vacancy  on  the  county  bench  and  occu- 
pied that  position  for  the  unexpired  term  of  ten  months,  during  which  period  the  court 
was  moved  to  the  new  courthouse. 

In  June,  1903,  John  L.  Bowyer  was  married  to  Miss  Mattie  Owen,  daughter  of 
Greenberry  and  Susie  (Kilburn)  Owen,  who  were  natives  of  Kentucky  and  at  an  early 
day  came  to  Missouri,  settling  in  Grundy  county. 

In  politics  Mr.  Bowyer  has  always  been  a  democrat  and  has  recently  completed  the 
census  enumeration.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows  and  with  the  Modern  Woodmen  and  his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Baptist 
church.  His  entire  life  has  been  passed  in  Linn  county  and  his  history  is  as  an  open 
book  to  his  fellow  townsmen,  who  have  ever  found  him  loyal  in  citizenship,  progressive 
and  reliable  in  business  and  faithful  in  his  friendships. 


ROBERT  A.  ROESSEL 


While  an  active  representative  of  the  bar  for  only  five  years  Robert  A.  Roessel  has 
nevertheless  won  a  position  in  the  ranks  of  the  legal  profession  that  many  an  older 
lawyer  might  well  envy.  He  makes  his  home  in  St.  Louis,  where  he  was  born  Novem- 
ber 9,  1889,  a  son  of  Victor  L.  and  Hettie  (Optenring)  Roessel.  Both  of  his  grand- 
fathers were  soldiers  in  the  Civil  war  through  the  full  four  years  of  the  continuance 
of  hostilities  between  the  north  and  the  south. 

Robert  A.  Roessel  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis  passing  through 
consecutive  grades  to  the  high  school,  and  in  1909  entered  the  Washington  University 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1913  on  the  completion  of  the  law  course,  winning  the 
degi-ee  of  LL.  B.  He  was  admitted  to  the  state  bar  in  the  same  year  and  to  practice  in 
the  federal  courts  in  1915.  He  has  been  continuously  engaged  in  the  active  work  of  the 
profession  throughout  the  intervening  period. 

On  the  22nd  of  July,  1915,  Mr.  Roessel  was  married  to  Miss  Rita  Monteath  and 
they  have  one  daughter,  Rita  Jane,  three  years  of  age. 

Mr.  Roessel  belongs  to  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  fraternity  and  the  University  Club,  and  his 
religious  faith  is  evidenced  in  his  connection  with  the  Shaw  Avenue  Methodist  Church 
of  St.  Louis.  Politically  he  is  a  republican,  giving  stalwart  allegiance  to  the  party,  yet 
never  seeking  any  public  office.  He  prefers  to  concentrate  his  efforts  and  attention  upon 
his  professional  interests  and  is  at  all  times  loyal  to  the  highest  professional  standards. 
He  is  now  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  American  Bar  Associations. 


HARRY  THOMAS  ABERNATHY. 

Familiar  with  every  phase  of  the  banking  business,  holding  to  high  ideals  in  his 
business  career  and  actuated  by  a  spirit  of  progress  at  every  point,  Harry  Thomas 
Abernathy  is  now  the  vice  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Kansas  City,  to 
which  position  he  was  called  in  1908,  having  for  fourteen  years  been  connected  with 
the  institution.  He  was  born  in  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  May  23,  1865.  His  father, 
James  Logan  Abernathy,  removed  to  Leavenworth  in  1854  and  at  the  time  of  the  Civil 
war  joined  the  Union  army  as  captain  of  Company  A.  Eighth  Kansas  Infantry.  He 
was  afterward  made  a  lieutenant  colonel  and  commanded  his  regiment  in  several  engage- 
ments. Subsequently,  in  the  '70s,  he  organized  the  firm  of  Abernathy,  North  &  Orri- 
son  of  Kansas  City  and  thus  figured  prominently  in  its  commercial  circles.  He  also 
became  one  of  the  founders  of  the  First  National  Bank  in  1886  and  was  its  president  for 
several  years.  He  married  Elizabeth  Martin,  a  native  of  Ohio,  who,  however,  was  reared 
In  Keokuk,  Iowa,  their  marriage  being  celebrated  in  1858. 

Their  son,  Harry  Thomas  Abernathy,  completed  his  education  in  Hamilton  College 
at  Clinton,  New  York,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1887  with  the  Bachelor  of 
Arts  degree.  In  the  same  year  he  initiated  his  business  career  as  a  representative  of 
the  Abernathy  Furniture  Company  of  Kansas  City,  with  which  he  was  closely  associ- 
ated in  the  development  and  conduct  of  the  trade  until  1894.     In  that  year  he  turned 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  125 

his  attention  to  banking,  entering  the  First  National  Bank,  of  which  he  was  made 
assistant  cashier.  While  his  father  was  one  o£  the  founders  and  officials  of  this  insti- 
tution, parental  authority  was  not  exercised  to  win  him  advancement,  which  has  been 
gained  through  Individual  merit,  ability  and  thoroughness.  He  continued  to  serve  as 
assistant  cashier  for  six  years  and  in  1900  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  cashier,  so 
serving  until  1908,  when  he  was  elected  to  the  vice  presidency  and  remains  in  that 
office.  He  has  become  widely  recognized  as  one  of  the  strong  and  forceful  factors  in 
financial  circles  in  Kansas  City  and  in  1918  and  1919  served  as  president  of  the  Kansas 
City  Clearing  House  Association.  Aside  from  his  official  and  directorship  connection 
with  the  First  National  Bank  he  is  also  a  director  of  the  Kansas  City  Title  &  Trust 
Company  and  of  the  Liberty  Trust  Company.  He  still  remains  on  the  directorate  of  the 
Abernathy  Furniture  Company  and  is  a  director  of  the  Duff  &  Repp  Furniture  Company. 
On  the  1st  of  January.  1890,  Mr.  Abernathy  was  married  in  Leavenworth,  Kansas, 
to  Miss  Mary  L.  Stevenson,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Anna  Stevenson,  of  that  place. 
Mrs.  Abernathy  was  born  in  1868  and  passed  away  in  1919.  There  were  three  children 
of  that  marriage.  James  Logan  married  Zemula  Johnson,  a  daughter  of  W.  D.  Johnson. 
Taylor  Stevenson,  born  in  Kansas  City,  March  29,  1892,  attended  the  Westport  high 
school  and  also  Hamilton  College,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  Bachelor  of 
Science  degree  in  1914.  After  three  years'  connection  with  the  First  National  Bank 
he  went  to  the  Gate  City  National  Bank  in  1917  as  assistant  cashier  and  in  the  follow- 
ing year  was  promoted  to  the  cashiership.  He  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Club,  to  the 
City  Club  and  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  During  the  period  of  the  World  war  he 
was  connected  with  the  United  States  navy,  on  duty  on  the  Atlantic  coast,  and  is  now 
a  member  of  the  American  Legion.  He  belongs  to  the  Second  Presbyterian  church. 
In  1915  he  married  Patti  Harding,  daughter  of  John  T.  Harding.  The  youngest  mem- 
ber of  the  family  is  Mary  Stevenson,  who  is  at  home  with  her  father.  Their  religious 
faith  is  indicated  by  their  membership  in  the  Second  Presbyterian  church.  Mr.  Aber- 
nathy also  belongs  to  the  University,  Country,  Kansas  City  Athletic  and  Bankers  Clubs 
and  he  is  prominent  in  Masonic  circles,  serving  as  treasurer  of  the  Scottish  Rite  bodies 
in  1918,  1919  and  1920.  In  politics  he  is  a  republican,  inclined  toward  an  independent 
course.  He  served  as  a  member  of  the  capital  issues  committee  for  the  tenth  federal 
district  during  the  World  war  and  at  all  times  he  Is  actuated  by  an  intense  spirit  of 
loyalty  to  all  those  forces  and  agencies  which  make  for  the  benefit  and  upbuilding  of 
city,  commonwealth  or  country. 


HENRY  W.  KIEL. 


Henry  W.  Kiel,  elected  mayor  of  St.  Louis  on  the  republican  ticket,  is  giving  to  the 
city  a  non-partisan  administration  indicative  of  the  fact  that  he  holds  the  public  welfare 
and  the  interests  of  the  majority  of  the  people  to  be  more  Important  than  partisan  meas- 
ures. In  his  political  work  he  is  building  along  constructive  lines  and  the  results  are 
sure  and  certain.  Mr.  Kiel  is  a  native  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  born  February  21,  1871,  his 
parents  being  Henry  F.  and  Minnie  C.  Kiel.  After  attending  the  public  schools  he  con- 
tinued his  education  in  the  Smith  Academy  and  in  early  life  learned  the  bricklayer's 
trade,  developing  an  efficiency  that  enabled  him  later  to  engage  in  the  brick  contracting 
business,  in  which  he  became  the  successor  of  his  father.  In  this  line  he  has  since 
continued  and  one  of  the  features  of  his  business  success  is  undoubtedly  the  fact  that 
he  has  not  dissipated  his  energies  over  a  wide  and  varied  field  but  has  concentrated 
along  a  single  line,  further  developing  the  powers  and  efficiency  for  which  he  laid  the 
foundation  in  the  early  years  of  his  business  career.  He  is  now  a  prominent  figure  in 
contracting  circles  as  the  senior  partner  in  the  Kiel  &  Danes  Bricklaying  &  Contracting 
Company,  which  enjoys  an  extensive  patronage  and  has  erected  some  of  the  leading 
structures  and  business  blocks  of  the  city. 

On  the  1st  of  September,  1892,  Henry  W.  Kiel  was  married  to  Miss  Irene  H.  Moonan 
a  daughter  of  James  and  Jane  Moonan.  Four  children  have  been  born  of  this  marriage; 
Henrietta,  now  the  wife  of  Granville  Hogan;  Elmer  A.,  who  married  Marie  Budde; 
Clarence  V.;  and  Edna  A. 

Mr.  Kiel  is  prominently  known  in  Masonic  circles,  having  attained  the  thirty-second 
degi-ee  of  the  Scottish  Rite,  and  he  is  also  connected  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows,  the  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Royal 


126  CHXTEX'XIAL  HISTOKV  Ol'  MISSOURI 

Arcanum.  His  political  support  is  given  to  the  republican  party,  of  which  he  has  been 
an  advocate  since  age  conferred  upon  him  the  right  of  franchise.  He  has  long  been 
keenly  interested  in  politics,  has  become  a  recognized  leader  in  the  ranks  of  his  party 
and  on  the  1st  of  April,  1913,  was  elected  to  the  office  of  mayor  of  St.  Louis  for  a  four 
years'  term,  in  which  he  gave  to  the  city  such  an  efficient  and  progressive  administration 
that  he  was  reelected  in  April,  1917,  for  a  second  term.  His  ideals  in  matters  of  citizen- 
ship are  very  high.  He  says  that  it  is  no  longer  a  disgrace  to  be  spoken  of  as  a  politician, 
that  day  having  gone  by,  for  the  political  leader  of  today  is  looking  toward  progress 
and  not  toward  personal  aggrandizement.  His  ovi'n  political  career  has  meant  much  to 
the  community  and  has  resulted  in  many  measures  and  projects  most  beneficial  to 
the  city.  He  has  ever  advocated  the  study  of  platforms  and  the  support  of  candidates 
representing  the  best  interests  of  the  community.  As  the  chief  executive  of  St.  Louis 
he  is  studying  every  phase  of  the  city's  development  and  welfare — the  safeguarding  of 
the  young,  the  protection  of  individual  interests  against  crime,  the  care  of  those  whom 
an  untoward  fate  has  cast  upon  the  cold  mercy  of  the  world  and  all  those  constructive 
forces  which  receive  the  endorsement  of  the  leading  people  of  all  parties.  That  Mayor 
Kiel  is  a  most  broid-minded  man,  exemplifying  the  highest  type  of  American  patriotism, 
is  indicated  in  the  fact  that,  while  a  republican,  some  of  his  strongest  admirers  are 
found  among  the  supporters  of  the  democratic  party.  The  results  of  his  administration 
are  most  tangible  and  like  Roosevelt,  whom  many  regard  as  the  foremost  American  of 
his  generation.  Henry  W.  Kiel,  while  holding  to  high  ideals,  has  utilized  the  most 
practical   methods  in  their  accomplishment. 


FRANK    A.    RUP. 


Frank  A.  Ruf  was  born  in  Albany,  New  York,  April  4,  1856,  a  son  of  John 
J.  and  Catherine  P.  Ruf,  both  now  deceased.  His  parents  moved  to  Iowa  when  he 
was  a  small  child.  He  attended  the  public  schools  in  Des  Moines  to  the  age  of 
thirteen,  and  then  left  home  and  started  out  to  provide  a  livelihood  for  himself, 
resorting  to  the  various  kinds  of  work  that  a  boy  can  do.  After  trying  his  luck 
in  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa.  Omaha,  Nebraska,  and  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  he  finally 
in   1874,  found   himself  located  in   St.   Louis. 

Fifteen  years  of  active  effort  with  M.  W.  Alexander,  the  then  leading  St. 
Louis  druggist,  coupled  with  economy,  at  length  brought  him  one-half  interest  in 
the  firm  of  Frost  &  Ruf,  a  drug  business  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Seventh  and 
Olive  streets.  He  continued  in  the  business  as  a  member  of  this  firm  until  1888, 
when  they  entered  upon  the  manufacture  of  one  of  the  widest  known  medicines  in 
the  world — .\ntikamnia  (Opposed  to  Pain)  which  was  put  upon  the  market 
as  a  headache  and  neuralgia  remedy.  On  the  incorporation  of. the  business,  the 
capital  stock  was  five  thousand  dollars.  With  the  growth  of  the  business,  which 
was  rapid,  it  was  found  necessary  to  interest  new  capital,  which  was  done,  and 
the  company  was  reorganized  and  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  Missouri  with 
a  capital  of  five  hundred  thousand  dollars.  Since  its  organization,  Mr.  Ruf  hag 
been  president  and  treasurer  of  the  company.  Improved  methods  of  exploitation 
and  advertising  were  adopted  and  in  consequence  of  the  growth  of  the  business 
it  was  found  necessary  to  have  larger  quarters,  this  leading  to  the  opening  of 
the  new  laboratory  and  offices  of  the  Antikamnia  Remedy  Company  at  Nos.  717 
to  725  Locust  street,  part  of  the  site  now  occupied  by  the  Mercantile  Trust  Com- 
pany. Here  again  the  space  proved  inadequate  and  the  company,  in  1896,  erected 
a  building  for  its  own  use  at  Nos.  1723  to  1731  Olive  street.  After  eight  years 
the  volume  of  trade  necessitated  another  removal  and  since  1902  the  company 
has  occupied  its  present  building  at  Nos.  1622  to  1624  Pine  street,  used  exclusively 
by  this  still  growing  American  industry.  There  has  been  no  change  in  the  per- 
sonnel of  the  company  since  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Frost,  whose  interests  were 
taken  over  by  Mr.  Rut,  the  president  and  treasurer  of  the  company.  In  the  space 
of  thirty  years  this  business  has  developed  from  a  small  one  to  the  largest  of 
the  kind  in  the  world,  with  offices  and  laboratories  in  London,  Paris  and  Madrid 
and  distributing  depots  in  all  of  the  larger  cities  on  tlie  face  of  the  globe. 

Lowell  has  said,  "An  institution  is  but  the  lengthened  shadow  of  a  man," 
and    as    such    the    corporation    is    the    indication    of    the    great    business    stature    of 


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Frank  A.  Ruf.  Aside  from  his  connection  with  the  Anti-Kamnia  Remedy  Com- 
pany, he  is  also  a  director  and  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Mer- 
cantile Trust  Company  of  St.  Louis,  with  a  capital  and  surplus  of  ten  million 
dollars,  the  president  of  the  C.  E.  Gallagher  Medicine  Company,  and  president 
of  the  Herriott  Polish  Company.  He  is  also  president  of  the  Cinderella  Heel  Cor- 
poration, a  half-million  dollar  Arm,  manufacturers  of  aluminum  heels  for  ladies' 
shoes,  said  to  be  the  most  desirable  patent  metal  heel  on  the  market.  As  president 
of  the  Actoid  Remedy  Company,  he  looks  after  the  interests  of  this  well-known 
remedy.  "Actoids  Act  Actively,"  according  to  Mr.  Ruf,  is  the  slogan  which  has 
caused  this  preparation  to  become  world  wide  in  its  use.  He  is  vice  president  o£ 
the  Bowen  Motor  Railways  Corporation,  which  is  building  gasoline  motor  cars  to 
run  on  railway  tracks.  A  thorough  trial  of  this  car  has  demonstrated  its  practic- 
ability beyond  a  doubt.  Mr.  Ruf  is  also  vice  president  of  the  Watters  Corporation, 
capitalized  for  three  million  dollars,  manufacturing  the  Indexograph  and  other 
Watters  office  devices.  The  new  plant  of  this  corporation  in  the  new  industrial 
district  in  the  northwestern  part  of  the  city  is  most  modern  in  all  of  its  details. 
Mr.  Ruf  was  married  at  Buffalo,  New  York,  in  1897,  to  Miss  Alpha  Haight, 
daughter  of  William  Haight,  of  Middlebury,  Vermont.  In  politics  he  is  a  repub- 
lican with  independent  tendencies.  He  is'a  Mason  of  high  rank,  belonging  to 
Cornerstone  Lodge,  No.  324,  A.  F. '  &  Af: /M.;'  St.  Louis  Chapter,  No.  8,  R.  A. 
M.;  St.  Aldemar  Commandery,  K.  T.;  St.  Louis 'Consistory,  A.  A.  S.  R.;  and  Moolah 
Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  belongs  moreover  to  the  .St.  Louis,  Racquet, 
Noonday,  Century  Boat,  Automobile,  and  Riverview  Clubs,  the  Missouri  Athletic 
Association,  the  St.  Louis  Art  League,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Zoological 
Society,  the  Apollo  Club,  the  St.  Louis  Symphony  Society,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
advisory  board  of  the  St.  Louis  School  of  Fine  Arts. 

Love  of  art  is  manifest  in  the  beautiful  canvases  and  fine  Persian  rugs  which 
adorn  Mr.  Ruf's  home.  He  was  decorated  by  the  shah  of  Persia  with  the  Order 
of  the  Lion  and  the  Sun  because  of  his  fame  as  a  connoisseur  of  Oriental  fabrics, 
especially  Persian  rugs.  The  decoration  ceremonial  took  place  in  the  anterooms 
of  Mr.  Ruf's  office,  the  walls,  floors,  divans  and  balustrades  of  which  were  dec- 
orated for  the  occasion  with  Persian  rugs  and  fabrics  of  exquisite  design  and  color, 
many  of  which  are  centuries  old  and  represent  the  investment  of  a  fortune.  His 
love  of  these  -rugs  comes  not  alone  from  his  appreciation  of  color,  design  and  tex- 
ture but  also  from  his  knowledge  of  the  art  of  rug  making  and  of  the  history,  tradi- 
tions, superstitions  and  beliefs  which  are  woven  into  these  rugs.  From  their  work- 
manship he  reads  many  a  life  story  and,  moreover,  is  willing  to  share  his  joy 
therein  with  many  admiring  visitors  at  his  home  and  office.  Business  affairs  and 
love  of  travel  take  him  frequently  abroad  and  he  is  a  familiar  figure  in  the  art 
centers  of  Europe  and  the  orient. 

Throughout  his  business  career  Mr.  Ruf  has  displayed  the  keenest  sagacity, 
combined  with  splendid  powers  of  organization  and  the  ability  to  at  all  times  dif- 
ferentiate between  the  essential  and  the  non-essential.  The  Bulletin  of  Commerce 
has  said  of  him:  "He  is  seemingly  retiring  in  his  disposition,  not  given  to  argu- 
ment or  controversy,  and  yet  when  touched  upon  matters  of  business  or  a  subject 
engaging  his  interest,  he  is  prompt  in  the  expression  of  his  opinions.  The  busi- 
ness side  of  his  character  is  strict  and  decisive,  displaying  an  energy  that  per- 
meates every  detail,  and  yet  his  management  is  highly  diplomatic,  governing  with- 
out a  seeming  effort  and  engaging  an  interest  without  appearing  to  urge  it.  His 
decision,  however,  is  emphatic  and  conclusive  within  himself.  He  strikes  only 
while  the  iron  is  hot  and  ductile — never  when  the  metal  is  cold  and  hard.  Hence 
he  can  fashion  it  to  his  purpose  without  struggling  against  impractical  conditions. 
No  misleading  feature  or  breath  of  deception  is  tolerated  in  any  of  his  transactions, 
having  the  wisdom  to  know  and  the  experience  to  demonstrate  that  integrity  is 
the  only  ladder  to  climb  if  you  expect  to  reach  the  top.  Such  men  are  not  plenti- 
ful. They  may  be  strong  in  a  few  points  and  sadly  out  of  balance  in  many.  It  is 
the  mentally  even,  well  rounded  up  man.  who  never  flies  oft  at  a  tangent  like  a 
dirigible  air  ship,  that  courts  and  wins  success.  A  combination  of  qualities  evenly 
adjusted   are  better   and  stronger  than   a  genius   with   a   single   purpose." 

He  has  been  characterized  as  a  "man  of  the  people,  filled  to  the  brim  with 
energy,  living  for  a  purpose  and  never  losing  sight  of  that  fact;  prompt  and  decisive 
in  business,   less  of  a  talker  than  an  energetic  worker  and  a  distinct  organizer  of 

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success.  He  is  a  man  of  faultless  integrity  to  himself  and  others,  one  who  believes 
in  the  principles  of  justice  and  is  no  friend  to  deception,  and  double  dealing.  He 
is  a  promoter  of  good  fellowship  and  high-class  citizenship.  His  principles  and 
convictions  of  right  are  his  party  and  his  religion.  He  is  patriotic  because  he  loves 
his  country  and  obeys  its  laws.  He  is  one  who  never  withholds  a  right  nor  imposes 
a  wrong.  He  is,  therefore,  a  good  neighbor,  encouraging  by  helpful  example  and 
otherwise  those  in  misfortune  or  distress.  Upon  matters  of  public  concern  and 
business  affairs  his  judgment  is  frequently  consulted  as  an  authority  because  of 
his,  standing,  wide  experience  and  confidence  he  enjoys  among  the  people.  It  is 
a  worthy  and  deserving  record  to  make  of  such  men,  for  they  should  be  remem- 
bered hereafter  and   their  good   deeds  not  allowed   to   perish   from   the   earth." 


THOMAS  T.   FAUNTLEROY. 

The  friends,  who  know  that  Thomas  T.  Fauntleroy  was  born  (February  22,  1862) 
in  the  Valley  of  Virginia,  say  of  him  that  "He  lives  to  build,  not  boast  a  generous 
race."  But  regardless  of  his  habits  of  reserve  in  discussing  the  traditions  which 
belong  to  this  origin,  no  one  who  shares  or  knows  the  tradition  of  the  Virginia  Valley 
is  likely  to  fail  to  be  stirred  by  memories  of  what  it  means  to  have  been  born  in 
"the  Valley," — in  Winchester, — and  in  1862, — as  one  of  the  "Faunt,  Le,  Roys,"  who 
shares  as  pioneers  in  the  work  of  the  "founders"  of  the  America  of  the  present, 
making  "the  Valley"  what  it  is  in  its  visible  reality  today,  and  in  the  far  greater 
invisible  reality  of  its  part  in  the  building  of  every  great  commonwealth  west  of  the 
Blue  Ridge. 

To  those  who  know  this  history,  "the  Valley"  means  the  "Shenandoah  Valley 
of  Virginia."  There  is  only  one,  now,  as  in  American  history,  there  was  only  one, 
when  after  Braddock's  defeat.  Captain  Charles  Lewis  marched  from  Alexandria  to 
Winchester  with  his  Virginia  volunteers  to  stop  the  work  of  the  scalping  knife  in 
the  "Back  Country"  and  keep  the  Valley  road  open  for  the  progress  of  the  future. 
The  "Valley  road"  from  Lancaster  in  Pennsylvania  then,  soon  became  the  bridle 
path  beyond  Winchester,  and  then  "a  trail,"  known  only  to  the  fur-trader  and  the 
Indian  hunting  party  or  war-party.  But  then,  as  in  1862,  the  future  of  the  country 
depended  on  keeping  the  Valley  road  open. 

In  1862,  and  the  years  immediately  before  and  after,  as  this  was  being  attempted 
by  General  Shields,  Tremont,  Banks  and  Milroy.  with  Sheridan  at  times  in  the  back- 
ground or  foreground  as  his  work  required,  "Stonewall"  Jackson  had  much  to  do 
with  the  making  of  history  which  makes  birth  at  that  time  in  Winchester  mem- 
orable. 

When  this  history  belongs  to  biography  in  any  given  case,  as  it  does  in  the 
present,  it  illustrates  the  educational  conditions  of  life  which  help  to  make  char- 
acter. In  what  some  call  "the  environment"  of  the  Valley  between  1862  and  the 
"revival  of  prosperity,"  what  some  call  "military  necessity"  had  done  its  best  for 
character-building  by  removing  the  temptations  of  superfluous  luxury.  It  was  said 
in  explaining  military  necessity  in  the  Valley  about  1862-65,  that  "a  crow  flying 
over  it,  would  have  to  carry  his  rations." 

If  such  conditions  promote  the  "survival  of  the  fittest,"  the  pioneer  families  of 
the  Valley  had  grown  accustomed  to  survival  since  Braddock's  promise  of  help 
failed  them.  The  late  Judge  Thomas  Turner  Fauntleroy,  who  died  in  St.  Louis, 
October  2,  1906.  was  then  the  head  of  one  of  these  families  in  Winchester,  where 
he  was  born,  and  where  he  lived  all  his  life,  until  his  removal  to  St.  Louis.  He  was 
several  times  a  member  of  the  Virginia  legislature,  and  for  four  years  (1878-1882) 
he  served  as  secretary  of  the  commonwealth.  From  January  1,  1883,  to  1896,  he 
sat  on  the  Virginia  supreme  bench,  serving  a  full  term  of  twelve  years,  by  election 
of  the  Virginia  legislature. 

As  a  lawyer  by  profession  he  was  exceptional  among  kindred  of  his  name,  most 
of  them  seeking  service  in  the  army  or  the  navy,  where  their  names  appear  with 
credit  to  themselves  and  the  country.  Colonel  Thomas  Turner  Fauntleroy,  Judge 
Fauntleroy's  father  (and  grandfather  of  Thomas  T.  Fauntleroy.  of  St.  Louis)  served 
long  in  the  United  States  Army.  He  commanded  the  Fourth  Dragoons  in  the  early 
'50s.  When  Fort  Riley,  Kansas,  was  a  pioneer  outpost,  he  commanded  it,  with 
responsibilities  which  may  be  guessed  from  photographs  taken  much  later,  showing 


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on  the  Kansas  prairie  such  work  of  the  scalping  knife  as  was  seen  on  the  road  north- 
west from  Winchester  to  Pittsburgh  after  Braddock's  defeat.  In  the  history  of  the 
west,  he  is  noted  as  the  founder  of  Fort  Riley,  but  he  had  been  in  command  of 
various  posts  before,  as  he  was  afterwards.  These  included  Jefferson  Barracks, 
St.  Louis,  Port  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  Fort  Jesup,  Louisiana,  and  San  Antonio,  Texas. 
At  that  point,  his  professional  service  connects  political  history  with  his  family 
history  in  1862,  for  it  is  easy  to  make  the  historical  connection  between  "the  Alamo" 
at  San  Antonio,  and  the  great  plaza  of  the  City  of  Mexico,  into  which  he  rode  with 
General  Scott  on  the  triumphal  entry  which  fulfilled  the  promise  of  the  political 
eloquence  of  the  time,  and  located  the  "Conquering  Saxon"  in  the  "Halls  of  the 
Montezumas."  He  had  commanded  one  of  the  divisions  of  General  Scott's  expedition- 
ary forces.  After  the  return  from  Mexico,  he  commanded  at  Santa  Fe.  It  is  not  re- 
corded that  he  specialized  in  political  history  from  any  philosophical  standpoint.  With 
or  without  analysis  of  the  connection  of  events  with  the  Mexican  war  apparent  the 
Civil  war  "broke  out"  for  him  as  it  did  for  others,  most  of  them  not  then  devoted 
to  military  duties  as  he  was  in  1861.  His  then  was  the  painful  choice  of  other  Vir- 
ginians in  the  "Old  Army,"  and  like  Lee,  he  "went  with  his  state."  Resigning  from 
the  United  States  army,  he  joined  the  army  of  the  Confederate  States  and  was  in 
command  of  Richmond,  Virginia,  during  the  war. 

When  the  war  closed,  the  famous  schools  of  Virginia,  which  had  been  closed 
by  its  beginning,  or  soon  afterwards,  when  the  war  in  Virginia,  "robbing  the  cradle 
and  the  grave,"  took  their  students  for  the  ranks,  began  to  re-open,  with  the  best 
men  of  the  State  in  charge  of  them.  This  often  meant  former  Confederate  leaders, 
and  usually  they  had  enrolled  as  students,  veterans  of  many  battles,  surviving  as 
boys,  still  nearly  enough  "beardless"  to  go  back  to  school  among  boys  too  young 
to  have  been  accepted  for  the  ranks.  One  of  these  famous  schools  was  the  Shenan- 
doah Valley  Academy  in  Winchester,  where  in  the  years  following  the  close  of  the 
Civil  war  many  men  were  educated,  who  became  noted  in  Virginia  and  other  states 
of  the  south.  At  this  school,  and  among  such  associates,  Thomas  T.  Fauntleroy  began 
the  studies  which  prepared  him  for  the  University  of  Virginia, — "Jefferson's  School," 
as  many  Virginians  have  always  loved  to  think  of  it.  It  may  be  noted  here,  as 
well  as  it  might  be  elsewhere,  that  since  leaving  the  university,  Thomas  T.  Faunt- 
leroy, a  Virginian  then,  "of  the  Valley,"  has  always  been  a  republican,  everything  in 
the  Valley  tradition  and  the  family  tradition  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding.  And 
it  has  been  often  said  and  never  disproved,  "everything  to  the  contrary  notwith- 
standing," that  as  Jefferson  called  himself  a  "republican"  when  the  university  was 
founded,  the  party  which  later  adopted  his  name,  did  so  in  its  beginnings  that  it 
might  invite  all  his  admirers  to  "live  up  to"  his  principles, — an  opportunity,  which 
is  never  likely  to  be  completely  closed  in  any  party. 

Studying  law  at  the  University  of  Virginia  for  two  years  (1881-2,  1882-3), 
the  young  Virginian  of  the  Valley  followed  its  tradition  northwest  over  the  Brad- 
dock  road  from  Winchester  instead  of  the  Valley  road,  west,  by  south.  Both  roads 
met  in  St.  Louis  under  Jefferson's  administration,  as  they  do  still,  but  it  was  over, 
the  Braddock  road  that  beginnings  had  been  made  for  "putting  Missouri  on  the 
map,"  with  Minnesota  and  the  northwest  to  be  mapped  later.  Although  Minnesota 
had  been  long  mapped  when  Thomas  T.  Fauntleroy  located  in  St.  Paul  in  1883,  the 
city  then  had  only  thirty-six  thousand  people  to  enrich  with  their  law  practice  the 
young  attorney  their  reputation  for  progress  and  prosperity  had  attracted.  But  as 
then  still  "fresh  in  the  twenties,"  he  grew  in  law  and  the  good  qualities  which  insure 
success  in  it,  he  saw  the  city  grow  to  its  present  dimensions, — already  provided  for 
the  occupation  of  a  million  in  1896,  when  his  wife's  health  demanded  a  milder  cli- 
mate than  the  winter-climate  of  the  northwest.  He  removed  then  to  St.  Louis  as  his 
permanent  home,  among  many  kindred,  including  the  family  of  the  late  Major  Henry 
Turner,  whose  origins  represent  "the  Valley." 

From  October,  1883,  to  July,  1896,  his  growing  law  practice  in  Minnesota 
brought  him  into  increasing  contact  with  men  now  famous  in  the  history  of  that 
state  and  of  the  country.  His  practice  had  extended  beyond  the  state  to  the  north- 
west generally.  It  included  the  most  important  insurance  cases  tried  in  the  North- 
west, and  in  defending  them,  he  left  his  record  at  the  bar  from  Milwaukee  on  the 
east  of  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  and  Helena,  Montana.  In  the  early  '80s,  there  were 
strong  men  in  the  northwest,  found  at  the  bar,  as  in  other  callings,  where  the 
demands  of  the  future  then  were  met  by  strength  in  the  "action,  action,  action," 
which  accounts  for  all  that  is  otherwise  unaccountable  in  the  best  of  the  present. 


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In  Minnesota,  as  in  such  other  states  as  North  and  South  Dakota  and  Montana, 
Mr.  Fauntleroy's  beginnings  gave  him  a  wonderful  acquaintance  to  which  he  ma.v 
look  back  with  pleasure,  as  he  might  with  pride.  He  knew  and  tried  cases  with 
the  Spooners.  the  lawyers  of  the  Vilas  family,  the  Flandraus.  the  GilfiUans,  the 
Ramseys.  with  Senator  Cushman  K.  Davis  and  others,  whom  it  was  an  education 
to  know,  as  in  the  history  of  the  bar.  it  is  an  honor  to  have  appeared  with  them 
in  such  cases  as  those  in  which  in  Minnesota  and  other  northwestern  "reports,"  Mr. 
Fauntleroy  is  recorded  on  one  side  or  the  other. 

In  St.  Louis,  where  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Abbott,  Fauntleroy.  Cullen  & 
Edwards,  he  is  known  'professionally  to  all  who  know  the  leaders  of  the  bar,  Mr. 
Fauntleroy  has  devoted  himself  to  the  worlt  of  his  profession,  with  the  success' he 
might  have  won  in  public  life  had  he  entered  it.  But  thus  far  he  has  not  done 
so.  His  appointment  as  master  in  chancery  in  the  "Frisco  receivership"  was  pro- 
fessional rather  than  political,  and  it  can  hardly  be  said  that  he  was  entering  public 
life  when  he  began  service  on  the  board  of  visitors  of  the  Universitv  of  Missouri 
by  appointment  of  Governor  Herbert  S.  Hadley.  So  it  may  be  said  of  him.  as  in 
the  nineteenth  century  it  was  said  of  the  wisest  among  the  famous  public  men  with 
whom  professionally  he  has  been  associated,  that  he  has  "never  put  his  political  future 
behind  him." 

An  association  may  do  more  than  any  other  single  factor  to  decide  life,  the 
"new  method"  in  the  study  of  history  and  biography,  begins  with  the  "group."  and 
by  those  who  distrust  "heredity."  so  called,  group-history  is  studied  with  the  most 
careful  attention.  As  American  history  is  studied  thus  from  its  eighteenth  century 
groups  in  the  Virginia  valley,  its  interest  grows  with  every  generation,  as  associa- 
tions thus  explained,  extend  from  state  to  state,  in  the  "great  dispersion"  which 
has  been  going  on  ever  since  the  first  group  of  French  Huguenots,  including  the 
Fauntleroys.  settled  in  colonial  Virginia.  In  the  Revolutionary  period,  this  group 
included  in  its  family  connection.  Charles  Mynn  Thruston.  who  was  on  Washington's 
staff  in  war,  as  in  peace,  he  was  Episcopal  bishop  of  Virginia.  As  he  leaves  Thomas 
T.  Fauntleroy  of  St.  Louis  among  his  great-grandsons,  one  of  his  sons.  Judge  Charles 
Thruston,  was  the  first  United  States  judge  for  the  District  of  Columbia.  Mr.  Faunt- 
leroy's uncle.  General  Joseph  K.  Barnes,  who  had  been  an  intimate  friend  of  General 
Grant,  inherited  from  his  father  this  association,  not  only  with  Grant  but  with  his 
group  in  "the  Old  Army,"  as  the  regular  army  before  the  Civil  war  is  called  by  those 
who  inherit  its  tradition.  We  might  be  carried  far  afield,  following  such  historical 
connections,  as  in  this  connection  of  group  association,  they  account  for  General 
Joseph  K.  Barnes  as  "the  surgeon  in  charge  at  Lincoln's  bedside,  from  the  time  he 
was  shot  until  he  died."  and  afterward  as  a  surgeon  at  Garfield's  bedside,  "after  he 
was  shot,  until  he  died." 

This  may  suggest  how  much  of  the  reality  of  romance  in  American  life  a  bio- 
graphical sketch  necessarily  suppresses.  American  life  in  the  making,  as  Thomas 
T.  Fauntleroy  has  helped  to  make  its  history  in  the  generation  since  the  Civil  war, 
is  often  likely  to  test  belief  by  any  connected  grouping  of  what,  detached,  may  have 
appeared  its  commonplaces.  And  as  the  study  of  three  generations,  through  their 
associations,  develops  wider  and  wider  circles  of  interest,  those  who  are  not  pre- 
pared for  the  actual  reality,  may  turn  from  It  as  they  do  from  romance.  But  in 
connection  with  all  that  is  necessarily  left  unsaid  here,  those  who  are  prepared  for 
the  revelation  of  the  most  unexpected  meanings  in  what  they  know  already,  may 
find  no  better  place  for  beginning  their  study  of  American  life  than  the  Virginia  val- 
ley, between  1750  and  1862,  when  Thomas  T.  Fauntleroy,  now  of  St.  Louis,  first 
appeared  in  Winchester. — in  plain  sight,  if  not  of  Washington's  French  and  Indian 
war  headquarters,  still  of  the  historical  connection  back  to  1'750  for  everything 
before  and  since  "Sheridan's  ride." 


WILLIAM  S.  SCOTT. 


For  a  third  of  a  century  William  S.  Scott  has  been  identified  with  the  coal  trade 
and  is  now  president  of  the  Missouri  &  Illinois  Coal  Company,  a  corporation  operating 
extensively  and  successfully.  He  was  born  at  Fredericksburg,  Virginia,  December  13, 
1862,  on  the  day  of  the  great  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  and  buildings  all  around  the  Scott 


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home  were  that  day  struck  and  torn  by  shells.  His  parents  were  Hugh  and  Ann  (Clark- 
son)  Scott.  His  grandfather  in  the  paternal  line  came  from  Scotland  when  fifteen 
years  of  age  and  took  up  his  abode  at  Fredericksburg,  Virginia,  where  he  became 
prominent  'in  business  circles  as  a  merchant  and  in  the  public  life  of  the  community  as 
mayor  of  the  city.  His  son,  Hugh  Scott,  also  followed  merchandising  in  Fredericksburg, 
where  he  conducted  a  general  store,  his  death  occurring  when  his  son  William  was  a 
lad  of  thirteen  years. 

The  latter  pursued  his  education  in  a  private  school  of  Fredericksburg  to  the  age 
of  twelve  years  and  then  entered  the  military  academy.  He  was  but  fourteen  years  of 
age  when  he  began  providing  for  his  own  support  as  a  clerk  in  a  general  merchandise 
store,  being  thus  employed  tor  several  years.  He  later  became  teller  in  a  bank  at 
Fredericksburg  and  in  18S2  he  was  made  cashier  of  the  Union  Depot  Elevator  at  St. 
Louis,  Missouri.  Subsequently  he  was  elected  to  the  position  of  secretary  of  the  Caron- 
delet  Milling  Company,  with  which  he  remained  until  the  business  was  sold.  He  then 
became  secretary  of  the  gas  company  at  that  place  and  in  1887  he  turned  his  attention 
to  the  coal  trade,  in  which  he  has  since  continued.  Making  steady  progress  along  that 
line,  he  has  achieved  notable  success  and  is  now  the  president  of  the  Missouri  &  Illinois 
Coal  Company,  whose  extensive  operations  have  placed  him  with  the  men  of  affluence 
In  St.  Louis. 

In  this  city,  in  1897,  William  S.  Scott  was  married  to  Miss  Margaret  Lytton,  a 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  J.  P.  and  L.  A.  Lytton,  the  former  active  In  missionary  work.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Scott  have  become  parents  of  three  children,  Marjorie,  Clarkson  and  Lytton, 
aged  respectively  twenty-one,  eighteen  and  sixteen  years.  The  religious  faith  of  the 
family  is  that  of  the  Eipiscopal  church  and  in  his  political  views  Mr.  Scott  is  a  democrat, 
his  interest  in  political  questions  being  that  of  the  representative  business  man  who  is 
ever  concerned  in  all  problems  that  affect  the  welfare  of  community,  commonwealth 
or  country.  Mr.  Scott  is  a  well  known  figure  in  club  circles  in  St.  Louis,  having  mem- 
bership in  the  City,  St.  Louis  and  Sunset  Clubs  and  in  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association. 


MORTON  J.  MAY. 


Morton  J.  May  Is  the  president  of  the  May  Department  Stores  Company  at  St.  Louis 
and  has  a  remarkable  grasp  of  every  phase  of  the  business  which  he  conducts.  The 
processes  and  methods  which  he  follows  in  carrying  out  this  rapidly  developing  enter- 
prise, measure  up  to  the  commercial  standards  and  ethics  of  highest  character,  and  he 
has  made  his  establishment  one  of  the  attractive  department  stores  of  the  city. 

Morton  J.  May  was  born  July  13,  1881,  his  parents  being  David  and  Rosa  (Shoen- 
berg)  May.  The  father  was  born  in  Bavaria,  Germany,  and  came  to  the  democracy 
in  1864,  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  settling  in  Union  City,  Indiana,  where  he  obtained 
employment  in  the  general  store,  which  however  handled  principally  dry  goods.  In  1878 
he  went  to  Leadville,  Colorado,  and  with  a  partner  established  a  dry  goods  and  general 
merchandise  business  on  his  own  account.  In  1889  he  removed  to  Denver,  Colorado, 
where  he  opened  a  general  store  which  was  the  original  establishment  of  the  May 
company.  In  1897  he  organized  the  May  Department  Store  Company  with  stores  in  St. 
Louis,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  Denver,  Colorado.  In  the  first  named  city  they  acquired 
the  Famous,  which  in  1911  was  consolidated  with  the  Barr  Store  and  is  now  conducted 
under  the  name  of  the  Famous  Barr  Store,  but  is  owned  and  operated  by  the  May 
Department  Stores  Company.  In  1912  they  also  purchased  the  business  of  the  M.  O'Neil 
Company  of  Akron,  Ohio,  so  that  the  May  Department  Stores  Company  now  owns  and 
operates  fine  establishments  in  St.  Louis,  Cleveland,  Denver  and  Akron.  The  company 
was  capitalized  with  fifteen  million  dollars  of  common  stock,  and  eight  million  two 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  of  preferred  stock,  and  of  the  latter  one  million  and 
seven  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  has  been  retired.  The  headquarters  of  the 
company  are  at  St.  Louis  and  they  also  maintain  large  offices  in  New  York  City,  where 
much  of  the  buying  is  done.  They  do  a  business  of  over  fifty-five  million  dollars  annually 
and  their  stock  is  listed  on  the  stock  exchange.  Each  store  is  owned  and  maintained  as 
an  independent  business  and  has  been  made  one  of  the  most  popular  commercial  centers 
of  the  city  in  which  it  is  located.  David  May  still  remains  an  active  factor  in  the 
business  and  is  now  chairman  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  company,  while  Col. 
Moses  Shoenberg,  brother-in-law  of  David  May,  is  vice  president  of  the  company.  Three 
of  the  sons  of  David  May  have  become  interested  in  this  business,  these  being  Morton 


136  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  AIISSOURI 

J.  of  this  review;  Thomas  May,  who  is  one  of  the  vice  presidents  of  this  company  and 
who  is  very  active  in  the  control  and  development  of  the  business;  and  Wilbur,  who 
as  yet  has  not  taken  on  any  responsibilities  in  the  company.  In  the  family  there  is 
also  another  member,  a  sister  Florence,  who  is  home  with  her  parents. 

Morton  J.  May  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Denver  and  the  Smith  Academy 
at  St.  Louis,  after  which  he  entered  the  University  of  Colorado,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1901.  Since  completing  his  college  course  he  has  concentrated  his  efforts 
and  attentions  upon  the  business  in  which  he  is  now  engaged.  Characteristic  thorough- 
ness has  enabled  him  readily  to  master  every  detail  and  he  has  a  remarkable  gi'asp  of 
every  phase  of  the  business  in  which  he  has  been  notably  successful,  this  being  attribut- 
able to  his  executive  ahility,  his  persistent  hard  work  and  a  fine  sense  of  fairness  combined 
with  a  broad  policy. 

In  St.  Louis  in  1909.  Mr.  May  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Florence  Goldman 
and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  two  children,  Sarah  Jane  and  Morton  B.  The 
parents  are  members  of  the  Temple  of  Israel  and  Mr.  May  belongs  to  the  Alpha  Tau 
Omega  college  fraternity.  He  is  fond  of  hunting  and  fishing  and  also  plays  golf.  He  is 
likewise  well  known  in  several  of  the  leading  clubs  of  St.  Louis,  including  the  Columbian, 
the  Westwood  Country,  and  the  City  Club,  also  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  is  keenly  interested  in  the  efforts  of  the 
organization  to  advance  the  business  development  of  the  city,  to  extend  its  trade  rela- 
tions and  to  maintain  all  those  interests  which  are  a  matter  of  civic  virtue  and  civic 
pride. 


JUDGE    WARWICK    HOUGH. 

High  on  the  keystone  of  the  legal  arch  of  Missouri  is  written  the  name  of  Judge 
Warwick  Hough.  Untarnished  is  his  record  as  lawyer  and  jurist,  for  at  all  times 
he  held  to  the  highest  ethical  standards  of  the  legal  profession,  and  his  splendid  men- 
tality enabled  him  to  become  a  most  accurate  interpreter  of  the  law.  His  course  is 
one  which  reflects  honor  and  credit  upon  the  state  in  which  he  so  long  made  his  home, 
for  he  was  but  two  years  of  age  when  brought  to  Missouri  by  his  parents,  continuing 
a  resident  of  the  state  practically  throughout  the  entire  time  until  death  Called  him 
October  28,  1915.  The  last  three  decades  of  his  life  or  more  were  passed  in  St. 
Louis.  He  was  born  in  Loudoun  county,  Virginia,  January  26,  1836,  a  son  of  George 
W.  and  Mary  C.  (Shawen)  Hough  and  a  descendant  of  John  Hough,  who  removed 
from  Bucks  county  Pennsylvania,  to  Loudoun  county,  Virginia,  about  1750  and  there 
wedded  Sarah  Janney,  whose  people  had  also  come  from  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania, 
John  Hough  was  a  grandson  of  Richard  Hough,  who  came  from  Cheshire,  England, 
on  the  ship  Endeavor  as  one  of  a  colony  directed  by  William  Penn,  reaching  Philadel- 
phia in  1683,  and  of  whom  Penn  wrote:  "I  lament  the  loss  of  honest  Richard  Hough. 
Such  men  must  needs  be  wanted  where  selfishness  and  forgetfulness  of  God's  mercies 
so  much  abound." 

The  parents  of  Judge  Hough  were  natives  of  Loudoun  county,  Virginia,  the 
father  born  April  17,  1808,  and  the  mother  on  the  25th  of  December,  1814.  They 
were  married  there  in  1833.  Five  years  later  they  came  to  Missouri  and  George 
W.  Hough,  who  had  previously  been  a  merchant,  brought  with  him  a  stock  of  goods 
which  he  sold  in  St.  Louis.  He  then  removed  to  Jefferson  City,  where  he  continued 
to  engage  in  merchandising  until  his  retirement  from  business  in  1854.  "Prior  to 
this,"  wrote  a  biographer,  "he  had  been  prominent  and  influential  in  Missouri  politics 
and  had  served  with  distinction  as  a  member  of  the  state  legislature.  In  1854 
he  was  the  candidate  of  the  democratic  party  for  congress  and  engaged  actively  in 
the  political  controversies  of  the  day,  which  were  then  of  a  very  fervid  character 
and  plainly  foreshadowed  the  great  contest  of  1860  to  1865.  In  conjunction  with 
Judge  William  B.  Napton  and  Judge  William  Scott,  then  on  the  supreme  bench  of 
Missouri,  and  Judge  Carty  Wells,  of  Marion  county,  Mr.  Hough  participated  in 
framing  the  famous  'Jackson  resolutions,'  introduced  by  Claiborne  F.  Jackson,  after- 
ward governor,  in  the  Missouri  legislature  in  1849,  which  resolutions  occasioned 
the  celebrated  appeal  of  Colonel  Thomas  H.  Benton  from  the  instructions  of  the 
legislature   to   the   people   of    Missouri.     These   resolutions    looked    forward    to    a    con- 


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flict  between  the  northern  and  southern  states  and  pledged  Missouri  to  a  cooperation 
with  her  sister  states  of  the  south.  The  leading  democrats  o£  Missouri  were  then 
known  as  Calhoun  democrats,  chief  among  them  being  David  R.  Atchison,  William 
B.  Napton.  James  S.  Green,  Carty  Wells  and  Claiborne  F.  Jackson,  and  the  bitter 
personal  hostility  existing  between  Calhoun  and  Benton  was  much  intensified  by 
these  resolutions,  the  authorship  of  which  Colonel  Benton  attributed  to  Calhoun. 
The  resull  of  the  canvass  was  Colonel  Benton's  retirement  from  the  United  States 
senate.  Soon  after  making  his  unsuccessful  canvass  for  congress  in  1854,  Mr.  Hough 
was  appointed  by  Governor  Sterling  Price  a  member  of  the  board  of  public  works 
of  Missouri,  which  was  then  charged  with  the  supervision  of  all  the  railroads  in  the 
state  to  which  state  aid  had  been  granted.  For  several  years  he  devoted  his  entire 
time  to  the  public  interests  in  this  connection  and  rendered  valuable  service  in  con- 
serving the  interests  of  the  state  in  these  various  railroad  enterprises.  He  was  fre- 
quently tendered  positions  in  the  government  service,  which  would  have  necessitated 
his  removal  to  the  national  capital,  but  declined  to  accept  such  appointments.  He 
was  for  a  time  curator  of  the  Missouri  University  and  in  conjunction  with  Mr. 
Eliot,  of  St.  Louis,  did  mueh  to  benefit  that  institution.  He  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Historical  Society  of  Missouri  and  a  public  man  who  contributed  largely  to 
the  formulation  of  legislation  essential  to  the  development  of  the  resources  of  the 
state.  He  had  a  knowledge  of  the  political  history  of  the  country  unsurpassed  by 
that  of  anyone  in  the  state  and  a  superior  knowledge  also  of  general  history,  con- 
stitutional law  and  literature.  He  died  at  Jefferson  City,  February  13,  1878,  respected 
and  mourned  not  only  by  the  community  in  which  he  lived'  but  by  the  people  of  the 
entire  state.  His  wife,  Mary  C.  Hough,  daughter  of  CorneKus  and  Mary  C.  (Maine) 
Shawen.  was  the  first  person  to  receive  the  rite  of  confirmation  in  the  Episcopal 
church  at  Jefferson  City.  She  was  a  woman  of  gi-eat  refinement,  of  rare  amiability 
and  sweetness  of  temper,  devoted  to  her  husband^  home  and  children,  and  at  her 
death,  which  occurred  at  Jefferson  City,  January  17,  1876,  it  was  said  of  her:  'The 
works  of  this  quiet.  Christian  woman  do  follow  her.  They  are  seen  in  the  character 
of  the  children  she  raised  and  trained  for  usefulness,  in  the  number  of  young  persons 
whom  she  influenced  by  her  precept  and  example  to  a  higher  life  and  nobler  aim,  and 
in  the  grateful  remembrance  of  the  many  who  have  been  the  recipients  of  her  kind 
attentions  and  unostentatious  charities.'  " 

Reared  in  Jefferson  City,  Warwick  Hough  attended  private  schools  wherein  he 
prepared  for  college.  It  was  said  of  him:  "He  was  a  precocious  student,  and  at  six- 
teen years  of  age,  when  the  principal  of  the  school  he  was  attending  was  compelled 
by  illness  to  abandon  his  place,  he  assumed  charge  of  the  school  at  the  request  of  its 
patrons,  and  conducted  it  to  the  end  of  the  term,  teaching  his  former  schoolmates 
and  classmates  and  hearing  recitations  in  Latin  and  Greek  as  well  as  in  other 
branches  of  study.  At  fifteen  years  of  age  he  acted  as  librarian  of  the  state  library 
while  the  legislature  was  in  session.  Entering  the  State  University  of  Missouri,  he 
was  graduated  from  that  institution  in  the  class  of  1854,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Arts,  and  three  years  later  received  his  Master's  degree  from  the  same  institution. 
As  a  collegian  he  was  especially  noted  for  his  fondness  for  the  classics  and  for  the 
sciences  of  geology  and  astronomy.  He  could  repeat  from  memory  page  after  page 
of  Virgil,  and  nearly  all  the  Odes  of  Horace.  In  his  senior  year  he  invented  a  figure 
illustrating  the  gradual  acceleration  of  the  stars,  which  was  used  for  years  after  he 
left  college  by  his  preceptor,  whose  delight  it  was  to  give  him  credit  for  the  inven- 
tion. His  superior  scientific  attainments  caused  him  to  be  selected  from  the  graduat- 
ing class  of  the  university  in  1854  to  make  some  barometrical  observations  and  cal- 
culations for  Professor  Swallow,  then  at  the  head  of  the  geological  survey  of  Mis- 
souri. Later  he  Was  appointed  by  Governor  Price  assistant  state  geologist,  and 
the  results  of  his  labors  in  this  field  were  reported  by  B.  F.  Shumard  and  A.  B. 
Meek  in   the   published   geological  reports  of   Missouri. 

Before  he  had  attained  his  majority  he  was  chief  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  secre- 
tary of  state,  and  he  was  secretary  of  the  state  senate  during  the  sessions  of  1858-9, 
1855T0"and  1860-1.  Meantime  he  had  studied  law  and  in  1859  was  admitted  to  the 
bar.  In  1860  he  formed  a  law  partnership  with  J.  Proctor  Knott,  then  attorney-gen- 
eral of  Missouri,  which  continued  until  January  of  1861,  when  he  was  appointed  adju- 
tant-general of  Missouri  by  Governor  Claiborne  F.  Jackson.  As  adjutant-general  he 
issued,  on  the  22d  of  April,  1861,  the  general  order  under  which  the  military  organi- 
zations   of    the    state    went    into    encampment    on    the    3rd    of    May    following.     It    was 


140  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

this  order  which  brought  together  the  state  troops  at  Camp  Jackson,  St.  Louis,  the 
capture  of  which  precipitated  the  armed  conflict  between  the  federal  authorities 
and  southern  sympathizers  in  Missouri.  Prior  to  his  appointment  as  adjutant- 
general.  Judge  Hough  had  had  military  experience  as  an  officer  in  the  Governor's 
Guards  of  Missouri,  in  which  he  had  been  commissioned  first  lieutenant,  January 
17,  1860.  He  commanded  the  Governor's  Guards  in  the  southwest  expedition  in  the 
tall  and  winter  of  1860,  under  General  D.  M.  Frost.  His  appointment  as  adjutant- 
general  gave  him  the  rank  of  brigadier-general  of  state  troops,  and  his  occupancy 
of  that  position  continued  until  after  the  death  of  Governor  Jackson,  when  he  was 
appointed  secretary  of  state  by  Governor  Thomas  C.  Reynolds.  He  resigned  the  office 
of  secretary  of  state  in  1863  to  enter  the  Confederate  military  service,  and  January 
9,  1864,  he  was  commissioned  a  captain  in  the  inspector-general's  department  and 
assigned  to  duty  by  James  A.  Seddon,  Confederate  secretary  of  war,  on  the  staff 
of  Lieutenant-General  Leonidas  M.  Polk.  After  the  death  of  General  Polk  he  was 
first  assigned  to  duty  on  the  staff  of  General  S.  D.  Lee,  and  afterward  served  on  the 
staff  of  Lieutenant-General  Dick  Taylor,  commanding  the  Department  of  Alabama, 
Mississippi,  East  Louisiana  and  West  Florida,  with  whom  he  surrendered  to  General 
E.  R.  S.  Canby,  receiving  his  parole  May  10,  1865.  The  proscriptive  provisions  of  the 
Drake  constitution  prevented  him  from  returning  at  once  to  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  Missouri,  and  until  1867  he  practiced  law  at  Memphis,  Tennessee.  After 
the  abolition  of  the  test  oath  for  attorneys  he  returned  to  Missouri  and  established 
himself  in  practice  at  Kansas  City,  entering  at  once  upon  a  brilliant  and  distinguished 
career  as  a  lawyer.  He  soon  became  recognized  as  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  western 
bar  and  in  1874  was  elected  a  judge  of  the  supreme  court  of  Missouri.  During  his 
ten  years  of  service  on  the  supreme  bench  in  the  course  of  which  he  served  for  two 
years  as  chief  justice  of  that  distinguished  tribunal,  he  was  conspicuous  for  his 
learning,  his  scholarly  attainments  and  uncompromising  independence.  His  style 
was  sententious  and  preeminently  judicial;  and  his  opinions,  which  are  noted  for  their 
perspicuity,  are  perhaps  the   most  polished   rendered  by  any   judge   who  has   occupied 

a  place   on   the   supreme  bench   of  Missouri    in   recent   years His   independence 

in  refusing  to  lend  his  judicial  sanction  to  the  spirit  of  repudiation  of  municipal 
obligations,  with  which  many  of  the  counties  of  Missouri  had  unwisely  burdened 
themselves,  was  the  most  potent  factor  in  preventing  his  renomination,  and  in  depriv- 
ing the  state  of  the  more  extended  services  of  one  of  its  ablest  and  most  accomplished 
jurists.  What  was,  however,  a  loss  to  the  state  was  a  gain  to  Judge  Hough,  for 
immediately  after  his  retirement  from  the  bench  he  removed  to  St.  Louis,  and  since 
1884  has  enjoyed  a  large  and  lucrative  practice  in  this  city,  where  he  has  been 
identified  with  much  of  the  most  important  litigation  occupying  the  attention  of  the 
state  and  federal  courts." 

Following  his  death,  in  a  memorial  prepared  by  the  supreme  court  of  Missouri, 
It  was  said  concerning  his  judicial  record :  "The  opinions  of  Judge  Hough  are  found 
in  twenty-six  volumes  of  the  supreme  court,  58  to  83,  inclusive.  They  rank  high  in 
judicial  learning,  in  clearness  and  scholarly  finish,  and,  as  a  rule,  had  the  supreme 
merit  of  brevity.  It  would  extend  too  much  the  limits  of  this  memorial  to  view  In 
detail  these  four  hundred  or  more  opinions  contributed  by  Judge  Hough  during  his 
term  of  office.  The  judicial  independence  of  Judge  Hough  and  his  firm  stand  in 
upholding  the  integrity  of  public  obligations,  were  shown  in  his  concurring  with 
Judge  Napton  in  dissenting  from  the  judgment  in  Webb  v.  Lafayette  County,  67  Mo. 
353.  which  declared  invalid  the  bonds  issued  in  aid  of  railroads  under  the  Township 
Aid  Act  of  1868;  also  in  his  separate  concurring  opinion  in  State  ex  rel.  Woodson 
V.  Brassfield,  67  Mo.  331;  and  also  in  State  ex  rel.  Wilson  v.  Rainey,  74  Mo.  29,  in 
concurring  in  the  opinion  of  the  court  delivered  by  Judge  Norton,  upholding  the 
validity  of  the  tax  levied  under  a  mandamus  from  the  federal  court  for  the  payment 
of  a  judgment  on  county  bonds  which  had  been  adjudged  valid  by  the  federal  court 
but  had  been  held  invalid  by  the  state  courts.  These  cases  and  opinions  recall  the 
conflict,  happily  ended  many  years  since,  between  the  state  and  federal  courts  in 
Missouri.  His  opinions  In  the  Sharp  and  Johnston  cases,  59  Mo.  557,  76  Mo.  660, 
are  leading  cases  on  the  law  of  malicious  prosecution;  and  the  law  of  disputed 
boundary  established  by  long  acquiescence,  is  lucidly  declared  in  Turner  v.  Baker, 
64  Mo.  218.  The  statute  of  limitation  and  the  proof  of  ancient  deeds,  where  title 
is  based  upon  Spanish  land  titles,  was  set  forth  in  an  exhaustive  and  scholarly 
opinion  in  Smith  v.  Madison,  67  Mo.  694.  Jurists  have  differed  on  the  subject  of  dis- 
senting opinions.     Some  think  that  the   custom   is   more  honored   In   the   breach   than 


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in  the  observance;  but  it  is  true  that  dissenting  opinions  are  at  times  a  necessary 
feature  in  the  development  o£  the  law  through  judicial  precedent,  which  is  the  essen- 
tial basis  o£  our  jurisprudence.  The  dissenting  opinions  of  Judge  Hough  are  not 
numerous;  in  fact,  they  are  comparatively  few;  but  it  is  interesting  to  recall  that  in 
several  important  cases  these  dissenting  opinions  have  been  declared  to  be  the  law, 
even  after  his  retirement  from  the  bench.  Thus,  in  Valle  v.  Obenhause,  62  Mo.  81, 
it  was  held  by  a  majority  of  the  court  that  where  a  husband  during  coverture  is  a 
tenant  by  the  courtesy  initiate,  the  statute  of  limitation  begins  to  run.  against  the 
wife  from  the  disseizin;  and  her  right  of  acion  is  therefore  barred  if  she  fails  to  sue 
within  twenty-four  years  after  the  disseizin.  Judge  Hough,  in  his  dissenting  opinion, 
contended  that  the  statute  of  limitation  did  not  begin  to  run  against  a  married 
woman  on  account  of  disseizin  of  her  fee  simple  lands  until  the  determination 
of  the  tenancy  of  her  husband  by  the  courtesy  initiate.  Just  before  his  retirement 
from  the  bench  in  18S4,  in  the  case  of  Campbell  v.  Laclede  Gas  Light  Company, 
84  Mo.  352,  three  of  the  five  judges  concurred  in  declaring  that  his  dissenting  opinion 
in  Valle  v.  Obenhause  stated  the  correct  view  of  the  law;  and  after  Judge  Hough's 
retirement  from  the  bench  in  1886,  in  Dyer  v.  Witler,  89  Mo.  81,  the  case  of  Valle  v. 
Obenhause  was  definitely  overruled,  and  the  view  expressed  by  Judge  Hough  in  his 
dissenting  opinion  was  adopted  as  the  law  of  the  court.  In  Xoell  v.  Gaines,  68  Mo. 
649,  Judge  Hough  dissented  in  a  learned  opinion  from  the  ruling  of  the  court  that 
where  a  deed  of  trust  provided  that  the  two  promissory  notes  secured  thereby  should 
both  become  due  on  the  failure  to  pay  one,  the  demand  and  notice  to  an  endorser, 
at  the  final  maturity  of  the  second  note,  came  too  late,  as  such  demand  should  have 
been  made  immediately  upon  the  declaration  that  the  notes  were  due  for  foreclosure. 
Judge  Hough  insisted  that  the  rule  in  relation  to  reading  several  co-temporaneous 
instruments  together  was  not  applicable  to  mortgages  and  notes  secured  thereby; 
and  this  view  was  adopted  by  the  court  several  years  after  he  left  the  bench  in 
Owens  V.  McKenzie,  133  Mo.  323,  so  that  in  this  case  his  dissenting  opiniooi  again 
became  the  law  of  the  state.  In  one  of  the  last  cases  during  his  term,  Abbott  v. 
Kansas  City,  St.  Joseph  &  Council  Bluffs  R.  Co.,  83  Mo.  71,  Judge  Hough  had  the 
satisfaction  of  noting  in  his  concurring  opinion  that  the  rule  declared  by  him  in 
his  dissenting  opinion  in  Shane  v.  K.  C.  St.  J.  &  C.  B.  Ry.  Co.,  71  Mo.  237,  that  the 
rule  of  the  common  law,  and  not  the  civil  law,  as  to  surface  water  should  prevail  in 
the   state,  had   been   adopted   by   the   court  and   declared   the   law   of   the   state." 

In  1861  Judge  Hough  was  married  to  Miss  Nina  E.  Massey,  daughter  of  Hon. 
Benjamin  F.  and  Maria  (Withers)  Massey,  the  former  then  secretary  of  state  of 
Missouri.  The  mother  was  born  in  Fauquier  county,  Virginia,  and  was  a  great 
granddaughter  of  Letitia  Lee,  daughter  of  Philip  Lee,  who  was  a  grandson  at 
Richard  Lee,  founder  of  the  family  in  Virginia,  where  he  settled  in  the  reign  of 
Charles  I  of  England.  Judge  and  Mrs.  Hough  became  parents  of  two  sons  and  three 
daughters.  Warwick  Massey,  the  eldest,  is  mentioned  elsewhere  in  this  work.  Louis 
was  graduated  from  the  Missouri  Medical  College  of  St.  Louis  in  1891  and  is  now 
an  eminent  physician  and  surgeon.  In  the  later  years  of  his  professional  career 
Judge  Hough  had  as  his  associate  his  son  and  namesake,  the  firm  ranking  with  the 
foremost  at  the  Missouri  bar.  In  1883  the  University  of  Missouri  conferred  upon 
Judge  Hough  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws.  He  ever  gave  his  political  allegiance 
unfalteringly  to  the  democratic  party  and  fraternally  he  was  well  known  in  Masonic 
circles,  having  taken  the  consistory  degrees  of  the  Scottish  Rite.  No  more  fitting 
tribute'  to  the  memory  of  this  eminent  jurist  could  be  paid  than  that  of  the  State 
Bar  Association,  which  closed  with  the  words:  "Memoralizing  this  distinguished 
public  career  of  Judge  Hough,  we  can  only  briefly  allude  to  the  exceptionally  inter- 
esting personality  of  the  man.  His  dignified,  courtesy  and  native  independence  of 
character,  with  his  wide  range  of  reading  and  the  unusual  combination  of  literary 
and  scientific  taste,  gave  him  a  rare  personal  charm;  and  his  interesting  and  varied 
experience  in  life,  and  broad  human  sympathetic  philosophy  of  life  made  him  always 
welcome  in  cultured  and  refined  circles,  and  endeared  him  to  those  who  were 
privileged  to  enjoy  an  intimate  association.  Judge  Hough  was  fortunate  in  preserv- 
ing to  the  last  the  appreciative  enjoyment  of  those  literary  and  cultured  tastes  which 
had  distinguished  him  through  life.  He  was  still  more  fortunate  in  having  to  the 
end  of  life  the  ministrations  of  the  wife  of  his  youth  and  of  his  children,  and  'all 
that  should  accompany  old  age,— lo-ve,  honor,  obedience,  and  troops  of  friends.' 
As  to  the  closing  scene  of  the  drama  of  this  eventful  life,  we  quote  the  eloquent 
words  of  Judge  Hough   in  presenting  in  the  United   States   court,  a  few  years   since, 


142  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OE  MISSOURI 

a  memorial  on  a  deceased  brother  of  the  bar:  'He  has  entered  upon  the  impenetrable 
mystery  of  the  great  Unknown,  athwart  whose  vast  expanse  the  feeble  taper  of  earthly 
wisdom  sheds  no  light,  and  in  whope  depths  the  plummet  of  the  profoundest  philosophy 
finds  no  resting-place,  and  in  the  contemplation  of  which,  the  anxious  soul  finds  no 
consolation,  or  relief,  save  in  the  Rainbow  of  Hope,  cast  upon  the  sky  of  the  future, 
by   the    Sun    of   Righteousness,    shining    through   our    tears.' " 


AVARWICK  MASSEY  HOUGH. 

Warwick  Massey  Hough,  whose  connection  with  some  of  the  most  important  cases 
tried  in  America  has  brought  him  national  reputation  as  a  lawyer,  his  position  being 
that  of  one  of  the  most  eminent  and  honored  members  of  the  St.  Louis  bar.  was  born 
in  Columbus,  Mississippi,  September  29,  1862,  his  parents  being  Judge  Warwick  and 
Nina  Elizabeth  (Massey)  Hough.  The  father,  who  was  a  distinguished  jurist,  passed 
away   October  28,  1915.  and   is  mentioned   at   length   on   another  page   of   this   work. 

After  pursuing  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  War- 
wick M.  Hough  continued  his  studies  in  the  St.  Louis  University  and  in  Central 
College  at  Fayette,  Missouri,  where  he  completed  his  academic  course  in  1883.  At- 
tracted to  the  profession  to  which  his  father  devoted  his  life,  the  son  began  his  law 
studies  under  his  father's  direction,  thus  continuing  his  reading  from  1883  until 
1886  and  also  gaining  legal  experience  in  the  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  supreme  court 
of  Missouri,  where  he  assisted  in  preparing  opinions  of  the  court  for  the  official 
reporter.  On  the  1st  of  February,  1886,  he  won  admission  to  the  bar,  being  licensed 
to  practice  before  the  circuit  court,  and  he  at  once  entered  upon  professional  work  in 
St.  Louis.  His  biographers,  writing  of  him  about  eight  years  ago,  said:  "During 
the  latter  part  of  President  Cleveland's  first  administration  he  was  assistant  United 
States  district  attorney  for  the  eastern  division  of  the  eastern  district  of  Missouri, 
Hon.  Thomas  P.  Bashaw  being  at  that  time  the  district  attorney.  While  serving 
in  this  capacity  he  was  called  upon  to  make  a  close  study  of  the  internal  revenue  laws 
of  the  United  States  and  as  a  result  he  has  since,  while  engaged  in  general  practice, 
given  special  attention  to  litigation  of  all  kinds  growing  out  of  the  enforcement  of 
the  revenue  laws  and  has  achieved  marked  distinction  in  this  line  of  professional 
work.  Among  his  distinguishing  characteristics  as  a  practitioner  have  been  absolute 
fearlessness  in  the  discharge  of  his  duty  to  his  clients,  painstaking  effort  in  the  prep- 
aration of  his  cases  and  prompt  and  vigorous  action  in  cases  requiring  such  action. 
As  a  trial  lawyer  he  is  conspicuous  for  the  force,  directness  and  clearness  of  his 
statements  to  both  courts  and  juries,  and  for  his  courteous  demeanor  under  all  cir- 
cumstances. Especially  happy  in  presenting  the  strong  points  of  his  own  case  and 
in  exposing  the  weakness  of  an  adversary's  cause,  he  has  shown  himself  the  well 
rounded  and  well  equipped  lawyer  in  a  practice  which  covers  a  wide  and  varied  field." 
During  the  past  seven  years,  however,  Mr.  Hough  has  confined  his  attention  exclu- 
sively to  corporation,  internal  revenue  and  pure  food  laws  and  during  President  Taft's 
administration  he  was  chief  counselor  in  what  was  known  as  the  Whiak  case,  which 
was  one  of  national  importance,  in  which  Mr.  Hough  was  associated  with  Mr.  Choate, 
Senator  Armstrong.  Mr.  Lucking  and  Lawrence  Maxwell,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  Mr. 
Hough  also  tried  the  largest  libel  case  ever  heard  in  the  United  States,  brought 
against  the  American  Medical  Association.  Four  months  were  consumed  in  the 
trial  of  this  case  and  the  court  costs  and  expenses  incurred  amounted  to  over  two 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars.  In  both  of  these  cases,  which  were  of  national 
interest,  he  was  successful  and  thus  heightened  his  fame  as  one  of  the  leading  la'Ht- 
yers   of   the   country. 

On  the  22d  of  October,  1890,  Mr.  Hough  was  married  at  Waterloo,  Iowa,  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  Gage,  formerly  of  St.  Louis,  and  a  daughter  of  Charles  and  Mary  S.  Gage 
and  granddaughter  of  Frances  Dana  Gage,  of  Ohio,  who  in  her  day  was  a  well  known 
and  popular  writer.  Through  her  Mrs.  Hough  is  also  descended  from  Captain  Wil- 
liam Dana,  who  commanded  a  company  of  artillery  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  and 
whose  wife  was  Mary  Bancroft.  Mrs.  Hough  is  prominent  in  the  social  circles  of 
St.  Louis,  where  she  has  many  friends. 

Politically  Mr.  HOugh  is  a  democrat,  but  has  taken  comparatively  little  part  in 
active   political  work,  although   in'l896   he  entered   the   presidential   campaign   as   the 


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champion  ot  bimetallism,  free  trade  and  the  reserved  rights  of  the  states  in  opposi- 
tion to  centralization  of  power.  During  the  period  of  the  World  war  he  was  a  member 
ot  the  legal  advisory  board  and  active  in  support  of  all  war  movements.  FYaternally 
he  is  connected  with  Occidental  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  is  never  found  wanting 
when  men  are  needed  to  champion  a  principle  or  to  uphold  national  interests.  Nothing 
that  concerns  the  welfare  of  his  fellowmen  is  foreign  to  him  and  the  nature  of  his 
interests  is  indicated  in  his  membership  in  the  Citizens'  Industrial  Association,  the 
Civic  League,  the  Business  Men's  League  of  St.  Louis,  in  the  Law  Library  Association 
and  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association,  in  the  American  Bar  Association  and  in  the 
American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science.  That  the  social  element  in  his 
nature  has  not  been  neglected  is  also  evidenced  in  the  fact  that  he  has  membership 
in  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  in  the  Racquet,  Noonday,  St.  Louis,  Country 
and  Bellerive  Clubs  ot  St.  Louis  and  in  Chevy  Chase  of  Washington,  D.  C.  He  enjoys 
the  outdoor  sports  offered  in  hunting,  fishing,  motoring  and  golf  and  by  reason  of  his 
literary  tastes  many  of  his  happiest  hours  are  spent  in  his  library  in  association  with 
the  men  of  master  minds  of  all  ages. 


JUDGE  WILLIAJl  H.  BROWNLEE.^ 

Among  the  distinguished  names  that  appear  upon  the  pages  of  Missouri's  legal 
history  is  that  of  Judge  William  H.  Brownlee,  for  many  years  an  honored  member  of 
the  Linn  county  bar.  For  four  decades  he  resided  in  Brookfield  and  throughout  that 
period  bore  an  unsullied  reputation  as  a  lawyer  and  as  a  banker.  He  was  born  in 
Indiana  and  early  determining  upon  the  practice, of  law  as  a  life  work,  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  at  Princeton,  Indiana,  following  his  graduation  from  the  law  department 
of  the  university  at  Bloomington  about  1855.  He  opened  an  office  in  Princeton,  where 
he  practiced  his  profession  for  a  brief  period  and  then  started  westward.  When  at 
Champaign,  Illinois,  he  conferred  with  Abraham  Lincoln  about  the  choice  of  a  location. 
In  his  travels  he  was  accompanied  by  George  W.  Thompson  and  together  they  made 
their  way  to  Brunswick,  Chariton  county,  from  which  point  Judge  Brownlee  journeyed 
on  foot  to  Milan,  Sullivan  county,  Missouri.  This  was  in  the  year  1857.  He  there 
located  a  land  grant  ot  the  Mexican  war  which  had  been  given  to  his  father,  John 
Brownlee,  in  recognition  of  his  services  in  an  Indiana  regiment  during  the  war  with 
Mexico.     He  had  also  served  in  the  War  of  1812  and  passed  away  in  Indiana  in  1855. 

It  was  two  years  later  that  Judge  Brownlee  located  his  land  grant,  after  which 
he  entered  upon  the  practice  of  law  at  Linneus,  Missouri,  in  partnership  with  George 
W.  Thompson,  with  whom  he  was  thus  associated  until  1868.  He  then  removed  to 
Brookfleld,  where  his  remaining  days  were  passed,  and  it  was  not  long  before  he  had 
gained  a  large  and  distinctively  representative  clientage,  which  came  to  him  in  recog- 
nition of  his  skill  and  ability  in  handling  intricate  and  involved  legal  problems.  He 
never  sought  to  influence  the  opinon  in  a  case  through  oratory  but  presented  his  cause 
in  a  most  clear  and  cogent  way,  displaying  accurate  and  profound  knowledge  of  the  law 
and  excellent  judgment.  He  was  also  a  most  wise  counselor  and  was  often  called  upon 
to  act  as  a  special  judge  in  prominent  cases  and  his  opinions  were  seldom  reversed  by  a 
higher  court.  An  eminent  member  of  the  Linn  county  bar  said  of  Judge  Brownlee.  that 
"no  man  who  has  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in  Linn  county  had  a  more 
thorough  and  broader  knowledge  of  the  law,  from  its  basis  and  elementary  principles 
upward,  than  Judge  William  H.  Brownlee.  That  he  possessed  a  thorough  and  complete 
knowledge  of  the  law  was  fully  demonstrated  while  he  was  judge  of  the  Linn  county 
court  of  common  pleas,  as  no  decision  made  by  him  was  ever  reversed  by  the  supreme 
court." 

In  the  field  of  banking  Judge  Brownlee  also  became  a  well  known  figure.  He 
succeeded  to  an  interest  in  the  banking  firm  ot  T.  D.  Pi'ice  &  Company,  at  which  time 
the  firm  style  of  Price  &  Brownlee  was  assumed,  while  a  later  change  in  the  personnel  of 
the  firm  led  to  the  adoption  of  the  style  of  Price,  Brownlee  &  DeGraw.  He  also  became 
the  first  president  of  the  Linn  County  Bank,  so  continuing  until  1893,  when  he  organized 
the  Brownlee  Banking  Company.  In  the  care  of  moneyed  interests  he  balanced  his  pro- 
gressiveness  with  a  sate  conservatism  and  the  public  had  the  most  thorough  confidence 
in  him  and  his  ability  to  protect  their  interests. 

Judge  Brownlee  was  a  democrat  in  his  political  views  and  in  1860  was  elected  judge 
of  the  probate  court  of  Linn  county,  which  office  he  filled  until  1864.     In  1870  he  was 

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chosen  by  popular  suffrage  to  the  office  of  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  and  served 
upon  the  bench  with  credit  to  himself  and  benefit  to  the  county  for  a  period  of  four  years. 
He  then  declined  a  reelection  that  he  might  give  his  attention  to  the  private  practice  of 
law.  He  rounded  out  forty  years  of  an  active  professional  career  in  Linn  county  and 
when  death  called  him  the  news  was  received  with  a  sense  of  personal  bereavement  not 
only  by  the  people  of  his  city  but  throughout  the  state  as  well,  for  he  was  widely  known 
and  highly  respected.  Many  were  the  tributes  paid  to  his  ability  and  to  his  memory. 
A  resolution  of  the  Linn  County  Bar  Association  said:  "His  transcendent  ability  and. 
profound  knowledge  of  the  law,  his  wonderful  sagacity  and  intuitive  knowledge  of 
human  nature,  preeminently  fitted  him  for  the  most  exalted  station  in  private  or  public 
life,  while  his  uniform  kindness  of  heart  to  all,  and  especially  to  the  younger  and 
struggling  members  of  the  bar,  and  to  the  needy  and  oppressed  everywliere,  made 
him  dear  to  the  hearts  of  all  who  knew  him."  A  beautiful  tribute  was  paid  to 
his  memory  by  the  Brookfield  Argus,  as  follows:  "Those  who  were  familiar  with 
the  life  and  character  of  William  H.  Brownlee,  who  have  known  him  as  husband,  father, 
neighbor,  counselor  and  friend,  attest  best  to  the  gentleness  of  his  being,  the  kindness 
of  his  heart.  For  years,  for  three  or  four  decades,  he  has  been  to  legions  in  this  com- 
munity adviser  and  benefactor.  It  was  a  part  of  his  life  to  be  doing  little  acts  of  kind- 
ness which  he  was  not  prone  to  herald.  A  thorough  optimist,  his  presence  was  a  sort 
of  benediction  to  those  with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  Ever  of  an  even  temperament, 
he  was  never  disposed  to  retaliate  for  real  or  imaginary  ills.  The  democracy  of  heart 
of  Judge  Brownlee  was  as  broad  as  his  charity  for  the  unfortunate.  *  *  *  He  belonged 
to  no  fraternal  orders  save  that  of  homecraft,  to  no  club  save  that  where  wife  and 
children  dwell.  There  it  was  that  his  influence,  his  gentleness,  his  kind  indulgence, 
showed  forth  in  a  character  that  will  make  his  memory  cherished  by  those  who  knew 
him  best  and  loved  him  most." 

Judge  Brownlee  still  lives  in  the  memory  of  his  fellow  townsmen,  his  associates 
in  practice,  his  warm  friends  and  most  of  all  the  children  to  whom  he  was  a  devoted 
father. 


B.    HOWARD   SMITH. 


A  modern  philosopher  has  said:  "Opportunity  is  universal,  not  local;  sviccess 
depends  not  upon  a  map,  but  a  time-table."  It  was  a  recognition  of  this  tact 
that  has  led  to  the  successful  issue  of  the  business  interests  of  B.  Howard  Smith, 
who  is  now  president  of  the  Consumers  Bread  Company  of  Kansas  City.  From 
the  outset  of  his  career  he  has  made  the  best  possible  use  of  his  time  and  talents 
and  each  day  in  his  career  has  marked  off  a  full  taithed  attempt  to  grow  more 
»nd  to  know  more. 

Mr.  Smith  was  born  in  Scott  county,  Indiana,  February  5,  1848,  and  was  early 
left  an  orphan,  being  thus  thrown  upon  his  own  resources.  His  father.  Rev.  H.  F. 
Smith,  was  a  minister  of  the  Baptist  church  and  later  in  life  became  a  wholesale 
dry  goods  merchant.  Both  he  and  his  father  were  natives  of  Ohio  and  in  Indiana 
H.  F.  Smith  became  a  prominent  citizen,  serving  as  a  member  of  the  constitutional 
convention  when  the  organic  law  of  the  state  was  formed.  He  passed  away  in 
1861.  In  early  manhood  he  had  wedded  Lucy  Reeves  and  they  became  the  parents 
of  eleven  children,  only  two  of  whom  are  yet  living. 

B.  Howard  Smith  was  a  youth  of  seventeen  years  when  in  1865  he  removed 
from  Indiana  to  Oliio,  settling  upon  a  farm  near  Cincinnati.  He  had  previously 
pursued  his  education  in  the  schools  of  his  native  state  and  for  three  years  he 
devoted  his  attention  to  farm  work  in  Ohio.  In  187  0  he  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Mary  Stille,  of  Cincinnati,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  five  childi'en: 
Mrs.  Lillian  Hartman,  living  in  Kansas  City;  Harry  E.,  who  is  now  superintendent 
of  the  Smith  Bakery,  owned  by  his  father;  Bryce  B.,  vice  president  of  the  Con- 
sumers Bread  Company  and  a  member  of  the  upper  house  of  the  city  council  of 
Kansas   City;    Earl   H.,    deceased;    and   Walter   L.,    deceased. 

After  devoting  three  years  to  farming  in  Ohio  Mr.  Smith  went  to  Indianapolis, 
Indiana,  where  he  began  driving  a  bread  wagon,  being  thus  engaged  from  1873 
until  1884.  In  the  meantime,  however,  through  energy  and  ability  he  had  steadily 
risen    in    business    circles    of    that    city    and    had    become    the    owner    of    a    bakery 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  149 

in  Indianapolis.  He  purchased  the  property  for  five  hundred  dollars  and  began 
business  with  three  barrels  ot  flour  and  nineteen  dollars  in  cash.  He  continued 
in  the  business  for  four  years  in  Indianapolis,  after  which  he  came  to  Missouri, 
settling  first  at  Springfield,  where  he  established  a  cracker  factory,  which  he 
conducted  for  a  year  and  a  half.  His  plant  was  then  destroyed  by  fire,  causing  a 
total  loss.  In  1885  he  came  to  Kansas  City  and  was  not  only  without  capital 
but  was  in  debt.  However,  he  secured  a  small  bakery  and  carried  his  loaves  of 
bread  in  a  basket  to  his  customers.  His  determination  and  energy  brought  grati- 
fying results  and  he  continued  to  conduct  the  bakery  successfully  until  1909,  when 
he  organized  the  Consumers  Bread  Company,  the  consolidation  ot  several  bakeries, 
with  a  capital  of  one  million  dollars.  The  company  now  employs  one  hundred 
people  in  the  parent  plant  and  also  operates  three  other  bakeries,  giving  employ- 
ment to  the  two  hundred  and  twenty-five  people.  The  output  of  the  company  is 
a  million  three  hundred  thousand  loaves  of  bread  per  week.  Thus  through  individ- 
ual effort  Mr.  Smith  has  built  up  a  business  of  mammoth  proportions.  He  seems 
to  have  grasped  early  the  nature  of  his  life  task  and  decided  to  meet  the  prob- 
lems of  life  and  win.  He  considered  it  no  handicap  to  his  success  that  he  must 
win  honorably,  therefore  his  business  life  has  been  of  the  highest  type.  In  his 
chosen  line  he  has  been  a  progressive,  while  in  side  issues  he  is  very  cautious. 
His  vision  along  the  line  of  his  regular  business  has  been  of  the  best  and  he  has 
always  been  a  leader.  He  was  made  president  of  the  National  Association  of  Master 
Bakers  ot  the  United  States  in  1905,  his  election  to  that  position  indicating  his 
high  standing  among  his  business  associates,  colleagues  and  contemporaries.  He 
is  an  indefatigable  worker  who  keeps  in  close  toxich  with  every  detail  of  the  busi- 
ness while  giving  due  Importance  to  the  major  points  in  relation  to  the  trade. 
He  is  a  splendid  executive,  a  man  of  marked  administrative  power,  and  is  one  of 
the  leading  bakers  of  the  United  States.  Withal  he  is  an-  extremely  modest  man 
and  one  must  depend  upon  his  friends  for  a  characterization  of  his  life  rather 
than  upon  his  own  story. 

Mr.  Smith  is  a  Mason,  .belonging  to  Southgate  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  also 
to  Ararat  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  has  always  been  a  lover  of  fine  horses 
and  has  won  many  handsome  cups  and  trophies  in  the  races.  At  one  time  he 
owned  Nancy  Belle  with  a  record  of  2:15%  and  he  has  been  the  owner  of  various 
other  splendid  representatives  ot  racing  stock  but  has  no  fast  stock  at  the  present 
time.  He  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Club  and  also  to  the  Mid-Day  Club.  He  is 
much  interested  in  civic  affairs,  was  a  generous  supporter  of  the  Red  Cross  and  the 
Liberty  Loan  drives  during  the  war  and  is  a  man  of  many  philanthropies,  ot  which, 
however,  his  friends  know  little,  so  quietly  does  he  make  use  of  his  means  to 
reduce  want  and  suffering.  He  loves  the  best  things  of  life,  including  music  and 
literature,  and  the  results  he  has  attained  and  the  character  which  he  has  for- 
mulated indicate  that  he  has  made  wise  use  of  his  time,  talents  and  opportunities 
as  the  years  have  gone  by.  In  politics  Mr.  Smith  is  a  democrat  and  his  religious 
faith  is  that  of  the  Christian  church. 


W.  HARRY  MARE. 


W.  Harry  Mare,  who  Is  the  president  of  the  Audit  &  Bond  Company  of  St.  Louis,  has 
become  recognized  as  an  authority  in  his  profession  as  a  result  of  a  life  devoted  to  his 
work.  His  close  application  and  thorough  study,  his  enterprise  and  diligence  have 
steadily  advanced  him  along  his  chosen  line  of  activity,  and  today  he  controls  a  business 
of  extensive  proportions.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  September  15,  1873,  a  son  of  William 
H.  and  Jemima  (Scott)  Mare.  The  father  was  born  in  Devonshire,  England,  where 
the  family  home  had  been  maintained  for  many  generations.  He  came  to  St.  Louis  in 
1860  and  here  established  a  dry  goods  business  which  he  conducted  for  a  long  period. 
He  yet  makes  his  home  in  this  city.  His  wife  came  of  ancient  and  honorable  lineage, 
her  father  having  been  an  officer  in  the  British  army  during  the  Crimean  war,  in  which 
he  laid  down  his  life  for  his  country.  Her  uncle,  R.  R.  Scott,  with  Dugald  Crawford, 
founded  the  order  of  the  Scottish  clans  in  1873,  at  St.  Louis,  and  the  members  are  now 
numbered  by  the  thousands  throughout  the  United   States. 

The  early  education  of  W.  Harry  Mare  was  obtained  in  the  public  schools  of  St. 
Louis  and  he  passed  through  consecutive  grades  to  the  Central  high  school.     In  1892  he 


150  CEXTEKNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

turned  his  attention  to  the  accounting  business,  in  which  he  engaged  individually  until 
1904,  when  his  interests  were  incorporated  under  the  name  of  the  Audit  &  Bond  Com- 
pany of  America  of  which  he  is  now  the  president.  He  specializes  in  handling  municipal 
and  drainage  district  accounting  and  his  activities  in  this  direction  have  been  marked 
by  an  efficiency  which  has  insured  him  a  liberal  patronage. 

On  the  3d  of  September,  1895,  Mr.  Mare  was  married  to  Miss  Alice  E.  Stobie,  a 
daughter  of  William  Stobie.  president  of  the  Stobie  Cereal  Mills  of  St.  Louis.  The  family 
came  from  Aberdeen,  Scotland,  where  for  generations  they  have  been  millers  of  the 
community.  Mrs.  Mare  is  a  cousin  of  William  Shipman,  the  widely  known  sugar 
producer  and  cattle  ranchman  of  Hilo,  Hawaii.  Two  children  have  been  born  unto 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mare:  William  Stobie,  the  elder,  born  in  1896,  is  now  treasurer  of  the 
Audit  &  Bond  Company.  He  served  for  eighteen  months  in  France  during  the  World 
war  as  a  member  of  Company  K,  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Eighth  United  States  Infantry, 
and  was  wounded  and  gassed  in  the  Argonne  Forest.  The  youngest  son,  Robert  Craigie, 
born  in  1901,  is  now  attending  Washington  University  and  is  following  in  the  footsteps 
of  his  father  by  taking  a  course  in  accounting.  He  was  named  in  honor  of  his  uncle 
David  Craigie,  who  was  a  brigadier  general  in  the  regular  United  States  army.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Mare  are  widely  known  in  St.  Louis,  where  the  hospitality  of  many  of  the  best 
homes  is  freely  accorded  them  and  where  they  have  a  circle  of  friends  almost  coextensive 
with  the  circle  of  their  acquaintances. 


COLONEL  J.  L.  ABERXATHY. 

Colonel  J.  L.  Al)ernathy,  who  in  the  furniture  trade  won  a  measure  of  success  that 
gained  him  rank  among  the  capitalists  of  Kansas  City,  where  he  took  up  his  abode  in 
1870,  was  a  native  of  AVarren  county,  Ohio,  born  March  20,  1833.  His  parents  always 
resided  in  Ohio  and  in  Indiana,  the  father  following  farming  for  many  years  in  the 
latter  state.  The  son  was  a  student  in  the  public  schools  of  Knightstown,  Indiana, 
where  he  acquired  a  good  education  and  then  went  into  business  for  himself,  establishing 
a  dry  goods  store  in  Rushville,  Indiana,  where  he  conducted  his  enterprise  successfully 
until  1855.  Feeling  that  he  would  have  still  better  opportunities  in  the  new  but  rapidly 
growing  west,  he  removed  to  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  where  in  partnership  with  S.  D. 
Woods  he  established  a  furniture  store  which  he  conducted  until  after  the  outbreak  of 
the  Civil  war. 

In  1862  he  enlisted  in  a  thirty-day  company  and  afterward  became  captain  of  the 
Eighth  Kansas  Infantry,  raising  a  company  tor  service  with  that  regiment.  Still  later 
he  was  promoted  to  the  colonelcy  of  the  regiment  and  continued  in  command  until  1863, 
when  in  the  battle  of  Chickamauga  he  was  taken  very  ill  and  because  of  the  condition 
of  his  health  resigned  and  returned  to  his  home  in  Leavenworth.  He  again  became  an 
active  factor  in  the  furniture  trade,  in  which  he  continued  until  about  1870,  when  he 
removed  to  Kansas  City.  His  early  identification  with  the  business  interests  of  this 
city  was  as  a  wholesale  furniture  dealer,  while  later  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Mr. 
Keith,  and  they  engaged  in  the  retail  furniture  business  for  a  short  time.  Mr.  Keith 
eventually  sold  his  interest  to  Mr.  North,  who  was  associated  with  Colonel  Abernathy 
in  the  retail  furniture  business  for  a  few  years.  Later  Jlr.  Duff  and  Mr.  Repp  became 
interested  in  the  business  and  the  Duff  &  Repp  Furniture  Company  is  still  operating 
at  Nos.  1216-1222  Main  street.  Throughout  his  commercial  career  Colonel  Abernathy 
maintained  a  reputation  for  undoubted  integrity  and  for  energy  and  persererance  that 
constituted  the  basis  of  his  gratifying  prosperity. 

In  1858  occurred  the  marriage  of  J.  L.  Abernathy  and  Miss  Elizabeth  Martin,  of 
Leavenworth,  Kansas.  She  was  born  in  Butler  county.  Ohio,  not  far  from  the  birth- 
place of  her  husband,  her  parents  being  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Marshall)  Martin,  both 
of  whom  were  natives  of  Ohio  but  at  an  early  day  they  took  up  their  abode  in  the 
vicinity  of  Lafayette,  Indiana,  where  Mr.  Martin  engaged  in  the  saddlery  business 
throughout  his  remaining  days.  Both  he  and  his  wife  died  there.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Abernathy  were  born  six  children:  William  Martin,  who  died  leaving  a  widow  who 
resides  in  Kansas  City  and  who  in  her  maidenhood  was  Fannie  McClelland;  Walter  L., 
who  is  engaged  in  the  furniture  business  in  Kansas  City;  Frank,  who  died  in  early 
life;  Harry  T.,  who  is  mentioned  elsewhere  in  this  volume:  Omar,  engaged  in  the 
furniture  business  in  Leavenworth,  Kansas;  and  Cora,  the  wife  of  Dr.  A.  G.  Hull,  a 
prominent  physician  of  Kansas  City. 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  151 

Colonel  Abernathy  continued  in  the  furniture  business  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
on  the  16th  of  December,  1902.  Aside  from  his  interest  in  the  furniture  business  he 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Kansas  City  and  was  made 
one  of  its  stockholders  from  the  beginning.  He  also  had  financial  interests  in  other 
business  enterprises  of  Kansas  City  and  Leavenworth,  being  a  director  of  the  Leaven- 
worth National  Bank.  He  was  mayor  of  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  for  two  terms  and  also 
took  an  active  interest  in  politics  as  a  stalwart  supporter  of  the  republican  party.  He 
belonged  to  the  Loyal  Legion  and  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  and  maintained 
pleasant  relations  with  his  old  army  comrades  in  this  way.  He  always  took  great 
interest  in  church  work,  both  he  and  his  wife  being  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church, 
while  Colonel  Abernathy  served  as  elder  in  the  Second  Presbyterian  church  of  this  city. 
In  Leavenworth  he  was  elder  in  the  First  Presbyterian  church  and  was  superintendent 
of  the  Sunday  School  in  both  places  for  twenty-three  years.  Since  the  demise  of  her 
husband,  Mrs.  Abernathy  has  become  a  member  of  the  Central  Presbyterian  church. 
She  makes  her  home  in  Leavenworth,  where  she  owns  valuable  property,  but  spends 
much  time  with  her  children  in  Kansas  City  and  is  now  with  her  son,  H.  T.  Abernathy, 
at  3600  Madison  avenue. 


DAVID  RANDOLPH  CALHOUN. 

The  career  of  David  Randolph  Calhoun  has  not  been  characterized  by  leaps  and 
bounds  toward  his  business  goal  but  by  steady  advancement,  making  each  day  mark 
off  a  full-faithed  attempt  to  know  more  and  to  grow  more.  Purposeful,  self-reliant, 
willing  to  learn,  ready  to  abide  by  the  rules  of  any  house  by  which  he  was  employed 
and  willing,  moreover,  to  do  a  little  more  than  was  expected  of  him,  he  had  no  difficulty 
in  winning  through  these  qualities  the  attention  of  his  employers  and  thus  gaining 
advancement.     The  story  of  his  life  contains  much  that  is  inspiring. 

Born  in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  on  the  28th  day  of  February,  1858,  his  parents 
being  George  W.  and  Sarah  R.  (Giles)  Calhoun,  the  boy  mastered  the  elementary 
branches  of  learning  in  a  public  school  course  at  New  Market,  New  Jersey,  and  for 
further  study  attended  Smith  Academy  of  Dunellen,  New  Jersey.  He  made  his  initial 
step  in  the  business  world  as  an  employe  of  the  firm  of  Noyes,  White  &  Company,  com- 
mission merchants  in  notions,  remaining  with  that  house  from  1876  until  1878.  He  was 
working  twelve  hours  a  day  and  receiving  a  salary  of  two  dollars  per  week.  In  order 
to  supplement  this  he  obtained  a  place  as  relief  salesman  and  while  thus  working  he  had 
the  opportunity  to  sell  a  bill  of  goods  to  the  head  of  the  St.  Louis  house  of  Ely,  Jannis 
&  Company.  The  purchaser,  recognizing  the  splendid  salesmanship  qualities  of  the 
young  man,  offered  him  a  position  in  his  St.  Louis  establishment.  The  offer  was  at  once 
accepted  and  on  the  following  day,  with  his  new  employer,  he  was  en  route  to  the 
middle  west.  To  Mr.  Ely's  inquiry:  "Aren't  you  interested  in  what  I  am  to  pay  you?" 
Mr.  Calhoun  responded:  "Pay  me  what  you  think  I  am  worth."  He  was  placed  in 'the 
position  of  stock  clerk  and  order  filler  in  the  notion  department  of  the  new  St.  Louis 
house  at  a  salary  of  fifty  dollars  per  month.  That  was  the  starting  point  from  which 
he  continually  advanced,  winning  promotion  from  time  to  time  until  he  now  stands  at 
the  head  of  the  Ely-Walker  Dry  Goods  Company,  one  of  the  largest  firms  connected 
with  the  wholesale  trade  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  called  to  the  presidency  in  1903  and  has 
since  been  the  directing  head  of  this  concern.  A  contemporary  writer  has  said:  "The 
history  of  this  establishment  forms  an  integral  chapter  in  the  commercial  records  of 
St.  Louis.  Its  development  is  attributable  in  no  small  degree  to  the  efforts  of  Mr. 
Calhoun,  who  from  the  earliest  period  of  his  connection  therewith  has  largely  con- 
centrated his  energies  upon  its  expansion,  striving  toward  high  ideals  in  the  improve- 
ment of  the  personnel,  character  of  service  rendered  and  in  all  of  its  various  relations 
to  the  public."  Mr.  Calhoun  has  epigrammatically  expressed  his  rules  of  business  life — 
the  foundation  of  his  success—  as  "taking  a  keen  interest  in  his  work;  doing  a  little 
more  than  was  expected  of  him;  always  being  on  the  job." 

While  Mr.  Calhoun  has  been  most  closely  identified  with  the  middle  west  since  his 
removal  to  St.  Louis  in  1878,  he  returned  to  the  east  tor  his  bride  and  in  New  York  city, 
on  the  25th  of  November,  1891,  was  married  to  Miss  Marie  Gardner  Whitmore.  By  a 
previous  marriage  he  had  one  daughter,  Josephine  C,  now  the  wife  of  C.  Norman 
Jones,  while  the  son  of  the  present  marriage  is  David  R.  Calhoun,  Jr. 


152  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

When  opportunity  offers  Mr.  Calhoun  turns  to  golf  tor  recreation.  He  is  also 
appreciative  of  the  Social  amenities  of  life,  having  membership  in  the  Log  Cabin,  Noonday, 
Racquet,  Cuivre,  St.  Louis  and  St.  Louis  Country  Clubs.  Politically  he  has  never  been  a 
partisan  but  supports  those  interests  which  he  believes  are  for  the  benefit  of  the  com- 
munity at  large,  as  with  him  patriotism  transcends  partisanship.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Business  Men's  League  and  is  keenly  interested  in  all  that  has  to  do  with  the  com- 
mercial and  industrial  development  of  St.  Louis.  His  ideals  of  lite  are  high,  his  pur- 
poses strong  and  his  determination  unfaltering.  He  carved  out  the  path  which  led  to 
his  success  and  today  there  is  no  more  respected  factor  in  the  wholesale  trade  circles 
of  St.  Louis  than  David  R.  Calhoun. 


HARVEY  GILMER  MUDD,  M.  D. 

The  standards  of  medical  and  surgical  practice  are  being  constantly  advanced  and 
the  able  physician  must  ever  keep  abreast  with  the  latest  scientific  researches  and  dis- 
coveries if  his  efforts  reach  the  point  of  utmost  efficiency  in  his  chosen  calling.  Dr. 
Harvey  Gilmer  Mudd  is  one  who  has  ever  stood  in  the  vanguard  of  professional  progress 
and  public  opinion  accords  him  the  position  of  leadership  in  certain  branches  of  pro- 
fessional activity.  While  for  a  third  of  a  century  he  has  been  numbered  among  the 
physicians  and  surgeons  of  St.  Louis,  his  reputation  is  by  no  means  limited  by  the 
confines  of  the  city  or  even  of  the  state,  his  colleagues  and  contemporaries  through- 
out  America   bearing   testimony   to   his   professional   eminence. 

Dr.  Mudd  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  August  29,  1857,  his  parents  being  Henry 
Thomas  and  Sarah  Elizabeth  (Hodgen)  Mudd,  who  were  natives  of  Larue  county, 
Kentucky.  The  father,  who  was  tor  many  years  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business 
in  St.  Louis,  passed  away  in  1903.  The  ancestry  of  the  family  is  traced  back  to 
Poland,  from  which  country  representatives  of  the  name  were  forced  to  flee  on 
account  of  political  disturbances.  For  some  generations  the  family  was  represented 
in  Wales  and  the  original  American  ancestor  came  to  the  new  world  with  Lord  Balti- 
more. Maryland  continued  to  be  the  place  of  residence  for  the  family  for  a  number 
of  years,  after  which  a  removal  was  made  to  Kentucky  and  the  maternal  ancestors 
of  Dr.  Mudd  became  residents  of  that  state  on   removal   from  Virginia. 

In  his  early  boyhood  Harvey  Gilmer  Mudd  was  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  of 
Kirkwood,  Missouri,  and  afterward  attended  the  St.  Louis  high  school,  being  numbered 
among  its  alumni  of  1876.  A  review  of  the  broad  field  of  business  determined  him 
to  enter  upon  a  professional  career  and  he  became  a  student  in  the  St.  Louis  Medical 
College,  a  department  of  Washington  University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with 
the  class  of  1881.  Four  years  were  then  devoted  to  private  practice,  after  which 
he  went  abroad  for  further  study,  acquainting  himself  with  the  methods  of  the 
leading  physicians  and  surgeons  of  Berlin,  Vienna,  Paris,  London  and  Edinburgh  between 
the  years  1885  and  1887.  He  has  ever  been  a  most  close  and  discriminating  student 
of  his  profession  and  his  private  researches  and  investigations  have  been  carried  far 
and  wide  into  the  realms  of  scientific  knowledge.  He  has  always  enjoyed  a  most 
extensive  private  practice  and  he  is  not  unknown  in  educational  circles,  being  clinical 
professor  of  surgery  in  the  medical  department  of  Washington  University.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  and  the  chief  of  the  medical  staff  of  St.  Luke's 
Hospital  and  is  consulting  surgeon  and  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Bar- 
nard Free  Skin  and  Cancer  Hospital.  His  knowledge  of  all  departments  of  the 
medical  science  is  comprehensive  and  e.xact  and  he  has  ever  kept  in  touch  with 
the  advanced  thought  and  high  purposes  of  the  profession  through  his  connection 
with  the  St.^Louis  Medical  Society,  the  St.  Louis  Surgical  Society,  the  City  Hospital 
Alumni  Medical  Society,  the  American  Medical  Association  and  the  American  Associa- 
tion of  Genito-Urinary  Surgeons,  the  last  named  organization  having  honored  him 
with  the  presidency.  He  is  vice  president  of  the  American  Surgical  Association  and 
belongs  to  the  International  Surgical  Association  and  to  the  International  Association 
of  Urology. 

On  the  20th  of  January,  1892,  in  St.  Louis,  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Dr. 
Mudd  and  Miss  Margaret  de  la  Plaux  Clark,  and  they  have  one  son,  Stuart  Mudd, 
who  was  graduated  from  the  medical  department  of  Harvard  University  at  Cam- 
bridge  in   June,   1920.     While  a  student  there   he   won  the   Boylston   prize   of  Harvard 


DR.  HARVEY  G.  MUDD 


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University,  given  each  year  for  the  most  meritorious  essay  submitted  on  medical 
research  work.  In  addition  to  the  honor  a  cash  prize  ot  two  hundred  dollars  was 
included.  This  was  the  first  time  that  such  an  award  was  made  to  an  undergraduate. 
The  essay  was  written  as  a  result  ot  experiments  conducted  by  young  Mudd  to 
determine  the  effects  of  cold  and  chills  on  colds,  sore  throat  and  their  accompanying 
ailments. 

The  military  service  of  Dr.  Mudd  covers  two  years  connection  as  major  and  sur- 
geon with  the  First  Regiment  of  the  Missouri  National  Guard  and  through  the  period 
of  the  World  war  he  was  a  major  of  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps  and  was  also  chairman 
of  the  Missouri  State  Commission  of  National  Defense  Medical  Section,  thus  doing 
much  to  mobilize  the  professional  force  of  the  state  for  the  interests  of  the  war.  His 
political  endorsement  has  always  been  given  to  the  republican  party  and  his  apprecia- 
tion of  the  social  amenities  of  life  is  indicated  in  his  membership  in  the  St.  Louis 
Club,  University  Club,  St.  Louis  Country  Club,  Glen  Echo  Club,  Florissant  Valley  Club 
and  Sunset  Hill  Club  and  the  Army  and  Navy  Club  of  Washington,  D.  C.  He  turns 
to  golf  and  shooting  for  recreation  but  has  comparatively  little  leisure  time  owing  to 
the  extensive  demands  made  upon  him  for  professional  service.  Advancing  step  by 
step,  he  occupies  an  eminent  position  in  professional  ranks  and  is  most  conscientious 
in  the  discharge  of  every  professional  duty. 


JOHN  T.  MILBAN'K. 


John  T.  Milbank,  vice  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Chillicothe,  where 
for  many  years  he  has  been  prominently  and  successfully  engaged  in  the  milling  busi- 
ness, was  born  in  Troy,  Madison  county,  Illinois,  February  9,  1861,  his  parents  being 
George  and  Sarah  Ellen  (Swain)  Milbank.  The  father  was  born  in  Essex,  England, 
July  14,  1833,  and  spent  the  first  twenty-two  years  of  his  life  in  his  native  country. 
In  18.55  he  bade  adieu  to  friends  and  family  and  sailed  tor  the  new  world,  settling  first 
in  Akron,  Ohio,  where  he  followed  the  milling  trade,  which  he  had  previously  learned 
in  England.  He  afterward  removed  to  a  point  near  Evansville,  Indiana,  and  from  1856 
until  1860  was  a  resident  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  In  the  latter  year  he  established  his 
home  in  Troy,  Madison  county,  Illinois,  where  he  engaged  in  the  milling  business  on 
his  own  account  until  1867,  when  he  took  up  his  abode  at  Chillicothe,  where  he  erected 
the  second  mill  in  Livingston  county.  He  also  became  the  president  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Chillicothe  and  was  extensively  interested  in  farming  as  the  owner  of  a  large 
tract  of  land  which  was  cultivated  under  his  supervision.  He  was  married  May  3, 
1860,  to  Miss  Sarah  Ellen  Swain  and  they  became  the  parents  of  nine  children:  John 
T.,  Sarah  W.,  George  M.,  Lucy  T.,  Charles  R.,  Mary  L.,  Henry  S.,  Kate  S.  and  Nellie  May. 
George  M.  and  Nellie  May  have  passed  away.  In  the  year  1897  George  Milbank  retired 
from  active  business  and  spent  his  remaining  days  in  a  well  earned  rest,  passing  away 
in  1903,  while  his  wife  survived  until  1910. 

John  T.  Milbank  acquired  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Chillicothe  and 
his  business  training  was  received  under  the  direction  of  his  father  in  the  mill.  He 
became  familiar  with  every  phase  of  the  business  add  more  and  more  largely  relieved 
his  father  of  responsibility  in  that  connection.  In  1897  he  and  his  brother,  Henry 
Milbank,  purchased  the  mill  which  he  has  since  conducted.  It  has  tor  many  years 
been  one  of  the  most  important  productive  industries  of  Chillicothe,  its  output  finding 
a  ready  sale  on  the  market  because  of  the  excellence  and  quality  of  the  flour  produced. 
Like  his  father  Mr.  Milbank  entered  financial  circles,  being  elected  a  director  of  the 
First  National  Bank.  He  later  served  as  president  of  the  institution  and  is  now  the  vice 
president.  He  has  also  owned  and  operated  two  farms  in  Livingston  county  and  has 
thus  been  closely  and  prominently  associated  with  various  business  interests  in  this 
section  of  the  state.  From  1897  until  1911  John  T.  Milbank  was  a  partner  of  his 
brother,  Henry  Milbank,  in  the  ownership  and  operation  ot  the  mill,  but  at  the  latter 
date  became  sole  proprietor  through  the  purchase  of  his  brother's  interests.  The  plant 
has  a  capacity  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  barrels  of  flour  and  fifty  barrels  of  corn  meal 
per  day  and  the  product  is  readily  disposed  ot  in  the  local  market  and  in  St.  Louis. 
This  mill  has  done  much  to  encourage  the  growing  of  wheat  in  Livingston  county  and 
has  turned  back  to  the  farmers  many  millions  of  dollars  during  the  years  of  its 
existence. 


156  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

On  the  9th  of  May,  1895,  Mr.  Milbank  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Bessie  W. 
Palmer,  a  native  of  Des  Moines.  Iowa,  anri  a  daughter  of  Serring  and  Elida  (Bassett) 
Palmer',  the  former  a  native  of  Canada  and  the  latter  of  New  York.  About  1870  Mr 
Palmer'  came  to  Missouri,  settling  in  Chillicothe,  where  he  worked  at  the  tinsmith's 
trade.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Milbank  have  been  born  three  children:  George  Edward,  who 
was  born  Julv  14,  1897,  and  is  now  studying  medicine  in  the  State  University  at  Colum- 
bia; John  Palmer,  who  was  born  February  17,  1900,  and  is  studying  milling  in  Chicago; 
and  Elizabeth  Sarah,  who  was  born  July  18,  1905,  and  is  at  home.  Mrs.  Milbank  has 
written  for  the  Kansas  City  Star,  the  Globe  Democrat,  the  Christian  Herald,  the  Youth's 
Companion,  St.  Nicholas  and  several  other  newspapers  and  magazines,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  executive  board  of  the  Missouri  Writers'  Guild.  She  is  a  lady  of  marked  capa- 
bility and  intellectual  force  and  has  won  an  enviable  place  in  literary  circles  in  her 
state.  During  the  period  of  the  World  war  she  became  most  active  in  support  of 
interests  connected  therewith  and  tilled  the  position  of  vice  chairman  of  the  Red  Cross 
at  Chillicothe.  She  belongs  to  the  Episcopal  church  and  Mr.  Milbank  has  membership 
with  the  Masons,  attaining  the  Royal  Arch  degree.  His  political  endorsement  is  given 
to  the  democratic  party,  butr  the  honors  and  emoluments  of  office  have  had  no  attraction 
for  him,  as  he  has  always  preferred  to  concentrate  his  energies  and  attention  upon  his 
business  interests,  which  have  been  wisely,  carefully  and  profitably  conducted.  His 
labors,  too,  have  ever  been  of  a  character  which  have  contributed  to  the  progress 
and  prosperity  of  the  community  at  large,  as  well  as  to  his  individual  success,  and  the 
exercise  of  effort  is  keeping  him  alert. 


DAVID  L.  HOUGHTLIN. 


David  L.  Houghtlin,  who  for  thirteen  months  was  on  active  duty  in  France  with 
the  American  Expeditionary  Forces  and  is  now  engaged  in  insurance  work  in  St.  Louis, 
his  native  city,  was  born  July  6,  1892.  His  father,  David  M.  Houghtlin,  was  a  native  of 
Jerseyville,  Illinois,  born  January  20,  1870,  and  his  position  is  that  of  general  sales  agent 
for  the  Southern  Coal,  Coke  &  Mining  Company,  with  offices  in  the  Security  Building 
of  St.  Louis.  Both  the  paternal  grandfather  and  the  maternal  grandfather  of  David  L. 
Houghtlin  served  in  the  Civil  war  with  the  Union  army.  The  latter  was  David  Gleasou, 
a  merchant  of  Jerseyville,  Illinois,  and  the  father  of  Berdie  Emma  Gleason,  who  in 
Jerseyville,  became  the  wife  of  David  M.  Houghtlin.  Their  marriage  was  blessed  with 
six  children,  four  sons  and  two  daughters,  of  whom  David  L.  of  this  review  is  the  eldest. 
The  others  are  Lester,  an  electrical  engineer  who  married  Norma  Norriss;  Alice  Erma, 
who  is  the  wife  of  Raymond  Kaltwasser,  the  secretary  of  the  General  Metal  Products 
Company  of  St.  Louis;  Paul  William,  eighteen  years  of  age;  Jean  Emily,  aged  sixteen; 
and  Robert  Germain,  a  lad  of  nine. 

David  L.  Houghtlin  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  after  attend- 
ing the  Yeatman  high  school  spent  two  and  a  half  years  as  a  student  in  the  State  Uni- 
versity. Having  determined  upon  the  practice  of  law  as  a  life  work,  he  continued  his 
law  studies  in  the  La  Salle  University,  at  Chicago,  and  was  there  graduated  in  June, 
1916,  with  the  LL.  B.  degree.  A  year  later  he  was  admitted  to  practice  at  the  Missouri 
state  bar,  l)ut  had  scarcely  entered  upon  his  professional  career,  when  in  September.  1917, 
he  joined  the  army.  He  served  in  France  with  the  American  Expeditionary  Forces  for 
thirteen  months,  going  overseas  as  a  private  of  Company  C,  Six  Hundred  and  First 
Engineers,  while  later  he  was  advanced  to  the  grade  of  corporal.  He  did  service  along 
the  Chateau  Thierry  front,  also  in  the  St.  Mihiel  sector  and  the  Tout  front,  in  the 
Argonne  and  in  the  Argonne-Meuse  drive.  He  returned  to  America  in  July,  1919,  with 
intimate  knowledge  of  all  the  experiences  of  modern  warfare,  having  proven  a  most 
valorous  and  loyal  defender  of  the  principles  for  which  America  stood.  He  received  his 
discharge  from  the  service  on  the  16th  of  July,  1919.  Since  his  return  he  has  taken 
up  adjustment  work  for  the  Travelers  Insurance  Company,  of  St.  Louis,  and  is  so  now 
engaged. 

On  the  25th  of  February,  1920,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Houghtlin  was  married  to  Miss 
Berenice  Lucas,  a  daughter  of  William  A.  Lucas,  an  architect  of  this  city.  His  political 
endorsement  is  given  to  the  republican  party  and  fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Beacon 
Lodge,  No.  3,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  which  he  became  a  member  in  1914.  He  also  belongs 
to  the  Forest  Park  Tennis  Club  and  Peers-Williams  Post,  American  Legion.    Religiously 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  157 

he  is  connected  with  the  Tyler  Place  Presbyterian  church,  and  his  life  measures  up  to 
high  standards  and  is  actuated  by  worthy  purposes.  That  he  possesses  many  attractive 
social  qualities  is  indicated  by  the  large  number  of  his  friends  in  St.  Louis,  where  his 
entire  life  has  been  spent. 


COLONEL  KARL  D.  KLEMM. 

Colonel  Karl  D.  Klemm,  president  of  the  Kansas  City,  Kaw  Valley  &  Western 
Railroad  and  a  veteran  of  the  World  war,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  December  5, 
1880,  his  parents  being  Richard  and  Carrie  (Daenzer)  Klemm.  The  mother  was  a 
member  of  one  of  the  prominent  pioneer  families  of  the  state,  particularly  well  known 
in  newspaper  circles.  The  father  was  born  in  Stuttgart,  Germany,  and  became  a  civil 
engineer.  For  many  years  he  followed  his  profession  in  the  middle  west  and  was  profes- 
sionally connected  with  the  construction  of  the  Eads  bridge.  He  also  filled  the  position 
of  park  commissioner  and  was  chief  engineer  on  the  ScuUin  Line  Railroad,  which  later 
was  taken  over  by  the  Union  Depot  Railroad  Com.pany.  He  figured  prominently  in  con- 
nection with  the  professional,  civic  and  social  interests  of  St.  Louis  and  the  middle 
west  and  rose  to  prominence,  enjoying  the  high  regard  and  respect  of  all  who  knew  him. 
He  passed  away  in  1896.  ^ 

Colonel  Klemm,  whose  name  introduces  this  review,  attended  the  Smith  Academy 
of  St.  Louis  and  afterward  became  a  student  in  the  United  States  Military  Academy  at 
West  Point,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1905,  becoming  a  second  lieutenant  of 
cavalry  in  Troop  G  of  the  Fourth  United  States  Cavalry  Regiment.  In  1911  he  was 
advanced  to  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant  in  the  cavalry  branch  of  the  army  and  so  served 
until  he  resigned.  WTien  he  took  up  the  interests  of  civil  life  he  entered  into  active 
connection  with  the  Commerce  Trust  Company  of  Kansas  City  as  assistant  secretary 
and  in  1912  became  associated  with  the  Kansas  City,  Kaw  Valley  &  Western  Railroad  as 
its  president.  He  has  since  been  active  in  directing  the  policy  and  shaping  the  activities 
of  this  corporation  and  has  also  become  prominently  known  in  other  business  associa- 
tions. He  is  now  a  director  of  the  Joplin-Pittsburgh  Railroad  Company,  of  the  Kansas 
City  Food  Products  Company  of  which  he  is  also  secretary  and  treasurer,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  directorate  of  the  Commerce  Bank  &  Trust  Company. 

Colonel  Klemm's  military  record  is  a  most  interesting  one.  America's  entrance  into 
the  World  war  thoroughly  aroused  his  patriotic  nature  and  in  April,  1917,  he  enlisted 
as  a  private  in  Battery  B,  First  Battalion  of  the  Missouri  Artillery.  He  organized  the 
Second  Regiment  of  Artillery  of  the  Missouri  National  Guard  and  was  made  captain 
of  Battery  F.  He  was  then  promoted  to  the  rank  of  major  of  tlie  First  Battalion  and 
was  later  promoted  to  the  colonelcy.  He  took  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-ninth  Field 
Artillery  of  the  Thirty-fifth  Division  to  France  and  was  ranking  colonel  of  this  division. 
He  was  commander  of  the  Sixtieth  Field  Artillery  Brigade  in  the  Argonne,  in  the  St. 
Mihiel  offensive  and  in  the  sanguinary  battle  of  the  Meuse  Argonne.  With  him  it  was 
always  a  case  of  "Come,  boys,"  rather  than  a  command  to  his  troops  to  proceed.  He 
led  his  men  and  his  own  courage  and  valor  inspired  them  to  deeds  of  bravery  and 
loyalty.  After  the  armistice  was  signed  he  was  transferred  to  the  One  Hundred  and 
Sixth  Field  Artillery  of  the  Twenty-seventh  Division  and  brought  his  regiment  home, 
receiving  his  discharge  in  April,  1919.  There  was  no  phase  of  modern  warfare,  as 
exemplified  on  the  battlefields  of  Flanders  and  France,  with  which  he  did  not  become 
familiar  through  actual  experience  and  his  promotions  were  well  won,  as  evidenced 
by  the  commendatory  words  of  his  superior  officers.  Colonel  Klemm  was  made  a 
delegate  to  the  American  Legion  convention  in  Paris  on  the  16th  of  February,  1919. 
He  helped  organize  Fitzsimmons  Post  at  Kansas  City  and  was  made  a  member  of  the 
city  central  executive  committee  and  also  a  delegate  to  the  national  convention  of  the 
Legion   held   in   Cleveland   in   1920. 

Colonel  Klemm  was  married  in  1911  to  Miss  Gertrude  Heim,  a  daughter  of  Joseph 
J.  Heim,  president  of  the  Joplin-Pittsburgh  Railroad,  also  of  the  Home  Telephone  Com- 
pany, also  president  of  the  Kansas  City  Food  Products  Company  and  a  director  of  the 
Bank  of  Commerce.  Colonel  Klemm  and  his  wife  are  popular  socially  and  are  valued 
members  of  the  Episcopal  church.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  republican 
party  and  fraternally  he  is  a  Mason  and  an  Elk.  He  is  prominent  in  the  club  circles  of 
the  city,  belonging  to  the  Rotary,  the  Kansas  City  Country,  the  University,  the  Kansas 


158  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

City  Athletic,  the  Mid-Day  and  the  Mission  Hills  Clubs.  He  is  a  man  of  most  pro- 
gressive spirit.  He  is  continually  actuated  by  a  desire  to  advance  and  to  accomplish 
more  than  he  has  hitherto  done.  Opportunity  has  ever  been  to  him  a  call  to  action  and 
his  sound  judgment,  his  progressiveness  and  his  magnetic  personality  have  ever  placed 
him  iu  a  position  of  leadership. 


JUDGE  HENRY  L.  McCUNE. 

Judge  Henry  L.  McCune  is  a  prominent  Kansas  City  lavfyer  who  has  ever 
been  most  loyal  to  his  profession  and  has  never  permitted  himself  to  be  diverted 
into  other  lines  of  business.  For  thirty  years  he  has  practiced  in  Kansas  City 
save  for  the  period  of  his  four  years'  service  on  the  bench  as  circuit  judge.  He  was 
born  in  Ipava,  Fulton  county,  Hlinois,  June  28,  1862.  His  father,  Joseph  L. 
McCune,  was  a  native  of  Ohio  and  in  the  course  of  his  business  career  followed 
both  merchandising  and  banking.  He  served  as  a  member  of  the  state  legislature 
of  Illinois  and  was  an  active  and  influential  citizen  of  Fulton  county.  He  married 
Martha  E.  Quillin,  a  native  of  West  Virginia,  and  they  became  the  parents  of 
eight  children,  of  whom  Judge  McCune  is  the  eldest.  Three  of  the  number  are  liv- 
ing.    The  father  and  mother  have  both  passed  away. 

Henry  L.  McCune  was  educated  in  the  district  schools  of  his  native  county 
and  in  Hlinois  College  at  Jacksonville.  He  afterward  entered  the  University  of 
Illinois,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  Bachelor  of  Science  degree  as 
a  member  of  the  class  of  1883.  In  preparation  for  a  professional  career  he 
attended  Columbia  University  of  New  York  and  won  his  LL.  B.  degree  in  1886. 
In  selecting  a  location  for  the  practice  of  his  profession  he  chose  a  growing  city 
where  he  knew  that  business  existed  and  one  far  removed  from  his  boyhood  home. 
His  initial  professional  experience  was  gained  in  Oswego,  Kansas,  where  he  remained 
for  three  years,  or  until  1890,  when  he  removed  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has 
since  continued.  As  a  lawyer  his  outstanding  qualification  is  the  unusual  one 
of  having  combined  with  a  splendid  legal  knowledge  a  fine  appreciation  of  the  busi- 
ness principles  involved  in  the  subject  under  consideration.  This  has  brought  him 
the  most  conservative  financial  clientele  of  any  attorney  in  the  city.  For  the 
reason  mentioned  his  counsel  is  particularly  satisfactory  and  valuable.  Added  to 
his  fine  professional  qualifications  is  an  unusually  well  balanced  mind,  an  abundant 
energy  and  unfaltering  loyalty  to  the  interests  of  those  whom  he  represents.  For 
many  years  he  has  given  much  time  to  civic  matters  and  to  the  advancement  of 
public  interests  and  for  four  years  he  was  judge  of  the  circuit  court  of  Missouri. 
He  has  been  particularly  active  in  juvenile  court  work  and  established  the  McCune 
Home  for  Boys.  He  acted  as  the  first  juvenile  court  judge  of  Kansas  City  and 
it  was  during  that  time  that  the  farm  in  Jackson  county  was  acquired  for  the  deten- 
tion and  education  of  wayward  though  not  criminal  boys,  since  which  time  it  has 
been  known  as  the  McCune  Home.  The  county  has  spent  a  great  amount  of  money 
in  improving  and  enlarging  this  institution,  thus  carrying  out  the  active  work 
promoted  by  Judge  McCune.  He  is  now  practicing  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
McCune,  Caldwell  &  Downing. 

In  1888  Judge  McCune  was  married  to  Miss  Helen  A.  McCrary,  daughter  of 
Judge  George  W.  McCrary,  a  very  prominent  jurist  of  Missouri.  Their  children 
are  Joseph  M.  and  Helen  Elizabeth.  The  son  is  attorney  for  the  Sinclair  Oil  Com- 
pany of  Tulsa,  Oklahoma.  He  married  Miss  Shirley  Cole,  of  Kansas  City,  and 
they  have  two  children,  Bettie  Cole  and  Joseph  M.,  Jr.  The  daughter.  Helen 
Elizabeth,  is  attending  college  in  New  York. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  McCune  are  members  of  the  Westminster  Congregational  church, 
in  which  he  is  serving  as  an  elder.  This  was  formerly  a  Presbyterian  church  but 
has  been  converted  into  a  Congregational  church  and  is  the  only  one  of  that 
denomination  in  the  country  that  has  an  eldership.  Judge  McCune  has  manifested 
deep  interest  in  the  educational  system  by  six  years'  service  on  the  school  board 
of  Kansas  City.  He  has  always  made  it  a  point  throughout  his  career  to  enjoy  at 
least  one  vacation  annually  and  by  his  outdoor  exercise  has  kept  himself  physically 
fit.  He  particularly  enjoys  a  trip  into  the  open  and  his  friends  bear  testimony  to 
his   splendid   comradeship    when    trout    fishing   and    duck    hunting.      He    belongs    to 


JUDGE  HENRY  L.  McCUNE 


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the  University  Club,  to  tlie  Country  Club,  to  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association  and 
to  the  American  Bar  Association.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  republican 
party  and  he  is  a  close  and  discriminating  student  of  the  vital  questions  of  the 
day.  He  has  always  been  an  extensive  reader,  is  well  posted  on  current  literature, 
is  a  lover  of  music  and  when  in  Columbia  University  was  a  member  of  its  Glee 
Club  and  also  became  a  member  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  has  always  counted 
the  friendships  he  has  made  as  one  of  his  greatest  assets  and  regards  his  best  work 
as  that  which  he  has  done  for  others  and  would  recommend  to  every  young  man 
that  he  find  time  for  altruistic  work  if  he  hopes  in  his  mature  years  to  look  back 
with  any  satisfaction  upon  his  achievements. 


JOHN  T.  BERGHOFF,  M.  D. 


Dr.  John  T.  Berghoff,  of  St.  Joseph,  was  a  distinguished  member  of  the  medical 
profession  of  Missouri  and  made  valuable  contribution  thereto  through  his  investigations, 
researches  and  inventions,  for  he  was  the  inventor  of  the  universal  fracture  apparatus 
now  in  use  by  surgeons  throughout  the  country.  Dr.  Berghoff  was  horn  on  the  17th 
of  November,  1823,  at  Arnsberg,  Westphalia,  Germany,  his  parents  being  John  and 
Theresa  (Wiegstein)  Berghoff.  After  acquiring  his  literary  education  in  his  native 
country  he  studied  pharmacy  and  in  1846  came  to  the  United  States,  landing  at  Galveston, 
Texas,  on  the  15th  of  April  of  that  year.  There  he  remained  through  the  summer  and 
in  October,  1846,  made  his  way  northward  to  St.  Louis.  In  1850  he  opened  a  drug  store 
in  that  city  and  it  was  this  which  awakened  his  interest  in  the  study  of  medicine,  so 
that  after  two  years  devoted  to  the  drug  trade  he  began  reading  medicine  under  Dr. 
Thomas  Y.  Bainister,  resident  physician  at  the  St.  Louis  City  Hospital.  For  three  years 
Dr.  Berghoff  served  as  assistant  to  the  older  physician  and  attended  three  courses  of 
lectures  in  the  medical  department  of  the  St.  Louis  University,  now  the  St.  Louis 
Medical  College,  being  graduated  therefrom  on  the  1st  of  March,  1855.  In  1859  he 
located  in  St.  Joseph  and  upon  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  in  1861  joined  the  Union 
army  as  a  surgeon  of  the  Thirteenth  Regiment,  Missouri  Volunteer  Infantry,  under 
Colonel  Peabody.  He  was  captured  at  the  battle  of  Lexington  but  was  paroled  and  sent 
to  St.  Louis  by  General  Sterling  Price.  He  was  afterward  recaptured  at  Centralia, 
Missouri,  but  was  released  after  proving  himself  a  paroled  prisoner  On  the  6th  of 
April,  1862,  he  was  again  taken  prisoner  at  the  battle  of  Shiloh  and  because  of  his  skill 
in  surgery  his  services  were  gladly  utilized  in  a  Confederate  hospital.  There  were  three 
surgeons,  four  hospital  attendants  and  fifty-six  wounded  Union  men  in  charge  of  Surgeon 
Berghoff  and  these,  through  his  management,  were  liberated  under  agreement  between 
the  Confederate  and  Union  forces  on  the  10th  of  April,  1862.  Subsequently  Dr.  Berghoff 
served  with  the  Twenty-fifth  Missouri  Regiment,  which  was  organized  from  the  original 
Thirteenth  Regiment,  until  its  consolidation  with  the  First  Regiment  of  Missouri 
Engineers.  He  was  then  honorably  discharged  from  the  service  on  the  30th  of  January, 
1864,  at  Nashville,  Tennessee,  and  upon  his  return  home  was  commissioned  surgeon 
of  the  Eighty-seventh  Regiment,  enlisted  minute  men.  On  the  10th  of  March,  1864,  he 
was  commissioned  surgeon  of  the  Missouri  Militia  and  was  made  examining  surgeon  for 
the  draft.  Thus  through  the  period  of  the  Civil  war  Dr.  Berghoff  rendered  valuable 
aid  to  his  adopted  country,  of  which  he  ever  remained  a  loyal  citizen. 

In  1868  and  again  in  1870  Dr.  Berghoff  was  elected  coroner  of  Buchanan  county 
and  in  1868  he  was  appointed  and  elected  president  of  the  board  of  United  States 
examining  surgeons  at  St.  Joseph,  filling  that  position  continuously  until  1893  save  for 
the  period  of  President  Cleveland's  administration.  He  also  occupied  the  position  of 
city  health  officer  under  Mayor  William  M.  Shepard  for  a  period  of  eight  years.  He 
ever  remained  a  valued  exponent  of  his  profession,  keeping  in  touch  with  the  most 
advanced  scientific  researches  and  discoveries,  so  that  his  labors  were  of  great  value 
in  active  practice.  He  also  held  the  position  of  professor  of  the  principles  and  practice 
of  surgery  in  the  Northwestern  Medical  College  of  St.  Joseph,  now  the  Central  Medical 
College.  He  belonged  to  the  American  Medical  Association,  the  American  Public  Health 
Association,  the  Missouri  State  Medical  Association,  the  Missouri  Valley  Medical  Society 
and  the  District  Medical  Society  of  Northern  Missouri.  In  May,  1893,  before  the  Missouri 
State  Medical  Association,  and  before  the  Missouri  Valley  Medical  Society  on  the  4th  of 
October,  1893,  he  read  a  paper  on  the  treatment  of  fractures  of  the  leg  which  attracted 
much  attention,  as  he  was  known  to  the  profession  as  a  surgeon  who  had  given  very 

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close  study  to  this  question  and  who  had  perfected  an  apparatus  for  the  treatment  of 
such  fractures,  known  as  the  universal  fracture  apparatus.  This  was  invented  by  Dr. 
Berghoff  and  patented  on  the  19th  of  September,  1893,  and  its  utility  and  worth  were 
at  once  recognized.  The  invention  has  proved  of  the  greatest  value  in  the  treatment  of 
fractures  and  diseases  of  the  hip,  knee  and  ankle  joints,  and  it  is  now  widely  in  use  by 
the  surgeons  who  have  added  it  to  their  equipment. 

In  1847  Dr.  Berghoff  was  marr-ied  to  Miss  Caroline  Rosenburg,  of  St.  Louis,  who 
passed  away  April  17,  1884.  On  the  27th  of  December,  1884,  Dr.  Berghoff  was  married 
to  Maria  Adams,  who  was  born  in  Soest,  Germany,  a  daughter  of  Arnold  and  Catherina 
(Choeneberg)  Adams.  Maria  Adams  came  to  the  new  world  in  1880,  taking  up  her 
abode  at  the  home  of  an  jincle  in  Quincy,  Illinois.  There  from  1881  until  1884  she 
pursued  a  course  in  nursing  in  Blessing  Hospital,  after  which  she  came  to  St.  Joseph, 
where  she  met  Dr.  Berghoff  and  they  were  married.  Four  children  were  born  to  them: 
Maria  B.,  Caroline  W.,  John  T.  and  Theodore  Arnold.  The  death  of  Dr.  Berghoff 
occurred  January  13,  1897,  after  an  illness  of  more  than  a  year.  He  was  one  of  the  tour 
hundred  and  ten  republicans  of  St.  Joseph  who  dared  to  vote  in  accordance  with  their 
sentiments  in  the  hotly  contested  election  of  1860.  He  was  ever  a  man  of  firm  convictions 
and  his  position  upon  any  vital  question  was  never  an  equivocal  one.  He  belonged  to 
Custer  Post  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  A  man  of  the  highest  personal  char- 
acter, upright  and  honorable  in  every  relation  of  life,  he  enjoyed  the  warm  regard  of 
an  extensive  circle  of  friends,  while  his  ability  as  a  practitioner  made  his  name  an 
honored  one  in  professional  circles  throughout  Missouri. 


ELSWORTH  FAYSSOUX   SMITH,   M.  D. 

Dr.  Elsworth  Fayssoux  Smith,  of  whom  it  has  been  said:  "He  laid  down  his 
life  in  the  exercise  of  the  noble  profession  to  which  his  energies  had  been  devoted," 
was  born  in  St.  Louis,  April  29,  1825,  his  parents  being  John  B.  and  Louisa  (Mc- 
Dougal)  Smith.  The  father  was  for  many  years  a  leading  merchant  of  St.  Louis 
during  the  first  half  of  the  nineteenth  century  and  he  also  became  the  first  president 
of  the  old  State  Bank  of  Missouri.  He  was  likewise  connected  with  the  public 
lite  of  the  community,  becoming  the  first  collector  of  the  port  of  St.  Louis  and  county 
and  state  collector  during  the  early  history  of  Missouri.  He  married  a  daughter  of 
Captain  Alexander  McDougal  of  New  York  city  and  a  descendant  of  General  Alex- 
ander McDougal  of  Revolutionary  war  fame  and  also  of  Oliver  Ellsworth,  the  renowned 
jurist,  who  was  the  author  of  the  bill  creating  the  United  States  judiciary  and  served 
as  chief  justice  of  the  United  States  supreme  court  from  1796  until  1799,  when  he 
resigned. 

Dr.  Smith  was  reared  in  St.  Louis  and  attended  St.  Charles  College  and  the 
St.  Louis  University,  being  graduated  from  the  latter  in  1845  upon  the  completion 
of  a  classical  course.  He  at  once  began  preparation  for  the  practice  of  medicine 
and  won  his  professional  degree  from  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College,  then  the  medical 
department  of  the  St.  Louis  University.  Almost  immediately  thereafter  he  became 
one  of  the  first  two  internes  of  the  City  Hospital  of  St.  Louis.  In  1852  he  went 
abroad  for  further  medical  and  scientific  study  in  Paris,  where  he  continued  until 
1854,  and  in  1864-5  he  again  spent  some  time  in  study  abroad,  adding  to  his  profes- 
sional attainments  through  his  intercourse  with  the  most  renowned  physicians  of 
that  day  and  the  superior  clinical  advantages  afl:orded  by  the  French  hospitals.  With 
the  exception  of  these  two  periods  spent  in  Europe  he  remained  continuously  in  the 
practice  of  medicine  in  St.  Louis  and  became  recognized  as  one  of  the  most  eminent 
physicians  in  the  city.  He  won  equal  fame  as  a  medical  educator.  Soon  after  enter- 
ing upon  his  professional  career  he  was  made  demonstrator  of  anatomy  in  the 
St.  Louis  Medical  College  and  in  1868  he  was  appointed  to  the  chair  of  physiology 
and  medical  jurisprudence  in  the  same  institution.  Two  years  later  he  was  made 
professor  of  clinical  medicine  and  pathological  anatomy  and  so  continued  until 
1886,  when  he  resigned  that  chair.  He  was  made  emeritus  professor  of  clinical 
medicine  and  pathological  anatomy,  however,  in  recognition  of  the  valuable  serv- 
ices which  he  had  rendered  in  that  connection  to  the  institution  and  to  the  general 
public,  his  professorship  having  extended  over  a  period  of  fifteen  years.  Of  him  it 
has   been  written:    "As  an   educator   he   was   no    less   distinguished   than   as   physician 


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and  was  known  to  the  profession  as  an  able  teacher,  having  the  happy  faculty  of  enter- 
taining and  instructing  at  the  same  time  those  who  came  under  his  preceptorship. 
The  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  was  conferred  upon  him  in  recognition  of  his  scholarly 
attainments  and  his  ability  as  a  medical  educator.  As  a  consulting  physician  he 
was  widely  known  throughout  the  country  adjacent  to  St.  Louis,  and  he  enjoyed 
to  the  fullest  extent  the  confidence  both  of  the  profession  and  of  the  general  public." 

His  professional  life  was  one  of  intense  activity  and  he  filled  many  important 
positions  in  St.  Louis,  rendering  valuable  service  to  his  native  city  at  various  times. 
During  the  Civil  war  he  was  acting  assistant  surgeon  of  the  United  States  army, 
having  charge  of  the  military  smallpox  hospital  in  this  city  and  serving  also  as 
surgeon  to  Eliot  General  Hospital.  From  1872  to  1875  hei  was  surgeon  to  the 
United  States  Marine  Hospital  in  St.  Louis.  His  high  courage  in  the  face  of  great 
danger  and  his  chivalrous  devotion  to  his  calling  was  made  manifest  during  the 
epidemics  of  cholera  and  smallpox  which  prevailed  in  St.  Louis  while  he'  was  in  the 
active  practice  of  his  profession,  and  on  more  than  one  occasion  his  heroic  services 
called  fortn  the  warmest  praise  from  his  fellow  citizens,  many  of  whom  still  hold 
him  in  grateful  remembrance.  He  was  the  first  health  officer  of  St.  Louis,  serving 
from  1857  to  1863,  and  was  also  a  member  of  the  first  regular  board  of  health  created 
by  act  of  the  legislature,  serving  as  third  president  of  that  board.  Because  of  his 
spirit  of  helpfulness  and  broad  philanthropy  he  gave  his  professional  aid  without 
remuneration  to  the  public  and  charitable  institutions  of  the  city  for  many  years 
in  the  capacity  of  consulting  physician. 

In  1860  Dr.  Smith  was  married  to  Miss  Isabelle  Chenie,  a  daughter  of  Autoine 
Leon  and  Julia  (do  Mun)  Chenie.  She  passed  away  August  30,  1908,  at  Pointe  aux 
Barques,  Michigan,  at  the  summer  home  of  her  son.  Dr.  Elsworth  Smith,  a  dis- 
tinguished St.  Louis  physician.  The  other  members  of  the  family  are:  J.  de  Mun, 
who  was  associated  with  William  Schotten  &  Company  and  who  died  at  the  zenith 
of  his  usefulness  and  success  April  6,  1911;  J.  Sheppard  Smith,  vice  president  of  the 
Missouri  Valley  Trust  Company;  Julia  P.,  now  the  wife  of  Colonel  William  D. 
Crosby,  a  surgeon  of  the  United  States  army;  and  Emilie  de  Mun  Smith,  the  wife 
of  J.  D.  Perry  Francis,  the  eldest  son  of  Hon.  David  R.  Francis,  ambassador  to  Russia. 
Through  her  father  Mrs.  Smith  was  a  descendant  of  the  founder  of  St.  Louis,  who 
was  related  also  to  the  Chenie  family  of  Canada,  representatives  of  which  achieved 
distinction    in   the   Canadian   rebellion   of    1837. 

The  death  of  Dr.  Smith  occurred  at  Fort  Missoula,  Montana,  August  19,  1896, 
as  the  result  of  severe  burns  which  ha  sustained  while  visiting  his  daughter,  Mrs. 
Crosby.  In  a  memorial  of  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College  it  was  said:  "To  his  con- 
temporaries he  has  ever  been  known  as  an  honest  and  earnest  seeker  after  wisdom, 
highly  respected  for  his  unusual  attainments;  beloved  for  his  gentle  and  kindly 
personality.  With  those  who  have  been  students  under  his  teachings  a  feeling  of  lov- 
ing reverence  tor  the  man  mingles  with  the  sentiment  of  high  regard  for  the  knowledge 
and   talents   of  the   true   physician. 

"The  faculty  of  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College,  of  which  he  was  for  so  many  years 
an  honored  and  illustrious  member,  recognizing  the  great  loss  to  this  body  in  the 
death  of  one  so  devoted  to  the  interests  of  the  college  and  the  profession  and  realiz- 
ing the  far  greater  loss  to  his  stricken  family,  wish  hereby  to  extend  to  each  and 
every  member  their  deep  and  heartfelt  sympathy  and  to  express  their  sense  of  the 
great  loss  to  the  profession  and  the  community  in  the  death  of  such  a  man.  His  life, 
pure,   blameless,   unselfish,   will   ever  remain   an   inspiration   to   noble   effort." 

Fitting  memorials  were  written  by  the  City  Hospital  Medical  Society  and  other 
organizations,  while  the  St.  Louis  Medical  Society  said  in  part:  "He  possessed,  as  a 
teacher,  great  ability  and  held  the  respect  and  the  love  of  his  students.  Dr.  Smith 
while  still  a  young  man  pursued  his  studies  in  the  hospitals  of  Paris.  He  was  in 
love  with  the  study  of  medicine  and  put  into  the  practice  all  his  knowledge  and  skill 
with  the  loving  kindness  of  an  unselfish  devotee.  His  love  for  humanity  and  his 
reverence  for  the  office  of  the  physician  enabled  him  to  sustain  an  increasing  and  a 
growing  interest  in  his  professional  work.  He  was  honored  by  his  professional  brothers 
with  their  confidence  and  their  respect  and  was  beloved  by  his  patients  for  his  skill 
in  practice,  for  his  kindly  ministrations  and  for  his  interest  in  their  personal  welfare. 
He  gave  of  himself  to  all  who  needed  help  and  he  worshipped  at  the  shrine  of  truth; 
truth  in  man,  truth  in  scientific  medicine  and  truth  in  nature's  laws.  Duty  and  the 
love   of  truth  became   his  watchwords,  and   even   in   the   years   of   fullness   that   came 


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to  him  with  the  lapse  of  time  these  watchwords  held  him  to  the  chosen  pathway  of 
professional  work  and  his  last  effort  was  an  exemplification  of  his  devotion  to  the 
highest   aim   of   our   art — mitigation   of   human   suffering." 


ELSWORTH   STRIKER  SMITH,  M.   D. 

Inspired  by  the  example  of  his  illustrious  father,  who  was  an  honor  and  credit 
to  the  profession,  and  imbued  with  a  laudable  ambition  and  humanitarian  principles, 
Dr.  Elsworth  Striker  Smith  has  attained  to  a  position  of  leadership  among  the 
physicians  and  surgeons  of  St.  Louis,  in  which  city  he  was  born  January  1,  1864,  his 
parents  being  Elsworth  Fayssoux  and  Isabelle  (Chenie)  Smith,  the  latter  a  daughter 
of  Antoine  Leon  and  Julia  (de  Mun)  Chenie.  He  is  a  descendant  of  the  Chenie  family 
of  Canada  and  also  of  Augusts  Chouteau,  the  founder  of  St.  Louis,  and  of  Charles 
Gratiot,  head  of  the  distinguished  American  family  of  that  name.  The  paternal  great- 
grandfather of  Dr.  Smith  was  William  Smith,  who  erected  the  second  brick  house  in 
St.  Louis.  His  grandfather  was  John  Brady  Smith,  the  first  president  of  the  old  State 
Bank  of  Missouri,  also  state  and  county  collector  and  United  States  surveyor  of  the 
port  of  St.  Louis,  and  likewise  an  esteemed  merchant  and  citizen.  He  was  a  gentle- 
man of  the  old  school  and  a  close  personal  friend  of  Thomas  H.  Benton.  The  grand- 
mother in  the  paternal  line  was  Louisa  A.  McDougal,  daughter  of  Alexander  McDougal 
of  the  British  navy  and  a  descendant  of  Oliver  Ellsworth,  the  renowned  jurist  and 
chief  Justice  of  the  United  States  supreme  court.  The  record  of  Dr.  Smith's  father  is 
given  on  another  page  of  this  work. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  Dr.  Elsworth  S.  Smith  pursued  his  early 
education,  and  entering  the  St.  Louis  University  was  graduated  with  the  Bachelor 
of  Arts  degree  in  1884,  while  in  1888  his  alma  mater  conferred  upon  him  the  Master 
of  Arts  degree.  Determining  to  follow  in  his  father's  professional  footsteps,  he  won 
his  M.  D.  degree  upon  graduation  from  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College  in  1887.  Fol- 
lowing the  tendency  of  the  age  toward  specialization,  his  practice  has  been  limited  to 
internal  medicine  and  diagnosis  and  largely  to  diseases  of  the  heart,  blood  vessels  and 
kidneys.  Like  his  father,  he  has  won  distinction  in  the  educational  field,  having  been 
demonstrator  of  anatomy,  instructor  in  physical  diagnosis  and  assistant  physician  to 
the  medical  clinic  of  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College  from  1890  until  1899.  He  is  physi- 
cian to  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  consulting  physician  to  St.  John's  Hospital,  the  Jewish 
Hospital,  the  Barnard  Free  Skin  and  Cancer  Hospitals,  the  Frisco  Hospital  and  the 
St.  Louis  Maternity  Hospital.  He  is  also  assistant  physician  to  the  Barnes  Hospital 
and  clinical  professor  of  medicine  in  the  Washington  University  Medical  School.  In 
1887  he  was  made  junior  assistant  physician  and  later  assistant  superintendent  of  the 
St.  Louis  City  Hospital  and  so  continued  until  1890.  He  is  an  ex-president  of  the 
Medical  Society  of  the  City  Hospital  Alumni;  was  a  member  of  the  advisory  com- 
mittee to  the  health  commissioner  during  the  influenza  epidemic  in  the  winter  of 
1918-19 ;  is  an  ex-president  of  the  St.  Louis  Medical  Society,  having  been  its  chief 
officer  in  1917-18;  is  an  ex-president  of  the  St.  Louis  Society  of  Internal  Medicine  and 
became  the  first  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Clinics,  just  organized  as  a  section  of  the 
St.  Louis  Medical   Society. 

On  the  21st  of  February,  1900.  in  St.  Louis,  Dr.  Smith  was  married  to  Miss  Grace 
Piatt,  who  passed  away  November  27,  1912.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Henry  S.  and 
Elizabeth  (Barnes)  Piatt,  the  former  president  of  the  Platt-Thornburg  Paint  Company 
and  a  much  respected  and  prominent  merchant  of  St.  Louis.  On  the  25th  of  October, 
1916,  Dr.  Smith  wedded  Fannie  Louise  Carr,  a  daughter  of  C.  Bent  and  Louise  (Achison) 
Carr.  Her  father  was  one  of  the  leading  real  estate  men  of  St.  Louis  and  was  also 
prominent  socially.  His  father.  Judge  William  Charles  Carr,  served  as  circuit  judge. 
The  children  of  Dr.  Smith,  all  born  of  his  first  marriage,  are  Elizabeth  Piatt,  E.  A. 
McDougal,  Isabelle  Chenie  and  Phillip  Piatt.  The  family  is  one  of  social  prominence 
and  the  elder  daughter  was  recently  chosen  one  of  the  special  maids  of  honor  at  the 
Veiled  Prophet's  ball. 

The  religious  faith  of  the  family  is  that  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church  and  in  his 
political  belief  Dr.  Smith  is  a  democrat.  He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  Country,  Racquet 
and  University  Clubs  and  possesses  those  qualities  which  make  for  popularity  in 
social  circles,  yet  the   greater  part   of  his  time   and   attention   have  been  concentrated 


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upon  his  professional  interests,  and  aside  from  his  practice  and  his  work  in  the  edu- 
cational field  he  has  written  various  articles  which  have  been  regarded  as  valuable 
contributions  to  medical  literature.  Keeping  ever  abreast  with  scientific  research 
and  discovery  and  holding  to  the  highest  standards  and  ideals  of  his  profession,  he  has 
become  an  acknowledged   leader  among  the   physicians  and   surgeons  of  St.   Louis. 


CHESTER  P.  REITH. 


The  term  "captain  of  industry"  finds  an  exponent  in  Chester  P.  Reith,  who  is  now 
the  president  of  the  Juvenile  Shoe  Corporation  of  America,  a  million-dollar  concern, 
with  large  plants  and  a  mammoth  output.  To  successfully  control  and  direct  the  inter- 
ests of  this  concern,  one  must  needs  possess  marked  administrative  force  and  executive 
ability  combined  with  broad  vision  and  the  capability  of  readily  mastering  the  details 
as  well  as  the  principal  features  of  the  enterprise.  Well  qualified  in  all  these  particulars, 
Chester  F.  Reith  has  won  his  way  to  a  place  among  the  recognized  leaders  in  the 
manufacturing  circles  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  born  in  this  city  July  14,  1886,  his  parents 
being  Edward  B.  and  Clara  Reith.  The  father  died  in  1918,  but  the  mother  is  still 
.living.  There  were  six  children  in  the  family:  Harold,  deceased;  Edna  E.,  the  wife 
of  P.  Meade,  of  St.  Louis;  Clarence  C,  who  has  passed  away;  Chester  P.,  of  this  review; 
Eunice,  also  deceased;  and  Ethel  L.,  who  is  now  attending  the  University  of  California. 

Chester  P.  Reith  was  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  also  attended  the 
Smith  Academy.  He  started  out  in  the  business  world  when  a  youth  of  sixteen  in  the 
employ  of  the  Roberts,  Johnson  &  Rand  Shoe  Company  and  continued  with  them  until 
1914.  In  the  meantime  he  had  thoroughly  acquainted  himself  with  every  phase  of  the 
shoe  business  and  in  the  year  indicated  assisted  in  effecting  the  organization  of  the 
Juvenile  Shoe  Corporation  of  America,  which  is  capitalized  for  one  million  dollars  and 
of  which  he  is  the  president.  This  company  operates  factories  in  Beloit,  Wisconsin,  and 
Carthage,  Missouri,  and  employs  six  hundred  workmen,  the  daily  capacity  being  about 
twenty-five  hundred  pairs  of  shoes.  They  handle  only  juvenile  shoes  and  their  business 
has  reached  most  gratifying  proportions.  They  sell  to  the  jobbing  trade  from  New 
York  to  San  Francisco  and  from  St.  Paul  to  New  Orleans,  and  the  name  of  the  house 
is  a  familiar  one  to  the  trade  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  land. 

Mr.  Reith  belongs  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  also  to  the  Sunset  Hill 
Country  Club  and  turns  to  motoring  for  recreation.  His  political  endorsement  is  given 
to  the  republican  party  but  without  desire  for  office  as  a  reward  for  party  fealty. 


ARTHUR  N.  ADAMS. 


Arthur  N.  Adams,  who  for  twenty-three  years  has  been  a  representative  of  the 
Kansas  City  bar,  was  born  at  Pinkhill,  Jackson  county,  Missouri,  January  15,  1872,  and 
is  a  son  of  James  Monroe  and  Anna  E.  (Nottingham)  Adams.  The  father  was  a  son  of 
Lynchburg  Adams,  one  of  the  earliest  pioneers  of  Jackson  county.  He  was  born  near 
Lynchburg,  Virginia,  February  22,  1804,  and  was  named  in  honor  of  the  town.  A  few 
years  later  his  people  removed  to  Kentucky  and  in  1819  came  from  that  state  to  Missouri. 
They  passed  the  winter  in  the  vicinity  of  Boon's  salt  works  near  Cooper's  Port  and  in 
the  spring  of  1820  removed  to  the  Missouri  river  crossing  at  Arrow  Rock.  On  the  3d  of 
March  of  that  year  they  camped  at  the  foot  of  the  hill  just  east  of  Fire  Prairie  creek, 
on  what  is  now  the  east  boundary  line  of  Jackson  county.  The  family  settled  near  Port 
Osage  when  all  this  district  was  a  wild  and  undeveloped  region  in  which  the  work  of 
civilization  had  scarcely  been  begun.  In  the  summer  of  1821  John  and  Joseph  McKeeney 
planted  twenty  acres  of  corn  just  above  the  mouth  of  Fire  Prairie  creek  and  Lynchburg 
Adams  assisted  in  gathering  the  crop,  receiving  three  pecks  of  corn  per  day  for  his 
wages.  This  was  the  first  corn  raised  in  Jackson  county  and  at  that  time  they 
had  to  go  to  Miami,  in  Carroll  county,  to  have  their  corn  ground.  In  the  summer  of 
1822  Lynchburg  Adams,  with  John  Ross,  camped  under  a  shelving  rock  a  mile  below 
Mize's  ferry,  near  the  old  Burryhill  place.  They  engaged  in  hunting  game  of  every 
description,  which  was  to  be  had  in  abundance.  Deer  could  be  obtained  more  easily 
than  rabbits  at  the  present  time  and  they  often  saw  a  herd  numbering  three  hundred. 


170  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Bee  trees  were  plentiful  and  they  could  gather  from  six  to  twelve  pounds  of  wax  a  day, 
which  sold  for  twenty-five  cents  per  pound.  The  price  of  ammunition  was  so  high  that 
they  would  not  shoot  a  wild  turkey  unless  they  wished  to  have  the  meat  for  a  change  of 
diet,  as  the  prevailing  dish  at  that  time  was  venison.  The  family  lived  almost  alone 
until  emigrants  began  coming  in  1825.  In  that  year  Lynchburg  Adams,  in  company  with 
Isaac  Allen,  cut  logs  and  built  the  first  log  house  and  cultivated  the  first  ground  west  of 
Little  Blue,  near  what  is  now  known  as  the  old  Blue  Bottom  camping  ground.  On  the 
1st  of  November,  1827,  he  married  Elizabeth  Drake,  who  was  born  in  the  old  settled  part 
of  Missouri  and  came  to  Jackson  county  in  1835.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Isaac  Drake, 
who  was  born  in  Morris  county,  New  Jersey,  in  1764.  When  sixteen  years  of  age  he 
enlisted  in  the  Third  Essex  Regiment  of  the  New  Jersey  state  troops  for  service  in  the 
Revolutionary  war.  He  passed  away  in  Jackson  county,  Missouri,  June  19,  1837.  A 
monument  to  his  memory  was  unveiled  by  Mrs.  Catherine  Drake  Plack,  of  Six  Miles,  a 
granddaughter  of  the  minuteman,  the  Daughters  of  the  Revolution  being  in  charge  of 
the  ceremony.  The  monument  was  obtained  from  the  government  through  the  efforts  of 
Mrs.  Mark  Salisbury  and  the  chapter  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution  to 
which  she  belonged. 

Following  the  marriage  of  Lynchburg  Adams  and  Elizabeth  Drake  they  settled 
in  the  Little  Blue  Bottom.  Mr.  Adams  was  a  man  of  great  energy  and  resolution,  and 
although  handicapped  by  a  serious  lameness,  he  so  managed  his  business  affairs  that 
through  close  economy  and  industry  he  was  able  to  purchase  one  hundred  and  twenty 
acres  of  land  in  the  Little  Blue  Bottom  and  there,  by  great  exertion  on  his  part,  he 
developed  a  fine  farm  and  comfortable  home,  which  in  1844  was  swept  away  by  the  great 
flood  that  inundated  and  destroyed  his  property.  Undaunted  by  this  misfortune,  he 
began  again  and  once  more  succeeded  in  acquiring  a  good  property  and  home  and  in 
rearing  a  very  worthy  family.  He  passed  away  December  6,  1873,  leaving  an  enviable 
record  of  an  honest  and  conscientious  life.  He  was  one  of  the  earliest  of  the  pioneers 
who  fought  their  way  upward  through  all  the  adversities  and  hardships  of  frontier  lite. 
During  his  youthful  days  there  were  no  schools  in  the  neighborhood  in  which  he  lived 
and  it  was  late  in  life  before  he  learned  to  read.  This  proved  a  great  disadvantage  to 
him,  but  this  obstacle  he  overcame  as  he  did  all  the  others  which  he  encountered  in 
his  life's  Journey.  At  his  death  he  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  county  and 
was  at  all  times  a  consistent  member  of  the  Methodist  church. 

His  son,  James  Monroe  Adams,  was  born  November  13,  1833,  a  night  memorable 
because  of  the  falling  stars.  His  birthplace  was  the  old  family  home  in  the  Little 
Blue  Bottom  in  the  northeast  corner  of  Blue  township,  which  eleven  years  later  was 
swept  away  by  the  great  flood.  He  was  reared  amid  the  conditions  and  environment 
of  pioneer  life  but  was  ambitious  to  acquire  a  good  education,  and  his  father,  who 
realized  his  lack  in  that  direction,  encouraged  his  son  in  every  way  to  acquire  knowl- 
edge through  the  teachings  of  the  schools.  He  therefore  mastered  his  primary  edu- 
cation in  the  common  schools  of  Blue  township  and  afterward  entered  the  Chapel  Hill 
College  in  Lafayette  county,  being  for  two  years  a  student  in  that  institution.  Sub- 
sequently he  attended  the  University  of  Missouri  at  Columbia  and  next  entered  the 
Jones  Commercial  College  at  St.  Louis,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  the  spring  of 
1859. 

Returning  to  Jackson  county,  James  M.  Adams  was  married  April  5,  1859,  to  Miss 
Anna  E.  Nottingham,  a  native  of  this  county.  He  then  began  farming  in  Blue  Bot- 
tom, taking  charge  of  the  farm  which  his  father  occupied  and  which  he  continued  to 
manage  until  his  enlistment  in  the  Confederate  army  in  December,  1861.  At  that 
date  he  accompanied  his  brother  to  southern  Missouri  and  joined  Price's  troops.  He 
was  a  member  of  Colonel  Reeves'  regiment  of  the  First  Missouri  Brigade,  in  which 
he  served  till  after  the  battle  of  Pea  Ridge,  Arkansas.  On  the  day  following  the  battle 
he  became  ill  with  a  severe  case  of  measles  and  was  for  two  weeks  in  the  hospital  at 
Little  Rock.  On  his  recovery  all  communication  with  the  east  side  of  the  Mississippi 
had  been  cut  oft  by  the  federal  troops  and  he  returned  home  in  July,  1862,  but  owing 
to  the  feeling  in  Jackson  county  he  could  not  remain  there,  so  he  went  to  Clay  county, 
where  he  taught  school  until  the  close  of  the  war,  after  which  he  returned  to  the  old 
homestead  farm.  In  1866  he  became  interested  in  mercantile  pursuits  at  Pinkhill  and 
in  1868  removed  to  that  place.  He  was  a  partner  of  James  V.  Ewing,  the  business  being 
conducted  under  the  style  of  Ewing  &  Adams.  Later  he  became  associated  in  busi- 
ness at  Pinkhill  with  Isaac  H.  Wood  under  the  firm  style  of  Adams,  Wood  &  Company 
and  they  enjoyed  a  large  trade.  He  afterward  bought  the  interest  of  his  partner  and 
conducted  the  business  alone  until  1871,  when  he  sold  a  half  interest   in  the  store  to 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  171 

Darnall  for  a  farm.  The  store  was  conducted  until  1876,  when  Mr.  Adams  withdrew 
and  thereafter  devoted  his  attention  to  agricultural  pursuits.  He  was  widely  known  as 
an  active  supporter  of  the  democratic  party  in  Jackson  county  and  devoted  much  of 
his  time  to  the  work  and  contributed  liberally  to  the  support  of  the  cause.  For  many 
years  he  was  the  newspaper  correspondent  of  the  Kansas  City  Times  and  the  Inde- 
pendence Sentinel,  writing  under  the  name  of  Mr.  Comet — a  name  singularly  appro- 
priate from  the  circumstance  of  the  meteoric  display  on  the  night  of  his  birth.  His 
articles  attracted  wide  attention  by  reason  of  his  sound  views  on  many  important 
topics,  reflecting  mature  judgment.  He  was  very  widely  known  and  highly  esteemed. 
Prior  to  the  war  he  was  elected  magistrate.  He  was  a  man  of  avowed  and  honest  convic- 
tions whose  integrity  was  never  questioned  and  his  popularity  rested  upon  a  substan- 
tial basis.' 

In  the  public  schools  of  Kansas  City,  Arthur  N.  Adams  pursued  his  early  educa- 
tion and  afterward  attended  the  University  of  Missouri  at  Columbia,  where  he  was 
graduated  in  June,  1897.  He  had  devoted  three  years  to  the  academic  course  and  then 
entered  the  law  department  of  the  university,  in  which  he  won  his  LL.  B.  degree  in 
1897.  The  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  practice  at  the  Jackson  county  bar  and  has 
since  followed  his  profession  in  Kansas  City.  He  gives  close  attention  to  his  pro- 
fessional duties,  is  a  clear  thinker  and  a  logical  reasoner.  He  does  not  attempt  flights 
of  oratory  in  his  court  work  but  is  a  convincing  speaker,  is  thoroughly  at  home  in 
all  departments  of  law  and  is  particularly  expert  in  real  estate  law.  He  early  recog- 
nized the  eternal  principle  that  industry  wins  and  he  has  since  been  a  close  student 
of  his  profession,  thorough  and  painstaking  in  his  preparation  of  cases  and  at  all  times 
most  loyal  to  the  interests  of  his  clients. 

In  1901  Mr.  Adams  was  united  in  marriage  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  to  Miss 
Marie  L.  Eaton,  whose  parents  were  natives  of  Missouri,  her  father  being  a  farmer 
of  this  state  through  his  active  life.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Adams  have  been  born  two  chil- 
dren, Eaton  A.  and  Arthur  N. 

Mr.  Adams  belongs  to  the  Masonic  lodge  and  is  very  prominent  in  the  Modern 
Woodmen  of  America.  He  has  been  a  delegate  to  three  national  conventions,  and  his 
political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  democratic  party. 


NATHANIEL  LYON  MOFFITT  AND  CHARLES  S.  MOPFITT. 

Nathaniel  Lyon  Moflitt  is  the  president  of  the  Moflitt-Napier  Grain  Company  of 
St.  Louis  and  has  figured  in  connection  with  the  grain  trade  for  thirty  years,  having 
previous  to  the  reorganization  of  the  business  under  the  present  name,  served  as 
vice  president  of  the  Hubbard-Moflitt  Company.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  October 
17,  1862,  his  parents  being  William  G.  and  Mary  (Stewart)  Moflitt.  The  father  was 
engaged  in  the  wholesale  drug  business  in  this  city  at  an  early  day  in  connection 
with  the  Richardson  Drug  Company.  He  was  born  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  being  an 
Ulsterman,  and  before  leaving  that  country  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Stewart,  a 
native  of  the  same  locality.  They  crossed  the  Atlantic  in  1854  and  went  to  Pitts- 
burgh, Pennsylvania,  where  they  resided  until  1857  and  then  came  to  St.  Louis,  mak- 
ing the  trip  by  boat  down  the  Ohio  and  up  the  Mississippi  rivers.  The  father  was  a 
member  of  the  home  guard  during  the  Civil  war  and  passed  away  in  1869,  respected 
and  honored  by  all  who  knew  him.  In  the  family  were  six  sons  and  a  daughter.  Three 
of  the  sons,  John  S.,  William  G.,  Jr.,  and  Andrew  J.  were  engaged  in  the  wholesale 
drug  business  under  the  name  of  the  Moffitt-West  Drug  Company,  successors  to  the 
Richardson  Drug  Company  with  which  their  father  was  associated  at  an  early  day. 
The  brother,  Samuel  is  now  in  New  York  connected  with  the  American  Ice  Company 
of  which  he  is  a  director  and  also  of  the  Gushing  Bakery  Company,  both  enterprises 
being  the  largest  of  their  kind  in  the  United  States.  The  other  two  sons  of  the  family, 
Nathaniel  L.  and  Charles  S.  have  for  three  decades  been  identified  with  the  grain  trade 
in  St.  Louis. 

Nathaniel  L.  Moffitt  pursued  his  education  in  the  schools  of  this  city  and  after 
his  text  books  were  put  aside  became  associated  with  the  grain  business  in  which  he 
has  made  steady  advancement.  Thoroughly  acquainting  himself  with  every  phase  of 
the  grain  trade  he  eventually  became  one  of  the  officials  of  the  Hubbard-Moffitt  Com- 
pany which  operated  extensively  and  profitably  in  grain  circles  for  many  years.  He 
was  made  the  vice  president  of  this  company  with  Charles  S.  Moffitt  as  treasurer,  and 


172  CEXTEXXIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

R.  C.  Napier  as  secretary.  The  business  was  reorganized,  January  1,  1920,  the  interests 
of  the  Hubbard-Moffitt  Company  being  taken  over  by  the  new  organization  known  as 
the  Moffitt-Napier  Company,  of  which  Nathaniel  Moffitt  became  president.  He  is  thus 
the  directing  head  of  the  new  organization  which  Is  one  of  the  important  factors  in 
the  grain  trade  of  the  city,  controlling  a  business  of  mammoth  proportions.  In  addi- 
tion to  his  connection  with  the  grain  business,  Nathaniel  h.  Moffitt  is  a  director  of 
the  National  Bank  of  Commerce  and  he  is  the  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Grain  Clear- 
ing Company. 

Nattianiel  L.  Moffitt  was  married  on  the  1st  of  October,  1895,  to  Miss  Olive  Boogher, 
a  native  of  St.  Louis  and  a  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Simon  L.  Boogher,  the  former 
being  engaged  in  the  wholesale  hat  business  under  the  firm  style  of  Rainwater-Boogher 
Company.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moffitt  have  become  the  parents  of  four  daughters,  Sophia, 
Josephine,  Olive  and  Natalie.  Nathaniel  L.  Moffitt  belongs  to  various  social  and  busi- 
ness organizations  of  the  city.  He  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Club,  Noonday  Club 
and  of  the  Bellerive  Country  Club,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  St.  Louis  Grain  Club, 
and  the  Merchants  Exchange.  He  is  also  well  known  in  Masonic  circles  belonging  to 
Tuscan  L,odge,  to  the  Chapter,  the  Knights  Templar  Commandery,  the  Scottish  Rite 
body  and  the  Moolah  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the 
Union  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

Charles  S.  Moffitt  who  is  the  treasurer  of  the  Moffitt-Napier  Company  was  born  in 
St.  Louis,  June  3,  1869.  and  had  the  usual  training  and  early  experiences  of  his  brother, 
N.  L.  Moffitt,  and  like  him  became  interested  in  the  grain  business.  He  thoroughly 
mastered  every  phase  of  the  grain  business  and  for  thirty  years  has  operated  in  this 
line,  becoming  the  treasurer  of  the  Hubbard-Moffitt  Company  and  with  the  reorgani- 
zation of  the  business  under  the  name  of  the  Moffitt-Napier  Company  he  continued  to 
act  as  treasurer  of  the  new  organization.  He  is  fond  of  golf  to  which  he  turns  when 
he  can  secure  a  leisure  hour.  He  belongs  to  the  same  social  club  organizations  as  his 
brother  and  like  him  is  a  member  of  the  Union  Methodist  church.  Both  brothers  have 
won  high  standing  in  the  business  world  and  enjoy  the  warm  regard  of  all  who  know 
them,  the  name  of  Moffitt  having  long  been  a  synonym  for  enterprise  in  business  and 
progi'essiveness  and  loyalty  in  citizenship.  N.  L.  Moffitt  and  his  brother  were  both 
active  in  support  of  many  war  measures,  taking  part  in  promoting  the  Red  Cross  and 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  drives  and  also  the  Liberty  bond  sales.  N.  L.  Moffitt  has  always  been  a 
lover  of  literature,  is  the  possessor  of  a  good  library  and  through  his  wide  reading 
has  kept  in  touch  with  the  trend  of  modern  thought  and  progress. 


JOHN  GERDES  LONSDALE. 

Tangible  proof  of  the  notable  executive  ability,  keen  business  discernment  and 
unfaltering  enterprise  of  John  Gerdes  Lonsdale  is  manifest  in  the  continuous  growth 
of  The  National  Bank  of  Commerce  in  St.  Louis  since  he  became  its  president.  He 
was  born  in  Memphis,  Tennessee,  April  4,  1872,  a  son  of  John  and  Ida  (Bosworth) 
Lonsdale,  both  of  whom  died  in  the  yellow  fever  epidemic  which  swept  over 
Memphis  in  the  late  '70s,  so  that  the  son  was  thus  early  left  an  orphan.  In  the 
pursuit  of  his  education  he  attended  St.  John's  Military  Academy  at  Manliu^,  New 
York,  and  also  a  business  college  in  Baltimore,  Maryland.  Early  in  his  business 
career  he  became  identified  with  real  estate  interests  at  Hot  Springs.  Arkansas, 
taking  up  this  work  in  1891.  Soon  afterward  he  entered  the  bond  and  brokerage 
business  as  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  J.  G.  Lonsdale  &  Company,  with  offices 
in  both  New  York  and  Hot  Springs.  Throughout  the  intervening  period  he  has  been 
identified  with  important  commercial  and  financial  projects  in  various  sections  of 
the  country,  attaining  a  position  of  recognized  leadership  as  one  of  the  prominent 
business  men  of  the  various  cities  in  which  he  has  operated.  He  became  one  of 
the  organizers  of  the  Little  Rock,  Hot  Springs  &  Texas  Railroad  Company,  of  which 
he  was  appointed  receiver  in  1896,  following  which  he  reorganized  the  road  under 
the  name  of  the  Little  Rock  &  Hot  Springs  Western  Railroad.  In  1902  he  removed 
to  New  York  to  become  a  partner  in  the  banking  and  brokerage  firm  of  Logan  &; 
Bryan  and  in  1915  he  was  tendered  and  accepted  the  presidency  of  The  National 
Bank  of  Commerce  in  St.  Louis,  an  institution  capitalized  for  ten  million  dollars. 
The  total  resources  of  the  bank  when  he  became  president   were   sixty   million  dol- 


JOHN  G.  LONSDALE 


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lars  and  the  development  of  Us  busniess  under  his  wise  guidance  is  indicated  in 
the  fact  that  the  resources  today  amount  to  ninety  million  dollars.  Mr.  Lonsdale 
is  also  one  of  the  heavy  stockholders  in  The  National  Bank  of  Commerce  in  St. 
Louis,  has  become  the  owner  of  extensive  railroad  securities  and  has  large  invest- 
ments in  Texas.  Aside  from  his  official  connection  with  the  St.  Louis  bank  he 
is  a  director  of  the  American  Foreign  Banking  Corporation  of  New  York,  is  a  director 
of  the  Foreign  Bond  And  Share  Corporation  of  New  York,  a  director  of  the  Missouri 
Pacific  Railroad,  the  St.  Louis  Southwestern  Railroad  and  of  the  Terminal  Rail- 
road Association  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  likewise  made  co-executor  and  co-trustee 
of  the  estate  of  John  T.  Milliken,  who  died  in  the  early  part  of  1919. 

On  the  4th  of  October,  1913,  in  Stamford,  Connecticut,  Mr.  Lonsdale  was  mar- 
.  ried  to  Marie  Allen,  of  Georgia.  By  a  former  marriage  Mr.  Lonsdale  had  a  daugh- 
ter, Aileen,  and  of  the  present  marriage  there  has  been  born  one  son,  John  Gerdes 
Lonsdale,   Jr. 

Mr.  Lonsdale  is  a  member  of  St.  Peter's  Episcopal  church  of  St.  Louis,  of 
which  he  is  a  vestryman.  He  belongs  to  the  Masonic  fraternity,  is  a  Knight  Templar, 
has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree  of  the  Scottish  Rite  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  a  well  known  figure  in  the  leading  club  and  social  organizations 
of  St.  Louis  and  has  membership  in  the  Tennessee  Society  of  St.  Louis,  the  Sunset 
Hill  Country  Club,  the  Racquet  Club,  the  St.  Louis  Club,  the  Bellerive  Country  Club, 
the  Missouri  Athletic  Association  and  the  Automobile  Club.  He  also  remains  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  York  Club,  the  Lotos  Club,  the  Bankers  Club  and  the  Lawyers 
Club,  all  of  New  York  City  and  belongs  to  the  Tennessee  Society  of  New  York. 
He  is  likewise  a  member  of  the  council  on  foreign  relations,  with  offices  in  New 
York  city.  Cognizant  of  his  own  capabilities  and  powers  and  directing  his  efforts 
along  the  lines  of  successful  accomplishment  in  the  business  world,  at  the  same 
time  he  thoroughly  understands  his  opportunities  and  his  obligations  in  relation 
to  the  public.  To  make  his  native  talents  subserve  the  demands  which  conditions 
of  society  impose  at  the  present  time  is  the  purpose  of  his  lite  and  by  reason  of  the 
mature  judgment  which  characterizes  his  efforts  at  all  times  he  stands  today  as  a 
splendid  representative  of  the  prominent  banker  and  capitalist  to  whom  business 
is  but  one  phase  of  life  and  does  not  exclude  his  active  participation  in  and  support 
of  the  other  vital  interests  which  go  to  make  up  human  activity. 


WARREN   GODDARD. 


Warren  Goddard  is  the  president  of  the  Goddard  Grocery  Company,  controlling 
one  of  the  chief  wholesale  interests  of  St.  Louis.  His  interests  have  ever  been  con- 
ducted along  broad  business  lines  and  his  efforts  have  largely  brought  the  business 
from  a  rather  small  concern  to  the  largest  and  most  prominent  of  its  kind  in  the  city. 
Emerson  has  said:  "An  institution  is  but  the  lengthened  shadow  of  a  man,"  and 
the  wholesale  grocery  house  is  but  indicative  of  the  breadth  of  the  splendid  business 
powers  of  the  man  who  is  now  largely  controlling  its  destiny.  Mr.  Goddard  was  born 
in  Brookline,  Massachusetts,  August  29,  1871.  His  father,  Joseph  W.  Goddard,  also  a 
native  of  that  place,  came  to  St.  Louis  in  1868  and  here  established  on  a  small  scale 
the  wholesale  grocery  business  that  has  since  been  conducted  under  the  Goddard  name. 
He  was  interested  in  the  civic  activities  of  St.  Louis  and  prominent  in  promoting  projects 
that  he  deemed  of  benefit  in  the  welfare  of  the  Missouri  metropolis.  Here  he  passed 
away  in  1913  and  is  still  survived  by  his  widow,  who  in  her  maidenhood  was  Miss  Maria 
Pearson,  a  native  of  Gloucester,  Massachusetts,  and  a  resident  of  St.  Louis  since  1868. 

Liberal  educational  advantages  were  accorded  Warren  Goddard,  who  completed 
his  studies  in  Smith  Academy  but  left  school  when  his  father's  health  failed  to  assume 
the  burden  of  the  conduct  of  the  Goddard  Grocery  Company.  He  had  been  graduated 
with  the  class  of  1890  and  thus  his  school  training  constituted  an  excellent  founda- 
tion upon  which  to  build  success.  His  commercial  training,  too,  was  thorough,  for 
parental  authority  was  not  exercised  to  gain  for  him  an  easy  berth.  On  the  contrary 
he  learned  every  phase  of  the  business  and  won  the  promotions  that  came  to  him  from 
time  to  time.  In  1898  he  was  chosen  to  the  vice  presidency  of  the  company  and  owing 
to  his  father's  continued  ill  health  he  was  virtually  the  head  of  the  house.  Following 
his  father's  death  he  was  elected  to  the  presidency  and  his  associate  oflBcers  in  the  en- 


176  CEXTEXNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

terprise  are  S.  P.  Goddartl,  vice  president,  and  G.  H.  Fox,  secretary  and  treasurer.  Since 
assuming  active  control  Warren  Goddard  lias  done  most  effective  work  in  developing 
the  business  from  a  rather  small  concern  until  its  position  is  that  of  leadership  among 
the  commercial  interests  of  the  kind  in  St.  Louis.  He  has  studied  every  phase  of  the 
trade,  is  thoroughly  familiar  with  the  market  and  his  carefully  formulated  plans  have 
brought  most  desirable  results.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
St.  Louis. 

On  the  18th  of  November,  1897,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Goddard  was  married  to  Miss 
Irene  Wallace,  of  St.  Louis,  who  passed  away  in  1900,  leaving  two  children:  Jane 
W.,  twenty  years  of  age,  now  in  school;  and  Mary  Irene,  who  is  attending  Porter's 
School  at  Farmington,  Connecticut.  For  his  second  wife  Mr.  Goddard  chose  Louise 
Augustine,  daughter  of  G.  H.  Augustine,  of  St.  Louis,  and  they  have  three  children: 
Louise,  nine  years  of  age;  Anne,  aged  seven;  and  Joseph  Warren,  a  little  lad  of  five  sum- 
mers.    The  two  eldest  are  attending  school. 

Mr.  Goddard  is  a  well  known  figure  in  club  circles  of  St.  Louis,  belonging  to  the 
Noonday,  City,  Racquet,  St.  Louis  Country  and  Log  Cabin  Clubs,  also  to  the  Round 
Table  and  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  Commercial  Club.  He  is  thus  interested 
in  all  those  things  which  are  of  vital  moment  to  the  city  in  the  line  of  its  development 
and  his  cooperation  is  most  cheerfully,  willingly  and  generously  given  to  every  move- 
ment that  tends  to  advance  the  welfare  and  progress  of  St.  Louis.  He  is  a  man  of  win- 
ning personality,  which,  added  to  his  splendid  business  ability  and  powers  of  organi- 
zation, enabled  him  to  do  excellent  work  in  connection  with  the  Liberty  Loan  and  Red 
Cross  drives  and  other  war  activities.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  district  draft 
board.'  While  he  could  in  no  sense  be  called  an  orator,  he  has  the  ability  to  express 
clearly  and  in  forceful  manner  his  opinions  upon  any  subject  in  which  he  is  interested. 
He  is  greatly  interested  in  the  Provident  Association,  of  which  he  is  a  director,  and 
also  in  the  Community  School  of  Skinker  Heights,  to  which  he  has  been  a  large  con- 
tributor of  both  time  and  money.  This  is  not  due  merely  to  a  sense  of  duty  but 
comes  from  a  genuine  interest  in  his  fellowmen  and  their  welfare,  and  he  recognizes 
the  fact  that  the  real  joy  and  richness  of  life  spring  from  service  for  the  benefit  of 
others. 


CALEB   ANDERSON   RITTER,   M.   D.,  F.   A.   C.   S. 

Caleb  A.  Ritter,  M.  D.,  a  most  able  representative  of  the  medical  profession,  who  for 
the  past  seventeen  years  has  confined  his  attention  to  obstetrics  in  Kansas  City,  was 
born  in  Mooresville,  Indiana,  July  25,  1852,  a  son  of  John  and  Rachael  (Summers)  Rit- 
ter, both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Mooresville.  The  father  followed  the  occupation  of 
farming  near  Moore.sville.  He  was  killed  by  falling  from  a  tree  when  only  thirty  years 
of  age.    He  came  of  a  family  prominent  in  law,  politics,  medicine  and  religion. 

Caleb  A.  Ritter  spent  his  boyhood  days  to  the  age  of  fifteen  years  upon  the  home 
farm  in  Indiana,  meeting  with  the  usual  experience  of  the  farm  bred  boy,  who  divides 
his  time  between  the  work  of  the  schoolroom,  the  pleasures  of  the  playground  and  the 
tasks  incident  to  the  development  of  the  fields.  He  then  went  to  Valley  Mills,  Indiana, 
where  he  was  again  upon  a  farm  and  in  the  winter  seasoh  attended  the  country  schools, 
to  which  he  made  his  way  through  the  snows  of  winter,  while  the  mud  of  springtime 
rendered  the  roads  almost  equally  impassable.  Later  he  had  the  advantage  of  a  course 
in  the  Stockwell  Academy,  at  Tippecanoe,  near  Lafayette,  Indiana,  working  his  way 
through  the  institution,  in  which  he  spent  two  years  as  a  student,  being  employed 
night  and  morning  in  order  to  earn  the  money  necessary  for  his  tuition.  He  alsb  took 
up  the  profession  of  teaching  which  he  followed  in  the  country  schools  near  Plainfield, 
Indiana,  then  entered  the  Indiana  State  University,  at  Bloomington,  Indiana,  which 
he  attended  to  the  junior  year,  at  which  time  he  was  obliged  to  leave  the  university, 
owing  to  illness  of  members  of  his  family.  Later  he  entered  the  office  of  Dt.  Seph 
Mills,  a  Quaker  physician  and  preacher.  His  intense  and  well  directed  industry  enabled 
him  at  length  to  carry  out  his  plan  of  becoming  a  medical  student  and  he  matriculated 
in  the  Indiana  Medical  College,  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
with  valedictorian  honors  in  1877.  He  afterward  served  as  an  interne  in  the  Indian- 
apolis General  Hospital  for  eighteen  months,  and  thus  gained  broad  and  valuable 
experience.  He  was  then  elected  superintendent  of  the  City  Dispensary  and  filled 
that    position   for   two   years.     His   health   failing,   he   afterward    spent   one    summer    in 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  177 

New  Mexico  and  Colorado  and  on  the  24th  of  December,  1883,  came  to  Kansas  City, 
Missouri,  where  he  entered  upon  general  practice,  having  his  office  tor  twelve  years 
at  Fifth  and  Main  Streets. 

In  1897  he  was  elected  a  trustee  and  professor  of  obstetrics  in  the  University  Medi- 
cal College  and  continued  to  occupy  that  position  until  1907  when  the  school  was  closed. 
He  served  also  as  its  treasurer  for  about  seven  years.  For  three  years  he  filled  the 
office  of  treasurer  of  the  University  Hospital  and  his  work  as  an  official  and  as  a  pro- 
fessor in  these  institutions  contributed  much  to  their  value  as  an  educational  center. 
For  the  past  seventeen  years  he  has  confined  his  practice  to  obstetrics.  He  is  attend- 
ing obstetrician  to  the  Christian  Church  Hospital  and  has  been  for  the  past  fifteen 
years  attending  obstetrician  to  the  Kansas  City  General  Hospital.  He  was  made  senior 
obstetrician  in  1920  to  this  institution.  He  belongs  to  the  Jackson  County  Medical 
Society  and  to  the  Kansas  City  Academy  of  Medicine,  of  which  he  was  president  in 
1905.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Obstetrical  Section  of  the  Jackson  County  Medical 
Society,  of  which  he  was  president  in  1912,  and  is  a  fellow  of  the  American  College 
of  Surgeons.  He  belongs  to  the  Southern  Southwestern,  the  Missouri  State  and  the 
America!!  Medical  Associations;  has  written  and  read  many  papers  before  the  profes- 
sional organizations  to  which  he  belongs;  has  been  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  Journal 
of  Obstetrics,  and  is  largely  regarded  as  authority  along  the  line  of  his  specialty.  He 
has  lectured  at  the  University  Training  School  for  Nurses,  and  also  has  been  lecturer 
for  the  Christian  Church  Hospital  in  connection  with  its  course  for  nurses.  In  1890 
he  was  surgeon  of  the  Marmaduke  Guards,  a  local  military  organization,  while  during 
the  World  war  he  was  connected  with  the  medical  department  of  the  Council  of  De- 
fense of  Jackson  county. 

Dr.  Ritter  was  united  in  marriage  in  1896  to  Miss  Mary  Helen  Holland,  of  Kansas 
City,  a  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Susanna  (Smith)  Holland,  the  former  the  founder 
of  the  Holland  Shoe  Company,  one  of  the  oldest  shoe  merchants  of  Kansas  City,  who 
removed  to  western  Missouri  at  an  early  date  arriving  in  1870.  He  was  a  very  prom- 
inent and  influential  citizen,  not  only  through  his  business  connections  but  also  be- 
cause of  his  activity  in  church  and  musical  circles.  He  was  president  of  the  Old  Men's 
Association  and  a  member  of  its  quartet.  He  read  extensively,  keeping  in  touch  with 
the  trend  of  modern  thought  and  progress  and  at  the  same  time  was  thoroughly  familiar 
with  the  best  literature  of  all  ages.  He  passed  away  at  the  age  of  ninety-one  years 
in  Kansas  City. 

Fraternally,  Dr.  Ritter  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Kansas  City  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
and  Orient  Chapter  No.  220,  R.  A.  M.,  and  has  also  attained  the  32d  degree  in  the  Scot- 
tish Rite.  He  belongs  to  the  Phi  Beta  Pi,  a  medical  fraternity,  also  to  the  Phi  Delta 
Theta,  a  literary  fraternity  of  Indiana  University,  and  is  a  member  of  the  James 
Whitcomb  Riley  Club,  the  Comedy  Club,  and  the  Knife  and  Fork  Club.  He  was  born 
of  Quaker  parentage  and  upon  the  family  records  appear  many  names  distinguished 
in  connection  with  the  professions  of  law,  medicine  and  religion  as  well  as  politics. 
Dr.  Ritter  maintains  an  independent  course  in  casting  a  local  ballot,  but  gives  his  sup- 
port to  the  republican  party  upon  national  questions.  He  and  his  wife  are  members 
of  the  Westminster  Congregational  church  of  which  he  was  a  former  officer,  and  are 
people  of  the  highest  worth,  interested  in  all  that  makes  for  the  uplift  of  the  individ- 
ual and  the  betterment  of  the  community  at  large.  Mrs.  Ritter  is  a  member  of  the 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution  and  was  one  of  the  early  kindergarten 
teachers  of  the  city.  Both  are  widely  and  favorably  known  and  their  interests 
and  activities  have  been  a  potent  force  in  advancing  those  projects  which  tend  to 
public  progress  and  improvement. 


HARRY    0.    HIRSCH. 


Harry  O.  Hirsch  is  a  well  known  contractor  of  St.  Louis  who  has  been  particularly 
active  in  the  line  of  structural  iron  work.  In  recent  years,  however,  he  has  engaged  in 
general  contracting  and  many  substantial  structures  of  the  city  stand  as  monuments 
to  his  skill,  enterprise  and  ability.  St.  Louis  numbers  him  among  her  native  sons, 
for  he  was  here  born  April  30,  1874.  His  father,  Frederick  Hirsch,  who  is  now  de- 
ceased, came  to  America  from  Germany  in  1850  and  made  his  way  direct  to  St.  Louis. 
He  was  the  pioneer  in  the  business  of  willow  basket  manufacturing  and  operated  along 
that  line  for  many  years  under  his  own  name.     He  also  engaged  in  the  manufacture 

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of  willow  furniture  to  some  extent.  During  the  Civil  war  he  paid  two  substitutes  to 
go  to  the  front  and  afterward  himself  became  a  member  of  the  army.  He  married  Anna 
Marie  Faut,  also  of  Germany  lineage,  the  wedding  being  celebrated  in  St.  Louis.  They 
became  the  parents  of  eight  children,  three  sons  and  five  daughters,  of  whom  Harry  O. 
of  this  review  is  the  youngest.  The  others  are:  Emma,  who  is  the  wife  of  Frank 
Kennedy,  a  real  estate  salesman;  Bertha,  the  widow  of  Dr.  Frank  Yost;  Minnie,  who 
is  the  wife  of  W.  D.  Hussung,  the  head  of  the  Getz  Roach  Exterminator  Company  of 
St.  Louis;  Lena,  deceased;  Lillie,  the  wife  of  Dave  Anderson;  Frederick  C,  who  is 
with  the  mail  department  of  the  Post-Dispatch  of  St.  Louis;  and  William  A.,  an  archi- 
tect of  St.  Louis. 

Harry  O.  Hirsch  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  and 
began  working  at  the  carpenter's  trade  in  1891.  He  was  in  the  employ  of  Chapman 
&  Thursby,  general  contractors  of  St.  Louis,  for  a  period  of  seven  years  or  until  1898 
when  he  became  connected  with  estimating  structural  iron  work  for  the  Union  Iron 
&  Foundry  Company  of  St.  Louis.  Thus  he  was  employed  until  1903,  when  he  took 
up  structural  iron  work  on  his  own  account  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Kaysing  & 
Hirsch.  In  this  connection  he  continued  until  1904  when  he  began  the  contracting 
business  under  the  name  of  Godfrey  &  Hirsch.  thus  operating  until  1914.  He  then 
established  business  independently  under  his  own  name  and  has  so  continued  to  the 
present  time.  He  has  erected  a  number  of  the  city  zoological  buildings  and  has  done 
considerable  work  for  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad.  His  efliciency  as  a  contractor 
and  builder  is  widely  recognized  and  a  liberal  patronage  has  been  accorded  him. 

On  the  24th  of  February,  1910,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Hirsch  was  married  to  Har- 
riet C.  Luecke,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Luecke,  who  was  one  of  the  pioneer  grocers  of 
St.  Louis,  conducting  business  at  Grand  and  Lindell  avenues.  He  served  in  the 
Civil  war  as  a  member  of  the  Union  army.  By  a  former  marriage  Mrs.  Hirsch  had 
two  children,  Joseph  J.  and  Lucille,  to  whom  Mr.  Hirsch  has  taken  the  place  of  a 
father,  feeling  for  them  the  close  relationship  of  an  own  parent.  The  son  is  now 
working  with  his  father  in  the  office. 

Politically  Mr.  Hirsch  is  a  democrat.  He  actively  supported  all  war  work  and 
his  progressive  citizenship  is  widely  recognized.  He  is  an  exemplary  member  of  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  belonging  to  George  Washington  Lodge  No.  9,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
in  which  he  was  raised  in  March,  1915.  He  was  made  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  in  1919 
in  the  Missouri  Consistory  and  he  belongs  also  to  Moolah  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine 
in  St.  Louis.  He  has  membership  with  the  Normandie  Golf  Club,  the  Kiwanis  Club 
and  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  his  interests  and  activities  are  thus  broad  and 
varied,  showing  him  to  be  a  man  actuated  by  the  spirit  of  modern  times — one  who" 
seeks  enlightenment  and  progressiveness  along  all  lines  leading  to  the  permanent 
development  and  upbuilding  of  the  city. 


MAJOR   HARRY   B.   HAWES. 

Major  Harry  B.  Hawes  was  born  in  Covington,  Kentucky.  November  15,  1869. 
He  is  the  son  of  the  late  Captain  Smith  Nicholas  Hawes;  his  mother  was  Susan 
Elizabeth  Slmrall — both  residents  of  the  state  of  Kentucky.  Major  Hawes  moved 
to  St.  Louis  in  the  year  18  87,  and  has  resided  in  that  city  continuously.  He  grad- 
uated in  the  law  from  Washington  University  in  the  class  of  1896,  representing  his 
graduating  class  as  class  orator.  He  married  Elizabeth  Eppes  Osborne  Robinson, 
at  Goodwood,  St.  Louis  county,  the  home  of  Joseph  Lucas,  November  15,  1899.  Of 
this  union  he  has  two  daughters,  Peyton  Elizabeth  and  Eppes  Bartow.  His  brother, 
Richard  Slmrall  Hawes,  is  the  first  vice  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  St. 
Louis,  and  president  of  the  American  Bankers  Association. 

Major  Hawes  is  a  member  of  all  the  leading  social  and  business  organizations 
of  his  city,  including  in  this  number  the  Racquet  Club,  St.  Louis  Club,  University 
Club,  Noonday  Club,  Missouri  Athletic  Association.  Algonquin  Golf  Club,  Sunset  Hill 
Golf  Club,  Century  Boat  Club,  Mississippi  Valley  Kennel  Club,  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, Merchants'  Exchange,  Real  Estate  Exchange,  Million  Population  Club,  The 
Players,  Cervantes  Society,  Kentucky  Society  and  Missouri  Historical  Society.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  following  legal  organizations:  The  American  Society  on  Inter- 
national Law,  American  Bar  Association,  Missouri  Bar  Association  and  the  St. 
Louis  Bar  Association.     His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Episcopal  church. 


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Shortly  aftei-  graduating,  Major  Hawes  represented  the  Merchants'  Exchange  at 
the  Trans-Mississippi  Congress  held  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  in  the  year  1897.  The 
question  of  the  annexation  of  Hawaii,  then  an  independent  republic,  was  debated. 
Major  Hawes'  speech  in  favor  of  annexation  before  the  convention  attracted  the 
attention  of  Loren  A.  Thurston,  minister  from  the  little  republic,  and  he  was  em- 
ployed by  President  Dole  to  represent  that  country  in  the  United  States  during  its 
fight  for  annexation.  He  made  speeches  in  the  various  cities  favoring  annexation 
and  remained  as  a  representative  of  Hawaii  in  this  country  until  its  annexation 
by  the  United  States  in  the  year  189  8,  during  the  Spanish  war.  He  represented 
the  Sons  of  Confederate  Veterans  and  delivered  the  address  of  the  sons  at  the  last 
Confederate  reunion  held  in  Louisville.  Kentucky. 

When  twenty-nine  years  of  age.  Major  Hawes  was  made  president  of  the  St. 
Louis  police  department  by  Governor  Lon  V.  Stephens  and  was  reappointed  to  that 
position  by  his  successor.  Governor  Alexander  M.  Dockery.  When  in  his  thirty- 
fourth  year  he  was  a  candidate  for  the  democratic  nomination  for  governor,  and 
received  practically  the  unanimous  support  of  the  city  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  one 
of  the  chief  organizers  of  the  Lakes-to-the-Gulf  Deep  Waterways  Association;  was 
chairman  of  its  speakers  committee;  and  has  been  actively  identified  with  the  work 
of  Mississippi  river  improvements  ever  since. 

Through  his  position  as  president  of  the  Jefferson  Club  he  became  the  dem- 
ocratic leader  in  St.  Louis  politics,  and  twice  successfully  managed  campaigns  for 
Rolla  Wells  for  mayor.  His  leadership  of  the  local  democracy  extended  over  a 
period  of  ten  years,  during  which  time  the  democratic  party  was  kept  continuously 
in  power.  During  this  period  the  pilgrimage  of  five  hundred  Missourians  to  the 
tomb  of  Thomas  Jefferson  was  made  under  his  direction  and  attracted  national 
attention.  He  was  selected  by  the  democratic  convention  on  the  notification  com- 
mittee for  Judge  Parker  in  1904  and  was  the  Missouri  representative  on  the  notifica- 
tion committee  which  notified  President  Wilson  of  his  re-nomination  at  Shadow 
Lawn,  New  Jersey,  in  the  year  1916. 

Hig"  interest  in  the  development  of  good  roads  in  the  state  of  Missouri  led  to 
his  election  to  the  legislature  in  the  years  1916-1917.  He  was  made  chairman 
of  the  goods  roads  committee  and  introduced  seven  road  laws  which  re-wrote  the 
entire  road  laws  of  Missouri — the  first  time  it  had  been  done  since  1873.  The  present 
state  highway  law  of  Missouri  was  named  after  him — the  Hawes  law.  He  is  presi- 
dent of  the  Federated  Roads  Council. 

For  many  years  Major  Hawes  was  president  of  the  Mississippi  Valley  Kennel 
Club  and  a  delegate  to  the  American  Kennel  Club.  His  hobby  has  been  the  raising 
of  dogs.  Being  invited  to  address  the  State  University  at  Columbia  and  permitted 
to  select  his  own  subject,  he  delivered  an  address  on  the  subject  of  "Dogs"  which 
was  printed  throughout  the  United  States  and  put  in  pamphlet  form  and  re-printed 
in  England,  Canada,  Australia  and  Spain.  Dog  breeders  and  fanciers  all  over  the 
United  States  consult  and  advise  with  him  about  the  breeding  and  training  of  dogs. 

The  Hawes  law  prohibiting  the  publication  and  circulation  of  anonymous 
political  attacks  has  been  copied  by  many  of  the  other  states  of  the  Union.  A 
Memorial  address,  delivered  at  Christ  Church  Cathedral  in  St.  Louis,  was  given 
wide  publicity  and  attracted  favorable  comment,  as  did  his  address  on  Labor  Day 
to  the  labor  unions  of  St.  Louis,  in  which  he  counseled  conciliation  and  the  settle- 
ment of  disputes  by  American  methods. 

In  July,  1914,  while  visiting  Ireland,  the  great  European  war  broke  out.  He 
went  to  London  and  there  participated  in  the  formation  of  the  American  committee, 
remaining  in  England  for  a  period  of  two  months  watching  and  studying  the  devel- 
opment of  the  war.  Returning  home,  he  delivered  several  notable  addresses  on  the 
subject  of  International  Law,  defending  the  right  of  neutral  citizens  in  the  time 
of  war  to  lend  money  and  furnish  arms  to  the  belligerents.  This  was  in  answer 
to  the  German  propaganda  which  in  that  year  was  spreading  through  the  United 
States.     The  chief  one  of  these  articles  was  printed  in  the  Congressional  Record. 

Returning  to  Europe  in  November,  1917,  he  spent  seven  and  one-half  months 
in  England,  France,  Switzerland  and  Spain.  Upon  his  return  to  the  United  States 
he  was  given  the  rank  of  captain  in  the  psychologic  section  of  the  military  intelligence 
department  and  assigned  to  service  with  the  general  staff.  In  November,  1918,  he 
was  assigned  for  military  intelligence  work  to  France  and  Spain  and  subsequently 
became  the  assistant  military  attache  assigned  to  the  United  States  embassy  at 
Madrid.     He  has  established  at  his  home  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis  a  complete  Spanish 


182  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

room  of  the  16th  century  period  and  furnished  it  with  tiles,  paintings,  furniture 
and  fittings  brought  from  Spain.  He  has  the  largest  collection  of  the  works  of 
Cervantes  in  the  United  States  and  has  specialized  in  the  study  of  the  master's 
great   work — Don   Quixote. 

Upon  resigning  from  the  army  Major  Hawes  resumed  the  active  practice  of 
law,  in  which  profession  he  has  been  continuously  and  successfully  occupied,  inter- 
rupted only  by  his  interest  in  public  affairs.  An  address  delivered  by  him  on  the 
subject  of  the  League  of  Nations  was  inserted  in  the  Congressional  Record  and 
two   hundred  thousand   copies   distributed   through   the   various   states. 

Major  Hawes'  country  home  "Faircroft,"  in  St.  Louis  county,  is  the  gathering 
place  of  many  brilliant  minds,  and  he  has  given  personal  attention  to  gardening 
and  the  breeding  of  fancy  live  stock.  The  ancestors  of  both  Major  and  Mrs.  Hawes 
originally  came  from  Virginia.  He  is  descended  from  the  Nicholas,  Carter  and  Gary 
families  of  that  state. 

George  Nicholas  is  described  by  Senator  Beveridgo  as  follows:  "George 
Nicholas  had  been  a  brave,  brilliant  soldier  and  was  one  of  the  ablest  and  best- 
equipped  lawyers  in  the  state.  He  was  utterly  fearless,  whether  in  battle  on  the 
field  or  in  debate  on  the  floor.  His  family  and  connections  were  powerful.  In  argu- 
ment and  reasoning  he  was  the  equal  if  not  the  superior  of  Madison  himself;  and 
his  grim  personality  made  the  meek  one  of  Madison  seem  tender  in  comparison. 
Nothing  could  disconcert  him,  nothing  daunt  his  cold  courage.  He  probably  was 
the  only  man  in  the  convention  whom  Henry  feared." 

At  this  same  period  in  our  history,  William  B.  Giles,  an  ancestor  of  his  wife's, 
was  a  conspicuous  figure  and  the  spokesman  of  Thomas  Jefferson  in  the  great 
debates  and  fights  with  Alexander  Hamilton.  Nicholasville  and  Nicholas  county, 
Kentucky,  are  named  after  his  grandfather  Nicholas,  and  Hawesville,  in  Davies 
county,  Kentucky,  was  the  early  settlement  of  the  family  in  that  state.  His  grand- 
father, Richard  Hawes,  was  the  Confederate  governor  of  Kentucky,  represented  the 
Ashland  district  in  congress,  was  a  captain  in  the  Black  Hawk  war  and  was  judge 
upon  the  bench  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  his  eightieth  year. 

His  father  was  Captain  Smith  Nicholas  Hawes,  who  became  a  lieutenant  in 
a  Confederate  company  at  the  age  of  seventeen;  later  was  made  captain  of  Missouri 
Confederate  troops,  was  twice  wounded  and  served  during  the  entire  four  years  of 
the  war.  His  father's  brother.  General  Morrison  Hawes,  commanded  the  Texas 
Division  of  the  Confederate  forces.  Two  of  his  father's  brothers  were  killed  during 
the  war.  His  wife's  father  and  his  brothers,  and  his  mother's  brothers  were  all 
in  the  Confederate  army.  On  his  father's  side  Major  Hawes  is  descended  from  the 
Bartow  family,  originally  Huguenot  settlers  in  Georgia.  His  wife's  family  are  Vir- 
ginians, related  to  the  Eppes,  Washington,  Robinson,  Branch  and  Giles  families  of 
that  state.  The  English  coat-of-arms  of  the  Hawes  family  contains  the  motto: 
"Know  thyself." 


WILLIAM   SHERMAN  THOMAS. 

Starting  out  to  provide  for  his  own  support  in  the  position  of  Assistant  Post- 
master in  the  little  town  of  Pleasant  Hill,  Illinois,  William  Sherman  Thomas  is 
today  the  Vice  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Wagner  Electric  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany of  St.  Louis,  which  has  four  thousand  employes.  Not  by  leaps  and  bounds  has 
he  reached  his  present  dominant  position  in  commercial  circles,  but  by  a  steady 
progression  that  has  followed  the  prompt  and  efficient  discharge  of  every  duty  that 
has  devolved  upon  him,  resulting  in  the  constant  development  and  increase  of  his 
powers.  He  was  born  at  Pleasant  Hill,  Pike  County.  Illinois,  August  21,  1867,  and  is 
a  son  of  Dr.  John  A.  and  Sophia  (Blair)  Thomas.  Mr.  Thomas'  eldest  brother,  Albert 
J.,  died  in  1918,  and  his  youngest  brother,  Clarence  C,  born  in  1876,  is  Cashier  of  the 
Citizens  State  Bank  at  Pleasant  Hill,  Illinois. 

The  Thomas  family,  of  Welsh  origin,  was  founded  in  Virginia  in  1690.  The 
great-grandfather  of  Mr.  Thomas  of  this  review  was  with  the  Virginia  troops  and 
fought  throughout  the  Revolutionary  War,  being  with  the  forces  under  General 
Washington  at  the  time  of  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis  at  Yorktown.  Dr.  John  A. 
Thomas,  father  of  William  S.  Thomas,  was  born  in  Virginia  in  1818  and  in  1836 
removed  to  Missouri,  where  he  taught  school  and  studied  medicine,  being  graduated 
from  the  McDowell  Medical  College  of  St.  Louis.     In  1845   he  removed  to  Pleasant 


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Hill,  Illinois,  where  he  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  to  the  time  of  his 
death  which  occurred  February  25.  1888.  His  wife  was  born  in  1836.  was  grad- 
uated from  the  Illinois  Women's  College  at  Jacksonville  in  1858  and  in  January, 
1863,  became  the  wife  of  Dr.  John  A.  Thomas.  Following  the  demise  of  her  hus- 
band, she  became  a  resident  of  St.  Louis  where  she  passed  away  November  9,  1909, 
her  remains  being  taken  back  for  interment  by  the  side  of  her  husband  at  Pleasant 
Hill. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town,  William  S.  Thomas  pursued  his  early 
education,  which  was  supplemented  by  study  in  the  Illinois  State  Normal  University 
at  the  town  of  Normal.  After  filling  the  position  of  Assistant  Postmaster  at  Pleasant 
Hill,  for  a  time  he  went  south  to  San  Antonio,  Texas,  and  became  a  Teller  in  the 
Maverick  Bank.  Watching  for  an  opportunity  to  conduct  business  on  his  own 
account,  he  eventually  became  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Thomas  &  Shultz,  grain 
dealers,  and  also  entered  into  partnership  with  his  brother  in  the  conduct  of  a 
general  merchandise  store,  both  of  these  interests  being  conducted  at  Pleasant  Hill, 
Illinois.  His  identification  with  St.  Louis  dates  from  1894,  at  which  time  he  organ- 
ized the  Aroma  Coffee  &  Spice  Company,  becoming  its  first  President.  For  a  num- 
ber of  years  he  successfully  conducted  the  business  and  in  1901  became  the  General 
Manager  of  the  D.  G.  Evans  Company,  importers  of  coffees  and  teas.  In  1907  he 
was  elected  Treasurer  of  the  Wagner  Electric  Manufacturing  Company  and  later  to 
the  duties  of  that  office  were  added  those  of  the  vice  presidency  and  he  has  since 
served  in  a  dual  position.  Something  of  the  volume  of  the  business  conducted  by 
the  Wagner  Electric  Manufacturing  Company  is  Indicated  in  the  fact  that  its 
employes  number  four  thousand.  Its  plant  is  most  thoroughly  equipped  with  the 
latest  improved  machinery  and  the  work  has  been  carefully  systematized.  At  its 
head  are  men  of  splendid  executive  ability  whose  constructive  efforts  and  adminis- 
trative direction  have  led  to  the  constant  development  and  enlargement  of  the  busi- 
ness, until  it  is  today  not  only  one  of  the  chief  productive  industries  of  St.  Louis 
but  of  the  Mississippi  Valley  as  well.  The  Company  maintains  branch  offices,  selling 
force  and  warehouses  in  all  the  leading  cities  of  the  United  States  and  Canada,  and 
is  rapidly  organizing  sales  agencies  in  the  leading  foreign  countries.  The  Wagner 
Electric  Manufacturing  Company  is  the  originator  of  the  single-phase  motor  busi- 
ness, and  the  pioneer  in  the  development  of  large  power  transformers,  being  the 
first  company  to  build  these  transformers  and  install  them  at  Niagara  Falls.  In  the 
automobile  field  the  Company  is  one  of  the  leading  distributors  of-  starting  and 
lighting  devices,  and  was  one  of  the  first  in  St.  Louis  to  establish  a  mutual  aid 
society  to  care  for  sick  and  injured  employes,  and  also  the  first  to  furnish  free  group 
life  insurance  for  its  employes. 

On  the  20th  of  October,  1892,  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  Mr.  Thomas  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Frances  R.  Moore,  a  daughter  of  William  R.  and  Margaret 
Moore,  both  of  whom  have  now  passed  away.  Her  father,  who  was  born  in  Mis- 
souri, November  20,  1841,  died  in  St.  Louis,  July  5,  1916,  and  the  mother,  whose 
birth  occurred  in  1842,  departed  this  life  September  23,  IS'lS.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Thomas  were  born  four  sons.  The  eldest,  Maurice  L.  Thomas,  was  born  at  Pleasant 
Hill,  Illinois,  in  1893,  and  was  graduated  from  the  University  of  Illinois  in  the  class 
of  June,  1916,  having  completed  a  course  in  electrical  engineering.  During  his 
college  days  he  became  a  member  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  Fraternity.  Returning 
to  his  home,  he  entered. the  works  of  the  Wagner  Electric  Manufacturing  Company, 
and  his  rapidly  developing  efficiency  brought  him  to  the  position  of  Production 
Superintendent  in  the  Large  Motor  Dei)artment.  He  was  thus  serving  when  death 
called  him  on  the  4th  of  August,  1919,  the  news  of  his  demise  bringing  a  sense  of 
deep  personal  bereavement  to  all  who  knew  him,  for  he  was  most  popular  with  his 
associates  in  social  and  business  circles.  One  writing  of  him  at  the  time  ot  his 
death  said:  "He  was  always  active  in  athletics,  and  was  ever  a  tower  of  strength  in 
every  field  to  which  he  turned  his  energies.  Ever  faithful,  modest,  earnest  and 
dependable,  he  fully  earned  the  sincere  respect  and  admiration  of  all.  We  may  truly 
say  of  him — 

'This  was  a  man; 

I  shall  not  look  upon  his  like  again.'  " 

Maurice  is  buried  in  the  family  lot  in  Bellefontaine  Cemetery. 

The  second  son,  Ralph  R.  Thomas,  born  at  Pleasant  Hill,  Illinois,  December  26, 
1894,  was  graduated  from  the  University  of  Illinois  with  the  class  of  June,   1916, 


184  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

having  completed  an  electrical  engineering  course,  the  degree  of  B.  S.  being  then 
conferred  upon  him.  In  his  college  days  he  was  editor  of  the  Technograph,  an 
engineering  magazine,  was  a  Major  in  the  Student  Brigade  and  won  preliminary 
honors.  He  also  became  a  member  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  Fraternity.  Later  he 
pursued  a  special  course  at  the  University  of  Oxford,  England.  He  attended  the 
First  Officers  Training  Camp  at  Fort  Riley,  Kansas,  in  1917,  and  was  made  a  First 
Lieutenant  with  the  Eighty-ninth  Division,  A.  E.  F.,  and  spent  fourteen  months 
with  the  American  Army  in  France,  being  with  the  Eighty-ninth  Division  in  their 
important  engagements  on  the  eastern  battlefields  in  France.  Since  his  retirement 
from  the  army,  he  has  been  employed  as  a  salesman  by  the  William  R.  Compton 
Investment  Company. 

The  third  son,  Nelson  R.  Thomas,  born  February  14,  1898,  in  St.  Louis,  was 
graduated  from  the  School  of  Commerce  of  the  University  of  Illinois  with  the  degree 
of  B.  S.  in  June,  1919,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Phi  Delta  TheU  Fraternity.  He  was 
Chairman  of  the  Students  Union  and  a  Captain  in  the  Student  Brigade,  as  well  as 
leader  of  the  Mandolin  Club  during  his  college  days.  He  enlisted  in  the  Navy  in  1918 
and  attended  the  Ensign  School  at  the  Great  Lakes  Naval  Station.  He  is  now  in 
the  St.  Louis  office  of  Goldman,  Sachs  &  Co.  of  New  York,  bonds  and  investments. 

The  fourth  son,  Dwight  D.  Thomas,  born  August  18,  1902,  in  St.  Louis,  is  a 
student  at  the  University  of  Illinois  and  a  member  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  Fraternity. 

In  his  political  views,  Mr.  Thomas  is  a  Republican,  but  not  an  active  party  worker. 
He  and  his  family  have  membership  in  the  Second  Baptist  Church  and  he  belong^ 
to  Tuscan  Lodge,  No.  360,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  Missouri  Consistory,  No.  1,  A.  A.  S.  R. 
He  is  also  connected  with  the  Knights  of  Pytliias  and  the  Modern  Woodmen  and 
belongs  to  the  Noonday,  Bellerive,  Country,  and  City  Clubs.  Few  men  are  more 
prominent  or  more  widely  known  in  the  business  circles  of  St.  Louis  than  Mr.  Thomas, 
and  his  prosperity  is  well  deserved,  as  in  him  are  embraced  the  characteristics  of 
an  unbending  integrity,  unabating  energy  and  industry  that  never  flags.  He  is  also 
public  spirited,  giving  his  cooperation  to  every  movement  which  tends  to  promote 
the  material,  intellectual  and  moral  welfare  of  the  community. 


JOHN  T.  SMITH. 


John  T.  Smith,  filling  the  office  of  city  comptroller  of  Kansas  City,  is  a  man  who 
has  largely  devoted  his  life  to  the  service  and  benefit  of  others  and  the  results 
achieved  through  his  labors  have  been  far-reaching  and  effective.  He  was  born  in 
St.  Louis,  March  25,  1857,  his  parents  being  Patrick  J.  and  Bridget  (Sullivan)  Smith, 
both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Ireland.  In  early  life  they  came  to  the  new  world 
and  met  and  were  married  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  the  wedding  being  celebrated 
in  1854.  There  they  remained  for  a  short  time  and  afterwards  made  their  way 
northward  to  St.  Louis,  where  the  father  engaged  in  business. 

John  T.  Smith  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  and  when 
his  textbooks  were  put  aside  became  connected  with  the  cigar-manufacturing  busi- 
ness, which  he  followed  for  twenty-two  years  in  Kansas  City,  during  which  time  he 
became  identified  with  the  labor  organization  and  for  twenty-one  years  has  been 
secretary  of  the  Central  Labor  Organization  of  the  American  Federation  of  Labor. 
For  an  equal  period  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  national  organization  and  repre- 
sentative in  that  body  for  the  Central  organization,  attending  all  conventions  for 
the  past  sixteen  years.  One  who  has  long  known  him  said:  "He  is  a  man  of  fine 
business  ability.  His  outstanding  characteristic  is  his  inflexible  integrity.  He  is 
also  a  master  of  detail.  He  has  been  president,  secretary  and  the  heart  and  soul 
of  the  local  trade  union  movement  in  Kansas  City,  has  been  a  delegate  to  all  state 
and  national  conventions  and  has  served  on  legislative  committees,  fighting  for  the 
passage  of  just  laws  in  city,  state  and  nation.  He  is  a  deep  student  of  the  funda- 
mental principles  underlying  trade  unions  and  has  sacrificially  devoted  his  life  to 
that  work.  He  is  an  orator  of  ability.  His  power  over  his  audiences  is  founded 
first  upon  his  sincerity  and  then  upon  his  terseness  of  expression.  He  has  a  most 
convincing  manner,  and  while  he  speaks  with  deep  feeling,  there  is  a  strain  of 
logic  always  present,  which  makes  him  a  most  convincing  speaker." 

In  October,  1881,  Mr.  Smith  was  married  in  Kansas  City  to  Miss  Ellie  Martin, 


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whose  parents  were  natives  of  Ireland.  They  have  six  children:  John,  William  J.. 
Mamie,  Anastasia,  Amanda  and  Roy  P.  John  and  William  were  both  soldiers  of  the 
World  war,  connected  with  the  infantry  branch,  and  saw  real  service  on  the  battle- 
fields of  Prance.  During  the  war  period  Mr.  Smith  served  as  a  member  of  the 
department  of  labor  under  Secretary  Wilson,  in  charge  of  the  speakers'  bureau  and 
the  mediation  and  conciliation  department  of  the  United  States  labor  bureau.  He 
had  to  do  with  all  labor  interests  in  the  shipyards,  docks,  navy  and  munition  plants. 
The  religious  faith  of  the  family  is  that  of  the  Catholic  church  and  Mr.  Smith  is 
identified  with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World  and  with  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  Amer- 
ica, also  with  the  Loyal  Order  of  Moose.  In  politics  he  is  a  democrat,  has  been  a 
delegate  to  the  conventions  of  the  party  and  has  fought  the  fight  for  a  platform 
based  upon  genuine  democracy  and  with  regard  to  the  deeper  and  more  vital  prin- 
ciples that  make  for  the  advancement  of  the  state  and  nation  along  social  and 
economic  lines.  It  was  upon  the  democratic  ticket  that  he  was  elected  to  the  office 
which  he  now  holds,  that  of  city  comptroller. 

Mr.  Smith's  activities  have  taken  in  the  whole  range  of  philanthropy,  for  he 
has  ever  manifested  a  4ively  interest  in  all  charitable  movements  in  Kansas  City, 
especially  as  affecting  the  working  man.  He  has  published  many  pamphlets  and 
contributed  much  to  the  discussion  of  social  and  economic  questions,  especially  in 
the  labor  press  of  the  country.  He  has  been  successful  in  the  highest  and  broadest 
sense  and  has  the  respect  and  warm  devotion  of  all  who  know  him.  He  enjoys  the 
abiding  love  of  the  members  of  labor  organizations,  which  feeling  is  based  upon 
the  great  sacrifices  he  has  made  for  the  cause,  and  his  intelligent  and  unflagging 
fight  to  uphold  Its  principles  and  have  them  expressed  in  action  by  the  mass  of  the 
people.  No  one  has  ever  doubted  the  honesty  of  his  convictions  nor  questioned  his 
devotion  to  any  cause  which  he  espouses. 


ROCKWELL  M.   MILLIGAN. 

Rockwell  M.  Milligan,  commissioner  of  school  buildings  in  St.  Louis,  was  born 
in  Centerville,  Ontario,  Canada,  January  10,  1868.  His  father,  Henry  G.  Milligan, 
was  also  a  native  of  Centerville  and  passed  away  in  St.  Louis  in  1916.  The  Milli- 
gans  were  among  the  first  settlers  of  Centerville,  Ontario,  having  removed  to  that 
place  from  northern  New  York  immediately  after  the  War  of  1812,  in  which  the 
paternal  grandfather  of  Rockwell  M.  Milligan  served  with  great  credit.  The  family 
comes  from  England  and  was  established  in  the  state  of  New  York  prior  to  the 
Revolutionary  war.  The  piother  of  Rockwell  M.  Milligan  bore  the  maiden  name 
of  Harriet  Clancy  and  she,  too,  was  born  in  Centerville,  Ontario,  while  her  death 
occurred  in  1907,  at  Enterprise,  Ontario,  Canada.  Her  father  was  Cornelius  Clancy, 
one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Centerville,  and  she  came  of  a  family  of  French  and  Irish 
descent.     Mrs.  Milligan  was  the  youngest  of  a  very  large  family. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  Rockwell  M.  Milligan  pursued  his  early 
education  and  afterward  attended  high  school  at  Napanee,  Ontario,  while  later  he 
completed  his  high  school  course  at  Wichita,  Kansas,  as  a  member  of  the  class  of 
1885.  He  afterward  studied  at  Lewis  Academy,  Wichita,  and  then  entered  Gar- 
field University  at  that  place,  continuing  his  studies  until  1888  when  the  univer- 
sity was  sold  to  the  Friends,  to  be  conducted  as  a  Theological  Seminary  and  was 
temporarily  closed.  Mr.  Milligan  passed  his  student  days  with  a  view  of  ultimately 
becoming  an  architect  and  in  furtherance  of  this  plan  he  went  to  Denver,  Colorado, 
where  he  remained  for  about  a  year  and  a  half  in  the  office  of  a  leading  architect 
of  that  city.  Later  he  came  to  St.  Louis  where  he  arrived  August  10,  1890.  He 
worked  for  three  years  under  the  guidance  and  training  of  Isaac  S.  Taylor,  after- 
ward a  director  of  works  at  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition,  and  on  the  expira- 
tion of  that  period  he  became  identified  with  George  R.  Mann,  the  architect  of  the 
new  City  Hall,  in  whose  employ  he  continued  until  March,  1897.  The  new  school 
law  went  into  effect  when  he  became  connected  with  the  school  board  of  St.  Louis 
as  chief  draftsman,  holding  that  position  for  a  year  and  a  half.  Subsequently  he 
engaged  in  private  practice  as  an  architect  and  thus  continued  until  1914.  For 
about  twelve  years  he  was  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Milligan  &  Wray,  which 
was  accorded  a  most  liberal  patronage.  Mr.  Milligan  became  prominently  known 
as  a  builder  of  hospitals  and  he  planned  and  supervised  the  erection   of  probably 


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more  hospital  buildings  than  any  other  architect  in  the  country,  his  work  extend- 
ing practically  throughout  the  entire  UnJted  States.  He  has  erected  from  thirty- 
five  to  forty  of  the  large  and  prominent  hospitals  of  the  country  including  the  Frisco 
Railway  Hospital,  the  City  Insane  Asylum  and  the  St.  Vincent's  Institution  tor  the 
Insane  at  St.  Louis,  also  the  Los  Angeles  (California)  Sanitarium,  "St.  Vincent's 
Hospital  at  Bridgeport,  Connecticut,  and  the  Hotel  Dieu,  at  El  Paso,  Texas.  He 
was  also  the  architect  of  the  building  for  the  St.  Louis  Transfer  Company  and  also 
the  Wall  Building,  at  Olive  and  Vandeventer  Streets.  On  the  10th  of  October, 
1914,  he  was  elected  to  his  present  position,  that  of  commissioner  of  public  school 
buildings,  of  the  city  of  St.  Louis.  During  his  incumbency  covering  the  intervening 
years  to  the  present  time — 19  20 — he  has  built  many  of  the  fine  school  buildings 
of  which  St.  Louis  is  so  justly  proud.  These  include  the  Bates,  Hamilton,  George 
Dewey.  Samuel  Cupples.  Richard  M.  Scruggs,  John  Roe,  Isaac  M.  Mason,  and  Susan 
R.  Buder  school  buildings,  while  at  the  present  time  he  is  engaged  in  the  construc- 
tion of  the  William  Stix  school. 

On  the  6th  of  November.  1914.  at  Buffalo,  New  York.  Mr.  Jlilligan  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Maude  Marquardt.  a  daughter  of  August  Marquardt,  manager  at  Mon- 
treal, Canada,  for  the  N.  K.  Fairbanks  Company.  Mrs.  Milligan  was  born  in  Chicago 
and  was  educated  at  Monti-eal.  By  her  marriage  she  has  become  the  mother  of 
two  sons  and  two  daughters — Janice  Y..  Audrey  L..  Trevor  R.  and  Raiford  M. 

Politically  Mr.  Milligan  is  a  republican  where  national  questions  and  issues 
are  involved,  but  otherwise  casts  an  independent  ballot.  His  religious  faith  is  that 
of  the  Episcopal  church  and  he  attends  the  services  at  St.  Peters.  He  is  a  Mason 
belonging  to  Anchor  Lodge,  No.  443,  of  which  he  is  a  past  master;  Oriental  Chapter 
No.  78,  R.  A.  M.;  St.  Aldemar  Commandery.  No.  !«.  K.  T.;  and  St.  Louis  Consis- 
tory, in  which  he  has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree  of  the  Scottish  Rite.  Mr. 
Milligan  belongs  to  the  Century  Boat  Club;  to  the  National  Association  of  Public 
School  Building  Officials,  of  which  he  was  the  first  president  and  of  which  he  is  now 
secretary;  to  the  American  Society  of  Heating  and  Ventilating  Engineers  and 
was  the  organizer  of  the  St.  Louis  Architectural  Club.  This  club  was  designed 
as  a  school  of  architecture  and  drafting  and  is  now  affiliated  with  the  Washington 
University.  He  was  an  instructor  in  the  school  for  several  years,  was  president 
for  several  terms  and  was  also  its  secretary.  His  work  has  been  of  a  most  im- 
portant character.  He  has  contributed  much  to  the  public  good  as  an  architect 
and  designer,  and  there  is  no  phase  of  the  business  with  which  he  is  not  thoroughly 
familiar,  having  acquainted  himself  with  all  the  practical  work  as  well  as  the 
scientific  principles  which  underlie  his  chosen  vocation.  He  also  holds  membership 
in  the  National  Association  of  School  Accotlntiug  Officers. 


HON.  PHILIP  SHELLEY  BROWN,  Sk. 

Hon.  Philip  Shelley  Brown,  for  many  years  a  distinguished  member  of  the  Kansas 
City  bar,  was  born  in  Bedford  county,  Pennsylvania,  October  14,  1833.  His  father,  Henry 
Brown,  was  a  descendant  of  the  JIaryland  family  of  that  name,  and  his  mother  who 
in  her  maidenhood  was  Miss  Shelley,  was  a  representative  of  the  old  Shelley  and  Smith 
families,  having  among  her  ancestors  some  of  the  earliest  settlers  of  Philadelphia.  The 
father  died  early  in  1834  and  the  mother  taking  young  Philip  and  his  three  brothers, 
removed  to  her  father's  farm  in  Huntington  (now  Blair)  county,  Pennsylvania. 

There  Philip  S.  Brown  divided  his  time  between  farm  work  and  schoolroom  duties 
to  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  when  he  entered  the  academy  of  the  Rev.  John  H.  McKin- 
ney  at  Hollidaysburg,  Pennsylvania.  His  stay  there  was  prolonged  for  three  years,  due 
solely  to  his  own  exertions,  for  during  vacation  periods,  by  his  services  as  deputy  in 
the  sheriff's  office  of  that  county,  he  was  enabled  to  meet  the  necessary  expenses  for  tui- 
tion. Leaving  the  academy  in  1852,  Mr.  Brown  during  the  following  year  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Cambria  Iron  Company,  working  through  the  day  and  continuing  his 
studies  at  night.  In  1855  he  resigned  his  position  and  removed  to  Davenport,  Iowa, 
where  he  took  up  the  study  of  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1857. 

In  the  succeeding  year  Mr.  Brown  removed  to  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  then  a  small 
town,  and  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  retaining  for  years  a  most  prominent 
position  at  the  bar.    As  attorney  for  and  director  of  the  then  constructing  Kansas  City, 


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Galveston  &  Lake  Superior  Railroad — now  a  part  of  the  main  line  of  the  Chicago,  Bur- 
lington &  Quincy  system — during  those  early  years  of  the  frontier  town's  precarious 
existence,  he  displayed  a  remarkable  faith  in  the  city  of  his  adoption;  and  by  his  sound 
counsel  and  advice  the  growth  and  advancement  of  the  city  were  largely  promoted.  While 
a  member  of  the  city  council  in  1866  he  drew  the  right-of-way  contract  and  made  the 
legal  adjustments  for  the  entrance  into  Kansas  City  of  the  Pacific  Railroad,  which  Is 
now  the  main  entrance  into  Kansas  City  of  that  great  corporation,  the  Missouri  Pacific 
Railroad. 

In  the  practice  of  law  Mr.  Brown  became  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Brown  & 
Case,  his  associate  being  Ermine  Case,  Jr.,  with  whom  he  entered  into  partnership  rela- 
tions in  1859.  In  1872  they  were  joined  by  Edward  M.  Wright,  under  the  firm  style 
of  Brown,  Case  &  Wright,  an  association  that  was  maintained  until  1882.  The  firm  ot 
Brown,  Chapman  &  Brown  was  then  organized,  the  partners  being  P.  S.  Brown,  Ben- 
jamin H.  Chapman  and  William  H.  Brown,  the  last  named  being  a  son  ot  the  senior  part- 
ner. This  association  was  formed  in  1884  and  in  1899  the  firm  became  Brown,  Harding  & 
Brown,  the  new  member  thereof  being  John  T.  Harding.  After  many  years  ot  arduous 
application,  his  marked  ability  keeping  him  at  the  front  of  his  profession  at  all  times, 
finding  his  health  impaired,  he  retired  from  practice  in  1890  and  directed  his  efforts 
to  the  development  of  his  large  realty  interests.  His  name  remained  as  that  ot 
senior   partner  until    1908. 

On  the  3rd  of  November,  1858,  Mr.  Brown  was  married  ta  Miss  Julia  A.  Shaffer, 
the  eldest  daughter  of  William  Shaffer,  ot  Blair  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  to  them 
were  born  nine  children,  of  whom  five  are  living.  Julia  Augusta,  who  was  born  Novem- 
ber 3,  1859,  and  became  the  wife  ot  Edward  B.  Shillito  on  the  2d  of  February,  1881; 
Lula  Katherine,  whose  birth  occurred  August  12.  1862,  and  who  on  the  17th  of  June, 
1885,  gave  her  hand  in  marriage  to  Joseph  Curd;  William  Harrison,  born  February  26, 
1864,  who  wedded  Caroline  Santord  Miller  on  the  11th  ot  June,  1896,  and  passed  away 
April  6,  1916;  Philip  Sheridan,  who  was  born  December  25,  1866,  and  who  married  Edith 
Wolf  on  the  13th  of  August,  1908;  Ralph  J.,  whose  natal  day  was  March  8,  1874;  and 
Sara  Lela,  born  March  8,  1874,  who  became  the  wife  of  Allan  J.  Epperson  on  the  26th  of 
April,  1899.  The  wife  and  mother  passed  away  in  Kansas  City,  January  6,  1908.  Early 
allying  himself  with  the  Presbyterian  church,  Mr.  Brown  has  aided  and  upbuilded  many 
ot  its  projects  and  has  ever  been  among  the  first  to  advance  the  social  and  religious  wel- 
fare and  the  prosperity  and  progress  ot  his  community. 


JOHN  HENRY  SMITH. 


John  Henry  Smith,  president  of  the  Kansas  City  Title  &  Trust  Company,  which 
was  organized  in  1915,  was  born  in  Heyworth,  Illinois,  a  son  ot  I.  L.  Smith,  a  native 
of  Somerset  county,  Pennsylvania.  The  father  was  tor  a  long  period  engaged  in  the 
abstract  and  title  business  in  Iowa.  He  served  during  the  Civil  war,  being  captain  of 
a  company  ot  volunteers  connected  with  a  Pennsylvania  regiment.  He  was  a  Knights 
Templar  Mason,  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  and  a  man  whose  sterling  worth 
ot  character  commanded  tor  him  the  respect  and  confidence  of  all  who  knew  him.  He 
married  Harriet  King,  who  was  born  in  Somerset  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  both  have 
passed  away.    They  had  a  family  of  seven  sons  and  three  ot  the  number  are  yet  living. 

John  Henry  Smith  was  educated  in  Iowa,  attending  high  school  at  Nevada,  that 
state,  and  in  1890  he  came  to  Kansas  City.  Here  he  started  out  upon  his  business  career 
as  a  clerk  in  an  abstract  office.  His  course  has  been  marked  by  steady  advancement, 
resulting  from  the  wise  use  ot  his  opportunities,  his  fidelity  to  the  interests  ot  his  employ- 
ers and  the  fact  that  he  never  watched  the  hands  ot  the  clock,  tearing  that  he  was 
giving  too  much  service  to  those  who  had  employed  him.  His  diligence  and  enterprise 
secured  his  advancement  and  he  is  now  a  well  known  figure  in  the  financial  circles  of 
the  city,  being  a  director  ot  the  Security  National  Bank,  president  ot  the  Kansas  City 
Title  &  Trust  Company  and  president  ot  the  McCrae  Securities  Company.  The  Kansas 
City  Title  &  Trust  Company  was  organized  in  1915  and  is  capitalized  tor  seven  hundred 
and  fifty  thousand  dollars.  This  corporation  has  ofl[lces  in  the  New  York  Life  building 
and  its  interests  are  splendidly  organized  and  most  carefully  directed  by  Mr.  Smith, 
who  is  the  executive  head  of  the  business. 

On  the  first  of  September,  1909,  Mr.  Smith  was  married  to  Miss  Margery  Menefee, 


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of  Los  Angeles,  California,  and  they  have  a  daughter,  Madeline,  who  is  five  years  of  age. 
Mr.  Smith  is  a  man  of  wide  popularity,  highly  esteemed  in  Kansas  City,  where  he  has 
made  his  home  for  many  years.  His  attractive  personality,  his  sterling  qualities  and  his 
business  ability  have  established  him  high  in  public  regard.  During  the  World  war 
he  served  actively  in  connection  with  the  Liberty  loan  drives  and  at  all  times  he  gives 
earnest  support  to  those  interests  which  are  a  matter  of  public  concern. 


ROBERT  HENRY  STOCKTON. 

Robert  Henry  Stockton,  identified  with  the  commercial  interests  of  St.  Louis 
for  fifty-five  years,  has  since  1899  been  the  president  and  general  manager  of  the 
Majestic  Range  Company,  and  in  this  connection  has  been  largely  Instrumental 
in  the  development  of  a  business  that  today  o'ertops  anything  of  the  kind  in  the 
world.  He  enjoyed  no  special  advantages  at  the  outset  of  his  career,  placing  his 
dependence  upon  the  substantial  qualities  of  industry,  determination  and  close 
application. 

A  native  of  Kentucky,  he  was  born  at  Mount  Sterling,  July  5,  1842,  and  is  of 
English  lineage,  being  descended  from  one  of  the  old  Virginia  families  established 
in  that  state  In  1680.  During  the  period  of  Indian  warfare  in  Kentucky  the  family 
was  planted  on  the  soil  of  the  Blue  Grass  state  by  Robert  Stockton,  the  grandfather 
of  Robert  Henry  Stockton,  who  opened  the  first  bank  in  his  section  of  Kentucky. 
His  son,  George  Jewett  Stockton,  was  born  in  Kentucky  and  became  a  merchant 
there.  He  was  married  in  that  state  to  Augusta  Somersall,  also  of  English  descent. 
All  of  the  members  of  the  family  with  the  exception  of  Robert  H..  and  two  sisters 
fell  victims  to  the  cholera  epidemic  of  1854  and  the  mother  passed  away  in  February 
of  the  same  year.      His  sister.  Mrs.  M.  S.  Cotton,  resides  in  Sedalia,  Missouri. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  Robert  Henry  Stockton  pursued  his 
education  to  the  age  of  fifteen  years,  when  he  joined  an  uncle  in  Boone  county,  Mis- 
souri, and  from  1857  until  1859  assisted  his  uncle  in  the  development  of  a  farm. 
The  latter  year  witnessed  his  entrance  into  the  commercial  world  as  a  clerk  and 
assistant  to  a  tinner  in  the  hardware  store  of  Dorsey  &  Carter  of  Columbia.  Mis- 
souri, and  blacking  stoves,  putting  up  lightning  rods  and  making  sales  were  a  part 
of  the  duties  which  fell  to  his  lot  in  that  connection. 

Mr.  Stockton  joined  the  Confederate  army  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war 
in  April,  1861,  and  went  with  his  company  to  Boonville,  Missouri,  to  resist  deneral 
Lyons'  advance  into  the  state;  but  the  northern  commander  scattered  the  southern 
forces  before  they  could  be  organized  and  Mr.  Stockton  returned  to  Columbia.  In 
December,  1861,  however,  he  joined  General  Price  and  participated  in  the  various 
movements  of  Price's  army  as  a  member  of  Company  I,  Second  Missouri  Infantry. 
He  was  elected  second  lieutenant  of  his  company,  serving  some  time  with  his  com- 
mand and  at  other  times  doing  duty  as  acting  adjutant  under  Colonel  Francis 
M.  Cockrell  until  the  spring  of  1863.  At  that  date  he  permanently  joined  his 
company  and  the  division  of  the  Confederate  army  to  which  they  were  attached 
retreated  into  Vicksburg.  While  on  night  picket  duty  June  5.  1863,  Mr.  Stockton 
was  captured  and  sent  to  Johnson's  Island,  where  he  was  incarcerated  until  February 
1,  1865,  when  he  was  exchanged  and  reported  to  Colonel  Bevier  at  Richmond, 
where  he  was  given  charge  of  a  company  of  exchanged  privates  with  orders  to  pro- 
ceed to  Mobile,  Alabama,  and  there  report  for  duty.  As  no  means  of  transportation 
were  provided,  they  had  to  walk  and  when  they  reached  Eufaula,  Alabama,  on  the 
10th  of  April.  1865,  they  learned  that  the  war  was  ended. 

Mr.  Stockton's  connection  with  St.  Louis  dates  from  September,  1865,  when 
through  the  efforts  of  his  old  employers  at  Columbia  he  secured  a  position  in  the 
hardware  store  of  Pratt,  Fox  &  Company.  After  two  years  he  entered  the  employ 
of  Waters,  Simmons  &  Company,  the  predecessors  of  the  Simmons  Hardware  Com- 
pany. After  the  first  year  of  its  organization  he  became  secretary  of  this  company  and 
later  was  chosen  second  vice  president,  filling  that  position  until  1888,  when  he 
withdrew  from  the  hardware  trade  and  spent  the  succeeding  four  years  in  travel, 
which  was  a  source  of  much  pleasure  to  him.  Indolence  and  idleness,  however,  are 
utterly  foreign  to  his  nature  and  after  four  years  of  rest  he  joined  L.  L.  Culver, 
in  1892,  in  organizing  the  Majestic  Manufacturing  Company.  Upon  the  death  of 
Mr.  Culver  in  1899  he  succeeded  to  the  presidency  and  general  management  of  the 


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company,  and  his  direction  of  the  business  has  led  to  its  development  until  the 
house  is  unsurpassed  by  any  interest  of  the  kind  in  the  world.  Its  sales  cover  prac- 
tically every  state  of  the  Union  and  extend  into  many  foreign  countries  as  well.  Mr. 
Stockton  has  given  his  attention  continuously  to  the  conduct  of  the  business  since 
he  entered  into  active  connection  therewith  and  its  marvelous  development  is  largely 
the  outcome  of  his  capability,  keen  sagacity  and  enterprise.  His  cooperation  has  also 
been  sought  in  the  conduct  of  other  business  interests  of  importance.  He  is  one 
of  the   directors   of   the  Mississippi   Valley   Trust   Company. 

On  the  24th  of  December,  1867,  at  Richmond,  Missouri,  Mr.  Stockton  was 
married  to  Miss  Betty  Mae  Warder,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Susan  Warder.  She  passed 
away  in  November,  1904,  and  their  only  child  died  at  the  age  of  nineteen  months. 

Mr.  Stockton  belongs  to  the  Business  Men's  League,  the  Mercantile  Club,  the 
Noonday  Club,  the  Confederate  Veterans  Association  and  to  the  Hamilton  Avenue 
Christain  church.  He  has  ever  been  keenly  interested  in  the  vital  political  questions 
and  issues  of  the  day  and  was  a  most  stalwart  champion  of  Governor  Folk  in  his 
efforts  to  introduce  clean  politics  and  bring  about  the  expression  of  public  opinion 
without  the  domination  of  machine  rule.  At  the  time  the  Louisiana  Purchase 
Exposition  was  held  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Stockton  was  one  of  the  directors  and  the 
chairman  of  its  advertising  committee.  He  was  made  a  member  of  the  reception 
committee  to  entertain  President  Wilson  on  his  visit  to  St.  Louis  on  the  5th  of 
September,  1919. 

It  is  said  that  Mr.  Stockton  finds  his  chief  recreation  in  country  life  and  enjoys 
nothing  better  than  a  visit  to  the  Woodford  farm,  belonging  to  his  nephew  in  Pettis 
county.  While  he  is  now  in  the  seventy-eighth  year  of  his  age,  in  spirit  and  interests 
he  seems  yet  in  his  prime,  keeping  in  close  touch  with  the  trend  of  modern  thought 
and  progress  and  using  his  influence,  which  is  notably  strong,  for  the  benefit  and 
upbuilding  of  the  city  with  whose  interests  he  has  been  so  long  and  prominently 
associated. 


FRANCIS   MARION  GREEN. 

Francis  Marion  Green  was  prominently  identified  with  the  intellectual  and 
moral  progress  of  Missouri  for  many  years,  devoting  his  life  to  educational  work 
in  the  schoolroom  and  in  the  pulpit.  He  was  born  at  Farmington,  Iowa,  in  1845, 
a  son  of  Preston  G.  and  Jemima  (Cook)  Green,  who  were  natives  of  Kentucky. 
The  son  came  to  Missouri  about  1866,  when  a  young  man  of  twenty-one  years,  and 
settled  in  the  northwestern  section  of  the  state.  He  was  liberally  educated,  being 
a  graduate  of  Mount  Pleasant  University,  and  he  took  up  the  profession  of  teach- 
ing, which  he  followed  for  some  time  prior  to  the  Civil  war.  Following  the  out- 
break of  hostilities  between  the  north  and  the  south  he  entered  the  conflict  in  the 
last  year  of  the  war.  With  his  return  to  civil  lite  he  again  took  up  the  profession 
of  teaching  and  later  entered  the  ministry.  Removing  to  Missouri  he  accepted  the 
pastorate  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  at  Queen  City,  where  he  continued 
for  a  year  and  then  went  to  Brashear,  where  he  labored  for  three  years.  Later 
he  was  pastor  of  the  church  at  Kirksville,  Missouri,  for  three  years,  going  to  these 
different  places  in  accordance  with  the  itinerant  custom  of  the  Methodist  ministry. 
He  also  spent  a  similar  period  at  Clarence,  Missouri,  and  for  three  years  was  pastor 
of  the  Methodist  church  at  Chillicothe.  He  was  then  made  district  superintendent, 
with  headquarters  at  Macon,  and  later  resigned  that  position  to  become  the  pastor 
of  the  Methodist  church  at  Brookfield,  where  he  continued  his  labors  for  three 
years.  Ill  health  obliged  him  to  resign  and  he  removed  to  Macon,  where  he  spent 
his  remaining  days,  passing  away  in  the  year  1903.  His  life  was  fraught  with  good 
deeds  and  ever  actuated  by  the  highest  purposes.  He  was  a  man  of  great  sympathy 
as  well  as  an  able  teacher  in  the  pulpit,  and  his  kindly  words  of  admonition  sank 
deep  into  many  hearts  and  in  the  course  of  years  bore  rich  fruit. 

In  1866  Mr.  Green  was  married  to  Miss  Harriet  Krenmyre,  a  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam and  Annie  (Flood)  Krenmyre,  the  former  a  native  of  Germany,  while  the 
latter  was  born  in  Indiana.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Green  were  born  three  daughters: 
Minnie,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  Joseph  M.  Darr,  of  Chillicothe;  Carrie,  the  wife  of 
Richard  Holtzclaw.  of  Macon,  Missouri;  and  Annie  Laura,  the  widow  of  Ross  Lar- 
rabee,  of  Kansas  City. 


194  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

It  is  to  Mrs.  Dai-r  that  we  are  indebted  tor  this  material  concerning  the  his- 
tory of  her  father,  who  was  long  a  prominent  and  influential  factor  in  the  life  of 
his  adopted  state.  Mrs.  Darr  is  well  known  as  a  member  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution.  The  Chillicothe  chapter  was  organized  May  20,  1911,  by 
Mrs.  Martha  Prindle  Barney,  who  became  the  first  regent  of  what  was  known  as 
Olive  Prindle  Chapter,  the  national  number  being  1004.  Miss  Anna  Broaddus 
became  the  first  historian  and  Mrs.  Joseph  M.  Darr  is  the  treasurer.  She  is  a  repre- 
sentative of  one  of  the  old  southern  families  that  was  founded  on  American  soil 
during  early  colonial  days  and  among  her  ancestors  were  those  who  fought  for 
independence  in  the  Revolutionary  war. 


JOHN   RING. 


John  Ring,  widely  known  as  an  inventor,  made  valuable  contribution  to  the 
packing  business  through  his  invention  of  machinery  for  refrigeration  and  ice  man- 
ufacture He  is  now  a  provision  inspector  of  St.  Louis  and  is  still  an  active  factor  in 
the  world's  work  notwithstanding  his  seventy-nine  years.  He  was  born  in  County 
Cork  Ireland,  in  1841  and  was  but  five  years  of  age  when  his  parents,  Edward  and 
Mary  (Roche)  Ring,  established  their  home  in  St.  Louis.  The  father  left  the 
Emerald  isle  in  1841  and  became  a  resident  of  Cincinnati.  Ohio.  In  1844  he  made 
his  way  to  St.  Louis  and  two  years  later  brought  his  family  to  the  new  world,  so 
that  John  Ring  has  been  continuously  a  resident  of  this  city  since  1846.  His  father 
was  connected  with  lard  oil  manufacturing  in  St.  Louis,  establishing  the  first  plant 
of  the  kind  in  the  city,  and  in  1857  he  extended  the  scope  of  his  business  to  include 
candle  manufacturing,  and  afterward  the  manufacture  of  refined  lard.  The  methods 
which  he  pursued  were  soon  copied  by  others  and  it  was  not  long  before  the  entire 
market  was  supplied  with  this  improved  refined  lard.  Until  other  manufacturers 
had  adopted  the  process  which  had  been  promoted  by  Mr.  Ring  and  his  son  they 
had  a  practical  monopoly  on  all  lard  sold  in  Cuba,  Mexico  and  the  southern  part 
of  the  United  States,  as  theirs  was  the  only  lard  which  would  not  melt  into  oil  in 
the  hot  southern  climate.  The  efforts  of  Edward  Ring  were  therefore  of  essential 
value  in  connection  with  the  packing  industry.  He  married  Mary  Roche,  a  repre- 
sentative of  the  family  of  that  name  well  known  throughout  Ireland. 

Their  son,  John  Ring,  was  a  pupil  in  the  schools  of  St.  Louis  until  1855,  when 
he  became  associated  with  his  father  in  business.  He  also  studied  in  private 
schools  of  St.  Louis  and  in  the  St.  Louis  University  and  the  Christian  Brothers  Col- 
lege, pursuing  a  course  in  chemistry  in  the  last  named.  This  branch  of  study  has 
been  of  great  value  to  him  in  his  business  activities.  Having  joined  his  father  in 
business,  he  continued  in  the  manufacture  of  lard  for  a  number  of  years  and  met 
with  a  substantial  measure  of  success.  In  1881,  however,  his  plant  was  entirely 
destroyed  by  fire  and  it  was  this  that  caused  Mr.  Ring  to  direct  his  efforts  into 
other  fields.  From  early  life  he  had  shown  marked  mechanical  skill  and  ingenuity 
that  found  expression  in  inventions,  especially  along  lines  having  to  do  with  the 
refinement  and  refrigeration  of  lard.  Studying  along  these  lines  in  order  to  secure 
adequate  machinery  for  the  work,  he  at  length  succeeded  in  producing  machinery 
for  refrigeration  and  ice  manufacture,  for  in  connection  with  the  packing  and  brew- 
ing business  refrigeration  was  needed  independent  of  ice,  and  following  the  fire  of 
1881  he  patented  his  refrigerating  and  ice-making  machines  and  began  their  man- 
ufacture and  sale.  The  first  two  large  machines  which  he  built  and  sold  were 
placed  in  the  plant  of  the  C.  &  L.  Rose  Packing  Company,  now  the  Waldeck  Pack- 
ing Company  of  St.  Louis,  and  are  still  in  operation.  In  1885  he  built  two  machines 
for  Cox  &  Gordon,  packers,  and  from  that  time  forward  there  was  a  demand  for 
other  machines  of  his  manufacture,  so  that  for  nine  years  he  continued  in  the  busi- 
ness which  steadily  grew,  becoming  one  of  the  profitable  productive  industries  of 
the  city.  His  machines  brought  out  many  new  ideas  which  are  still  in  use  in  the 
best  refrigerating  plants  even  to  this  day.  Like  so  many  inventors,  Mr.  Ring 
became  involved  in  litigation  because  others  attempted  to  utilize  his  patents.  He 
spent  seventeen  years  in  contesting  his  rights  in  the  courts,  and  when  the  decision 
was  finally  rendered  in  his  favor,  it  was  too  late  to  reap  any  pecuniary  reward,  for 
the  patents  had  by  this  time  expired,  and  the  law  of  limitations  applied.  The  world, 
too     owes   to   him   a   debt   of   gratitude    for   his    invention   in    ice-making   machines. 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  195 

which  have  placed  ice  within  the  reach  of  all  because  of  its  cheapness  of  manu- 
facture through  the  processes  which  he  instituted.  On  May  25,  1909,  he  was 
granted  a  basic  patent  for  apparatus  for  purifying  the  air  in  subways.  This  has 
been  endorsed  by  the  Public  Service  Commission  of  New  York,  and  will  be  installed 
in  New  York  subways  as  soon  as  financial  conditions  permit  the  expenditure.  Other 
inventions  owe  their  existence  to  his  fertile  brain  and  skilled  hand  and  he  stands 
today  among  those  who  have  given  America  preeminence  as  the  land  of  invention. 

Mr.  Ring  has  been  most  pleasantly  situated  in  his  home  lite,  which  had  its 
beginning  in  his  marriage  on  the  8th  of  September,  1868,  to  Miss  Kate  M.  O'Neil, 
whose  father.  Judge  Joseph  O'Neil,  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  Citizens'  Sav- 
ings Bank.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ring  were  born  seven  children.  The  eldest,  John,  Jr., 
is  now  at  the  head  of  the  John  Ring,  Jr.,  Advertising  Company  of  St.  Louis,  with 
offices  in  the  Victoria  building,  and  is  conducting  a  very  successful  business. 
Joseph,  the  second  of  the  family,  is  deceased.  Genevieve  D.  is  at  home.  Mary 
is  the  wife  of  Dr.  Lewis  R.  Padberg,  and  they  have  four  children,  three  sons  and 
a  daughter:  Jerome,  Genevieve,  Lewis  and  John.  Vincent  P.,  deceased,  married 
Rosalie  Fusz  and  at  his  death  left  two  sons:  Vincent  P.,  who  is  a  graduate  of  the 
St.  Louis  University  and  is  now  studying  civil  engineering  in  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology  at  Boston;  and  Paul  Fusz,  who  is  pursuing  a  classical  course 
in  the  St.  Louis  University.  The  other  two  children  of  the  Ring  family  died  in 
infancy. 

Mr.  Ring  was  honored  with  election  to  the  English  society  known  as  the  Royal 
Society  of  Arts,  Manufacture  and  Commerce.  This  election  occurred  February  7, 
1917,  in  recognition  of  his  contribution  to  the  refrigerating  business  through  his 
inventions.  His  son,  Vincent  P.,  invented  the  present  method  of  making  glass 
tanks,  which  are  today  in  use  throughout  the  United  States.  He  also  reduced  the 
cost  of  glass  making  thirty  percent  through  the  methods  which  he  promoted.  Aside 
from  his  connection  with  the  English  society  previously  mentioned,  John  Ring  was 
for  a  time  a  member  of  the  Academy  of  Science  at  Philadelphia  and  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  alumni  association  of  the  St.  Louis  University.  His  religious  faith  is 
that  of  the  Catholic  church  and  he  has  been  a  most  earnest  and  active  worker  on 
the  side  of  charity  and  benevolence.  For  twenty  years  he  served  as  secretary  of 
the  board  of  managers  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Orphan  Asylums  and  for  a  similar 
period  was  secretary  of  the  upper  council  of  the  St.  Vincent  de  Paul  Society,  which 
has  as  its  main  motive  the  alleviation  of  hard  conditions  of  life  for  the  unfortunate. 
He  is  constantly  extending  a  helping  hand  wherever  aid  is  needed  and  thus  he  has 
done  much  for  humanity  as  well  as  lor  the  world  at  large  through  his  inventive 
genius. 


WILLIS   K.   BRAMWELL. 


Willis  K.  Bramwell,  vice  president  of  the  Central  Exchange  National  Bank  of 
Kansas  City  and  a  man  who  stands  four  square  to  every  wind  that  blows,  was  born 
in  Belleville,  Kansas,  July  9,  1892,  and  is  one  of  the  four  children  born  to  D.  D. 
and  Clara  (Kloos)  Bramwell.  The  father  was  born  in  Bloomington,  Illinois,  while 
the  mother  is  a^native  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  They  now  reside  in  western  Kansas, 
being  still  residents  of  Belleville,  where  Mr.  Bramwell  is  actively  connected  with 
the  National  Bank. 

At  the  usual  age  Willis  K.  Bramwell  became  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  o£ 
his  native  town  and  passed  through  consecutive  grades  to  the  high  school.  Later 
he  entered  the  University  of  Kansas,  in  which  he  completed  the  law  course,  win- 
ning the  LL.  B.  degree  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1913.  He  started  upon  his  busi- 
ness career  in  connection  with  the  National  Bank  of  Belleville,  with  which  he 
remained  for  three  and  a  half  years.  For  two  years  he  occupied  the  position  of 
examiner  with  the  Pioneer  Mortgage  Company  of  Topeka,  Kansas,  and  on  the 
expiration  of  that  period  removed  to  Kansas  City  and  became  identified  with  the 
Stock  Yards  National  Bank  in  the  capacity  of  vice  president,  remaining  with  that 
Institution  for  a  year.  He  then  became  connected  with  the  Central  Exchange 
National,  Bank,  of  which  he  is  now  the  vice  president.  For  intricate  financial 
problems  he  finds  ready  and  correct  solutions.     He  has  made  a  close  and  compre- 


196  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

hensive  study  of  the  banking  business  in  principle  and  detail  and  in  the  manage- 
ment of  affairs  has  ever  recognized  the  fact  that  tlie  bank  is  most  worthy  of  sup- 
port that  most  carefully  safeguards  and  protects  the  interests  of  depositors.  The 
policy  pursued  by  the  Central  Exchange  National  Bank  is  one  which  has  always 
commended  it  to  the  confidence  and  support  of  the  public  and  the  business  has 
steadily  grown. 

On  the  7th  t)f  June,  1915,  Mr.  Bramwell  was  married  to  Miss  Gladys  Ruth 
Clark,  of  Fredonia,  Kansas,  a  daughter  of  D.  F.  Clark,  who  is  a  banker  of  that 
city.  Mr.  Bramwell  is  widely  known  in  club  circles  of  Kansas  City,  belonging  to 
the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  Meadow  Lake  Golf  Club  and  to  the  Knife  and  Fork  Club. 
Fraternally  he  is  a  Mason,  having  membership  in  the  various  bodies  of  the  York 
Rite  and  also  in  Ararat  Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.  He  belongs  to  the  Westport 
Presbyterian  church,  in  the  work  of  which  he  takes  an  active  and  helpful  interest. 
He  has  long  been  much  interested  in  athletics  and. was  captain  of  the  football  team 
of  the  university.  He  also  became  a  member  of  the  Sigma  Chi,  a  college  fraternity, 
when  at  Lawrence,  Kansas.  In  his  business  life  and  in  fact  in  support  of  every 
project  which  he  has  undertaken  he  has  been  not  only  a  hard  worker  but  an  enthu- 
siastic one  and  to  this  may  largely  be  attributed  his  success.  Moreover,  he  is  a 
man  of  most  genial  nature  and  unfailing  courtesy,  whom  it  is  a  pleasure  to  meet 
either  in  business  or  social  relations. 


COLONEL   EDWARD   M.   STAYTON. 

Prominent  in  engineering  circles  and  widely  known  because  of  his  military 
activity,  Colonel  Edward  M.  Stayton  ranks  with  the  leading  and  honored  residents 
of  Independence.  Moreover,  he  is  a  representative  of  one  of  the  old  and  distinguished 
pioneer  families  of  western  Missouri  and  his  birth  occurred  September  4,  1874,  upon 
what  is  known  as  the  old  Thomas  Stayton  farm  two  miles  southeast  of  Independence, 
his  parents  being  Thomas  and  Louisa  Matilda  (Com)  Stayton,  both  of  whom  were 
natives  of  Missouri.  The  paternal  grandfather  came  to  this  state  about  1820,  bring- 
ing his  slaves  with  him,  after  which  he  employed  them  in  hewing  a  home  out  of 
the  wilderness  and  in  the  manufacture  of  brick  and  lime  used  in  the  construction 
of  the  brick  house  on  the  old  homestead.  He  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Jack- 
son county  and  here  he  reared  his  family  of  ten  children.  His  household  was  a  very 
large  one  by  reason  of  the  number  of  slaves  he  owned  and  as  the  years  passed  he 
acquired  a  very  extensive  tract  of  land.  In  the  early  days  his  home  was  well  known 
as  a  very  hospitable  one,  always  open  for  the  reception  of  travelers.  Martin  Rice, 
who  came  to  western  Missouri  in  1836  from  Indiana,  was  entertained  by  John 
Stayton  and  makes  mention  of  the  family  in  his  writings.  John  Stayton  was  also 
a  very  religious  man,  holding  firmly  to  the  faith  of  the  Baptist  church,  and  he  never 
allowed  anything  to  interfere  with  his  religious  duties.  Thomas  Stayton,  father  of 
Colonel  Stayton,  was  the  owner  of  four  hundred  acres  of  rich  and  valuable  land  and 
in  addition  to  developing  his  property  was  very  active  in  public  affairs  but  never 
sought  or  held  public  office. 

Upon  the  old  family  homestead  Colonel  Stayton  of  this  review  spent  the  period 
of  his  boyhood  and  youth,  acquiring  his  early  education  in  the  rural  school  near 
his  father's  home  and  afterward  continuing  his  studies  in  the  high  school  at  Inde- 
pendence. In  1892  he  became  a  student  in  the  Missouri  State  University,  in  which 
he  pursued  a  special  course  in  civil  engineering,  and  he  also  took  an  active  and  helpful 
interest  in  the  military  department  of  the  university.  Throughout  his  life  he  has 
been  keenly  interested  in  military  affairs.  On  the  9th  of  February,  1891,  he  enlisted 
as  a  member  of  Company  F  of  the  Third  Missouri  Infantry  and  received  considerable 
preliminary  training  in  the  company.  After  becoming  a  university  student  he  was 
given  an  opportunity  to  show  his  ability  in  handling  a  squad  of  recruits  and  within 
a  brief  period  had  won  promotion  to  the  rank  of  first  sergeant  and  in  the  middle 
of  the  year  became  sergeant  major  of  the  battalion.  In  the  fall  of  1894  he  was 
advanced  to  the  first  lieutenancy  of  Company  A  and  during  the  absence  of  its  cap- 
tain served  as  commander  of  the  company.  When  a  vacancy  occurred  among  the 
captains  in  December  of  that  year  he  was  promoted  in  recognition  of  the  ability 
he  had  shown. 


COLONEL  EDWARD  M.  STAYTON 


THl  KiW  TfJKE 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  199 

In  the  meantime  Colonel  Stayton  was  preparing  for  the  practice  of  civil  engi- 
neering and  was  making  wise  use  of  his  time  in  preparation  for  the  profession.  His 
first  important  engineering  worli  was  in  connection  with  the  Kansas  City  Southern 
Railway,  which  taslv  he  undertook  in  January,  1895.  Although  his  first  position  was 
that  of  rod-man,  he  was  soon  promoted  to  instrument  man  and  later  became  resident 
engineer.  At  a  subsequent  period  he  was  engaged  on  the  construction  of  a  branch 
of  the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railroad  in  Oklahoma,  also  on  a  part  of  the 
Kansas  City,  Mexico  &  Orient  Railway  in  Oklahoma  and  Texas  and  on  the  St.  Louis 
&  San  Francisco  Railway  in  Oklahoma.  His  operations  have  covered  a  very  wide 
territory  and  have  been  of  a  most  important  character.  In  December,  1904,  he  went 
to  the  Spanish  Honduras,  where  he  built  some  industrial  railroads  for  the  handling 
of  the  products  of  several  banana  plantations  and  also  for  the  handling  of  some 
heavy  mahogany  timber.  In  1907  he  entered  the  service  of  the  Harriman  syndicate 
to  make  surveys  for  some  proposed  railways  in  Kansas,  Oklahoma  and  Texas  and 
afterward  his  attention  was  given  to  investigations  for  the  betterment  of  the  Cen- 
tral Georgia  Railway  in  Alabama,  Georgia  and  Florida.  Much  time  was  devoted 
to  the  investigation  of  the  possibilities  of  a  system  of  Interurban  railways  out  of 
Kansas  City  and  he  took  part  in  the  final  location  and  construction  of  the  existing 
interurbans  from  Kansas  City  to  St.  Joseph  and  to  Excelsior  Springs,  Missouri,  in. 
1911.  Through  the  succeeding  five  years  he  was  engaged  in  general  consultation 
work,  specializing  in  highways  and  railways.  In  1916,  through  appointment  of  Gov- 
ernor Major,  he  was  made  highway  engineer  of  Jaek'son  county,  filling  that  position, 
for  only  a  few  months,  however,  when  he  was  called  into  military  service  for  duty 
on  the  Mexican  border.  This  was  followed  by  overseas  service  and  a  few  days  after 
his  return  to  his  home  he  was  offered  by  the  county  court  of  Clay  county  the  posi- 
tion of  consulting  engineer  for  their  system  of  two  hundred  miles  of  paved  road. 
He  accepted  and  also  took  up  the  general  practice  of  his  profssion  with  headquarters 
at  Liberty. 

Aside  from  Colonel  Stayton's  profession  nothing  has  so  greatly  claimed  his 
time,  attention  and  energies  as  military  affairs.  In  1907  he  gave  his  services  as 
commandant  of  cadets  to  the  Independence  high  school  and  so  acted  for  two  years. 
On  the  15th  of  June,  1910,  he  was  made  captain  of  Company  F  of  the  Third  Mis- 
souri Infantry  and  was  transferred  to  the  Missouri  Artillery  Battalion  with  his  com- 
pany on  the  24th  of  November,  1914,  while  on  the  7th  of  March,  1915,  he  was  made 
major  of  artillery.  On  the  19th  of  June,  1916,  Colonel  Stayton  was  called  into  the 
federal  service  and  took  his  battalion  to  the  Mexican  border,  where  he  remained 
on  duty  at  Laredo  until  December  24,  when  his  battalion  was  returned  to  its  home 
station.  On  the  20th  of  July,  1917,  he  was  transferred  from  the  artillery  to  the 
Missouri  Engineers  Corps  and  organized  a  battalion  of  engineers,  with  which  he 
entered  the  federal  service  on  the  5th  of  August,  1917,  for  active  duty  in  connec- 
tion with  the  World  war.  The  battalion  went  to  Camp  Doniphan  for  training  and 
there  became  a  part  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Tenth  Engineers.  This  regiment  arrived 
in  France  with  the  Thirty-fifth  Division  on  the  10th  of  May,  1918,  and  was  sent 
immediately  to  the  front,  participating  in  the  Amiens  occupation  with  the  British, 
later  the  Vosges  occupation  with  the  French,  also  in  the  St.  Mihiel  offensive,  the 
Argonne  offensive,  the  Verdun  occupation  and  following  the  signing  of  the  armistice 
took  part  in  the  building  of  the  camp  at  Brest.  On  arriving  at  St.  Mihiel,  Colonel 
Stayton  was  placed  in  command  of  his  regiment,  which  was  held  in  reserve  during 
the  battle.  While  the  division  was  engaged  in  the  Argonne  offensive,  it  became 
necessary  for  the  Engineers  to  take  over  the  entire  division  front,  owing  to  the  serious 
losses  the  infantry  had  sustained.  The  line  to  be  occupied  was  selected  and  its  occupa- 
tion superintended  by  Major  Stayton,  who  was  complimented  for  the  prompt  and  skill- 
ful manner  in  which  the  position  on  Schadron  Hill  was  occupied  under  the  heavy  shell 
fire.  At  the  conclusion  of  the  regiment's  participation  in  the  Argonne  offensive  he 
was  promoted  to  the  grade  of  lieutenant  colonel  and  continued  on  duty  with  his  regi- 
ment, and  when  the  regiment  was  relieved  from  duty  in  France  it  was  his  privilege 
to  bring  the  troops  back  home  to  the  splendid  welcome  that  was  accorded  them. 

On  the  26th  of  July,  1898,  Colonel  Stayton  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Estella  Compton,  who  was  reared  on  the  farm  adjoining  his  birthplace  and  who  had 
been  a  playmate  of  his  childhood  days.  They  have  become  parents  of  a  son,  George 
Edward  Stayton.  Their  social  position  is  one  of  the  utmost  prominence  and  Colonel 
Stayton  Is  a  recognized  leader  in  many  connections.  He  has  always  taken  an  active 
Interest  in  the  civil  and  business  affairs  of  his  home  town  and  he  participated  in  the 


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organization  of  the  Home  Deposit  Trust  Company,  o£  which  he  has  continuously  been 
a  director  and  vice  president.  He  is  also  very  active  in  Masonic  circles,  belonging  to 
Independence  Lodge,  No.  76  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  in  which  he  has  filled  all  the  offices  in- 
cluding that  of  master.  He  also  holds  membership  in  the  Scottish  Rite  and 
Mystic  Shrine  of  Kansas  City.  On  the  4th  of  February,  1903,  he  became  an  associate 
member  of  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers  and  was  transferred  to  full  mem- 
bership in  1907.  He  also  has  membership  and  is  active  in  the  affairs  of  several 
other  professional  societies.  When  in  December,  1919,  the  coal  situation  became 
serious  on  account  of  strikes  the  state  institutions  being  practically  without  coal  and 
very  little  being  available  tor  domestic  purposes  and  none  at  all  for  Industrial 
purposes,  the  governor  of  Missouri  took  over  the  coal  mines  of  the  state  for  opera- 
tion. Colonel  Stayton  was  immediately  selected  to  go  to  Barton  county  as  the  super- 
intendent of  operations  for  the  mines  located  in  that  part  of  the  state.  In  a  few 
hours  after  his  arrival  he  had  all  of  the  mining  property  under  military  guard  and 
had  begun  the  distribution  of  the  skilled  labor  necessary  to  begin  the  operation  of 
the  mines,  and  in  thirty  hours  after  his  arrival  coal  was  being  loaded.  The  strike 
ended  in  just  a  week  after  the  governor's  proclamation,  but  in  that  time  the  mines 
had  been  put  in  operation  by  the  use  of  volunteer  labor  and  had  almost  reached  the 
point  of  normal  production.  Colonel  Stayton  was  highly  complimented  by  the  gov- 
ernor and  all  concerned  for  the  energetic  and  businesslike  manner  in  which  he  took 
hold  of  a  most  difficult  situation  and  produced  results  without  any  delay  whatever. 
The  adjutant  general  of  Missouri,  in  a  letter  conveying  his  own  and  the  governor's 
appreciation  for  Colonel  Stayton's  work  in  this  emergency,  use'd  these  words:  "It  is 
a  great  satisfaction  to  the  governor  to  know  that  an  officer  of  your  exceptional  ability 
and  who  has  distinguished  himself  so  remarkably  in  France  was  ready  to  anwer  the 
call  of  the  state  regardless  of  the  personal  sacrifice  entailed.  A  state  which  numbers 
such  soldiers  among  its  citizens  is  most  fortunate." 

In  June,  19  20,  there  occurred  a  vacancy  in  the  command  of  the  Third  Regiment 
National  Guard  of  Missouri.  It  was  the  consensus  of  opinion  of  all  that  a  service 
man,  with  a  good  record  in  France,  was  a  necessity  for  the  command  of  the  regi- 
ment, and  when  the  officers  of  the  regiment  convened  for  the  purpose  of  electing 
a  colonel  but  one  name  was  mentioned.  Colonel  Stayton  being  unanimously  elected 
to  the  command.  On  August  1,  1920,  Colonel  Stayton  became  city  member  of  the 
board  of  control  of  the  Kansas  City  Railway  Company,  a  highly  important  position 
involving  the  operation  of  the  street  railway  system  of  Greater  Kansas  City.  His 
has  been  a  most  busy,  active  and  useful  lite  in  which  high  purposes  and  capability 
have  carried  him  into  important  relations.  What  he  has  accomplished  represents 
the  fit  utilization  of  his  innate  powers  and  talents.  He  has  contributed  to  the 
country's  material  development  through  his  professional  work,  has  upheld  its  posi- 
tion and  honor  through  his  military  activity,  and  in  days  of  peace,  in  every  relation 
of  life,  is  equally  loyal  to  the  colors.  General  H.  C.  Clark  said  of  him:  "I  attribute 
his  success  to  his  ability  which  is  exceptional,  to  his  industry  and  activity,  his  natural 
leadership,  his  faultless  personal  habits,  his  knowledge  of  men  and  affairs  and  his 
high  character  and  integrity." 


FORREST  G.  FERRIS. 


Forrest  G.  Ferris,  since  191^  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in  St.  Louis  as 
member  of  the  firm  of  Ferris  &  Rosskopf,  was  born  upon  a  farm  in  Reading  town- 
ship, Hillsdale  county,  Michigan,  July  31,  1S60,  and  is  the  son  of  Augustus  Harvey 
and  Sylvia  (Reed)  Ferris.  The  name  Ferris  had  its  origin  with  Henry  de  Ferrers, 
or  Ferrieres,  or  Farrariis  who  took  the  name  from  a  small  town  in  the  iron  mining 
regions  of  France,  from  which  country  he  went  to  England  with  William  the  Con- 
querer  in  1066.  He  was  master  of  the  King's  horseshoers  and  had  bestowed  upon 
him  the  honor  of  Tutbury  and  lands  in  Stafford,  Derby  and  Leicester  counties. 

Jeffrey  Ferris,  the  first  of  the  Ferris  name  in  America,  helped  to  make  the 
original  survey  of  Boston  and  he  also  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  at  Watertown, 
Massachusetts,  and  at  Wethersfield,  Stamford  and  Greenwich,  Connecticut.  The 
line  of  descent  comes  down  through  his  son  James,  to  James  and  to  Sylvanus  Ferris. 
Tlie  latter  was  born  in  1738  and  lived  at  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  until   1782,  when 


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lie  removed  to  Westchester  county,  New  York,  where  he  purchased  a  farm  on  the 
28th  of  May,  of  that  year.  Sylvanus  Ferris  wedded  Mary  Mead  and  the  line  of 
descent  comes  down  through  Henry  Ferris  who  married  Elizabeth  Hayes;  Thacher 
Isaac  Ferris  who  married  Betsey  Elwell;  Henry  Hayes  Ferris  who  at  Ira,  Cayuga 
<;ounty.  New  York,  married  Hannah  Terpening,  a  daughter  of  Lucas  and  Jane 
(Failing)  Terpening;  and  Augustus  Harvey  Ferris,  who  at  Reading,  Michigan,  mar- 
ried Sylvia  Reed,  a  daughter  of  John  Hanson  and  Sophia  (Smith)  Reed.  John 
Hanson  Reed,  the  maternal  grandfather  of  Forrest  G.  Ferris,  was  born  in  Rhode 
Island,  and  was  the  son  of  John  and  Phoebe  (Arnold)  Reed,  who  were  natives  of 
Smithfield,  Massachusetts,  and  a  grandson  of  John  Read  of  Salem,  who  changed 
the  spelling  of  the  name  to  Read.  At  Collins,  Erie  county.  New  York,  he  married 
Sophia  Smith,  who  was  born  at  Danby,  Vermont,  and  was  a  daughter  of  Asa  and 
Sylvia  (Wilher)  Smith.  Asa  Smith  was  a  son  of  George  and  Rachael  (Read)  Smith, 
of  Rhode  Island,  and  Sylvia  Wilber  was  a  daughter  of  Isaac  Wilber  (or  Wilbur) 
and  Elizabeth  Badgly  of  Massachusetts.  The  ancestors  of  Mr.  Ferris  for  several 
generations  back  were  nearly  all  farmers.  His  grandfather,  John  Hanson  Read, 
was  for  nineteen  years,  from  1828  to  1847,  a  sailor  and  captain  of  sailing  vessels 
■on  the  Great  Lakes  and  later  he  was  a  carpenter  and  millwright. 

Augustus  Harvey  Ferris  and  his  wife  Sylvia  (Reed)  Ferris  were  both  educated 
in  the  country  schools  and  in  Hillsdale  College,  in  Michigan.  The  father  was  a 
sergeant  in  Company  C,  First  Regiment  of  Michigan  Sharpshooters  in  the  Civil  war, 
and  after  serving  for  nearly  two  years  was  taken  prisoner  September  30,  1864,  at 
Poplar  Grove  church,  near  Petersburg,  Virginia,  and  was  confined  in  Confederate 
prisons,  being  first  in  Libby,  at  Richmond  and  then  at  Salisbury,  North  Carolina, 
where  he  died  January  5,  1865.  His  grandfather,  Henry  Hayes  Ferris,  was  also 
a  soldier  in  the  Union  army,  serving  as  a  sergeant  in  Company  G,  Second  Michigan 
Cavalry. 

After  losing  her  first  husband,  Mrs.  Sylvia  Ferris  became  the  wife  of  Silas  W. 
Haynes,  and  Forrest  G.  Ferris  removed  with  his  mother  and  stepfather  from  Mich- 
igan to  Wheeling  township,  Livingston  county,  Missouri,  in  the  summer  of  1871. 
He  attended  the  country  schools  and  also  the  village  schools  of  Wheeling,  and  for 
two  years  he  was  a  student  in  the  high  school  at  Chillicothe,  Missouri.  During  the 
four  years  from  1878  until  1882  he  pursued  academic  studies  and  the  study  of  law 
in  the  University  of  Missouri  and  there  won  his  LL.B.  degree.  He  earned  his  first 
money  by  working  on  a  farm,  which  was  his  employment  during  his  minority  when 
not  in  school,  save  for  a  few  months  when  he  clerked  in  a  village  store  at  Wheeling. 
Following  his  admission  to  the  bar  he  was  for  one  year  in  the  law  office  of  Owen 
T.  Rouse  of  Moberly,  Missouri,  and  taught  the  summer  term  of  the  Wheeling  school 
in  1883.  He  also  taught  in  the  Moberly  high  school  during  the  school  year  1883- 
1884,  and  was  principal  of  the  Moberly  East  Side  school  during  the  succeeding  year. 

On  the  1st  of  May,  1885,  Mr.  Ferris  opened  a  law  office  in  Moberly,  where  he 
practiced  until  October  16,  1907.  On  the  latter  date  he  became  assistant  attorney 
general  of  Missouri,  under  Herbert  S.  Hadley  and  continued  to  act  in  that  capacity 
until  January  1,  1909.  He  was  also  assistant  circuit  attorney  of  the  city  of  St. 
Louis,  under  Seebert  G.  Jones  for  the  four  years,  beginning  January  1,  1909,  and 
since  the  1st  of  January,  1913,  he  has  been  successfully  engaged  in  the  general 
practice  of  law  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis,  in  partnership  with  Henj-y  A.  Rosskopf, 
under  the  firm  style  of  Ferris  &  Rosskopf,  with  offices  in  the  Times  Building.  The 
firm  has  enjoyed  an  extensive  practice  and  Mr.  Ferris  and  his  partner  are  joint 
authors  of  "Ferris  &  Rosskopf's  Instructions  to  Juries,  Civil  and  Criminal,  for  Mis- 
souri and  Arkansas."  Beginning  in  1912  Mr.  Ferris  has  each  year  delivered  lec- 
tures to  evening  classes  of  law  students  in  the  Benton  College  of  Law,  in  St.  Louis, 
his  principal  subjects  being  torts,  negotiable  instruments,  extraordinary  remedies 
and  court  procedure. 

On  the  14th  of  August,  1884,  at  Moberly,  Missouri,  Mr.  Ferris  was  married  to 
Miss  Bessie  Roth  well,  a  daughter  of  Gideon  Franklin  and  Elizabeth  Minor  (Rag- 
land)  Rothwell.  Her  father  was  born  in  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  and  was  long 
a  resident  of  Moberly,  where  he  was  known  as  an  able  lawyer  and  orator.  He 
served  as  a  member  of  congress  from  1879  until  1881,  and  as  member  and  president 
of  the  board  of  curators  of  the  University  of  Missouri  from  1889  until  1894.  The 
gymnasium  of  that  institution  now  bears  his  name.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Clai- 
borne Rothwell,  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  of  Virginia.  Mrs.  Ferris  is  also  kin  to 
the  Renfro   and  Stephens   families  of  Callaway  and   Boone  counties,   Missouri,   and 


202  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

the  Ragland  and  Buckner  families  of  Monroe  county,  Missouri,  and  among  her 
ancestors  on  her  mother's  side  were  James  Taylor  of  Virginia,  a  colonel  in  the 
Revolutionary  war.  and  Thomas  Minor  of  Virginia,  a  captain  in  the  Revolution 
and  a  colonel  in  the  War  of  1812.  The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Forrest  G.  Ferris 
are  Elizabeth  Reed,  now  the  wife  of  James  S.  Summers,  a  lawyer  of  Kansas  City, 
Missouri;  Franklin  Rothwell.  deceased;  Ruth;  Forrest  G.,  Jr.,  who  served  as  yeo- 
man, first  class,  in  the  U.  S.  Navy  in  the  World  war;  and  Frances.  There  are  also 
two  grandchildren.   Ferris   Rothwell   Summers  and   Bessie  Mary   Summers. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Ferris  is  a  republican  and  has  been  widely  recognized 
as  a  prominent  worker  in  the  party.  He  served  as  state  committeeman  and  repeat- 
edly as  county  chairman,  and  in  1904  was  a  delegate  to  the  Republican  National 
Convention.  While  a  resident  of  Moberly  he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  edu- 
cation of  that  city  during  the  six  years  from  1896  to  1902,  of  which  time  he  was 
for  four  years  the  president  of  that  board,  and  during  the  year  189  8  was  president 
of  the  Missouri  School  Board  Association.  From  1899  until  1903  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Moberly  Public  Library  Board,  so  serving  at  the  time  the  Moberly  Car- 
negie Library  was  built.  He  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis,  Missouri  State  and  Amer- 
ican Bar  Associations,  and  also  of  the  National  Geographic  Society  and  the  Zoo- 
logical Society  of  St.  Louis.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Modern  Wood- 
men of  America  and  also  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Foresters.  He  is  a  repre- 
sentative of  honorable  American   families  of  sturdy  patriotism. 


JAMES   EDGAR   WITHROW. 

James  Edgar  Withrow  for  twenty-four  years  sat  upon  the  bench  of  the  circuit 
court  of  St.  Louis  and  has  been  a  representative  of  the  bar  of  this  city  since  1868. 
His  judicial  record  was  characterized  by  a  thorough  grasp  of  the  problems  pre- 
sented for  solution  and  has  won  for  him  the  respect  and  honor,  not  only  of  the  general 
public,  but  of  those  who  understand  the  intricacies  of  the  law  and  recognize  how 
delicate  is  the  balance  which  is  a  determining  point  between  justice  and  injustice. 
A  native  son  of  Illinois,  Judge  Withrow  was  born  in  Rushville,  Schuyler  county,  on 
the  22d  day  of  May.  1843,  of  the  marriage  of  William  E.  and  Harriett  (Chase)  With- 
row. In  early  boyhood  he  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town  and  con- 
tinued his  education  in  the  higher  grades  in  the  schools  of  Macomb,  Illinois,  fol- 
lowing the  removal  of  his  parents  to  that  place.  He  was  a  youth  of  nineteen  years 
when  in  September,  1862,  he  responded  to  the  country's  call  for  aid  and  joined  the 
Seventy-eighth  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry.  .He  participated  in  many  hotly  con- 
tested engagements  with  his  command,  including  the  battles  of  Franklin,  Duck  Hill, 
Chickamauga.  Altoona,  Resaca,  Dalton,  Mill  Creek  Gap,  Kenesaw  Mountain,  Atlanta, 
Jonesboro  and  the  siege  of  Savannah  and  the  engagements  of  Bentonville  and  Raleigh, 
North  Carolina,  and  was  wounded  three  times.  He  marched  with  Sherman's  army 
from  Nashville  to  Savannah  and  up  to  Raleigh,  and  when  hostilities  had  ceased 
proceeded  with  his  command  to  the  national  capital  where  thousands  of  the  "boys 
in  blue"  marched  through  the  streets  of  the  city  in  "grand  review"  between  lines 
of  cheering  thousands  who  thus  welcomed  the  return  of  the  northern  army,  while 
suspended  across  Pennsylvania  avenue  was  a  banner  bearing  the  words:  "The  only 
debt  which  the  country  owes  that  she  cannot  pay  is  the  debt  she  owes  her  soldiers." 
Then  came  the  trip  by  train  to  Chicago,  where  the  regiment  was  mustered  out  in 
June,  1865,  and  thus  the  military  experience  of  Judge  Withrow  was  ended  after 
almost  three  years  of  active  duty  on  southern  battlefields. 

For  a  few  weeks  Judge  Withrow  visited  with  old  friends  in  Macomb,  Illinois, 
and  then  came  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  has  since  resided.  Having  been  thoroughly 
prepared  for  the  bar,  he  was  admitted  to  practice  in  January,  1868,  and  has  since 
been  closely  identified  with  the  profession,  today  enjoying  well  earned  and  well 
merited  honors  as  a  representative  of  the  judiciary  of  the  state.  As  the  years  passed 
he  gave  proof  of  his  ability  to  solve  correctly  the  intricate  problems  of  the  law  and 
in  1877  was  appointed  assistant  city  counselor  of  St.  Louis,  in  which  capacity  he 
served  until  1879.  For  many  years  he  was  secretary  of  the  Missouri  Bar  Associa- 
tion and  of  the  Bar  Association  of  St.  Louis.  He  continued  in  private  practice  until 
1888,  when  he  was  called  to  the  bench  of  the  St.   Louis  circuit  court  and  was  re- 


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elected  in  1894  and  again  in  1904  and  again  in  1910.  He  sat  upon  this  bench  for 
twenty-four  years,  during  which  period  he  earned  the  reputation  of  being  one  of  the 
worthiest  and  most  useful  members  of  the  state  judiciary.  A  contemporary  biog- 
rapher has  said:  "During  his  long  judicial  career  he  had  been  noted  for  his  patient 
investigation  of  causes,  his  painstaking  research,  his  fairness  and  courtesy  and  his 
practical  methods  of  dealing  with  the  affairs  which  have  occupied  his  attention  as  a 
judge."  He  has  remained  throughout  his  professional  career  a  close  student  of  the 
principles  of  law  and  his  decisions  have  been  notably  fair  and  impartial.  He  has, 
in  a  marked  degree,  a  judicial  mind,  capable  of  arriving  at  a  just  conclusion,  as  is 
indicated  by  the  frequency  with  which  his  decisions  have  been  sustained  when  an 
appeal  has  been  taken  to  an  appellate  court.  He  has  commanded  the  respect  not 
only  of  the  public  but  of  the  profession,  in  marked  degree,  and  no  stronger  endorse- 
ment of  his  judicial  service  could  be  given  than  the  fact  that  he  was  four  times  chosen 
for  that  judicial  office.  Upon  the  close  of  his  last  term  he  retired  and  resumed  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  St.  Louis. 

Judge  Withrow  was  married  April  2  5,  1872.  to  Miss  Addie  S.  Partridge,  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  Stephen  Partridge  and  Harriet  Partridge,  his  wife.  Two  children 
were  born  of  their  marriage:  William  P.  Withrow,  who  died  in  infancy;  and  Edgar 
Partridge  Withrow,  who  with  his  family  resides  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis. 

Judge  Withrow  is  a  member  of  Ransom  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  and  h-as  always  been 
interested  in  everything  pertaining  to  the  welfare  of  his  old  comrades  in  arms.  In 
his  citizenship  he  stands  for  all  those  movements  which  have  their  root  in  a  desire  " 
for  the  public  good  and  his  habit  of  weighing  each  side  of  a  question  enables  him 
to  determine  correctly  the  probable  value  of  any  project  bearing  upon  municipal, 
state  and  national  affairs.  He  and  his  family  are  members  of  Grace  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church  of  St.  Louis. 

Judge  Withrow  is  a  great-grandson  of  Captain  Moses  Chase,  of  New  Hampshire, 
who  served  under  Colonel  Ethan  Allen  at  the  battle  of  Ticonderoga,  New  York,  and 
during  the  Revolutionary  war.  For  many  years  Judge  Withrow  has  been  one  of 
the  vice  presidents  of  the  Missouri  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution. 
He  has  also  been  president  of  the  Illinois  Society  of  St.  Louis. 


F.  ERNEST  CRAMER. 


F.  Ernest  Cramer,  who  in  1919  organized  the  Mississippi  Valley  Trading  & 
Navigation  Company,  of  which  he  became  president,  is  in  this  connection  engaged 
in  the  exporting  and  importing  business  in  St.  Louis,  his  native  city.  For  thirty 
years  he  had  previously  been  a  factor  in  the  business  circles  of  Missouri  as  a  direc- 
tor and  officer  of  the  G.  Cramer  Dry  Plate  Company  and  his  forcefulness  and 
resourcefulness  have  long  maintained  him  in  a  position  of  prominence  in  commer- 
cial and  manufacturing  connections. 

Mr.  Cramer  was  born  July  6,  1870,  and  is  a  son  of  Gustav  and  Matilda  (Weber) 
Cramer,  who  are  mentioned  at  length  on  another  page  of  this  work.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  the  city  until  1880  and  then  entered  the  Educational  Insti- 
tute, from  which  he  was  graduated  in  188  6.  The  next  year  was  spent  as  a  student 
in  Washington  University,  in  which  he  completed  his  more  specifically  literary 
course  with  the  class  of  1887.  He  then  matriculated  in  the  law  school  of  Wash- 
ington University,  which  he  attended  through  the  scholastic  year  of  1887-8,  and 
the  year  1888-9  was  devoted  to  a  mastery  of  the  science  of  photography.  In  1889 
he  became  identified  with  his  father,  who  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  photo- 
graphic dry  plates,  and  after  several  years'  preparatory  training,  resulting  in  merited 
promotion,  he  was  chosen  to  the  vice  presidency  of  the  G.  Cramer  Dry  Plate  Com- 
pany in  189  8  and  upon  the  death  of  his  father  became  president  of  this  company, 
the  ramifying  trade  interests  of  which  reach  out  to  all  parts  of  the  world.  Still 
broadening  the  scope  of  his  activities,  he  organized  the  Mississippi  Valley  Trading 
&  Navigation  Company  for  the  conduct  of  an  exporting  and  importing  business. 
He  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  Broadway  Bank  but  resigned  from  that  execu- 
tive position. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Cramer  is  an  earnest  republican  and  has  been  quite 
active  in  party  ranks,  serving  as  a  member  of  the  city  council  and  as  its  vice  presi- 


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dent  for  four  years,  while  on  one  occasion  he  was  a  candidate  tor  the  mayoralty. 
He  belongs  to  the  Lutheran  church  and  is  a  prominent  Mason,  thus  lollowing  in 
the  footsteps  of  his  lather,  who  was  the  second  oldest  representative  of  the  fra- 
ternity in  St.  Louis  at  the  time  of  his  demise.  F.  Ernest  Cramer  has  taken  the 
degrees  of  the  York  and  Scottish  Rites,  is  now  a  Knights  Templar  and  Consistory 
Mason  and  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  connected  with  many  organiza- 
tions having  to  do  with  the  progress  and  upbuilding  of  St.  Louis,  belongs  to  the 
Million  Population  Club,  of  which  he  is  one  of  the  seven  founders,  having  been 
associated  with  Colonel  W.  B.  Stevens  in  its  organization;  to  the  Rotary  Club  .and 
the  Liederkranz  Club  of  St.  Louis  and  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  of  which  he 
is  one  of  the  directors  and  chairman  of  its  foreign  trade  bureau. 

On  the  31st  of  July,  1901,  Mr.  Cramer  was  married  in  San  Francisco,  Cali- 
fornia, to  Angela  Le  Prohon.  His  interest  centers  in  his  home,  but  a  sense  of  public 
obligation  and  duty  has  made  him  an  active  factor  in  many  movements  which  have 
been  of  deep  concern  and  benefit  to  St.  Louis.  Mature  judgment  characterizes  his 
efforts  at  all  times,  whether  in  the  promotion  of  public  interests  or  the  conduct  of 
the  extensive  business  affairs  which  rank  him  with  the  leading  manufacturers  and 
financiers  of  the  city. 


C.   LESTER   HALL,    M.    D. 


Dr.  C.  Lester  Hall,  well  known  not  only  as  a  successful  medical  practitioner  but 
also  eminent  in  professional  circles  as  an  educator,  has  made  his  home  in  Kansas 
City,  since  September  11,  1890,  and  altogether  has  been  actively  engaged  in  practice 
for  fifty-four  years.  He  was  born  at  Arrow  Rock,  Missouri,  March  10,  1845,  his 
parents  being  Dr.  Matthew  W.  and  Agnes  Jane  (Lester)  Hall,  the  former  a  native 
of  Lexington,  Kentucky,  while  the  latter  was  born  in  Virginia.  The  father  became 
a  physician  in  his  native  city  and  left  Kentucky  in  1837,  after  which  he  located  for 
practice  in  Salem,  Illinois,  becoming  one  of  the  pioneer  physicians  of  that  section 
of  the  state.  In  1845  he  removed  from  Salem,  Illinois,  to  Arrow  Rock,  Missouri, 
where  he  practiced  medicine,  at  a  time  when  he  had  to  travel  on  horseback  through- 
out the  countryside  to  make  his  visits.  In  March,  1857,  he  removed  with  his  family 
from  Arrow  Rock  to  a  farm  and  put  his  boys  to  work  in  tilling  the  fields,  for  he 
had  a  family  of  five  sons  whom  he  wished  to  have  the  benefit  of  the  outdoor  life 
and  training  of  the  farm.  Three  of  these  sons  became  physicians.  There  were  alto- 
gether eleven  children  in  the  family,  three  of  whom  died  in  early  life,  eight  of 
whom  reached  adult  age,  and  one  of  the  sons  still  occupies  the  old  homestead  farm. 
The  father  passed  away  in  1894  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight  years,  the  community 
losing  one  of  its  representative  and  highly  esteemed  citizens.  He  had  served  as  a 
surgeon  with  Colonel  Robertson's  command  in  the  Confederate  army  during  the 
Civil  war. 

Dr.  Hall  of  this  review  was  also  connected  with  the  Confederate  forces,  joining 
the  same  regiment  with  his  father  when  a  lad  of  but  sixteen  years.  This  regiment 
was  captured  at  Milford,  Johnson  county,  and  he  was  imprisoned  in  the  old  McDowell 
College,  while  later  he  was  transferred  to  Alton,  Illinois.  His  father  being  a  sur- 
geon and  a  man  of  note  was  given  special  care,  and  was  quartered  in  a  hotel  at 
Alton,  Illinois  by  the  government  being  thus  separated  from  the  other  prisoners,  and 
Dr.  Hall  has  often  remarked  that  he  always  had  a  kindly  feeling  toward  the  govern- 
ment because  it  took  such  good  care  of  his  father.  The  son,  however,  was  with 
the  other  prisoners  and  after  he  had  been  incarcerated  for  about  three  months 
prison  pneumonia  became  prevalent  and  acting  under  the  advice  of  his  father  he 
took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  United  States  government,  and  was  released 
from  prison,  this  undoubtedly  saving  him  from  severe  illness. 

Dr.  Hall  had  obtained  a  common  school  education  in  Saline  county,  Missouri, 
and  had  also  attended  Kemper's  Family  School,  at  Boonville,  Missouri,  the  proprietor 
of  that  institution  being  a  brother  of  the  noted  Governor  Kemper  of  Virginia.  After 
pursuing  his  preliminary  education  Dr.  Hall  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  under  the 
direction  of  his  father,  and  later  entered  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College,  which  he 
attended  in  1864  and  1865.  He  afterward  remained  at  home  for  a  year,  continu- 
ing his  reading  in  preparation  for  his  professional  career,  and  in  the  fall  of  1866  he 


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entered  the  Jefferson  Medical  College,  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  and  was 
there  graduated  March  10.  1867,  with  the  M.  D.  degree.  He  entered  at  once  upon 
the  active  work  of  the  profession  with  his  father  and  for  six  years  engaged  In  country 
practice,  after  which  he  removed  to  Marshall,  Missouri,  on  the  24th  of  April,  1873, 
and  there  opened  an  office.  He  continued  to  follow  his  chosen  life  work  at  that 
place  for  seventeen  years,  and  on  the  11th  of  September.  1890,  removed  to  Kansas 
City,  where  he  has  since  remained.  He  has  devoted  fifty-four  years  of  his  life  to 
the  active  practice  of  medicine,  and  his  ability  has  been  manifest  throughout  the 
entire  period.  Steadily  he  has  advanced  and  has  long  occupied  a  prominent  posi- 
tion, his  opinions  carrying  great  weight  with  fellow  members  of  the  profession, 
while  younger  physicians  eagerly  listen  to  his  counsel  and  advice.  He  has  lectured 
in  the  post-graduate  school  and  for  about  ten  years  was  professor  of  diseases  of 
women  in  the  Medico-Chirurgical  College.  He  was  an  instructor  in  the  Kansas  City 
University  for  two  years  and  in  the  Post  Graduate  Medical  School  for  six  years,  all 
the  time  being  a  professor  of  diseases  of  women.  Up  to  this  time  he  was  president 
of  the  Medical  College  and  of  the  Post  Graduate  School.  He  is  regarded  as  a  most 
capable  educator,  imparting  clearly  and  readily  to  others  the  knowledge  he  has 
acquired,  and  Iiis  own  zeal  and  interest  in  professional  matters  has  been  an  inspira- 
tion to  many  a  student  under  his  direction.  For  eighteen  years  he  served  on  the 
staff  of  St.  Joseph's  Hospital,  has  been  consulting  physician  of  the  City  General 
Hospital,  and  has  otherwise  been  identified  with  hospital  practice. 

On  June  16,  1869,  Dr.  Hall  was  married  in  Saline  county,  Missouri,  to  Katherine 
S.  Sappington.  of  that  county.  Her  father  was  from  Tennessee.  Dr.  Hall  and  his 
wife  have  become  the  parents  of  two  sons  and  two  daughters:  Dr.  D.  Walton  Hall; 
Mrs.  Leon  C.  Smith;  C.  Lester,  Jr.;  and  Katherine  May,  the  wife  of  Kenneth  Dickey, 
of  Kansas  City.  The  religious  faith  of  Dr.  Hall  and  his  family  is  that  of  the  Cen- 
tral Presbyterian  church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  blue  lodge  of  Masons,  and  polit- 
ically he  is  a  democrat,  while  along  strictly  professional  lines  he  is  connected  with 
the  Jackson  County  and  Missouri  State  Medical  Associations,  and  the  American  Med- 
ical Associations,  and  the  Kansas  City  Academy  of  Medicine,  of  which  he  was  presi- 
dent in  1893.  He  has  also  been  honored  with  other  professional  offices,  being  called 
to  the  presidency  of  the  Missouri  State  Medical  Society  in  1895  and  1896,  while  in 
1903  he  was  made  the  vice  president  of  the  American  Medical  Association.  He  is 
regarded  as  the  dean  of  the  profession  in  Kansas  City,  having  practiced  for  a  longer 
period  than  any  other  physician  here.  All  his  colleagues  and  contemporaries  speak 
of  him  in  terms  of  the  highest  regard.  He  is  a  dignified  courteous  gentleman,  com- 
manding attention  and  respect,  and  throughout  his  entire  life  he  has  ever  adhered  to 
the  highest  ethics  and  standards  of  his  chosen  calling. 


WILLIAM  J.   EDWARDS. 


William  J.  Edwards,  who  since  1907  has  been  connected  with  the  grain  trade 
of  St.  Louis  and  is  now  at  the  head  of  the  firm  of  William  J.  Edwards  &  Company, 
was  born  in  Kosciusko,  Mississippi,  April  7,  1866,  his  parents  being  Joseph  Monroe 
and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Fox)  Edwards.  The  father  was  a  native  of  Tennessee  and  a 
son  of  the  Rev.  Jesse  Edwards,  who  was  born  in  Halifax  county.  North  Carolina, 
and  was  a  minister  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  church.  In  the  late  '50s  Joseph 
Monroe  Edwards  went  to  Texas,  where  he  engaged  in  teaching  school  while  read- 
ing law  in  the  office  and  under  the  direction  of  General  Sam  Houston.  He  was 
afterward  graduated  at  the  Baylor  University  of  Law  in  Texas  and  a  little  later 
entered  upon  general  practice,  but  with  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  he  enlisted 
in  the  Sixth  Regiment  of  Texas.  Confederate  army,  joining  the  cavalry  brigade  com- 
manded by  General  Ross.  During  the  first  year  of  the  war  he  was  in  the  Indian 
Territory,  fighting  the  Indians  with  a  view  to  keeping  them  from  joining  the  Union 
army.  He  acted  as  adjutant  to  the  colonel  of  his  regiment.  After  General  Ross 
was  shot  the  forces  with  which  Mr.  Edwards  was  connected  served  under  General 
Price  and  later  under  General  Forest.  He  participated  in  the  battles  of  Franklin, 
Pea  Ridge,  Murfreesboro,  Shiloh,  Fort  Donelson  and  others.  He  served  altogether 
for  about  four  years,  or  until  his  regiment  surrendered  to  General  Canby  at  Canton, 
Mississippi.     In  the  battle  of  Franklin  he  was  wounded  in  the  arm.     While  serving 


210  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

as  adjutant  he  secured  a  Webster's  dictionary,  which  he  carried  throughout  the 
war  and  which  is  now  in  possession  of  his  son,  William  J.  Edwards.  It  was  during 
the  war  that  Joseph  M.  Edwards  met  the  lady  whom  he  made  his  wife.  He  was 
on  a  foraging  expedition  and  had  occasion  to  go  to  her  father,  Mr.  Fox,  who  was  a 
Mississippi  planter  and  the  owner  of  many  slaves,  all  of  whom  remained  on  the 
plantation  as  long  as  they  lived — some  of  them  up  to  within  the  last  twelve  years. 
This  is  certainly  indicative  of  the  kindly  spirit  which  he  always  manifested  to  those 
who  were  once  his  bondsmen.  To  Mr.  Fox  Mr.  Edwards  carried  a  letter  of  intro- 
duction and  at  that  time  made  the  acquaintance  of  the  daughter  of  the  household, 
Mary  Elizabeth,  afterward  returning  to  make  her  his  wife.  During  the  last  forty 
years  of  his  life  the  father  made  his  home  in  Union  City,  Tennessee,  passing  away 
June  7,  1919.  The  mother  still  lives  with  her  son  in  St.  Louis,  while  a  sister,  Mrs. 
Charles  J.  Crockett,  is  residing  in  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

William  J.  Edwards  began  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Union  City, 
Tennessee,  and  was  graduated  there  from  the  high  school  with  the  class  of  1882. 
He  started  out  in  business  as  clerk  for  W.  H.  Gardner,  the  father  of  Governor  Gard- 
ner of  Missouri,  who  was  then  agent  of  the  Nashville,  Chattanooga  &  St.  Louis  Rail- 
road at  Union  City.  After  about  three  years  Mr.  Edwards  went  to  Louisville,  Ken- 
tucky, and  was  with  the  Associated  Railroads  of  Kentucky,  Tennessee  and  Ala- 
bama. He  continued  at  Louisville  for  about  eighteen  months  and  was  then  trans- 
ferred to  Nashville,  Tennessee,  where  he  remained  for  four  years,  on  the  expira- 
tion of  which  period  he  again  went  to  Union  City,  Tennessee,  to  become  the  suc- 
cessor of  Mr.  Gardner,  for  whom  he  had  first  worked.  He  remained  in  that  position 
for  eleven  years  and  was  then  transferred  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  as  commercial 
agent  for  the  Nashville,  Chattanooga  &  St.  Louis  Railroad,  so  continuing  until 
1907,  when  he  resigned  his  position  with  the  railroad  to  enter  the  grain  business 
with  Bert  H.  Lang  &  Company.  After  a  time  he  acquired  an  interest  in  the  busi- 
ness, and  when  Mr.  Lang  resigned  in  1917  to  devote  his  time  to  war  work,  Mr. 
Edwards  took  over  his  interest  and  later  changed  the  name  of  the  firm  to  William 
J.  Edwards  &  Company.  He  has  thus  for  a  number  of  years  figured  prominently 
in  connection  with  the  grain  trade  of  the  city,  controlling  a  business  of  extensive 
proportions. 

In  1896  Mr.  Edwards  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  Ella  Lindsey,  who 
died  in  1899,  and  to  them  was  born  a  daughter,  Marjorie,  who  is  at  home  with 
her  father.  In  1903,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Edwards  wedded  Miss  Grace  Christian, 
daughter  of  John  B.  and  Sarah  Jane  (Beach)  Christian,  of  St.  Louis,  and  the  chil- 
dren of  his  second  marriage  are  William  Christian  and  Joseph  Beach,  aged  respec- 
tively eleven  and  five  years.  Mr.  Edwards  belongs  to  the  King's  Highway  Presby- 
terian church,  in  which  he  has  served  as  elder  and  superintendent  of  the  Sunday 
school  for  the  past  fifteen  years.  He  gives  every  possible  moment  to  the  Sunday 
school  work,  and  for  sixteen  years  he  has  never  been  late  at  Sunday  school.  He  has 
been  a  most  potent  factor  in  winning  and  holding  the  attention  of  young  people  and 
thus  contributing  to  their  moral  development,  the  Sunday  school  being  indeed  a 
powerful  element  in  the  moral  progress  of  the  city.  His  deep  and  active  interest  in 
this  work  has  precluded  his  connection  with  club  life.  One  hundred  and  ninety-eight 
young  men  from  his  Sunday  School  served  in  the  World  war,  and  nearly  all  have 
returned  to  his  classes.  In  politics  he  is  a  democrat  and  fraternally  he  is  a  Knights 
Templar  and  Scottish  Rite  Mason.  He  is  retiring  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Grain 
Club,  and  one  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  St.  Louis  Merchants'  Exchange.  He 
is  a  man  of  high  ideals  and  natural  refinement  whose  absolute  honesty  of  purpose 
impresses  all  with  whom  he  comes  in  contact,  and  he  has  ever  merited  and  com- 
manded the  high  respect  and  goodwill  of  ^11  who  know  him. 


JOHN  B.   GOODDING. 


While  John  B.  Goodding  has  passed  away,  he  was  for  many  years  widely  known 
as  a  successful  farmer  and  as  an  enterprising  merchant  of  Macon  county  and  for 
a  considerable  period  prior  to  his  death  was  an  active  representative  of  commercial 
interests  in  La  Plata.  He  was  born  upon  a  farm  near  Atlanta,  Macon  county, 
August  2,  1847,  his  parents  being  Andrew  L.  and  Mary  J.  (Dameron)  Goodding. 
The  grandfather,  Abram  Goodding,  came   to  Missouri   from   Kentucky  in    1817   and 


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settled  with  his  family  in  Howard  county,  where  he  resided  until  his  death.  John 
B.  Goodding's  father,  Andrew  L.  Goodding,  was  well  advanced  toward  his  majority 
when  his  parents  came  to  Missouri  and  he  was  reared  in  Howard  county.  In  1846 
he  wedded  Miss  Mary  J.  Cameron,  who  had  formerly  resided  in  Tennessee  and 
belonged  to  one  of  the  pioneer  families  of  the  state.  The  following  year  they 
removed  to  Macon  county,  settling  near  Atlanta,  where  Mr.  Goodding  continued  to 
engage  in  farming  until  his  demise,  which  occurred  in  1859. 

John  B.  Goodding  was  reared  in  the  usual  manner  of  the  farm-bred  boy  upon 
the  old  homestead  near  Atlanta  and  engaged  in  farming.  He  removed  to  Randolph 
county  but  after  four  years,  or  in  1868,  returned  to  the  old  home  place  in  Macon 
county  and  there  carried  on  general  agricultural  pursuits  with  success  for  about 
eleven  years.  In  1879  he  was  appointed  to  the  office  of  deputy  collector  and  filled 
that  position  for  two  years,  or  until  he  established  his  home  in  La  Plata  in  the 
spring  of  1881.  Here  he  joined  the  firm  of  T.  J.  Phipps  &  Company,  having  one 
of  the  largest  and  most  popular  general  merchandise  establishments  throughput 
the  northern  part  of  Macon  and  adjoining  counties.  He  was  a  man  of  good  business 
qualifications,  of  keen  discernment  and  unflagging  enterprise  and  was  justly  popular 
with  all  who  knew  him,  the  sterling  traits  of  his  character  and  his  splendid  manly 
qualities  winning  him  the  regard  of  all  with  whom  he  was  brought  into  contact. 

On  the  22d  of  January,  1874,  Mr.  Goodding  was  married  to  Miss  Melissa  Wills, 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  R.  H.  Wills,  one  of  the  early  citizens  of  Macon  county  and  a 
most  highly  esteemed  Presbyterian  minister,  who  removed  to  this  state  from  Ken- 
tucky. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Goodding  became  the  parents  of  three  children:  Roscoe  B. 
who  is  now  the  president  of  the  Bank  of  La  Plata;  Alma  M.,  now  deceased;  and 
Ethel  G.  Christie. 

Mr.  Goodding  was  a  member  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  church  and  was 
one  of  the  officers  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  While  living  in  Lyda 
township  he  served  as  clerk  for  two  years  and  in  1885  he  was  elected  to  the  office 
of  county  clerk,  entering  upon  the  duties  of  that  position  in  1886  and  serving  in 
all  for  eight  years,  being  thus  continued  in  the  position  by  reelection.  He  was 
likewise  identified  with  the  Bank  of  La  Plata,  in  fact  was  one  of  its  organizers  and 
served  as  vice  president  from  the  beginning  until  the  time  of  his  demise.  He  like- 
wise organized  the  La  Plata  Telephone  Company.  In  fact  he  was  a  man  of  most 
progressive  spirit  who  not  only  recognized  but  utilized  the  opportunities  which 
came  his  way  and  in  all  business  affairs  readily  discriminated  between  the  essential 
and  the  nonessential.  Moreover,  he  had  the  ability  to  bring  unrelated  and  ofttimes 
seemingly  diverse  interests  into  a  connected  and  harmonious  whole.  Death  called 
him  January  30,  1915,  and  throughout  the  passing  years  his  memory  has  been 
revered  and  honored  by  those  who  knew  him.  Many  there  are  who  bear  testimony 
to  the  sterling  worth  of  his  character,  his  integrity  and  enterprise  in  business,  his 
loyalty  and  progressiveness  in  citizenship.  He  belonged  to  one  of  the  old  pioneer 
families  of  the  state  that  had  become  active  in  Missouri's  development  when  this  dis- 
trict was  largely  on  the  frontier,  and  the  work  begun  by  his  grandfather  and  con- 
tinued by  his  father  was  further  maintained  and  promoted  by  him.  Thus  the  name 
of  Goodding  has  through  many  generations  figured  most  conspicuously  and  hon- 
orably in  connection  with  the  history  of  Macon  county  and  the  state. 


WYLIE  CREEL. 


Wylie  Creel,  vice  president  of  the  Lund-Mauldin  Company,  shoe  manufacturers 
of  St.  Louis,  was  born  November  20,  1870,  on  a  farm  twenty  miles  below  Lexington 
in  Lafayette  county,  Missouri.  He  is  a  son  of  Henry  Clay  and  Virginia  P.  (Packler) 
Creel.  The  father  was  born  in  Parkersburg,  West  Virginia,  and  during  the  latter 
part  of  his  life  lived  retired,  his  death  occurring  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  in  1906, 
when  he  was  seventy-eight  years  of  age.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  he  was 
the  youngest  member  of  the  Virginia  legislature.  He  put  aside  legislative  duties  to 
join  the  army  and  became  a  captain.  He  is  survived  by  his  widow,  who  resides 
at  No.  1144  Hamilton  Ave.,  St.  Louis.  Two  brothers  of  Wylie  Creel  are  living,  one 
of  these  being  George  Creel,  a  resident  of  New  York,  who  was  director  of  public  in- 
formation during  the  World  war.  The  other.  Dr.  Richard  Henry  Creel,  is  assistant 
surgeon  general  of  the  United  States  Public  Health  Service  and  has  been  on  duty  in 
Cuba  and   the  Philippine   Islands   but  now   lives   in   Washington,   D.   C.     He  is   re- 


212  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

garded  as  an  authority  upon  the  disease  of  cholera.  Wylie  Creel's  parents  removed 
to  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  during  his  boyhood,  and  there  he  attended  the  public  and 
high  schools.  During  vacation  periods  he  worked  to  provide  for  his  own  support, 
and  when  eighteen  years  of  age  he  permanently  put  aside  his  textbooks  and  started 
out  in  the  business  world,  traveling  through  Texas  for  the  Corle  Cereal  Company 
of  Kansas  City.  When  twenty  years  of  age  he  became  connected  with  the  Proctoi 
&  Gamble  Company,  which  he  represented  in  Texas,  and  later  established  his  head- 
quarters in  St.  Louis,  from  which  point  he  cared  for  the  trade.  He  had  been  with 
that  firm  for  four  years  when  he  entered  the  employ  of  Goddard  &  Peck,  wholesale 
grocers,  whom  he  represented  in  southeastern  Missouri  and  Arkansas  as  a  traveling 
salesman.  He  next  became  associated  with  the  shoe  business,  traveling  out  of  St. 
Louis  for  the  Roberts,  Johnson  &  Rand  Shoe  Company,  with  which  firm  he  con- 
tinued for  fifteen  years.  He  then  became  associated  with  Robert  L.  Lund  in  or- 
ganizing a  shoe  business  on  their  own  account,  and  later  they  were  joined  by 
Thomas  L.  Mauldin  under  the  firm  style  of  the  Lund-Mauldin  Company,  with  offices 
and  sample  rooms  in  the  Silk  Exchange  building.  Their  manufacturing  interests 
were  established  in  Highland,  Illinois,  the  capacity  of  their  plant  there  being  six 
hundred  pairs  of  shoes  daily,  until  the  business  having  outgrown  its  quarters  an 
addition  was  erected  to  the  factory  making  the  present  capacity  about  fifteen  hun- 
dred pairs  of  shoes  per  day.  On  the  1st  of  January  1918,  the  offices  and  display 
rooms  were  removed  to  1101  Washington  avenue,  the  present  location,  larger  quar- 
ters being  secured  as  they  took  over  the  entire  first  floor.  In  February.  1920,  a 
new  factory  was  built  at  Vandalia,  Illinois,  which  has  a  capacity  of  two  thousand 
pairs  of  shoes  daily,  so  that  the  combined  daily  capacity  of  the  two  factories  is 
about  thirty-five  hundred  pairs.  The  Vandalia  plant  is  one  of  the  most  modern 
shoe  factories  in  the  country,  being  thoroughly  equipped  with  the  latest  improved 
machinery  and  every  facility  to  promote  the  comfort  of  employes,  thus  endeavoring 
to  secure  their  best  efforts.  The  company  is  now  capitalized  for  a  million  dollars 
and  is  conducting  a  most  extensive  business  in  the  exclusive  manufacture  of  men's 
dress  shoes-.  Thoroughly  familiar  with  every  phase  of  the  trade,  Mr.  Creel  has 
contributed  much  to  the  growth  and  success  of  the  enterprise,  and  he  is  also  the 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  St.  Louis  Shoe  Manufacturers  and  Wholesalers  Asso- 
ciation. 

On  the  12th  of  December,  1916,  Mr.  Creel  was  married  in  Martinsburg,  West 
Virginia,  to  Miss  Belle  Stewart,  a  daughter  of  John  W.  and  Amelia  Stewart,  the 
former  for  many  years  a  banker  of  Martinsburg,  where  he  organized  the  Old 
National  Bank,  of  which  he  became  the  president,  so  continuing  until  his  death  in 
1910.  His  widow  survived  him  for  about  two  years,  passing  away  in  1912.  They 
were  natives  of  Virginia  and  representatives  of  an  old  colonial  family. 

Mr.  Creel  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church.  His  membership  relations 
also  extend  to  the  Sons  of  the  Confederacy,  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  the 
Glen  Echo  Golf  Club  and  the  City  Club.  His  political  support  is  given  to  the  demo- 
cratic party,  and  in  1919  he  was  president  of  the  twenty-eighth  ward  of  the  Demo- 
cratic Club.  In  July,  1918,  he  went  to  Washington  and  offered  his  services  to  the 
Quartermaster  General,  Robert  H.  Thorn.  He  was  to  be  assigned  to  the  St.  Louis 
office  in  charge  of  the  shoe  division,  but  by  the  time  he  was  commissioned  the 
armistice  was  signed,  and  believing  that  the  country  would  not  then  need  his 
services,  he  declined  a  commission  as  captain.  He  indulges  in  golfing,  hunting  and 
fishing  and  other  outdoor  sports  tor  rest  and  recreation,  but  is  preeminently  a  busi- 
ness man  and  one  who  has  attained  a  high  position  through  his  own  efforts. 


ALBERT  BLAIR. 


While  Albert  Blair  has  continued  in  the  general  practice  of  law  in  St.  Louis 
since  1876,  he  has  largely  specialized  in  corporation  practice  and  his  clientage  of  this 
character  has  been  extensive.  Moreover,  he  has  been  instrumental  in  the  organiza- 
tion of  a  number  of  important  manufacturing  and  industrial  interests  which  have 
constituted  potent  forces  in  the  business  development  of  the  city.  Mr.  Blair  is  a 
native  of  the  neighboring  state  of  Illinois.  His  father,  William  Blair,  was  born  in 
Chillicothe,  Ohio,  in  1812  and  was  a  representative  of  one  of  the  old  families  founded 
in  America  in  colonial  days.     Albert's  great-grandfather,  John  Blair,  a  soldier  of  the 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  215 

Revolutionary  war,  served  under  General  Daniel  Morgan  in  the  expedition  to  Quebec 
in  177  5.  Out  of  admiration  tor  General  Montgomery,  who  fell  in  the  disastrous 
assault  on  the  British  stronghold  at  Quebec,  John  Blair  named  his  oldest  son  William 
Montgomery  Blair.  The  latter,  born  in  Berkley  county,  Virginia,  in  1778,  became 
a  soldier,  pioneer  and  preacher,  moving  first  to  Kentucky,  then  to  Ohio  and  finally 
to  Pike  county,  Illinois.  His  son,  William,  married  Mary  Jackson  in  1835,  to  whom 
Albert  was  born  at  Kinderhook,  Pike  county,  Illinois,  on  the  16th  day  of  October, 
1840.  His  mother,  a  native  of  Oswego  county.  New  York,  born  in  1814,  was  a 
daughter  of  Joseph  Jackson,  a  representative  in  the  fifth  generation  of  Edward 
Jackson,  a  native  of  London,  England,  who  with  his  brother  came  to  America  in 
1638  and  was  one  of  the  first  proprietors  of  the  town  of  Newton,  Massachusetts. 
The  history  of  that  city,  states  that  Edward  Jackson  gave  four-hundred  acres  of 
land  to  Harvard  College. 

The  marriage  of  William  Blair  and  Mary  Jackson  took  place  in  1835.  William 
Blair  was  a  man  of  notable  force  and  ability.  His  aptitude  for  business  and  politics 
was  exemplified  by  a  brief  but  energetic  career.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Black 
Hawk  war,  a  lead  miner  at  Galena,  a  farmer,  merchant,  builder  of  flatboats  and  a 
political  leader.  He  died  in  1845,  at  the  age  of  thirty-two,  at  Springfield,  Illinois, 
while  serving  his  third  term  as  representative  of  Pike  county  in  the  state  legisla- 
ture. Among  his  personal  friends  and  political  associates  were  Douglas,  Richard- 
son, Starne  and  Donaldson,  all  advanced  later  to  political  distinction.  His  widow 
subsequently  became  the  wife  of  James  R.  Williams  of  Barry,  Pike  county,  Illinois, 
where  she  lived  until  November,  1897. 

Between  the  ages  of  six  and  sixteen  years,  Albert  Blair  was  a  pupil  in  the  public 
schools  of  Barry,  Illinois,  and  then  spent  three  years  as  a  student  in  Christian 
University  at  Canton,  Missouri,  and  one  year  in  Phillips  Academy  of  Exeter,  New 
Hampshire.  Entering  Harvard,  he  completed  a  three  years'  course  there  by  gradua- 
tion as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1863.  He  also  remained  at  Harvard  as  a  law 
student  for  a  year,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  was  offered  the  position  of  teacher 
of  Latin  in  the  University  of  Missouri  at  Columbia.  Preferring  other  employment, 
however,  he  accepted  a  position  in  the  freight  department  of  the  North  Missouri 
Railroad  Company  at  Macon,  Missouri,  and  thus  served  for  several  years.  His  desire 
to  enter  upon  a  professional  career,  however  led  him  to  become  a  law  student  in  the 
office  of  Williams  &  Henry,  leading  attorneys  of  that  city,  while  at  the  same  time 
he  occupied  the  position  of  secretary  with  the  Keokuk  &  Kansas  City  Railroad  Com- 
pany, which  had  undertaken  the  building  of  a  railroad  from  Keokuk,  Iowa,  to 
Kansas  City.  The  project  succumbed  in  the  widespread  financial  panic  of  1873. 
Mr.  Blair  afterward  spent  a  year  as  land  agent  and  attorney  for  the  old  North 
Missouri  Insurance  Company,  which  also  went  into  bankruptcy.  Having  invested  all 
his  savings  in  the  former  enterprise  and  lost  them,  he  began  his  career  in  St.  Louis 
with   less   than  one   hundred   dollars. 

Undiscouraged,  however,  Mr.  Blair  took  up  the  active  work  of  the  profession 
here  and  has  since  continued  in  general  practice  while  giving  considerable  attention 
to  corporation  law.  He  is  thoroughly  qualified  along  the  latter  line  and  his  practice 
of  this  character  has  been  important.  He  has  aided  in  the  organization  and  pro- 
motion of  various  companies  which  have  figured  prominently  in  the  business  develop- 
ment of  St.  Louis.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  American  Brake  Company; 
the  Chicago  Railway  Equipment  Company;  the  Missouri  Electric  Light  &  Power 
Company  and  the  Wagner  Electric  Manufacturing  Company.  He  has  also  become 
connected  with  several  other  important  business  concerns. 

Mr.  Blair  was  married  February  2,  1907,  in  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  to  Mrs. 
Clara  Urquhart  Spencer,  whose  death  occurred  in  1918.  She  was  a  native  of  St. 
Louis  and  a  daughter  of  George  Urquhart,  who  for  many  years  was  vice  president 
of  the  Plant  Seed  Company  of  this  city. 

In  politics,  Mr.  Blair  has  ever  been  a  stalwart  advocate  of  republican  prin- 
ciples and  in  1898,  was  a  candidate  of  his  party  for  the  state  senate,  on  which 
occasion  he  succeeded  in  reducing  the  usual  democratic  majority  from  two  thousand 
to  one  thousand  two  hundred.  He  has  always  stood  for  clean  politics  and  progres- 
sive methods  in  relation  to  municipal,  state  and  national  affairs.  He  was  one  of 
the  committee  which  drafted  the  act  of  the  Missouri  legislature,  providing  the 
Australian  ballot  method  in  holding  elections  and  also  of  the  committee  which 
brought  about  the  adoption  of  the  Corrupt  Practices  Act  of  the  State  of  Missouri. 
For  several  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Civil  Service  Reform  Assocla- 


216  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OE  MISSOURI 

tion.  The  nature  of  his  interests  is  further  indicated  iq  his  connection  with  the 
Missouri  Historical  Society;  the  Law  Library  Association;  the  Missouri  Bar  Associa- 
tion and  the  American  Bar  Association.  He  has  ever  been  keenly  interested  in  litera- 
ture, to  which  he  has  largely  devoted  his  leisure. 

By  reason  of  the  superiority  of  its  apple  products,  Pike  county,  Illinois,  as  well 
as  its  more  famous  neighbor,  Calhoun  county  is  noted  for  its  large  commercial 
orchards.  For  many  years,  Mr.  Blair  has  been  interested  in  the  growth  of  apples 
and  is  one  of  the  principal  owners  of  the  Williams  orchards,  situated  near  Barry, 
Pike  county,  Illinois. 


J.   N.    CARTER. 


J.  N.  Carter,  cashier  of  the  Farmers  &  Merchants  Bank  of  Linneus,  was  born 
in  Randolph  county,  Missouri,  in  1886.  He  is  therefore  still  a  comparatively  young 
man  and  has  made  for  himself  a  creditable  position  in  the  financial  circles  of  his 
section  of  the  state.  His  parents,  Isaac  M.  and  Mary  J.  Carter,  are  also  natives  of 
Missouri  and  the  father  followed  the  occupation  of  farming  until  his  death  in   1906. 

J.  N.  Carter  spent  his  youthful  days  in  his  native  county  and  supplemented  his 
early  education,  acquired  in  the  district  schools,  by  study  in  Pritchett  College  at 
Glasgow,  Missouri,  of  which  U.  S.  Hall  was  at  that  time  president.  He  was  grad- 
uated with  the  class  of  1906,  after  which  he  took  up  abstract  work  at  Huntsville, 
Missouri,  in  connection  with  J.  N.  Hamilton.  Later  he  removed  to  Linneus  and 
joined  the  Linn  County  Abstract  Company,  with  which  he  was  identified  until  1911, 
when  he  entered  the  Farmers  &  Merchants  Bank  as  assistant  cashier,  filling  that 
position  until  February  28,  1919,  when  he  was  elected  cashier.  In  the  year  or  more 
in  which  he  has  acted  in  this  capacity  he  has  proved  a  most  capable  official,  always 
courteous  and  obliging,  doing  everything  possible  for  the  patrons  of  the  bank  that 
does  not  hazard  the  interests  of  the  depositors.  The  bank  was  incorporated  in 
1909  as  the  Farmers  &  Merchants  Bank  and  has  a  capital  stock  of  thirty  thousand 
dollars,  surplus  and  undivided  profits  of  twenty-six  thousand,  one  hundred  and 
eighty-nine  dollars,  and  deposits  of  one  hundred  and  eighty  thousand,  one  hundred 
and  ninety  dollars.  Its  officers  are:  F.  L.  Fitch,  president;  Lee  Meyer  and  W.  B. 
Craig,  vice  presidents;   J.  N.  Carter,  cashier;   and  V.   B.  Clark,  assistant  cashier. 

On  the  19th  of  November,  1910,  Mr.  Carter  was  married  to  Miss  Norma  Pipes, 
of  Browning,  Missouri.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Odd  Fellows  and  the 
Modern  Woodmen  of  America,  politically  with  the  democratic  party  and  religiously 
with  the  Methodist  church.  South,  and  in  these  associations  are  indicated  much  of 
the  nature  of  his  interests  and  the  rules  that  govern  his  conduct. 


JAMES  E.    DAME. 


James  E.  Dame,  who  for  nineteen  years  has  engaged  in  law  practice  and  is 
now  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Hall  &  Dame  with  offices  in  the  Central  National  Bank 
Building,  in  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Princeton.  Indiana,  December  29,  1872.  His 
father,  Daniel  Webster  Dame,  was  born  in  Kentucky,  October  23,  1840,  and  the 
grandfather  was  also  a  native  of  that  state.  The  father  was  a  farmer  and  stock 
raiser  and  gave  his  attention  to  that  business  throughout  his  active  life.  He  served 
as  recruiting  officer  in  the  latter  part  of  the  Civil  war,  and  had  a  brother  who 
served  in  the  Confederate  army.  Daniel  W.  Dame  wedded  Agnes  McMillan,  a 
daughter  of  Washington  and  Mary  (Wood)  McMillan,  the  former  a  farmer  by  oc- 
cupation. The  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dame  was  celebrated  in  Princeton,  Indi- 
ana, December  8,  1870,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  two  sons  and  six  daughters. 
James  E.  is  the  eldest  son.  The  others  are  Nelia,  who  is  the  wife  of  Richard  Work,  a 
newspaper  man;  Melissa,  the  wife  of  Heber  Hollis.  a  miller;  Anna,  the  wife  of 
Oscar  Lucas,  a  farmer  and  ranchman  of  Colorado;  Vincent  S.  who  is  a  farmer  and 
married  Eunice  Lathorn;  Esther  and  Ruth  who  are  school  teachers;  and  Martha 
at  home. 

James  E.  Dame  obtained  a  grammar  school  education  and  also  attended  private 
schools   in   Indiana,   before  entering  Wabash   College  at   Crawfordsville,   Indiana,   in 


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1891.  He  there  pursued  a  four  years'  course  and  was  graduated  with  the  Bachelor 
of  Arts  degree  in  June,  1895.  He  took  up  the  profession  of  teaching  and  was 
superintendent  of  schools  at  Owensville,  Indiana,  tor  a  year,  but  he  regarded  this 
merely  as  an  initial  step  to  other  professional  labor  and  in  1896  entered  Washing- 
ton University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1899  with  the  LL.  B.  degree.  The 
same  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  state  and  federal  courts  and  for  eighteen  months 
thereafter  acted  as  a  salesman.  It  was  not  until  1901  that  he  entered  upon  the 
practice  of  law.  He  has  since  concentrated  his  efforts  upon  his  professional  duties 
and  is  now  engaged  in  general  practice  as  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Hall  and  Dame. 
He  prepares  his  cases  with  great  thoroughness,  care  and  precision  and  is  today 
recognized  as  one  of  the  strong  and  able  lawyers  of  the  St.  Louis  bar,  finding  ready 
solution  for  intricate  and  involved  legal  problems.  In  1903  the  Master  of  Arts 
degree  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Wabash  College,  of  Crawfordsville,  Indiana. 
From  1901  until  1906  he  served  in  the  juvenile  court  as  assistant  probation  officer 
and  did  important  work  in  that  connection.  During  the  war  period  he  served  on 
the  Legal  advisory  board  of  the  twenty-eighth  ward  and  took  an  active  and  helpful 
interest  in  all  war  activities. 

On  the  29th  of  November,  1910,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Dame  was  married  to  Miss 
Lila  Belle  Gelwicks,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  R.  and  Margaret  (Donnelly)  Gelwicks. 
They  have  become  the  parents  of  three  sons  and  two  daughters.  James  E.,  Jr.; 
Richard  G.;  Lila  Belle;  Frank  Stormont;  and  Margaret  Donnelly. 

Mr.  Dame  belongs  to  the  Delta  Tau  Delta,  a  Greek  letter  fraternity,  and  is  also 
Identified  with  the  Knights  of  the  Maccabees.  Something  of  the  nature  of  his 
interests  and  recreation  is  shown  in  the  fact  that  he  is  connected  with  the  Normandie 
Golf  Club  and  the  City  Club.  Along  strictly  professional  lines  he  is  connected  with 
the  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  American  Bar  Associations.  His  political  endorsement 
is  given  to  the  democratic  party  and  his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  United  Pres- 
byterian church,  his  first  membership  being  at  Princeton,  Indiana.  He  is  loyal  to 
high  ideals  and  conducts  his  practice  along  most  ethical  lines,  while  the  sterling 
worth  of  his  character  is  recognized  by  all  with  whom  he  comes  in  contact. 


CHARLKS  E.  SMITH. 


Charles  E.  Smith,  vice  president  of  the  Kansas  City  Title  &  Trust  Company, 
was  born  in  Somerset  county,  Pennsylvania,  July  17,  1861,  and  is  a  son  of  I.  L.  and 
Harriet  (King)  Smith,  who  were  also  natives  of  Somerset  county,  and  both  have 
now  passed  away.  The  father  was  clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court  for  ten  years  in  Story 
county,  Iowa,  and  then  engaged  in  the  abstract  and  title  business  in  Nevada,  Iowa, 
for  a  number  of  years  with  his  son  Charles  B.  Smith.  He  served  his  country  as  a 
soldier  in  the  Civil  war,  volunteering  in  Pennsylvania  and  becoming  captain  of  his 
company.  He  was  afterwards  a  valued  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Repub- 
lic and  belonged  also  to  the  Masonic  fraternity,  in  which  he  attained  the  Knights 
Templar  degree.  His  life  was  guided  by  the  teachings  of  the  Baptist  church,  in 
which  he  held  membership.  To  him  and  his  wife  were  born  seven  sons,  of  whom 
three  are  living. 

In  the  attainment  of  his  education  Charles  E.  Smith  attended  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  county.  No  unusual  event  occurred  during  the  period  of  his  boyhood 
and  youth,  which  was  passed  In  the  usual  manner  of  the  lad  whose  attention  is 
largely  directed  to  the  acquirement  of  an  education,  to  such  duties  as  are  assigned 
by  parental  authority  and  to  the  pleasures  of  the  playground.  Since  starting  out  in 
the  business  world  he  has  made  wise  use  of  his  time  and  opportunities,  having  been 
the  founder  of  the  Abstract  Loans  and  Real  Estate  business  in  Nevada,  Iowa,  for 
seventeen  years  before  coming  to  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  where  he  has  since  gradually 
advanced  until  he  is  now  well  known  in  the  financial  circles  of  Kansas  City  as  vice 
president  of  the  Kansas  City  Title  &  Trust  Company,  which  was  organized  in  1915 
and  occupies  spacious  offices  on  the  ground  floor  of  the  New  York  Life  building. 
This  company  is  capitalized  for  seven  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  and  is  a 
combine  of  all  the  abstract  companies  of  Kansas  City.  Their  clientage  is  most 
extensive  and  the  business  is  one  which  returns  a  substantial  profit  to  the  stock- 
holders. 

In  1885  Mr.  Smith  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Susie  E.  Gillespie,  of 
Nevada,    Iowa,    and   they    have   become   the   parents   of   three   children:    Mrs.    J.    F. 


218  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI- 

Bresnahan,  of  Chicago,  who  has  one  daughter,  Susan  Ann;  Mrs.  Kendall  Marsh," 
of  New  Tork  city,  who  has  a  son,  Fennimore  Cooper  (II);  and  Harriet  M.,  who 
is  living  with  her  parents.  Mrs.  Smith  is  a  member  of  the  Woman's  City  Club 
of  Kansas  City,  also  of  the  P.  E.  O.  and  the  Athenaeum  and  is  very  active  in  club 
work  and  in  social  and  philanthropic  organizations.  Mr.  Smith  is  a  member  of 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  Kansas  City  Club  and  gives  his  support  to  all 
those  agencies  which  make  for  the  upbuilding  and  development  of  the  city.  His 
political  endorsement  is  given  the  republican  party,  and  while  well  informed  on  the 
questions  and  issues  of  the  day,  he  never  seeks  office,  preferring  to  concentrate  his 
efforts  upon  his  constantly  growing  business  affairs,  which  have  placed  him  in  a 
commanding  position  among  the  leading  financiers  and  business  men  of  western 
Missouri. 


E.  LANSING  RAY. 


It  Is  not  only  through  his  connection  with  one  of  the  leading  American  jour- 
nals that  E.  Lansing  Ray  is  brought  into  close  touch  with  the  vital  problems,  con- 
ditions and  interests  of  the  country  but  through  personal  activity  as  well  in  sup- 
port of  all  civic  and  charitable  movements  and  of  those  projects  which  he  deems  a 
forward  step  in  the  world's  development.  A  native  of  St.  Louis,  he  was  born  August 
30,  1884,  a  son  of  Simeon  and  Jessie  (Lansing)  Ray.  The  father,  a  native  of 
Hennepin,  Illinois,  was  of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  while  the  mother,  who  was  born 
in  Palmyra,  Missouri,  was  of  Dutch-English  lineage.  The  former,  having  faithfully 
served  his  country  in  the  Civil  war,  was  afterward  an  honored  member  of  Ransom 
Post,  G.  A.  R.,  while  In  journalistic  circles  his  name  was  long  a  potent  force,  as 
he  was  the  business  manager,  secretary  and  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Globe 
Democrat   for  many  years   prior   to   his   death,   which   occurred   in    1891. 

E.  Lansing  Ray  pursued  his  preparatory  course  in  Smith  Academy  at  St. 
Louis,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  June,  1902.  He  passed  the  examinations 
for  entrance  to  Princeton  University  but  turned  his  attention  to  business  before 
matriculating.  Throughout  the  entire  intervening  period  he  has  given  his  atten- 
tion to  the  interests  of  the  Globe  Printing  Company,  publishers  of  the  St.  Louis 
Globe  Democrat.  He  started  as  an  employe  of  the  paper  when  eighteen  years 
of  age,  waiting  on  the  front  counter,  selling  papers,  answering  telephone  calls 
and  proving  himself  generally  useful  wherever  he  was  needed.  Subsequently  he 
worked  his  way  upward  through  various  departments,  acquiring  a  general  knowl- 
edge of  the  newspaper  business.  In  1904  he  was  made  cashier  and  in  1905  adver- 
tising manager.  In  the  latter  year  he  also  became  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors 
and  in  1910  was  chosen  secretary  of  the  company.  After  five  years  passed  in  that 
connection  he  was  made  vice  president  in  1915,  was  advanced  to  the  position  of  gen- 
eral manager  in  April,  1918,  and  since  December  of  that  year  has  been  president, 
editor  and  general  manager  of  the  company,  which  positions  he  now  fills,  being  in 
absolute  control  of  the  Globe  Democrat  both  as  to  its  editorial  and  business  policy. 
It  would  be  superfluous  in  this  connection  to  enter  into  any  series  of  statements 
showing  the  standing  of  the  paper  in  journalistic  circles.  It  has  long  been  recognized 
as  one  of  the  most  potent  dailies  published  on  the  American  continent — the  champion 
of  every  worthy  American  enterprise  and  the  supporter  of  many  of  the  most  impor- 
tant policies  of  the  country  the  worth  of  which  has  been  demonstrated  by  time.  Mr. 
Ray  is  a  director  of  the  American  Trust  Company  of  St.  Louis,  and  also  a  director 
of  the  St.  Louis  Convention  &  Publicity  Bureau,  a  civic  and  public  enterprise.  In 
politics  he  has  always  been  a  republican  but  has  ever  placed  general  welfare  before 
partisanship,  believing  that  the  good  of  the  city,  the  state  and  the  country  should 
come  first  and  party  interests  second. 

On  the  25th  of  January,  1910,  Mr.  Ray  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Hayes  Burk- 
ham,  a  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Elzey  G.  Burkham  and  a  granddaughter  of  Elzey 
Burkham,  who  was  prominent  in  the  banking  circles  of  New  York  city  in  the  decades 
from  the  '50s  to  the  '80s  inclusive.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ray  have  one  son,  E.  Lansing 
Ray,  Jr.,  now  nine  years  of  age. 

The  name  of  E.  Lansing  Ray  is  found  on  the  membership  rolls  of  the  lead- 
ing clubs  and  civic  organizations  of  St.  Louis.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Noonday, 
St.  Louis  Country,  Racquet,  Bellerive  Country,  University,  St.  Louis  Club,  Century 


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Boat  Club,  Missouri  Athletic,  City  and  Rotary  Clubs,  also  the  St.  Louis  Commercial 
Club,  Contemporary  Club  and  the  St.  Louis  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Of  Presby- 
terian faith,  his  membership  is  with  the  Central  Presbyterian  church  of  St.  Louis, 
and  he  is  most  keenly  interested  in  civic  and  charitable  movements  seeking  the 
benefit  and  uplift  of  the  individual  and  the  advancement  of  community  interests. 
It  would  be  tautological  in  this  connection  to  enter  into  any  series  of  statements 
showing  him  to  be  a  prominent  and  forceful  figure  in  journalistic  circles.  His  posi- 
tion is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  was  invited  by  the  British  and  French  govern- 
ments to  be  one  of  a  party  of  twelve  American  editors  and  publishers  to  make  a  trip 
during  September,  October  and  November,  1918,  to  Europe  to  see  first  hand  and 
investigate  all  aspects  of  the  war  situation.  This  trip  included  the  inspection  of 
various  munitions  factories,  shipyards,  hospitals,  the  grand  fleet  and  the  battle 
area  in  France  from  the  channel  to  St.  Mihiel  and  also  interviews  with  King 
George,  President  Polncaire,  Marshal  Joffre  and  distinguished  military  leaders, 
statesmen,  editors  and  business  men;  and  the  world  has  received  the  benefit  of 
this  tour  of  inspection  made  by  Mr.  Ray  through  his  editorials  in  the  Globe 
Democrat. 


GUSTAV  CRAMER.. 


A  life  of  great  activity  and  usefulness  was  brought  to  a  close  when  Gustav 
Cramer  responded  to  the  call  of  the  grim  reaper  in  1914.  Never  content  with 
mediocrity,  he  had  a  nature  which  strove  at  all  times  for  efficiency  and  perfection 
in  the  lines  to  which  he  directed  his  efforts,  and  his  successful  achievements  made 
him  one  of  the  most  prominent  dry  plate  manufacturers  of  the  country,  his  name 
being  a  familiar  one  to  every  professional  and  amateur  photographer  of  America. 
There  is  much  that  is  stimulating  and  encouraging  in  his  career,  constituting  an 
example  that  may  well  be  followed  by  the  ambitious  American  youth.  Mr.  Cramer 
was  born  in  Eschwege,  Germany,  May  20,  1838,  and  while  spending  his  boyhood 
days  in  the  home  of  his  parents,  Emanuel  and  Dorothea  (Vieweger)  Cramer,  he  at- 
tended the  local  schools  and  early  manifested  great  interest  in  the  study  of  chemis- 
try and  physics.  He  availed  himself  of  every  opportunity  to  promote  his  knowl- 
edge along  those  lines  and  thus  laid  the  foundation  for  his  successes  of  later  years. 
He  was  a  youth  of  sixteen  when  he  was  graduated  at  the  head  of  his  class  and 
turned  his  attention  to  commercial  pursuits.  Attracted  by  the  opportunities  of 
the  new  world,  he  came  to  America  in  1859  and  made  his  way  to  St.  Louis,  where 
his  brother,  John  Frederick  Cramer,  had  already  located.  Here  he  took  up  the 
study  of  photography  under  the  direction  of  John  A.  Scholten,  then  the  leading 
representative  of  the  art  in  the  city  and  one  of  the  earliest  friends  of  Mr.  Cramer. 
The  work  was  most  congenial  and  in  1860  he  began  business  on  his  own  account 
by'  opening  a  photographic  studio.  He  was  rapidly  building  up  a  good  business 
when  in  1861  President  Lincoln  issued  his  call  for  volunteer  troops  to  crush  out 
rebellion  in  the  south  and  under  the  three  months'  term  of  enlistment  he  became 
a  sergeant  of  Company  A,  Third  Missouri  Volunteer  Infantry,  the  company  being 
commanded  by  his  brother.  Captain  Cramer,  and  the  regiment  by  Colonel  Franz 
Sigel.  Gustav  Cramer  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Carthage,  Missouri,  and  upon  the 
expiration  of  his  three  months'  term  again  opened  a  photographic  studio  in  St. 
Louis.  In  1864  he  organized  the  firm  of  Cramer  &  Gross  by  entering  into  partner- 
ship with  J.  Gross,  and  in  the  conduct  of  the  gallery  they  kept  abreast  with  the 
latest  improved  processes  of  photographic  art.  The  excellent  work  which  they  did 
secured  for  them  the  patronage  of  the  leading  people  of  St.  Louis,  for  Mr.  Cramer 
not  only  possessed  knowledge  of  the  scientific  principles  of  his  work  but  also  a  keen 
artistic  sense  which  enabled  him  to  recognize  the  value  of  light  and  shade  and  pose. 
Marvelous  development  was  being  manifested  In  the  photographic  art  during  this 
period  and  Mr.  Cramer  was  a  constant  student  of  improved  processes.  In  1880  he 
became  associated  with  H.  Norden,  under  the  firm  style  of  Cramer  &  Norden,  for 
the  purpose  of  manufacturing  photographic  dry  plates,  being  among  the  first  in 
the  country  to  introduce  this  new  improvement  in  photography,  an  innovation 
which  has  since  revolutionized  the  entire  art.  They  had  many  obstacles  to  over- 
come in  the  beginning,  but  their  indomitable  energy  and  resourcefulness  enabled 
them  to  more  than  realize  their  expectations  and  their  manufacture  of  dry  plates 


222  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

has  grown  to  large  proportions.  The  establishment,  of  which  Mr.  Cramer  was  the 
head  when  it  came  into  existence,  is  today  one  of  the  most  famous  enterprises  of 
its  kind  in  the  United  States.  Throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  land  its 
products  are  known,  Cramer  plates  having  won  a  world-wide  reputation  by  reason 
of  their  excellence,  as  is  manifest  in  their  extensive  use  by  both  amateur  and  pro- 
fessional photographers.  The  business  was  originally  conducted  under  the  name 
of  the  G.  Cramer  Dry  Plate  Works,  but  was  afterward  incorporated  as  the  G.  Cramer 
Dry  Plate  Company,  with  Mr.  Cramer  of  this  review  as  the  president.  He  con- 
tinued at  the  head  of  the  business  until  his  demise  in  1914,  when  he  was  suc- 
ceeded by  his  son,  F.  Ernest  Cramer,  who  had  previously  been  the  treasurer  of  the 
company.  Gustav  Cramer  was  honored  with  the  presidency  of  the  Photographers' 
Association  of  America  and  presided  over  its  convention  in  Chicago  in   1887. 

In  1882  Mr.  Cramer  was  united  In  marriage  to  Miss  Emma  Rodel  Milentz,  of 
St.  Louis,  who  was  born  in  New  York  city.  Their  three  sons,  F.  Ernest,  Emil  Rodel 
and  G.  Adolph,  became  associated  with  their  father  in  the  ownership  and  manage- 
ment of  the  business  of  the  G.  Cramer  Dry  Plate  Company.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cramer 
also  reared  an  adopted  daughter,  Mrs.  Mathilda  Besch. 

A  most  kindly  and  benevolent  spirit  and  broad  humanitarian  principles 
prompted  Gustav  Cramer  to  constantly  extend  a  helping  hand  where  aid  was 
needed.  He  was  a  member  of  the  supervisory  board  of  charitable  penal  institu- 
tions of  St.  Louis,  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  St.  Louis  Provident 
Association  and  a  director  of  the  German  Protestant  Orphans'  Home.  He  aided  In 
founding  the  St.  Louis  Altenheim,  a  home  for  the  aged,  conducted  by  former  resi- 
dents of  Germany,  and  wherever  he  could  prove  helpful  to  his  fellowmen  his  aid 
was  never  withheld.  For  many  decades  he  was  an  exemplary  member  of  Erwin 
Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  A  contemporary  writer  has  said  of  him  "All  through  his 
life  he  enjoyed  the  respect  of  intelligent  men  and  the  love  of  little  children,  and 
he  moreover  won  the  lasting  gratitude  of  many  to  whom  in  substantial  measure  he 
indicated   his   belief  in   the   brotherhood   of   man." 


PHILIP   SHERIDAN   BROWN,   Jr. 

Philip  Sheridan  Brown,  Jr.,  well  known  in  Kansas  City  as  an  insurance  and  invest- 
ment broker,  has  also  figured  prominently  in  connection  with  public  affairs  and  his 
efforts  have  constituted  an  element  of  municipal  progress  and  improvement.  Born  in 
Kansas  City,  December  25,  1866.  he  is  a  representative  of  an  old  family  of  Maryland, 
tracing  his  ancestry  back  through  several  generations  to  Jacob  Brown,  who  was  born  in 
that  state,  then  a  colony,  in  November,  1750,  coming  of  English  and  German  parentage. 
In  a  collateral  branch  the  ancestral  line  is  also  traced  back  to  Abram  Shelly,  who 
came  from  Holland  to  the  new  world  about  1690  and  settled  near  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania. On  the  distaff  side  Philip  S.  Brown,  Jr.,  is  descended  from  William  Shaffer, 
who  was  born  in  1811,  and  also  from  Frederick  Hileman,  whose  birth  occurred  in  York 
county,  Pennsylvania,  January  30,  1788.  The  Brown,  Shelly,  Shaffer  and  Hileman  families 
were  all  early  settlers  of  Pennsylvania,  where  many  representatives  held  public  office 
in  early  colonial  times  and  after  the  organization  of  the  republic.  Among  their 
descendants  were  those  who  became  factors  in  the  pioneer  settlement  and  upbuilding 
of  Ohio,  Illinois,  Iowa  and  Missouri. 

Philip  S.  Brown,  Sr.,  who  has  now  reached  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-seven  years, 
came  to  Kansas  City  in  1858  and  here  still  makes  his  home,  one  of  the  most  honored 
and  venerable  residents  of  Missouri's  western  metropolis. 

His  son  and  namesake,  Philip  S.  Brown,  Jr.,  was  a  pupil  in  the  ward  schools  of 
Kansas  City  and  afterward  was  graduated  from  the  high  school  with  the  class  of  1883. 
Immediately  afterward,  although  only  sixteen  years  of  age  at  the  time,  he  entered  the 
Are  insurance  business  as  local  agent  and  has  continuously  been  connected  with  this 
field  of  activity  yet  has  also  extended  his  labors  into  other  lines,  including  real  estate 
and  property  investments.  His  business  affairs  have  constantly  broadened  in  scope 
and  importance  and  he  is  now  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Brown,  Mann  &  Barnum,  which 
was  organized  in  1905  and  is  known  throughout  the  country  as  one  of  the  strongest 
and  most  successful  organizations  of  this  character  in  Missouri.  Mr.  Brown  displays 
marked  initiative,  keen  insight  into  business  problems  and  the  faculty  of  separating 
the  essential  elements  of  any  business  projects  from  its  inconsequential  phases. 


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While  prominently  known  as  a  business  man,  Mr.  Brown  also  has  gained  rating 
with  the  leading  and  valued  residents  o£  Kansas  City  by  reason  of  his  active  public 
and  political  work.  Since  attaining  his  majority  his  support  has  been  given  to  the 
republican  party  and  he  has  long  wielded  wide  influence  in  its  circles.  He  served  as  a 
member  of  the  lower  house  of  the  city  council  from  1894  until  1896  and  was  then  elected 
to  the  upper  house  for  a  four  years'  term.  Throughout  the  great  constructive  period 
in  connection  with  municipal  affairs,  extending  from  1904  until  1908,  he  was  a  member 
of  the  board  of  public  works  and  one  of  the  water  commissioners.  While  serving  in 
the  city  council  the  splendid  park  and  boulevard  system  was  laid  out,  the  gi'ounds 
condemned  and  construction  work  begun.  Mr.  Brown  was  made  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittee on  parks  and  public  grounds  and  in  this  connection  worked  untiringly  for  the 
promotion  and  consummation  of  all  these  improvements,  and  it  is  largely  due  to  his 
efforts  that  there  came  into  force  the  general  ordinances  systematizing  the  planting 
and  care  of  the  now  beautiful  shade  trees  which  extend  for  many  miles  along  the  princi- 
pal residence  streets.  He  was  also  an  early  advocate  of  small  parks  for  children's 
playgrounds  and  looks  at  all  of  these  vital  questions  from  a  broad  standpoint  of  civic 
beauty  and  civic  improvement. 

Aside  from  his  labors  in  Kansas  City,  Mr.  Brown  has  been  recognized  for  many 
years  as  a  leader  of  his  party  in  the  state  and  from  1900  until  1906  was  a  member 
of  the  executive  committee  of  the  republican  state  central  committee  of  Missouri. 
He  was  also  chairman  of  the  congressional  committee  of  the  fifth  district  and  chairman 
of  the  central  committee  of  Jackson  county  during  the  presidential  campaign  of  1904 
and  for  two  years  thereafter. 

On  the  13th  of  August,  1908,  Mr.  Brown  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Edith  A. 
Wolf,  who  was  born  August  6,  1887,  in  Kansas  City,  where  her  parents,  Samuel  and 
Margaret  (Sullivan)  Wolf,  took  up  their  abode  at  an  early  day.  Their  home,  which  is 
one  of  the  attractive  places  of  the  city,  contains  a  very  fine  library  and  to  this  Mr. 
Brown  largely  turns  for  recreation.  He  is  a  firm  believer  in  systematic  and  organized 
reading  and  finds  one  of  his  chief  sources  of  pleasure  in  the  companionship  of  the 
men  of  master  minds  of  all  ages.  He  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Kansas 
City  and  is  a  life  member  of  the  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  From  early 
manhood  he  has  held  membership  in  the  Presbyterian  church  and  he  has  always  been  a 
generous  contributor  to  benevolent  and  charitable  projects,  continuously  extending  a  help- 
ing hand  to  the  needy  yet  guiding  his  charity  at  all  times  by  that  sound  judgment 
which  readily  recognizes  the  line  between  fostering  vagrancy  and  promoting  self-help. 
He  has  ever  been  a  believer  in  giving  to  each  individual  the  opportunity  for  the  develop- 
ment of  the  best  that  is  in  him,  and  throughout  his  entire  life  he  has  held  to  the 
highest  civic  as  well  as  business  and  personal  standards. 


ARCHIE   E.   WATSON. 


Archie  E.  Watson,  attorney  at  law.  who  entered  upon  active  practice  in  189  0 
and  who  now  follows  his  profession  in  Kansas  City,  was  born  November  21,  18  63, 
at  Alliance,  Ohio,  his  parents  being  James  and  Mary  ISlaven)  Watson.  The  father 
was  also  a  native  of  the  Buckeye  state  and  was  of  Scotch  descent  in  the  paternal 
and  maternal  lines,  his  parents  coming  to  the  new  world  from  Scotland.  They 
were  married  soon  after  their  arrival  and  established  their  home  in  Ohio,  where 
James  Watson  was  born  and  reared.  After  reaching  adult  age  he  devoted  his  life 
to  farming  and  stock  raising.  He  married  Mary  Slaven,  also  a  native  of  Ohio,  and 
of  Scotch  and  Irish  descent. 

Archie  E.  Watson  was  educated  in  the  country  schools  of  Ohio  and  in  the 
public  schools  of  Kansas,  being  quite  young  when  he  went  with  his  parents  to  the 
latter  state  in  1870,  arriving  there  when  a  lad  of  but  seven  years.  Prom  1881  until 
1885  he  was  a  student  in  the  University  of  Kansas  and  prepared  for  his  professional 
career  as  a  law  student  in  the  University  of  Michigan  at  Ann  Arbor,  which  con- 
ferred upon  him  the  LL.  B.  degree  in  1890.  In  the  same  year  he  was  admitted  to 
practice  at  the  bar  of  that  state  and  following  his  return  to  Kansas  was  licensed  to 
practice  in  the  courts  of  the  Sunflower  state.  He  entered  upon  the  general  practice 
of  law  in  Kansas  City,  Kansas,  and  there  remained  until  1905,  becoming  well 
known   in   the  profession  as  a  member  of  the   firm  of  McGrew,  Watson   &  Watson. 


226  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

In  1905  he  went  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  became  associated  with  the  Aetna  Lite  In- 
surance Company  and  engaged  in  looking  after  all  of  its  legal  matters  in  connection 
with  the  liability  business.  He  remained  with  the  Aetna  until  June,  1917,  at  which 
time  he  resigned  his  position  and  became  a  resident  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri.  Here 
he  joined  Louis  C.  Boyle  in  the  general  practice  of  law.  During  the  war  period 
their  business  with  lumbermen  made  It  necessary  for  Mr.  Boyle  to  be  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  where  they  maintain  an  office.  Mr.  Watson  remained  in  Kansas  City 
to  care  for  their  practice  and  has  had  charge  of  many  important  litigated  interests. 

In  1905,  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  Mr.  Watson  was  married  to  Miss  Capitola 
Robaugh  and  they  have  become  parents  of  a  son,  Ralph  A.,  now  twelve  years  of 
age.  Mrs.  Watson's  people  were  natives  of  Pennsylvania  and  at  an  early  day  be- 
came residents  of  Wyandotte,  Kansas,  casting  in  their  lot  with  the  pioneer  settlers 
of  that  district.  They  saw  much  trouble  with  the  Indians  and  contributed  to  the 
early  development  and  progress  of  the  section  in  which  they  lived. 

Mr.  Watson  belongs  to  the  Beta  Theta  Pi,  a  college  fraternity,  and  also  to  the 
Phi  Delta  Phi,  a  legal  fraternity.  He  is  very  fond  of  hunting  and  has  made  a  num- 
ber of  trips  for  big  game  into  Colorado,  Arkansas,  the  Indian  Territory  and  other 
sections,  and  has  secured  many  trophies  of  his  skill. 


COLONEL  JOHN  ROBERT  BLACKWOOD. 

Colonel  John  Robert  Blackwood,  now  serving  for  the  second  term  as  post- 
master of  Hannibal,  has  devoted  much  of  his  life  to  public  service  and  over  the 
record  of  his  official  career  there  falls  no  shadow  of  wrong  or  suspicion  of  evil. 
He  was  at  one  time  a  well  known  figure  in  congressional  circles  at  Washington, 
where  for  sixteen  years  he  was  secretary  to  Hon.  James  T.  Lloyd.  Colonel  Black- 
wood is  a  native  of  La  Grange,  Lewis  county,  Missouri.  He  was  born  in  1852  of 
the  marriage  of  Joseph  and  Kittie  Blackwood,  the  latter  dying  when  her  son  was 
but  two  weeks  old.  The  father  was  a  native  of  Kentucky  and  came  to  Missouri  in 
the  'I^Os.  A  carpenter  by  trade,  he  followed  that  pursuit  throughout  his  active 
life. 

Upon  his  mother's  death  Colonel  Blackwood  was  taken  to  the  home  of  an  aunt, 
by  whom  he  was  reared  upon  a  farm  in  Marion  county,  Missouri,  acquiring  a  com- 
mon school  education  there.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one  he  engaged  in  general  mer- 
chandising, which  he  followed  at  different  periods  in  Schuyler  and  Shelby  counties, 
Missouri,  continuing  in  the  business  ten  years.  He  then  disposed  of  his  stock  and 
removed  to  Hannibal,  where  he  accepted  a  position  with  one  of  the  leading  clothing 
firms  of  the  city,  with  whom  he  remained  for  fifteen  years.  He  next  accepted  the 
position  of  secretary  to  Hon.  James  T.  Lloyd  and  for  sixteen  years  remained  in  the 
national  capital,  or  from  1899  until  the  latter  part  of  1914.  He  led  a  very  busy  life 
during  that  period.  On  going  to  Washington  he  immediately  made  a  study  of  the 
different  departments  of  government  and  was  perhaps  more  familiar  with  the  work 
of  and  had  a  greater  acquaintance  with  the  heads  of  the  various  offices  than  any 
other  secretary  in  Washington,  being  continuously  called  upon  by  the  new  members 
of  congress  for  information  concerning  the  various  departments.  Appreciation 
of  his  knowledge,  courtesy  and  helpfulness  was  shown  when  he  was  tendered  a 
banquet  by  the  leading  secretaries  before  taking  his  departure  from  Washington. 
He  resigned  his  position  in  1914  and  returned  to  Hannibal,  where  he  was  later 
appointed  postmaster,  and  since  that  date  has  most  efficiently  discharged  the  duties 
of  the  position,  serving  now  for  the  second  term.  Throughout  the  entire  period 
there  has  been  a  steady  increase  in  all  branches  of  the  business  at  the  postoffice  and 
he  has  given  to  the  public  excellent  service  in  the  care,  distribution  and  forwarding 
of  the  mails  and  all  other  work  connected  with  the  office. 

In  1885  Colonel  Blackwood  was  married  to  Miss  Addie  Reed,  a  daughter  of 
Dr.  T.  W.  Reed,  of  Macon,  Missouri,  both  he  and  his  wife  being  natives  of  Kentucky. 
Colonel  Blackwood  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  he  also  belongs  to  the 
Methodist  church.  South,  in  which  he  is  an  earnest  worker.  His  political  allegiance 
is  given  to  the  democratic  party.  He  was  one  of  the  principal  workers  in  the  Lib- 
erty Loan  drives  and  was  chairman  of  sales  of  the  Victory  Loan,  while  in  the  first 
and  fourth  drives  he  was  captain  of  a  team  that  went  over  the  top.  He  also  acted 
as  chairman  for  the  county  on  the  War  Thrift  Savings  Stamps.      He  is  a  member  of 


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the  entertainment  committee  and  chairman  ot  one  of  the  subcommittees  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  and  is  actively  cooperating  with  that  organization  in  its 
efforts  to  promote  the  growth  of  Hannibal,  to  extend  its  business  connections  and 
develop  Its  civic  spirit  and  standards. 


VIRGIL  McCLURE  HARRIS. 


Virgil  McClure  Harris,  Trust  Officer  of  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce 
in  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  on  January  20th,  1862,  his  par- 
ents being  John  W.  and  Annie  (McClure)  Harris.  His  father  was  the  owner  of  the 
"Model  Farm  of  Missouri,"  located  in  Boone  county;  he  was  also  actively  connected 
with  banking  and  otlier  interests,  was  a  member  of  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture, 
and  was  widely  recognized  as  one  of  the  state's  most  useful  citizens;  he  came  ot 
Scotch-Irish  ancestry,  the  early  representatives  of  the  name  in  the  new  world 
residing  in  Virginia  and  Kentucky. 

Virgil  M.  Harris  attended  Kempner's  Family  School,  of  Boonville.  Missouri,  and 
the  State  University  of  Missouri,  receiving  his  legal  education  at  the  University 
of  Virginia.  In  1881,  he  located  in  St.  Louis  for  the  practice  of  his  profession,  and 
became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Skinker  &  Harris,  and  later  of  the  firm  of  Hornsby 
&  Harris.  He  continued  successfully  in  the  practice  of  law  until  1901;  at  that  time. 
he  was  appointed  Trust  Officer  of  the  Mercantile  Trust  Company,  ot  St.  Louis,  and 
organized  its  Trust  Department,  being  subsequently  made  a  Director  of  the  Com- 
pany. In  September,  1918,  he  organized  the  Trust  Department  of  The  National 
Bank  ot  Commerce  in  St.  Louis  and  has  since  had  charge  of  it  as  Trust  Officer. 

Mr.  Harris  is  recognized  as  an  expert  on  the  law  ot  wills,  and  an  authority  on 
testamentary  literature.  He  is  the  author  of  "Ancient,  Curious  and  Famous  Wills," 
a  book  well  known  not  only  in  the  United  States  but  in  Europe.  He  is  a  con- 
tributor to  newspapers,  magazines  and  law  journals,  and  was,  for  many  years, 
a  lecturer  in  the  St.  Louis  University  Institute  of  Law,  which  institution,  in  1912. 
conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  Doctor  ot  Laws. 

On  the  10th  of  December,  1884,  at  Champaign,  Illinois,  Mr.  Harris  was  married 
to  Miss  Isabel  M.  McKinley,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  B.  McKinley,  of  that 
place.  They  are  members  of  the  Episcopal  church,  and  in  political  belief  Mr.  Har- 
ris is  a  democrat.  He  belongs  to  the  Noonday,  Franklin  and  Burns  Clubs,  and  is 
well  known  socially,  having  a  large  circle  of  friends  in  St.  Louis  and  throughout  the 
United  States. 


O.   H.   GENTRY,    Jr. 


O.  H.  Gentry,  Jr.,  filling  the  office  of  sheriff  of  Jackson  county,  was  born  May 
9,  1859,  in  the  county  which  is  still  his  home,  his  parents  being  Joseph  H.  and  Mary 
(Henley)  Gentry,  who  were  natives  of  Kentucky.  The  grandfather  was  the  young- 
est son  in  the  family,  in  which  the  oldest  son  was  Colonel  Gentry,  who  was  killed 
in  Florida  during  the  Seminole  Indian  war.  He  was  a  very  noted  man  in  the  early 
history  of  the  state  and  the  family  was  one  of  distinction,  figuring  prominently  in 
connection  with  public  affairs. 

O.  H.  Gentry  acquired  a  public  school  education  in  Independence,  Missouri,  and 
afterward  resumed  his  studies  in  the  State  University  at  Columbia,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1879.  He  pursued  a  course  in  chemistry  and  afterward  at- 
tended the  School  of  Pharmacy  at  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  tor  two  years,  work- 
ing his  way  by  clerking  in  a  drug  store  during  that  period.  He  was  graduated  in 
1882,  winning  his  pharmaceutical  degree,  after  which  he  returned  to  Independence. 
Missouri,  and  established  a  drug  store,  in  which  he  is  still  financially  interested.  He 
became. associated  in  this  enterprise  with  Mr.  Pendleton  under  the  firm  style  of 
Pendleton  &  Gentry  and  made  for  himself  a  substantial  place  in  the  business  circles 
ot  the  city,  where  he  ranks  as  the  leading  pharmacist  conducting  a  splendidly  ap- 
pointed store,  in  which  he  carries  a  line  of  the  finest  drugs  and  druggists'  sundries. 
A  recognition  ot  his  ability,  enterprise  and  public  spirit  on  the  part  ot  his  fellow^ 
citizens  led  to  his  selection  for  political  office.  He  was  first  chosen  to  the  position  ' 
of  county  treasurer  and  the  splendid  record  which  he  made  while  serving  in  that 
capacity  led  to  his  reelection   for  a  second   and   a  third  term.      At   the   close  of   his 


228  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

first  term  he  retired  from  the  position,  but  after  two  years  was  again  called  to  the 
office  and  served  for  four  years,  at  which  time  the  law  prevented  an  incumbent  from 
occupying  the  office  for  more  than  two  successive  terms.  In  the  fall  of  1916  he  was 
elected  sheriff  of  Jackson  county  and  entered  upon  the  duties  of  the  position  in 
January,  1917.  Again  in  this  office  he  is  discharging  his  duties  with  the  char- 
acteristic fidelity  and  ability  he  previously  displayed. 

In  1884  Mr.  Gentry  was  united  in  marriage  to  Mi-ss  Emma  F.  Roberts,  of  Saline 
county,  Missouri,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  three  children,  Alonzo  H., 
Walter  R.  and  Mary  Overton.  The  first  named  is  an  architect  of  national  reputa- 
tion, now  located  in  Cleveland,  Ohio.  He  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  local 
schools  and  then  attended  Columbia  University  of  New  "Vork,  where  he  was  gradu- 
ated in  architecture,  receiving  a  medal  of  the  highest  degree  that  has  ever  been 
given  in  connection  with  that  branch.  During  the  war  he  was  called  to  Washington 
by  the  president  and  was  put  in  charge  of  all  the  construction  work  at  Norfolk, 
Virginia.  Since  the  close  of  the  war  he  has  practiced  his  profession  in  Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

Mr.  Gentry  was  chairman  of  the  draft  hoard  of  Jackson  county,  the  third 
largest  district  in  the  state,  serving  for  a  year  and  ten  months  without  pay,  the 
members  of  the  board  all  giving  their  time,  when  they  were  entitled  to  eight  dollars 
per  day.  Mr.  Gentry  fraternally  is  connected  with  the  Elks  and  the  Moose.  He  is 
very  fond  of  hunting  and  fishing,  to  which  he  turns  for  recreation  and  diversion. 
He  is  living  up  to  the  high  standard  set  by  his  ancestors  and  though  quiet  and 
unassuming  in  manner  is  a  man  of  great  strength  of  character,  unfaltering  in  his 
support  of  what  he  believes  to  be  right,  honest  and  just.  One  of  the  first  men  he 
met  after  being  notified  of  his  election  as  sheriff  was  the  president  of  the  Chrisman- 
Sawyer  Bank,  of  Independence,  Missouri,  who  said  to  him:  "Come  to  my  office 
about  noon.  I  want  to  see  you."  On  keeping  the  appointment  the  hanker  handed 
Mr.  Gentry  his  bond  for  six  hundred  and  ninety  thousand  dollars,  signed  by  many 
of  the  business  men  of  the  city,  and  each  time  as  elected  his  bonds  have  been 
tendered  him  without  solicitation  on  his  part,  for  the  amounts  required  by  law. 
This  is  indicative  of  the  high  position  he  has  always  filled  in  the  regard  of  those 
with  whom  he  has  been  associated.  His  friends,  and  they  are  many,  know  him  to 
be  a  man  who  is  always  dependable,  whose  word  can  be  counted  upon,  who  is 
most  agreeable  as  an  acquaintance  and  who  is  always  on  the  alert  in  business 
matters.  He  possesses  many  sterling  traits  of  character  and  his  good  qualities  are 
attested  by  the  warm  friendship  which  is  entertained  for  him  by  all  who  know  him. 


JULIUS  PITZMAN. 


Julius  Pitzman  acted  as  chairman  of  the  board  of  engineers  of  St.  Louis 
and  has  aided  in  planning  and  developing  projects  which  in  vision  and  importance 
are  unfortunately  rarely  conceived  at  the  proper  time  in  the  big  cities  of  the 
United  States.  This  present  effort  is  along  a  time-tested  road  for  him,  as  he  has 
always  been  a  peculiarly  happy  combination  of  the  dreamer  and  the  practical  man. 
Back  of  this  magnificent  work  for  the  future  development  of  St.  Louis  have  been 
years  of  experience  as  a  surveyor  and  civil  engineer. 

A  native  of  Germany,  Mr.  Pitzman  was  born  in  Halberstadt,  Prussia.  June 
11,  1837,  his  parents  being  Frederick  G.  and  Amalia  (Ebert)  Pitzman.  In  the 
acquirement  of  his  education  Julius  Pitzman  attended  the  Real  Gymnasium  in  his 
native  town  and  also  received  private  instruction  in  engineering  in  St.  Louis  after 
coming  to  the  United  States  in  1854,  when  a  youth  of  but  seventeen  years.  In  1856 
he  entered  the  office  of  the  city  engineer  of  St.  Louis  and  through  the  two  succeed- 
ing years  he  acted  as  chief  of  the  county  surveyor's  office.  In  1859  he  opened  an 
office  for  the  private  practice  of  surveying  and  it  was  not  long  before  his  skill 
and  ability  in  this  direction  won  for  him  a  gratifying  patronage.  In  1861  he 
acted  as  county  engineer  of  St.  Louis  county,  but  resigned  that  position  to  join 
the  army  as  a  first  lieutenant  of  engineers  in  the  tall  of  1861.  Such  was  his  recog- 
nized ability  that  he  was  transferred  to  the  staff  of  General  William  T.  Sherman 
as  chief  topographical  engineer  of  the  Fifteenth  Army  Corps  in  1862  and  was  com- 
missioned   captain.      He    was    seriously    wounded    in    front    of    Vicksburg    in    May, 


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1863.  After  his  recovery  he  was  elected  county  surveyor  of  St.  Louis  county  in 
November  of  that  same  year.  In  the  fall  of  1864  he  volunteered  again  for  service 
in  the  army  and  acted  as  major  of  engineers  tor  the  army  organized  to  repel  the 
invasion  of  General  Price. 

Mr.  Pltzman  later  filled  the  office  of  county  surveyor  until  the  separation 
of  the  city  and  county.  He  has  acted  as  commissioner  in  dividing  nearly  all  big 
estates  in  St.  Louis,  valued  at  about  fifty  million  dollars,  from  1863  to  the  present 
time  and  on  several  occasions  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  board  of  equalization 
to  revise  the  assessment.  His  public  work  has  been  of  a  most  important  character 
and  St.  Louis  has  profited  much  by  his  efforts  in  her  behalf.  He  acted  as  chief 
engineer  of  Forest  Park  from  1874  until  the  general  plan  had  been  consummated 
and  all  drives  laid  out. 

In  1876  he  was  made  city  surveyor,  under  appointment  from  the  mayor  for  a 
term  of  four  years  and  the  subsequent  mayors  appointed  him  to  the  same  position, 
which  position  he  now  holds.  He  designed  and  laid  out  Vandeventer,  Westmore- 
land and  Portland  Places,  also  Compton  Heights  and  Flora  boulevard  and  he  intro- 
duced the  system  of  selling  property  under  restrictiojis-  In  1903  he  applied  to  the 
secretary  of  war  on  behalf  of  persons  owning  the  major  part  of  the  river  front 
In  order  to  establish  new  harbor  lines  and  succeeded  in  having  his  plan  adopted  by 
the  government  with  some  slight  modtflcations  and  the  city  acquired  lands  thereby 
valued  at  several  million  dollars.  His  labors  resulted  in  the  establishment  of 
permanent  harbor  lines  at  St.  Louis  and  improvements  were  begun  in  connection 
therewith  on  both  sides  of  the  river. 

F.  G.  and  William  F.  Niedringhaus  concluded  to  move  their  works  to  the 
east  side.  Mr.  Pitzman  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  development  of  Granite  City 
and  when  in  1903  the  entire  American  Bottom  was  submerged,  he  suggested  procur- 
ing the  passage  of  a  law  allowing  the  construction  of  a  levee  to  include  portions  of 
two  counties.  With  the  assistance  of  Messrs.  Niedringhaus,  C.  G.  Knox  and  Hy.  D. 
Sexton  and  of  the  Commercial  Club  of  St.  Louis,  the  adoption  of  the  law  was  pro- 
cured in  1907,  over  five  million  dollars  have  been  already  expended  and  no  flood 
hereafter  will  deprive  St.  Louis  of  its  connection  with  the  east. 

He  was  made  one  of  the  three  commissioners  appointed  by  the  mayor  and  the 
city  council  to  prepare  plans  and  specifications  for  King's  Highway  boulevard. 
In  spite  of  his  eighty-two  years  of  age  he  is  very  active  as  president  of  Pitzman's 
Company  of  Surveyors  and  Engineers  and  he  is  proud  of  having  established  an 
office  which  has  records  enabling  his  assistants  to  trace  original  boundaries  of  lands 
to  the  colonial  times  and  he  states  that  St.  Louis  is  the  only  old  city  where  such 
records  can  be  found. 

Important  and  extensive  as  have  been  the  public  duties  of  Mr.  Pitzman 
and  his  labors  in  the  execution  of  private  contracts  along  the  line  of  his  profes- 
sion, he  has  done  an  even  more  important  work  in  the  past  few  years  as  chairman 
of  the  board  of  engineers,  the  other  members  of  the  board  being  M.  L.  Holman, 
Edward  Flad,  Baxter  L.  Brown,  who  is  consulting  engineer  of  the  Alton  &  South- 
ern Railroad,  and  Frank  G.  Jonah,  chief  engineer  of  the  Frisco  Railroad.  This 
board  has  prepared  plans  for  the  city  of  St.  Louis  and  the  St.  Louis  Chamber  of 
Commerce  for  the  commercial  and  industrial  development  of  the  city,  including 
reclamation  work  on  the  Mississippi  river,  the  plans  being  made  with  much  care, 
skill  and  knowledge.  If  carried  out,  these  plans  will  involve  about  sixty  millions 
in  the  expenditure  of  money,  but  that  will  eventually  mean  the  return  of  many 
millions  of  dollars  to  the  annual  income  of  the  city  in  improved  conditions  and 
trade  facilities.  To  coming  generations  such  work  would  stand  as  a  monument 
to  the  foresight,  public-spirit  and  ability  of  the  board  of  engineers.  The  improve- 
ments when  completed  will  place  St.  Louis  far  ahead  of  any  city  in  the  United 
States  in  its  river  and  railroad  facilities  and  in  its  industrial  and  manufacturing 
advantages.  The  plans  also  include  the  improvement  of  residential  sections  and 
the  development  of  the  sewerage  and  other  systems,  in  fact  the  advancement  of 
everything  that  has  to  do  with  the  sanitary  and  progressive  upbuilding  of  a  greater 
and  better  city. 

On  the  1st  of  October,  1867,  Mr.  Pitzman  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss 
Emma  R.  Tittman  and  to  them  were  born  a  daughter  and  two  sons:  Florence 
H.,  who  became  the  wife  of  Edward  A.  Hermann;  Edwin  Sherman;  and  Otto  Hilgard. 
who  died  in  infancy.  His  first  wife  died  October  17,  1872.  On  the  31st  of 
March,     1879,     Mr.     Pitzman     was     married     in     St.     Louis     to     Caroline     Marsh 


232  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Wislizenus  and  their  children  were:  Julius,  who  died  in  infancy;  Marsh; 
Harold  W.  who  died  In  1906;  Frederick;  and  Louise.  The  daughter 
Louise  married  Oliver  Lucas  and  they  have  one  daughter,  Carol.  His  son 
Marsh  was  graduated  from  Harvard  University  and  from  the  medical  department 
of  Washington  University  and  has  also  pursued  post  graduate  work  in  Heidelherg, 
Berlin  and  Vienna.  The  youngest  son.  Frederick,  was  graduated  from  the  engin- 
eering department  of  Washington  University  and  has  done  post  graduate  work  at 
Cornell  University.  He  is  now  associated  with  his  father  in  Pitzman's  Company 
of  Surveyors  and  Engineers.  Both  sons  served  as  officers  in  the  American  army 
during  the  World  war. 

Mr.  Pitzman  is  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  an 
honorary  member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Architects,  a  member  of  the  Mis- 
souri Historical  Society  of  the  Academy  of  Science  and  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
United  States  and  he  also  belongs  to  the  Noonday  and  Country  Clubs.  The  inter- 
ests and  activities  of  his  life,  however,  have  been  of  such  an  important  character 
as  to  leave  him  comparatively  little  leisure  for  social  activities  of  this  kind,  yet 
there  is  no  man  who  more  truly  prizes  friendship  or  enjoys  in  fuller  measure  the 
respect   and   good  will  of  all  with   whom  he  comes  in   contact. 


WILLIAM    T.    FINDLY. 


William  T.  Findly,  now  secretary  to  the  mayor  of  St.  Louis  and  who  for  ten 
years  was  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Public  Service  of  St.  Louis,  is  one  who  has 
always  displayed  integrity  and  fidelity  to  a  public  trust  in  a  marked  degree.  He  is 
recognized  as  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  republican  party  in  Missouri,  his  support 
thereof  emanating  from  his  honest  belief  in  party  principles,  and  his  desire  to 
further  the  best  interests  of  good  government.  He  was  born  in  Louisiana,  Pike 
county,  Missouri,  July  31,  1867,  his  parents  being  Harry  J.  and  Mary  A.  (Baird) 
Findly.  The  father,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  came  to  Missouri  when  about  twenty- 
one  years  of  age  and  turned  his  attention  to  general  merchandising  in  Louisiana, 
conducting  his  business  under  the  firm  name  of  Block  &  Findly.  He  was  very 
prominent  in  religious  work  as  a  member  of  the  Christian  church,  and  was  also  an 
exemplary  Mason  serving  as  master  of  the  Louisiana  Lodge  from  1851  to  185.3 
inclusive.  Death  called  him  in  1870.  His  wife  was  a  native  of  Virginia  and  came 
to  Missouri  with  her  parents  in  18.37,  when  hut  six  years  of  age.  Her  father 
bought  the  first  hotel  in  Louisiana,  this  being  a  log  structure  which  for  years  was 
the  leading  hotel  of  the  section.  It  was  built  on  Main  street  close  to  the  river 
and  when  the  settlement  of  the  district  justified,  the  log  house  was  replaced  by  a 
fine  brick  hotel,  at  Third  and  Georgia  streets,  which  was  by  far  the  best  hotel  outside 
of  St.   Louis  in  that  section  of  the  state. 

William  T.  Findly,  after  pursuing  his  education  in  the  public  and  high  schools 
of  Louisiana,  Missouri,  attended  the  St.  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy,  in  1887  and 
1888.  During  this  time  he  was  residing  in  Louisiana  where  he  conducted  a  drug 
business  of  his  own,  remaining  proprietor  thereof  until  1899  at  which  time  he 
came  to  St.  Louis,  and  entered  the  United  States  revenue  department  with  which 
he  was  connected  for  several  years.  In  1909  he  was  made  clerk  of  the  house  of 
delegates  of  the  city  of  St.  Louis,  which  office  he  filled  for  a  term  of  two  years,  or 
until  1911,  when  he  went  with  the  Board  of  Public  Service  as  secretary.  He  has  a 
keen  mind  and  a  broad  grasp  of  public  affairs,  knows  men  and  human  nature, 
and  is  most  affable,  making  friends  wherever  he  goes.  He  attracts  men  by  his 
rugged  honesty  and  by  his  pleasing  personality,  and  his  course  is  marked  by  his 
intense  loyalty  to  his  friends.  One  who  has  known  him  long  and  well  says:  "He 
is  a  man  of  broad  general  knowledge,  very  conscientious,  and  has  the  quality  of  add- 
ing a  quiet  humor  to  his  performance  of  duties."  In  1908  Mr.  Findl\  was  a  nomi- 
nee of  the  republican  party  in  the  eleventh  congressional  district.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Republican  State  Central  Committee  for  tour  years,  and  during  1912 
and  1913,  was  secretary  thereof.  During  the  time  he  resided  in  Louisiana  he  was 
very  active  in  all  political  matters,  held  several  offices  in  the  city  and  was  always 
in  demand  because  of  his  ability  as  a  speaker:  in  fact  he  has  a  state  wide  reputa- 
tion as  an  orator,  one  who  has  the  faculty  of  introducing  his  subject  in  such  a 
forceful  and  common-sense  fashion  as  to  drive  his  point  home. 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  AIISSOUKI  233 

In  1892  in  Louisiana,  Missouri,  Mr.  Findly  was  married  to  Miss  Minnie  A.  Wait, 
a  native  of  Watertown,  New  York,  and  tliey  liave  one  son,  Claude  C,  wlio  has  his 
office  in  the  Arcade  building.  He  was  educated  in  the  St.  Louis  schools  and  was 
graduated  from  the  St.  Louis  University  of  Law  with  the  class  of  1916,  winning 
the  LL.  B.  degree,  since  which  time  he  has  practiced  his  profession. 

Mr.  Findly  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  lodge,  and  also  of  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  the  Modern  Woodmen,  and  the  Court  of  Honor.  He  has  membership  in  the 
Christian  church  and  is  the  loyal  supporter  of  those  forces  which  make  for  the 
uplift  of  the  individual  and  the  betterment  of  mankind.  It  is  said  of  him  that 
outside  of  his  business  his  chief  thought  is  of  his  home  and  family  to  whom  he  is 
devoted  and  that  he  is  a  typical  clean,  American  family  man.  In  a  word  all  who 
know  him  speak  of  him  in  terms  of  respect  and  regard  because  of  a  strong  and 
magnetic   personality  and  the   honesty  and  sincerity  of  his  purpose. 


JOHN    S.    LOGAN,    M.    D. 


Among  the  distinguished  physicians  of  Missouri  was  Dr.  John  Sublette  Logan, 
who  practiced  for  several  years  in  St.  Joseph  and  who  afterward  became  closely 
connected  with  farming  interests  in  Andrew  county,  this  state.  His  activity  in 
various  fields  brought  him  to  the  front  as  a  representative  and  honoi'ed  citizen.  He 
was  born  at  Shelbyville,  Kentucky,  June  25,  1836,  and  his  life  record  covered  the 
intervening  period  to  the  18th  of  January,  1909.  His  father,  Thomas  Logan,  was 
born  in  County  Donegal,  Ireland,  on  the  7th  of  August,  1801,  and  was  a  son  of 
John  and  Jane  (Shannon)  Logan,  the  former  a  son  of  John  Logan  and  a  lineal 
descendant  of  Sir  Robert  Logan  of  Restalrig,  Scotland,  so  that  the  ancestry  of  the 
family  is  Scotch  Irish.  Thomas  Logan  was  a  successful  dry  goods  merchant  of 
Shelbyville,  Kentucky,  where  he  remained  to  the  time  of  his  demise.  He  was  mar- 
ried March  18,  1834,  to  Prances  Sublette,  of  Woodford  county,  Kentucky,  and 
passed  away  on  the  18th  of  April,  1840. 

In  his  youthful  days  Dr.  John  S.  Logan  was  a  pupil  in  Shelby  College  at  Shelby- 
ville, Kentucky,  and  afterward  attended  the  Kentucky  Military  Institute  of  Franklin 
county.  He  then  began  preparation  for  a  professional  career  and  was  graduated 
from  the  Kentucky  School  of  Medicine  with  the  class  of  1859.  At  Madison,  Wis- 
consin, he  read  medicine  with  Dr.  Alexander  Schue.  formerly  nt  Kentucky,  who  was 
a  pupil  of  the  famous  German  chemist,  Leibig,  with  whom  he  read  until  entering 
the  Jefferson  Medical  College  at  Philadelphia. 

In  1857  Dr.  Logan,  accompanied  by  his  mother,  his  sister  Mary  and  his  step- 
father, James  L.  O'Neill,  came  to  Missouri,  settling  in  St.  Joseph,  where  Dr.  Logan 
engaged  in  active  practice  until  186  2,  when  he  entered  the  United  States  army  as  a 
surgeon  and  was  on  duty  at  different  hospitals  in  Louisville,  St.  Louis,  Jeffersonville, 
Indiana,  Camp  Joe  Holt  near  New  Albany,  Indiana,  and  Camp  Gamble,  of  St.  Louis. 
It  was  during  his  service  as  a  military  surgeon  that  he  brought  forth  a  valuable  dis- 
covery— that  of  bromine  treatment  for  hospital  gangrene,  which  was  afterward 
extensively  used  by  both  armies. 

When  the  war  was  over  Dr.  Logan  turned  his  attention  to  agricultural  pur- 
suits, which  he  followed  for  about  six  years  in  Buchanan  county.  Later  he  pur- 
chased a  large  fruit  farm  in  Andrew  county,  where  he  made  his  home  for  a  number 
of  years.  He  was  called  to  public  office  through  appointment  by  Governor  Critten- 
den to  the  position  of  fish  commissioner  of  Missouri  and  through  later  appointment 
of  Governor  Marmaduke  he  filled  that  office  for  three  years,  having  his  headquarters 
in  St.  Joseph.  He  was  also  one  of  the  administrators  of  the  Milton  Tootle  estate. 
his  associates  being  John  S.  Lemon  and  Isaac  L.  Hosea.  Dr.  Logan  was  also  a 
member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Buell  Woolen  Mill  Manufacturing  Company 
and  he  was  a  large  investor  in  Missouri  and  Texas  lands.  He  displayed  notably 
keen  sagacity  and  progressiveness  in  all  of  his  business  affairs  and  his  investments 
were  most  wisely  placed. 

On  the  20th  of  November,  1862,  Dr.  Logan  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Emma  Puryear  Cotton,  who  was  born  on  the  26th  of  February,  1841,  a  daughter 
of  Charles  Cotton,  of  Woodford  county,  Kentucky,  whose  birth  occurred  in  Loudoun 
county,  Virginia,  October  3,  1781,  and  who  was  a  son  of  William  and  Frances 
(Taylor)  Cotton,  who  removed  with  their  family  from  Virginia  in  1787,  settling 
in  Fayette  county,  Kentucky,  where  the  parents  passed  away  in  1826.  Dr.  and 
Mrs.   Logan   had   a  family  of  six  children.      Dr.   Charles   Cotton   Logan,   now   of   Los 


234  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Angeles.  California;  Thomas  Trabue,  living  in  St.  Joseph;  John  Sublette,  Jr.,  also 
o£  St.  Joseph;  Frank  Puryear,  ot  Kansas  City;  Louis  Sublette,  of  Kansas  City;  and 
Milton  Tootle,  of  St.  Joseph.      Mrs.  Logan  passed  away  January  6,  1920. 

In  his  political  views  Dr.  Logan  was  always  a  stalwart  democrat  and  he  served 
as  a  delegate  to  the  state  conventions  which  nominated  Governor  Crittenden  and 
Governor  Woodson.  He  also  served  for  several  years  on  the  board  of  geology 
through  appointment  of  Governor  Lon  V.  Stephens.  He  possessed  a  fine  collection 
ot  Indian  relics  and  geological  specimens  and  was  keenly  interested  in  scientific 
research  and  investigation  of  that  character.  His  life  was  guided  by  high  and 
honorable  principles  and  he  was  a  devoted  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  church 
of  St.  Joseph. 


REV.  NATHAN  SCARRITT,  D.  D. 

Rev.  Nathan  Scarritt,  whose  life  was  one  of  signal  usefulness  and  service  to  man- 
kind, his  labors  constituting  a  valuable  contribution  to  the  moral  and  educational 
development  of  the  district  in  which  he  lived,  was  a  native  son  of  Illinois,  his  birth  hav- 
ing occurred  at  Edwardsville  on  the  14th  ot  April,  1821,  his  parents  being  Nathan  and 
Latty  (Allds)  Scarritt.  He  was  descended  from  Scotch  and  Irish  ancestry  although 
the  family  had  long  been  represented  on  American  soil.  His  father,  who  was  born  in 
Connecticut  in  1788,  devoted. his  life  to  the  occupation  of  farming.  In  1812  at  Lyman, 
New  Hampshire,  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Latty  Allds,  who  was  born  in  that 
state  in  1793.  They  became  the  parents  of  ten  sons  and  two  daughters,  of  whom  Nathan 
Scarritt  was  the  seventh  child  and  sixth  son.  The  father  passed  away  In  1847  but  the 
mother  long  survived,  departing  this  life  in  1875.  In  1820  the  family  had  removed  from 
New  Hampshire  to  Illinois,  making  the  long  journey  to  the  then  far  west  by  wagon.  They 
settled  first  in  Edwardsville  and  afterward  took  up  their  abode  upon  a  farm  near 
Alton,  in  the  district  which  became  known  as  Scarritt's  Prairie  and  is  now  the  seat 
ot  the   Monticello  Female   Seminary. 

It  was  upon  this  farm  that  Nathan  Scarritt  was  reared  to  the  age  of  sixteen 
years,  when  he  became  a  student  in  McKendree  College  at  Lebanon,  Illinois,  entering 
the  preparatory  department.  He  was  ambitious  to  secure  a  good  education  but  received 
little  financial  assistance  from  his  father  and  in  order  to  meet  the  expenses  of  the  first 
year  of  his  course  at  McKendree  he  cleared  brush  and  timber  from  the  college  campus, 
doing  the  work  after  study  hours  and  often  working  by  moonlight.  With  two  com- 
panions he  lived  in  a  log  hut,  near  which  he  fenced  and  cultivated  a  garden,  and  his 
meals  often  consisted  only  ot  potatoes  of  his  own  raising.  Occasionally,  however,  bread 
and  meat  supplemented  this  scanty  diet  and  during  his  college  days  he  often  kept  his 
expenses  down  to  less  than  fifty  cents  per  week. 

Owing  to  the  illness  of  his  father  Mr.  Scarritt  found  it  necessary  to  return  home 
and  manager  the  farm  but  as  soon  as  his  father's  health  permitted  he  again  became  a 
student  of  McKendree  College,  through  the  earnest  solicitation  of  the  faculty,  who 
offered  him  board  and  tuition  on  credit.  The  year  of  his  graduation  was  1842,  at  which 
lime  he  won  valedictorian  honors  and  gained  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree.  He  then 
turned  his  attention  to  the  profession  of  teaching,  which  he  followed  at  Waterloo, 
Illinois,  and  from  the  savings  of  the  first  two  years  he  paid  his  indebtedness  to  the 
college. 

Mr.  Scarritt  became  a  resident  of  Missouri  in  April,  1844,  at  which  time  he  took 
up  his  abode  at  Fayette,  there  joining  his  brother-in-law,  William  T.  Lucky,  in  the  es- 
tablishment of  a  high  school.  Mr.  Lucky  began  with  but  six  pupils  and  during  the  first 
week  one  of  these  became  ill  and  three  ran  away,  leaving  only  two.  Notwithstanding 
the  fact  that  the  outlook  seemed  rather  discouraging,  Mr.  Scarritt  succeeded  in  establish- 
ing an  excellent  school,  known  as  the  Howard  high  school,  out  of  which  were  developed 
the  Central  College  for  males  and  the  Howard  Female  College.  Later,  upon  urgent 
solicitation.  Dr.  Scarritt  became  provisional  president  of  Central  College,  thus  serving 
for  a  year.  From  1848  until  1851  he  taught  the  Indian  Manual  Labor  School  in  the 
Shawnee  country  of  the  Indian  Territory  and  during  the  following  year  he  was  prin- 
cipal of  the  high  school  at  Westport,  having  been  very  active  in  the  establishment  and 
development  of  that  institution.  He  was  also  a  teacher  in  Kansas  City  in  1864  and 
1865. 

It  was  his  earnest  desire,  however,  to  enter  the  ministry  and  upon  reaching  a 
suitable  age  he  was  called  to  the  duties  of  a  class  leader,  while  in  1846  he  was  licensed 


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to  preach  and  later  in  the  same  year  was  received  on  trial  into  the  Missouri  conference 
and  was  appointed  to  the  Howard  high  school,  where  he  was  then  teaching,  in  the  mean- 
time acting  as  minister  to  neighboring  churches.  While  teaching  among  the  Indians 
from  1848  until  1851  he  frequently  assisted  the  missionaries  and  in  the  latter  year 
was  appointed  missionary  to  the  Shawnees,  Delawares  and  Wyandottes,  preaching  to 
these  tribes  through  interpreters.  Upon  the  division  of  the  Methodist  church  he 
became  identified  with  the  southern  branch  of  the  denomination.  He  performed  minis- 
terial duty  at  Lexington,  where  he  filled  a  vacancy,  and  in  the  latter  part  of  1852  was 
appointed  to  churches  in  Westport  and  Kansas  City,  while  in  1853  he  became  pastor 
of  the  Fifth  Street  church  of  Kansas  City.  In  January,  1855,  he  was  made  presiding 
elder  of  the  Kickapoo  district  of  the  Kansas  Mission  Conference,  which  body  he  repre- 
sented in  the  general  conference  of  1858.  Through  the  succeeding  year  he  served  in  the 
Shawnee  Reserve  and  during  the  two  ensuing  years  was  presiding  elder  of  the  Lecomp- 
ton  district.  During  the  unsettled  period  of  the  Civil  war,  following  the  restoration  of 
peace,  he  engaged  in  itinerant  service  in  the  ministry  for  a  year  and  was  ihen  superan- 
nuated on  account  of  physical  disability  but  declined  the  aid  due  him  from  the  confer- 
ence fund.  In  1876  he  took  up  pastoral  work  in  Kansas  City,  serving  the  old  Fifth  Street, 
the  Walnut  Street,  the  Lydia  Avenue,  the  Campbell  Street,  and  the  Melrose  churches 
in  turn.  He  was  a  delegate  in  several  sessions  of  the  general  conference,  during  two 
of  which  he  served  on  the  committee  of  revisals,  and  was  assigned  to  a  similar  position 
at  the  session  of  1890.  In  theology  he  proclaimed  himself  an  Arminian  of  the  Wesleyan 
Methodist  type. 

Dr.  Scarritt's  residence  in  Kansas  City  led  to  his  accumulation  of  a  large  fortune 
and  afforded  him  opportunity  to  aid  materially  in  the  development  of  that  city  and 
to  formulate  and  execute  various  philanthropic  designs.  In  1861  he  bought  forty 
acres  of  land  near  the  city  and  subsequent  purchases  increased  his  holdings  to  three 
hundred  and  twenty  acres,  situated  on  Scarritt's  Point,  his  first  home  there  being  a  log 
cabin  of  his  own  building.  He  was  early  associated  with  Governor  Ross  of  Delaware 
in  the  ownership  of  a  tract  of  land  in  the  heart  of  Kansas  City,  a  block  of  which  was 
intended  to  be  conveyed  in  fee  to  the  city  upon  condition  that  a  courthouse  or  school 
be  built  thereon,  but  the  city  failed  to  make  use  of  the  opportunity.  He  was  also  a 
pioneer  builder  on  Main  and  Walnut  streets,  where  he  erected  many  of  the  most  sub- 
stantial structures.  Among  his  benefactions  were  five  thousand  dollars  to  the  Scarritt 
Collegiate  Institute  at  Neosho;  five  thousand  dollars  to  the  Central  Female  College 
at  Lexington;  and  thirty  thousand  dollars  to  Melrose  church,  Kansas  City,  which 
latter  ediflc  was  erected  on  a  lot  where  for  two  years  he  previously  maintained  a  tent 
for  religious  meetings.  His  benefactions  were  not  restricted  to  the  objects  favored  by 
his  own  denomination,  for  scarcely  a  church  in  Kansas  City  was  unaided  by  him.  His 
desire  to  establish  a  Bible  and  Training  School  was  on  the  eve  of  accomplishment,  when 
his  death  occurred,  but  his  children  faithfully  carried  out  his  wishes  regarding  the 
project  by  a  gift  of  the  site  and  twenty-five  thousand  dollars. 

On  the  29th  of  April,  1850,  Mr.  Scarritt  was  married  to  Miss  Martha  M.  Chick,  a 
daughter  of  William  Chick,  one  of  the  founders  of  Kansas  City.  She  passed  away 
July  29,  1873,  leaving  nine  children,  of  whom  six  are  living:  Annie  E.,  the  wife  of 
Bishop  E.  R.  Hendrix,  Edward  L.,  Nathan,  Jr.,  and  William  C,  all  residents  of  Kansas 
City;  Charles  W.,  a  clergyman  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  South;  and  Martha 
M.,  the  wife  of  Elliott  H.  Jones,  of  Kansas  City.  On  the  6th  of  October,  1875,  Dr. 
Scarritt  was  married  to  Mrs.  Ruth  E.  Scarritt,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Cyrus  Barker,  a  mis- 
sionary of  India,  where  she  was  born. 

The  death  of  Dr.  Scarritt  occurred  in  Kansas  City,  May  22,  1890,  and  was  the  occa- 
sion of  the  most  deep  and  widespread  regret.  He  was  a  man  whose  contribution  to 
the  world's  work  was  of  great  worth.  Afforded  limited  educational  opportunities  in 
early  youth,  he  nevertheless  became  a  man  of  scholarly  attainments  and  received  the 
honorary  Master  of  Arts  degi-ee  from  the  University  of  Missouri  in  1857  and  that  of 
Doctor  of  Divinity  from  his  alma  mater  in  1876.  A  contemporary  writer  has  said  of 
him:  "His  services  as  a  clergyman  and  educator  were  of  great  value.  As  a  teacher  he 
won  his  pupils  as  much  through  his  kindly  personal  interest  and  sympathy  as 
through  his  power  of  imparting  knowledge.  By  deep  study  and  close  observation  he 
stored  his  mind  with  ample  material  for  every  emergency  and  his  sermons  were 
models  of  instruction  and  logical  exposition.  Sincere  earnestness  aided  his  effort,  with 
an  unaffected  vigor  of  oratory  which  compelled  attention  and  enabled  him  to  impress 
the   individual   hearer   with  the   conviction  that   he   was   listening  to   a   personal   mes- 


238  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

saee  and  appeal  His  benevolences  were  free  and  liberal  and  directed  In  a  sympathetic 
and  orderly  way,  insuring  perpetuation  of  the  gift  and  increasing  advantages  from  it 
in  after  years." 


HON.   WALTER  LEWIS  HENSLEY. 

Hon  Walter  Lewis  Hensley,  who  has  recently  retired  from  the  otfice  of  United 
States  attorney  at  the  custom  house  in  St.  Louis  and  who  for  four  terms  represented 
his  district  in  congress,  is  now  concentrating  his  attention  upon  the  private  practice 
of  law  He  has  ever  been  a  close  and  discriminating  student  of  vital  questions  and 
issues  of  the  day  and  has  done  much  to  mold  public  thought  and  opinion  in  many 
ways,  thus  shaping  public  activity  in  his  home  city  and  also  in  connection  with 
rational  interests.  Mr.  Hensley  was  born  September  3,  1871,  in  Jefferson  county, 
Missouri,  upon  a  farm  near  HiUsboro.  His  father,  the  late  Thomas  J.  Hensley, 
was  a  native  of  Missouri  and  was  born  and  reared  in  the  same  township  as  his  son. 
The  family  was  established  in  Missouri  by  William  Hensley,  who  with  three  brothers 
came  from  Virginia  about  1820  and  cast  in  his  lot  with  the  pioneer  settlers  of 
Jefferson  county.  Later  he  took  up  land  and  followed  farming  and  stock  raising, 
an  occupation  to  which  Thomas  J.  Hensley  also  devoted  his  time  and  energies.  He 
died  in  1874  and  was  long  survived  by  his  wife,  who  passed  away  in  1892.  She 
bore  the  maiden  name  of  Emily  E.  Williams  and  was  born  in  Jefferson  county, 
Missouri,  her  father  having  been  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  who  came  to  this  state 
from  South  Carolina.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hensley  had  a  family  of  eight  children,  five 
daughters  and  three  sons.  ,    .      ^.  '   ,. 

Walter  L  Hensley,  the  eighth  in  order  of  birth,  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  county  and  in  the  State  University  and  his  early  life  to  the  age 
of  twenty-one  years  was  spent  upon  the  home  farm.  Not  being  desirous  of  fol- 
lowing agricultural  pursuits  as  a  life  work,  however,  he  then  entered  upon  the 
study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Thomas  Horine  and  John  H.  Reppy.  He  was  admitted 
to  practice  at  HiUsboro  in  1894  and  was  admitted  to  P^^'ice  before  the  United 
States  supreme  court  in  1919.  Following  his  admission  to  the  bar  m  1894  ^e 
removed  to  Wayne  county  and  entered  upon  the  active  work  of  his  profession  at 
Greenville  where  he  remained  for  two  years.  He  afterward  removed  to  Bonne 
Terre  and  there  continued  in  general  practice  tor  an  equal  period.  He  then  removed 
to  Farmington,  Missouri,  upon  his  election  to  the  office  of  prosecuting  attorney 
and  filled  the  position  for  two  terms  or  four  years.  There  he  engaged  in  the  prac- 
tice of  law  until  1910.  In  that  year  he  was  a  candidate  for  congress  and  by  reelec- 
tion was  continued  as  representative  from  Missouri  in  the  national  halls  of  legis- 
lation for  four  terms,  but  refused  to  become  a  candidate  again.  Various  con- 
gressional acts  of  importance  stand  to  the  credit  of  Mr.  Hensley,  expressive  of  his 
public  spirit  and  his  loyal  devotion  to  high  ideals,  but  particularly  must  he  be  given 
credit  for  two  resolutions  which  were  introduced  by  him  and  adopted  by  congress. 
House  Resolution  No.  298  read  as  follows:  "Resolved  that  in  the  opinion  of  the 
House  of  Representatives  the  declaration  of  the  Lord  of  the  Admiralty  of  Great 
Britain  the  Right  Honorable  Winston  Churchill,  that  the  government  of  the  United 
Kingdom  is  willing  and  ready  to  cooperate  with  other  governments  to  secure  for 
one  year  a  supervision  of  naval  construction  programs,  offers  the  means  of  imme- 
diate lessening  the  enormous  burdens  of  the  people  and  avoiding  "^e  ^/'^  o^ 
investment  in  war  material.  That  a  copy  of  this  resolution  be  fujmshed  he 
President  with  the  request,  that  so  far  as  he  can  do  so,  having  due  regard  for  the 
interests  of  the  United  States,  he  use  his  influence  to  consummate  the  agreement 
suggested  by  the  Right  Honorable  Winston  Churchill."  This  was  adopted  and 
Berlin  papers  commented  on  it  very  favorably.  Had  it  been  carried  out,  the 
World  war  might  have  been   averted.  ^      ,     .  ^  u     „  „«t^ 

The  other  resolution  proposed  by  Congressman  Hensley,  and  adopted  by  a  vote 
of  three  hundred  and  seventeen  to  eleven,  reads:  "Upon  the  conclusion  of  the 
war  in  Europe,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  it  may  be  done,  the  President  of  the  United 
States  is  authorized  to  invite  all  great  governments  of  the  world  to  send  repre- 
sentatives to  a  conference  which  shall  be  charged  mth  the  duty  of  suggesting  an 
organization,  court  of  arbitration,  or  other  body,  to  which  dispued  questions 
between  nations  shall  be  referred  for  adjudication  and  peaceful  settlement,  and 
to    consider    the    question    of    disarmament   and    submit   their    recommendations    to 


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their  respective  governments  for  approval.  That  the  President  is  hereby  authorized 
to  appoint  nine  citizens  of  the  United  States,  who  shall  be  qualified  tor  the  mission 
by  eminence  in  the  law  and  by  devotion  to  the  cause  of  peace,  to  be  representatives 
of  the  United  States  in  such  conference.  That  the  President  shall  fix  the  compensation 
of  the  said  representatives  and  such  secretaries  and  other  employes  as  may  be 
needed.  Two  hundred  thousand  dollars,  or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be  needed, 
is  hereby  appropriated  and  set  aside  and  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the  President 
to  carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of  this  paragraph."  This,  too,  was  adopted  and 
the  many  congratulatory  messages  received  by  Mr.  Hensley  indicate  the  importance 
of  the  document  and  his  success  in  securing  its  adoption.  The  President  has  said 
that  this  resolution  was  his  authority  for  negotiating  the  league  and  treaty,  the 
senate  being  almost  solidly  for  it.  In  March,  1919,  Mr.  Hensley  was  appointed 
to  the  position  of  United  States  attorney  at  the  custom  house  in  St.  Louis,  in  which 
capacity  he  served  until  1920,  when  he  resigned.  He  has  always  been  a  democrat 
in  his  political  views  and  an  active  party  worker.  His  election  and  his  reelection 
to  high  office  indicate  his  standing  with  the  people  among  whom  he  has  long 
resided,  and  recognition  of  his  professional  ability  as  well  as  his  allegiance  to  the 
democratic  party,  came  in  his  appointment  as  United  States  attorney  at  the  custom 
house. 

On  the  5th  of  February,  1904,  Mr.  Hensley  was  married  to  Miss  Bessie  E. 
Johnson,  a  native  of  St.  Francois  county,  Missouri,  and  they  have  become  the 
parents  of  four  children:  Robert  Thornton,  Emily  E.,  AValter  L.,  Jr.,  and  John 
Clark.  His  life  has  always  been  actuated  by  high  ideals  and  worthy  purposes 
and  his  motives  have  ever  been  such  as  will  bear  the  sunlight  of  keen  and  close 
investigation.  He  stands  as  a  splendid  type  of  American  honor,  manhood  and 
chivalry.  Fraternally  he  is  identified  with  the  Masons  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
and  his  religious  faith  connects  him  with  the  Baptist  church. 


WILLIAM  FANNING  WICKHAM. 

William  Fanning  Wickham,  who  is  at  the  head  of  the  Wickham  Coal  Company, 
one  of  the  leading  concerns  of  its  kind  in  St.  Louis,  was  born  September  10,  1857, 
in  the  city  which  is  still  his  home.  He  is  a  son  of  Judge  John  Wickham,  who  was 
born  in  Virginia  and  passed  away  in  St.  Louis,  in  189  2.  He  came  to  this  city  In 
the  early  '30s  and  was  an, able  and  prominent  lawyer  and  also  a  judge  of  the  cir- 
cuit court.  There  was  a  long  succession  of  John  Wickhams  in  the  ancestral  line 
and  one  of  these  was  counsel  for  Aaron  Burr  in  his  famous  trial,  while  another, 
John  Wickham,  of  Richmond,  Virginia,  was  the  grandfather  of  William  F.  Wickham 
of  this  review.  Another  member  of  the  family,  Williams  C.  Wickham,  held  the 
rank  of  general  in  the  Confederate  array  during  tbe  Civil  war.  The  family  comes 
of  English  ancestry  and  William  of  Wyckham  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Uni- 
versities at  Oxford. 

Judge  Wickham  was  united  in  marriage  to  Fannie  Graham  who  died  in  1911. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  John  Graham  of  St.  Louis,  a  captain  in  the  United  States 
navy.      His  father.  Major  John  Graham,  settled  in  St.  Louis  about  1812. 

William  F.  Wickham  was  educated  by  private  tutors  until  he  reached  the  age 
of  ten  years.  He  then  entered  Washington  University  where  he  spent  eight  years 
as  a  student  and  afterward  matriculated  in  Princeton  College,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  with  the  class  of  1879,  receiving  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  as  a 
member  of  the  class  to  which  belonged  President  Wilson  and  other  men  who  have 
won  distinction.  He  spent  two  years  in  the  St.  Louis  Law  School  and  won  his 
degree  of  LL.  B.,  being  admitted  in  the  bar  in  1881.  For  about  a  year  and  a  half 
he  practiced  law  in  his  father's  office  and  in  1883  went  to  Texas,  spending  six 
months  on  a  ranch  there,  after  which  he  returned  to  St.  Louis.  He  then  withdrew 
from  the  practice  of  law  and  became  connected  with  the  Tudor  Iron  Works,  re- 
maining with  its  successor.  The  Republic  Iron  &  Steel  Company,  as  office  manager, 
occupying  that  position  of  responsibility  until  1905.  In  that  year,  in  conjunction 
with  his  brother,  E.  F.  Wickham,  he  established  a  coal  business  under  the  firm 
name  of  E.  F.  Wickham  &  Company.  Upon  his  brother's  death  in  1908  he  became 
sole  proprietor,  and  in  1913  incorporated  the  business  under  the  name  of  the  Wick- 
ham Coal  Company,   in   which  connection   he  has  developed  one  of  the  leading  con- 


242  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

cerns  of  the  kind   iu  the   city,  with  offices  in   the  Pierce   building.     He   is   the   presi- 
dent and  treasurer  of  the  company  and  practically  owns  all  of  the  stock. 

Mr.  Wickham  is  an  Episcopalian  and  attends  Christ  Church  Cathedral.  He 
enjoys  seeing  all  outdoor  sports  and  became  a  member  of  the  Sigma  Chi  while  at 
Princeton  and  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  Club  and  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  At 
different  periods  he  has  voted  both  the  republican  and  democratic  tickets  and  has 
now  settled  down  as  an  independent  in  politics.  He  concentrates  his  efforts  and 
attention  upon  his  business  affairs,  is  appreciative  of  the  social  amenities  of  life 
and  has  always  been  a  man  of  strong  earnest  friendship. 


EBEN  C.  ROBINSON. 


That  the  sources  of  our  power  lie  within  ourselves  is  again  and  again  manifest 
in  the  record  of  a  truly  self-made  man,  of  which  type  Eben  C.  Robinson  is  a  splendid 
example.  He  is  a  man  of  well  balanced  capacities  and  power,  and  has  long  oc- 
cupied a  central  place  on  the  stage  of  action,  advancing  steadily  from  the  time  when 
he  made  his  initial  effort  in  the  field  of  business,  until  his  labors  have  found  cul- 
mination in  the  organization  and  direction  of  one  of  the  extensive  and  important 
lumber  interests  of  the  west.  He  is  operating  under  the  name  of  the  E.  C.  Robin- 
son Lumber  Company,  of  which  he  is  the  president,  and  which  owns  a  chain  of 
lumber  yards  in  twelve  towns  and  cities.  Mr.  Robinson  was  born  October  1,  1847, 
in  Marysville,  Ohio.  His  father,  William  M.  Robinson,  was  also  a  native  of  the 
Buckeye  state,  having  first  opened  his  eyes  to  the  light  of  day  in  Union  county.  He 
was  a  farmer  by  occupation  and  was  active  in  public  affairs  of  the  community.  By 
popular  suffrage  he  was  called  to  the  offices  of  recorder  of  deeds  and  county  sheriff, 
and  afterward  conducted  a  grocery  store  for  some  years.  He  married  Hanna  Craw- 
ford, a  daughter  of  James  Crawford,  a  farmer,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  four 
sons  and  three  daughters.  William  H.  who  was  engaged  in  the  hardware  and 
grocery  business  and  who  married  Martha  A.  Robinson,  but  is  now  deceased; 
Tabitha,  the  deceased  wife  of  Marshall  Winget,  a  contractor  and  house  builder 
who  has  also  passed  away;  Rufina,  who  still  lives  at  Marysville;  Marietta,  the 
deceased  wife  of  John  Moore,  who  is  in  the  grocery  business.  Three  of  the  sons, 
Calvin,  Warren  and  William  served  in  the  Civil  war. 

Eben  C.  Robinson,  the  youngest  of  the  family  pursued  a  grammar  education 
In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  state,  and  in  1868  went  to  Ottawa,  Kansas,  being 
then  a  young  man  of  twenty-one  years,  anxious  to  try  his  fortune  in  the  growing 
west.  He  there  worked  for  W.  P.  Anderson,  who  conducted  a  general  store,  his 
first  duties  being  in  the  bake  shop,  for  which  he  received  a  salary  of  twenty  dollars 
per  month.  At  the  end  of  three  months  he  was  transferred  to  the  grocery  depart- 
ment of  the  store,  and  his  salary  increased  to  forty  dollars  per  month.  His  ad- 
vancement was  steady,  and  he  remained  until  1870,  and  then  established  a  business 
on  his  own  account  as  a  grocer,  at  Thayer,  Kansas.  Success  attended  the  venture 
and  brought  to  him  valuable  experience  in  dealing  with  the  public.  He  became 
connected  with  the  lumber  industry  in  1873,  when  he  took  charge  of  the  yard  of 
the  Bradford-McCoy  Lumber  Company,  and  in  1874,  he  bought  out  the  business 
giving  his  personal  note  in  payment  thereof.  This  he  conducted  in  connection  with 
his  grocery  store  until  1880,  in  which  year  he  became  general  manager  for  S.  A. 
Brown  &  Company,  turning  in  his  lumber  yard  to  that  company  and  accepting  a 
position  which  gave  him  charge  over  from  twenty  to  twenty-five  lumber  yards.  He 
continued  in  this  position  of  trust  and  responsibility  until  1890,  in  which  year  he 
came  to  St.  Louis  and  bought  out  the  lumber  business  of  Mr.  Boeckamp.  From 
this  time  forward  his  course  has  been  one  of  steady  and  notable  progress.  In  1890 
he  established  a  yard  in  Madison,  Illinois,  in  1892  one  in  Granite  City,  Illinois,  and 
in  1907  sold  his  lumber  business  in  St.  Louis,  and  has  devoted  his  attention  to  the 
development  of  a  chain  of  yards  elsewhere.  Through  the  intervening  period  he 
has  established  yards  at  the  following  places:  Olney,  Illinois;  Winfield,  Missouri; 
Wentzville,  Missouri;  Belle,  Missouri;  Lilbourne,  Missouri;  Campbell,  Missouri; 
Sikeston,  Missouri;  Charlestown,  Missouri;  Kennett,  Missouri;  Senath,  Missouri; 
Piggott,  Arkansas;  and  Bragg  City,  Missouri.  In  the  meantime  he  consolidated 
the  yards  at  Madison  and  Granite  City,  Illinois.  During  the  past  fifty  years  he 
has  been  continuously  in  active  business,  and  throughout  the  entire  period  has 
never  missed  more   than   four  or  five   days   because   of   illness.      In   addition   to   his 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  243 

extensive  lumber  interests  which  he  is  now  capably  managing,  he  is  also  a  director 
of  the  Grand  Avenue  Bank  of  St.  Louis.  What  he  has  undertaken  he  has  accom- 
plished. He  is  a  man  of  resolute  purpose  who  never  stops  short  of  the  successful 
achievement  of  his  plans,  and  the  course  which  he  ha&  pursued  has  always  been 
such  as  would  bear  the  closest  investigation  and  scrutiny,  at  all  times  measuring 
up  to  the  highest  commercial  standards  and  ethics. 

At  Thayer,  Kansas,  on  the  24th  of  November,  1872,  Mr.  Robinson  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Kate  Elizabeth  Stall,  a  daughter  of  David  Stall,  a  farmer,  now 
deceased.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robinson  have  become  the  parents  of  three  sons  and  two 
daughters:  Calvin  L.  who  married  Mary  Summers,  is  now  engaged  in  the  lumber 
business  in  New  York;  Arthur  D.  who  married  Martha  Pullen,  is  a  mechanical  en- 
gineer, who  is  in  China  on  a  nine  year  employment  contract.  He  is  the  patentee 
of  a  formula  for  dry-egg  which  is  used  by  bakers;  Frederick  M.  is  vice  president  and 
general  manager  of  the  E.  C.  Robinson  Lumber  Company  and  married  Lenore  Clay- 
ball.  The  daughters  are  Cora  and  Lena,  the  latter,  the  wife  of  W.  B.  Christian, 
manager  of  the  St.  Louis  office  tor  Wagner  &  Company,  brokers. 

Mr.  Robinson  is  well  known  In  Masonic  circles,  belonging  to  Tuscan  Lodge, 
No.  360,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  was  raised  in  Thayer,  Kansas,  April  3,  1874;  took  the 
Royal  Arch  degrees  in  Ottawa,  Kansas,  February  13,  1892;  and  became  a  Knight 
Templar  on  the  1st  of  March,  of  the  same  year.  He  took  the  Scottish  Rite  degrees 
in  St.  Louis,  April  1,  1901,  and  joined  the  Mystic  Shrine  on  the  30th  of  July,  1892. 
He  also  became  a  member  of  Hiram  Council,  R.  &  S.  M.  March  23,  1893.  He  thus 
has  taken  the  degrees  of  both  the  York  and  Scottish  Rites  and  is  a  loyal  follower, 
adhering  to  the  purposes  and  teachings  of  the  craft.  He  is  now  treasurer  of  the 
Masonic  Temple  Association.  Mr.  Robinson  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce of  St.  Louis,  also  to  the  City  Club.  His  political  course  is  that  of 
an  independent  democrat,  who  while  usually  voting  the  party  ticket  does 
not  hesitate  to  do  otherwise  if  his  judgment  so  dictates.  His  religious  faith  is 
that  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  During  the  war  period  he  actively  supported  all 
interests  and  projects  promoted  for  financing  the  war  and  during  one  drive  sold 
liberty  bonds  in  the  Wright  building,  at  St.  Louis,  to  the  sum  of  eight  hundred  and 
fifty  thousand  dollars.  No  one  has  ever  questioned  his  one  hundred  percent 
Americanism.  His  business  career  should  serve  as  a  source  of  inspiration  and  en- 
couragement to  others,  showing  what  can  be  accomplished. 


GEORGE   THOMAS   MOORE. 


George  Thomas  Moore,  director  of  the  Missouri  Botanical  Gardens  and  one 
of  the  eminent  botanists  of  the  country,  was  born  in  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  February 
23,  1871,  and  is  a  son  of  George  T.  and  Margaret  (Marshall)  Moore,  the  latter  a 
member  of  the  same  family  as  Chief  Justice  Marshall  of  the  United  States  Supreme 

court. 

George  T.  Moore,  after  attending  the  public  schools  of  Indianapolis,  continued 
his  education  in  Wabash  College  of  Indiana  from  1890  until  1894  and  in  189  5 
matriculated  at  Harvard,  where  he  studied  until  1900,  winning  his  Bachelor  of 
Arts  degree  in  189  5,  his  Master  of  Arts  degree  in  189  6  and  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Philosophy  in  1900.  Having  specialized  in  botany,  he  has  devoted  his  life  to 
scientific  work  of  that  character.  From  1899  until  1901  inclusive  he  was  pro- 
fessor in  botany  at  Dartmouth  College  and  from  19  02  until  19  0  6  inclusive  he  was 
connected  with  the  United  States  department  of  agriculture.  He  devoted  the  years 
1907  and  1908  to  private  work  as  a  consulting  botanist  and  in  1909  was  appointed 
physiologist  of  the  Missouri  Botanical  Gardens,  which  position  he  filled  until  1912, 
when  he  was  made  director  of  the  gardens  and  still  occupies  this  position.  His 
reading  and  research  have  placed  him  with  the  eminent  botanists  of  the  country. 
He  was  in  charge  of  the  Marine  Biological  Laboratories  at  Woods  Hole,  Massa- 
chusetts, from  1905  until  1919  and  in  the  latter  year  resigned.  He  was  also  editor 
of  the  botanical  work  in  connection  with  the  Century  Dictionary  and  is  botanical 
editor  of  the  American  Year  Book  and  American  editor  on  Physiology  of  Potanisches 
Centralelatt.  Along  the  line  of  his  specialty  he  has  made  valuable  contribution 
to  the  world's  work,  his  writings  being  of  distinct  worth  in  connection  with  the 
promotion  of  the  botanical  science. 


244  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

On  the  30th  of  December,  1896.  in  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  Mr.  Moore  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Emma  L.  Hall  and  to  them  have  been  born  two  children: 
Harriett  H.,  fourteen  years  of  age;    and  Thomas  G.,  a  lad  of  twelve. 

Mr.  Moore  is  well  known  in  club  circles  of  St.  Louis,  belonging  to  the  St. 
Louis,  University,  Glen  Echo  Country,  Town  and  Gown,  and  Round  Table  Clubs. 
He  also  belongs  to  three  Greek  letter  fraternities — the  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  the  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  and  the  Sigma  Xi.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  republican 
party.  He  stood  with  the  millions  of  American  citizens  who  made  ready  response 
to  the  call  for  the  utilization  of  all  needed  efforts  in  connection  with  the  prosecu- 
tion of  the  war  and  he  was  a  member  of  the  committee  on  raw  material  and  of 
the  committee  on  botanical  work  of  the  National  Council  of  Defense  and  was 
connected  with  the  food  commission  as  a  director  of  production.  He  was  also 
actively  associated  with  the  Red  Cross  work  and  thus  in  various  fields  made  con- 
tribution to  the  home  activities  which  were  the  sustaining  influence  of  the  fighting 
men  at  the  front.  As  director  of  the  Missouri  Botanical  Gardens  he  has  contributed 
to  the  development  in  St.  Louis  of  an  institution  of  this  character  of  which  the 
city  has  every  reason  to  be  proud,  for  under  his  guidance  its  standards  have  been 
still  farther  promoted  and  its  work  extended  along  the  lines  of  usefulness  and  of 
pleasure. 


WILLIAM    FRANCIS   CARTER. 

William  Francis  Carter,  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  a 
well  known  attorney  practicing  as  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Carter,  Collins  & 
Jones,  in  which  connection  he  specializes  in  commercial  law.  was  born  October  30, 
1867,  at  Farmington,  Missouri.  His  father.  Judge  William  Carter,  a  representative 
of  a  distinguished  Virginia  family,  was  born  in  Missouri  in  1830  and  for  a  half 
century  was  a  prominent  legist  and  jurist,  serving  for  twelve  years  upon  the  bench 
of  the  circuit  court.  He  was  a  graduate  of  the  Louisville  Law  School  of  the  class 
of  1853  and  throughout  his  professional  career  his  course  was  one  which  reflected 
honor  and  credit  upon  the  Missouri  bar.  His  political  allegiance  was  given  to  the 
democratic  party  and  fraternally  he  was  connected  with  the  Masons.  He  married 
Maria  Mcllvaine,  who  was  born  in  Washington  county,  Missouri,  a  daughter  of 
Colonel  Jesse  H.  Mcllvaine.  She  passed  away  in  1901.  while  the  death  of  Judge 
Carter  occurred  on  the  22d  of  July,  1902.  The  Mcllvaine  family  came  from  Ken- 
tucky, making  settlement  in  Washington  county,  Missouri,  and  the  grandfather, 
Jesse  H.  Mcllvaine,  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  the  Iron  Mountain  Railway.  In 
ante-bellum  days  he  also  represented  his  district  in  the  state  senate  for  a  number 
of  years  and  was  a  warm  admirer  and  faithful  political  follower  of  Thomas  Benton. 
He  was  a  brother-in-law  ot  Governor  Dunklin,  while  one  of  his  sisters  became  the 
wife  of  Senator  Yell,  of  Arkansas,  who  fell  in  the  battle  of  Buena  Vista.  There  were 
seven  children  in  the  family  of  William  and  Maria  (Mcllvaine)  Carter,  of  whom 
six  are  living,  including  Major  General  Jesse  Mcllvaine  Carter,  of  the  Eleventh  or 
Lafayette  Division  of  the  United  States  army. 

•  William  Francis  Carter,  after  attending  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis,  con- 
tinued his  education  in  Smith  Academy  and  in  the  University  of  Michigan,  'in  which 
he  pursued  a  law  course,  being  graduated  wath  the  class  of  1890.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  at  Marble  Hill,  Bollinger  county.  Missouri,  in  the  same  year  and  in  1892 
he  sought  the  broader  opportunities  afforded  through  the  complex  interests  of  city 
life  by  removal  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  has  since  built  up  a  large  clientage,  figuring 
prominently  in  much  of  the  litigation  that  has  constituted  the  work  of  the  local 
courts.  His  addresses  before  the  courts  are  characterized  by  perspicuity  and  often 
by  a  terseness  that  seems  to  put  almost  into  a  single  sentence  the  very  essence  of  his 
case,  presenting  it  with  a  clearness  that  could  not  be  attained  in  an  extensive 
elaboration.  He  has  largely  specialized  in  commercial  law,  of  which  he  has  wide 
and  comprehensive  knowledge,  and  his  legal  advice  has  been  sought  by  numerous 
large  business  houses.  Through  his  own  efforts,  ability  and  merit  he  has  built  up  a 
splendid  practice  and  since  1904  has  been  at  the  head  of  the  firm  of  Carter,  Collins 
&  Jones. 

Mr.  Carter  has  also  been  a  well  known  figure  in  various  other  business  con- 
nections.     He   was   the  active   vice   president   of   the   Mercantile   Trust   Company   of 


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St.  Louis  until  1919  and  is  now  one  of  its  directors,  having  retired  from  the  vice 
presidency  to  reenter  upon  the  practice  of  law  with  his  son.  He  is  identified  with 
many  important  corporate  interests  of  the  city  as  a  director,  including  the  ScuUin 
Steel  Company,  Jefferson  Hotel  Company,  Missouri  State  Life  Insurance  Company, 
Scruggs-Vandervoort-Barney  Dry  Goods  Company,  Scruggs,  Vandervoort  &  Barney 
Bank.  Industrial  Loan  Company,  International  Abrasive  Company  of  Boston  and 
the  Fidelity  Capital  Corporation  of  Boston. 

On  the  15th  of  November,  1893,  at  Ferguson,  Missouri,  Mr.  Carter  was  married 
to  Miss  Grace  Thoroughman,  a  daughter  of  Colonel  Thoroughman,  a  prom- 
inent attorney,  who  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Iron  Mountain  Railway  as 
general  attorney.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carter  have  become  parents  of  two  children.  The 
daughter,  Martha  Wright,  is  now  at  home.  The  son,  Emmet  T.  Carter,  was  educated 
in  Westminster  College  and  in  the  Washington  University  Law  School,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1917.  He  is  now  connected  with  the  firm  of  Carter,  Collins  & 
Jones.  He  married  Lillian  Baker,  of  St.  Louis,  and  they  have  a  daughter,  Mary 
Frances. 

Mr.  Carter  is  a  member  of  the  American  Bar  Association,  also  of  the  Missouri 
State  Bar  Association' and  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association.  He  is  connected  with  the 
Phi  Delta  Phi,  a  legal  fraternity,  and  that  he  is  a  prominent  figure  in  the  social 
organizations  of  St.  Louis  is  indicated  by  his  membership  in  the  St.  Louis,  Noonday 
and  Bellerive  Clubs  of  St.  Louis  and  the  Bankers'  Club  of  New  Yorlc  city.  He  is 
likewise  a  member  of  Occidental  Lodge,  No.  63,  A.,  P.  &  A.  M.  In  politics  he  is  a 
democrat,  and  while  he  has  never  held  political  office  that  carries  with  it  a  remunera- 
tion, he  has  done  important  public  work  for  the  city  and  is  now  a  member  of  the 
city  plan  commission  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  recently  appointed  a  member  of  the 
school  board  by  Mayor  Kiel.  He  has  long  been  deeply  and  helpfully  interested  in 
philanthropic  work  and  has  been  active  in  promotion  of  the  Red  Cross  interests, 
his  team  being  the  ranking  one  in  recent  drives.  He  has  been  the  vice  president 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  was  elected  to  the  presidency  of  that  organization 
in  November,  1919,  the  Chamber  thus  electing  as  its  head  a  native  Missourian  of 
tried  powers  who  modestly  disclaims  any  distinction  and  yet  who  has  gained  a  com- 
manding position  as  a  corporation  lawyer  of  the  city  and  as  an  officer  and  director 
in  some  of  the  largest  commercial  and  industrial  concerns  of  St.  Louis. 


EMMET   T.   CARTER. 


Emmet  T.  Carter,  one  of  the  young  lawyers  of  St.  Louis  who  is  making  rapid 
advancement  in  his  chosen  profession,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  October  20,  1894,  his 
parents  being  William  Francis  and  Grace  (Thoroughman)  Carter,  mention  of  whom 
is  made  at  length  in  this  work.  In  the  acquirement  of  his  education,  Emmet  T. 
Carter  attended  Smith's  Academy  at  St.  Louis  and  also  St.  John's  School  at  Delafield, 
Wisconsin,  and  Westminster  College  at  Fulton,  Missouri.  Thus  he  laid  broad  and 
deep  the  foundation  upon  which  to  rear  the  superstructure  of  his  professional 
knowledge  which  was  acquired  in  the  Washington  University  school  of  law,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  1917  with  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  He  is  a  young  man  of 
sterling  qualities  who  holds  to  high  ideas  and  it  is  evident  that  he  is  making  it  his 
purpose  to  maintain  the  high  standards  that  always  found  expression  in  his  father's 
life.  He  entered  upon  the  general  practice  of  law  in  the  office  of  the  firm  of  Collins, 
Barker  &  Britton,  in  1917,  and  continued  with  them  until  December  31,  1918.  He 
then  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Carter,  Collins  &  Jones,  conducting  a  general 
law  practice,  and  although  they  do  not  specialize  along  any  particular  line  they 
handle  much  important  coropration  practice.  In  fact  some  of  the  most  important 
corporate  reorganization  work  has  been  effected  by  them.  Something  of  his  pro- 
fessional ability  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  was  admitted  to  a  partnership  by 
his  former  employer.  He  is  recognized  as  a  thoughtful,  studious  young  man,  pos- 
sessed of  a  well  balanced  mind  which  he  is  developing  through  his  literary  studies 
in  his  leisure  hours.  Moreover,  he  holds  to  the  highest  of  professional  standards 
and  is  opposed  to  using  his  profession  to  aid  in  the  committal  or  defense  of  wrong. 
Already  he  has  made  for  himself  the  position  which  indicates  that  his  future  career 
will  be  well  worth  watching. 

During  the  World  war  Mr.  Carter  was  active  in  support  of  all  of  the  Liberty 


248  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Loan  drives  and  served  on  the  legal  advisory  board  in  district  No.  7.  His  work  in 
this  division  required  close  and  constant  attention  owing  to  the  fact  that  there  were 
many  foreign  born  in  the  district,  largely  Armenians.  Being  physically  unqualified 
Mr.  Carter  was  unable  to  join  the  army,  much  to  his  disappointment,  but  in  every 
possible  way  he  aided  in  the  support  of  the  purposes  of  the  government  in  upholding 
the  cause  of  world  democracy. 

On  the  23d  of  January.  1918,  Mr.  Carter  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Lillian 
Baker,  at  St.  Louis.  She  is  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  prominent 
New  England  families,  and  traces  her  ancestry  back  in  a  direct  line  to  Gov.  William 
Bradford  of  Plymouth,  whose  grandfather  was  a  native  of  Nottingham,  England, 
and  died  in  1596.  The  father  of  Gov.  Bradford  died  when  the  son  was  quite  young 
and  he  then  lived  with  his  grandfather  by  whom  he  was  reared.  Later  he  went  to 
Holland  and  was  married  in  Amsterdam  on  the  9th  of  December,  161,3,  to  Dorothea 
May,  his  age  being  recorded  as  twenty-three  and  hers  as  sixteen.  They  embarked 
for  England,  July  22,  1620,  and  sailed  from  Plymouth  on  the  6th  of  September 
of  that  year  on  the  Mayflower,  reaching  Cape  Cod  in  November.  The  ancestral 
line  comes  down  directly  to  William  Bradford,  the  grandfather  of  Mrs.  Carter  who 
came  to  Missouri  in  1820  casting  his  lot  with  the  other  pioneer  settlers  of  this 
state,  his  daughter  becoming  the  mother  of  Mrs.  Carter.  They  are  only  twice 
removed  in  the  Marmaduke  line  and  are  connected  through  the  ties  of  blood  with 
the  Pierson  and  Jackson  families.  Rev.  Abraham  Pierson  was  the  first  president  ot 
Yale  College. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carter  occupy  an  enviable  social  position,  many  of  the  most  attrac- 
tive homes  in  St.  Louis  being  cordially  opened  to  them.  Politically,  Mr.  Carter  is 
a  democrat  and  he  and  his  wife  have  membership  in  the  Episcopal  church.  He  also 
belongs  to  the  Kappa  Alpha  and  Phi  Delta  Phi,  Greek  letter  fraternities,  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association  and  of  the  Bellerive  Country  Club.  He  is 
extremely  fond  of  golf  and  of  fishing,  to  which  he  turns  for  recreation  when  leisure 
permits,  but  the  major  part  ot  his  attention  is  concentrated  upon  his  professional 
duties,  and  his  industry  and  intelligent  application  have  won  tor  him  his  present 
gratifying   success. 


JESSE  CLYDE  NICHOLS. 


Jesse  Clyde  Nichols,  a  recognized  authority  on  city  building  through  the  avenue 
of  residential  real  estate  development,  has  been  actuated  in  all  that  he  has  under- 
taken by  imagination,  idealism  and  initiative,  combined  with  untiring  industry 
and  determination  that  never  stops  short  of  the  successful  accomplishment  of  his 
purpose.  Thus  he  has  produced  results  in  Kansas  City  that  have  added  greatly 
to  its  beauty,  making  it  most  attractive  for  home  owners.  He  has  ever  worked 
in  harmony  with  the  spirit  of  enterprise  which  has  been  a  dominent  factor  in  the 
upbuilding  of  the  west,  a  spirit  that  has  taken  cognizance  of  the  experiences  and 
values  of  the  older  east  and  the  opportunities  for  development  in  a  new  district. 

Mr.  Nichols  was  born  at  Olathe,  Kansas,  August  23,  1880.  a  son  of  Jesse  T. 
and  Josie  (Jackson)  Nichols.  His  father,  a  native  of  Ohio,  went  to  Kansas  in 
1869  and  there  largely  followed  farming  but  afterward  became  treasurer  and 
organizer  of  the  largest  cooperative  store  in  the  state.  He  was  of  Scotch  ancestry 
and  a  Quaker  by  birth  and  training.  He  was  actively  identified  with  the  Populist 
cause  when  that  movement  was  in  its  prime  and  subsequently  supported  the  demo- 
cratic party,  filling  the  office  of  county  treasurer  of  Johnson  county  for  four  years. 
He  organized  a  packing  plant  at  Olathe,  still  conducted  under  the  name  of  the 
Olathe  Packing  Company,  and  was  also  prominent  in  the  Farmers  Grange  in  which 
he  held  office.  He  had  wide  influence  among  the  agricultural  population  ot  Kansas 
and  at  one  time  was  proposed  for  state  treasurer  but  declined  to  become  a  candi- 
date. His  honesty  was  proverbial  and  he  was  especially  distinguished  by  that 
strength  of  character  and  intellect  which  is  none  the  less  powerful  because  quietly 
operative.  He  was  most  ardent  in  his  supi-ort  ot  the  temperance  cause  and  of 
the  Presbyterian  church,  which  his  wife  joined  with  her  husband,  although  reared 
a  Methodist.  They  were  devoted  to  the  welfare  of  their  family,  surrounded  their 
children  with  excellent  home  influences  and  gave  them  liberal  educational  oppor- 
tunities.     Mr.   Nichols  passed  away   February    13,   1916.      His  wife   was  a  native  of 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  251 

Georgia  and  she  and  her  family  went  through  some  thrilling  experiences  in  Civil 
war  days.  Her  father,  Zachariah  Nathaniel  Jackson,  was  drafted  into  the  Con- 
federate army  and  made  a  captain.  He  always  abhorred  slavery,  however,  and 
becoming  convinced  that  the  south  was  wrong  in  its  struggle  to  secede  from  the 
Union,  he  joined  the  Northern  army.  His  wife  had  become  a  nurse  in  the  Union 
army,  and  through  three  years'  service  was  promoted  to  head  nurse  in  one  of  the 
large  hospitals  in  the  eastern  war  district.  In  the  meantime  their  Georgia  home 
had  been  burned  by  the  Union  forces  and  Josie  Jackson  (afterward  Mrs.  Nichols) 
and  the  other  children  were  taken  northward  by  the  Union  troops.  Mrs.  Jackson 
wrote  a  book  describing  her  experiences  as  a  war  nurse. 

Jesse  C.  Nichols  attended  the  rural  school  and  the  common  and  high  schools 
of  Olathe  and  although  his  father  was  a  man  in  prosperous  circumstances  and  will- 
ing to  encourage  his  son  in  every  way,  the  son  did  much  to  provide  his  own  expenses 
during  his  school  days.  In  the  summer  vacations  he  worked  on  farms  or  ran  a 
country  produce  business  and  for  several  years  clerked  in  stores,  bakeries  and 
restaurants  at  Olathe  on  Saturdays.  For  a  year  he  conducted  a  wholesale  meat 
market  at  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  and  handled  the  sales  end  of  the  Olathe  Packing 
Company's  business. 

Mr.  Nichols  attended  the  University  of  Kansas  from  1898  until  1902,  winning 
his  A.  B.  degree.  While  concerned  in  every  student  and  university  activity  his 
scholarship  record  had  been  excelled  only  once  in  the  history  of  the  university. 
This  seems  the  more  creditable  because  he  paid  his  way  through  school  by  working 
as  steward  in  a  student  club,  by  selling  meat  products  to  retail  stores  and  acting 
as  correspondent  to  the  Kansas  City  Star.  He  pursued  a  general  course  in  the 
university,  but  even  then  it  was  his  ambition  to  study  law.  At  Lawrence  he  was 
the  leader  in  college  politics,  manager  of  athletic  teams,  a  class  officer,  assisted 
on  the  college  newspaper  and  was  a  member  of  the  student  council,  and  organized 
the  entire  alumni  of  the  state.  He  became  a  member  of  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  and 
was  elected  to  the  honorary  scholarship  fraternity.  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  won  a 
scholarship  at  Harvard  and  was  graduated  in  1903.  During  the  vacation  of  1900, 
he  worked  his  way  to  Europe  on  a  cattle  ship  and  then  toured  the  continent  on  a 
bicycle,  the  entire  trip  costing  him  only  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  dollars.  The 
vacation  period  of  1901  was  spent  in  selling  maps  in  Utah,  Oregon  and  Washington 
and  for  one  month  he  acted  as  deputy  under  United  States  Marshal  Glenn  Miller  in 
Utah.  While  in  the  Kansas  University  he  largely  reorganized  the  Athletic  Associa- 
tion and  helped  put  athletics  on  a  strictly  amateur  basis.  Following  his  Harvard 
course  he  had  an  instructive  and  recreative  experience  on  a  walking  tour  over 
New  England.  He  has  always  been  keenly  interested  is  university  affairs,  served 
as  president  of  his  alumni  class  and  as  president  of  the  Alumni  Association  and  in 
different  ways  assisted  in  promoting  measures  through  the  legislature  for  the  benefit 
of  the  university. 

Soon  after  leaving  college  he  entered  the  real  estate  field,  in  which  his  opera- 
tions have  been  guided  by  idealism,  vision,  farsightedness  and  what  might  be  called 
an  enlightened  view  of  his  own  interests  and  those  of  his  clients,  which  puts  him 
almost  in  a  class  by  himself. 

His  greatest  single  achievement  was  the  development  of  the  Country  Club 
district,  said  to  be  the  largest  high  class  residence  district  in  America.  It  em- 
bodies the  best  modern  thought  in  scientific  planning  and  the  district  has  already 
been  accepted  as  a  model  throughout  the  country.  He  is  a  national  authority  in 
residence  subdivision,  and  the  development  work  carried  on  under  his  direction  in 
Kansas  City  has  revolutionized  residence  property  management  and  improvement, 
and  has  created  new  ideals  of  beauty  and  new  standards  for  landscape  treatment 
and  the  laying  out  of  residence  property,  so  that  landscape  architects  and  architects 
all  over  the  country  have  gained  new  ideas  and  have  closely  studied  all  he  has  done, 

It  would  require  a  long  article  to  describe  all  his  original  ideas  and  methods 
exemplified  in  his  developments  around  Kansas  City.  He  early  realized  that  there 
is  more  to  a  residence  district  than  the  customary  house  and  lot  unit.  In  seeking 
to  create  atmosphere  and  an  interesting  environment  some  years  ago  he  started 
a  campaign  to  interest  people  in  birds  and  in  less  than  three  years'  time  had  more 
than  two  thousand  bird  houses  erected  on  his  property.  This  method  has  been 
widely  copied.  He  secured  the  services  of  Ernest  Harold  Baynes,  the  noted  New 
Hampshire  ornithologist,  who  came  to  the  Country  Club  district  and  delivered  lec- 
tures on  birds  and  means  of  attracting  them.      Mr.   Nichols  also  established  prizes 


252  CEXTEXXIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

in  the  schools  and  sent  out  oivculais  in  lots  of  from  five  to  ten  thousand  to  people 
throughout  Kansas  City  for  the  purpose  of  stimulating  interest  in  bird  life.  He 
instituted  similar  plans  for  the  promotion  of  flower  gardening  and  secured  one 
lecturer  on  the  subject  from  England,  having  the  lecture  repeated  in  the  high 
schools  of  Kansas  City  and  thus  arousing  a  general  interest  in  the  beautifying  of 
homes  and  grounds.  In  the  same  way  he  improved  the  knowledge  and  taste  of 
local  people  in  architecture,  landscape  gardening,  vegetable  gardening,  and  many 
other  things  that  make  home  life  attractive.  He  has  established  a  community 
newspaper,  golf  club,  riding  academy,  community  shopping  centers  of  artistic 
design,  playgrounds,  pageants,  etc.,  and  has  secured  also  a  Community  Secretary  to 
arouse  interest   in   community  affairs. 

When  Mr.  Nichols  began  his  development  work  he  found  a  general  prejudice 
existing  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  against  having  homes  on  the  Kansas  side.  To 
combat  this  prejudice  he  deliberately  set  about  creating  a  residence  section  in 
Johnson  county,  Kansas,  just  across  the  state  line.  This  movement  had  as  its 
nucleus  the  Mission  Hills  Country  Club  organized  by  Mr.  Nichols  and  which  is  today 
equally  popular  with  any  other  club  around  Kansas  City.  The  Mission  Hills  Country 
Club  is  surrounded  by  a  magnificent  tract  of  four  hundred  acres,  which  Mr.  Nichols 
is  developing  as  Mission  Hills.  It  is  probably  laid  out  more  scientifically  and  more 
beautifully  than  any  other  section  of  Kansas  and  will  ultimately  carry  many  mil- 
lions of  dollars  into  Kansas.  A  resident  of  Mission  Hills  has  the  exceptional 
opportunities  of  a  large  city  for  the  enjoyment  of  business,  education,  society, 
music,  art,  theatres  and  clubs,  and  in  addition  the  advantages  of  the  quiet  rural 
environment  of  the  Kansas  side.  For  this  section  Mr.  Nichols  incorporated  a  novel 
community  form  of  self  government  which  has  attracted  much  comment. 

Mr.  Nichols  realized  some  years  ago  the  immense  loss  sustained  by  larger 
cities  through  the  shittings  and  declining  of  residence  sections  as  a  result  of  the 
intrusion  and  encroachment  of  business  and  factories.  Thus  in  the  development 
of  these  residence  districts  around  Kansas  City  he  has  worked  out  restrictions 
to  anchor  and  protect  permanent  residence  sections  for  long  periods.  Some  of  these 
residence  restrictions  evolved  by  him  are  perhaps  entirely  new  and  their  benefits 
have  been  made  applicable  to  other  communities  for  Mr.  Nichols  has  sustained 
the  principles  through  several  cases  upheld  in  the  United  States  Supreme  Court. 
The  main  feature  in  the  development  of  his  property  has  been  to  create  interesting 
home  sites,  and  quiet  residence  ways  separated  from  the  traffic  ways,  where  chil- 
dren may  play  with  safety  and  amid  healthful  surroundings.  Wide  open  spaces 
are  carefully  provided  between  the  homes,  historic  points  and  beautiful  vistas 
have  been  preserved  and  the  natural  beauty  accentuated  wherever  possible. 

As  a  recognized  authority  on  city  development  and  city  planning  Mr.  Nichols 
has  been  called  to  many  other  communities  and  has  addressed  real  estate  associa- 
tions and  civic  organizations  in  Louisville,  New  Orleans,  Los  Angeles,  Chicago. 
Cleveland,  St.  Louis,  Omaha,  Harrisburg,  Evansville,  Baltimore  and  Washington, 
D.  C.  In  1914  before  the  national  convention  of  Real  Estate  Exchanges  at  Louis- 
ville he  delivered  an  address  on  efficient  methods  of  platting  residence  property. 
This  address  was  printed  in  pamphlet  form  by  the  American  Civic  Association  and 
ten  thousand  copies  have  been  distributed  to  the  real  estate  associations  and  city 
officials  of  America  and  a  second  edition  of  the  pamphlet  was  required  to  supply 
the  demand.  In  November,  1915,  he  delivered  an  address  before  the  American 
Civic  Association  on  creating  good  residence  neighborhoods  by  planning.  At  that 
meeting,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  American  Civic 
Association  and  has  since  become  vice  president  of  the  association.  In  March, 
1916,  he  talked  on  city  planning  before  the  National  Association  of  Real  Estate 
Exchanges  in  New  Orleans.  The  association  printed  this  address  for  distribution 
and  its  substance  was  subsequently  repeated  before  the  annual  city  planning  con- 
ference in  Cleveland  and  before  the  Chicago  City  Planning  Conference  and  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  at  Harrisburg,  Pennsylvania. 

Mr.  Nichols  is  a  director  of  the  National  City  Planning  Conference.  Articles 
from  his  pen  upon  such  subjects  as  housing  and  city  planning  have  been  published 
in  the  American  Homes  and  Gardens  magazine.  The  Survey,  The  Ladies  Home 
Journal,  House  and  Gardens,  Annals  of  Political  Economy  and  other  publications. 
At  the  present  writing  Mr.  Nichols  is  engaged  on  a  series  of  articles  on  planning 
and  replanning  small  towns  from  the  standpoint  of  efficiency,  economy  and  beauty. 
His    wide    experience    and    thorough    insight    have    mad3    him    keenly    realize    the 


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economic  waste  in  Kansas  towns  and  elsewhere  through  the  method  on  which 
they  lay  out  their  streets  and  Improvements.  Such  improvements  follow  a  hap- 
hazard stereotyped  method,  due  to  custom  rather  than  the  advantage  of  use,  and 
such  methods  destroy  the  individuality  and  charm  of  the  place  and,  more  important 
still,  place  a  greater  burden  of  cost  in  proportion  upon  the  city  than  is  necessary. 
He  was  instrumental  in  having  a  city  planning  board  established  in  Kansas  City. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-seven  Mr.  Nichols  was  elected  director  of  the  Commerce 
Trust  Company  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  and  was  at  that  time  the  youngest  bank 
director  in  the  city.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce,  The 
University  Club,  The  Business  Men's  Accident  and  Assurance  Association,  .The 
Mission  Hills  Country  Club,  the  Kansas  City  Real  Estate  Board,  the  Kansas  City 
Title  and  Trust  Company,  the  Morris  Plan  Bank,  and  the  Continental  Lite  Insurance 
Company.  He  is  president  of  the  Fine  Arts  Institute.  He  is  vice  chairman  of  the 
Liberty  Memorial  Association  and  was  largely  instrumental  in  the  campaign  rais- 
ing two  million  dollars  in  eight  days  for  Kansas  City's  memorial  to  her  boys  in 
the  World  war.  He  is  also  vice  chairman  of  the  American  Civic  Association,  the 
leading  national  association  for  civic  betterment.  He  is  president  of  a  number  of 
commercial  companies  controlling  more  than  ten  million  dollars  worth  of  property 
in  Kansas  City,  known  as  the  Country  Club  district.  He  is  treasurer  of  the  Kansas 
City  Conservatory  of  Music  and  vice  president  of  the  Kansas  City  Provident  Asso- 
ciation and  has  active  connection  with  various  other  philanthropic  organizations. 
He  was  vice  chairman  of  the  bond  committee  which  conducted  the  campaign  by 
which  five  million  dollars  was  voted  in  bonds  for  local  improvement  in  Kansas  City. 
He  also  took  a  leading  part  in  the  extension  of  the  city  limits. 

Needless  to  say  Mr.  Nichols  is  a  man  in  love  with  his  work.  He  has  that 
quality  of  enthusiasm  which  may  be  likened  to  a  dynamo  and  yet  is  tempered, 
regulated  and  controlled  by  a  wisdom  and  judgment  that  comprehend  all  the 
dimensions  of  a  subject,  so  that  in  reality  his  enthusiasm  Is  the  truest  conservatism. 
He  is  regarded  as  a  genius  in  organizing  ability. 

Mr.  Nichols  is  married  and  has  a  happy  family.  He  was  married  June  18, 
1905,  to  Miss  Jessie  Eleanor  Miller,  of  Olathe,  Kansas.  Mrs.  Nichols  is  a  graduate 
of  Vassar  College.  Her  father,  M.  G.  Miller,  was  the  pioneer  banker  of  Olathe. 
organizer  of  the  Olathe  State  Bank.  He  was  also  a  merchant  and  put  up  the 
largest  building  in  Olathe  for  business  purposes,  was  owner  of  the  flour  mill  and 
telephone  company  and  might  also  be  classed  as  the  most  extensive  farmer  in 
Johnson  county.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nichols  have  three  children,  Eleanor  Miller,  Miller, 
and  Jesse  Clyde,  Jr. 

Mr.  Nichols  is  a  democrat  in  politics.  He  has  ever  been  deeply  interested 
in  the  cause  of  public  education  and  is  now  serving  as  a  member  of  the  public 
school  board  as  well  as  a  trustee  in  a  private  school.  He  took  an  active  and 
helpful  part  in  war  work,  serving  as  chairman  of  the  Red  Cross  Christmas  Roll 
Call  in  1917  and  1918  and  of  the  second  war  fund  campaign  in  1918,  while  of 
all  Liberty  Bond  and  Liberty  Memorial  campaigns  in  Kansas  City  he  was  vice 
chairman.  He  planned  and  put  into  execution  a  new  plan  of  campaign  called  the 
Kansas  City  geographical  plan,  which  has  since  been  adopted  in  all  money  raising 
campaigns   in   Kansas   City   and   many   other  large  cities. 


GEORGE  A.  DAVIES. 


George  A.  Davies  is  a  member  of  the  bar  of  St.  Louis,  in  which  city  he  was 
born  November  24,  1869.  His  father.  David  Davies,  a  native  of  Wales,  is  now 
deceased.  He  came  to  America  in  185  6  and  was  a  merchant  of  St.  Louis,  dealing 
in  steamboat  supplies,  his  place  of  business  being  located  on  Washington  avenue 
^nd  the  levee.  He  conducted  his  interests  in  a  most  successful  manner,  his  enter- 
prise and  sound  judgment  contributing  to  his  growing  prosperity.  He  married  Jane 
Payne  Shay,  a  daughter  of  William  Shay,  who  was  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the 
Broadway  Foundry  of  St.  Louis.  Her  mother's  maiden  name  was  Mary  Ann  Win- 
ston and  she  belonged  to  an  old  Herefordshire  (England)  family.  The  Shay 
family  has  long  been  represented  in  America,  for  the  great-grandfather,  Timothy 
Shay,  was  a  sergeant  in  Colonel  Ward's  regiment  in  the  Revolutionary  army.  He 
was  the  grandfather  of  Timothy  Shay  Arthur,  who  wrote  the  once  well  known 
and    extremely    popular    drama,    "Ten    Nights    in    a    Barroom."      There    has    been    a 


254  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

monument  erected  to  his  memory  in  North  Salem,  Westchester  county,  New  York, 
To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Davies  were  born  five  children,  three  sons  and  two  daughters: 
Thomas  Leveat,  deceased;  George  A.,  the  second  of  the  family;  David,  who  was 
a  telegraph  operator  and  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-four  years;  Sarah  Philomina, 
who  became  the  wife  of  Colonel  Solomon  Price,  who  served  in  command  of  a  regi- 
ment of  Confederate  troops  in  the  Civil  war  and  is  now  deceased;  and  Anna,  who 
was  a  school  teacher  but  has  passed  away. 

George  A.  Davies,  whose  name  introduces  this  review,  was  educated  in  public 
and  private  schools  and  after  completing  his  high  school  course  entered  Wash- 
ington University,  in  which  he  studied  for  two  years.  He  next  became  a  student 
in  the  Missouri  College  of  Law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1904.  He  acted 
as  district  agent  for  the  Phoenix  Insurance  Company  of  Brooklyn,  New  York,  in 
addition  to  his  other  business  activities.  His  practice  has  been  confined  to  com- 
mercial and  corporation  law  and  in  these  branches  he  has  studied  most  thoroughly 
and  has  displayed  marked  devotion  to  the  interests  of  his  clients. 

There  is  an  interesting  military  chapter  in  the  life  record  of  Mr.  Davies.  Dur- 
ing the  Spanish-American  war  he  organized  Company  B  of  the  Missouri  troops, 
which  company  was  engaged  in  active  service.  He  was  elected  lieutenant  but  was 
unable  to  accompany  his  men  to  the  front,  for  he  was  stricken  with  fever  before 
the  order  came  to  proceed  to  the  scene  of  action.  During  the  recent  World  war 
he  was  on  the  legal  advisory  board  of  the  ninth  district  and  was  special  examiner 
for  allotments  and  allowances  for  the  treasury  department  of  the  United  States. 
He  worked  continuously  and  faithfully  throughout  the  entire  war  period,  sub- 
scribed most  liberally  to  the  sale  of  Liberty  bonds  and  other  war  activities  and 
aided  largely  in  promoting  the  various  drives. 

On  the  2d  of  February,  1887,  in  Venice,  Illinois,  Mr.  Davies  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Wilhelmina  Haslam,  a  daughter  of  George  Haslam,  who  was  an 
engineer  on  the  Grand  Trunk  Railroad  in  Canada,  and  of  Ellen  (Ruston)  Haslam. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Davies  have  became  parents  of  three  children,  two  daughters  and  a 
son.  The  latter,  Dr.  Leroy  W.  Davies,  was  a  first  lieutenant  in  the  Medical  Re- 
serve Corps  of  Missouri  troops.  He  is  now  connected  with  the  Missouri  state  board 
of  health,  identified  with  the  tuberculosis  section.  He  married  Vera  Pickel.  Ethel 
is  the  wife  of  Henry  Heil,  Jr.,  who  is  the  secretary  of  the  Henry  Heil  Chemical 
Company,  and  they  have  two  children,  Violet  and  Adele.  Lenore,  the  youngest  of 
the  family,  is  sixteen  years  of  age. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Davies  has  always  been  a  stalwart  supporter  of  the 
democratic  party  and  has  been  a  delegate  to  various  party  conventions.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  convention  that  met  at  Hannibal,  Missouri,  that  resulted  in  the 
election  of  Judge  Henry  W.  Bonds.  Mr.  Davies  has  himself  been  offered  various 
public  offices  but  has  consistently  refused  them,  preferring  to  concentrate  his  efforts 
and  attention  upon  his  professional  interests.  He  belongs  to  Aurora  Lodge  No. 
267,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  having  been  raised  at  the  age  of  twenty-three  years.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  Tuscan  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  and  the  Order  of  the  Eastern  Star.  In 
religious  faith  he  is  an  Episcopalian,  having  membership  with  the  Church  of  the 
Redeemer  in  St.  Louis.  Practically  his  entire  lite  has  been  passed  in  this  city 
and  the  sterling  worth  of  his  character  is  attested  in  the  fact  that  many  of  his 
stanchest  friends  are  those  who  have  known  him  from  his  boyhood  to  the  present 
time. 


XENOPHON  PIERCE  WILFLEY. 

Xenophon  Pierce  Wilfley.  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Wilfley,  Mclntyre,  Nardin 
&  Nelson  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Audrain  county,  Missouri,  March  18,  1871,  and  is  a 
son  of  James  Franklin  and  Sarah'  (Pindall)  Wilfley.  The  father  was  a  native  of 
Callaway  county.  Missouri,  where  he  became  a  ■prominent  farmer.  He  was  a  leader 
in  his  community,  an  exemplary  representative  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  an  active 
and  valued  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  in  the  faith  of  which  he 
passed  away  in  1886.  He  was  a  representative  of  one  of  the  old  families  of  Ken- 
tucky, his  father  having  been  born  in  that  state.  His  wife,  Sarah  (Pindall)  Wilfley, 
was  born  in  West  Virginia  and  is  now  living  in  St.  Louis.  They  had  a  family  of 
five  children,  three  of  whom  survive,  Xenophon  P.  having  been  the  fourth  in  order 


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of  birth.  The  others  are:  Judge  Lebbeus  R.  Wilfley,  now  a  resident  of  New  York; 
and  James  Douglas,  who  resides  in   St.   Louis. 

Xenophon  P.  Wilfley  obtained  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
Audrain  county,  Missouri,  and  afterward  attended  the  Clarksburg  (Mo.)  College, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1891.  The  Master  of  Arts  degree  was  conferred 
upon  him  at  his  graduation  from  <Central  College  of  Fayette,  Missouri,  in  1895  and 
he  entered  upon  the  profession  of  teaching  at  Sedalia,  Missouri,  spending  three 
years  in  high  school  work  there.  It  was  his  desire,  however,  to  become  a  member 
of  the  bar  and  he  entered  the  St.  Louis  Law  School,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  189  9.  He  immediately  afterward  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession, 
first  becoming  associated  with  his  brother.  Judge  Wilfley,  with  whom  he  maintained 
professional  connections  until  1900,  when  his  brother  was  appointed  to  the  position 
of  attorney  general  of  the  Philippine  Islands.  Xenophon  P.  Wilfley  then  remained 
alone  in  practice  until  1910,  when  he  became  associated  with  J.  S.  Mclntyre  and  W. 
T.  Nardin  under  the  firm  style  of  Wilfley,  Mclntyre  &  Nardin.  They  have  since 
been  joined  by  a  fourth  partner,  leading  to  the  adoption  of  the  firm  name  of 
Wilfley,  Mclntyre,  Nardin  &  Nelson.  Mr.  Wilfley  has  largely  conflned  his  attention 
to  corporation  law  and  has  proven  his  ability  in  his  successful  and  able  conduct 
of  important  litigated  interests  before  the  court.  He  is  ever  careful  to  conform  his 
practice  to  the  highest  professional  ethics  and  standards  and  in  unusual  measure  he 
enjoys  the  confidence,  respect  and  goodwill  of  his  professional  colleagues  and 
contemporaries. 

On  the  28th  of  October,  1908,  Mr.  Wilfley  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Rosamond  Guthrie,  daughter  of  Judge  John  A.  and  Ella  (Forrest)  Guthrie,  of  Mexico, 
Missouri.  They  have  become  parents  of  two  children,  John  Franklin  and  Mary  Ellen, 
aged  respectively  ten  and  seven  years. 

Mr.  Wilfley  turns  to  golf  for  recreation.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the 
democratic  party  and  he  has  served  as  chairman  of  the  board  of  election  commis- 
sioners of  the  city  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  appointed  by  Governor  Frederick  D.  Gardner 
to  the  United  States  Senate  in  April,  1918,  to  succeed  William  J.  Stone,  deceased, 
and  served  until  November,  1918.  He  takes  an  active  and  helpful  part  in  the  work  of 
St.  John's  Southern  Methodist  church  and  is  a  member  of  its  board  of  stewards. 
He  also  belongs  to  Tuscan  Lodge,  No.  360,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  His  life  has  ever  been 
the  expression  of  high  ideals  and  his  professional  prominence  is  due  largely  to 
judgment,  integrity  and  energy.  While  he  has  made  the  practice  of  law  his  real 
life  work,  displaying  unfaltering  devotion  to  the  Interests  of  his  clients,  he  has  at  the 
same  time  recognized  and  improved  his  opportunities  for  public  service  and  assisted 
largely  in  various  campaigns  and  drives  during  the  world  war.  He  belongs  to  the 
Bellerive  Country,  University  and  Noonday  Clubs,  while  along  strictly  professional 
lines  he  is  identified  with  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association,  the  Missouri  State  Bar 
Association  and  the  American  Bar  Association. 


SAMUEL  J.   DARR. 

Samuel  T.  Darr  was  a  respected  citizen  of  Livingston  county,  where  he  re- 
sided for  many  years.  There  was  nothing  spectacular  in  his  career.  He  lived  the 
quiet,  uneventful  life  of  the  farmer,  but  as  Thomas  Jefferson  has  said,  "The  de- 
velopment of  every  country  depends  upon  the  tillers  of  its  soil."  Mr.  Darr  was 
a  representative  agriculturist  whose  life  of  well  directed  energy,  industry  and  thrift 
made  him  one  of  the  substantial  residents  of  his  part  of  the  state.  His  life  span 
covered  about  seventy-five  years,  for  he  was  born  on  the  22d  of  August,  1838, 
in  Ohio,  and  passed  away  in  Missouri  on  the  15th  of  August,  1913.  His  parents 
were  Hiram  and  Maria  (Slaughter)  Darr,  also  natives  of  Ohio,  whence  they  re- 
moved westward  to  Missouri,  establishing  their  home  on  the  Grand  river,  near 
Chillicothe,  at  a  very  early  day.  In  the  early  '50s  Hiram  Darr  built  a  mill  on  the 
Grand  river  and  for  several  years  operated  the  Graham  mill. 

Samuel  T.  Darr  spent  the  days  of  his  boyhood  and  youth  under  the  parental 
roof,  acquiring  a  public  school  education,  and  when  a  young  man  took  up  the 
milling  business,  which  he  had  learned  under  the  direction  of  his  father.  Later, 
however    he  severed  his  connection  with  that  industry  and  turned  his  attention  to 


258  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

farming,  which  he  followed  throughout  his  remaining  days,  bringing  his  land  under 
a  high  state  of  cultivation  and  converting  his  place  into  very  productive  fields 
from   which  he  annually  gathered  good  harvests. 

On  the  15th  of  March,  1860,  Mr.  Darr  was  married  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Girdner, 
who  passed  away  October  1,  1884.  They  were  the  parents  of  four  children,  of 
whom  two  died  in  infancy,  the  others  being:  Joseph  M.,  who  was  born  December 
31,  1860;  and  Mary  E.,  who  was  born  October  18,  1863.  and  became  the  wife  of 
William  L.  Wanamaker,  of  Chillicothe,  who  was  born  in  Indiana  in  1860  and  was 
a  son  of  John  Wesley  Wanamaker.  also  a  native  of  Indiana.  The  latter  came  to 
Missouri,  settling  in  Livingston  county  when  his  son,  William  L.  Wanamaker.  was 
six  years  of  age.  William  L.  Wanamaker  acquired  his  education  in  the  schools 
of  Chillicothe,  Missouri,  and  of  Keokuk,  Iowa,  being  graduated  on  the  completion 
of  a  course  in  penmanship  from  the  latter  institution.  He  has  since  followed 
bookkeeping  and  is  employed  in  that  capacity  now.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wanamaker 
have  been  born  three  children:  William  Darr,  who  was  born  in  1891  and  is  in 
the  railroad  service;  Lucy  Elizabeth,  who  is  a  teacher;  and  Virgil  Raymond,  at 
home. 

The  son,  Joseph  M.  Darr,  was  married  in  January,  1889.  to  Miss  Minnie  Green 
and  to  them  has  been  born  one  child,  Francis  Marion,  who  is  now  with  the  Equit- 
able Insurance  Company  of  the  United  States,  whose  headquarters  are  in  Chicago. 
He  spent  four  years  in  the  University  of  Missouri  as  a  student  in  the  engineering 
and  electrical  department  and  was  a  first  lieutenant  in  the  regular  army,  a  member 
of  the  Forty-second  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  with  which  he  served  for  two  years. 

Since  about  the  middle  of  the  nineteenth  century  the  Darr  family  has  been 
represented  in  Livingston  county,  Missouri,  and  throughout  the  intervening  period 
the  family  name  has  been  a  synonym  for  reliability  in  business,  for  loyalty  and 
progressiveness  in  citizenship.  Samuel  T.  Darr.  while  living  a  quiet  life,  gained 
the  respect  and  esteem  of  all  who  knew  him  and  his  sou  enjoys  equally  the  high 
regard  of  his  fellow  townsmen  of  Chillicothe,  where  he  is  now  representing  the 
Equitable  Life  Insurance  Company. 


J.  SHEPPARD  SMITH. 


J.  Sheppard  Smith,  vice  president  of  the  Mississippi  Valley  Trust  Company,  was 
born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  February  3.  1871.  a  son  of  Dr.  Elsworth  F.  and  Isabelle 
Chenie  Smith.  Having  completed  his  education  in  the  St.  Louis  University,  he  con- 
centrated his  efforts  and  attention  upon  financial  interests.  At  tht!  early  age  of 
seventeen  years  he  entered  the  banking  business  as  a  messenger  with  the  old 
Laclede  Bank  and  later  he  was  tor  a  time  with  the  Greeley-Burnhani  Grocer  Com- 
pany. He  then  became  connected  with  the  Scudder-Gale  Grocer  Company,  with 
which  he  continued  for  a  few  years,  when  he  reentered  financial  circles,  becoming 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Francis  Brothers  &  Company,  controlling  a  large  stock  and 
bond  business  in  St.  Louis.  In  March,  1915,  he  was  elected  to  the  vice  presidency 
of  the  Mississippi  Valley  Trust  Company,  and  thus  is  a  prominent  figure  in  con- 
nection with  one  of  the  most  important  financial  concerns  of  the  central  section 
of  the  country.  He  is  also  a  director  of  various  other  financial  and  mercantile 
interests,  including  the  Missouri  Portland  Cement  Company,  and  Missouri  State 
Life  Insurance  Company.  He  has  been  active  in  the  affairs  of  the  Investment 
Bankers  Association  of  America,  having  served  for  several  years  upon  its  board 
of  directors,  also  as  treasurer,  and  was  elected  a  vice  president  during  the  year 
1919.  Throughout  his  entire  career  a  progressive  spirit  has  been  tempered  by  a 
conservatism  that  renders  his  handling  of  all  financial  affairs  safe.  He  has  dis- 
played also  notably  keen  sagacity  in  management  and  investments,  and  his  pro- 
nounced characteristics  are  such  as  have  won  him  classification  with  the  most 
substantial  of  the  moneyed  men  of  St.  Louis. 

In  1893  Mr.  Smith  was  married  to  Miss  Sunie  Mitchell  Cabanne,  daughter  of 
J.  Charless  and  Sunie  (Mitchell)  Cabanne,  of  St.  Louis,  and  they  have  become  par- 
ents of  five  children:  Sunie  Cabanne,  Elsworth  F.,-J.  Sheppard,  Cabanne  and 
Mary  Ambrose.  The  family  residence  is  at  No.  4334  Westminster  avenue.  Mr. 
Smith  largely  obtains  his  recreation  from  golf,  being  a  devotee  of  the  game.  He 
belongs   also   to   the   Racquet   Club,    the   Noonday   Club   and    the   St.    Louis    Country 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  259 

Club,  and  of  the  first  named  was  at  one  time  president.  His  religious  faith  is  that 
of  the  Roman  Catholic  church,  and  he  is  a  communicant  of  Cathedral  parish.  His 
political  endorsement  is  given  to  the  republican  party,  and  he  puts  forth  every 
possible  effort  to  secure  its  success,  believing  that  its  platform  contains  the  best 
elements  of  good  government.  There  is  always  weight  in  his  reason,  strength  in 
his  argument  and  sagacity  in  his  opinions  concerning  any  question,  whether  of  a 
public  character  or  having  to  do  with  the  development  of  the  vast  and  important 
financial  interests  which  he  has  directed. 


JUDGE  WILLIAM  O.  THOMAS. 

Judge  William  O.  Thomas,  a  prominent  representative  of  the  circuit  court 
bench  of  Kansas  City,  presiding  over  division  No.  4,  is  a  native  son  of  Jackson 
county,  born  January  18,  1857.  His  parents  were  Jesse  and  Elizabeth  (Bailey) 
Thomas,  both  of  whom  were  descended  from  Kentucky  ancestry.  The  father  came 
to  Jackson  county  in  1839,  settling  here  at  a  very  early  period  in  the  development 
of  the  west.  He  was  born  in  Kentucky  in  1804  and  was  but  ten  years  of  age  at 
the  time  of  his  father's  death.  Following  his  removal  to  the  west  he  became  the 
owner  of  a  large  amount  of  land,  much  of  it  being  included  within  the  present 
boundary  limits  of  Kansas  City.  Like  all  men  of  his  day,  he  was  active  in  public 
affairs  and  did  much  toward  shaping  the  development  and  progress  of  the  section 
in  which  he  located.  At  the  time  of  the  Civil  war  he  was  a  member  of  the  Home 
Guard,  and  while  he  did  not  take  an  active  part  in  the  Mormon  war  in  Jackson 
county,  he  was  a  witness  of  many  of  the  events  of  that  period.  At  the  time  of 
hostilities  between  the  north  and  the  south  a  lawless  element  called  the  "Red  Legs" 
came  to  kill  him,  but  he  was  saved  by  the  provost  marshal. 

Judge  Thomas,  after  pursuing  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
Jackson  county,  spent  a  year  as  a  student  in  Woodland  College  at  Independence, 
Missouri,  conducted  by  Aylett  Buckner.  In  1875  and  1876  he  was  a  pupil  in  the 
Kansas  City  high  school  and  afterward  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  and 
under  the  direction  of  Tichenar  &  Warren,  with  whom  he  remained  for  a  year. 
He  later  became  librarian  in  the  law  library  and  while  thus  employed  utilized 
every  available  moment  for  the  reading  of  Kent,  Blackstone  and  other  commen- 
taries. Following  his  high  school  days  he  also  taught  in  what  was  called  the  Wild 
Cat  school  and  while  there  had  the  experience  of  being  locked  out  by  his  pupils. 
It  was  nearing  the  holiday  time  and  he  had  gone  into  town.  The  scholars  made 
him  give  up  some  candy  which  he  had  purchased  for  Christmas  before  they  would 
let  him  into  the  schoolhouse.  Such  was  the  spirit  which  was  often  manifest  in 
those  pioneer  times.  With  the  passing  years  Judge  Thomas  eagerly  improved  his 
opportunities  for  advancement  and  has  made  for  himself  a  prominent  position  as 
a  representative  of  one  of  the  learned  professions.  In  1880  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bar.  He  had  worked  very  hard  to  prepare  for  his  examination  and  went  into 
the  court  room  to  see  Judge  Samuel  W.  Woodson  to  take  his  examination.  When 
the  judge  saw  him  he  said:  "Billy,  I  understand  you  want  a  license  to  practice 
law."  Then  turning  to  Wallace  Laws,  the  clerk,  he  asked,  "Wallace,  what  shall 
we  do  about  it?"  Wallace  asked  young  Thomas  if  he  would  be  willing  to  "set  'em 
up"  if  they  granted  his  license.  Upon  receiving  an  affirmative  reply  the  judge  in- 
structed the  clerk  to  write  out  the  license. 

In  1881  he  entered  upon  general  law  practice  and  formed  a  partnership  with 
C.  W.  Clarke  and  Junis  Jenkins,  an  association  that  was  maintained  for  three  years 
under  the  firm  name  of  Jenkins,  Clarke  &  Thomas.  He  next  became  associated 
with  T.  C.  Brown  and  A.  A.  Buxton  under  the  firm  name  of  Brown,  Thomas  & 
Buxton.  It  was  about  this  time  that  Kansas  City  was  enjoying  a  great  real  estate 
boom  and  Judge  Thomas  became  an  active  factor  in  the  real  estate  business,  in 
which  he  lost  considerable  money,  as  many  others  did.  In  1900  he  was  appointed 
assistant  city  counselor,  filling  the  office  during  Reed's  administration  for  a  period 
of  three  years.  He  later  entered  into  partnership  for  the  practice  of  law  with 
Jackson  L.  Smith  and  L.  E.  Durham,  under  the  firm  style  of  Smith,  Thomas  & 
Durham,  and  they  were  accorded  a  large  and  representative  clientage.  Through- 
out the  years  of  his  practice  Judge  Thomas  manifested  a  keen  analytical  mind, 
evidenced  in  clear  and  convincing  reasoning  and  logical  argument.  In  1908  he 
was  elected   judge   of   the   circuit   court   and   such   was   his   course    upon    the   bench 


260  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  AIISSOURI 

during  his  first  terra  that  he  was  reelected  to  the  office  in  1914,  is  now  presiding 
over  division  No.  4  and  is  again  a  nominee  for  the  office  for  the  third  term,  on 
the  democratic  ticket.  He  has  always  displayed  regard  for  the  dignity  of  the 
office  and  therefore  the  proceedings  are  thoroughly  orderly  on  the  part  of  everyone 
connected  with  the  court.  His  record  on  the  bench  is  in  harmony  with  his  record 
as  a  man  and  as  a  citizen,  distinguished  by  the  utmost  fidelity  to  duty  and  by  a 
masterful  grasp  of  every  problem  presented  for  solution.  Judge  Thomas  is  also 
well  known  as  the  associate  editor  of  the  Bar  Association  Bulletin  and  he  is 
a  valued  member  of  the  Jackson  County,  the  Missouri  State  and  the  American 
Bar  Associations. 

In  1881  Judge  Thomas  was  married  at  Independence.  Missouri,  to  Miss  Lelia 
M.  Barnes  and  they  became  parents  of  two  children:  Fred  W.,  who  was  bom 
in  1882  and  passed  away  in  1903,  just  as  he  was  entering  upon  young  manhood; 
and  Jesse  Lee,  at  home.  Mrs.  Thomas'  ancestors  in  the  paternal  line  were  all  from 
Kentucky,  while  her  mother's  people  were  from  Illinois. 

The  judge's  political  endorsement  is  given  to  the  democratic  party,  for  he 
believes  firmly  In  the  efficacy  of  Its  principles  as  factors  in  good  government.  He 
belongs  to  the  Knife  and  Pork  Club,  to  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks  and  to  the  Loyal  Order  of  Moose  and  his  friends,  who  are  many,  prize  him 
for  his  geniality  and  unfeigned  cordiality  as  well  as  for  those  sterling  traits  of 
character  which  find   manifestation  in  his  irreproachable  judicial  record. 


RICHARD   HENRY  KEITH. 


There  is  perhaps  no  record  which  illustrates  more  clearly  the  possibilities  for 
successful  achievement  than  does  the  life  history  of  Richard  Henry  Keith,  who 
starting  in  business  in  Kansas  City  in  1871  with  a  cash  capital  of  but  forty  dollars, 
came  to  rank  with  the  most  prominent  and  prosperous  coal  operators  and  dealers 
and  lumber  merchants  of  the  southwest.  Mr.  Keith  was  born  in  Lexington,  Missouri, 
in  1842,  his  parents  being  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Smith  Keith,  who  removed  from  Virginia 
to  Missouri  in  1839.  The  progenitor  of  the  family  in  America  came  to  the  new 
world  from  Scotland  in  1642.  For  more  than  eighty  years  the  family  has  now  been 
represented  in  Missouri  and  has  made  valuable  contribution  to  the  business  devel- 
opment of  the  state. 

The  education  of  Richard  H.  Keith  was  acquired  in  the  old  Masonic  College  at 
Lexington,  which  he  attended  until  seventeen  years  of  age,  when  he  left  school  to 
become  deputy  clerk  in  circuit  and  probate  courts  and  recorder  of  deeds  in  Lafayette 
county.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  enlisted  as  a  private  under  Colonel  John  Bowman 
of  the  state  guards.  He  saw  active  service  in  the  Confederate  army,  participating 
In  the  battles  of  Lexington,  Oak  Hill  and  Pea  Ridge.  Subsequently  he  joined  the 
Landis  Battery  Artillery  at  Memphis  and  he  took  part  in  the  first  and  second 
battles  of  Corinth,  also  in  the  engagements  at  luka,  Hatchie  River,  Grand  Gulf, 
Fort  Gibson,  Champion  Hills,  Black  River  and  In  the  siege  of  Vlcksburg.  Refusing 
a  parole,  he  was  sent  as  a  prisoner  to  Camp  Morton,  Indianapolis,  from  which 
he  made  his  escape.  He  then  went  to  California  and  was  later  connected  with 
trading  interests  in  Leavenworth  and  New  Mexico  for  two  years,  also  conducting 
a  dry  goods  store  In  Leavenworth  for  one  year.  In  1871  he  came  to  Kansas  City 
and  invested  his  entire  capital  of  forty  dollars  in  a  little  coal  yard  on  Bluff  street. 
At  that  time  Kansas  City  handled  about  thirty  carloads  of  coal  daily.  Mr.  Keith 
lived  to  see  four  hundred  carloads  handled  daily.  He  conducted  a  retail  coal  busi- 
ness for  several  years  and  eventually  became  president  of  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke 
Company.  He  opened  the  first  mine  at  Godfrey,  Bourbon  county,  Kansas,  In  1873 
and  during  the  succeeding  two  years  opened  other  mines  at  Rich  Hill,  while  later 
he  became  the  owner  of  extensive  and  valuable  coal  lands  in  the  Bonanza  district 
of  Arkansas.  The  company  which  he  founded  now  owns  coal  lands  that  produce 
four  million  tons  of  coal  annually  and  is  the  largest  enterprise  of  the  kind  In  the 
southwest.  Something  of  the  remarkable  growth  of  the  business  is  indicated  in  the 
fact  that  while  Mr.  Keith  employed  but  two  men  at  the  outset,  the  company  at  the 
time  of  his  death  furnished  employment  to  ten  thousand  men  and  the  business 
amounted  to  seven  million  dollars  annually.  One  hundred  and  twenty  thousand 
cars   are   utilized    and   coal    is   mined    In   Kansas,    Missouri,    Oklahoma,    Arkansas    and 


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Wyoming.  Retail  coal  yards  are  maintained  at  Wichita,  Kansas,  St.  Joseph,  Missouri, 
Omaha,  Nebraska,  and  Salt  Lake  City,  and  the  product  is  shipped  throughout  the 
south  and  southwest,  the  business  exceeding  in  volume  that  of  any  other  firm  in  the 
western    states. 

The  Keith  &  Perry  Coal  Company  was  reorganized  as  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke 
Company  on  the  1st  of  May,  1893.  Under  the  reorganization  their  lumber  business 
developed  rapidly  and  became  one  of  the  extensive  lumber  concerns  west  o£  the 
Mississippi.  The  property  of  the  Bowie  Lumber  Company  of  Texarkana,  Texas,  was 
purchased,  including  twenty-five  acres  within  the  city  limits  of  Texarkana.  The 
plant  was  reconstructed  along  most  modern  lines  and  equipped  with  the  most  modern 
machinery.  Actual  operations  were  begun  in  January,  1894,  and  the  plant  remained 
In  use  until  the  summer  of  1902,  when  it  was  torn  down  and  a  removal  was  made 
to  Carson,  Louisiana,  as  the  timber  had  been  exhausted  at  the  former  location. 
In  connection  with  its  lumber  business  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Company  owns  a 
railroad  fifty-one  miles  in  length.  Another  sawmill  was  erected  at  Keith,  Louisiana, 
on  the  line  of  the  Kansas  City  Southern  Railway.  Mr.  Keith  also  owned  or  con- 
trolled  other   extensive   and    important    lumber    interests. 

Richard  H.  Keith  was  twice  married.  In  1871  he  wedded  Miss  Anna  Boarman 
and  their  children  were  three  in  number,  namely:  Charles  S.,  Dr.  Robert  L.  Keith 
and  Mrs.  Margaret  Keith  Hastings.  For  his  second  wife  Mr.  Keith  chose  Mary  B. 
Boarman,  by  whom  he  had  five  children:  Mrs.  Anna  K.  Koehler,  R.  H.  Jr.,  Mrs.  Vir- 
ginia  Field,   Mrs.    Emily   Keith    Fairleigh   and    Mrs.    Mary   Taylor   Anderson. 

Mr.  Keith  passed  away  in  1905,  after  more  than  a  third  of  a  century's  connec- 
tion with  the  growth  and  material  progress  of  city  and  state.  Fraternally  he  was 
identified  with  the  Masons,  while  his  political  allegiance  was  given  to  the  republi- 
can party.  He  served  as  brigadier  general  of  the  Confederate  Veterans  Association 
of  Kansas  City.  A  Catholic  in  religion,  he  conducted"  his  business  in  accordance 
with  a  high  standard  of  commercial  ethics  and  was  highly  respected  and  admired 
by  his  colleagues  and  associates.  He  had  developed  his  business  interests  to  exten- 
sive proportions  and  his  activities  were  ever  of  a  character  which  contributed 
to  public  progress  and   prosperity  as  well   as  to  individual  success. 


WALTER  H.   MALONEY. 


Walter  H.  Maloney,  who  since  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  1908  has  engaged 
in  practice  in  Kansas  City,  was  born  April  6,  1886,  at  Arcadia,  Wisconsin,  his 
parents  being  Patrick  and  Margaret  (Maloney)  Maloney,  who  though  of  the  same 
name  were  not  related.  Both  were  natives  of  Ireland  but  met  and  were  married 
in  Wisconsin,  having  crossed  the  Atlantic  to  the  new  world  about  the  time  of  the 
close  of  the  Civil  war.  The  father  always  took  a  most  active  and  helpful  interest  in 
public  affairs,  giving  his  aid  and  Influence  on  the  side  of  progress  and  improve- 
ment. He  was  treasurer  of  the  school  board  of  Arcadia  for  many  years  and  was 
a  man  greatly  admired  for  his  sterling  qualities  and  upright  life,  being  an  Irish 
gentleman  of  the  highest  type. 

Walter  H.  Maloney  obtained  a  common  school  education  in  Arcadia  and  other 
public  schools  of  Wisconsin.  He  afterward  attended  the  University  of  Michigan 
at  Ann  Arbor,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1907,  winning  the  degree  of  LL.  B. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Kansas  City  in  1908  and  became  associated  in  prac- 
tice with  Judge  Buckner,  Samuel  Laurence  and  R.  H.  Field,  having  excellent  train- 
ing In  their  office.  He  was  afterward  connected  with  D.  E.  Bird,  now  judge  ot  the 
circuit  court,  but  at  the  present  time  he  is  practicing  independently.  He  has 
gained  a  large  and  distinctively  representative  clientage,  specializing  along  the  line 
of  corporation  law,  in  which  he  has  been  very  successful.  His  powers  are  rapidly 
developing  and  he  Is  recognized  as  a  close  student  of  his  profession,  constantly 
broadening  his  knowledge  by  reading  and  investigation  as  well  as  through  experi- 
ence. 

At  the  time  ot  the  World  war  Mr.  Maloney  twice  attempted  to  enlist  but  was 
unsuccessful.  He  made  a  third  attempt  and  this  time  was  accepted  in  the  Held 
artillery  at  Camp  Taylor  and  was  In  the  Kelley  Field  when  the  armistice  was  signed. 
He  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  in  which  he  is  the  grand  knight,  the  highest 
office  In  the  local  organization.     He  also  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club 


264  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

and  is  a  devotee  of  our  national  game  of  baseball.  At  the  present  time  he  is 
captain  of  the  athletic  team  of  the  club,  and  he  won  the  fli'st  municipal  pennant 
from  all  the  baseball  clubs  of  the  city  for  the  years  1918  and  1919,  the  club  still 
holding  the  pennant.  His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Catholic  church  and  his 
political  belief  that  of  the  democratic  party.  Nature  has  endowed  him  with  keen 
mentality,  and  being  a  young  man  of  laudable  ambition  and  determined  purpose, 
his  friends  have  no  hesitancy  in  predicting  for  him  a  most  successful  future. 


FREDERIC  ALDIN  HALL,  LL.  D. 

Frederic  Aldin  Hall,  chancellor  of  Washington  University,  was  born  Novembec 
20,  1854,  in  Brunswick,  Maine,  a  son  of  James  and  Rebecca  (Dixon)  Hall,  the 
former  a  son  of  Captain  John  Hall,  who  followed  the  sea  tor  many  years,  as  did 
most  of  his  sons.  James  Hall,  however,  engaged  in  business  in  Brunswick  until 
1870,  when  he  removed  to  Vineland,  New  Jersey,  where  he  followed  fruit  raising 
for  a  period  of  years. 

Frederic  A.  Hall  was  a  student  in  Olivet  College  at  Olivet,  Michigan,  and  after- 
ward attended  Drury  College  at  Springfield,  Missouri,  from  which  he  was  grad- 
uated in  June,  1878,  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree,  while  in  1881  the  Master  of 
Arts  degree  was  conferred  upon  him.  Further  degrees  received  by  him  include 
the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Literature  in  1901  and  that  of  L.  H.  D.  from  Tufts 
College  in  1912,  LL.  D.  from  Washington  University  in  1913  and  from  the  University 
of  Missouri  in  1917.  Dr.  Hall  was  a  student  in  the  University  of  Goettingen  in 
1891  and  1892  and  at  the  American  school  of  Classical  Studies  in  Athens,  Greece, 
in  1906  and  1907. 

When  but  twelve  years  of  age  Dr.  Hall  left  home  in  order  to  lessen  the  burdens 
of  his  father,  whose  business  reverses  made  it  difficult  for  him  to  longer  support 
his  family.  The  boy's  first  work  was  in  a  brickyard  and  subsequently  he  clerked 
in  a  general  store,  while  later  he  occupied  a  clerical  position  in  a  bank  and  when 
fifteen  years  of  age  accompanied  the  late  Hon.  Hamilton  King,  afterward  United 
States  minister  to  Siam  but  then  a  boy,  to  Illinois,  where  they  both  became  "hired 
hands"on  farms.  Actuated  by  a  most  laudable  desire  to  improve  his  education, 
Dr.  Hall  when  seventeen  years  of  age  entered  the  preparatory  department  of  Olivet 
College  at  Olivet,  Michigan,  there  remaining  for  three  years,  returning  to  the  farm 
each  summer  in  order  to  earn  money  to  meet  the  further  expenses  of  his  education. 
Having  completed  his  preparation  for  college,  he  was  then  enrolled  in  the  freshman 
class  at  Olivet  but  at  the  Christmas  vacation  of  his  freshman  year  was  induced  by  the 
late  Samuel  F.  Drury,  founder  of  Drury  College  in  Missouri,  to  transfer  to  the  latter 
institution,  where  he  might  assist  in  meeting  the  expenses  of  the  college  course  by 
teaching  a  beginner's  class  in  Latin — work  for  which  he  had  shown  some  aptitude. 
He  remained  as  a  member  of  Drury's  first  entering  class  until  his  graduation  in  1878. 
During  his  junior  and  senior  years  in  college  he  taught  daily  one  class  beginning 
Latin  and  one  class  in  Greek  in  the  preparatory  department  of  the  college.  During 
his  senior  year  he  won  the  Missouri  state  oratorical  prize  and  represented  Missouri 
in  the  interstate  oratorical  contest.  He  also  won  the  Edgell  prize  in  oratory  at  Drury 
and  won  philosophical  honors  at  graduation.  Following  the  completion  of  his  course 
he  became  principal  of  Drury  Academy,  an  institution  which  became  widely  known  as 
a  classical  preparatory  school.  Later  he  was  elected  Goodell  professor  of  Greek  at 
Drury  College  and  subsequently  dean  of  the  college.  He  spent  two  periods  of  several 
months  each  studying  methods  and  practices  at  the  best  eastern  schools  and  was  or- 
ganizer and  director  of  summer  schools  at  Drury  for  three  years.  He  then  resigned 
his  positions  at  Drury  to  become  Collier  professor  of  Greek  in  Washington  University 
in  the  summer  of  1901.  Upon  his  return  from  a  year's  study  and  travel  in  Greece 
he  was  made  acting  dean  of  the  college  for  one  year  and  in  1913  was  elected  dean, 
which  position  he  resigned  the  following  March  to  become  acting  chancellor  while 
David  F.  Houston,  the  chancellor,  was  in  Washington,  D.  C,  as  secretary  of  agricul- 
ture. In  January,  1917,  Dr.  Hall  was  elected  chancellor  of  the  university  and  so 
continues. 

On  the  16th  of  June,  1881,  at  Springfield,  Missouri,  Dr.  Hall  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Alice  Linscott,  a  daughter  of  Captain  William  and  Hannah  (Gatch- 
ell)   Linscott.     Captain  Linscott,  a  very  prosperous  sea  captain,  died  at  sea  as  a 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  267 

result  of  exposure  in  quelling  a  mutiny  which  had  arisen  while  he  was  seriously 
ill.  The  crew  at  his  demise  took  the  ship  and  it  was  some  years  before  the  death 
and  its  cause  became  known  to  his  family.  Dr.  Hall  and  his  wife  became  the  parents 
of  three  children:  William  Linscott,  who  married  May  Schwab;  Elinor  Alice,  who 
became  the  wife  of  Wesley  Winans  Hoi-ner;   and  Elizabeth. 

In  religious  faith  Dr.  Hall  is  a  Congregationalist.  He  has  membership  with 
the  St.  Louis,  Commercial,  Round  Table,  University,  Town  and  Gown,  Contemporary, 
St.  Louis  Country  and  Ridgedale  Country  Clubs.  He  has  never  taken  an  active 
part  in  politics  but  considers  it  a  sacred  duty  to  keep  informed  upon  political  ques- 
tions and  to  vote  at  every  election,  whether  national,  state  or  municipal.  He  is 
associated  with  several  learned  societies — all  educational  in  their  purpose,  and  he 
stands  today  as  one  of  the  eminent  educators  of  the  Mississippi  valley.  In  1919 
the  king  of  Greece  conferred  upon  him  the  Cross  of  the  Redeemer  in  recognition  of 
his  interest  in  promoting  modern  Greece  and  his  contributions  to  the  scholarly  litera- 
ture covering  the  ancient  Greek  people. 


SAMUEL  BROWN  McPHEETERS. 

Samuel  Brown  McPheeters,  attorney  at  law  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Bedford 
City,  Virginia,  September  4,  1876.  His  father,  Ale.xander  M.  McPheeters,  was  born 
in  Raleigh,  North  Carolina,  in  1828  and  long  engaged  in  business  there  as  a  dealer 
in  stocks  and  bonds.  He  married  Sarah  P.  Leftwich,  -a.  daughter  of  James  Turner 
Leftwich,  a  merchant  and  the  owner  of  extensive  landed  interests  in  Virginia.  The 
Leftwich  family  comes  of  English  and  French  ancestry.  The  death  of  Mrs.  Mc- 
Pheeters occurred  .lanuary  2,  1914,  and  Alexander  M.  McPheeters  passed  away  in 
1903. 

Their  son,  Samuel  Brown  McPheeters,  pursued  his  early  education  in  private 
schools  of  Raleigh,  North  Carolina,  till  he  reached  the  age  of  fifteen  years  and 
afterward  attended  McCabe's  University  School  at  Petersburg,  Virginia.  In  189  6 
he  matriculated  in  the  University  of  Virginia  and  in  addition  to  pursuing  the 
regular  academic  course  he  took  up  the  study  of  law  and  was  graduated  in  1900 
with  the  B.  L.  degree.  He  came  directly  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  October,  1900,  and  at  once  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession, 
having  formed  a  partnership  with  Warren  D.  Harris,  who  came  with  him  from  the 
Old  Dominion.  This  association  continued  until  1907,  after  which  Mr.  McPheeters 
practiced  alone  until  he  went  forth  for  active  duty  in  connection  with  the  World 
war.  When  he  entered  the  army  he  arranged  a  temporary  partnership  with  his 
cousin,  Thomas  S.  McPheeters,  who  is  mentioned  elsewhere  in  this  work,  but  the 
partnership  was  dissolved  when  he  was  discharged  from  the  army.  He  has  since 
practiced  alone  and  continues  in  the  general  work  of  the  profession,  yet  spe- 
cializes somewhat  in  railroad  law.  He  has  been  counsel  at  St.  Louis  for  the  South- 
ern Railway  Company  and  also  for  the  Seaboard  Air  Line,  and  has  wide,  compre- 
hensive and  accurate   knowledge   of  railroad  law. 

It  was  in  May,  1917.  that  Mr.  McPheeters  entered  the  Reserve  Officers'  Train- 
ing Camp  at  Fort  Riley,.  Kansas,  and  there  on  the  1st  of  August,  1917,  was  com- 
missioned a  second  lieutenant.  After  a  two  weeks'  furlough  he  was  assigned  for 
duty  at  Camp  Punston,  where  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  captain  of  artillery 
in  November  and  placed  in  command  of  Company  A,  Three  Hundred  and  Fourteenth 
Ammunition  Train  of  the  Eighty-ninth  Division.  In  the  latter  part  of  June,  1918, 
he  sailed  from  New  York  with  his  command,  landing  at  Liverpool.  They  went  at 
once  to  France,  disembarking  at  Cherbourg  and  proceeding  thence  'to  Bordeaux. 
In  September,  1918,  with  Company  A,  Captain  McPheeters  boarded  a  truck  train 
and  proceeded  to  the  St.  Mihiel  sector  of  the  line,  where  he  remained  until  the 
armistice  was  signed.  He  was  constantly  engaged  in  moving  ammunition  up  to 
the  battle  line.  After  the  armistice  was  signed  he  was  at  St.  Baussant  until  Novem- 
ber 28th,  when  he  went  into  Germany  with  the  army  of  occupation,  the  general 
headquarters  being  at  Kylburg,  although  Captain  McPheeters  was  in  command  of 
the  town  of  Moetsch.  In  March,  1919,  he  was  made  officer  in  charge  of  civil 
affairs  for  the  area  assigned  to  the  Eighty-ninth  Division  and  held  that  position 
until  May,  1919,  when  he  returned  to  the  command  of  his  old  company  and  soon 
afterward  left  Germany  and  sailed  from  Brest  for  the  United  States,  receiving  his 
discharge  at  Camp  Upton,  Hoboken,  New  Jersey,  May  28,  1919. 


268  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

When  the  country  no  longer  needed  his  military  aid  Captain  McPheeters  at 
once  returned  to  St.  Louis  and  his  family.  He  had  been  married  just  before  enter- 
ing the  service,  on  the  27th  of  January,  1917,  to  Miss  Helen  M.  Wood,  daughter 
of  Joel  Wood,  a  merchant  of  St.  Louis.  They  are  the  parents  of  two  daughters, 
Frances  Leftwich  McPheeters,  who  was  born  in  December,  1917,  and  Helen  Wood 
McPheeters,  born  March  4,  1920.  The  family  residence  is  at  5295  Waterman  ave- 
nue, St.   Louis. 

Captain  McPheeters  belongs  to  St.  Louis  Post  No.  4  of  the  American  Legion. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  University  Club,  the  Florissant  Valley  Country  Club, 
the  St.  Louis  Country  Club,  the  Noonday  Club,  the  City  Club  and  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  and  is  keenly  interested  in  affairs  pertaining  to  the  welfare  and  progress 
of  his  city  and  state.  In  politics  he  is  a  democrat  and  keeps  thoroughly  informed 
concerning  the  questions  and  issues  of  the  day,  so  that  he  is  ever  able  to  support 
his  position  by  intelligent  argument.  He  has  never  sought  public  office,  but  in 
April.  1909,  was  appointed  secretary  of  the  board  of  freeholders  of  St.  Louis  and 
served  in  that  capacity  until  the  board  went  out  of  existence  in  February.  1911, 
having  made  its  report  the  preceding  month.  In  1913  Governor  Major  appointed 
him  president  of  the  police  commissioners  for  the  city  of  St.  Louis,  in  which  posi- 
tion he  continued  until  August  25.  1916,  rendering  faithful,  intelligent  and  valuable 
service.  In  1909  he  was  made  secretary  of  the  reception  committee  for  the  St. 
Louis  Centennial  and  gave  most  of  his  time  to  service  in  connection  with  that 
occasion.  Captain  McPheeters  was  reared  in  the  Presbyterian  faith  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Westminster  Presbyterian  church  of  St.  Louis,  loyal  at  all  times  to  its 
teachings  and  to  every  cause  which  he  espouses,  manifesting  the  same  stalwart 
qualities  in  days  of  peace  as  marked  his  record  as  an  overseas  soldier  in  the 
World  war. 


H.  C.  LOMAX. 


Prominent  among  the  energetic,  farsighted  and  successful  business  men  of 
Linn  county,  Missouri,  is  H.  C.  Lomax,  the  president  of  the  Lomax  &  Standly  Bank 
of  Laclede,  which  position  he  has  occupied  since  1914,  while  for  a  number  of  years 
previously  he  had  been  the  vice  president  and  cashier  of  the  bank.  His  course 
has  been  marked  by  steady  advancement  since  he  started  out  upon  his  business 
career  and  his  orderly  progression  has  brought  him  into  prominent  connections. 
He  was  born  in  Adams  county.  Illinois,  September  21,  1844,  his  parents  being 
John  and  Anna  (Shank)  Lomax,  the  former  born  in  Sevier  county,  Tennessee,  in 
February,  1812,  while  the  latter  was  born  in  Virginia.  June  16,  1819.  Their 
marriage  was  celebrated  in  18  35  and  they  became  the  parents  of  thirteen  children. 
The  father  departed  this  life  in  February,  1877.  while  the  mother,  long  surviving, 
died  in  1902.  In  1835  they  moved  to  Preble  county,  Ohio,  and  the  following  year 
came  to  Missouri.  In  1837,  however,  they  made  their  way  across  the  Mississippi 
into  Adams  county,  Illinois,  where  Mr.  Lomax  continued  to  maintain  the  family 
home  until  185  9.  He  then  returned  to  Missouri,  where  he  remained  until  after 
the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war.  when  he  espoused  the  cause  of  the  Union  and  joined 
the  Eighteenth  Missouri  Infantry,  doing  active  duty  until  the  fall  of  1862,  when 
he  was  captured  by  a  band  of  guerrillas  while  recruiting  a  company  in  Tennessee. 
He  suffered  many  hardships  and  privations  during  the  six  or  eight  months  of  his 
captivity  and  was  then  exchanged  in  June,  1863.  Once  more  he  enlisted,  this  time 
becoming  captain  of  Company  M,  First  Alabama  Volunteer  Union  Cavalry,  with 
which  he  continued  until  the  cessation  of  hostilities  and  during  the  latter  part  of 
that  period  was  provost  marshal  of  northern  Alabama.  He  participated  in  the 
memorable  march  from  Atlanta  to  the  sea  under  Sherman  and  was  in  the  battle 
of  Nashville  and  other  important  engagements,  being  mustered  out  in  1865.  Im- 
mediately afterward  he  resumed  the  cultivation  of  his  farm  near  Laclede,  Missouri, 
and  continued  to  engage  in  agricultural  pursuits  until  1871,  when  he  established 
a  grocery  store  in  Laclede,  continuing  its  conduct  until  his  death. 

H.  C.  Lomax  was  a  youth  of  about  fifteen  years  when  the  family  home  was 
established  in  Linn  county,  where  he  supplemented  his  early  education,  acquired 
in  Illinois,  by  further  study  in  the  public  schools  of  this  state.  He  then  started 
out  in  the  business  world  as  an  employe  in  a  general  merchandise  store,  with  which 


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he  was  connected  until  1870.  Through  the  succeeding  twenty-five  years  he  gave 
his  attention  to  general  farming  and  then  entered  banking  circles,  in  which  he  has 
figured  prominently  since  1895.  In  1897  he  gave  up  his  farming  interests  alto- 
gether in  order  to  concentrate  his  time  and  efforts  upon  the  further  development 
of  the  Lomax  &  Standly  Bank,  of  which  he  was  the  president  during  the  first  two 
years  of  its  existence,  while  in  189  7  he  became  cashier.  Later  he  assumed  the 
vice  presidency  as  well  and  so  continued  until  the  death  of  Dr.  Z.  T.  Standly  on 
the  14th  of  December,  1914,  when  he  succeeded  to  the  presidency.  This  bank 
is  capitalized  for  fifteen  thousand  dollars  and  the  other  officers  are:  E.  B.  Standly, 
vice  president,  and  H.  W.  Lomax,  cashier.  In  addition  to  these  on  the  board  of 
directors  are  K.  V.  Brownlee,  Walter  Brownlee,  Ella  B.  Standly  and  E.  M.  Lomax. 
His  characteristic  spirit  of  progressiveness  is  tempered  by  a  safe  conservatism  that 
prevents  all  unwarranted  risk  in  the  banking  business  and  he  enjoys  to  the  full 
the  confidence  of  the  public,  which  accords  to  the  institution  a  large  patronage. 

On  the  26th  of  September,  1866,  Mr.  Lomax  was  married  to  Miss  Matilda  A. 
Turner  and  they  became  the  parents  of  six  children,  of  whom  four  survive:  E.  M., 
who  is  president  of  the  Linn  County  Bank  in  Brookfleld;  J.  C,  conducting  an 
abstract  and  loan  business  at  Princeton;  John  T.,  president  of  the  Farmers'  State 
Guarantee  Bank  of  San  Benito,  Texas;  and  H.  W.,  who  is  cashier  of  the  bank  at 
Laclede.  The  wife  and  mother  passed  away  July  22,  1894,  and  on  the  18th  of 
March,  189  6,  Mr.  Lomax  was  married  to  Mrs.  Betty  L.  (Watson)  Heryford,  widow 
of  Walter  Heryford  of  Hale,   Missouri. 

Mr.  Lomax  has  for  many  decades  been  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church 
and  has  been  keenly  interested  in  all  that  pertains  to  the  material,  intellectual, 
social,  political  and  moral  welfare  of  his  city.  He  stands  for  all  that  tends  to 
advance  its  progress,  to  upbuild  its  business  connections  or  uphold  its  civic  stand- 
ards and  he  is  recognized  as  a  splendid  representative  of  American  manhood  and 
chivalry. 


JAMES  J.  Mclaughlin. 


James  J.  McLaughlin,  of  St.  Louis,  has  continuously  been  in  government  serv- 
ice since  1911  and  since  1913  has  been  connected  with  the  Customs  House,  having 
charge  at  the  present  time  of  the  bureau  of  investigation  of  the  department  of 
justice.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  October  19,  1889,  and  is  a  son  of  Thomas  J. 
and  Julia  (Naughton)  McLaughlin.  The  father,  now  deceased,  was  of  Irish  descent. 
He  engaged  successfully  in  the  retail  grocery  business  in  St.  Louis  for  many  years 
under  the  name  of  Thomas  J.  McLaughlin.  He  wedded  Julia  Naughton,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Michael  and  Julia  Naughton,  the  former  a  contractor.  The  marriage  was 
celebrated  in  St.  Louis  in  June,  1887,  and  to  them  were  born  two  sons  and  four 
daughters:  James  J.;  Julia;  Mamie  Veronica,  who  became  the  wife  of  Benjamin 
P.  Overhoof,  who  is  secretary  of  the  Domestic  Electric  Company  of  St.  Louis, 
Missouri;  Corinne,  the  wife  of  Arthur  F.  Krieghauser,  who  is  clerk  for  Swift  & 
Company  in  St.  Louis;  Emmet  T.,  who  has  recently  been  discharged  from  the  army; 
and  Adele. 

James  J.  McLaughlin  was  educated  in  the  St.  Louis  public  schools,  passing 
through  the  grammar  grades  and  afterward  pursuing  a  preparatory  course  and  also 
a  law  course  in  the  St.  Louis  University.  He  was  graduated  in  1914  with  the 
degree  of  LL.  B.  Previous  to  this  time,  however,  he  had  entered  the  government 
service,  having  been  appointed  in  1911  to  the  position  of  deputy  in  the  office  of 
the  United  States  marshal.  After  two  years  spent  in  that  connection  he  entered 
the  Customs  House  as  special  agent  for  the  bureau  of  Investigation  in  the  depart- 
ment of  justice,  and  since  July,  1919,  has  had  charge  of  the  department.  During 
the  period  of  the  World  war  he  did  much  work  for  the  government  in  enforcing 
the  conscription  act  and  the  espionage  act,  also  in  locating  fugitives  from  military 
law.  He  likewise  did  investigating  for  the  war  risk  department  and  other  mis- 
cellaneous activities  which  were  a  feature  in  upholding  the  high  purposes  of  the 
government  in  relation  to  the  war. 

On  the  27th  of  August.  1913,  Mr.  McLaughlin  was  married  in  St.  Louis,  Mis- 
souri, to  Miss  Angeline  Monti,  a  daughter  of  Martin  and  Ernestine  Monti.  The 
former  passed  away  June  10,  1920.  He  was  a  large  property  owner,  his  holdings 
including   apartment   houses   and   business   establishments,    from    which   he    derived 


270  CENTENxNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

a  very  substantial  annual  income.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McLaughlin  have  been  born 
two  children.  Jane,  four  years  of  age;  and  James  J.  The  parents  are  members 
of  St.  Rose's  Catholic  church  and  Mr.  McLaughlin  also  belongs  to  the  Knights  of 
Columbus.  He  is  proving  a  most  capable  official  in  the  position  which  he  occupies 
and  has  done  much  work  in  connection  with  the  enforcement  of  the  prohibition 
law.  He  has  also  displayed  much  activity  in  the  recent  round-up  of  radicals 
and  is  ever  most  faithful  to  the  duties  which  devolve  upon  him  and  which  he 
discharges  without   tear  or  favor. 


CHARLES  PARSONS  SEXTER. 

Charles  Parsons  Senter,  president  of  the  Senter  Commission  Company  of  St.  Louis, 
was  born  at  the  home  of  his  grandmother,  in  Trenton,  Tennessee,  February  14,  1870. 
although  his  parents  had  been  residents  of  St.  Louis  from  1864.  His  father,  William 
Marshall  Senter,  a  native  of  Henderson  county,  Tennessee,  was  born  April  11,  1831, 
his  parents  being  Alvin  Blalock  and  Janet  (McNeil)  Senter,  who  were  natives  of  Cum- 
berland county.  North  Carolina.  In  1857  William  M.  Senter  wedded  Lucy  Jane  Wilkins, 
a  daughter  of  Little  John  and  Lucy  Jane  (Tanner)  Wilkins,  who  were  natives  of  Vir- 
ginia, while  their  daughter,  Mrs.  Senter,  was  born  in  Gibson  county,  Tennessee,  on  the 
14th  day  of  February,  1832.  In  the  year  1865,  William  M.  Senter  and  his  brother-in- 
law,  William  Thomas  Wilkins,  foreseeing  that  St.  Louis  was  to  l>e  the  gateway  of  the 
great  southwest,  came  to  St.  Louis  and  established  the  firm  of  Senter  &  Company,  engag- 
ing in  the  cotton,  grain,  fur,  wool,  etc.  commission  business,  vi'hich  they  conducted  until 
their  deaths,  which  occurred  respectively  on  the  29th  of  January,  1901,  and  February  3, 
1902.  Mr.  Senter  became  a  leading  figure  in  commercial  and  financial  circles  in  St.  Louis. 
In  1876,  when  the  St.  Louis  Merchants  Exchange  built  and  moved  into  its  then  new 
building,  on  Third  Street  from  Pine  to  Olive,  he  was  its  vice  president.  He  was  especially 
active  in  the  building  up  of  St.  Louis  as  a  cotton  market,  and  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  St.  Louis  Cotton  Exchange,  and  its  original  vice  president ;  the  next  year  he  suc- 
ceeded to  the  presidency,  and  was  re-elected  for  ten  years,  although  not  consecutively. 

One  of  the  main  causes  for  the  advancement  of  St.  Louis  as  a  cotton  market  was 
the  establishment  of  the  St.  Louis  Cotton  Compress  Company,  with  its  modern  ware- 
houses and  high  density  presses,  in  which  St.  Louis  was  the  pioneer.  Mr.  Senter  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  this  company,  and  its  original  vice  president,  and  later  served 
as  its  president  for  a  number  of  years.  One  of  the  bulwarks  of  St.  Louis  control  of  the 
trade  of  the  south  and  southwest  is  its  railways,  and  Mr.  Senter  was  one  of  the  group 
of  loyal  St.  Louisans  who,  when  it  looked  like  the  Iron  Mountain  Railroad  would  be 
lost,  responded  to  the  appeal  of  Thomas  Allen,  its  president,  and  subscribed  the  money 
necessary  to  save  it.  At  that  time  Mr.  Senter  was  elected  one  of  the  directors  of  the 
company,  and  continued  as  such  until  Jay  Gould,  recognizing  the  value  of  the  rail- 
road purchased  it.  Shortly  after  this,  a  group  of  St.  Louisans  projected  and  built 
the  Cotton  Belt  Railroad,  Mr.  Senter  being  one  of  the  most  active,  and  its  original  vice 
president.  He  was  also  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Union  Trust  Company,  of  which 
he  was  a  director  until  the  time  of  his  death.  However,  his  chief  efforts  were  in 
developing  the  extensive  commission  business,  which,  upon  his  death,  was  incorporated 
under  the  name  of  the  Senter  Commission  Company. 

Charles  P.  Senter  received  his  primary  education  at  the  Stoddard  school,  one  of 
the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis,  and  then  attended  Smith  Academy,  the  preparatory 
department  of  Washington  University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  the  class  of 
1888.  He  pursued  his  studies  at  the  University  of  Virginia  for  two  years.  Upon  his 
return  to  St.  Louis,  his  interest  in  Smith  Academy  continued,  and  at  the  organization 
of  the  Alumni  Association  he  was  elected  its  secretary  and  treasurer,  and  has  remained 
such  to  the  present  time.  His  interest  in  the  athletics  of  the  school,  as  well  as  of  the 
Inter-Scholastic  League,  caused  him  to  be  appointed  chairman  of  the  Olympic  Inter- 
Scholastic  Committee,  as  well  as  chairman  of  the  Olympic  Marathon  Committee  at  the 
Olympic  Games  which  were  held  in  connection  with  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition 
in  1904;  and  he  was  grand  marshal  of  the  Olympic  games. 

After  a  business  training  in  one  of  the  banks  and  in  the  real  estate  business,  in  1890 
Mr.  Senter  connected  himself  with  his  father's  business,  and  after  the  death  of  his 
father  and  uncle,  this  business  was  incorporated  as  the  Senter  Commission  Company, 
and  since  1903  he  has  been  its  president.     Like  his  father  he  has  been  honored  by  his 


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associates  in  the  cotton  business,  and  has  served  four  terms  as  president  of  the  St. 
Louis  Cotton  Exchange.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Merchants  Exchange,  and  of  the 
St.  Louis  Raw  Fur  and  Wool  Association,  as  well  as  of  the  St.  Louis  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. He  is  president  of  the  Allen  Store  Company  of  Maiden,  Missouri,  and  a  director 
of  the  St.  Louis  Cotton  Compress  Company. 

Mr.  Senter  has  long  been  an  active  member  of  the  Third  Baptist  Church,  of  St. 
Louis,  of  which  .he  is  one  of  the  trustees,  and  has  been  honored  by  being  called  upon 
to  serve  as  president,  both  of  the  St.  Louis  Baptist  Mission  Board  and  of  the  State 
Mission  Board.  He  is  vice  president  of  the  Missouri  Baptist  Sanitarium,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  executive  committee  of  the  hospital  Saturday  and  Sunday  Association.  He 
is  a  democrat  in  politics,  and  has  been  active  in  the  party's  councils  although  never  a 
candidate  for  office. 

Although  he  is  a  bachelor  he  maintains  a  home  for  himself,  at  No.  1  Beverly  Place, 
where  he  has  surrounded  himself  with  the  articles  of  culture  and  refinement.  •  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Noonday,  St.  Louis,  Racquet,  Franklin  Club,  and  Sunset  Hill  Country 
Club.  The  Missouri  Historical  Society  all  of  St.  Louis  and  the  Grolier  Club  of  New 
York.  In  1908  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  St.  Louis 
Centennial.  Mr.  Senter  was  active  in  all  the  work  connected  with  the  World  war,  the 
great  mass  meeting  at  the  Coliseum  as  well  as  the  breakfast  at  the  Missouri  Athletic 
Association  tendered  to  the  French  Commission  upon  their  visit  to  St.  Louis,  having 
been  under  his  supervision. 


JOHN  WOODHEAD. 


John  Woodhead;  a  prominent  figure  in  insurance  circles  in  Kansas  City,  ex- 
celling on  system  and  method,  was  born  in  Yorkshire,  England,  May  24,  1852. 
His  father,  William  Woodhead,  -was  a  native  of  England  and  spent  his  last  days  in 
Houston,  Texas.  He  served  twenty-five  years  as  street  commissioner  of  the  town 
of  Bui-y,  near  Manchester,  England.  His  religious  belief  was  that  of  the  Baptist 
church  and  his  faith  guided  him  in  all  the  relations  of  life.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Sykes,  who  has  passed  away. 

John  Woodhead,  the  eldest  of  their  family  of  ten  children,  pursued  his  studies 
in  the  schools  of  England  and  in  a  night  school  of  that  country.  Coming  to  the 
new  world  when  a  young  man  of  about  twenty-seven  years,  he  arrived  at  Galves- 
ton, Texas,  on  the  10th  of  September,  1879,  and  afterward  went  to  Houston.  In 
1882  he  was  manager  of  a  quarry  in  Polk  county,  and  got  out  the  first  rock  that 
was  put  in  the  jetty  at  Galveston.  While  a  resident  of  Houston  he  was  one  of 
the  leading  and  influential  members  of  the  First  Baptist  church  of  that  city,  served 
as  deacon  and  was  chairman  of  its  finance  committee.  He  thus  contributed  to 
the  moral  progress  as  well  as  to  the  business  development  of  the  locality. 

The  10th  of  March,  1912,  witnessed  the  arrival  of  Mr.  Woodhead  in  Kansas 
City,  where  he  has  since  made  his  home.  He  has  figured  prominently  in  insurance 
circles  and  is  the  secretary  of  the  Employers'  Indemnity  Corporation,  which  is  the 
largest  casualty  company  in  the  west  or  south  and  specializes  in  reinsurance  of 
casualty  lines  from  other  casualty  companies.  In  this  connection  he  has  con- 
tributed to  the  upbuilding  of  a  most  extensive  business — one  that  figures  promi- 
nently in  insurance  circles  throughout  the  west. 

On  the  7th  of  July,  1872,  Mr.  Woodhead  was  married  to  Miss  Alice  Lomax, 
who  was  born  in  Lancashire,  England,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  ten 
children,  of  whom  five  are  living.  Ben  Sykes  Woodhead  is  the  president  of  the 
Beaumont  Lumber  Company  and  for  two  years  was  president  of  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  of  Beaumont,  Texas.  He  married  Leona  Tryon,  of  the  family  of  Com- 
modore Tryon,  whose  grandfather  was  the  first  Baptist  minister  of  Texas.  To  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Ben  S.  Woodhead  have  been  born  three  children:  Ben  Sykes,  John  Tryon 
and  Alice.  Harold  Woodhead,  the  second  of  the  family,  is  the  vice  president  of 
the  Employers'  Indemnity  Corporation.  He  married  Lilla  Winnie,  of  Houston, 
Texas,  and  they  have  three  children:  Marjorie,  Harold  and  Frank.  Emily  is  the 
wife  of  Edward  G.  Trimble,  president  of  the  Employers'  Indemnity  Corporation 
and  mentioned  elsewhere  in  this  work.  Elizabeth  is  the  wife  of  Dr.  J.  L.  Lowe, 
of  Kansas  City.  Alice  Lomax  is  acting  as  general  ofiice  manager  for  the  Employ- 
ers' Indemnity  Corporation. 

Mr.  Woodhead  is  well  known  in   the  leading  club  circles   of  Kansas   City,   be- 


274  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

longing  to  the  Mid-Day  Club,  the  Meadow  Lake  Country  Club,  City  Club  and  others. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  lodge  at  Houston,  Texas.  He  served 
as  chairman  of  the  smoke  commission  under  the  Edwards  administration  in  Kansas 
City.  Of  the  Baptist  church  he  is  a  devoted  member  and  is  most  active  and  earnest 
in  religious  work,  being  identified  with  the  First  Baptist  church  of  Kansas  City, 
which  has  a  membership  of  twenty-five  hundred.  He  has  been  a  close  student  of 
the  Bible  and  of  sacred  literature  and  he  puts  forth  every  possible  effort  to  promote 
the  growth  of  the  church  and  extend  its  influence. 

As  one  delves  into  the  history  of  the  Woodhead  family,  it  is  learned  that  his 
ancestors  in  remote  generations,  prior  to  the  time  of  Cromwell,  were  shepherds  in 
England  and  grazed  their  sheep  in  a  country  that  became  very  heavily  wooded 
They  were  in  the  habit  of  taking  their  flocks  up  to  the  head  of  these  woods  and 
hence  the  family  name — Woodhead — was  derived.  Through  several  generations 
the  faniHy  remained  in  England  and  at  length  John  Woodhead  of  this  review 
determined  to  try  his  fortune  in  the  new  world  and  test  the  reports  which  he  had 
heard  concerning  the  opportunities  here  accorded.  That  he  made  no  mistake  in 
so  doing  is  indicated  in  the  success  and  position  he  has  won.  He  has  never  become 
a  capitalist  but  has  gained  a  position  among  the  men  of  affluence  in  his  community, 
his  interests  being  rather  in  the  rearing  of  his  children  than  the  attainment  of 
wealth.  He  is  a  man  of  strong  convictions,  outspoken  in  his  views,  fearless,  and 
yet  just  to  all  and  without  prejudice.  He  has  been  characterized  as  "one  of  the 
warmest-hearted  men,  genial,  unselfish  and  considerate  to  a  fault."  These  qualities 
have  made  for  many  and  strong  friendships  and  wherever  he  is  known  he  is  held 
in   the  highest   esteem. 


ROZIER  G.  MEIGS. 


Rozier  G.  Meigs,  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Ashtabula,  Ohio,  October  .5,  1869, 
and  is  a  direct  descendant  of  Vincent  Meigs,  who  came  to  America  from  Wey- 
mouth, England,  in  1634,  accompanied  by  his  sons,  Vincent,  John  and  Mark. 
Rozier  G.  Meigs  is  a  representative  of  this  family  in  the  ninth  generation  from 
the  American  ancestor,  and  in  connection  with  the  ancestral  history  appear  the 
names  of  some  very  notable  characters  who  were  active  in  shaping  the  early 
history  and  development  of  the  new  world.  John  Meigs  assisted  in  the  escape  of 
the  regicides.  Judges  Whalley  and  Goffe,  when  early  in  May,  1661,  they  fled  from 
arrest  by  the  commissioners  under  order  of  King  Charles  II  of  England  and  bore 
letters  to  Governor  Endicott  at  New  Haven,  Connecticut.  This  John  Meigs  was 
of  the  second  generation  in  America.  Colonel  Return  Jonathan  Meigs,  of  the 
sixth  generation,  living  at  Middletown.  Connecticut,  went  with  Arnold  on  the  ill- 
fated  expedition  to  Quebec  and  was  captured  in  the  assault  on  that  city  but  was 
soon  afterward  exchanged,  returning  to  Connecticut.  He  took  part  in  the  capture 
of  Stony  Point  and  later  was  with  a  successful  expedition  to  Sag  Harbor,  where 
the  troops  captured  British  boats  with  supplies.  Becau.se  of  his  leadership  in  this 
brilliant  exploit  Colonel  Meigs  was  presented  by  congress  with  a  handsome  gold- 
mounted  sword. 

The  Meigs  family  were  all  very  loyal  to  the  cause  of  American  independence 
and  played  an  important  part  in  winning  freedom  from  British  tyranny.  Henry 
Meigs,  of  the  eighth  generation,  a  son  of  Judge  Henry  Meigs  of  New  York,  was 
the  president  of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange  in  1877  and  1878.  Major  General 
Montgomery  Cunningham  Meigs,  also  a  representative  of  the  family  in  the  eighth 
generation,  was  a  distinguished  engineer  and  scientist  who  became  a  quartermaster 
general  of  the  United  States  army,  being  called  to  that  oflice  by  President  Lincoln 
in  1861.  The  "Cabin  John"  bridge  near  Washington,  D.  C,  one  of  the  notable 
bridge  structures  in  the  vicinity  of  the  national  capital,  was  erected  by  General 
Meigs  when  he  was  captain  and  chief  of  engineers  of  the  United  States  army. 
This  is  the  largest  single  span  of  masonry  in  the  world,  the  length  of  the  span 
being  two  hundred  and  twenty  feet,  while  the  length  of  the  entire  bridge  is  four 
hundred  and   fifty  feet  and  the  height  one  hundred  and  five  feet. 

Captain  Charles  R.  Meigs,  the  father  of  Rozier  G.  Meigs  and  a  representative 
of  the  family  in  the  ninth  generation,  was  for  some  time  a  resident  of  Ottawa, 
Kansas.  He  read  law  with  Senator  Benjamin  F.  Wade  and  Hon.  Joshua  R.  Giddings 
at   Jefferson,   Ohio,   and   was  there  admitted   to  the  bar  an   the   21st  of   April.    1854. 


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He  afterward  went  to  Oregon  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  that  state  in  1855. 
He  was  commissioned  a  captain  of  the  Oregon  militia  on  the  23d  of  July,  1863,  and 
served  on  the  staff  of  Brigadier  General  O.  Humason.  He  was  mayor  of  The 
Dalles,  an  important  city  on  the  Columbia  river  in  Oregon.  He  also  served  as  a 
member  of  the  constitutional  convention  when  Oregon  was  admitted  to  the  Union. 
His  military  service  led  to  participation  in  many  battles  with  the  Indians  in  Oregon 
and  Washington  Territory  while  he  was  a  member  of  the  army  and  in  various 
ways  he  contributed  to  the  upbuilding  and  progress  of  the  northwest.  Later  he 
returned  to  Ohio,  where  he  lived  for  a  time  and  then  in  1870  removed  to  Ottawa, 
Kansas,  where  he  was  elected  city  attorney  for  three  terms,  while  in  1881  he  was 
chosen  for  the  office  of  prosecuting  attorney  of  Franklin  county,  Kansas,  and  was 
filling  that  position  at  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  In  1883.  His  wife, 
who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Frances  A.  Bishop,  passed  away  in  June,  1878. 

Rozier  G.  Meigs  pursued  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Ottawa, 
Kansas,  and  afterward  attended  the  Jefferson  school  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  while 
still  later  he  became  a  student  in  the  law  department  of  Washington  University 
and  was  there  graduated  in  1893.  He  has  been  notably  successful  in  criminal  law 
and  is  one  of  the  able  members  of  the  St.  Louis  bar.  He  has  filled  the  ofiice  of 
assistant  city  attorney  under  Mayor  Walbridge  of  St.  Louis  but  has  never  sought 
ofiice  outside  the  strict  path  of  his  profession. 

In  September,  1896,  in  Kansas  City,  Mr.  Meigs  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Blanch  V.  Ackerman,  whose  father  was  connected  with  the  Globe  Democrat  of 
St.  Louis  many  years  ago  and  is  now  editor  and  owner  of  the  Columbia  River  Sun, 
published  at  Morro,   Oregon. 

The  military  service  of  Rozier  G.  Meigs  covered  six  years'  connection  with  the 
Rainwater  Rifles,  known  as  Company  E  of  the  First  Regiment.  His  political  en- 
dorsement is  always  given  to  the  republican  party.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Junior 
Order  of  United  American  Mechanics  and  is  a  prominent  representative  of  the 
Humane  Society  of  St.  Louis,  of  which  he  was  president  for  three  years  and  of  which 
he  is  now  attorney.  In  this  connection  notable  work  has  been  done  and  in  this 
and  in  professional  ways  he  is  making  his  life  of  great  service  and  benefit  to  his 
fellowmen.  In  all  of  the  ten  generations  of  the  Meigs  family  that  have  been  rep- 
resented in  America  there  have  been  men  of  marked  distinction,  many  of  whom 
have  won  national  reputation.  Few  families  in  this  country  can  boast  of  such  an 
assemblage  of  men  in  all  walks  of  public  life  and  national  affairs.  There  have 
been  those  who  have  made  records  as  educators,  lawyers,  ministers  and  in  con- 
nection with  military  life  and  commercial  activity.  Rozier  G.  Meigs  displays  many 
of  the  sterling  traits  which  have  ever  characterized  the  family  and  St.  Louis  counts 
him  one  of  her  valued  citizens. 


MARVIN  L.  OREAR. 


Marvin  L.  Orear,  vice  president  of  the  Metropolitan  Bank  of  Kansas  City  and 
for  a  number  of  years  a  prominent  and  forceful  factor  in  banking  circles,  was 
born  in  Orearville,  Saline  county,  September  18,  1881,  and  is  a  son  of  Peter  Everett 
and  Laura  (Pemberton)  Orear,  the  former  a  native  of  Mount  Sterling,  Kentucky, 
while  the  latter  was  born  in  Missouri.  The  father  came  to  this  state  in  1860  and 
settled  in  Saline  county,  where  he  took  up  the  occupation  of  farming  but  after- 
ward established  a  store  in  Orearville.  Subsequently  he  removed  to  Slater,  Mis- 
souri, where  he  continued  to  devote  his  time  to  mercantile  pursuits,  being  active 
in  that  line  for  more  than  thirty  years.  During  the  Civil  war  he  served  with  the 
Confederate  army,  was  captured  and  for  a  long  period  held  as  a  prisoner  of  war 
in  St.  Louis. 

Marvin  L.  Orear  attended  the  public  schools  of  Slater,  Missouri,  and  afterward 
the  State  University  at  Columbia.  After  coming  to  Kansas  City  he  pursued  a 
three  years'  course  in  the  night  school  of  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law  and  was 
graduated  in  1907  with  the  LL.  B.  degree,  his  knowledge  of  the  principles  of  Juris- 
prudence proving  of  great  benefit  to  him  in  his  active  biisiness  career.  After  leav- 
ing the  State  University  he  took  up  work  for  the  Central  Female  College  at 
Lexington,  Missouri,  and  traveled  for  that  institution  for  a  few  months.  He 
-then    went    to    St.    Louis,    Missouri,    where    he    was    identified    with    the    Interna- 


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tional  Correspondence  Schools  and  then  came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he 
entered  the  employ  of  John  C.  Humes  &  Company,  crockery  dealers,  with  whom 
he  continued  for  a  brief  period.  He  afterward  accepted  a  position  with  Fairbanks, 
Morse  &  Company,  which  firm  he  represented  for  thirteen  years  as  credit  man,' 
his  capability  and  fidelity  being  indicated  by  his  long  continuance  in  their  service. 
He  left  that  company  In  1915,  at  which  time  he  assumed  the  secretaryship  of  the 
Kansas  City  Credit  Men's  Association,  which  was  made  up  of  the  leading  whole- 
sale and  jobbing  houses  and  banks  of  Kansas  City.  When  he  took  charge  this 
association  had  a  membership  of  about  one  hundred  and  fifty.  During  the  two 
and  one-half  years  of  his  connection  the  membership  was  increased  to  nearly  six 
hundred.  He  also  was  manager  of  the  adjustment  bureau  of  the  association,  a 
department  which  handled  involved  and  insolvent  estates  for  its  members.  In 
1917  Mr.  Orear  became  the  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Peoples  Trust  Company, 
a  newly  organized  banking  institution  of  Kansas  City,  with  which  he  was  identi- 
fied until  early  in  1919,  when  he  established  the  Metropolitan  Bank  with  a  capital 
and  surplus  of  two  hundred  and  eight-seven  thousand,  five  hundred  dollars,  and 
became  the  vice  president,  which  position  he  still  fills.  His  broad  business  and 
banking  experience  well  qualify  him  for  the  onerous  duties  which  he  has  assumed. 

On  the  5th  of  October,  1908,  Mr.  Orear  was  married  in  Kansas  City  to  Miss 
Myrtle  Jeanette  Peabody,  a  daughter  of  Charles  A.  and  Caroline  Peabody,  Natives  of 
New  Hampshire.  Her  father  was  for  some  time  affiliated  with  the  Santa  Fe  Rail- 
road with  offices  at  Topeka,  Kansas,  and  for  many  years  was  assistant  treasurer  of 
the  Kansas  City  Southern  Railway.  He  was  also  for  a  number  of  years  engaged  in 
newspaper  business  at  Jefferson  City,  Missouri.  The  mother's  maiden  name  was 
Hutchinson,  and  she  was  a  representative  of  one  of  the  old  New  England  families 
of  Milford,  New  Hampshire,  a  family  that  became  very  prominent  throughout  that 
section  of  the  country  during  the  Civil  war  through  the  entertainments  and  con- 
certs they  gave.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Orear  have  a  son,  Charles  Marvin,  whose  birth  oc- 
curred January  18,  1913.     He  is  now  in  school. 

Mr.  Orear  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Methodist  church.  North,  and  Mr. 
Orear  gives  his  political  allegiance  to  the  democratic  party,  yet  maintains  a  some- 
what independent  course  in  politics.  He  takes  great  delight  in  a  game  of  golf 
and  belongs  to  the  Mission  Hill  Golf  Club.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Knife  & 
Fork  Club,  the  Midday  Club  and  the  Phi  Alpha  Delta  law  fraternity.  He  is  con- 
nected with  the  Kansas  City  Credit  Men's  Association  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  interested  in  all  the  projects  and  plans  of  that  organization 
for  the  benefit  and  upbuilding  of  the  city.  His  entire  career  has  been  actuated  by 
a  most  progressive  spirit  and  his  determination  and  energy  enable  him  to  carry 
forward  to  successful  completion  whatever  he  undertakes. 


JOHN  W.  FRISTOE. 


John  W.  Fristoe,  president  of  the  T.  J.  Moss  Tie  Company  and  thus  active  in 
control  of  one  of  the  largest  productive  industries  of  St.  Louis  and  one  of  the 
largest  concerns  of  the  kind  in  the  western  country,  was  born  near  Salisbury,  Mis- 
souri, November  13,  1858,  his  parents  being  Thomas  P.  and  Margaret  (Wallace) 
Fristoe,  both  now  deceased.  Both  were  natives  of  Missouri  and  descended  from 
pioneer  families  of  this  state  of  English,  Scotch  and  Welsh  lineage.  In  the  paternal 
line  they  come  of  Welsh  ancestry,  while  the  mother's  people  were  from  Scotland. 
Thomas  P.  Fristoe  was  a  farmer,  devoting  his  entire  life, to  agricultural  pursuits. 
He  passed  away  in  1875,  at  the  age  of  forty-four  years,  while  his  wife  died  on  the 
15th  of  January,  1919,  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-three  years.  She  was  the 
mother  of  three  sons  and  a  daughter,  all  of  whom  are  living:  Nancy,  now  the 
widow  of  A.  F.  Willis,  of  Washington,  D.  C;  John  W.;  James  R.,  of  St.  Louis;  and 
Thomas  P.,  living  at  Cape  Girardeau,  Missouri. 

John  W.  Fristoe  was  educated  in  private  schools  and  under  private  tutors 
and  Ui.'r  early  life  to  the  age  of  sixteen  years  was  spent  upon  his  father's  farm.  He 
then  left  home  and  started  out  on  his  own  account,  being  first  employed  as  a  clerk 
in  a  country  store.  He  afterward  followed  merchandising  at  Higbee,  Missouri, 
for  a  number  of  years  and  in  1880  he  became  interested  in  the  tie  and  timber 
business  in  connection  with  the  late  T.  J.  Moss.  This  company  is  now  operating 
in   Missouri,   Arkansas,   Kentucky,   Tennessee,   Mississippi   and   Alabama   and   in   its 


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line  has  become  one  of  the  largest  concerns  in  the  western  country.  They  also 
conduct  a  timber  preservation  plant  at  Mount  Vernon,  Illinois,  and  they  employ 
more  than  one  thousand  people  in   factory  and   forest. 

At  St.  Louis,  on  the  20th  of  October.  1897,  Mr.  Fristoe  was  married  to 
Mrs.  Frances  G.  Moss,  the  widow  of  T.  J.  Moss  and  a  daughter  of  Charles  E.  and 
Mary  (Kring)  Givens,  of  Fayette,  Missouri,  both  representatives  of  prominent 
families  there.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fristoe  have  one  child,  Frances,  born  in  St.  Louis. 
January  28,   1904.     The  family  residence  is  at  No.  5257  Washington  avenue. 

In  politics  Mr.  Fristoe  is  a  democrat  where  national  issues  and  questions 
are  Involved  but  locally  maintains  an  independent  course.  He  served  as  police 
commissioner  from  1905  until  1909  under  Governor  Folk.  He  is  a  member  of 
Occidental  Lodge,  No.  163,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  has  taken  the  various  degrees  of 
both  the  York  and  Scottish  Rites  in  Masonry.  He  has  membership  in  the  Noon- 
day, St.  Louis  and  Ridgedale  Country  Clubs  and  he  is  a  valued  member  of  St.  John's 
Methodist  Episcopal  church.  South,  having  for  ten  years  served  as  chairman  of  its 
official  board.  He  is  likewise  an  ex-president  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation, his  term  having  expired  in  February,  1919.  He  did  most  splendid  work 
in  this  connection  during  the  period  of  the  war  and  he  has  been  largely  instru- 
mental in  promoting  the  construction  of  two  new  and  thoroughly  modern  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  buildings  which  are  now  nearing  completion,  displaying  splendid  executive 
and  administrative  ability  in  the  promotion  of  that  work.  He  belongs  to  that 
class  of  splendid  American  business  men  who  are  not  only  capable  of  controlling 
mammoth  interests  but  also  find  time  to  cooperate  in  those  interests  which  are 
looking  to  the  upbuilding  and  welfare  of  the  country  and  the  advancement  of 
individual  standards  and  ideals. 


JOHN   BURTON   KENNARD. 

John  Burton  Kennard  is  the  president  of  the  J.  Kennard  &  Sons  Carpet  Com- 
pany, importers  and  jobbers  of  carpets,  rugs,  curtains  and  lace  draperies,  in  which 
connection  a  business  of  most  substantial  proportions  has  been  developed.  His 
identification  with  this  house  dates  from  his  boyhood  days,  at  which  time  he  entered 
into  active  connection  with  the  business  that  had  been  established  by  his  grand- 
father in  1857.  Throughout  the  intervening  period  the  name  has  been  well  known 
in  St.  Louis  and  has  stood  as  a  synonym  for  all  that  is  most  progressive  and  reliable 
in  commercial  circles. 

John  Burton  Kennard  is  a  native  son  of  the  city  in  which  he  now  resides,  his 
birth  having  here  occurred  April  5,  1868,  his  parents  being  Samuel  M.  and  Annie 
R.  (Maude)  Kennard.  At  the  usual  age  he  began  his  education,  becoming  a  pupil 
in  the  Stoddard  school  of  St.  Louis,  while  later  he  entered  Smith  Academy,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  June,  1886.  Previous  to  1857  John  Kennard,  his  grand- 
father, had  been  a  merchant  in  the  same  line  of  business  in  Lexington,  Kentucky. 
Removing  to  St.  Louis,  he  opened  a  store  for  the  sale  of  carpets,  rugs  and  kindred 
lines  and  as  the  business  was  developed  the  firm  name  of  J.  Kennard  &  Sons 
Company  was  assumed.  John  B.  Kennard  applied  himself  to  the  mastery  of  the 
business,  acquainting  himself  with  every  phase  of  the  trade,  and  his  developing 
powers  won  him  promotion  from  time  to  time  through  intermediate  positions  until 
he  reached  the  presidency.  The  company  today  handles  an  extensive  line  of  furni- 
ture, carpets,  rugs,  curtains,  lace  draperies  and  oil  cloths,  conducting  both  an  im- 
porting and  jobbing  trade,  their  annual  sales  reaching  a  most  gratifying  figure. 
While  throughout  his  business  career  Mr,  Kennard  has  remained  in  active  connec- 
tion with  the  concern,  he  has  also  extended  his  efforts  to  other  fields  and  is  now 
the  president  of  the  Drannek  Realty  Company,  a  trustee  of  the  Samuel  Kennard 
estate  and  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank  and  of  the  St.  Louis  Union  Trust 
Company. 

On  the  9th  of  December,  1896.  Mr.  Kennard  was  married  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
to  Miss  Elizabeth  Boyd  and  their  children  are  Elizabeth  Shapleigh,  John  Burton, 
Jr.,  and  Mary  Lees.  The  family  attend  the  Central  Presbyterian  church.  In  ooli- 
tics  Mr.  Kennard  maintains  an  independent  course,  while  in  club  circles  he  is  promi- 
nently known,  being  identified  with  those  social  organizations  which  are  regarded 
as  most  worth  while,  including  the  St.  Louis,  City  and  Noonday  Clubs,  the  Missouri 
Athletic   Association,   the   Bellerive  Country  Club   and   the  Mercantile   Library  Asso- 


280  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

ciation,  of  which  he  is  serving  as  one  of  the  directors.  He  is  regarded  as  a  forceful 
and  resourceful  man,  an  excellent  organizer,  and  from  the  beginning  of  his  com- 
mercial career  he  has  been  very  successful  in  conducting  one  of  the  largest  and 
oldest  mercantile  establishments  of  its  kind  in  the  vi'est. 


JUDGE  FRANK  G.  RICHARDS. 

Judge  Frank  G.  Richards,  of  Hannibal,  who  is  now  filling  the  office  of  county 
collector,  was  born  in  1867  in  the  city  where  he  still  resides,  his  parents  being 
Joshua  P.  and  Lavina  (Gore)  Richards.  In  the  pursuit  of  his  education  he  entered 
the  Hannibal  high  school  and  afterwards  attended  college  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  he  was  graduated  in  1894.  Upon  returning  to  Hannibal  he  became 
connected  with  the  drug  business  and  followed  that  pursuit  for  twenty-one  years, 
on  the  expiration  of  which  period  he  sold  his  store  which  had  throughout  the  entire 
time  been  accorded  a  liberal  patronage  and  was  one  of  the  popular  mercantile 
places  of  the  city.  Upon  retiring  from  commercial  pursuits  he  was  elected  judge 
of  the  county  court  of  the  eastern  district  of  Marion  county  and  served  for  one  term 
of  two  years.  He  was  then  elected  county  collector,  which  position  he  still  fills, 
and  in  this  as  in  other  places  of  public  trust  he  Is  making  an  excellent  record. 

In  1907  Judge  Richards  was  married  to  Miss  Agnes  V.  Price,  daughter  of  John 
B.  Price,  of  Hannibal.  They  have  two  sons,  Frank  G.  and  John  P.,  both  now  in 
school.  Judge  Richards  has  always  been  a  supporter  of  the  democratic  party  and 
has  ever  kept  well  informed  on  the  vital  questions  and  issues  of  the  day.  Frater- 
nally he  is  connected  with  the  Elks.  He  has  a  wide  acquaintance  in  this  section  of 
the  state  and  the  sterling  traits  of  his  character  are  known  to  those  with  whom  he 
has  been  acquainted  from  his  boyhood.  That  his  life  has  been  characterized  by  high 
and  honorable  principles  is  manifest  in  the  fact  that  many  of  his  stanchest  friends 
are  those  who  have  known  him  from  his  youth  to  the  present  time. 


JOHN  ALEXANDER  LOW  WADDELL. 

John  Alexander  Low  Waddell,  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  who  without  in- 
vidious distinction  may  be  termed  one  of  the  foremost  bridge  engineers  of  the 
world,  was  born  at  Port  Hope,  Ontario,  Canada,  January  15,  1854,  his  parents 
being  Robert  Needham  and  Angeline  Esther  (Jones)  Waddell,  the  former  a  native 
of  Ireland,  while  the  latter  was  born  in  New  York  City.  The  father  crossed  the 
Atlantic  to  Canada  in  18  29  and  there  lived  until  1886,  at  which  time  he  went  to 
Denver,  Colorado,  to  reside,  and  there  he  passed  away  in  1889.  He  had  for 
many  years  been  in  mercantile  pursuits  in  Port  Hope,  Ontario,  and  on  receiving 
appointment  in  1864  to  the  lite  office  of  high  sheriff  of  the  United  Counties  of 
Northumberland  and  Durham,  he  removed  from  Port  Hope  to  Cobourg,  Ontario, 
the  duties  of  the  office  requiring  his  residence  at  the  latter  town,  the  county  seat. 
He  was  very  active  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  public  welfare  and  was  held 
in  high  esteem.  The  mother,  who  is  in  her  ninetieth  year,  resides  at  La  JoUa,  a 
suburb  of  San  Diego,  California. 

John  Alexander  Low  Waddell  pursued  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools 
of  Port  Hope  and  Cobourg,  later  attending  Trinity  College  School  at  Port  Hope, 
while  subsequently  he  entered  the  Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute  at  Troy,  New 
York,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  Civil  Engineer  in  1875. 
He  received  early  in  1882  from  McGill  University  at  Montreal,  Canada,  the 
ad  eundem  gradum  degree  of  B.  A.  S.,  and  a  tew  months  later  took  by  an  examina- 
tion lasting  two  full  days  the  degree  of  M.  E.,  and  finally  in  1904  the  degree  of 
D.  S.  in  course.  He  was  accorded  the  honorary  LL.  D.  degree  by  the  Missouri  State 
University  in  1904,  received  the  honorary  degree  of  D.  E.  from  the  University  of 
Nebraska  in  19L1  and  the  honorary  degree  of  Kogakuhakushi  from  the  Imperial 
University  of  Japan  in  1915 — the  highest  academic  or  scholastic  honor  in  that 
country. 

His  professional  career  has  been  one  of  steady  progress.  In  1875  he  became 
a  draftsman  of  the  Marine  Department  at  Ottawa,  Canada,  and  in  1876  and  1877 
served  as  engineer  in  connection  with  the  field  work  of  the  Canadian  Pacific 
Railroad,  after  which  he  was  engineer  of  a  small  coal  mine  at  Coalburg,  West 
Viriginia.     He  was  then  made  assistant  professor  of  rational  and  technical  mechanics 


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at  the  Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute,  so  continuing  from  1878  until  1880. 
Through  the  two  succeeding  years  was  chief  engineer  with  Raymond  &  Campbell, 
bridge  builders  at  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  and  in  1882  he  accepted  the  professor- 
ship of  civil  engineering  in  the  Imperial  University  of  Japan,  with  which  he  was 
connected   until    1886. 

From  1887  until  1899  he  practiced  his  profession  independently  as  consulting 
engineer  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  and  in  the  latter  year  became  senior  partner 
in  the  firm  of  Waddell  &  Hedrick,  which  maintained  its  existence  until  1906.  He 
was  then  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Waddell  &  Harrington  until  1915.  and  since  the 
latter  date   has   been   senior  partner  in   the  firm   of  Waddell   &   Son. 

In  January,  1917,  he  opened  an  office  in  New  York  City,  since  then  operating 
from  both  offices;  and  he  has  also  established  branch  oflSces,  headed  by  local  en- 
gineers of  prominence,  in  Chile,  Peru,  Argentina,  Colombia,  Mexico,  China,  India, 
Australia,    Spain   and   France.      He   is   about   to   add   to   this   list   Japan   and   Brazil. 

As  chief  engineer  of  the  Pacific  Short  Line  Bridge  Company,  Dr.  Waddell  de- 
signed and  supervised  the  construction  of  the  combined  railway  and  highway 
bridge  over  the  Missouri  river  at  Sioux  City;  and  when  chief  engineer  of  the 
Omaha  Bridge  &  Terminal  Railway  Company,  he  designed  and  supervised  the 
building  of  a  double-track  railway  and  highway  bridge  across  the  Missouri  river 
at    East    Omaha    in    1893.  ,;  , 

His  work  has  always  been  of  a  most  important  .character.  He  designed  and 
constructed  a  highway  bridge  across  the  Missouri  river  at  Jefferson  City,  Missouri; 
and  he  engineered  the  North-Western  Elevated,  the  Union  Loop  Elevated  and 
other  elevated  railways  in  Chicago.  He  was  also  advisory  engineer  to  the  Elevated 
Railway  Company  of  Boston,  Massachusetts.  ,  He  was  the  engineer  in  charge  of 
the  building  of  the  Y-shaped  railway-and-highway  bridge  over  the  Eraser  river 
at  New  Westminster  for  the  government  of  British  Columbia.  #nd  he  built  more 
than   two  hundred  bridges  on   the  Vera  Cruz  &  Pacific  Railway  of  Mexico. 

His  engineering  work  likewise  includes  the  construction  of  two  lighthouses 
and  standard  plans  for  the  highway  bridges  of  Cuba;  most  of  the  bridges  on  the 
Kansas  City  Southern  Railway  and  the  Tennessee  Central  Railway,  together  with 
a  large  bridge  over  the  Maumee  river  at  Toledo,  Ohio;  the  Halsted  street  lift- 
bridge  at  Chicago;  the  Hawthorne  avenue  lift-bridge  at  Portland,  Oregon;  the  re- 
inforced concrete  bridge  over  the  Colorado  river  at  Austin,  Texas;  the  Red  Rock 
cantilever  bridge  over  the  Colorado  river  for  the  Atlantic  &  Pacific  Railway  Com- 
pany; the  principal  bridges  on  the  Shreveport  &  Red  River  Valley  Railway;  ten 
large  bridges  on  the  International  &  Great  Northern  Railway  in  Texas;  a  large 
and  costly  bridge  with  a  lifting  deck  over  the  Missouri  river  at  Kansas  City;  a 
large  bridge  with  a  lift  span  over  the  Mississippi  river  at  Keithsburg,  Illinois,  for 
the  Iowa  Central  Railway;  two  reinforced  concrete  trestles  having  the  longest  re- 
inforced concrete  girders  then  built,  at  Tacoma,  Washington;  the  Granville  street, 
the  Cambie  street,  and  the  Westminster  avenue  bridges  over  False  creek,  Van- 
couver, British  Columbia:  a  large  viaduct  joining  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  and  Kan- 
sas City,  Kansas,  and  crossing  the  Kaw  river;  a  large  bridge  with  lifting  deck  and 
lifting  span  combined  over  the  Willamette  river  at  Portland,  Oregon,  for  the 
Harriman  System;  and  a  bridge  with  a  lift-span  over  the  Arkansas  river  at  Fort 
Smith,    Arkansas. 

Dr.  Waddell  has  also  designed  and  engineered,  among  numerous  others,  the 
following  important  structures;  the  concrete  Arroyo  Seco  bridge  at  Pasadena,  Cali- 
fornia; the  Twelfth  street  viaduct  at  Kansas  City,  Missouri;  the  lift-span  for  the 
Don  river  bridge  at  Rostoff,  Russia;  a  lift-bridge  over  the  City  Waterway  and  another 
over  the  Puyallup  river  at  Tacoma,  Washington;  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Com- 
pany's lift-bridge  over  the  south  branch  of  the  Chicago  river  and  two  similar  struc- 
tures over  the  Calumet  river.  South  Chicago,  Illinois;  the  Great  Northern  Railroad 
Company's  bridge  over  the  Yellowstone  river  and  a  similar  one  over  the  Missouri 
river  in  Montana;  nineteen  bridges  for  the  Canadian  Northern  Pacific  Railway 
Company  over  the  Fraser,  Thompson,  and  North  Thompson  rivers,  etc.,  in  British 
Columbia;  the  Louisiana  &  Arkansas  Railway  Company's  bridges  over  the  Black 
river  and  the  Little  river  in  Louisiana;  the  Salem,  Falls  City  &  Western  Railway 
bridge  over  the  Willamette  river  at  Salem,  Oregon;  the  Pacific  Highway  bridge 
between  Portland,  Oregon,  and  Vancouver,  Washington;  the  lift-span  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Railroad  Company's  bridge  at  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  the  Swope  Park, 
College    Avenue,    and    Fourth    Street    bridges    in    Kansas    City,    Missouri;    also    the 


284  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Kansas  City  Southern  Railway  Company's  bridge  over  tlie  Kaw  river  at  Ohio 
Avenue,  Kansas  City,  Kansas,  and  the  river  boulevard  viaduct  for  the  Kansas 
City  Southern  Railway  Company  at  Independence,  Missouri. 

Dr.  Waddell  is  also  well  posted  on  railroading;  for,  in  addition  to  his  early 
practice  on  the  Canadian  Pacific,  he  was  for  many  years  chief  engineer  to  the  Omaha 
Bridge  and  Terminal  Railway  Company,  vice  president  and  principal  engineer  to  the 
Trans-Alaska-Siberian  Railway  Company,  chief  engineer  to  the  Alberta  and  Great 
Waterways  Railway  Company,  and  advisory  engineer  tor  several  projected  (but  not 
yet  built)   steam  and  electric  railroads. 

In  1903  Dr.  Waddell  was  retained  by  the  International  Nickel  Company  of  New 
York  City,  which  then  controlled  three-quarters  of  the  world's  total  output  of  nickel, 
to  make  an  extensive  investigation  concerning  the  suitability  of  nickel  steel  for 
bridge  building.  His  experiments  covered  every  conceivable  kind  of  practical  tests 
and  occupied  over  three  years. 

Following  the  investigation  and  the  completion  of  the  reports,  he  wrote  for  the 
American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers  a  long  paper  describing  fully  the  tests  and  draw- 
ing numerous  deductions.  This  paper,  under  the  title  of  "Nickel  Steel  for  Bridges," 
was  published  in  the  society's  transactions  for  1909,  and  won  the  Norman  medal. 
The  result  of  his  investigations  has  been  the  use  of  nickel  steel  for  at  least  three 
long-span  bridges — the  Manhattan  bridge  at  New  York,  the  Municipal  bridge  at  St. 
Louis,  and  the  new  Quebec  bridge.  The  firm  of  Waddell  &  Son  is  also  using  the 
alloy  in  the  moving  spans  of  some  of  their  vertical-lift  bridges. 

The  work  of  Dr.  Waddell  extends  over  the  entire  United  States  and  Canada, 
and  parts  of  Cuba,  Mexico,  Japan,  New  Zealand,  and  Russia. 

When  in  1917  and  1918  the  Public  Belt  Railroad  Commission  of  New  Orleans 
desired  to  select  three  engineers  for  an  "Advisory  Board"  to  study  the  advisability 
and  economics  of  bridging  or  tunneling  the  Mississippi  river  at  or  near  that  city,  it 
invited  a  large  number  of  the  most  prominent  American  engineers  to  address  its 
members  in  conference,  with  the  result  that  after  many  months  of  consideration. 
Dr.  Waddell  was  selected  as  the  bridge  expert  on  the  said  board.  The  joint  report  of 
the  three  experts  was  finished  and  presented  to  the  Commission  early  in  1919;  but 
its  contents  and  findings  have  not  yet  been  made  public. 

Dr.  Waddell  has  also  made  many  valuable  contributions  to  the  literature  of 
the  profession.  His  authorship  includes  The  Designing  of  Ordinary  Iron  Highway 
Bridges,  1884;  a  System  of  Iron  Railroad  Bridges  for  Japan.  1885;  General  Specifi- 
cations for  Highway  Bridges  of  Iron  and  Steel,  Some  Disputed  Points  in  Railway 
Bridge  Designing,  Elevated  Railroads.  The  Possibilities  in  Bridge  Construction  by 
the  use  of  High  Alloy  Steels,  for  which  he  was  awarded  the  Norman  Medal;  Alloy 
Steels  in  Bridgework.  Foundations  for  Important  Buildings  in  the  City  of  Mexico, 
Flow  Line  Bridge  at  Kansas  City.  Vertical-Lift  Bridges,  What  Can  Best  Be  Done  to 
Advance  the  Interests  of  the  Engineering  Profession  in  the  United  States,  Technical 
Book  Writing,  Engineering  Ethics,  numerous  important  papers  on  Technical  Educa- 
tion and  on  the  Study  of  the  Spanish  Language  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  Engineering  Econom- 
ics, The  Economics  of  Steel  Arch  Bridges,  Comparative  Economics  of  Cantilever  and 
Suspension  Bridges,  Economic  Span-Lengths  for  Simple-Truss  Bridges  on  Various 
Types  of  Foundations.  Comparative  Economics  of  Continuous  and  Non-continuous 
Trusses.  Comparative  Economics  of  Wire  Cables  and  High-Alloy-Steel  Eyebar-Cables 
for  Long-span  Suspension  Bridges,  Possibilities  and  Economics  of  tiie  Transbordeur, 
Economics  of  Alloy-Steels  for  Bridgework,  Bridge  versus  Tunnel  for  the  Proposed 
Hudson  River  Crossing  at  New  York  City,  and  numerous  other  important  memoirs; 
De  Pontibus  in  1898;  Engineering  Specifications  and  Contracts  in  1908;  and  Bridge 
Engineering,  2  vols.,  in  1916. 

Ever  since  1916  Dr.  Waddell  has  been  engaged  upon  an  elaborate  series  of  inves- 
tigations on  the  economics  of  bridge  designing  and  construction,  with  the  intention 
of  solving  the  last  hitherto  unsolved  major  economic  problem  in  the  specialty  of 
bridges.     At  the  present  writing  the  last  of  these  investigations  is  drawing  to  a  close. 

For  a  year  or  more  the  Doctor  has  been  putting  into  book  form  the  results 
not  only  of  this  series  of  economic  investigations  but  also  of  all  the  economic  studies 
on  bridges  that  he  has  made  during  the  last  three  decades.  The  name  of  the  treatise, 
which  will  contain  between  500  and  600  printed  pages,  is  to  be  "Economics  of  Bridge- 
work."  The  manuscript  thereof  is  now  nearly  ready  for  the  printer;  and  the  pros- 
pects for  the  early  issue  of  the  book  are  good.  Very  few  engineers  besides  Dr.  Waddell 
have  made  any   investigations   worth   mentioning   on   bridge   economics.      What   has 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  285 

been  written  hitherto  has  generally  been  based  upon  the  manipulation  of  mathematical 
formulae,  which  really  are  not  applicable  to  economic  investigations  for  bridge 
designing.  Dr.  Waddell  has  based  his  studies  upon  detailed  designs  and  estimates 
of  quantities  of  materials. 

Thus  it  is  that  Dr.  Waddell  has  become  one  of  the  most  eminent  bridge  builders 
and  best  known  engineers  of  the  world.  He  was  decorated  by  the  emperor  of  Japan 
in  1S88  as  Knight  Commander  of  the  Order  of  the  Rising  Sun,  and  by  the  Grand 
Duchess  Olga  of  Russia,  a  sister  ot  the  late  Czar,  with  the  First  Class  Order  of  her 
Soci6t6  de  Bientaisance,  for  services  as  Principal  Engineer  of  the  Trans-Alaska- 
Siberian  Railway.  He  is  a  member  of  the  leading  scientific  societies  of  the  United 
States,  Canada,  and  a  number  of  foreign  countries,  including  the  American  Academy 
of  Engineers;  the  American  Institute  of  Consulting  Engineers;  the  American  Society 
of  Civil  Engineers;  the  Institution  of  Civil  Engineers  of  Great  Britain;  La  Soci6t6 
International  d'Etudes  de  Correspondance  et  des  Changes,  Concordia,  Paris;  the 
Geographical  Society  of  France;  and  the  Sigma  Xi.  He  is  honorary  member  of  the 
Japanese  Engineering  Society,  of  Tau  Beta  Pi,  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  the 
Engineers'  Club  of  Kansas  City. 

Of  all  the  honors,  however,  that  have  come  to  Dr.  Waddell  in  recognition  of 
his  standing  as  a  practical  scientist,  a  literary  man,  and  a  constructing  engineer, 
there  is  none  so  high  as  that  conferred  upon  him  by  the  French  government  on 
December  16,  1918,  when  it  admitted  him  into  L'Institut  de  France  as  Correspondant 
of  the  Acad^mie  des  Sciences,  which  is  universally  acknowledged  to  be  the  most 
select  scientific  body  of  men  in  the  world.  He  is  the  first  American  engineer  ever 
received  into  its  ranks,  and  the  twenty-first  American  citizen  taken  thereinto  during 
the  one  hundred  and  twenty-four  years  since  it  was  reorganized  upon  its  present 
basis. 

This  recognition  was  specially  complimentary,   in   that   it   was  awarded   imme- 
diately   after    the    armistice,    when    the    French    government,    desiring    to    show    to 
America  its  deep  appreciation  of  the  help  rendered  in  winning  the  war,  and  in  the 
most  conspicuous  manner  possible,  did  so  by  conferring  upon  one  of  her  citizens  the^ 
highest  honor  within  its  gift. 

Dr.  Waddell  is  prominently  known  in  club  circles,  having  membership  in  the 
Country,  University,  and  Engineers'  Clubs  of  Kansas  City  and  the  Railroad  Club  of 
New  York.  By  reason  of  his  professional  ability  he  has  been  called  to  many  sections 
of  the  world;  and  his  broad  travel  and  wide  study  have  made  him  a  cultured  gentle- 
man, with  a  command  of  two  languages  besides  his  own,  while  his  increasing  pro- 
fessional ability  has  gained  him  an  unexcelled  eminence  among  bridge  builders 
throughout  the  entire  world. 


JAMES  W.  GARVEY. 


James  W.  Garvey,  manager  of  the  Lumbermen's  Exchange  and  well  known  in 
connection  with  the  insurance  business  in  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  offices  in 
the  R.  A.  Long  building,  was  born  June  5,  1858,  in  Buffalo,  New  York,  his  parents 
being  P.  J.  and  Margaret  (Walters)  Garvey.  The  father  was  a  native  of  Ireland 
and  came  to  the  United  States  when  fourteen  years  of  age.  He  afterward  took  up 
the  occupation  of  farming,  which  he  followed  during  the  greater  part  of  his,  life 
at  Batavia,  Genessee  county.  New  York.  Both  he  and  his  wife  have  passed  away. 
Their  family  numbered  six  children,  but  only  two  are  living,  the  brother  of  James 
W.   Garvey  being  Daniel  J.  Garvey,  now  resident  of  Buffalo,  New  York. 

James  W.  Garvey  spent  his  youthful  days  in  the  Empire  state,  pursuing  his 
education  in  the  schools  of  Batavia,  New  York,  but  early  putting  aside  his  text- 
books to  provide  for  his  own  support.  He  has  made  insurance  his  life  work.  He 
started  in  that  field  in  Buffalo  as  a  solicitor  and  in  1880,  when  twenty-two  years  of 
age,  came  to  Kansas  City.  Here  he  afterward  established  an  insurance  agency  on 
his  own  account,  representing  several  old-line  companies  until  about  twenty-five 
years  ago,  when  he  established  the  Inter  Insurance  Exchange,  and  at  the  present 
time  he  is  manager  of  the  Lumbermen's  Exchange.  As  the  years  have  passed  he 
has  become  well  known  in  insurance  circles  and  his  interests  and  activities  of 
that  character  have  become  extensive  and  important.  He  has  also  won  a  sub- 
stantial measure  of  success  in  connection  with  other  business  enterprises  and  is  now 
the  president  of  the  T.  H.  Rogers  Lumber  Company,  having  a  line  of  yards  in  Okla- 


286  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

homa.  Kansas  and  Missouri.  He  is  also  president  of  tlie  Kerr,  Freed  &  Garvey 
Wall  Paper  Company  of  100  7  McGee  street,  Kansas  City,  and  a  director  of  the 
Peoples  Trust  Company.  His  judgment  is  sound,  his  sagacity  keen  and  his  enter- 
prise  has   brought   him   prominently   to  the   front   in   business  affairs. 

In  1878  Mr.  Garvey  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Emma  Bennett,  of  Green 
Bay,  Wisconsin,  and  to  them  have  been  born  three  children:  R.  B.  and  B.  I.,  who 
are  associated  with  their  father  in  business;  and  Heleno  Garvey,  who  is  the  wife 
of   Aldridge   Corder,   the   secretary   of  the   Peoples   Trust   Company   of   Kansas  City. 

Mr.  Garvey  gives  his  political  endorsement  to  the  republican  party  and  has 
long  voted  for  its  candidates,  believing  that  the  party  platform  contains  the  best 
principles  of  good  government.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Mid-Day  Club  and  the 
Blue  Hills  Country  Club.  In  manner  thoroughly  modest  and  unostentatious,  he 
is  nevertheless  recognized  as  one  of  the  old-time  business  men  of  Kansas  City  of 
high  standing  and  of  prominent  connections,  who  is  deserving  of  a  large  measure 
of  success  because  of  the  course  and  the  policy  which  he  has  ever  followed — a 
policy  which  would  at  all  times  bear  the  closest  investigation  and  scrutiny.  R.  A. 
Long  said  of  him:  "He  has  been  a  conspicuous  and  outstanding  success  in  the  field 
of  interinsurance  (fire).  This  achievement  is  accounted  for  by  thorough  knowl- 
edge, the  faith  that  he  thus  commanded  on  the  part  of  those  he  could  serve,  a 
militant  spirit  in  behalf  of  those  he  served  with  results  always  favorable  to  them, 
an  unswerving  loyalty  to  his  business,  his  earnest  thought  ever  looking  to  the  bene- 
fit of  the  organizations  which  he  heads." 


FRANK   MOORE   HICKMAN. 


Frank  Moore  Hickman,  local  treasurer  of  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad,  with 
headquarters  in  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Shelbyville,  Shelby  county,  Kentucky.  June 
20,  1850,  and  is  a  son  of  Benjamin  F.  and  Mary  E.  (Moore)  Hickman.  The  father, 
a  native  of  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  was  reared  and  educated  in  that  state  and  made 
a  brilliant  record  in  the  Mohawk  war.  He  became  a  member  of  the  bar,  practicing 
for  a  time  in  his  native  state,  and  in  1840  he  removed  to  St.  Louis,  becoming  rec- 
ognized as  a  prominent  and  distinguished  lawyer  of  Missouri.  He  was  also  editor 
of  a  newspaper  published  at  Jefferson  City  which  he  conducted  for  several  years. 
He  then  returned  to  St.  Louis  and  was  clerk  of  the  United  States  circuit  and  district 
courts,  being  the  first  incumbent  in  the  office,  which  he  continued  to  fill  to  the  time 
of  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1871,  when  he  was  sixty-one  years  of  age.  During  hl8 
incumbency,  covering  a  quarter  of  a  century,  he  ever  maintained  the  most  friendly 
relations  with  the  judges  and  city  officials.  He  was  a  man  of  wide  popularity  and 
was  held  in  high  esteem  by  all  who  knew  him.  He  wedded  Mary  Moore,  a  native  of 
Shelbyville,  Kentucky,  and  also  a  representative  of  one  of  the  old  families  of  that 
state,  whose  ancestry  is  traced  back  to  Sir  Thomas  Moore.  The  death  of  Mrs. 
Hickman  occurred  in  May,  1895,  when  she  had  reached  the  notable  age  of  seventy- 
eight  years.  She  was  the  mother  of  nine  children,  seven  sons  and  two  daughters. 
Frank  M.  Hickman  has  one  brother  and  one  sister  living:  Clement,  a  resident  of 
Kirkwood,  Missouri;  and  Mary  H.,  who  is  the  widow  of  Charles  Orrick  and  with 
her  daughter,  Frances  Orrick,  resides  in  St.  Louis. 

Frank  M.  Hickman,  who  was  the  fifth  in  order  of  birth  in  that  family,  was 
educated  in  the  Christian  Brothers  College  of  St.  Louis  and  when  seventeen  years 
of  age  made  his  initial  step  in  the  business  world  as  an  employe  in  his  father's 
office.  In  fact  he  was  associated  with  his  father  until  the  latter's  death  and  then 
entered  the  banking  house  of  Bartholow.  Lewis  &  Company,  with  whom  he  continued 
from  1871  until  1875.  In  the  latter  year  he  accepted  a  position  in  the  treasury 
department  of  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad  and  won  various  promotions  until  January 
16.  1906.  when  he  was  made  local  treasurer  for  the  company  and  also  for  the  St. 
Louis.  Iron  Mountain  &  Southern  Railroad  Company.  He  was  retained  as  federal 
treasurer  when  the  government  took  over  the  railroad  and  continued  in  the  office  on 
the  restoration  of  the  road  to  private  ownership.  Thus  for  forty-five  years  he  has  been 
continuously  connected  with  this  department  of  railroad  service  and  no  higher  testi- 
monial of  capability,  fidelity  and  efficiency  could  be  given. 

At  Kirkwood,  in  St.  Louis  county,  on  the  26th  of  June.  1889.  Mr.  Hickman 
was  married  to  Miss  Jennie  Belt,  a  native  of  St.  Louis  and  a  daughter  of  Henry  N. 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  289 

and  Margaret  A.  (Busch)  Belt.  Her  father  was  one  of  the  early  real  estate  dealers 
of  St.  Louis,  operating  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Belt  &  Priest.  Her  mother  Is 
still  living  at  the  notable  age  of  ninety-five  years  and  is  a  resident  of  Chicago. 
To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hickman  have  been  born  two  sons:  B.  Franklin,  residing  in  St. 
Louis;  and  Arthur  R.,  now  of  Philadelphia.  Both  sons  enlisted  in  the  Naval  Reserve 
at  the  outbreak  of  the  war  and  after  receiving  their  commissions  as  ensigns  Franklin 
was  appointed  an  instructor  in  motors  in  the  Boston  School  of  Technology — while  the 
other  son,  Arthur  R.,  became  aide  to  Admiral  Omen,  now  the  governor  of  Virgin' 
island.  B.  F.  Hickman  was  married  August  10,  1918,  to  Miss  Jane  Tatum  and  they 
have  one  son,  B.  F.   (Ill),  born  September  21,  1919. 

Mr.  Hickman  is  an  independent  in  his  political  views  and  fraternally  he  is 
connected  with  Kirkwood  Lodge,  No.  484,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  is- a  very  prominent 
member  of  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  organizers. 
He  served  as  its  treasurer  for  six  years  and  was  also  president  for  one  year.  He  has 
been  prominently  connected  with  the  social  interests  of  Kirkwood,  where  he  main- 
tains his  home,  and  wherever  he  is  known  he  is  spoken  of  in  terms  of  warm  regard. 


JAMES  WHITE-SeUPDER. 


James  White  Scudder,  president  of'/the",  Scudders-Gale  Grocer  Company  of  St. 
Louis,  has  been  identified  with  the  wholesale  grocery  trade  in  this  city  since  making 
his  initial  step  in  the  business  world  in  1881.  The  steps  of  an  orderly  progression 
have  brought  him  at  length  to  the  direction  of  one  of  the  most  important  commercial 
concerns  of  the  city.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  July  3,  1861,  a  son  of  John  A.  and 
Mary  (White)  Scudder.  He  attended  the  public  schools  and  then  entered  Washing- 
ton University  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1880.  Thus  equipped  for  life's  practical 
and  responsible  duties,  he  started  out  in  the  business  world  in  a  clerkship  with  the 
wholesale  grocery  house  of  Fink  &  Nasse,  with  whom  he  continued  in  1881  and 
1882.  He  then  entered  the  employ  of  Garneau,  Scudder  &  Company,  grocers,  and 
in  1883  was  chosen  secretary  for  the  Krafft-Holmes  Grocery  Company,  with  which 
he  remained  until  1890.  Desirous  of  engaging  in  business  on  his  own  account  and 
feeling  that  his  broad  experience  as  well  as  his  capital  justified  this  step,  he  organ- 
ized the  wholesale  grocery  house  of  James  W.  Scudder  &  Company  and  was  at  the 
head  of  the  business  until  it  was  consolidated  with  the  Scudders-Gale  Grocer  Com- 
pany, Incorporated.  Of  this  company  he  is  now  the  president,  directing  its  activi- 
ties and  contributing  in  substantial  measure  to  the  continued  growth  of  the  busi- 
ness,  which   has  been  most  satisfactory  and   profitable. 

In  February,  1891,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Scudder  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Harriet  McKinley,  of  Champaign,  Illinois,  and  they  have  two  sons,  John  Anderson 
and  James  W.,  the  latter  a  senior  in  Yale  University.  The  former  is  now  associated 
with  his  father  in  business  and  married  Isabelle  Capen.  a  daughter  of  S.  D.  Capen, 
of  St.   Louis,   by  whom   he   has  one  child,   Jane. 

Mr.  Scudder  finds  his  chief  recreative  interest  in  hunting  and  he  belongs  to 
various  leading  clubs  of  the  city,  including  the  Noonday,  Bellerive  Country  and 
Deer  Plain  Clubs,  also  to  the  Country  Club  and  to  the  Commercial  Club.  While 
today  he  is  one  of  the  most  prosperous  representatives  of  wholesale  interests  in 
St.  Louis,  his  success  is  due  in  large  measure  to  the  fact  that  he  has  continued 
his  labors  in  a  single  field  since  making  his  initial  step  in  the  business  world.  His 
concentration  and  steadfastness  of  purpose,  combined  with  progressiveness  and 
reliability,  have  been  a  dominant  force  in  his  advancement  and  success  and  should 
constitute  an  inspiring  force  in  the  lives  of  others,  showing  what  may  be  accom- 
plished   through    individual    effort. 


ROBERT  J.  GUTHRIE. 


Robert  J.  Guthrie,  secretary,  treasurer  and  director  of  the  National  Securities 
Company,  fiscal  agents  in  St.  Louis  and  also  owners  of  the  beautiful  Valhalla 
crematory,  is  a  native  of  Toronto,  Canada,  and  a  son  of  Robert  Guthrie,  who  was 
a  native  of  Edinburgh,  Scotland,,  and  who  in  young  manhood  crossed  the  Atlantic  to 


290  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Canada,  there  becoming  a  prosperous  general  merchant.  For  three  hundred  years 
there  has  continuously  been  a   Robert  Gutlirie  in  the   family. 

In  his  boyhood  days  Robert  J.  Guthrie,  whose  name  introduces  this  review, 
crossed  the  border  into  the  United  States  after  having  acquired  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  country.  He  made  his  way  to  St.  Louis  and  afterward 
went  upon  the  road  as  a  traveling  salesman,  his  territory  covering  Missouri.  Kansas. 
Oklahoma  and  other  western  states  for  many  years.  He  was  very  successful  in 
this  business,  his  persuasive  powers,  his  thorough  reliability  and  his  enterprise  re- 
sulting in  the  upbuilding  of  a  large  trade  for  the  interests  which  he  represented. 
He  was  connected  with  the  extensive  stove  manufacturing  liouse  of  the  Bridge  & 
Beach  Manufacturing  Company,  one  of  the  historic  old  concerns  of  St.  Louis.  At 
length  he  entered  business  on  his  own  account  and  has  made  for  himself  a  credit- 
able name  and  pl^ce  in  financial  circles,  being  now  the  secretary  treasurer  and  one 
of  the  directors  of  the  National  Securities  Company  of  St.  Louis.  He  is  likewise 
the  secretary  and  treasurer  and  a  director  of  the  Valhalla  Crematory  &  Mausoleum 
Company,  which  is  controlling  and  developing  one  of  the  most  beautiful  crematories 
and  mausoleums  of  this  section  of  the  country. 

Mr.  Guthrie  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  secretary  treasurer 
of  the  University  City  Men's  Club.  He  is  also  connected  with  the  Caledonian  So- 
ciety and  with  the  Missouri  Athletic  .Association  and  in  Masonry  he  has  attained  the 
thirty-second  degree  of  the  Scottish  Rite,  the  Knights  Templar  degree  of  the  York 
Rite,  being  a  member  of  Ascalon  Commandery,  and  is  also  a  member  of  Moolah 
Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  likewise  belongs  to  the  Independent  Order  of 
Foresters.  He  is  very  fond  of  good  music  and  his  social  qualities,  combined  with 
his  ability  as  an  organizer,  have  made  him  a  valued  factor  in  various  clubs  and 
societies,  where  he  has  had  much  to  do  with  the  matter  of  public  entertainment. 
As  one  of  the  executive  officers  of  the  University  City  Men's  Club  he  has  done  much 
to  upbuild  the  organization  through  the  splendid  entertainment  which  he  has  se- 
cured. He  took  a  most  helpful  part  in  the  Red  Cross,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  other  war 
activities  and  made  valuable  contribution  to  relief  work.  He  is  a  man  of  genial 
personality  who  numbers  his  friends  by  the  scores,  some  of  these  by  reason  of  his 
philanthropy  and  benevolence,  others  through  purely  social  connections.  All  who 
know  him  speak  of  him  as  a  man  whose  friendship  is  worth  while  and  as  one  who 
deserves  and  enjoys  the  confidence  and  high  regard  of  all  with  whom  he  comes  in 
contact. 


EDWARD   J.   FLEMING. 


Edward  J.  Fleming,  a  distinguished  member  of  the  Kansas  City  bar,  has  gained 
prominence  not  only  as  a  wise  interpreter  of  the  law.  with  ability  accurately  to 
apply  its  principles  to  the  points  in  litigation,  but  also  as  one  who  has  used  his 
professional  powers  for  the  benefit  and  assistance  of  mankind  to  a  marked  degree. 
Kansas  City  is  proud  to  number  him  among  her  native  sons.  He  was  born  April 
19,  1885,  his  parents  being  John  and  Mary  (Fitzgerald)  Fleming.  He  was  left  an 
orphan  when  only  about  four  years  of  age  and  was  reared  by  John  and  Bridget  Cain, 
farming  people  living  at  Jacksonville.  Morgan  county.  Illinois.  There  he  attended 
the  public  schools  and  Routt  College  of  Jacksonville,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1905  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree,  thus  gaining  a  broad  and  liberal  educa- 
tion to  serve  as  the  foundation  upon  which  to  rear  the  superstructure  of  professional 
knowledge.  He  then  came  to  Kansas  City  and  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  the 
Kansas  City  School  of  Law,  being  graduated  in  1909  with  the  LL.  B.  degree.  He 
passed  the  required  examination,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  June  of  that  year  and 
entered  upon  the  general  practice  of  law  alone.  In  August.  1910,  he  was  one  of  the 
organizers  of  the  Free  Legal  Aid  Bureau  of  the  Board  of  Public  Welfare  of  the 
Municipal  Department  and  was  in  charge  of  that  department  until  April,  1918. 
at  which  time  he  was  elected  to  the  bench  and  resigned  his  position  to  enter  upon 
his  judicial  duties.  His  work  in  that  connection  has  won  wide  attention.  In  fact 
it  has  been  made  the  subject  of  discussion  by  the  press  throughout  the  country  and 
a  lengthy  article  appeared  in  Collier's  Weekly  of  February  24.  1912.  concerning  the 
work  of  Mr.  Fleming  under  the  heading  of  "Kansas  City's  Godfather."  He  is  one 
of  the  authors  of  a  little  volume  entitled  "Legal  Suggestions."  which  according  to 
its  preface  is  "a.  plain  statement  of  some  of  the  laws  most  frequently  affecting  the 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  291 

interests  of  applicants  to  the  free  legal  aid  bureau."  The  little  volume  is  one  of 
immense  value  to  those  whose  circumstances  compel  them  to  seek  free  legal  as- 
sistance. It  gives  a  clear  and  concise  statement  of  legal  conditions  which  affect 
the  welfare  of  many,  treating  of  such  subjects  as  the  allowance  for  widows  and 
wives  of  prisoners,  of  attachments,  of  wages,  of  chattel  mortgages  and  conditional 
sales,  the  making  of  contracts,  the  criminal  liability  for  selling  or  disposing  of 
mortgaged  property  and  of  many  laws  affecting  children,  including  laws  concerning 
child  labor,  compulsory  education,  criminal  liability  of  parents,  the  juvenile  court 
with  its  jurisdiction  over  children,  the  times  and  conditions  under  which  children 
may  be  taken  away  from  parents,  the  fact  that  parents  may  be  made  to  support 
c(iildren,  the  subject  of  neglected  and  delinquent  children,  the  questions  of  divorce 
and  alimony,  the  questions  of  exemption,  the  matter  of  garnishments,  of  interest  and 
usury,  many  questions  relating  to  labor  and  to  landlords  and  tenants  as  well  as  to 
many  phases  of  property'  holding.  Acting  as  attorney  for  the  Free  Legal  Aid  Bu- 
reau, Mr.  Fleming  has  done  most  important  service  for  many  individuals,  bringing 
justice  and  right  into  many   lives,   and  punishment  where  it  was   deserved. 

With  such  a  record  of  splendid  service,  it  is  not  to  be  wondered  at  that  Edward 
J.  Fleming  was  chosen  for  judge  of  the  municipal  court.  His  high  ideal  of  service 
is  indicated  in  his  annual  report  of  division  No.  2  of  the  municipal  court,  in  which 
he  said:  "The  establishment  of  the  municipal  court  was  in  many  respects  one  of 
the  most  important  pieces  of  judicial  legislation  in  the  history  of  Kansas  City.  It 
marked  the  passing  o#  the  old-time  'police  court,'  with  its  slipshod  methods,  its  ex- 
parte  hearings,  its  sordid  surroundings  and  unsystematic  proceedings  which  too 
often  degenerated  into  a  travesty  of  justice,  and  it  elevated  the  trial  of  minor  of- 
fenses to  a  plane  of  calm,  judicial  investigation  and  formal  procedure  that  enabled 
the  unfortunate  offenders  to  obtain  a  fair  hearing  and  a  judgment  based  upon  an 
orderly  and  impartial  trial  of  the  facts  presented.  It  made  it  possible  also  for  men 
of  legal  education  and  training  to  accept  the  position  of  judge  of  these  courts  and 
to  bring  to  the  administration  of  their  offices  a  knowledge  of  criminal  jurisprud- 
ence and  a  more  liberal  view  of  the  potentialities  of  such  a  court  as  a  corrective  and 
humanitarian  agency.  Under  the  old  regime  the  punitive  idea  was  the  predominant 
one.  With  the  establishment  of  the  municipal  court  came  the  realization  of  the 
new  idea  in  criminal  jurisprudence,  especially  as  it  relates  to  minor  offenses,  that 
preventive  and  ameliorating  measures  are  as  much  a  function  of  courts  of  criminal 
jurisdiction  as  the  awarding  of  fines  and  punishments.  The  municipal  court  is, 
by  the  very  nature  of  its  jurisdiction,  a  'poor  man's  tribunal.'  It  deals  largely  with 
a  class  of  offenders  who  have  slender  means  of  defense  and  who,  too  often,  have 
been  led  into  the  pathways  of  the  social  derelicts  by  poverty,  ignorance  and  evil 
surroundings."  His  ^work  has  been  a  splendid  exponent  of  his  own  high  ideals  as 
to  the  purpose  of  law  administration,  for  he  ever  believes  that  punishment  should 
be  subservient  to  the  effort  to  reclaim  and  uplift  the  individual  and  place  him  in 
the  class  of  useful  citizenship. 

On  the  17th  of  June,  1912,  Mr.  Fleming  was  married  to  Miss  Lyle  Fraser  at 
Colorado  Springs,  Colorado,  whose  people  reside  in  Kansas  City.  Her  father,  John 
Fraser,  is  a  native  of  Missouri  and  at  one  time  followed  farming  at  Mexico,  this 
state.      Her  mother  is   Mrs.   Annabelle   Fraser. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fleming  have  been  born  two  children,  Edward  J.  and  Fraser, 
aged  respectively  six  and  four  years.  In  religious  faith  Mr.  Fleming  is  a  Catholic 
and  fraternally  he  has  membership  relations  with  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  the 
Elks,  the  Eagles,  the  Moose  and  also  with  the  Phi  Alpha  Delta,  a  college  fraternity. 
His  life  is  actuated  by  the  broadest  humanitarian  principles  and  his  chosen  profes- 
sion has  given  him  excellent  opportunity  to  exemplify  his  ideals  in  practical  service 
for   mankind. 


GEORGE   F.   POWELL. 


George  F.  Powell  is  the  president  of  the  Powell  &  O'Rourke  Grain  Company  of 
St.  Louis.  He  comes  to  this  city  from  the  Atlantic  seaboard,  having  been  born  in 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  May  17,  1869.  His  father.  Colonel  R.  M.  Powell,  a  native  of 
Alabama,  served  with  the  Confederate  army  in  the  Civil  war  as  a  member  of  Hood's 
Fifth  Texas  Brigade  and  had  risen  to  the  rank  of  commander  of  that  brigade  ere 
the   close   of   the   war.      He   afterward   devoted   his   life   to   the   practice   of   law   and 


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became  one  ot  the  prominent  attorneys  of  Texas.  The  same  military  spirit  was 
manifest  in  his  ancestors,  the  great-grandfather  of  George  F.  Powell  having  fought 
for  American  independence  in  the  Revolutionary  vvar.  Colonel  Powell  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Grace,  a  daughter  of  John  Ackerman  Grace,  and  they 
became  parents  of  two  sons  and  one  daughter:  Frank,  deceased;  George  F.;  and 
Florence,  who  is  the  wife  of  J.  Horace  Gay,  a  farmer  of  Kentucky. 

George  F.  Powell,  after  pursuing  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Balti- 
more, secured  a  position  in  1884  as  office  boy  with  the  firm  of  Connor  Brothers  of 
St.  Louis  and  continued  with  that  house  for  twenty-six  years,  or  until  1910.  No 
stronger  proof  of  his  capability,  fidelity  and  enterprising  spirit  could  be  given  than 
the  tact  that  he  remained  with  the  same  firm  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century, 
during  which  period  he  steadily  worked  his  way  upward  until  he  was  admitted  to 
a  partnership.  In  1910  he  withdrew  from  that  business  connection  and  formed 
a  partnership  with  John  J.  O'Rourke  under  the  name  of  the  Powell  &  O'Rourke 
Grain  Company  of  which  he  has  continuously  served  as  president.  They  conduct  a 
general  grain  business  and  have  a  large  exporting  trade  to  Cuba.  This  firm  does 
the  largest  amount  ot  business  in  connection  with  the  exporting  of  grain  to  Cuba 
of  any  firm  in  the  United  States.  Their  business  has  been  built  up  along  the  most 
progressive  and  enterprising  lines.  Mr.  Powell  is  a  man  who  never  stops  short  of 
the  successful  accomplishment  of  his  purpose,  knowing  that  when  one  avenue  of 
opportunity  seems  closed  he  can  carve  out  other  paths  whereby  to  reach  the  desired 
goal.  He  is  today  a  very  prominent  figure  in  the  grain  trade  of  St.  Louis  and  is 
the  second  vice  president  ot  the   Merchants  Exchange. 

Mr.  Powell  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Corinne  R.  Robertson,  a  daughter 
of  John  M.  Robertson,  and  they  now  have  three  children:  John,  Nancy  and  Rob- 
ert, aged  respectively  twelve,  ten  and  eight  years.  All  of  the  children  attend  the 
Sacred  Heart  convent  ot  St.  Louis.  The  religious  faith  of  the  family  is  that  of 
the  Catholic  church  and  Mr.  Powell  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  of  which 
he  is  a  fourth  degree  member.  He  subscribed  liberally  to  all  war  activities  and 
.served  on  various  committees  that  were  helpful  agencies  in  the  successful  prosecu- 
tion of  the  war.  He  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Chicago  Board  of 
Trade  and  the  Normandie  Golf  Club,  and  politically  maintains  an  independent 
course.  His  interests  and  activities  are  wide  and  varied,  showing  him  to  be  a 
man  of  progressive  spirit  and  one  who  keeps  in  touch  with  the  tendency  of  the 
times. 


LEWIS  BENJAMIN  ANDREWS. 


Kansas  City  has  long  been  one  of  the  most  important  centers  of  the  live  stock 
industry  of  America  and  actively  and  prominently  connected  with  this  business  at 
the  present  time  is  Lewis  B.  Andrews,  who  is  a  well  known  member  ot  the  Live 
Stock  Exchange.  He  was  born  near  Lena,  Illinois,  October  9,  1850,  a  son  of 
William  and  Jane  Andrews,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Ohio.  He  pursued  his 
education  in  the  country  school,  while  spending  his  youthful  days  upon  the  home 
farm,  later  attending  Oberlin  College  in  Ohio.  He  assisted  his  father  until  he  was 
twenty-two  years  of  age.  when  he  took  charge  ot  his  father's  farm,  which  was 
largely  given  over  to  the  raising  of  live  stock. 

In  1878  Mr.  Andrews  was  married  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Moffett,  daughter  of  James 
and  Isabella  Moffett  of  Jo  Daviess  county,  Illinois,  who  were  both  born  in  County 
Monaghan,  Ireland. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Andrews  belong  to  the  Second  Presbyterian  church  of  Kansas 
City,  in  which  they  are  greatly  interested.  He  gives  his  political  allegiance  to  the 
republican  party  but  has  never  sought  nor  desired  public  office,  preferring  to  con- 
centrate his  time  and  energies  upon  business  affairs.  He  belongs  to  the  Chamber  ot 
Commerce  of  Kansas  City  and  is  interested  in  all  its  activities  for  the  benefit  and 
progress  of  the  city.      He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Club. 

In  1884  Mr.  Andrews  left  Illinois  and  went  to  Comanche  county,  Kansas,  where 
he  proved  up  government  and  school  claims.  This  government  claim  formed  the 
nucleus  of  what  has  for  many  years  been  known  as  the  Comanche  County  Ranch 
near   Coldwater.    Kansas. 

In   1889  he  came  to  Kansas  City  where  he  turned  his  attention  to  the  oil  busi- 


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ness.  In  January.  1896.  Mr.  Andrews  and  the  Moffett  brothers  formed  a  partner- 
ship under  the  firm  name  ot  Moffett  Brothers  &  Andrews  Live  Stock  Commission 
Company,  of  which  he  is  now  the  secretary  and  treasurer.  This  company  handles 
cattle,  sheep  and  hogs  and  has  developed  a  business  of  extensive  proportions.  Mr. 
Andrews  is  the  treasurer  of  the  Live  Stock  Exchange  and  is  recognized  as  one  of 
the  prominent  representatives  of  this  industry  in  Kansas  City  and  the  west.  Upon 
a  farm  in  Jackson  county  he  is  engaged  in  raising  registered  Herefords  and  short- 
horns and  in  the  breeding  of  horses  and  mules. 

Mr.  Andrews  has  also  extended  his  activities  into  other  fields  of  business  and 
is  a  director  of  the  Midwest  Reserve  Trust  Company  and  president  ot  the  Peoples 
State  Bank  of  Dodson,  Missouri.  He  started  out  in  the  business  world  empty 
handed  but  diligence  and  thrift  have  characterized  his  entire  business  life,  and  his 
record   should   serve  as   a   source   ot  encouragement  and  inspiration   to  others. 


HORACE   H.    BLANTON. 


Horace  H.  Blanton,  widely  known  and  highly  respected  in  Kansas  City,  is 
numbered  among  Missouri's  native  sons.  He  was  born  in  Keytesville,  Barry 
county,  April  20,  1860,  his  parents  being  William  Horace  and  Martha  J.  (Harbin) 
Blanton,  who  were  natives  of  Alabama  and  Virginia  respectively.  The  father  was 
a  lawyer  of  prominence  in  his  day  and  became  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Vernon 
county.  He  represented  his  district  in  the  state  legislature  about  the  time  of  the 
opening  of  the  Civil  war,  and  joined  the  Confederate  army,  serving  throughout  the 
period  of  hostilities  with  a  Missouri  regiment,  with  which  he  rose  to  the  rank  of 
major.  He  was  sent  east,  serving  in  that  section  of  the  country  during  the  greater 
part  of  the  war.  He  was  a  stanch  supporter  and  admirer  of  Stephen  A.  Douglas  and 
did  active  campaign  work  in  his  behalf.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  Alfred 
Harbin,  the  maternal  grandfather  of  Mr.  Blanton  of  this  review,  took  his  family 
to  Austin,  Texas,  where  they  remained  until  social  conditions  were  reestablished 
about  1866.  when  they  returned  to  their  old  home  in  Vernon  county,  Missouri. 

Accordingly  the  childhood  of  Horace  H.  Blanton  was  largely  spent  on  a  planta- 
tion in  Texas.  Upon  their  return  to  Missouri  his  father  established  a  real  estate 
business  under  the  firm  name  of  Prewitt,  Blanton  &  Poindexter,  which  firm  won  a 
place  of  leadership  in  their  line  in  that  section  of  the  state,  Mr.  Blanton  continuing 
with  the  firm  until  death  ended  his  labors  at  Nevada.  Missouri,  in  April,  187  2.  In 
18.57  he  had  been  admitted  to  the  bar  and  was  appointed  commissioner  of  Vernon 
county  by  the  court.  Along  the  maternal  line,  as  previously  inaicated,  Horace  H. 
Blanton  is  also  a  representative  oi  one  of  the  old  families  of  Missouri.  His  grand- 
father. Major  Alfred  Harbin,  was  a  native  of  Virginia  but  canie  to  this  state  at  an 
early  period  in  its  development  and  served  in  both  branches  of  the  state  legisla- 
ture prior  to  the  war,  being  a  member  of  the  general  assembly  when  the  question 
of  Missouri's  secession  from  the  Union  was  under  consideration.  He  voted  to 
submit  the  question  to  the  people,  which  they  did.  and  by  a  majority  of  eighty 
thousand  the  vote  was  against  secession.  The  Harbin  family  have  through  many 
generations  resided  in  Virginia  and  many  of  its  members  there  won  distinction  in 
various  fields  of  endeavor. 

Horace  H.  Blanton  was  a  public  school  pupil  at  Nevada,  Missouri,  and  for  one 
year  attended  Henderson  College  in  Rusk  county.  Texas.  Later  he  pursued  a 
classical  course  in  the  Missouri  State  University  at  Columbia  but  before  completing 
the  university  course  began  reading  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Charles  G.  Burton,  of 
Nevada,  Missouri,  and  on  the  2d  of  May.  1881.  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  In  the 
meantime  he  was  graduated  from  the  State  University  at  Columbia  in  187  9  with  the 
LL.  B.  degree.  He  entered  upon  the  general  practice  of  law  at  Nevada  and  was 
city  counselor  there  in  1881  and  filled  the  office  of  prosecuting  attorney  from  1884 
until  1886  and  again  from  1892  until  1894.  Further  recognition  of  his  capability 
and  public  spirit  led  to  his  being  made  a  candidate  for  congress  in  the  fifteenth 
congressional  district  on  the  democratic  ticket  in  1896,  but  he  was  defeated  by  M. 
E.  Benton,  of  Neosho.  He  has  always  been  unfaltering  in  his  devotion  to  the  prin- 
ciples of  Jeffersonian   democracv. 

In  October.  1902,  Mr.  Blanton  removed  to  Kansas  City  and  practiced  alone 
until   1917,  when  he  became  associated  with  Edwin  J.  J.  Shannahan  under  the  firm 


296  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

name  of  Blanton  &  Shannahan.  This  firm  has  long  occupied  a  prominent  position 
in  the  profession.  Mr.  Blanton  is  richly  endowed  with  those  qualities  requisite  to 
success  at  the  bar  and  has  made  steady  progress  as  an  advocate  and  as  a  counselor. 

On  the  2d  of  December,  1885,  at  Nevada,  Missouri,  Mr.  Blanton  wedded  Miss 
Florence  Minns,  a  daughter  o£  John  Minns,  and  their  children  are  Florence,  Kath- 
leen, Elaine  and  William  Horace.  The  only  son  enlisted  July  19,  1918,  in  the  Field 
Artillery  and  went  to  Jefferson  Barracks,  after  which  he  was  transferred  to  Camp 
Zachary  Taylor  in  Kentucky.  He  was  made  first  sergeant  of  his  company  and 
had  been  ordered  overseas,  but  to  his  great  disappointment  the  armistice  was 
signed  before  he  was  sent  abroad.  He  married  Miss  Ruth  Wilson  and  they  have 
a  son,  William  Horace,  Jr.,  the  father  now  being  in  the  employ  of  the  Standard  Oil 
Company  as  cost  clerk. 

Mrs.  Blanton  passed  away  October  19.  1904.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Episco- 
pal church,  as  are  the  children.  Mr.  Blanton  contributes  generously  to  its  support. 
Mr.  Blanton  is  identified  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Loyal  Order  of  Moose, 
while  in  the  strict  path  of  his  profession  he  is  connected  with  the  Kansas  City, 
Missouri  State  and  American  Bar  Associations.  His  activities  and  interests  are 
always  directed  along  those  channels  through  which  flows  the  greatest  good  to  the 
greatest  number.  He  stands  tor  nrogressiveness  in  all  public  measures  and  in  his 
law  practice  his  course  has  been  marked  by  constant  advancement,  resulting  from 
wide  study,  thorough  application  and  a  close  conformity  to  the  highest  ethical 
standards  of  the  profession. 


CHARLES  ALFRED  HOUTS. 

Admitted  to  the  bar  at  Warrensburg,  Missouri,  in  1892,  Charles  Alfred  Houts 
became  connected  with  the  legal  department  of  the  Missouri,  Kansas  &  Texas 
Railway  Company  at  St.  Louis  in  July  of  that  year  and  has  since  been  a  representa- 
tive of  the  bar  of  this  city.  He  was  born  at  Warrensburg,  December  13,  1868, 
his  parents  being  G.  Will  and  Anna  (Dulfield)  Houts,  whose  family  numbered  tour 
children,  a  son  and  three  daughters:  Mrs.  Myra  Hornbeck,  Charles  A.,  Mrs.  Birdie 
Gwinn  and  Mrs.  Sallie  McCauley.  The  father  was  also  a  member  of  the  bar,  well 
known  in  Johnson  county,  Missouri,  where  he  resided  from  1839,  his  birth  having 
occurred  in  Scott  county,  Missouri.  His  wife  had  come  to  this  state  from  Virginia 
in  1854  and  was  a  niece  of  William  Broaddus  Thompson  and  M.  Jeff  Thompson,  the 
latter  being  a  major  general  in  the  Confederate  army. 

Charles  A.  Houts,  after  mastering  the  branches  of  learning  taught  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  city,  continued  his  education  in  the  Warrensburg  State  Nor- 
mal School  from  1882  until  1886  and  then  entered  DePauw  University  at  Green- 
castle,  Indiana,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1891  with  the  Master  of  Arts  degree. 
As  stated,  he  became  a  resident  of  St.  Louis  in  1892,  when  in  July  of  that  year 
he  was  engaged  as  representative  of  the  legal  department  of  the  Missouri,  Kansas 
&  Texas  Railway  Company,  with  which  he  was  thus  associated  until  1895.  He 
then  formed  a  partnership  with  George  S.  Johnson,  practicing  as  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Johnson  &  Houts  until  1897.  In  1898  the  firm  style,  through  the  admission 
of  a  third  partner,  was  changed  to  Johnson,  Houts  &  Marlatt  and  later  they  were 
joined  by  Harry  B.  Hawes.  the  partnership  between  the  four  existing  until  1912, 
when  Mr.  Marlatt  passed  away  and  the  business  relation  between  the  others  was 
dissolved.  Mr.  Houts  since  that  time  has  been  practicing  independently  and  ia 
widely  known  as  an  able  attorney  at  law  who  continues  in  general  practice  and  by 
reason  of  his  acknowledged  ability  is  accorded  an  extensive  clientage.  He  filled 
the  office  of  United  States  district  attorney  from  1910  until  1914.  He  has  main- 
tained pleasant  connection  with  his  colleagues  and  contemporaries  in  law  practice 
as  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association,  the  Missouri  Bar  Association  and  the 
American  Bar  Association.  In  addition  to  his  connection  with  the  legal  profession 
Mr.  Houts  is  a  director  of  the  Webster  Groves  Trust  Company  of  St.  Louis  county. 

On  the  8th  of  April,  1896,  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  Mr.  Houts  was  married  to 
Miss  Eleanor  F.  Wright  and  to  them  have  been  born  two  children,  Josephine  Beverly 
and  Henry  Wright.  At  the  age  of  nineteen  years  the  latter  became  a  member  of 
the  Students  Army  Training  Corps  at  Columbia  and  at  present  is  located  in  Wash- 
ington  University.      The    family   are    members    of    the    Methodist    Episcopal    church 


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and  in  political  belief  Mr.  Houts  is  a  republican.  In  Masonry  he  has  attained  the 
thirty-second  degree  o£  the  Scottish  Rite,  his  blue  lodge  connection  being  with 
Webster  Groves  Lodge,  No.  84,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,s  while  with  the  Nobles  o£  the  Mystic 
Shrine  of  Moolah  Temple  he  has  crossed  the  sands  of  the  desert.  He  belongs  to  the 
Noonday.  Racquet,  Algonquin  and  Sunset  Hill  Country  Clubs  and  is  a  member  of 
Phi  Kappa  Psi,  a  college  fraternity,  and  a  charter  member  of  the  Blackstone  Society. 
He  manifests  sincere  concern  in  all  those  interests  which  have  to  do  with  upholding 
the  legal  and  moral  status  of  his  community  and  at  all  times  his  ideals  of  lite  have 
been  high. 


FRED  NELSON  CHENEY. 


Fred  Nelson  Cheney  is  one  of  the  best  known  insurance  men  of  St.  Louis  and 
the  middle  Mississippi  valley.  He  has  been  most  active  in  this'  work  for  many 
years,  representing  important  interests,  and  is  now  conducting  an  insurance  clear' 
ing  house,  which  is  an  insurance  service  department.  He  was  born  in  Areola,  Min- 
nesota. July  9,  1858.  his  parents  being  Frederick  P.  and  Louisa  B.  (Hill)  Cheney. 
The  ancestral  records  of  the  family  present  much  interesting  information.  The 
word  Cheney  is  derived  from  the  French  "chene,"  meaning  oak,  and  came  into  use 
originally  in  Normandy  and  then  in  England  to  signify  the  residence,  probably,  of 
the  progenitor.  Records  of  the  Cheney  famUy  are  found  in  Northampjton.  Wilt- 
shire, Sussex,  Oxfordshire,  Bedfordshire,  Suffolk,  Norfolk,  Yorkshire,  Lincolnshire, 
Hertfordshire,  Essex  and  Devonshire,  England,  as  early  as  the  sixteenth  and  seven- 
teenth centuries.  ,Iohn  Cheney,  the  emigrant  ancestor,  was  born  in  England  and, 
according  to  a  letter  written  by  John  Eliot,  the  famous  Indian  apostle,  who  was 
a  minister  at  Roxbury,  Massachusetts,  Jalin  Cheney  "came  into  the  land  in  the  year 

1636.  He  brought  four  children  with  him — Mary,  Martha,  John  and  Daniel. 
Sarah,  his  fifth  child,  was  born  in  the  last  month  of  same  year,  1636,  called  Feb- 
ruary. He  removed  from  our  church  to  Newbury  the  end  of  the  next  summer." 
John  Cheney  prospered  during  his  residence  at  Newbury.  His  allotment  of  land 
was  large  and  he  had  valuable  interests  in  the  old  town,  on  the  shore  and  else- 
where. He  served  as  a  member  of  the  grand  jury  April  27,  1648,  and  was  often 
a  selectman.  He  was  also  made  a  member  of  a  committee  to  lay  out  the  way 
to  the  neck  and  through  the  neck  to  the  marsh  on  the  east  side  of  the  old  town 
November  29,  1654.  He  was  likewise  one  of  the  famous  ten  men  of  Newbury 
who  took  a  keen  interest  in  the  campaign  of  Governor  Winthrop  against  Sir  Henry 
Vane,  resulting  in  making  a  journey  of  forty  miles  from  Newbury  to  Cambridge 
in   order   to   take    the    freeman's   oath.     They   were   admitted    as    freemen    May    17, 

1637,  after  accomplishing  this  journey,  which  was  a  most  arduous  one  at  that 
period. 

Daniel  Cheney,  son  of  John  Cheney,  was  born  in  England  about  1633.  He 
became  a  farmer  and  was  regarded  as  a  man  of  great  industry  and  also  of  great 
wisdom  in  his  community.  He  became  a  freeman  on  the  7th  of  May,  1663,  and  in 
1688  he  was  made  a  constable.  He  was  one  of  those  who  petitioned  for  the  pardon 
or  restoration  of.  John  Pike,  who  had  been  a  lieutenant  of  the  militia  in  Newbury 
and  who  had  fallen  under  the  displeasure  of  the  general  court  for  some  reason. 
On  the  19th  of  October,  1654,  the  court  ordered  those  who  petitioned  to  give  bonds 
in  the  sum  of  ten  pounds  for  daring  to  sign  their  names  to  such  a  paper  and  to 
appear  for  trial.  The  three  men.  however,  received  no  punishment  for  asking  tor 
fair  play  for  their  officer.  Daniel  Cheney  was  married  in  Newbury,  October  8,  1665, 
to  Sarah  Bagley  and  their  children  were  Sarah,  Judith,  Daniel  (II),  Hannah,  John, 
Eleanor,  Joseph  and  James. 

Daniel  Cheney  (II)  was  born  in  Newbury,  Massachusetts,  December  31,  1670. 
He  twice  rendered  service  in  the  old  blockhouse  in  1704,  in  defense  against  Indian 
attacks.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Second  Foot  Company  of  Newbury  in  1710  and 
1711  under  Hugh  March.  He  married  Hannah  Duston.  who  is  famous  in  history. 
On  the  15th  of  March,  16  97,  the  Indians  attacked  their  home  and  Mrs.  Duston  was 
then  in  bed  with  her  infant  daughter,  a  week  old,  attended  by  her  nurse,  Mary  Neff. 
She  was  ordered  to  accompany  her  captors,  and  but  partly  dressed,  started  on  the 
dreadful  journey  northward.  The  savages  dashed  out  the  brains  of  her  baby  against 
a  tree  in  sight  of  Mrs.  Duston  in  order  to  save  them   the  trouble  of  caring  for  an 


300  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  .MISSOURI 

infant.  After  two  weeks  the  Indians  camped  on  an  island  at  Pennock,  now  Con- 
cord. New  Hampshire,  and  while  there,  on  the  30th  of  March.  1697,  Mrs.  Duston, 
with  the  aid  of  Samuel  Leonard,  a  seventeen-year-old  lad  who  had  been  captured 
in  Worcester,  made  her  escape.  The  nurse.  Mary  Neff,  had  also  been  made  to  ac- 
company the  Indians,  and  the  two  women  and  the  boy,  with  a  hatchet,  tomahawked 
the  Indians  while  they  were  asleep,  only  one  squaw  and  a  young  Indian  escaping. 
Mrs.  Duston  and  her  two  companions  then  returned  to  Haverhill.  Massachusetts, 
and  later  received  rewards  for  their  bravery.  The  children  of  Daniel  Cheney  (III 
and  his  wife,  Hannah  (Duston)  Cheney,  were  Daniel,  John.  Thomas,  Hannah,  Sarah, 
Nathaniel,  Mary  and  Abigail. 

Of  this  family  Thomas  Cheney  was  born  in  Newbury,  Massachusetts,  February 
25,  1703,  and  was  married  May  17,  1726,  to  Hannah  Stevens,  of  Haverhill.  Their 
children  were  Hannah.  Daniel.  Duston.  Thomas,  Mary,  Nathaniel,  John,  James, 
Abigail,  Sarah,   Ruth  and  Susanna. 

Duston  Cheney,  son  of  Thomas  Cheney,  was  born  in  Haverhill,  Massachusetts, 
May  3,  1731,  and  wedded  Sarah  Mount,  their  children  being  Rachel.  Eliphalet, 
Caleb.  Hannah.  Thomas.  John.  Mary.  Duston.  Giles  and  Moses. 

Giles  Cheney,  son  of  Duston  Cheney,  was  born  at  Plaistow,  New  Hampshire. 
September  4,  1771.  He  first  married  Hannah  Peasley  and  his  second  wife  was 
Hannah  Kimball.  The  children  of  his  first  marriage  were  Daniel,  Jesse.  Zadoc. 
Henry,  Rhoda,  Reuben  Peasley,  Betsey,  Smilax  and  Harrison,  and  the  children  of 
his  second  marriage  were  William,  James.  Lorenzo,  Giles.  Jeanette.  Quincy,  Aulanie 
and  Cynthia, 

Reuben  Peasley  Cheney,  son  of  Giles  Cheney,  was  born  in  Washington,  Ver- 
mont, May  10,  1803,  and  was  married  October  2,  1827.  at  Barre,  Vermont,  to 
Sophronia  Cfford.  whose  birth  occurred  in  Greensboro.  Vermont,  in  1799,  and  who 
died  at  Glover.  Vermont.  December  21,  1882.  Their  children  were  Frederick  Por- 
ter, Nelson   and   Celestia. 

Frederick  Porter  Cheney  was  born  July  11,  1828,  and  died  December  25,  1896. 
He  was  the  father  of  Fred  Nelson  Cheney  of  this  review.  At  the  time  of  the  Civil 
war  he  joined  the  Union  army  and  was  wounded  in  the  battle  of  Cold  Harbor, 
never  fully  recovering  from  his  injuries.  He  served  altogether  for  three  years  in 
Company  K,  eleventh  regiment  of  Vermont  Infantry.  His  condition  on  account  of 
his  wound  did  not  prevent  him  from  accomplishing  a  great  deal.  He  was  super- 
intendent of  schools  and  twice  represented  his  district  in  the  state  legislature. 
For  a  time  he  published  the  Green  Mountain  Kicker  and  was  a  writer  of  ability. 
He  was  also  a  strong  patriot,  a  kind-hearted  man,  a  good  friend  and  a  most  loyal 
citizen,  and  when  he  passed  away  Mason  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  of  which  he  was  a  member, 
attended  the  funeral  services  in  a  body,  thus  paying  their  last  tribute  of  respect  to 
an  old  army  comrade. 

Fred  Nelson  Cheney,  the  son  of  Frederick  P.  and  Louisa  B.  (Hill)  Cheney, 
obtained  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Glover,  Vermont,  and  later 
pursued  a  course  of  study  in  the  high  school  at  Barton,  that  state.  He  secured 
a  clerkship  when  fifteen  years  of  age  in  the  employ  of  O.  D.  Owen,  a  general  mer- 
chant at  Barton,  Vermont.  He  rapidly  won  the  confidence  of  his  employer,  who 
entrusted  him  with  the  buying  of  goods,  the  keeping  of  books  and  the  management 
of  the  business.  In  1883  he  entered  into  partnership  with  his  brother.  Reuben 
Howard  Cheney,  in  the  insurance  business  at  Manchester,  New  Hampshire,  repre- 
senting the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  New  York,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Cheney  &  Cheney.  In  1902  the  partnership  was  dissolved,  the  firm  having  in  the 
meantime  won  a  very  substantial  measure  of  success,  building  up  a  business  of  ex- 
tensive proportions.  Fred  N.  Cheney  later  became  special  agent  for  the  same  com- 
pany and  in  1902  removed  to  St.  Louis.  For  sixteen  years  he  filled  the  position  of 
manager  of  the  general  agency  for  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  New 
York,  with  headquarters  in  the  Chemical  building,  but  resigned  that  position  in 
January,  1919,  to  conduct  an  insurance  clearing  house,  to  which  undertaking  he 
is  now  devoting  his  energies  with  excellent  success.  He  is  also  the  owner  of  a 
farm  of  one  thousand  acres  in  Ballard  county,  Kentucky,  and  is  planning  to  spend 
his  remaining  days  thereon. 

Mr.  Cheney  also  has  an  interesting  military  record,  for  at  one  time  he  was 
captain  of  Company  A  of  the  Amoskeag  Veterans,  knowli  as  the  Old  Continentals. 
The  regiment  has  always  worn  the  old  continental  uniform,  has  always  acted  as  the 
governor's   footguard   and    always   attends   the   governor   at    his   inauguration.     The 


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company  came  into  existence  in  colonial  days  and  is  one  of  the  notable  military 
organizations   of  the   country. 

On  the  24th  of  December,  1882,  in  Glover.  Vermont,  Mr.  Cheney  was  married 
to  Miss  Lulu  Irene  Davis.  Their  children  are  as  follows:  Ruth  Irene  is  the  wife 
of  Erland  Gjessing,  who  has  been  in  the  government  service  for  many  years.  Just 
before  this  country  went  to  war  with  Germany  he  was  appointed  vice  consul  at 
Copenhagen,  Denmark,  where  he  served  during  the  war  period,  rendering  very 
valuable  service  to  his  country  through  the  knowledge  that  he  was  able  to  transmit 
concerning  conditions  in  Germany  and  other  parts  of  Europe.  He  is  still  on  duty 
there.  John  Willoughby,  the  second  of  the  family,  left  college  and  enlisted  in 
the  Marines  in  1917,  at  the  age  of  nineteen  years.  The  others  of  the  family  are 
Dorothy  Zaphira,  who  married  Leo  E.  Thomas,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut;  and  Mar- 
garet Louise.     Their  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Unitarian  church. 

Politically  Mr.  Cheney  is  a  republican,  having  always  given  stalwart  support 
to  the  party.  He  is  a  Mason,  having  taken  the  degrees  of  lodge,  chapter,  council, 
commandery  and  consistory,  and  is  also  a  member  of  Aleppo  Temple  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine  at  Boston,  Massachusetts.  He  is  well  known  in  club  circles  in  the  east 
and  the  west,  belonging  to  the  City  Club  and  the  Sunset  Hill  Country  Club  of  St. 
Louis,  also  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  St.  Louis,  the  Derryfield  Club  and  the 
Calumet  Club  of  New  Hampshire.  He  is  of  the  same  sturdy  type  as  his  ancestors, 
a  most  able,  progressive  citizen  and  a  loyal  American  to  the  last  drop  of  blood.  His 
interest  in  public  matters  has  been  pronounced  and  his  activities  have  at  all  times 
been  of  a  character  beneficially  resultant  to  community,  commonwealth  or  country. 


J.   W.    LYDA. 

J.  W.  Lyda  is  a  well  known  hardware  merchant  of  Atlanta,  Missouri,  where 
his  birth  occurred  in  1871.  He  is  a  son  of  Jesse  G.  and  Margaret  (Anderson) 
Lyda  and  is  a  great-grandson  of  Gideon  and  Miranda  (Defrese)  Lyda,  who  were 
natives  of  North  Carolina  and  who  came  to  Missouri  in  1836,  casting  in  their  lot 
with  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Cooper  county,  where  they  lived  for  two  years.  They 
then  came  to  Macon  county,  Missouri,  settling  where  Atlanta  now  stands.  Here 
Gideon  Lyda  secured  land  and  improved  a  farm,  making  it  his  home  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  January  4,  1870.  He  was  one  of  the  survivors  of  the  War 
of  1812.  His  son,  Geo.  A.  Lyda,  was  born  in  White  county,  Tennessee,  and  ac- 
companied his  parents  to  Missouri,  where  he  was  reared  to  manhood  on  the  old 
homestead  farm  in  Macon  county,  attending  the  district  school  during  his  boy- 
hood days  to  some  extent  but  largely  acquiring  his  education  by  study  at  the  fire- 
side at  night. 

His  son,  Jesse  G.  Lyda,  father  of  J.  W.  Lyda,  was  born  in  Lyda  township,  Macon 
county,  which  was  named  in  honor  of  the  family.  Through  the  greater  part  of  his 
active  business  career  he  engaged  in  farming  and  in  merchandising  and  at  all  times 
was  found  a  most  reliable  and  progressive  business  man.  He  wedded  Miss  Margaret 
Anderson,  who  was  born  in  Iowa.  Like  his  father,  he  was  an  active  supporter  of 
democratic  principles  and  was  a  man  of  energy  and  progressiveness  in  i-elation  to 
all  the  affairs  of  his  community,  doing  his  part  in  every  way  to  promote  the  wel- 
fare and  benefit  of  the  people.  He  died  in  1916,  leaving  behind  him  the  priceless 
heritage  of  an  honest  name  as  well  as  a  substantial  competence  which  he  had  ac- 
quired through  well  directed  business  activity. 

J.  W.  Lyda.  son  of  Jesse  G.  Lyda,  and  the  immediate  subject  of  this  review, 
is  indebted  to  the  district  school  system  for  the  educational  privileges  which  he 
enjoyed.  He  was  reared  under  the  parental  roof  and  at  the  age  of  twenty  years 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Western  Union  Telegraph  Company,  with  which  he  con- 
tinued for  thirteen  years.  He  then  engaged  in  the  hardware  business,  in  which 
he  has  since  continued,  and  throughout  the  intervening  period  has  been  classed 
with  the  representative  merchants  of  Atlanta.  He  carries  a  large  and  well  selected 
line  of  both  shelf  and  heavy  hardware  and  his  reasonable  prices,  his  honorable 
dealing  and  his  earnest  desire  to  please  his  patrons  have  been  salient  features  in  his 
growing  success. 

In  1898  Mr.  Lyda  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Shain,  daughter  of  William  T. 
and  Susan  Shain.  natives  of  Kentucky  and  early  settlers  of  Missouri.  Two  children 
have  been  born  of  this  marriage,   Regina  and  Eugene.      Mr.  Lyda  is  a  member  of 


302  CEXTENXIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

the  Modern  Woodmen  and  his  political  endorsement  is  given  to  the  democratic 
party.  Thus  he  follows  in  the  footsteps  of  his  ancestors  and  likewise  follows  their 
example  in  the  matter  of  progressive  citizenship  and  earnest  support  of  all  plans 
and  measures  for  the  general  good.  His  breadth  of  view  not  only  recognizes  pos- 
sibilities for  his  own  advancement  but  for  the  city's  development  as  well,  and 
his  patriotism  prompts  him  to  utilize  the  latter  as  quickly  and  effectively  as  the 
former. 


JAMES    A.    MOORE. 


James  A.  Moore,  who  for  many  years  figured  prominently  in  agricultural  and 
banking  circles  ,in  Linn  county,  was  but  seven  years  of  age  when  he  came  to  Mis- 
souri with  his  parents,  the  family  home  being  established  upon  what  was  then 
the  western  frontier.  Throughout  his  remaining  days  James  A.  Moore  continued  a 
resident  of  Missouri.  He  was  born,  however,  in  Anderson  county,  Tennessee,  Novem- 
ber 3,  1835,  and  came  of  English  ancestry,  the  family  having  been  founded  in  America 
during  colonial  days.  His  grandfather,  James  Moore,  was  born  in  North  Carolina  and 
at  the  time  of  the  Revolutionary  war  joined  the  colonial  forces  in  the  struggle 
for  independence.  He  afterwards  removed  to  Tennessee,  where  he  engaged  in  farm- 
ing, and  his  last  days  were  spent  in  Alabama,  where  he  lived  for  a  number  of 
years  prior  to  his  death,  which  occurred  when  he  was  well  advanced  in  age.  His 
son,  Joseph  T.  Moore,  the  father  of  James  A.  Moore,  was  born  in  -Alabama,  May  1, 
1791,  and  devoted  his  time  to  the  occupation  of  farming  when  not  engaged  in  mili- 
tary duty.  He  had  the  same  patriotic  spirit  as  his  father  and  at  the  country's  call 
to  arms  for  service  in  the  War  of  1812  he  joined  the  army,  with  which  he  remained 
for  five  years.  He  was  with  General  George  R.  Clarke  at  the  capture  of  Vincennes, 
Indiana,  and  was  there  slightly  wounded  in  the  shoulder.  In  recognition  of  his 
military  service  he  received  a  patent  for  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land  in 
Linn  county,  Missouri,  from  the  government-  Prior  to  this  time  Joseph  Moore 
had  wedded  Jane  Pate,  a  native  of  Alabama,  and  in  1840  came  to  Linn  county 
to  locate  his  land  and  two  years  afterward  brought  his  family  to  his  claim,  driving 
across  country  with  horses  and  oxen  and  bringing  his  live  stock  with  him.  The 
family  first  lived  in  a  tent  but  soon  a  log  cabin  was  built.  The  wife  and  mother 
passed  away  in  1846,  leaving  a  family  of  five  sons  and  a  daughter.  Later  the 
father  married  Miss  Sophia  Root  and  they  became  the  parents  of  four  children. 
As  the  years  passed  Joseph  T.  Moore  became  an  active  factor  in  shaping  the  policy 
and  promoting  the  progress  of  the  district  in  which  he  lived.  He  filled  various 
local  offices  and  tor  three  terms  was  county  judge  of  Linn  county.  He  was  also 
an  active  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  South,  and  died  in  that  faith 
in  1873.  The  land  which  he  received  as  a  grant  from  the  government  is  still  in 
possession  of  his  daughter,   Mrs.   Lee   Taggert,  who   resides   in   Linneus. 

James  A.  Moore  whose  name  introduces  this  review  went  through  the  hardships 
and  privations  of  pioneer  life  and  assisted  his  father  in  the  arduous  task  of  develop- 
ing a  new  farm,  remaining  at  home  until  he  reached  the  age  of  twenty-three  years. 
His  opportunity  for  attending  school  was  limited,  but  he  learned  many  lessons  from 
nature  and  in  the  school  _  of  experience,  and  became  a  well  informed  man.  Two 
years  after  attaining  his  majority  he  purchased  a  tract  of  wild  land  and  with  char- 
acteristic energy  began  to  clear  and  improve  the  property,  living  thereon  for  many 
years.  He  brought  his  land  under  a  high  state  of  cultivation  and  added  to  his 
holdings  from  time  to  time  until  he  was  the  owner  of  fourteen  hundred  acres,  much 
of  which  he  placed  under  the  plow,  and  year  after  year  gathered  abundant  harvests. 
He  also  engaged  quite  extensively  in  the  raising  of  live  stock,  remaining  upon  his 
farm  until  1899,  when  he  removed  to  Brookfield,  but  continued  to  supervise  the  opera- 
tion of  his  farm  and  his  live  stock  interests.  In  1904  he  established  a  private  bank 
in  Brookfield,  which  has  become  one  of  the  substantial  institutions  of  this  part 
of  the   state. 

On  the  17th  of  November,  1858,  James  A.  Moore  was  married  to  Miss  Sarah 
True,  a  native  of  Missouri,  and  they  became  the  parents  of -tour  children:  Mary, 
the  wife  of  Dr.  Powers;  Joseph  W.;  Efiie,  the  wife  of  C.  H.  Jones,  of  Brookfield;  and 
Butler  A.,  deceased. 

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father,  he  was  always  keenly  interested  in  the  welfare  and  progress  of  his  community 
and  contributed  to  all  plans  and  measures  for  the  general  good.  He  passed  away 
November  22,  1919,  and  his  sterling  worth  was  recognized  by  all,  for  he  was  true 
to  every  manly  principle,  his  life  being  fraught  with  good  deeds  and  characterized 
by   honorable   motives. 


PHILIP    R.    TOLL. 


Philip  R.  Toll  is  a  prominent  representative  of  business  interests  in  Kansas  City 
as  chairman  of  the  board  of  the  Badger  Lumber  Company,  controlling  a  most  suc- 
cessful and  extensive  enterprise  with  branch  establishments  in  a  number  of  other 
cities.  He  was  born  in  St.  Joseph  county,  Michigan,  November  22,  1863,  a  son  of 
Alfred  and  Mary  (Lee)  Toll  and  a  grandson  of  Philip  R.  Toll.  The  latter  was  a 
native  of  New  York  and  a  direct  descendant  of  Charles  Hansen  Toll,  who  sailed 
from  Sweden,  was  arrested  by  Algerian  pirates  and  held  for  bounty;  but  escaping 
he  swam  six  miles  to  a  British  merchantman  which  carried  him  to  South  America. 
Thence  he  made  his  way  to  New  York,  where  he  arj-ived  in  1748.  He  secured  large 
grants  of  land  around  the  present  site  of  the.  city  of  Schenectady  and  became  a  very 
prominent  figure  in  the  early  history  of  that  section  of  the  state,  his  name  figuring 
conspicuously  in  its  annals.  Philip  R.  Toll,  the  grandfather  of  Mr.  Toll  of  this 
review,  was  married  in  early  manhood  to  Miss  Nancy  DeGraaf,  also  a  native  of  the 
Empire  state  and  a  representative  of  one  of  the  oldest  and  wealthiest  Holland 
Dutch  families  of  New  York.  Her  brother,  John  S.  DeGraaf,  furnished  the  United 
States  government  with  all  of  the  funds  for  the  equipment  of  the  naval  fleet  on  the 
Great  Lakes  in  the  War  of  1812,  which  enormous  loan  was  never  repaid  until  long 
after  his  death.  He  was  also  one  of  the  organizers  and  a  director  of  the  first 
railroad  built  in  America.  In  the  year  1841  Philip  R.  Toll  and  his  wife  and  family 
left  New  York  to  become  pioneer  settlers  of  St.  Joseph  county,  Michigan,  where 
he  spent  his  remaining  days.  His  wife,  who  was  born  September  17,  1797,  died 
March  27,  1898,  at  the  remarkable  old  age  of  one  hundred  years  six  months  and 
ten  days. 

Their  son.  Alfred  Toll,  acquired  his  education  in  St.  Joseph  county,  Michigan, 
and  in  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana,  returning  from  the  latter  place  to  the  former  and 
there  engaging  in  business  as  a -general  merchant.  He  also  conducted  a  sawmill 
and  flour  mill  there  and  was  a  prominent  and  active  factor  in  business  life  in  that 
localitj'  until  May,  1866,  when  he  removed  to  Hannibal,  Missouri,  where  for  twenty 
years  he  successfully  conducted  a  lumber  business.  In  1873  he  assisted  in  organ- 
izing the  Badger  State  Lumber  Company  at  Hannibal,  with  mills  in  Wisconsin,  and 
in  18  8  6  organized  the  Badger  Lumber  Company  to  conduct  the  retail  yards  of  the  for- 
mer and  handle  the  products  of  its  manufacture  in  the  north,  removing  to  Kansas 
City  to  make  this  the  headquarters  of  the  business.  Through  his  untiring  energy  and 
skillful  manipulation  of  business  interests  the  enterprise  became  one  of  the  largest 
and  best  known  lumber  industries  of  this  part  of  the  country.  Mr.  Toll  also  or- 
ganized the  Fort  Smith  Lumber  Company  of  Fort  Smith,  Arkansas,  operating  four 
mills  and  owning  ninety-four  thousand  acres  of  timber  land.  He  likewise  built  the 
Central  Railroad  of  Arkansas  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  president  of  the  Badger 
Lumber  Company,  the  Fort  Smith  Lumber  Company,  the  Central  Railroad  of 
Arkansas  and  the  Choctaw  Investment  Company,  besides  being  an  officer  and  director 
in  various  other  financial  and  commercial  institutions.  Mr.  Toll  remained  robust 
and  strong  to  the  last,  leading  an  active  and  strenuous  life  until  called  to  the  home 
beyond  on  the  4th  of  March,  1910.  He  had  reached  the  ripe  old  age  of  seventy- 
eight  years,  for  his  birth  occurred  in  Schenectady,  New  York,  January  6,  1832.  The 
splendid  success  which  he  attained  was  the  direct  outcome  of  his  intense  activity, 
intelligently  applied.  Those  who  had  personal  acquaintance  with  him  knew  him 
as  a  man  of  genial  nature,  warm-hearted  and  sympathetic,  holding  friendship  in- 
violable and  manifesting  unfaltering  loyalty  to  every  trust.  Charitable  and  benev- 
olent interests  received  his  generous  support  and  in  matters  of  citizenship  his  posi- 
tion was  never  an  equivocal  one.  He  stood  always  in  support  of  progress  and  im- 
provement and  in  municipal  affairs,  as  in  business  life,  looked  beyond  the  exigen- 
cies of  the  moment  to  the  possibilities  of  the  future.  He  never  sought  to  figure 
in  public  lite,  however,  but  gave  his  time  and  attention  to  his  home  and  his  busi- 


306  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

ness.  He  gradually  worked  his  way  upward  and  the  attainment  of  success  was 
accompanied  by  the  acquirement  of  an  unsullied  reputation  built  upon  his  fulfill- 
ment of  every  obligation  and  his  straight-forward  dealings  in  every  relation.  On 
the  6th  of  January,  18  63.  Mr.  Toll  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Lee,  a  daughter  of 
Warren  and  Eliza  Lee,  of  Maryland. 

Philip  R.  Toll,  whose  name  introduces  this  review,  was  an  only  son  and  has 
fully  sustained  an  honored  family  name.  He  acquired  his  early  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  state  and  then  continued  his  studies  in  the  Kemper 
Militai-y  Academy  of  Boonville,  Missouri,  while  in  1881  he  entered  Columbia  Uni- 
versity of  New  York.  Following  his  graduation  fvom  the  Troy  Polytechnic  Insti- 
tute in  1883  he  became  identified  with  the  great  lumber  industry  established  by 
his  father  and  has  remained  therein  continuously  to  the  present  time,  being  now 
chairman  of  the  board  of  the  Badger  Lumber  Company  of  Kansas  City,  which 
operates  twelve  yards  in  various  parts  of  the  municipality  and  numerous  branches 
in  other  cities.  He  is  likewise  an  officer  and  director  in  a  number  of  banks  and 
commercial  enterprises  and  has  long  been  widely  recognized  as  a  business  man  of 
excellent  executive  ability  and  sound  judgment  whose  prosperity  is  indeed  well 
deserved. 

In  188  6  Mr.  Toll  was  united  in  marriage  to  Grace  Kemper,  a  daughter  of 
Frederick  T.  Kemper,  founder  of  the  Kemper  Military  School  at  Boonville,  Mis- 
souri. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Toll  are  the  parents  of  four  children.  Alfred,  the  eldest,  is  a 
graduate  of  Harvard  University  and  now  acts  as  manager  of  the  city  sales  depart- 
ment of  the  Badger  Lumber  Company.  He  married  Miss  Ethel  Bailey,  by  whom 
he  has  one  child,  Laura  Kemper  Toll.  Emily,  a  graduate  of  Wellesley  College, 
is  the  wife  of  M.  W.  Hopkins,  of  Kansas  City,  and  the  mother  of  one  daughter, 
Grace  Kemper.  Mary  Lee  was  formerly  a  well  known  stage  favorite  but  aban- 
doned her  career  to  become  the  wife  of  Paul  P.  Brinkman.  She  has  one  son,  Philip 
Toll  Brinkman.  Nancy,  the  youngest  of  the  family,  is  also  a  graduate  of  Wellesley 
College. 

In  politics  Mr.  Toll  maintains  an  independent  attitude,  supporting  men  and 
measures  rather  than  party.  Fraternally  he  is  a  Mason,  having  taken  the  degrees 
of  both  the  York  and  Scottish  Rite  bodies  and  belonging  to  Ararat  Temple  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine  in  Kansas  City.  He  is  likewise  identified  with  the  Benevolent  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks  and  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  Kansas  City 
Athletic  Club,  the  Country  Club  and  the  Blue  Hills  Country  Club.  He  is,  more- 
over, an  active  and  interested  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  His  re- 
ligious faith  is  that  of  the  Episcopal  church  and  he  is  now  serving  as  a  member  of 
the  standing  committee  of  this  diocese  and  as  vestryman  of  St.  Paul's  church.  His 
hobby  for  fine  bred  horses  and  dogs  is  evidenced  in  the  tact  that  many  of  the  ani- 
mals which  he  owns  are  notable  prize  winners.  His  interests  are  varied  and  his 
life  record  is  an  exposition  of  high  and  honorable  principles  which  at  all  times  in- 
dicate his  continued  and  unswerving  honor  in  his  relations  with  his  fellowmen 
whether  in  social  or  business  circles. 


CLIFFORD    C.    FOX. 


Clifford  C.  Fox,  president  of  the  Fox-Wohl  Shoe  Company  and  thus  a  factor  in 
the  business  activity  of  St  Louis,  was  born  in  Calera,  Alabama,  March  20,  1888,  and 
is  the  younger  of  the  two  children  whose  parents  were  Herman  and  Rose  (Ham- 
burger) Fox.  The  daughter,  Lillian,  is  now  the  wife  of  Nathan  Coleman,  who  is 
engaged  in  commercial  building  enterprises  under  the  firm  name  of  Coleman  & 
Company,  New  York.  The  father,  Herman  Fox,  was  born  in  Germany  and  came  to 
America  in  18  70.  For  a  considerable  period  he  was  a  successful  retail  merchant 
of  Dalton,  Georgia.  In  1886,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  he  married  Miss  Rose  Ham- 
burger,  a  daughter  of  Solomon   Hamburger. 

Their  son,  Clifford  C.  Fox.  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  and  of  St.  Louis,  pursuing  a  three  and  a  half  years'  course  in  the  high  school 
of  the  latter  city.  He  made  his  initial  step  in  the  business  world  as  an  employe 
of  Hamburger  Brothers,  who  were  then  located  in  St.  Louis  but  are  now  in  Boston. 
Massachusetts.  He  remained  with  that  firm  from  1903  until  1915,  joining  as  a 
stock  clerk,  after  which  he  was  advanced  to  the  position  of  house  salesman  and 
later  city   salesman,   while   finally   he   was   promoted    to   the   responsible   position   of 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  307 

manager.  In  1915  he  decided  to  engage  in  business  on  his  own  account,  feeling 
that  his  experience  as  well  as  his  capital  justified  this  step.  His  capital  was  ob- 
tained entirely  through  his  own  labors,  for  he  started  out  empty-handed.  His 
record  should  serve  as  a  source  of  encouragement  and  inspiration  to  others,  show- 
ing what  may  be  accomplished  by  individual  effort  intelligently  directed.  In  1915 
he  organized  the  Fox-Wohl  Shoe  Company,  of  which  he  became  the  president  and 
treasurer,  and  since  that  tinle  he  has  continuously  served  in  the  dual  position.  The 
firm  conducts  a  wholesale  shoe  business,  handling  particularly  men's  and  women's 
shoes,  and  they  have  built  up  an  extensive  trade,  their  ramifying  business  connec- 
tions covering  a  broad  territory. 

On  the  27th  of  November,  1916,  Mr.  Fox  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Helen 
Glaser,  a  daughter  of  Sigmund  and  Hattie  Glaser,  the  former  a  well  known  mer- 
chant of  St.  Louis,  engaged  in  the  lace  and  embroidery  business  under  the  firm 
name  of  Sigmund  Glaser  &  Company.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fox  now  have  an  interesting 
little   daughter.    Suzanne,   three   and   a   halt   years   of   age. 

Mr.  Fox  is  well  known  as  a  faithful  representative  of  Masonic  interests.  He 
belongs  to  Cornerstone  Lodge,  No.  323,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  in  which  he  was  raised  in 
June,  1918.  In  September,  1919,  he  took  the  Scottish  Rite  degrees  in  Missouri 
Consistory  No.  1  and  he  is  also  a  member  of  Moolah  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 
He  has  membership  with  the  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and  he  is  identi- 
fied with  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Columbian  Club,  the  Sunset  Club,  the  West- 
wood  Club  and  the  Young  Men's  Hebrew  Association.  In  religious  views  he  holds 
to  the  faith  of  his  fathers  and  is  a  member  of  Temple  Israel.  His  political  al- 
legiance is  given  to  the  republican  party,  but  while  he  keeps  well  informed  on  the 
questions  and  issues  of  the  day  and  is  able  to  support  his  position  by  clear  and 
strong  argument,  he  has  never  sought  or  desired  political  preferment  as  a  recogni- 
tion of  party  fealty.  On  the  contrary  he  has  concentrated  his  efforts  and  attention 
upon  business  affairs,  with  sufficient  leisure  to  enjoy  various  social  pleasures  and  to 
bear  his  part  in  support  of  those  activities  and  interests  which  feature  as  matters  of 
civic  virtue  and  civic  pride. 


ROBERT  D.  COBB. 

Robert  D.  Cobb  is  the  gyneral  auditor  of  the  St.  Louis  Southwestern  Railway 
Company,  to  which  position  he  has  steadily  advanced  from  a  minor  place  which  he 
occupied  when  a  youth  of  fifteen,  for  at  that  time  he  started  out  to  provide  for  his 
own  support  as  an  office  boy  with  the  St.  Louis  Iron  Mountain  &  Southern  Railroad. 
He  was  born  in  Stillwater,  Minnesota,  December  8,  1865,  and  during  his  infancy 
was  brought  to  St.  Louis  by  his  parents,  Hiram  and  Henrietta  (Scobee)  Cobb.  The 
father,  who  was  a  native  of  Vermont,  was  for  many  years  a  pilot  on  the  Mississippi 
river  and  died  in  St.  Louis  in  1870.  The  mother,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  passed 
away  in  this  city  in   1919,  having  survived  her  husband  for  almost  a  half  century. 

Robert  D.  Cobb  was  reared  in  St.  Louis  and  attended  the  public  schools  up  to 
the  age  of  fifteen  years,  when  in  1880  he  obtained  employment  as  an  office  boy  with 
the  St.  Louis  Iron  Mountain  &  Southern  Railroad.  He  left  that  road  in  1883  and 
entered  the  employ  of  the  St.  Louis  Southwestern  Railroad  in  a  clerical  capacity.  His 
capability  and  fidelity  won  him  promotion  to  the  position  of  traveling  auditor, 
and  in  1891  he  was  transferred  to  Tyler,  Texas,  and  became  auditor  of  the  road  in 
Texas,  there  continuing  until  May,  1918,  when  he  was  again  sent  to  the  St.  Louis 
offices  and  advanced  to  the  position  of  general  auditor  for  the  company.  From 
the  outset  of  his  business  career  his  work  has  been  characterized  by  efficiency  and 
accuracy,  and  he  has  rendered  most  efficient  service  to  the  corporation  which  he 
has  represented.  He  has  also  become  a  stockholder  in  the  Citizens  National  Bank 
of  Tyler,  Texas,  and  was  one  of  the  directors  of  the  institution  until  he  left  that  place. 

On  the  1st  of  October,  1889,  Mr.  Cobb  was  married  in  St.  Louis,  to  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Harris,  a  daughter  of  Evan  and  Jane  (Johnson)  Harris,  who  own  a  ranch  at 
Broadmoor,  Texas,  where  they  reside.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cobb  have  one  son,  Robert  H. 
Cobb,  who  is  with  the  Brown  Shoe  Company  and  who  resides  with  his  parents  in 
St.   Louis. 

Mr.  Cobb  is  a  democrat  in  his  uolitical  views,  having  always  supported  the 
party    since    attaining    his    majority.      His    religious    belief    is    that    of    the    Baptist 


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church,  and  fraternally  he  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Tyler  Lodge,  at  Tyler,  Texas. 
He  is  well  known  in  club  circles,  having  membership  in  the  Bellerive  Country  Club, 
the  City  Club  and  the  Contemporaiy  Club  ot  St.  Louis,  and  finds  his  recreation 
largely  in  golf. 


J.  P.  FELL. 

J.  P.  Fell  is  a  retired  merchant  ot  Linneus,  who  has  but  recently  disposed  of 
his  store  after  twenty-five  years'  connection  with  the  mercantile  interests  of  the 
city.  He  is  now  the  vice  president  of  the  Superior  Hay  Stacker  Manufacturing 
Company  ot  Linneus  and  is  also  a  director  of  the  Citizens  Bank.  His  life  has 
been  one  of  well  directed  energy  and  thrift  and  his  determination  and  enterprise 
have  constituted  the  foundation  upon  which  he  has  built  his  success.  He  was  born 
in  Pennsylvania  in  1852  and  is  a  son  ot  John  R.  and  Sarah  (Rathburn)  Fell, 
natives  of  Pennsylvania  and  Connecticut  respectively.  They  came  to  Missouri  in 
1865,  settling  in  Livingston  county,  where  the  father  engaged  in  farming  and  there 
spent  his  remaining  days.  He  was  a  school  teacher  in  early  life  but  concentrated 
the  greater  part  of  his  time  and  attention   upon   his  agricultural  pursuits. 

J.  P.  Fell  was  reared  to  manhood  upon  his  father's  farm  and  through  his  boy- 
hood days  was  a  pupil  in  the  district  schools,  thus  qualifying  for  life's  practical  and 
responsible  duties.  After  reaching  his  majority  he  followed  farming  on  his  own 
account  for  several  years  but  in  1888  turned  his  attention  to  merchandising  at 
Wheeling,  Missouri,  where  he  resided  for  seven  years.  He  then  disposed  of  his 
business  and  removed  to  Linneus,  where  he  opened  a  store  which  he  conducted  for  a 
quarter  ot  a  century,  beginning  in  1895.  In  the  year  1920,  he  disposed  of 
his  store  with  the  intention  of  enjoying  a  well  earned  rest,  although  he  still  re- 
tains his  interest  in  the  Superior  Hay  Stacker  Manufacturing  Company  of  Linneus, 
of  which  he  is  vice  president,  and  in  the  Citizens  Bank,  of  which  he  is  a  director. 

In  1872  Mr.  Fell  was  married  to  Miss  Elsie  A.  Johnson,  daughter  of  Gile  and 
Millie  (Rich)  Johnson,  the  former  a  native  of  Connecticut,  while  the  latter  was 
born  in  New  York.  Mr.  Fell  gives  his  political  endorsement  to  the  republican 
party  but  has  never  been  ambitious  to  fill  office.  He  belongs  to  the  Masonic  lodge 
and  also  to  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  and  is  a  most  highly  respected  and 
influential  citizen,  whose  sterling  worth  is  widely  acknowledged  in  Linneus  and 
throughout  Linn  county. 


WARREN   C.    FLYNN. 


Warren  C.  Flynn,  manager  in  St.  Louis  for  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company,  was  born  in  Warren,  Michigan,  October  17,  188.3.  He  is  the 
son  of  John  C.  Flynn,  a  native  of  the  State  of  New  York,  of  Irish  descent.  The 
mother,  formerly  Annie  E.  Jones,  was  born  in  Ireland  of  Scotch  descent.  She  is 
now  living  in  Warren,  Michigan.  The  father  was  a  physician,  a  graduate  of  the 
University  of  Cincinnati.  He  engaged  in  active  practice  in  Warren,  Michigan,  for 
thirty  years,  his  death  occurring  in  1910  at  the  age  of  sixty.  The  family  numbered 
six  children  of  whom  three  are  living,  Warren  C.  being  the  eldest  of  the  family. 

Warren  C.  Flynn  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  Warren,  Michigan, 
and  the  high  school  of  Utica.  Michigan.  Following  his  graduation  from  high  school 
he  attended  the  Gutchess  Business  College  in  Detroit,  and  later  attended  the  Detroit 
College  of  Law  one  year.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  accepted  a  position  as  clerk  in 
the  office  ot  Gage  &  Fischer,  general  agents  in  Detroit  for  the  Northwestern  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company.  Five  years  later,  or  in  1905,  he  came  to  St.  Louis  with 
Mr.  William  J.  Fischer,  one  of  his  former  employers  in  Detroit.  He  continued  with 
Mr.  Fischer  in  various  capacities  in  connection  with  the  Northwestern  Mutual 
Agency  in  St.  Louis  until  1912  when  he  removed  to  Indianapolis  as  manager  at  that 
point  for  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company.  He  continued  in  that 
capacity  for  three  years  when  the  company  placed  him  in  St.  Louis  as  manager  of 
its  agency  at  that  point,  this  change  being  effective  January   1,   1916. 

Mr.  Flynn  was  married  in   St.   Louis,  April    14,   19  09,   to   Miss   Eva   M.   Marsh, 


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daughter  of  James  and  Carrie  Dyer  Marsh;  they  have  one  child,  Warren  C.  Flynn, 
Jr.,  who  was  born  in  St.  Louis  October   20,   1911. 

Mr.  Flynn  has  served  two  terms  as  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Life  Underwriters 
Association,  one  term  as  vice  president  of  the  National  Association  of  Life  Under- 
writers, and  president  for  one  term  of  the  St.  Louis  Kiwanis  Club.  In  September, 
19  20,  he  was  elected  mayor  of  University  City  to  fill  the  unexpired  term  occasioned 
by  the  death  of  Mayor  August  Heman. 

When  America  was  at  war  with  Germany  Mr.  Flynn  was  active  in  advancing 
the  sale  of  Liberty  Loan  bonds.  His  military  record  covers  four  years  service  with 
the  Michigan  National  Guard  as  a  member  of  Company  H  of  the  First  Regiment. 
In  politics  he  maintains  an  independent  course  and  fraternally  he  is  connected 
with  the  Masons,  belonging  to  University  City  Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  also  to 
the  Scottish  Rite  bodies.  He  is  likewise  connected  with  the  Benevolent  Protective 
Order  of  Elks  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  Noonday  Club,  the  City  Club,  The  Kiwanis 
Club  and  the  Bellerive  Country  Club. 


REV.  BYRDINE  AKERS  ABBOTT. 

Rev.  Byrdine  Akers  Abbott,  editor  of  the  Christian  Evangelist,  published  at  St. 
Louis,  this  being  one  of  the  strongest  publications  of  the  Christian  church  in  this 
country,  was  born  in  Craig  county,  Virginia,  January  26,  1866,  and  is  a  son  of 
Sinclair  C.  Abbott,  who  was  born  in  Virginia  and  was  of  Scotch  English  descent. 
In  early  life  Sinclair  C.  Abbott  took  up  the  trade  of  carpentering  and  eventually 
became  a  contractor.  During  the  Civil  war  he  served  with  the  Confederate  troops 
as  a  private  in  Bragg's  army  and  was  wounded  in-  action.  He  participated  in 
the  battles  of  Chattanooga,  Atlanta,  Lexington  and  other  hotly  contested  engage- 
ments and  valorously  defended  the  cause  in  which  he  believed.  He  married  Lucinda 
J.  Williams,  a  lady  of  Welsh  descent,  her  ancestors  having  left  the  little  rock- 
ribbed  country  of  Wales  because  of  religious  persecution,  seeking  freedom  to  wor- 
ship according  to  the  dictates  of  their  conscience  in  Virginia,  their  settlement  being 
made  in  the  mountainous  districts  of  the  Old  Dominion.  Both  the  father  and 
mother  of  Mr.  Abbott  were  descended  from  Revolutionary  war  ancestry.  To  this 
worthy  couple  were  born  ten  children,  seven  sons  and  three  daughters:  Peyton 
B.,  who  was  a  lawyer  of  Winston-Salem,  North  Carolina,  but  is  now  deceased,  leav- 
ing a  widow,  who  in  her  maidenhood  was  Marietta  Chafin;  Frank  L.,  a  lawyer  of 
Roanoke,  Virginia,  who  married  Miss  Lillian  Britts  and  has  departed  this  lite; 
Byrdine  A.,  of  this  review;  R.  E.  Lee,  who  is  the  president  of  the  Virginia  Lumber 
Company  of  Roanoke,  Virginia,  and  who  married  Roberta  Shelburne;  Luther  M., 
a  practicing  physician  of  Newcastle,  Virginia,  who  wedded  Miss  Josie  Rader;  Wade 
Hampton,  a  photographer  of  Abbott,  Virginia,  who  married  Miss  Nancy  Caldwell; 
J.  W.  G.,  who  died  at  the  age  of  six  years;  Edna  E.,  the  deceased  wife  of  Arthur 
M.  Lee,  of  Abbott,  Virginia;  Elizabeth  S.,  the  deceased  wife  of  Robert  O.  Lee,  a 
resident   farmer  of  Abbott,   Virginia;    and   Minnie   B.,   who   has  also   passed   away. 

Byrdine  A.  Abbott  pursued  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Craig 
county,  Virginia,  and  from  1883  until  1886  attended  Milligan  College  at  Milligan, 
Tennessee,  winning  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  From  1886  until  1888  he 
taught  school  in  his  native  county  and  through  the  succeeding  two  years  was  a 
student  in  the  University  of  Virginia  at  Charlottesville,  there  pursuing  special 
courses  in  logic,  psychology  and  ethics  until  qualified  for  graduation. 

In  the  meantime  Mr.  Abbott  had  entered  upon  the  active  work  of  the  ministry 
and  from  1888  until  1894  was  pastor  of  the  Christian  church  at  Charlottesville, 
Virginia.  In  the  latter  year  he  went  to  Baltimore,  Maryland,  to  accept  the  pastor- 
ate of  the  Harlem  Avenue  Christian  church,  with  which  he  was  connected  for 
sixteen  years  or  until  1910.  He  then  came  to  St.  Louis  as  pastor  of  the  Union 
Avenue  Christian  church,  occupying  its  pulpit  until  1917.  In  the  latter  year  he 
became  editor  of  the  Christian  Evangelist,  published  in  this  city,  and  has  since 
continued  his  editorial  work  most  successfully.  He  has  charge  of  the  entire  scope 
and  plan  of  the  above  paper,  which  is  widely  read  among  the  representatives  of 
the  denomination  and  has  a  circulation  that  extends  to  nearly  every  country  on 
the  face  of  the  globe.  Mr.  Abbott  has  made  the  Evangelist  one  of  the  strong 
forces   of  the  church,   his  editorials   being  always   read   with   interest,   while,   more- 


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over,  he  has  the  ability  to  assemble  in  the  printed  sheet  many  articles  of  recognized 
value  to  the  brotherhood.  Mr.  Abbott  is  also  the  author  of  a  biography  of  the 
Rev.  C.  S.  Lucas  and  has  edited  a  number  of  books.  He  is  likewise  widely  known 
as  a  lecturer  throughout  the  country  upon  general  topics,  including  those  of  both 
religious  and  social  Interest.  While  America  was  at  war  with  Germany  he  regu- 
larly set  aside  a  space  every  week  for  matters  pertaining  to  the  government  and 
he  was  a  liberal  subscriber  to  all  war  activities.  He  is  an  advocate  of  the  League 
of  Nations  and  has  made  many  speeches  in  behalf  thereof  throughout  the  country. 

On  the  1st  of  July.  1888,  Mr.  Abbott  was  married  at  Newcastle,  Virginia,  to 
Miss  Ollie  C.  Carper  and  to  them  were  born  six  children,  five  sons  and  a  daughter; 
two  sons  died  in  infancy,  Frederick  B.  Abbott,  a  well  known  surgeon,  served  for 
one  year  as  a  first  lieutenant  in  the  British  army,  then  enlisted  in  the  American 
army  as  first  lieutenant  and  rose  to  a  captaincy.  He  was  a  surgeon  with  Unit  21 
and  was  afterward  transferred  to  Mobile  Hospital  No.  4.  He  was  in  all  of  the 
drives  in  which  the  American  forces  participated  save  that  at  Chateau  Thierry. 
He  followed  the  army  until  he  was  gassed  in  the  Argonne  Woods  on  the  28th  of 
October,  1918,  and  died  as  the  result  June  30,  1920;  Crystal  C,  the  only  daughter, 
did  very  active  war  work;  Lyman  S.,  now  a  practicing  physician  of  Baltimore, 
Maryland,  enlisted  in  the  army  but  was  kept  in  school  as  a  medical  student;  Robert 
D.  served  with  the  Marines  and  tor  a  ye^r  was  with  the  American  Expeditionary 
Forces  In  France.  On  the  12th  of  September,  1910,  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  Mr. 
Abbott  was  married  to  Miss  Helen  B.  Ireland,  his  first  wife  having  passed  away 
some  years  previous.     They  have  become  parents  of  a  daughter,  Jane  Bancroft. 

In  politics  Mr.  Abbott  is  an  independent  democrat.  He  belongs  to  the  Union 
Avenue  Christian  church,  in  which  he  is  now  serving  as  elder.  His  entire  life 
has  been  devoted  to  those  uplifting  influences  which  make  for  the  moral  progress 
of  the  individual  and  the  race,  nor  has  he  been  denied  the  full  harvest  nor  the 
aftermath  of  his  labors.  Various  churches  have  felt  the  stimulus  of  his  activity 
during  his  ministerial  connection  therewith,  and  as  editor  in  chief  of  the  Christian 
Evangelist  his  words  are  proving  an  influencing  factor  in  the  lives  of  individuals 
and  in  the  promotion  of  the  cause. 


HON.  JAMES   MARCUS   JOHNSON. 

Hon.  James  Marcus  Johnson,  regarded  as  one  of  the  ablest  judges  that  Missouri 
has  ever  produced  and  now  successfully  practicing  law  in  Kansas  City,  was  born 
in  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  July  5,  1862.  His  father,  James  B.  Johnson,  was  a  native 
of  Virginia  who  In  1856  came  to  Missouri,  settling  in  St.  Joseph,  where  he  engaged 
in  the  stone  and  marble  business.  He  was  a  son  of  James  Johnson,  Sr.,  also  a  native 
of  the  Old  Dominion,  and  the  ancestral  line  can  be  traced  back  to  colonial  days. 
James  B.  Johnson  was  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  and  he  also  belonged  to  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  his  life  being  guided  by  the  teachings  and  high  purposes  of  the 
order  and  of  the  church.  He  married  Henrietta  M.  Albertson,  who  was  born  in 
Indiana  and  is  now  living  in  California,  but  Mr.  Johnson  passed  away  in  1895.  In 
their  family  were  eight  children,  four  of  whom  are   yet   living. 

James  Marcus  Johnson  was  educated  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  St. 
Joseph,  Missouri,  and,  attracted  to  the  legal  profession,  he  began  preparation  for  the 
bar.  He  read  law  under  the  direction  of  the  firm  of  Crosby  &  Rusk,  of  St.  Joseph, 
and  was  admitted  to  practice  on  the  7th  of  January,  1884.  He  then  entered  upon 
the  active  work  of  the  courts  in  his  native  city,  where  he  remained  from  1884  until 
1905,  when  he  was  elected  judge  of  the  Kansas  City  court  of  appeals  and  remained 
upon  the  bench  tor  twelve  years.  He  possesses  a  brilliant  mind.  Is  an  omniverous 
reader  and  has  ever  been  a  diligent  student.  This  has  given  him  wide  general 
culture  and  broad  legal  learning.  In  practice  he  has  succeeded  because  of  careful 
preparation,  experience,  fair-mindedness,  a  knowledge  of  human  nature,  ingenuity 
and  an  attractive  personality.  He  has  continued  in  the  general  work  of  the  courts 
and  is  formidable  both  before  court  and  jury.  Methodical  and  painstaking,  the 
thorough  preparation  of  his  cases  has  ever  been  one  of  his  strong  points  in  the  attain- 
ment of  success  at  the  bar  and  in  his  judicial  position  he  was  the  embodiment  of  recti- 
tude and  judicial  propriety.  Retiring  from  the  bench  on  the  1st  of  January,  1917, 
he   resumed   the   active   practice   of   law,    in   which   he   is    now   engaged,   his   clientage 


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being  of  a  very  extensive  and  most  important  character.  He  rendered  over  fifteen 
hundred  opinions  while  judge  of  the  court  of  appeals  and  his  court  was  never 
behind  its  docket.  He  averaged  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  opinions  yearly,  while 
the  average  for  appellate  courts  is  but  thirty-five.  His  opinions  are  models  of  English 
as  well  as  sound  legal  exposition.  He  is  a  prolific  writer  and  lecturer  on  jurisprudence, 
history  and  literature.  He  lectures  upon  The  Trial  of  Christ  and  other  religious 
and  secular  subjects,  including  Shakespeare.  He  lectures  before  the  Men's  Bible 
Class  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  church  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  faculty  and  lecturer 
on  equity,  court  practice,   pleadings,  etc.,  in   the   Kansas   City   School  of  Law. 

On  the  30th  of  November,  1887,  Judge  Johnson  was  married  to  Miss  Jessie  Am- 
brose, daughter  of  James  W.  Ambrose,  president  of  the  Ambrose  Manufacturing 
Company  of  St.  Joseph  and  a  representative  of  one  of  the  pioneer  families  there.  They 
have  become  the  parents  of  four  children.  Donald  W.,  a  graduate  of  the  Missouri 
State  University  now  associated  with  his  father  in  law  practice,  was  married  October 
26,  1915,  to  Miss  Reeve  Alexander  and  they  have  one  child,  June  Janet.  Elsa,  the 
second  of  the  family,  is  the  wife  of  Harry  E.  Marshall,  of  Seattle,  Washington. 
Jessie  Clayton  is  now  a  student  in  the  University  of  Missouri.  Sherratt  M.  is  attend- 
ing law  school  and  also  studying  in  his  father's  office. 

The  family  are  communicants  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  church  and  Judge  Johnson 
gives  his  political  allegiance  to  the  republican  party.  He  is  a  finished  and  interesting 
public  speaker,  more  instructive  than  stirring  in  his  appeals  but  capable  of  persuad- 
ing people  by  appeal  to  their  reason  and  finer  sensibility.  He  is  much  interested 
in  all  those  agencies  which  make  for  the  uplift  of  the  individual  and  the  betterment 
of  the  community  and  he  has,  moreover,  been  most  active  in  Armenian  relief  work. 
He  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City,  the  Missouri  State  and  American  Bar  Associations. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Historical  Society,  of  which  he  served  as  vice 
president,  and  of  the  Missouri  Valley  Historical  Society.  His  success,  which  does 
not  merely  cover  his  profession  but  extends  to  every  field  into  which  he  has  directed 
his  activities,  may  be  attributed  to  a  rare  capacity  for  making  and  retaining  friends, 
to  a  very  alert,  well  trained  and  powerful  mind,  to  a  vigorous  imagination  and  a 
courage  which  never  flags,  combined  with  a  gift  of  expression  in  both  writing 
and  speech  which  perfectly  serves  him  in  every  necessity. 


ROBERT   PRYOR  COMBS. 


Robert  Pryor  Combs,  vice  president  of  the  Peoples  Trust  Company  of  Kansas 
City,  was  born  in  Campbellsburg,  Kentucky,  October  13,  1888.  He  is  a  son  of 
Rev.  George  H.  Combs,  a  native  of  Kentucky  and  a  grandson  of  William  Pryor 
Combs.  The  former,  a  minister  of  the  Christian  church,  was  for  twenty-five  years 
pastor  of  the  Independence  Boulevard  Christian  church,  of  Kansas  City,  one  of  the 
largest  congregations  of  that  denomination  in  the  country.  He  is  now  living  re- 
tired in  Kansas  City.  He  married  Martha  Miller  Stapp,  who  was  born  at  Crab 
Orchard,  Kentucky,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  three  children. 

This  number  included  Robert  Pryor  Combs,  who  in  the  acquirement  of  his 
education  attended  the  public  schools  of  Kansas  City  until  he  had  completed  the 
high  school  course.  He  afterward  entered  the  School  of  Law  of  the  University  of 
Missouri  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1909.  He  started  upon  his  business  career 
in  the  employ  of  the  Long-Bell  Lumber  Company,  one  of  the  foremost  concerns 
of  the  kind  in  the  west.  After  remaining  with  that  corporation  for  a  short  time 
he  spent  a  year  in  the  American  National  Bank  of  Kansas  City  and  then  became 
identified  with  the  Pioneer  Trust  Company  of  Kansas  City,  with  which  he  continued 
for  two  years.  His  next  step-  brought  him  into  active  connection  with  the  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Commerce,  the  leading  financial  institution  of  Kansas  City,  and 
later  he  spent  three  years  in  the  Commercial  National  Bank  of  Hutchinson,  Kansas. 
He  afterward  was  elected  to  the  vice  presidency  of  the  Terminal  Trust  Company, 
occupying  that  office  for  a  number  of  years.  He  joined  the  United  States  army 
during  the  World  war  as  a  first  lieutenant  of  the  Field  Artillery  and  was  on  duty 
at  Camp  Dodge,  Iowa.  On  the  15th  of  January,  1919,  he  came  to  the  Peoples 
Trust  Company  as  vice  president.  This  is  one  of  the  recently  organized  financial 
institutions  of  Kansas  City,  having  been  in  existence  for  three  years.  At  its  head, 
however,   are  men  of  marked  ability  and  of  strong  financial  standing.      The  oflrtcers 


316  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

of  the  company  are:  Charles  S.  Alves,  president;  R.  P.  Combs  and  W.  T.  Grant, 
vice  presidents;  Aldridge  Corder.  secretary;  Wilson  D.  Wood,  treasurer;  and  J.  C. 
Davis,  assistant  secretary.  The  bank  is  capitalized  for  two  hundred  and  fifty  thou- 
sand dollars  and  has  a  surplus  of  fifty  thousand  dollars  and  surplus  and  profits 
of  one  hundred  and  one  thousand,  nine  hundred  and  si.'c  dollars,  while  its  deposits 
reach  four  million,  seven  hundred  and  eighty-four  thousand,  five  hundred  and 
fifty-six  dollars.  The  Western  Financier  said:  "The  Peoples  Trust  Company  has 
strengthened  its  official  family  materially  by  the  election  of  R.  P.  Combs,  vice 
president.  He  has  had  a  large  local  banking  experience,  starting  with  the  American 
National  Bank  in  1906,  then  with  the  Pioneer  Trust  and  the  National  Bank  of 
Commerce  and  later  as  vice  president  of  the  Terminal  Trust  Company  for  two 
years.  He  was  called  into  the  service  from  there  and  served  on  Admiral  Samuel 
McGowan's  staff  at  Washington  as  a  lieutenant  in  the  United  States  navy.  He 
returned  to  Kansas  City  recently  and  was  elected  to  his  present  oflice  January  15, 
1919." 

On  the  30th  of  June,  1917,  Mr.  Combs  was  married  to  Miss  Loula  Long,  a 
daughter  of  R.  A.  Long,  the  great  lumber  merchant  and  philanthropist  of  Kansas 
City.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Combs,  are  members  of  the  Independence  Avenue  Christian 
church,  in  which  he  is  serving  as  deacon.  He  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City,  Mid-Day 
and  Blue  Hills  Country  Clubs  and  is  prominently  known  in  the  social  life  of  Kansas 
City.  He  is  also  connected  with  the  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  of  the  University  of 
Missouri. 


JUDGE  ALLEN   C.    SOUTHERN. 

Judge  Allen  C.  Southern,  residing  in  Independence,  Missouri,  presides  over 
division  No.  5  of  the  circuit  court  of  the  sixteenth  judicial  circuit.  He  was  born 
in  Jackson  county,  Missouri,  September  9,  1878,  his  parents  being  John  N.  and 
Martha  (Allen)  Southern,  who  came  to  this  state  in  1866  from  Tennessee.  The 
father  was  a  member  of  the  bar  in  Tennessee  prior  to  the  Civil  war,  when  he  joined 
the  Confederate  army  and  served  in  Longstreet's  division,  sustaining  an  injury 
■which  crippled  him  for  life.  This  did  not  prevent  his  activity  in  public  matters, 
however,  and  for  many  years  he  was  recognized  as  a  most  Influential  factor  in  the 
development  and  public  interests  of  the  state. 

Allen  C.  Southern  obtained  a  public  school  education  in  Jackson  county  and 
attended  the  high  schools  of  Independence  and  Kansas  City,  Missouri.  Later  he 
attended  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1900.  He 
then  entered  upon  the  general  practice  of  his  profession  in  Independence  and  after- 
ward became  secretary  to  the  Hon.  W.  S.  Cowherd,  congressman  from  the  fifth 
district  of  Missouri,  during  his  term  of  office.  Mr.  Southern  filled  the  position  of 
city  counselor  of  Independence  from  1909  until  1913  and  in  September  of  the  latter 
year  was  appointed  judge  of  the  circuit  court  of  the  sixteenth  judicial  circuit  and 
assigned  to  division  No.  6,  thus  serving  until  the  election  of  1914.  In  1915  he 
was  appointed  county  engineer  by  the  governor  in  order  to  clean  up  matters  in 
connection  with  the  highway  work  of  Jackson  county.  He  put  up  such  a  strong 
fight  for  what  was  right  that  the  opponents  .tried  to  have  him  removed  from  office 
and  took  the  matter  into  the  courts,  but  his  course  was  sustained  by  the  state 
supreme  court  and  the  contest  against  him  was  abandoned.  In  May,  1916,  he 
was  appointed  judge  of  the  sixteenth  judicial  circuit  and  assigned  to  division  No.  5. 
At  the  next  election  he  was  chosen  by  popular  suffrage  to  the  same  position  and 
was  reelected  in  1918  for  a  six  year  term,  beginning  on  the  1st  of  January,  1919. 
His  course  on  the  bench  has  been  characterized  by  the  same  qualities  that  have 
marked  his  other  public  service — unfaltering  devotion  to  duty  and  a  high  sense 
of  right  and  justice.  He  is  quiet  and  retiring  in  manner,  a  good  listener  and  one 
who  gives  both  sides  of  any  question  a  fair  and  impartial  hearing.  Absolutely 
honest  and  fearless  in  defense  of  what  he  believes  to  be  right,  he  has  always  fol- 
lowed constructive  methods  and  seeks  to  upbuild  rather  than  to  tear  down  in  at- 
taining the  ends  in  which  he  believes. 

At  Independence,  Missouri,  on  the  2d  of  June,  1904,  Judge  Southern  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Retta  Latimer,  a  daughter  of  Judge  James  Latimer,  of  Jackson  county, 
who  sei'\'ed  as  judge  of  the  county  court  for  two  terms.     He  was  a  native  of  Virginia 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  317 

and  belonged  to  the  old  Latimer  family  of  that  state.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Southern 
have  been  born  two  sons:  James  Allen,  fourteen  years  of  age;  and  John  Nelson, 
a  lad  of  eleven,  both  now  attending  school  at  Independence. 

The  religious  faith  of  the  family  is  that  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  for 
thirty  years  Judge  Southern  has  been  a  member  thereof.  His  political  support  is 
given  to  the  democratic  party.  Fraternally  he  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  the  lodge, 
chapter,  commandery  and  to  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  has  membership  in  the  City 
Club  of  Kansas  City  and  also  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City,  Missouri  State  and  Ameri- 
can Bar  Associations.  He  finds  recreation  in  hunting  and  fishing,  but  allows  noth- 
ing to  interfere  with  the  faithful  performance  of  his  professional  duties,  which 
are  of  an  important  character  and  are  discharged  with  a  marked  sense  of  con- 
scientious obligation. 


THOMAS  ADOLPH  KNOBELOCH. 

Thomas  Adolph  Knobeloch,  of  the  investment  firm  of  T.  A.  Knobeloch  & 
Company  was  born  at  Belleville.  Illinois,  August  10,  1895.  His  grandfather  was 
born  in  Germany  and  came  to  the  United  States  with  his  parents  about  1838,  settling 
in  Illinois,  where  his  son  Adolph  Knobeloch  still  resides.  Adolph  Knobeloch  was 
born  in  Belleville  where  he  has  been  active  in  business  circles,  and  is  now  con- 
nected with  the  First  National  Bank  of  that  city.  He  married  Pauline  Tiejpann, 
whose  father  was  a  native  of  Germany,  coming  to  the  United  States  in  1865,  and 
he  is  living  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-five  years. 

Thomas  Adolph  Knobeloch  was  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  of  Belleville  to 
the  age  of  fourteen  years  and  afterward  spent  three  years  as  a  student  in  the 
Morgan  Park  Military  Academy  near  Chicago,  while  later  he  pursued  a  two-years 
business  course  at  the  Univei-sity  of  Illinois,  completing  his  studies  there  in  1916. 
He  then  entered  the  real  estate  business  with  his  father,  with  headquarters  at 
Memphis,  Tennessee,  where  they  specialized  in  handling  large  plantations,  doing  an 
extensive  business  of  this  character  in  Mississippi  and  Arkansas.  When  America 
entered  the  World  war,  Mr.  Knobeloch  responded  to  the  call  to  the  colors  and  on 
the  25th  of  May,  1917,  was  assigned  to  Camp  Shelby,  Mississippi,  and  placed  in 
the  Reserve  Officers  Training  School  at  Camp  Taylor,  Louisville,  Kentucky.  There 
he  remained  for  four  months  being  trained  for  the  artillery  service.  He  received 
a  commission  as  second  lieutenant  and  was  assigned  to  instruction  work  at  Camp 
Jackson,  South  Carolina,   where  he  remained   until  discharged  December  8,   1918. 

When  the  country  no  longer  needed  his  military  aid,  Mr.  Knobeloch  came  to 
St.  Louis  and  here  took  up  the  real  estate  business  with  H.  E.  Prettyman,  with 
whom  he  remained  until  he  formed  his  present  company  in  the  fall  of  19  20,  under 
the  name  of  T.  A.  Knobeloch  &  Company  which  consists  of  three  partners,  Mr. 
Knobeloch,  W.  Blodgett  Priest  and  C.  Ray  Miller  doing  a  general  high  class  munici- 
pal investment  business. 

Mr.  Knobeloch  gives  his  political  support  to  the  republican  party,  but  has 
never  been  an  office  seeker.  He  belongs  to  the  Presbyterian  church  and  is  a  thirty- 
second  degree  Mason,  holding  membership  in  the  Missouri  Consistory,  also  Moolah 
Temple,  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order 
of  Elks,  and  is  identified  with  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Sunset  Hill  Country 
Club  and  Missouri  Athletic  Association.  His  various  membership  connections  in- 
dicate the  trend  of  his  interests  outside  of  business  and  the  high  principles  which 
govern  him  in  every  relation  of  life. 


J.    HOWARD   HOLMES. 


J.  Howard  Holmes,  of  St.  Louis,  is  the  vice  president  of  the  J.  A.  Holmes 
Lumber  Company  and  throughout  his  business  career  has  been  identified  with  this 
enterprise.  By  reason  of  his  sound  and  discriminating,  judgment,  his  diligence 
and  close  application  he  has  contributed  in  substantial  measure  to  the  success  of 
the  undertaking.  St.  Louis  claims  him  as  a  native  son,  his  birth  having  here  oc- 
curred  July   9,    1876.     He   comes   of   Scotch   Irish   ancestry,   his   father   being   John 


318  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

A.  Holmes,  now  deceased,  who  arrived  in  St.  Louis  in  1859,  removing  to  this  city 
from  Pennsylvania.  He  was  the  founder  of  the  J.  A.  Holmes  Lumber  Company, 
which  has  since  been  successfully  operated.  During  the  Civil  war  John  A.  Holmes 
was  a  member  of  the  Home  Guard  throughout  the  entire  period  of  hostilities.  He 
wedded  Belle  Robb  and  they  had  a  family  of  four  children,  two  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters, of  whom  J.  Howard  is  the  youngest.  The  others  are:  Robert,  who  is 
president  of  the  J.  A.  Holmes  Lumber  Company  and  who  wedded  Caro  Nichols; 
Belle,  the  widow  of  William  H.  Keech;  and  Florence  R.,  who  is  the  wife  of  Dr. 
Frederick   Woodruff,   an  oculist. 

J.  Howard  Holmes  enjoyed  the  educational  opportunities  offered  by  Smith 
Academy  and  later  spent  two  years  as  a  student  in  Hamilton  College  of  New  York, 
after  which  he  matriculated  in  Cornell  University  at  Ithaca,  New  York,  and  was 
there  graduated  in  June,  1899,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  He  initiated 
his  business  experience  as  a  clerk  with  the  J.  A.  Holmes  Lumber  Company  of  St. 
Louis,  of  which  liis  father-  was  founder,  and  continued  to  act  in  a  clerical  capacity 
until  1909,  when  he  was  elected  to  the  position  of  treasurer,  thus  serving  until 
1912,  when  he  was  chosen  vice  president.  In  this  capacity  he  has  served  to  the 
present  time  and  as  the  second  executive  head  is  largely  directing  the  affairs  of 
the  company,  which  controls  a  very  substantial  and  gratifying  business.  The  trade 
connections  of  the  house  have  gradually  developed  with  the  passing  years  and  the 
firm  occupies  a  prominent  place  in  lumber  circles.  J.  Howard  Holmes  Is  also  a 
director  of  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce  of  St.  Louis  and  a  director  of  the 
Hydraulic  Press  Brick  Company.  His  business  connections  have  thus  become  of 
an  important  character,  and  the  soundness  of  his  judgment  and  the  progressiveness 
of  his  methods  are  uniformly  recognized  tacts. 

In  Cleveland,  Ohio,  on  the  14th  of  October,  1903,  Mr.  Holmes  was  married 
to  Miss  Mary  Brooks,  a  daughter  of  Arthur  S.  Brooks,  who  was  formerly  engaged 
in  the  wholesale  stationery  business  and  is  now  deceased.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Holmes 
have  become  parents  of  a  daughter,  Mary  Brooks,  born  September  25,  1907,  and 
now   a   pupil   in   Mary   Institute. 

During  the  period  of  the  World  war  Mr.  Holmes  entered  the  aviation  service 
of  the  United  States,  and  was  commissioned  first  lieutenant  and  assigned  to  duty 
at  the  Speedway  in  Indianapolis.  Politically  he  is  a  republican  and  his  religious 
belief  is  indicated  in  his  membership  in  the  Second  Presbyterian  church  of  St.  Louis 
at  Taylor  and  Westminster  avenues.  He  is  likewise  an  exemplary  follower  of 
Tuscan  Lodge  No.  360,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  his  interest  in  community  affairs  and 
the  progress  of  St.  Louis  is  shown  by  his  membership  connection  with  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce.  That  he  is  appreciative  of  the  social  amenities  of  life  is  manifest 
in  his  membership  in  the  Racquet  and  Country  Clubs  and  the  Missouri  Athletic 
Association.  His  entire  life  has  been  passed  in  St.  Louis,  where  he  has  many 
friends,  and  that  his  career  is  a  worthy  one  is  shown  in  the  fact  that  many  of 
his  stanchest  friends  are  those  who  have  known  him  from  his  boyhood  to  the 
present   time. 


W.   CLAY  WOODS. 


W.  Clay  Woods,  president  of  the  Security  National  Bank  of  Kansas  City,  was 
born  October  8,  1884,  and  is  a  representative  of  one  of  the  old  families  of  the  city, 
where  the  name  has  figured  prominently  in  connection  with  the  commercial  and 
financial  development.  His  father.  William  S.  Woods,  chairman  of  the  board  of 
Security  National  Bank,  is  mentioned  at  length  on  another  page  of  this  work.  In 
the  acquirement  of  his  education  W.  Clay  Woods  attended  the  public  schools,  pass- 
ing through  consecutive  grades  to  the  high  school,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
with  the  class  of  1900.  He  afterward  pursued  a  classical  course  in  Harvard  Uni- 
versity, and  thus  well  equipped  for  life's  practical  and  responsible  duties  by  liberal 
educational  training,  he  returned  to  Missouri  and  concentrated  his  efforts  upon 
agricultural  interests,  conducting  an  extensive  farm  in  Clay  county  tor  ten  years. 
He  introduced  the  most  progressive  and  scientific  methods  in  the  development  of 
his  fields  and  the  care  of  his  crops,  his  activities  being  crowned  with  notable  suc- 
cess. He  still  makes  his  home  upon  the  farm,  which  is  one  of  the  valuable  prop- 
erties in  that  section  of  the  state.  While  his  father  was  a  man  of  wealth,  he 
recognized  the  worth  of  thorough   business  training   for  every   individual   and   thus 


W.  CLAY  WOODS 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  321 

it  was  that  W.  Clay  Woods  took  up  the  practical  duties  of  business  life,  his  powers 
and  knowledge  being  developed  through  actual  experience.  Broadening  his  con- 
nections, he  has  become  founder  or  officer  or  director  in  many  country  banks  and 
is  the  president  of  the  National  Bank  of  North  Kansas  City,  which  is  capitalized 
for  twenty-five  thousand  dollars  and  has  total  resources  of  three  hundred  and 
twenty-eight  thousand  dollars.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Bank  of  Nashua,  the 
Farmers  Bank  of  Smithville,  of  which  he  was  formerly  vice  president,  and  of  the 
Platte  County  State  Bank.  He  is  likewise  financially  Interested  in  other  leading 
moneyed  institutions  of  the  state  and  occupies  an  enviable  position  as  a  financier 
of  Kansas  City  as  president  of  the  Security  National  Bank. 

In  190S  Mr.  Woods  was  married  to  Miss  Roxy  Thompson,  daughter  of  Judge 
Isaac  B.  Thompson,  of  Clay  county,  and  they  have  one  son,  William  C,  now  eight 
years  of  age.  Mr.  Woods  is  a  member  and  liberal  supporter  of  the  Troost  Avenue 
Methodist  Episcopal  church.  He  takes  an  active  interest  in  Clay  county  politics 
as  a  supporter  of  the  democratic  party  and  he  is  well  known  in  club  circles,  be- 
longing to  the  Mission  Hill  Country  Club,  the  Kansas  City  Club  and  the  Knife  and 
Pork  Club.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Kansas  City 
and  cooperates  heartily  in  all  of  its  well  defined  plans  and  projects  for  the  upbuild- 
ing of  the  city.  He  finds  his  chief  recreation  and  interest,  aside  from  banking, 
in  his  farm  and  his  activities  along  that  line  have  largely  set  a  standard  for  others. 
His  progressiveness  has  resulted  from  a  thorough  understanding  of  the  scientific 
principles  back  of  crop  production  and  his  farm  has  become  to  him  a  matter  of 
pleasurable  pride.  His  personality  makes  for  popularity  and  his  democratic  spirit 
causes  him  to  judge  men  not  by  their  wealth  but  by  their  worth. 


VIRGIL  WARREN  MfcCARTY,  M.  D. 

Virgil  Warren  McCarty,  a  Kansas  City  physician  and  surgeon,  was  born  at 
Shamrock,  Calloway  county,  Missouri,  January  30,  1886,  a  son  of  Alfred  M.  and 
Lou.  E.  (Patton)  McCarty,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Montgomery  county, 
Missouri,  and  both  representatives  of  old  Virginia  families.  The  father  engaged 
in  merchandising  at  Hot  Springs  and  afterward  at  Oelrichs,  South  Dakota,  where 
he  owned  and  conducted  several  mercantile  establishments  and  was  also  the  owner 
of  a  large  ranch.  Subsequently  he  removed  to  Kansas  and  eventually  went  to 
Caldwell,  Idaho,  where  he  is  now  living  retired.  For  many  years  he  was  closely 
associated  with  commercial  and  agricultural  interests  and  the  careful  direction  of 
his  business  affairs  won  for  him  the  success  that  now  enables  him  to  rest  from 
further  labors.  Moreover,  he  has  taken  active  and  helpful  part  in  promoting 
public  projects  in  every  community  in  which  he  has  lived. 

Dr.  McCarty  of  this  review  attended  the  schools  of  Hot  Springs,  South  Dakota, 
the  high  school  of  lola,  Kansas,  and  the  University  of  Kansas  from  which  he  won 
his  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree,  while  in  1912  the  M.  D.  degree  was  conferred  upon 
him.  thus  proclaiming  the  completion  of  his  medical  course.  In  the  following  year 
he  went  abroad  for  study,  spending  1913  and  1914  in  post-graduate  work  in  Vienna, 
Leipzig  and  Berlin,  where  he  specialized  on  diseases  of  the  ear,  nose  and  throat. 
With  his  return  to  his  native  country  he  located  for  practice  in  Kansas  City  and 
has  won  a  well  merited  reputation  as  an  aurist  and  laryngologist.  He  is  attending 
oto-laryngologist  at  the  Mercy  and  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  also  at  the  Bell  Memorial 
Hospital  and  is  assistant  in  ear,  nose  and  throat  at  the  University  of  Kansas. 

During  the  war  period  Dr.  McCarty  was  commissioned  a  first  lieutenant  in 
1918  and  was  at  Camp  Pike,  receiving  his  discharge  in  April,  1919.  His  work  was 
in  connection  with  diseases  of  the  ear,  nose  and  throat,  he  being  identified  with 
the  Base  Hospital  at  Camp  Pike.  He  belongs  to  Fitzsimmons  Post  of  the  American 
Legion.  When  attending  the  Kansas  University  he  was  a  classmate  of  Lieutenant 
Fitzsimmons,  for  whom  the  post  was  named.  Dr.  McCarty  belongs  to  the  Jackson 
county,  Missouri,  State  and  American  Medical  Associations;  also  to  the  Kansas 
City  Ear,  Nose  and  Throat  Club;  and  to  two  Greek  letter  fraternities,  Nu  Sigma 
Nu  and  the  Sigma  Xi. 

Dr.  McCarty  was  married  in  Lawrence,  Kansas,  to  Miss  Bernice  Mary  French, 
a  daughter  of  Frank  and  Marie  (O'Brien)  French,  who  were  natives  of  Connecticut 
and  of  Illinois,  respectively,  the  father  being  a  photographer  of  Lawrence,  Kansas. 


322  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  McCarty  have  one  son,  John.  In  politics  he  has  usually  voted  with 
the  democratic  party  but  is  not  altogether  in  sympatliy  with  certain  measures  of 
the  party  at  the  present  time.  He  belongs  to  the  First  Congregational  church  and 
all  who  know  him  speak  ot  him  in  terms  of  high  and  well  merited  regard. 


EDWIN  M.   LOMAX. 


Banking  institutions  have  been  termed  the  heart  of  the  commercial  body,  in- 
dicating the  healthtulness  of  trade.  Nothing  does  more  to  stabilize  business  and 
promote  steady  progress  than  the  bank  that  is  conducted  along  progressive  lines 
yet  tempered  by  a  safe  conservatism.  Such  is  the  record  ot  the  Linn  County  Bank 
of  Brookfleld,  of  which  Edwin  M.  Lomax  is  the  president.  He  is  a  native  son  ot 
Missouri,  having  been  born  upon  a  farm  near  Laclede,  September  30,  1867,  his 
parents  being  H.  C.  and  Matilda  A.  (Turner)  Lomax.  The  father  was  born  in 
Adams  county,  Illinois,  September  21,  1844,  and  was  a  son  of  John  and  Anna 
(Shank)  Lomax,  the  former  born  in  Sevier  county,  Tennessee,  in  February,  1812, 
and  the  latter  in  Virginia,  June  16,  1819.  They  were  married  in  1835  and  had 
a  large  family  of  children.  The  death  of  John  Lomax  occurred  in  February,  1877, 
while  his  wife  survived  until  1902  and  had  reached  the  advanced  age  of  eighty- 
three  years.  In  1835  they  removed  from  Tennessee  to  Preble  county,  Ohio,  and 
the  following  year  came  to  Missouri.  In  1837  they  crossed  the  Mississippi  Into 
Adams  county.  Illinois,  where  they  resided  until  1859  and  then  again  came  to 
Missouri.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  John  Lomax  enlisted  in  the  Eighteenth 
Missouri  Infantry  in  defense  of  the  Union  and  remained  in  active  service  with 
his  regiment  until  the  fall  of  1862,  when  he  was  taken  prisoner  by  a  band  of 
guerrillas  while  recruiting  a  company  in  Tennessee.  After  six  or  eight  months 
of  captivity,  during  which  he  suffered  many  hardships  and  privations,  he  was  ex- 
changed in  June,  1863,  and  at  once  rejoined  the  army,  his  patriotism  being  still 
undaunted.  On  this  occasion  he  became  captain  of  Company  M  of  the  First  Alabama 
Volunteer  Union  Cavalry,  with  which  he  remained  until  the  close  of  the  war. 
During  the  latter  part  of  the  hostilities  between  the  north  and  the  south  he  was 
provost  marshal  of  northern  Alabama.  He  was  also  with  Sherman  on  the  cele- 
brated march  from  Atlanta  to  the  sea  and  he  participated  in  the  engagement  at 
Nashville  and  in  many  other  hotly  contested  battles,  being  mustered  out  in  1865. 
When  the  war  was  over  he  returned  to  his  farm  in  Linn  county,  Missouri,  near 
Laclede,  and  continued  the  cultivation  of  his  land  until  1871,  when  he  established 
a  grocery  store  at  Laclede,  remaining  in  the  business  to  the  time  of  his  death, 
which  occurrad  six  years  later,  when  he  had  reached  the  age  of  sixty-five  years. 

His  son,  H.  C.  Lomax,  accompanied  his  parents  to  Linn  county,  Missouri,  when 
a  youth  of  fifteen  years  and  after  completing  his  education  found  employment  in  a 
general  merchandising  establishment,  with  which  he  remained  until  1870.  He 
then  took  up  general  farming  on  his  own  account  and  was  engaged  in  the  tilling 
of  the  soil  for  a  quarter  of  a  century.  In  1895  he  bought  the  banking  business 
which  has  since  been  conducted  by  Mr.  Lomax  and  Dr.  Z.  T.  Standly.  Mr.  Lomax 
served  as  president  in  1895  and  1896  and  in  the  following  year  became  cashier 
occupying  that  position  for  a  considerable  period.  During  the  Civil  war  he  had 
some  experience  in  military  service  as  a  member  of  the  provisional  militia  under 
Captain  Holland.  On  the  26th  ot  September,  1866,  he  wedded  Miss  Matilda  A. 
Turner  and  to  them  were  born  six  children,  four  of  whom  are  living,  but  the 
mother  passed  away  July  2,  1894.  On  the  18th  of  March,  1896,  the  father  married 
Mrs.  Bettie  L.  (Watson)  Heryford,  the  widow  of  Walter  Heryford,  ot  Hale,  Mis- 
souri. Mr.  Lomax  was  long  a  devoted  member  of  the  Methodist  church  at  Laclede 
and  was  deeply  interested  in  everything  that  pertained  to  the  welfare  and  advance- 
ment of  his  section  of  the  state.  Without  that  quality  which  leads  an  individual 
to  greet  everyone  as  a  valued  friend,  he  nevertheless  had  the  keenest  desire  tor 
the  welfare  and  happiness  of  others  and  put  forth  his  efforts  for  good  where  assist- 
ance was  most  needed.  He  was  prominent  as  a  man  whose  constantly  expanding 
powers  took  him  from  humble  surroundings  to  the  field  of  large  enterprises  and 
continually  broadening  opportunities. 

His  son,  Edwin  M.  Lomax,  whose  name  introduces  this  review,  was  educated 
in   the   public   schools   of   Linn   county   and   his   youthful   experiences   were   those   of 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  323 

the  farm  bred  boy  until  he  reached  the  age  of  seventeen,  when  he  became  a  clerk 
in  the  postofRce  under  J.  W.  Lomax.  Later  he  resided  lor  some  time  in  St.  Louis 
and,  like  others  of  the  family,  seemed  to  possess  a  natural  predilection  tor  the 
banking  business.  In  1886  he  entered  the  Laclede  National  Bank  as  a  bookkeeper 
and  clerk,  in  which  capacity  he  served  for  four  years  and  on  the  expiration  of  that 
period  accepted  the  cashiership  of  the  Wheeler  Savings  Bank  at  Brookfield,  so 
continuing  until  1900,  when  he  was  chosen  vice  president  of  the  Linn  County 
Bank.  In  1906  he  was  elected  to  the  presidency  and  has  remained  at  the  head 
of  the  institution  continuously  since  or  for  a  period  of  fourteen  years,  during  which 
time  the  interests  of  the  bank  have  constantly  expanded,  while  the  institution  has 
become  an  ever  increasing  power  for  usefulness  and  development  in  the  business 
life  of  the  community.  He  never  permits  any  hazardous  investment  of  the  funds 
of  the  bank,  for  at  all  times  he  most  carefully  safeguards  the  interests  of  depositors, 
and  yet  wherever  possible  he  extends  the  courtesy  and  assistance  of  the  bank  in 
the  development  of  substantial  business  concerns.  It  has  remained  throughout  its 
existence  one  of  the  soundest  and  most  reliable  business  institutions  of  this  section. 

On  the  27th  of  November,  1890,  Mr.  Lomax  was  married  to  Miss  Essie  M. 
Wanamaker,  daughter  of  Norman  E.  and  Laura  A.  (Daulton)  Wanamaker.  They 
have  become  parents  of  one  child,  Laura  Dale. 

Mr.  Lomax  has  always  been  keenly  interested  in  the  cause  of  education  and 
has  served  as  a  member  of  the  school  board  of  Brookfield  tor  several  years,  doing 
effective  work  in  advancing  the  interests  of  the  schools  and  raising  the  standards 
of  instruction.  He  was  elected  mayor  of  Brookfield  in  1912,  but  it  was  not  his 
political  allegiance  but  rather  his  high  character,  his  devotion  to  the  general  wel- 
fare and  his  patriotic  spirit  that  brought  to  him  the  highest  honor  within  the  gift 
of  his  fellow  townsmen.  His  administration  was  characterized  by  businesslike 
methods  in  the  control  of  city  affairs.  He  belongs  to  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  to 
the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and  his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the 
Presbyterian  church.  If  the  historian  were  to  set  forth  in  a  single  sentence  his 
achievements,  it  could  perhaps  best  be  done  in  the  words:  "The  splendid  success 
of  an  honest  man,  in  whose  life  business  ability  and  humanitarianism  are  well 
balanced  forces." 


THEODORE  J.  DRUDING. 


Theodore  J.  Druding  occupies  the  position  of  manager  with  the  firm  of  Charles 
Eneu  Johnson  Company  of  St.  Louis.  He  entered  the  employ  of  the  firm  in  the 
humble  position  of  errand  hoy  and  through  the  intervening  period  has  remained 
with  this  house,  winning  various  promotions  through  intermediate  positions  until 
he  has  reached  the  responsible  place  of  manager.  He  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  November  13,  1881,  and  is  a  son  of  William  A.  Druding,  also  a  na- 
tive of  Philadelphia  and  a  representative  of  a  family  that  had  been  connected  with 
America  through  four  previous  generations.  The  father  was  identified  with  the 
police  depai-tment  of  Philadelphia  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  and  was  a  most  capable 
and  trustworthy  public  official.  The  mother  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Mary  O'Kane 
and  was  a  granddaughter  of  Captain  James  O'Kane,  who  served  in  the  Civil  war 
as  a  captain  of  the  Union  army.  It  was  in  Philadelphia,  on  the  17th  of  February, 
1881,  that  Mary  O'Kane  became  the  wife  of  William  A.  Druding  and  to  this 
marriage  there  were  born  seven  children,  four  sons  and  three  daughters,  Theodore 
J.  being  the  eldest.  The  others  are:  William  J.,  now  deceased;  Nettie,  who  be- 
came the  wife  of  George  Smith,  branch  manager  of  the  Bell  Telephone  Company 
at  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey;  George  D.,  who  was  killed  in  the  Argonne  forest 
September  28,  1918,  while  serving  as  sergeant  of  Company  G,  Three  Hundred  and 
Fourteenth  Infantry;  David  D.,  who  is  a  printing  pressman  with  the  Curtis  Pub- 
lishing Company  of  Philadelphia;  Ella,  the  wife  of  William  Daly,  who  conducts 
a  funeral  livery  establishment  in  Philadelphia;  Marie,  the  wife  of  Joseph  Stewart, 
a  postman  at  Roxborough,   Pennsylvania. 

Theodore  J.  Druding  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
city  to  the  age  of  thirteen  years,  wh'en  he  started  out  to  provide  for  his  own  sup- 
port, securing  a  position  with  the  firm  of  Strawbridge  &  Clothier  of  Philadelphia 
as  a  cash   boy.     He   continued  with  that   house  from   1894   until   September,    1897, 


324  CENTENNIAT,  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

and  in  the  latter  year  was  serving  as  stock  clerk  in  the  white  goods  department 
of  the  wholesale  house.  In  September.  1S97.  he  became  connected  with  the  Charles 
Eneu  Johnson  Company  as  an  assistant  shipping  clerk.  Through  the  intervening 
period  he  has  remained  with  this  house,  working  at  various  periods  in  the  shipping 
room,  in  the  dry  color  department,  the  ink  grinding  department,  the  pulp  mixing 
department,  the  varnish  department  and  the  laboratory.  He  has  acted  in  the 
capacity  of  traveling  salesman  out  of  the  Cleveland  office,  thus  serving  from  1903 
until  1906,  and  since  the  latter  date  he  has  been  manager  of  the  St.  Louis  estab- 
lishment, having  entire  charge  over  the  territory  between  Indianapolis,  Indiaua,- 
and  Salt  Lake  City.  Utah,  while  his  jurisdiction  southward  extends  to  Galveston, 
Texas,  and  Birmingham,  Alabama.  He  is  thoroughly  familiar ,  with  every  phase 
of  the  trade  and  has  built  up  a  splendid  organization  for  the  development  of  the 
business  in  the  territory  over  which  he  has  supervision.  That  he  has  been  most 
capable,  loyal  and  efficient  in  every  position  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  has' 
throughout  the  years  since  1897  been  continuously  with  this  company,  covering  a 
period  of  almost  a  quarter  of  a  century. 

On  the  6th  of  July,  1907,  in  Alton,  Hlinois,  Mr.  Druding  was  married  to  Miss 
Grace  A.  Stone,  a  daughter  of  George  Oliver  Stone,  and  they  have  become  the  pa- 
rents of  a  son,  Theodore  J.,  Jr.,  now  attending  the  junior  high  school  of  St.  Louis 
and  residing  with  his  parents  at  No.   6112   McPherson  avenue. 

Mr.  Druding  is  a  member  of  Tuscan  Lodge  No.  360.  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  took  the 
degrees  of  Scottish  Rite  Masonry  in  1918  and  in  the  same  year  became  a  member 
of  Moolah  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  likewise  a  member  of  Alhambra 
Grotto  No.  4  7.  His  political  position  is  that  of  an  independent  republican.  His 
interest  in  the  welfare  and  progress  of  St.  Louis  is  manifest  in  his  membership  in 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  has  made  many  friends  in  social  connections  and 
belongs  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  the  Century  Boat'  Club,  the  Sunset 
Hill  Country  Club,  the  Midland  Valley  Golf  Club  and  the  Old  Colony  Club.  He  is 
never  too  busy  to  be  cordial  and  never  too  cordial  to  be  busy.  In  a  word  the 
interests  and  activities  of  his  life  are  well  balanced,  making  him  a  forceful  and 
resourceful  man.  He  has  made  good  use  of  his  opportunities  and  has  ever  recog- 
nized the  fact,  as  a  modern  philosopher  expresses  it.  that  "success  does  not  depend 
upon  a  map  but  upon  a  time-table."  In  other  words,  opportunity  can  be  secured 
anywhere,  but  it  is  the  man  who  makes  each  day  mark  off  a  full-faitlied  attempt 
to  know  more  and  to  grow  more  that  wins  success  in  life. 


WHEATON  CRAVENS  FERRIS. 

"Pluck,  perseverance,  Intelligence."  was  the  reply  given  when  a  friend  of  W'heaton 
Cravens  Ferris  was  asked  as  to  the  cause  of  his  success,  for  he  operates  today  as  one 
of  the  prominent  real  estate  men  of  St.  Louis.  Another  termed  him,  "A  man  of 
integrity,  with  ability  to  organize,  and  a  vision  that  few  possess."  With  this  vision 
Mr.  Ferris  has  developed  ^ome  of  the  important  properties  and  subdivisions  of 
the  city  and  all  has  been  accomplished  within  the  last  fourteen  years,  for  he  did 
not  become  a  resident  here  until  1906  and  arrived  a  total  stranger.  He  is  fortunate 
in  possessing  character  and  ability  that  inspire  confidence  in  others  and  the  simple 
weight  of  his  character  and  ability  have  carried  him  into  important  business 
roUitions. 

Mr.  Ferris  was  born  iu  Clarksville,  Arkansas,  May  15.  1S78,  and  is  a  son  of 
Joseph  Wheaton  and  Susie  (Reid)  Ferris.  His  father  died  when  he  was  but  a 
year  old  and  the  mother  when  he  was  a  lad  of  ten.  He  was  adopted,  but  when 
fourteen  years  of  age  ran  away  from  the  home  in  which  he  had  spent  four  years  and 
his  first  endeavor  iu  the  business  world  was  made  as  a  newsboy  at  Conway.  Arkansas. 
He  had  to  some  extent  attended  the  public  schools  of  Conway  and  later  he  enjoyed 
the  advantage  of  two  years'  study  in  Hendrix  College  but  not  until  he  had  earned 
the  means  necessary  to  pay  his  tuition.  After  working  as  a  newsboy  for  a  time  he 
became  a  reporter  on  tlie  Daily  Light  at  Tahlequah.  in  the  Indian  Territory.  He 
subsequently  removed  to  Little  Rock.  Arkansas,  and  afterward  resided  at  other 
points  in  that  state,  becoming  associated  with  prominent  business  enterprises.  Grad- 
ually his  powers  developed  and  increased  and  he  came  more  and  more  into  control 
of  important  business  interests.     In  1S99  he  was  the  treasurer  of  the   SandeferJulian 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  327 

Company  of  Little  Rock,  so  continuing  until  1901,  when  he  became  president  of  the 
Ferris  &  White  Company  of  Plumerville,  Arkansas.  When  five  years  had*  passed 
he  was  chosen  the  president  of  the  Arkansas  Investment  Company  at  Little  Rock, 
but  seeking  a  still  broader  field  of  labor  in  1906  he  removed  to  St.  Louis.  He  had  no 
friends  in  this  city  but  he  possessed  a  fund  of  knowledge  gained  through  practical 
experience  which  soon  placed  him  among  the  progressive  and  farsighted  business 
men.  He  became  the  president  of  the  Olive  Street  Terrace  Realty  Company  of  St. 
Louis  in  1907,  afterward  was  chosen  president  of  the  Kinloch  Land  Company  and  is 
now  the  president  of  the  Twabrigs  Land  Company  and  the  Wilston  Land  Company. 
In  the  latter  connection  he  developed  a  negro  colonization  in  St.  Louis  near  Fergu- 
son, a  movement  highly  valuable  to  the  city  in  the  segregation  of  the  colored  race. 
Mr.  Ferris  also  developed  a  large  tract  of  land  constituting  an  ideal  residence  prop- 
erty, called  South  Hampton,  in  the  southwestern  section  of  the  city.  He  was  ap- 
pointed a  director  of  the  Sixth  United  States  District  by  the  department  of  labor 
at  Washington,  D.  C,  and  entered  upon  an  "Own  your  own  home"  campaign  in  the 
district  which  comprises  Missouri,  Oklahoma,  Iowa  and  Kansas  and  is  a  member 
of  "The  own  your  home"  committee  of  the  National  Real  Estate  Board.  He  belongs 
to  the  St.  Louis  Real  Estate  Exchange  and  also  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Mr.  Ferris'  popularity  with  his  employes  is  unusual.  On  several  occasions  they 
have  surprised  him  with  a  "Welcome  Home"  program  on  his  return  from  business 
trips.  On  one  occasion  a  floral  gift  was  given  him,  each  flower  in  the  bouquet  repre- 
senting a  lot  sold  during  his  absence  with  the  card  of  the  salesman  making  the  sale 
attached  thereto.  Another  time  the  surprise  took  the  form  of  a  birthday  cake,  with 
forty  candles  on  it.  Each  candle  represented  a  sale  of  one  thousand  dollars.  On 
both  occasions  a  special  effort  was  made  on  the  part  of  each  employe  to  bring  in  the 
largest  possible  amount  of  new  business  as  a  means  of  showing  to  their  friend  and 
employer  the  appreciation  of  what  he  was  doing  for  them.  This  shows  the  unusual 
relations  existing  between  Mr.  Ferris  and  his  employes  and  the  remarkable  morale 
existing  among  his  co-workers. 

On  the  17th  of  October,  1900,  at  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  Mr.  Ferris  was  married 
to  Ruby  Bernice  Hoshall  and  they  reside  at  No.  6995  Washington  avenue.  Mr. 
Ferris  is  a  democrat  in  his  political  views  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  Missouri 
Athletic  and  Century  Boat  Clubs.  He  finds  recreation  in  tennis  and  literature  and  is 
particularly  fond  of  English,  of  history  and  fiction.  He  attacks  everything  with  a 
contagious  enthusiasm  and  when  made  a  member  of  the  War  Savings  Stamp  com- 
mittee of  the  St.  Louis  Federal  District  he  gave  to  the  work  unstinted  time  and  the 
abundant  experience  of  the  successful  business  man,  the  results  achieved  being  highly 
satisfactory. 


JUDGE  JOSHUA  P.   RICHARDS. 

The  life  record  of  Judge  Joshua  P.  Richards  covered  a  span  of  eighty-five 
years  and  was  fraught  with  great  activity  and  benefit  to  his  fellowmen.  He  was 
born  December  9.  1820,  in  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  was  a  son  of  Joshua 
and  Phoebe  (Baker)  Richards,  who  were  also  natives  of  the  same  county.  He 
completed  his  education  at  Hoope's  College  in  Chester  county  in  1839  and  after- 
ward went  to  Wheeling,  West  Virginia,  where  he  engaged  in  clerking  in  a  hardware 
store.  In  1845  he  removed  to  the  west,  settling  in  Hannibal,  Missouri,  where  he 
established  a  hardware  business  which  he  conducted  until  1852.  He  then  went  to 
the  West  Indies  and  to  South  America  for  the  benefit  of  his  wife's  health,  but  she 
passed  away  in  185  3.  Returning  to  his  native  country.  Judge  Richards  then  engaged 
in  private  banking  until  1862.  when  he  returned  to  Pennsylvania  and  was  a  member 
of  the  banking  firm  of  Baker,  Richards  &  Company  of  Philadelphia  until  1865; 
In  the  latter  year  he  once  more  became  a  resident  of  Hannibal  and  established  a 
real  estate  and  insurance  business,  which  he  conducted  until  1883.  In  1880  he 
became  the  vice  president  of  the  Farmers  &  Merchants  Bank  and  thus  once  more 
entered  the  financial  circles  of  Hannibal.  He  was  likewise  identified  with  the 
building  of  the  Hannibal  &  St.  Joseph  Railroad  and  with  other  railroad  interests. 
His  activities  were  at  all  times  of  a  character  that  contributed  to  public  progress 
and  improvement  as  well  as  to  individual  success,  and  his  course  was  ever  one 
of  constructive  effort,  productive  of  valuable  results. 


328  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

In  the  year  1850  Judge  Richards  was  married  to  Miss  Shoulford.  a  Hannibal 
girl,  who  passed  away  in  1853.  Judge  Richards  was  married  again  to  Miss  Lavina 
Gore,  daughter  of  Judge  Gore  and  there  were  four  children  of  this  marriage, 
namely.   William   Baker,  Charles   Minor.   Joshua  P.  Jr.,   and  Frank  G. 

Not  only  did  Judge  Richards  figure  prominently  in  connection  with  business 
and  financial  interests  hut  he  also  left  the  impress  of  his  individuality  upon  the 
judicial  history,  of  the  county,  for  in  1878  he  was  elected  county  judge  and  was 
reelected  in  1880.  He  retired  from  active  business  in  1883  and  enjoyed  a  well 
earned  rest  to  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  December  28,  1905,  when  he 
had  passed  the  eighty-fifth  milestone  on  life's  journey.  He  was  ever  faultless  in 
honor,  tearless  in  conduct  and  stainless  in  reputation,  and  the  sterling  worth  of 
his  character  was  recognized  by  all  who  knew  him. 


ABRAHAM    EBERSOLE. 


Abraham  Ehersole,  who  has  devoted  his  lite  to  educational  work,  incorporated 
the  City  College  of  Law  and  Finance,  in  1908  and  has  since  been  at  the  head  of  this 
institution  which  has  been  an  important  element  in  preparing  many  young  men 
for  successful  professional  careers.  He  came  to  St.  Louis  from  Sterling,  Illinois, 
where  he  passed  his  boyhood  days.  His  birth  occurred  at  Elizabethtown.  Lancaster 
county,  Pennsylvania.  His  father  Abraham  Ebersole,  was  also  born  in  Lancaster 
county,  Pennsylvania,  and  in  the  ancestral  connections  are  intermingled  Swiss  and 
German  lines.  The  family  was  founded  in  the  Keystone  state,  during  early  colonial 
days.  Abraham  Ebersole,  Sr.,  removed  from  Pennsylvania  to  Illinois  and  settled 
in  Whiteside  county,  where  he  resumed  his  occupation  of  farming,  his  entire  life 
being  devoted  to  the  work  of  tilling  the  soil.  He  passed  away  in  190S,  while  his 
wife  survived  until  1907.  She  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Anna  Root  and  was  also  a 
native  of  Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  her  ancestors  had  lived  for  several 
generations, 

Abraham  Ebersole  of  this  review  was  a  little  lad  when  his  parents  went  to  Illi- 
nois, and  there  he  attended  the  rural  schools  of  Whiteside  county  and  also  the  Ster- 
ling high  school,  riding  three  miles  from  the  farm  each  day  to  pursue  his  high  school 
studies.  He  afterward  took  up  the  profession  of  teaching  in  the  country  schools  of 
Whiteside  county,  Illinois,  and  was  thus  engaged  for  about  six  years.  He  finally 
became  principal  of  one  of  the  schools  of  Sterling,  Illinois,  and  later  attended  Hills- 
dale College  of  Michigan.  Later  he  was  a  student  in  the  University  of  Wisconsin 
and  afterward  in  the  University  of  Chicago,  where  he  won  his  Bachelor  of  Arts  de- 
gree in  1895.  He  devoted  a  year  to  post-graduate  work  in  political  science  and 
philosophy,  and  then  resumed  the  work  of  teaching  in  Fulton,  Illinois,  where  he 
was  superintendent  of  schools  for  four  years.  In  1899  he  became  educational  direc- 
tor of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  of  St.  Louis,  and  remained  in  that  posi- 
tion until  1905.  Through  the  succeeding  three  years  he  was  secretary  of  the  Benton 
College  of  Law  and  in  1908  incorporated  the  City  College  of  Law  and  Finance, 
occupying  quarters  in  the  Metropolitan  building  for  three  years,  and  then  removed 
to  the  present  location.  The  school  has  thirty-six  professors  and  instructors  who 
teach  law,  commerce  and  finance.  The  leading  feature  of  the  school  is  the  prepara- 
tion of  students  tor  the  profession  of  law  and  for  examination  for  chartered  and 
certified  public  accountants,  this  being  the  first  school  west  of  Chicago  to  establish 
such  a  course.  Four  years  ago  a  department  in  traffic  was  organized,  in  which 
is  taught  rate-making  and  all  duties  required  of  an  expert  traffic  manager  so  that 
one  of  the  graduates  of  this  school  can  successfully  manage  the  traffic  department 
of  any  large  business.  The  school  now  has  an  attendance  of  about  four  hundred 
pupils  and  is  enjoying  rapid  growth.  It  is  expected  that  there  will  be  an  attendancy 
of  five  hundred  in  the  following  year  and  in  the  no  distant  future,  a  thousand.  Mr, 
Ebersole  is  the  president  and  general  manager  of  the  college,  and  is  teacher  of 
economics  and  the  history  of  political  institutions. 

Mr.  Ebersole  was  reared  in  the  Mennonite  faith,  his  ancestors  having  been  con- 
nected with  that  church  for  several  generations.  He  maintains  an  independent 
political  course,  and  fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Loyal  Order  of  Moose.  He 
is  very  fond  of  music,  operas,  theatres,  and  books,  and  is  a  close  student  of  phil- 
osophy, and  along  these  lines  he  centers  his  interest  and  attention.     He  belongs  to 


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the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  is  one  of  the  charter  members  of  the  Kiwanis  Club, 
and  is  highly  esteemed  outside  of,  as  well  as  within  the  membership  of  these  organi- 
zations. 


GEORGE  BENJAMIN  EVANS. 

George  Benjamin  Evans,  connected  with  the  operating  department  of  the 
Laclede  Gas  Light  Company  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Sauk  county,  Wisconsin, 
July  23,  1871,  and  is  a  son  of  Evan  W.  Evans,  who  came  to  the  new  world  with 
his  parents  from  Wales  when  but  two  years  of  age,  the  family  crossing  the  Atlantic 
on  a  sailing  vessel  and  from  the  eastern  seaboard  making  their  way  to  Wisconsin, 
where  the  grandfather  of  George  B.  Evans  took  up  government  land.  He  at  once 
began  converting  the  wild  tract  into  rich  and  productive  fields  and  became  a  pros- 
perous farmer  as  well  as  widely  known  pioneer  settler  of  that  region.  His  son, 
Evan  W.  Evans,  was  there  reared  as  a  farm  bred  boy  and  he,  too,  devoted  his  life 
to  agricultural  pursuits  and  also  became  a  successful  dealer  in  live  stock.  He  was 
a  leading  and  influential  resident  of  his  community  and  his  aid  and  influence  were 
ever  on  the  side  of  progress  and  improvement.  At  the  time  of  the  Civil  war  he 
responded  to  the  country's  call  for  aid  in  preserving  the  Union  and  went  to  the 
front,  serving  for  three  years  under  General  Grant  with  the  light  artillery  forces. 
He  participated  in  the  siege  of  Vicksburg  and  in  many  of  the  leading  battles  which 
led  up  to  the  final  victory  which  crowned  the  Union  arms.  He  was  married  to 
Miss  Mary  Ellen  Jones,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  who  in  girlhood  accompanied 
her  parents  on  their  removal  to  Wisconsin,  and  she  now  makes  her  home  in  Spring 
Green,  that  state.      Mr.   Evans  passed  away  in  1917. 

George  B.  Evans  is  the  second  in  order  of  birth  in  a  family  of  seven  children. 
He  obtained  a  high  school  education  at  Spriiig  Green,  Wisconsin,  and  afterward 
entered  the  State  University  at  Madison,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  18  94 
with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science  in  Civil  Engineering.  Later  he  became 
connected  with  structural  steel  work  in  connection  with  the  erection  of  large  build- 
ings in  Cleveland,  Pittsburgh,  Milwaukee  and  other  cities.  He  spent  several  years 
in  that  way  and  in  1903  came  to  St.  Louis,  since  which  time  he  has  been  associated 
with  the  operating  department  of  the  Laclede  Gas  Light  Company.  Through  the 
inteiTening  period  he  has  been  advanced  and  various  promotions  have  brought  him 
at  length  to  the  position  of  general  manager  of  this  mammoth  corporation.  He 
is  by  training  fitted,  by  experience  equipped  and  by  results  proved  to  be  a  most 
successful  and  efficient  gas  engineer. 

Mr.  Evans  gives  his  political  endorsement  to  the  democratic  party,  but  the 
honors  and  emoluments  of  office  have  never  had  attraction  for  him.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Engineers  Club  of  St.  Louis,  also  the  University  Club,  the  City 
Club  and  the  Midland  Valley  Golf  Club  and  he  is  fond  of  all  outdoor  sports  and 
athletics.  He  stands  very  liigh  in  business  circles  and  is  very  popular  in  social 
circles. 


THOMAS   J.   HIGGS. 


Thomas  J.  Higgs,  who  has  an  extensive  clientage  in  the  general  practice  of 
law  and  who  is  also  attorney  for  the  Kansas  City  Life  Insurance  Company,  was 
born  at  Storm  Lake,  Iowa,  May  27,  1879,  a  son  of  Thomas  D.  and  Susan  (Kline) 
Higgs,  the  former  a  native  of  Illinois,  while  the  latter  was  born  in  Maryland.  She 
became  a  resident  of  Illinois  when  quite  young  and  they  were  married  in  that 
state,  removing  thence  to  Iowa  in  1877.  The  father  became  a  lawyer  ot  promi- 
nence in  the  latter  state  and  was  also  a  recognized  leader  in  the  ranks  ot  the 
democratic  party,  serving  as  a  member  of  the  state  central  committee  for  the 
eleventh  district  ot  Iowa  throughout  the  Cleveland  administration  and  also  as  a 
delegate  to  the  national  convention  in  which  Grover  Cleveland  was  nominated  tor 
the  presidency.  He  established  the  first  democratic  newspaper  in  Storm  Lake,  Iowa, 
and  published  it  in  support  of  the  principles  in  which  he  so  firmly  believed.  He 
was  appointed  by  Governor  Horace  Boies,   democratic  governor  ot  Iowa,  to  several 


332  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

important  commissions,  and  he  was  very  active  in  public  matters,  leaving  the  im- 
press of  his  individuality  and  ability  upon  the  history  of  his  adopted  state. 

Thomas  J.  Higgs  attended  the  public  schools  of  Storm  Lake  until  he  had  com- 
pleted the  high  school  course  and  later  spent  two  years  as  a  student  in  the  Buena 
Vista  College  of  Storm  Lake.  He  next  entered  Grinnell  College  at  Grinnell,  Iowa, 
and  was  graduated  therefrom  in  1899  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree.  He  sub- 
sequently became  a  student  in  the  Harvard  Law  School,  where  he  won  his  LL.  B. 
degree  in  1902.  His  educational  opportunities  were  thus  liberal,  well  qualifying 
him  for  life's  practical  and  responsible  duties.  During  his  college  and  university 
course  he  took  an  active  interest  in  athletics,  being  captain  of  the  baseball  team 
at  Grinnell  and  playing  at  Harvard  in  the  year  1901.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  of  Missouri  in  19  0  3  and  entered  upon  the  general  practice  of  law  alone.  For 
a  time  he  was  in  the  office  of  Ball  &  Ryland  and  later  in  the  office  of  Elijah  Robin- 
son. He  was  next  appointed  assistant  prosecuting  attorney  of  Jackson  county  and 
occupied  that  position  from  1909  until  1913,  when  he  received  the  appointment 
as  assistant  attorney  general  of  Missouri  and  thus  served  in  a  most  acceptable 
manner  until  1917.  In  the  latter  year  he  resumed  the  general  practice  of  law 
and  also  became  attorney  for  the  Kansas  City  Life  Insurance  Company.  His 
activities  along  both  lines  continue  to  the  present  and  he  has  a  large  law  practice. 
He  belongs  to  the  Jackson  County  and  Missouri  State  Bar  Associations  and  is  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association. 

On  the  17th  of  June,  1917,  Mr.  Higgs  was  united  in  marriage  at  Jefferson 
City  to  Miss  Virginia  Ware,  a  daughter  of  C.  A.  Ware,  a  livestock  man,  who  was 
born  in  New  Jersey  and  in  early  life  came  to  Missouri  where  he  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Letitia  Nunnelly,  a  niece  of  Major  Clark  who  was  prominent  in  the 
early  history  of  Jefferson  City.  Missouri.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Higgs  are  consistent 
members  of  the  Christian  church  and  he  is  widely  known  in  Masonic  circles,  be- 
longing to  the  lodge,  chapter,  conimandery  and  Mystic  Shrine,  and  he  is  a  member 
of  the  Shrine  Patrol.  He  likewise  has  membership  in  the  Kansas  City  Athletic 
Club,  the  Harvard  University  Club  of  Kansas  City,  the  Grinnell  University  Club 
of  Kansas  City,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  the  Kansas  City  chapter  of  the  Sons 
of  the  American  Revolution.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Swope  Park  Golf  Club 
and  is  serving  on  its  board  of  governors.  In  politics  he  has  always  been  an  earnest 
democrat  and  has  been  chairman  of  the  speakers'  committee  of  the  democratic 
party  since  1907.  Throughout  the  war  he  was  very  active  in  support  of  every- 
thing that  pertained  to  the  welfare  of  the  country  in  its  relations  with  the  allied 
forces  and  with  the  prosecution  of  the  war.  He  assisted  in  organizing  and  had 
charge  of  the  Four  Minute  Men  in  Kansas  City  and  all  speakers  during  the  first 
and  second  Liberty  Loans,  and  was  himself  frequently  heard  upon  the  public  plat- 
forms, addressing  audiences  in  regard  to  issues  and  conditions  that  had  been 
brought  about  by  reason  of  the  war.  He  has  ever  disulayed  marked  devotion  to 
duty  and  his  one  hundred  percent  Americanism  has  constituted  an  example  that 
others  might  well  follow. 


COLONEL   SCOTT   J.    MILLER. 

Colonel  Scott  J.  Miller,  the  well  known  lawyer  and  proprietor  of  the  Oakland 
Stock  Farm  in  Livingston  county  and  a  prominent  representative  of  the  Chillicothe 
bar,  his  time  and  attention  being  divided  between  his  agricultural  and  professional 
interests,  was  born  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  December  29.  1869,  his  parents  being  John 
W.  and  Mary  E.  Miller,  who  were  also  natives  of  the  Buckeye  state.  Coming  to 
Missouri  in  1872,  they  settled  in  Chillicothe,  where  the  father  engaged  in  agri- 
cultural pursuits   throughout  his   remaining  days. 

Colonel  Miller  of  this  review  was  less  than  three  years  of  age  when  the  family 
home  was  established  in  Missouri  and  he  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Chillicothe,  while  later  he  continued  his  studies  in  the  University  of 
Missouri  at  Columbia,  being  there  graduated  with  the  class  of  1888.  It  was  his 
desire  to  become  a  member  of  the  bar  and  with  that  end  in  view  he  entered  the 
law  office  of  Charles  H.  Mansur  of  Chillicothe,  who  directed  his  reading  until  he 
was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  fall  of  1888,  He  at  once  entered  upon  the  active 
work  of  his  profession,   and  though   advancement  at   the   bar   is  proverbially   slow, 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  333 

he  made  steady  progress,  soon  proving  his  ability  in  coping  with  the  intricate  prob- 
lems of  the  law.  His  practice  is  considered  one  o£  the  largest  in  northern  Mis- 
souri and  he  is  a  splendid  trial  lawyer  and  orator.  He  has  been  connected  with 
much  important  litigation  heard  in  the  courts  of  the  district  federal  court  and  his 
clientage  is  large  and  distinctively  representative  in  character.  His  activities,  too, 
have  covered  a  broad  scope.  For  ten  years  he  was  chairman  of  the  board  of 
regents  of  the  normal  school  at  Kirksville  and  he  has  served  on  the  staff  of  Gov- 
ernor Stone  and  of  Governor  Lon  V.  Stephens.  Mr.  Miller  is  likewise  recognized 
as  one  of  the  leading  agriculturists  of  Livingston  county,  having  an  extensive  tract 
of  highly  productive  and  splendidly  improved  land  known  as  the  Oakland  Stock 
Farm.  The  name  is  indicative  of  the  fact  that  he  has  always  made  a  speciality 
of  stock  raising.  He  is  a  breeder  of  full-blooded  jacks  and  also  of  Percheron  horses 
and  Poland  China  hogs,  and  his  stock  raising  as  well  as  his  grain  raising  con- 
stitutes a  very  gratifying  source  of  income.  Mr.  Miller,  this  year  exported  twenty 
mammoth  jacks,  raised  on  his  farm,  to  South  America.  His  farm  raises  more 
jacks  than  any  single  farm  in  the  United  States. 

Ip  January,  1898,  Mr.  Miller  was  married  to  Miss  Oakland  Leeper,  daughter 
of  Daniel  S.  and  Annie  (Blakey)  Leeper.  Her  paternal  grandfather,  John  Leeper, 
was  a  pioneer  merchant  of  Sprlnghill,  Missouri,  and  was  the  first  packer  in  that 
section  of  the  country.  He  hauled  his  merchandise  across  the  plains  to  Nebraska 
City,  Nebraska,  and  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the  development  of  the  west.  To 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Miller  has  been  born  a  son,  Rodger  Stone  Miller,  who  is  now  a  junior 
in  the  William  Jewell  College. 

Mr.  Miller  is  a  stanch  democrat,  standing  loyally  by  the  administration.  He 
is  also  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason  and  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
South.  He  has  a  wide  acquaintance  throughout  Missouri,  is  very  popular  and  has 
those  likeable  qualities  which  win  friendship  and  regard  in   every  land  and  clime. 


ROBERT   PULLIAM   WILLIAMS. 

Robert  Pulliam  Williams,  practicing  at  the  bar  of  St.  Louis  as  a  member  of  the 
law  firm  of  R.  P.  and  C.  B.  Williams  and  also  legal  representative  for  the  Mobile 
&  Ohio  Railroad,  was  born  in  Chickasaw  county,  Mississippi,  April  14,  1857.  His 
father,  Uriah  Smith  Williams,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  went  to  Mississippi  in  early 
life  and  there  became  a  planter  and  also  a  physician.  He  was  very  prominent 
and  active  in  affairs  of  his  county  and  state,  exercising  considerable  influence  over 
public  thought  and  opinion.  He  wedded  Martha  B.  Pulliam,  a  native  of  Georgia, 
and  they  became  the  parents  of  fourteen  children,  of  whom  Robert  P.  was  the 
twelfth  In  order  of  birth.  The  death  of  the  father  occurred  in  Mississippi  In 
August,   1896,  and  the  mother  passed  away  in  1912. 

In  the  acquirement  of  his  education  Robert  P.  Williams  attended  the  Sumer- 
ville  (Miss.)  Institute  and  afterward  became  a  student  in  the  Emory  and  Henry 
College  of  Virginia,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  de- 
gree in  1878.  For  a  year  thereafter  he  taught  in  a  country  school  in  his  native 
state  but  regarded  this  merely  as  an  initial  step  to  other  professional  labor,  for 
it  was  his  earnest  desire  to  become  a  member  of  the  bar  and  while  teaching  he 
devoted  his  leisure  hours  to  reading  law.  He  was  later  a  student  in.  the  St.  Louis 
Law  School  and  afterward  read  law  under  private  instruction  in  both  Mississippi 
and  St.  Louis,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  May,  1881.  For  eighteen  months  he 
engaged  in  active  practice  in  Nebraska,  after  which  he  returned  to  his  native  state, 
where  he  followed  his  profession  until  1893,  when  he'  came  to  St.  Louis  as  district 
and  special  counsel  for  the  Mobile  &  Ohio  Railroad.  He  had  previously  been 
associated  in  practice  with  Colonel  J.  R.  Mcintosh,  a  very  prominent  attorney  of 
Mississippi,  the  firm  becoming  Woods,  Mcintosh  &  Williams.  Following  the  ad- 
vancement of  Judge  Woods  to  the  supreme  court  bench  of  that  state  a  change  in 
the  personnel  of  the  firm  led  to  the  adoption  of  the  style  of  Mcintosh,  Williams 
&  Russell. 

Following  his  removal  to  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Williams  entered  into  partnership 
with  Silas  B.  Jones  in  1894,  the  association  being  maintained  until  1896,  when 
he  became  a  partner  of  Edward  T.  Farish.  On  the  1st  of  June,  19  00.  he  entered 
into  partnership  with  his  brother,   C.   B.  Williams,   for  the  general  practice  of  law 


334  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

under  the  firm  style  of  R.  P.  and  C.  B.  Williams,  occupying  a  suite  of  offices  on 
the  fourteenth  floor  of  the  Third  National  Bank  building.  They  enjoy  a  very 
extensive  practice  of  an  important  character,  representing  many  large  corpora- 
tions, including  the  Mobile  &  Ohio  Railroad.  They  likewise  have  a  large  insurance 
law  practice  and  they  rank  with  the  leading  attorneys  of  the  city. 

On  the  13th  of  December,  1883,  at  Okolona,  Mississippi,  R.  P.  Williams  was 
married  to  Miss  Alice  Mcintosh,  daughter  of  his  former  law  partner  in  that  state 
and  a  native  of  Okolona.  They  have  become  parents  of  two  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters. Robert,  who  is  thirty-three  years  of  age,  is  married,  has  one  child  and  served 
as  a  captain  in  the  United  States  army.  Edward  is  with  the  International  Shoe 
Company  of  St.  Louis.  Evelyn  is  at  home  and  Alice  is  attending  college  at  Fulton, 
Missouri.  Mr.  Williams  and  his  family  are  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church, 
in  which  he  is  serving  as  elder,  and  he  takes  a  most  active  and  helpful  part  in 
church  and  philanthropic  work.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  demo- 
cratic party  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  City  Club.  He  turns  to  fishing  for  recrea- 
tion, but  the  demands  of  a  constantly  increasing  practice  leave  him  little  leisure. 
He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association,  the  Missouri  State  Bar  Association  and 
the  American   Bar  Association. 


JAMES  M.  HERBERT. 


One  of  the  ablest  railroad  executives  in  the  country  is  James  M.  Herbert, 
president  of  the  St.  Louis  &  Southwestern  Railway  Company.  That  he  has  reached 
such  a  position  is  due  to  certain  qualities  and  characteristics.  He  is  calm,  well 
poised,  frank,  fair,  just  and  fearless,  possesses  large  initiative,  patience  and  capacity 
for  work.  He  manifests  also  keen  insight,  a  retentive  memory,  the  practical  judg- 
ment that  enables  him  to  make  quick,  accurate  and  firm  decisions  and,  moreover, 
lie  is  an  excellent  judge  of  men  and  a  natural  leader. 

Mr.  Herbert  was  born  in  Westmoreland  county,  Pennsylvania,  January  15,  1863. 
His  father,  John  Herbert,  was  also  a  native  of  the  Keystone  state  and  was  descended 
from  one  of  the  old  and  prominent  Pennsylvania  families  of  Irish  lineage.  Through- 
out his  entire  life  he  remained  in  his  native  state,  passing  away  in  1889  at  the  age 
of  seventy-eight  years.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Catherine  Dixon, 
•was  also  born  in  Pennsylvania,  where  her  ancestors  had  lived  through  several  generations, 
and  she  died  in  that  state  in  1899  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight.  The  family  numbered 
eleven  children,  eight  sons  and  three  daughters. 

James  M.  Herbert,  the  youngest  of  the  family,  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Delmont,  Pennsylvania,  and  in  the  Delmont  Academy,  which  he  attended 
to  the  age  of  nineteen  years.  He  then  started  out  to  earn  his  own  livelihood  and  his 
first  position  was  that  of  a  railroad  telegi'apher.  He  devoted  his  attention  to  tele- 
graphy for  five  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  was  made  a  train  dispatcher  on 
the  Wabash  Railroad  in  Illinois,  with  headquarters  at  Springfield.  He  continued  to 
serve  in  that  position  for  ten  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  was  made  train- 
master for  the  Wabash  and  filled  that  office  for  two  years,  after  which  he  resigned 
and  accepted  a  similar  position  with  the  Grand  Trunk  Railroad  in  Canada.  In  1897 
he  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  superintendent  of  the  Grand  Trunk  and  held  that 
ofl5ce  for  four  years  at  Montreal,  Canada,  when  he  resigned  to  enter  into  connection 
with  the  Missouri  Pacific  as  district  general  superintendent,  with  headquarters  at 
Kansas  City,  Missouri.  Later  he  was  transferred  to  St.  Louis  as  general  superin- 
tendent of  the  St.  Louis,  Iron  Mountain  &  Southern  Railroad,  fully  meeting  every 
requirement  of  that  office  until  he  resigned  to  accept  the  position  of  manager  with  the 
Southern  Pacific  Railroad  Company  at  San  Francisco,  California.  When  he  had  re- 
signed that  office  he  went  with  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  at  Denver,  occupying 
a  similar  position,  which  he  held  until  he  severed  his  connecion  with  the  road  to 
become  vice  president  of  the  Colorado  &  Southern  Railroad  at  Denver.  At  length 
he  retired  from  railroad  service  and  was  in  other  lines  of  business  for  four  years  in 
Denver,  but  again  became  connected  with  railroad  interests  as  president  of  the 
Colorado,  Wyoming  &  Eastern  Railroad,  continuing  his  headquarters  in  Denver,  where 
he  remained  until  he  resigned  to  accept  his  present  position  as  president  of  the 
St.  Louis  &  Southwestern  Railway  Company  in  St.  Louis.  Here  he  has  since  con- 
tinued. It  will  be  noticed  in  the  foregoing  account  that  he  has  voluntarily  severed 
every  business  connection  by  resignation  and  always  to  enter  upon  a  more  important 


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position  with  larger  responsibilities  and  greater  opportunities  until  he  has  come 
to  a  most  responsible  place  in  railway  circles,  where  he  is  giving  his  attention  to 
constructive  effort,  administrative  direction  and  executive  control.  He  is  also  a 
director  of  subsidiary  companies  of  this  railroad. 

On  the  20th  of  June,  1888,  Mr.  Herbert  was  married  in  Howard,  Kansas,  to  Miss 
Emma  May  Best,  a  native  of  Illinois  and  a  daughter  of  Wesley  and  Mary  Best,  the 
former  now  deceased.  Mr.  Herbert  belongs  to  the  Episcopal  church,  to  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  of  St.  Louis,  and  to  the  leading  social  and  club  organizations  of  the 
city,  including  the  St.  Louis  Club,  the  Noonday  Club,  the  Bellerive  Country  Club, 
the  Ridgedale  Club,  the  Country  Club  and  the  Veiled  Prophet  Club.  He  is  a  man 
of  very  charitable  impulses,  liberal  to  all  worthy  causes,  yet  his  generosity  is  ever 
of  a  most  unostentatious  nature.  A  well  read  man  on  all  general  subjects,  he  speaks 
with  authority  upon  the  problems  of  railroading  and  he  has  displayed  marked  in- 
itiative in  originating  and  carrying  out  new  methods  of  operation  and  service  in 
connection  with  the  railroads  and  correcting  waste  and  extravagance.  He  possesses 
executive  ability  and  indefatigable  industry,  mental  alterness  and  firmness  and 
experience  has  added  to  these  qualities  an  equipment  of  accurate  and  detailed  informa- 
tion on  all  branches  of  railroading.  All  who  know  him  feel  that  his  splendid  success 
is  well  deserved,  as  individual  effort  and  ability  have  brought  him  up  from  the 
humble  position  of  telegraph  operator  to  his  present  place  of  executive  direction  and 
administrative  control.  He  was  the  first  railway  executive  to  put  himself  on  record 
as  against  the  issuance  of  free  transportation  to  members  of  political  organizations, 
office  holders  and  legislators  even  before  the  interstate  commerce  commission  ruled 
against  such  a  practice.  He  has  always  been  opposed  to  railroad  political  activity. 
One  who  has  long  known  him  says  of  Mr.  Herbert:  "He  is  a  wonderfully  adapt- 
able man  and  shines  equally  well  in  shop  or  drawing  room.  His  friends  love  him 
and  his  employes  respect  and  admire  him  and  work  loyally  for  him,  knowing  him  to 
be  a  thoroughly  well  qualified  railroad  executive  and  an  untiring  worker  who  never 
spares   himself." 


WILSON  D.  WOOD. 


Wilson  D.  Wood,  treasurer  of  the  Peoples  Trust  Company  of  Kansas  City, 
belongs  to  that  class  of  representative  young  business  men,  who,  watchful  of  oppor- 
tunity, have  made  steady  progress  in  chosen  avenues  of  activity.  He  was  born 
on  a  farm  in  Miami  county,  Kansas,  April  20,  1885,  and  is  a  son  of  Charles  H.  and 
Sarah  B.  (Beaty)  Wood,  the  former  a  native  of  Pennsylvania  and  the  latter  of 
Ohio.  His  wife  was  a  native  of  Ohio  and  by  her  marriage  became  the  mother  of 
two  children,  Wilson  D.  and  Mabel  E.,  the  latter  the  wife  of  J.  E.  Pinley,  of  Terre 
Haute,   Indiana. 

Wilson  D,  Wood  was  educated  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  Paola,  Kansas, 
and  started  out  in  the  business  world  by  entering  a  general  merchandise  store  at 
that  place,  with  which  he  was  connected  for  three  years.  He  then  went  upon  the 
road,  selling  de  luxe  editions  all  over  the  United  States,  spending  two  and  a  half 
years  in  that  business  and  winning  substantial  success  thereby.  In  1908  he  came 
to  Kansas  City  and  established  the  real  estate  and  loan  business  conducted  under 
the  ^ame  of  Wilson  D.  Wood  &  Company,  handling  real  estate  and  mortgage  loans. 
He  was  very  successful  in  that  undertaking  until  September,  1917,  when  he  became 
associated  with  the  Peoples  Trust  Company  as  manager  of  the  mortgage  loan  de- 
partment and  in  January,  1919,  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  company.  Writing 
of  the  bank,  the  Western  Financier  said:  "President  Alves  of  the  Peoples  Trust 
Company  cast  around  for  the  best  man  for  his  mortgage  loan  department  and  cen- 
tered on  Wilson  D.  Wood,  who  had  built  up  a  good  business  under  the  name  of 
Wilson  D.  Wood  &  Company,  in  the  Finance  building.  As  evidence  of  the  fact 
that  his  president  made  no  mistake  in  his  choice,  Mr.  Wood  was  recently  elected 
treasurer  of  the  company.  He  is  another  of  the  'younger  set'  of  Kansas  City 
bankers." 

In  1912  Mr.  Wood  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  T.  C.  Frances  Andrew,  a 
daughter  of  T.  C.  Andrew,  a  prominent  merchant  and  citizen  of  Sweet  Springs, 
Missouri.     They  have  become  the  parents  of  two  sons,  Wilson  and  Donald  Emerson. 

Mr.  Wood  is  a  member  of  the  Mission  Hills,  Kansas  City,  City  and  Cooperative 


338  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Clubs,  the  Real  Estate  Board  and  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Kansas  City — - 
associations  which  indicate  much  of  the  nature  of  his  interests.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Christian  church  and  he  enjoys  a  game  of  golf  and  is  well  known 
as  a  stamp  collector.  These  interests,  however,  are  made  subservient  to  his  activ- 
ities in  business,  and  his  close  application,  his  diligence  and  determination  have 
constituted  the   foundation   upon   which   he  has  built   his  present-day   prosperity. 


FLORENCE   ETHEL  WEIGLB. 

Florence  Ethel  Weigle,  attorney  at  law,  with  offices  in  the  Boatmen's  Bank 
building,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  May  20.  1884.  Her  father,  Edward  Bryson  Weigle, 
a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  was  also  a  lawyer  by  profession  and  in  1880  came  to  St. 
Louis,  where  for  many  years  he  was  prominently  connected  with  the  M.  K.  &  T. 
Railroad.  He  was  a  representative  of  a  long  line  of  Pennsylvania  ancestry  and 
passed  away  in  1910.  His  wife,  who  in  her  maidenhood  was  Elizabeth  Craig, 
was  also  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  and  passed  away  in  August,   1920. 

Their  daughter.  Florence  Ethel  Weigle,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  St.  Louis,  passing  through  consecutive  grades  to  her  graduation  from  the  Central 
high  school  with  the  class  of  1902.  She  afterward  entered  St.  Louis  University 
and  won  the  LL.  B.  degree  in  1917.  In  July  of  the  same  year  she  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  and  has  since  engaged  in  practice.  She  belongs  to  the  Women's  Bar 
Association  and  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association.  She  is  also  a  member  of  the  Town 
Club,  a  leading  organization  of  business  and  professional  women  of  St.  Louis,  and 
was  the  president  of  the  Business  Women's  Equal  Suffrage  Association  for  1918-20, 
now  the  Business  and  Profession  League  of  Women' Voters.  She  has  been  very 
active  in  the  cause  of  woman's  suffrage  and  has  delivered  many  lectures  upon 
this  question.  A  woman  of  splendid  intellectual  qualities,  she  keeps  in  touch  with 
the  vital  'questions  and  issues  of  the  day.  and  in  her  profession  has  made  steady 
progress,   having  now  a  large  clientele. 


W.   T.   GILBREATH. 


W.  T.  Gilbreath  has  occupied  a  central  place  on  the  stage  of  action  almost 
from  the  time  when  his  initial  effort  was  made  in  the  field  of  business.  Long 
identified  with  agricultural  and  stock  raising  interests,  his  labors  have  found  cul- 
mination in  the  development  and  promotion  of  the  La  Plata  Savings  Bank,  of  which 
he  is  now  the  president  and  with  which  he  has  been  identified  since  May,  1882. 
He  was  born  March  26.  1849.  in  Macon  county.  Missouri,  so  that  he  has  now  passed 
the  seventy-first  milestone  on  life's  journey.  His  parents  were  .John  and  Martha 
(Clayton)  Gilbreath,  the  former  a  native  of  Tennessee  and  the  latter  of  Maryland. 
About  the  year  1828  John  Gilbreath  came  to  Missouri  with  his  parents  and  settled 
in  Cooper  county,  where  he  resided  until  1841  and  then  removed  to  Macon  county, 
taking  up  his  abode  upon  a  farm  in  La  Plata  township.  There  he  spent  the  re- 
mainder of  his  days  and  as  the  years  passed  became  a  most  successful  farmer  and 
stock  raiser.  For  a  few  months  he  served  in  the  state  militia.  His  political  views 
were  always  in  accord  with  the  teachings  and  principles  of  the  democratic  party 
and  his  religious  faith  was  that  of  the  Missionary  Baptist  church.  He  was  also 
a  member  of  the  Masonic  order  and  in  his  lite  exemplified  the  beneficent  spirit  of 
the  craft.  He  died  in  1887,  being  survived  for  seven  years  by  hjs  wife,  who  passed 
away  in   18  94. 

W.  T.  Gilbreath  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  district  schools  and  then 
took  up  the  occupation  of  farming  and  stock  feeding,  which  he  carried  on  very 
extensively  as  the  years  passed  by,  developing  his  interests  of  this  character  to 
large  proportions.  He  was  thus  active  until  about  1885.  when  he  withdrew  from 
farming  but  continued  feeding  up  to  the  present.  In  1899  he  removed  to  La  Plata, 
where  he  has  since  made  his  home.  In  May,  1882,  he  became  identified  with  the 
La  Plata  Savings  Bank  as  its  president.  This  is  the  oldest  bank  of  the  county 
and  was  for  a  considerable  period  the  only  bank  in  Macon  county.  It  has  ever 
retained    a   foremost    position    in    financial    circles    in    this   part    of   the   state.     It   is 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  339 

capitalized  for  fifty  thousand  dollars,  has  a  surplus  of  ten  thousand  dollars,  un- 
divided profits  of  seven  thousand  dollars  and  its  deposits  amount  to  more  than 
five  hundred  and  fifty-six  thousand  dollars.  Considerate  and  courteous  treatment 
has  always  been  extended  patrons  and  the  business  of  the  bank  has  steadily  grown 
and  developed.  James  Russell  Lowell  has  said  that  "an  institution  is  but  the 
lengthened  shadow  of  a  man"  and  this  bank  is  but  the  visible  evidence  and  ex- 
pression of  the  business  ability,  enterprise  and  sound  judgment  of  W.  T.  Gil- 
breath.  It  was  organized  in  1876  as  a  private  bank  and  was  purchased  by  Mr. 
Gilbreath  in  February,  1882,  and  reorganized  as  a  state  bank,  being  incorporated 
in  May  of  the  same  year.  He  has  since  been  its  president,  while  the  other  officers 
are:  J.  M.  Irving,  vice  president;  H.  J.  Mairens,  cashier;  and  W.  T.  Robinson, 
assistant  cashier.  Mr.  Gilbreath  is  also  supervising  the  operation  of  his  valuable 
farming  properties,  consisting  of  fourteen  hundred  acres  of  land.  While  engaged 
in  stock  raising  he  handled  from  two  hundred  to  three  hundred  head  of  cattle  per 
year  and  about  four  hundred  head  of  hogs.  In  1918  he  topped  the  market  with 
every  shipment,  getting  as  high  as  nineteen  dollars  and  a  half  per  one  hundred 
pounds  for  his  beef,  and  hogs  as  high  as  twenty-three  dollars  per  hundred,  and  he 
sold  more  high  grade  stock  than  any  other  live  stock  dealer  of  northern  Missouri. 
With  a  nature  that  could  never  be  content  with  mediocrity,  he  has  always  ad- 
vanced to  positions  of  leadership  in  everything  that  he  has  undertaken  by  reason 
of  his  marked  ability  and  progressiveness. 

In  1871  Mr.  Gilbreath  was  married  to  Miss  Sarah  M.  Gates,  a  daughter  of 
George  and  Ellen  (Broyles)  Gates,  the  former  a  native  of  North  Carolina  and  the 
latter  of  Tennessee,  whence  they  came  to  Missouri.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gilbreath 
has  been  born  a  daughter,  Olive  M.  Mr.  Gilbreath  votes  with  the  democratic 
party  and  his  endorsement  is  the  indication  of  a  firm  belief  in  its  principles.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  in  which  he  has  attained  high  rank,  and 
is  now  connected  vfith  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Pythias, 
while  his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  has  never  allowed 
personal  interest  or  ambition  to  dwarf  his  public  spirit  or  activities  and  his  is  the 
record  of  a  strenuous  life — the  record  of  a  strong  individuality,  sure  of  itself, 
stable  in  purpose,  quick  in  perception,  swift  in  decision,  energetic  and  persistent 
in  action. 


HARRY  G.   CLYMBR. 


Not  by  leaps  and  bounds,  but  by  an  orderly  orogression,  Harry  G.  Clymer  has 
reached  a  position  as  one  of  the  foremost  architects  of  St.  Louis.  His  active  con- 
nection with  building  operations  has  constituted  a  vital  force  in  the  improvement 
of  the  city  and  his  life  record  should  serve  as  a  source  of  inspiration  and  encour- 
agement to  others,  showing  what  may  be  accomplished  when  determination  and 
energy  point  out  the  way  of  success  through  the  utilization  of  talent.  Mr.  Clymer 
is  a  native  of  Illinois,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Polo,  June  29,  1873,  his  parents 
being  Henry  L.  and  Mary  M.  Clymer.  His  ancestors  in  the  paternal  line  came  from 
England  and  among  the  number  was  one  who  signed  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence. Both  parents  of  Harry  G.  Clymer  were  natives  of  Pennsylvania  and  in  1875 
they  removed  from  Polo,  Illinois,  to  St.  Louis,  where  the  father  engaged  in  the 
preserving  of  fruit  and  in  the  manufacture  of  canned  goods. 

In  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis,  Harry  G.  Clymer  pursued  his»  education  to 
the  age  of  fourteen  years  and  then  was  obliged  to  start  out  in  the  business  world 
on  his  own  account,  it  being  necessary  for  him  to  earn  his  living  owing  to  his 
father's  death.  He  did  not  hesitate  to  accept  any  employment  that  would  yield 
him  an  honorable  return  for  his  labor,  yet  as  the  months  passed  his  ideas  became 
more  and  more  definite  as  to  the  profession  of  architecture  as  a  life  work.  He 
possessed  natural  taste  and  talent  for  drawing  and  resolved  to  develop  his  innate 
powers  along  this  line.  Accordingly  he  became  a  student  in  the  office  of  A.  F. 
Rosenheim  and  made  such  progress  that  after  three  months  he  was  given  a  salary 
and  was  soon  made  a  draftsman,  and  later  employed  by  William  B.  Ittner.  His 
increasing  ability  brought  an  adequate  financial  recompense  and  eventually  he  be- 
came head  draftsman  for  A.  M.  Beinke  with  a  salary  of  one  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars    per   month.     In    1901,    following   the    death    of    his    employer,    he    took    up 


340  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

the  profession  on  his  own  account  and  his  advancement  has  been  continuous  and 
most  gratifying.  Today  he  has  a  very  extensive  patronage  and  the  visible  proof 
of  his  capability  Is  found  in  some  of  the  finest  structures  of  St.  Louis. 

Mr.  Clymer  was  married  in  this  city,  March  1,  1899,  to  Miss  Lottie  Long,  a 
daughter  of  William  C.  Long,  and  they  have  two  children,  Dorothy  and  William 
Henry.  The  family  residence  is  an  attractive  home  at  No.  5  2  28  Maple  avenue, 
erected  by  Mr.  Clymer.  Fraternally  Mr.  Clymer  is  a  Mason  and  a  member  of  the 
St.  Louis  Chapter  of  the  American  Institute  of  Architects.  His  religious  faith  is 
that  of  the  Methodist  church  and  his  political  belief  that  of  the  republican  party. 
He  belongs  to  the  Century  Boat  Club  and  is  appreciative  of  the  social  amenities 
of  life,  while  his  personal  qualities  make  for  popularity  wherever  he  is  known. 
He  has  held  no  public  offices  of  a  purely  political  nature  but  has  been  a  member 
of  the  efficiency  board  for  two  terms,  or  six  years.  He  is  most  keenly  interested 
in  all  that  has  Fo  do  with  the  improvement  and  advancement  of  St.  Louis  along 
all  lines  and  his  efforts  have  been  particularly  tangible  in  adding  to  the  beauty 
and  architectural  adornment  of  the  city. 


OTIS  M.  EDMONSON. 


Otis  M.  Edmonson,  for  seven  years  a  representative  of  the  Kansas  City  bar, 
was  born  in  Winchester,  Illinois,  September  12,  1884,  his  parents  being  Milton  B. 
and  Isabelle  (Smithson)  Edmonson,  the  former  a  native  of  Kentucky,  while  the 
latter  was  born  in  Illinois.  The  father  has  devoted  his  lite  to  the  occupation  of 
farming  and  has  also  been  very  active  In  public  affairs  in  his  state.  He  was  a 
candidate  for  state  senator  and  has  been  especially  helpful  in  his  connection  with 
the  schools  and  with  the  advancement  of  public  welfare. 

After  attending  the  common  schools  of  his  native  city  Otis  M.  Edmonson  en- 
tered the  University  of  Kansas  at  Lawrence  and  was  there  graduated  in  1913  with 
the  LL.  B.  degree,  tor  he  had  determined  upon  the  practice  of  law  as  a  life  work. 
He  at  once  entered  upon  the  duties  of  his  profession  as  a  member  of  the  Kansas 
City  bar  and  has  since  continued  in  general  practice,  his  progress  being  the  direct 
result  of  his  capability  and  determination.  He  has  never  entered  into  any  partner- 
ship relation,  although  several  times  solicited  to  do  so,  having  preferred  to  con- 
duct his  practice  according  to  the  dictates  of  his  own  judgment,  and  the  soundness 
of  his  policy  is  manifest  in  the  success  which  is  now  his. 

On  the  27th  of  June,  1917,  in  Wellington,  Kansas,  Mr.  Edmonson  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Lura  Davis,  w-ho  was  a  representative  of  a  farming  family  of 
Illinois,  natives  of  that  state.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edmonson  has  been  born  a  son, 
Milton  Boone. 

Mr.  Edmonson  belongs  to  the  Masonic  lodge,  also  to  the  Masonic  college  fra- 
ternity. Acacia,  which  Is  the  strongest  college  fraternity  in  existence  and  is  grow- 
ing to  be  to  the  college  men  what  Masonry  Is  to  the  world.  He  Is  likewise  Identi- 
fied with  the  Phi  Delta  Phi,  a  law  college  fraternity.  His  religious  faith  is  that 
of  the  Baptist  church.  During  the  war  he  served  on  the  legal  advisory  board  of 
the  eighth  district  and  did  everything  within  his  power  to  assist  In  bringing  about 
a  successful  termination  of  the  struggle  through  home  service.  He  is  a  man  of 
forceful  and  pleasing  personality,  direct  in  his  statements  and  at  all  times  most 
dependable. 


JOHN    J.    DAVIS,    M.  D. 


Dr.  John  J.  Davis,  who  in  the  general  practice  of  medicine  In  Kansas  City  has 
met  with  marked  success,  was  born  In  Waverly,  Missouri,  October  29,  1880,  his  par- 
ents being  John  H.  and  Maggie  (Plnkerton)  Davis.  They  were  natives  of  Kentucky 
but  came  to  Missouri  about  1860  or  shortly  before  the  Civil  war.  The  father  was 
a  farmer  by  occupation  and  was  Interested  in  public  affairs,  especially  In  connection 
with  the  schools,  but  never  sought  or  filled  political  office. 

Dr.  Davis,  spending  his  youthful  days  under  the  parental  roof,  attended  the  com- 
mon schools  of  Waverly,  passing  through  consecutive  grades  to  his  graduation  from 
the  high  school  with  the  class  of  1896.     He  then  started  upon  his  business  career  as 


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a  clerk  in  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce,  with  which  he  was  associated  for  about 
four  years.  Later  he  took  up  railroad  work,  becoming  connected  with  the  freight 
department  of  the  Mobile  &  Ohio  Railroad  at  Meridian,  Mississippi,  spending  two 
years  in  that  service.  On  account  of  poor  health  he  then  went  to  Arizona  and  re- 
mained for  about  a  year  in  the  southwest.  Upon  his  return  tp  Kansas  City  he  took 
up  the  study  of  medicine,  in  1907,  in  the  Kansas  University  of  Medicine  and  was 
graduated  in  1911  with  the  M.  D.  degree.  He  at  once  entered  upon  the  general  prac- 
tice of  medicine  alone  and  has  met  with  marked  success  as  the  years  have  passed  by. 
He  keeps  in  touch  with  the  trend  of  professional  thought  and  progress  and  readily 
adopts  any  new  ideas  or  methods  which  his  judgment  sanctions  as  of  value  in  profes- 
sional work. 

During  the  late  war  Dr.  Davis  was  commissioned  a  lieutenant  in  the  navy  but 
was  not  called  into  active  service.  He  did  his  part  at  home,  however,  for  he  was 
the  active  visiting  physician  at  St.  Mary's  Hospital  and  was  also  connected  with 
the  staff  of  Swope  Hospital  and  gave  his  entire  time  to  work  of  this  character, 
thus  doing  the  work  of  other  physicians  and  surgeons,  rendering  it  possible  for 
them  to  go  overseas.  He  was  himself  exceedingly  anxious  to  be  sent  across,  but 
fate  willed  otherwise  and  so  he  performed  at  home  the  service  to  which  he  was 
called. 

In  Kansas  City,  in  1913,  Dr.  Davis  was  married  to  Miss  Edna  Gundelfinger,  a 
native  of  England,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  a  daughter,  Anna  Louise 
Davis.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Davis  are  consistent  members  of  the  Christian  church.  He 
Is  very  fond  of  outdoor  life,  enjoys  farming  aaid  -takes  great  pleasure  in  motor 
trips.  Professionally  he  is  connected  with  .the  Jackson  County  Medical  Society, 
the  Missouri  State  Medical  Society  and  the.  American  Medical  Association.  In 
manner  he  is  rather  quiet  and  is  always  sure  of  himself  and  his  position  before 
he  makes  a  statement.  He  has  a  thorough  mind,  is  mentally  alert  at  all  times 
and  possesses  strong  powers  of  concentration".  Steadily  he  is  progressing  in  his 
chosen  calling  and  the  position  he  has  already  attained  indicates  that  his  future 
career  will  be  well   worth  watching.      - 


ALEXANDER  H.  ROBBINS. 


Alexander  H.  Robbins,  among  those  men  whose  intellectual  force  has  been 
often  tested  in  the  courts  and  whose  ability  as  a  member  of  the  bar  is  manifest 
in  the  many  favorable  verdicts  which  he  has  won  for  his  clients,  is  now  success- 
fully practicing  in  St.  Louis.  He  is  numbered  among  the  law  alumni  of  Wash- 
ington University  of  189S  and  through  the  inteiwening  period  has  continued  a  rep- 
resentative of  the  St.  Louis  bar.  He  was  born  June  21,  1875,  and  is  the  eldest 
of  the  family  of  two  sons  and  a  daughter  whose  parents  were  Alexander  H.  and 
Anna  (Robinson)  Robbins.  The  father,  now  deceased,  was  a  native  of  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  and  was  of  English  lineage,  although  the  family  had  been  repre- 
sented in  America  for  six  generations.  His  ancestors  participated  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary war,  taking  active  part  in  advancing  the  cause  of  independence.  The  wife 
of  Alexander  H.  Robbins,  Sr.,  was  also  American  born.  Her  people  came  to  Mis- 
souri in  18  20  and  were  slaveholders  at  that  time.  She  belonged  to  the  same 
family  as  Captain  George  W.  Robinson,  who  served  with  the  Confederate  troops  in 
the  Civil  war,  and  Judge  John  B.  Robinson  of  the  circuit  court  of  Farmington, 
Missouri.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alexander  H.  Robbins,  Sr.,  there  were  born  three 
children:  Alexander  H.;  Clarence,  who  is  the  secretary  of  the  Robbins  Varnish 
Company  of  St.  Louis  and  who  married  Anna  Painter;  and  Lura  M.,  the  wife  of 
Alfred  G.  Mason,  a  salesman  for  the  Robbins  Varnish  Company. 

At  the  usual  age  A.  H.  Robbins  of  this  review  began  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  and  passed  through  consecutive  grades  until  graduated  from  the 
Central  high  school  in  January,  1895.  He  afterward  entered  Washington  Uni- 
versity for  the  study  of  law  and  there  completed  his  course  in  1898,  at  which  time 
the  LL.  B.  degree  was  conferred  upon  him.  The  same  year  he  was  admitted  to 
practice  in  the  state  and  federal  courts  and  for  three  years  thereafter  practiced 
independently  in  St.  Louis.  In  1901  he  was  made  editor  of  the  Central  Law  Journal 
and  so  continued  until  1920.  This  is  a  national  law  weekly,  recognized  as  one 
of  the  foremost  legal  publications  of  the  country.      He  has  made  it  a  magazine  of 


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great  value  to  the  profession,  its  contributors  being  men  of  recognized  authority 
upon  the  subjects  which  are  discussed,  while  the  editorials  of  the  paper  are  such 
as  awaken  wide  interest  and  the  policy  of  the  publication  commands  the  respect 
of  all.  From  1911  to  the  present  time  Mr.  Robbins  has  also  been  professor  of  law 
in  St.  Louis  University  and  is  the  author  of  a  number  of  law  textbooks  which  have 
a  wide  circulation  in  law  schools,  including  "Robbins  on  American  Advocacy"  and 
"Robbins  on  Conflict  of  Laws."  Mr.  Robbins  also  practices  in  an  advisory  capacity 
as  a  counselor  at  law  and  his  position  is  that  of  one  of  the  most  widely  known  and 
eminent    representatives  of  the  St.   Louis  bar. 

During  the  World  war  Mr.  Robbins  served  on  the  legal  advisory  board  of  the 
twenty-seventh  ward  of  St.  Louis  and  did  active  campaign  work  in  behalf  of  the 
Liberty  Loan,  delivered  many  speeches  on  the  subject  of  thrift  and  the  necessity 
of  conserving  food  supplies,  his  clear  and  logical  utterances  never  failing  to  impress 
his   hearers. 

On  the  23d  of  February,  1904,  Mr.  Robbins  was  married  to  Miss  Katherine 
Gundelfinger.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robbins  have  become  parents  of  a  daughter,  Mary 
Anna,  fifteen  years  of  age,  who  is  with  them  in  the  family  residence  at  No.  1341 
Laurel  street. 

Politically  Mr.  Robbins  is  an  independent  democrat.  He  was  appointed  by 
Governor  Gardner  as  one  of  the  three  delegates  to  the  Conference  of  Commissioners 
on  Uniform  State  Laws,  a  national  body  for  the  codification  of  commercial  laws. 
Something  of  the  nature  of  his  recreation  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  has  mem- 
bership in  the  St.  Louis  Tennis  Association,  the  Forest  Park  Tennis  Club  and  the 
City  Club.  That  the  public  welfare  is  a  matter  of  concern  to  him  is  manifest  in 
his  connection  with  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  his  cooperation  with  the  efforts 
of  that  organization  to  upbuild  a  greater  and  better  city  with  more  extended  trade 
relations  and  with  higher  civic  standards.  Along  professional  lines  his  connection 
is  with  the  St.  Louis,  Missouri  State  and  American  Bar  Association,  and  in  his 
chosen  field  of  labor  he  occupies  a  place  of  prominence,  for  he  has  ever  been  a 
close  and  discriminating  student  of  the  principles  of  jurisprudence  and  thus  has 
reached  a  point  of  leadership  in  educational  and  journalistic  field.s  having  to  do 
with  the  law  and  its  administration.  His  religious  faith  is  indicated  by  his  mem.- 
bership  in  Scruggs  Memorial  Methodist  church,  in  which  he  is  serving  as  super- 
intendent  of   the   Sunday  school   and  also   as   a   member  of   the   board   of  stewards. 


BENJAMIN  CARROLL  HYDE. 

Benjamin  Carroll  Hyde,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  T.  W.  Ballew  Loan  & 
Investment  Company  of  Kansas  City  and  long  connected  with  the  development  of  the 
oil  industry,  was  born  in  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  January  2,  1875,  and  is  a  son  of 
Ira  B.  Hyde,  lawyer,  soldier  and  congressman,  who  was  born  at  Guilford,  New  York, 
January  18,  1838,  and  reared  upon  a  farm  in  the  Empire  state.  He  supplemented  his 
early  education  by  study  in  Oberlin  College  of  Ohio  and  after  preparing  for  the  bar 
located  in  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  in  1861.  There  he  entered  upon  the  practice  of 
his  profession  but  in  the  following  year  joined  the  Union  army  as  a  private  in  a 
cavalry  regiment,  with  which  he  served  until  the  close  of  the  war.  In  1866  he  came 
to  Missouri  and  opened  his  law  oflSce  at  Princeton,  where  he  served  for  one  term 
as  prosecuting  attorney.  In  1874  he  was  elected  to  the  forty-third  congress  on  the 
republican  ticket  by  a  vote  of  thirteen  thousand  nine  hundred  and  fifty-three  against 
that  of  twelve  thousand  three  hundred  and  eighteen  given  to  C.  H.  Mansur,  the 
democratic  candidate.     He  is  still  living  and  makes  his  home  at  Princeton,  Missouri. 

Benjamin  C.  Hyde  of  this  review,  after  attending  the  public  schools,  spent  two 
years  as  a  student  in  the  University  of  Iowa  and  for  a  year  studied  In  Oberlin 
College,  his  father's  alma  mater.  He  entered  upon  his  business  career  as  cashier 
of  the  Mercer  County  Bank,  in  which  position  he  remained  for  a  brief  period.  His 
father  was  at  that  time  interested  in  telephone  properties  in  northern  Missouri  and 
southern  Iowa  and  Benjamin  C.  Hyde  acted  for  many  years  as  auditor  and  manager 
of  the  business.  Twelve  years  ago  he  came  to  Kansas  City  and  Is  the  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  T.  W.  Ballew  Loan  &  Investment  Company.  He  has  become 
thoroughly  familiar  with  many  forms  of  Investment  and  is  a  prominent   figure  in  the 


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financial  circles  of  his  adopted  city.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Security  National 
Bank  and  has   many   other  interests. 

On  the  28th  of  April,  1897,  Mr.  Hyde  was  married  to  Miss  Jessie  Beatrice  Ballew, 
daughter  of  Thomas  W.  Ballew  of  a  prominent  old  Missouri  family.  They  have 
become  parents  of  two  children:  Florence  Mabel,  who  is  president  of  the  senior 
class  at  Mount  Vernon  Seminary  at  Washington,  D.  C;  and  Benjamin  Winfield,  seven- 
teen years  of  age,  now  a  student  in  the  University  of  Missouri  at  Columbia. 

Mr.  Hyde  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club, 
the  Blue  Hills  Country  Club,  the  Mission  Hills  Country  Club,  the  Noonday  Club 
and  other  prominent  organizations.  He  is  fond  of  golf  and  various  phases  of  out- 
door   life. 


HARRY   E.   KELLEY. 


Harry  E.  Kelley,  filling  the  position  of  county  recorder  in  Linn  county,  where 
he  was  born  in  1885,  is  a  son  of  Charles  Edward  and  Lillian  D.  (Ridgway)  Kelley, 
who  were  also  natives  of  Linn  county.  The  father's  birth  occurred  in  Yellow  Creek 
township  February  2,  1861,  and  his  father  was  Bluford  Allen  Kelley,  who  was  boi^n 
in  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  October  5,  1841,  while  his  mother  was  born  in 
Albemarle  county,  Virginia,  March  10,  1839.  The  great-grandparents  of  Harry  E. 
Kelley  of  this  review  were  Francis  and  Mary  (Pace)  Kelley,  who  were  born  and 
reared  near  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  and  at  an  early  period  in  the  development  of 
Missouri  became  residents  of  this  state,  where  Francis  Kelley  engaged  in  farming, 
spending  his  remaining  days  in  Missouri.  His  son,  Bluford  Allen  Kelley,  was  a 
prosperous  farmer  and  a  prominent  and  influential  factor  in  the  upbuilding  of  his 
community.  Charles  Edward  Kelley  was  reared  upon  the  old  home  farm  and 
acquired  his  education  in  the  district  schools  of  Linn  county,  to  which  his  parents 
had  removed  prior  to  his  birth.  On  attaining  his  majority  he  took  up  farming  on 
his  own  account  and  successfully  followed  agricultural  pursuits  for  many  years, 
but  at  a  recent  date  he  and  his  wife  removed  to  Brookfield,  where  he  is  now  living 
retired,  enjoying  a  rest  which  he  has  truly  earned  and  richly  desei-ves.  In  1896 
he  was  elected  county  treasurer  and  was  reelected  to  the  office  in  1898,  filling  the 
position  most  acceptably  for  four  years.  He  has  always  taken  an  active  interest 
in  the  success  of  the  democratic  party  and  has  done  everything  in  his  power  to 
promote  its  growth.  In  1902  he  was  a  candidate  for  judge  of  the  eastern  district 
of  his  county,  but  could  not  overcome  the  normal  republican  majority.  He  was 
also  nominated  for  the  office  of  state  representative  and  in  both  cases  polled  a 
good  vote.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows 
and  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America  and  for  many  years  has  been  a  devoted 
member  of  the  Baptist  church,  serving  as  church  trustee  for  a  considerable  period. 
On  the  1st  of  August,  1883,  he  wedded  Miss  Lillian  D.  Ridgway,  a  daughter  of 
George  W.  and  Melinda  (Hardy)  Ridgway.  They  have  five  living  children:  Floella, 
the  wife  of  M.  D.  Carter;  Harry  E.;  Leslie  G.;  Gladys,  the  wife  of  F.  W.  Maddox; 
and   Gilbert. 

Harry  E.  Kelley  was  reared  on  the  home  farm  and  his  educational  opportunities 
were  those  accorded  by  the  district  schools  near  the  farm  and  by  the  public  schools 
of  Linneus,  which  he  attended  for  about  six  years.  He  followed  the  occupation  of 
farming  until  elected  to  the  position  of  county  recorder,  entering  upon  the  duties 
of  the  office  on  the  1st  of  January,  1919.  He  has  made  an  excellent  record  in  this 
position,  being  prompt,   faithful,  systematic  and  capable. 

In  19  06  Mr.  Kelley  was  married  to  Miss  Bernice  Ethel  Lamb,  a  daughter  of 
Henry  H.  and  Clara  (Wright)  Lamb.  Mrs.  Lamb  was  born  near  Leavenworth, 
Kansas,  while  Mr.  Lamb  was  a  native  of  Delaware,  Ohio.  He  came  to  Missouri 
in  1866,  settling  in  Linn  county,  in  company  with  his  father,  Reuben  A.  Lamb. 
Thereafter  he  followed  farming  and  stock  raising.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  E.  Kelley 
have  been  born  five  daughters:  Dorothy  Beryl,  Lillian  Clare,  Reba  D.,  Eleanor 
Doris  and   Harriet  Irene. 

In  fraternal  circles  Mr.  Kelley  is  a  well  known  figure,  having  membership  with 
the  Odd  Fellows,  the  Elks,  the  Knights  and  Ladies  of  Security  and  the  Modern 
Woodmen  of  America.  He  has  always  been  a  stalwart  advocate  of  democratic  prin- 
ciples and  has  done  everything  in  his  power  to  promote  the  growth  and  success  of 


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his  party.  He  is  also  connected  with  the  Baptist  church  and  is  keenly  interested 
in  everything  that  has  to  do  with  the  moral  progress  of  his  community.  He  belongs 
to  one  o£  the  old  and  representative  pioneer  families  of  the  state  and  has  made 
a  most  creditable  record  in  every  relation  of  life,  thus  reflecting  honor  upon  an 
untarnished   family  name. 


WILLIAM    M.    PORTEOUS. 


Along  the  lines  of  an  orderly  progression.  William  M.  Porteous,  of  Scotch 
birth,  has  reached  a  creditable  position  in  the  business  circles  of  St.  Louis,  where 
he  has  made  his  home  since  August,  1882,  being  now  District  Freight  Agent  for 
the  Canadian  Pacific  Railway.  He  was  born  in  Edinburgh.  Scotland,  August  3, 
1857,  about  one  hundred  yards  from  Kirk  O'  Fields,  the  house  in  which  Lord 
Darnley  is  supposed  to  have  met  death  when  the  building  was  blown  up  by  Both- 
well,  August  3,  1657.  His  father  purchased  the  property  at  Stricken's  Close,  from 
John  Aiken  about  1864,  and  there  William  M.  Porteous  lived  until  he  left  for 
America,  March  13,  1879.  On  the  death  of  his  father  in  1906,  this  property, 
together  with  two  houses  in  Gillespie- Crescent,  were  left  to  William  M.  Porteous 
and  his  brother,  and  in  a  later  division  of  the  property,  William  M.  Porteous  re- 
ceived the  two  houses  and  his  brother  the  Stricken's  Close  property.  The  father, 
James  Porteous  was  born  in  Dalkeith,  Scotland,  April  15,  1826.  His  musical  taste 
early  asserted  itself  and  in  spite  of  various  difficulties  he  managed  to  obtain  some 
vocal  lessons  while  a  boy.  The  father  made  the  acquaintance  of  the  celebrated 
Scotch  composer,  singer  and  poet,  Alexander  Hume.  James  Porteous  was  a  great 
admirer  of  Hume,  who  was  connected  in  a  way  with  the  firm  of  cabinet  makers  for 
which  he  worked.  About  that  time  there  was  a  marked  revival  in  the  study  of 
music  and  when  twenty-two  years  of  age,  James  Porteous  became  a  member  of 
Mr.  Steedman's  singing  class.  This  class  resulted  in  the  famous  Thistle  Solfeggio 
Club  of  two  hundred  members.  He  was  afterward  one  of  the  teachers  sent  out  by 
the  United  Presbyterian  Synod  to  give  lessons  in  music  in  Scotch  villages.  He  was 
a  charming  and  successful  teacher  and  his  preliminary  remark  to  his  classes  is  still 
preserved  in  local  history:  "I  wish  you  to  give  me  your  best  voices,  your  sweetest 
faces  and  a  smile."  This  request  indicates  the  nature  of  the  man  and  the  teacher. 
The  list  of  gifts  made  to  him  by  the  various  communities  where  he  taught  would 
run  into  the  dozens.  It  was  he  who  was  successful  in  introducing  the  doxology 
into  the  church  services.  In  his  later  years  he  continued  his  musical  career,  while 
also  acting  as  proprietor  of  the  Porteous  Temperance  Hotel  at  Edinburgh.  He  died 
in  1906.  His  wife,  who  was  Mary  Maither  of  Hutton,  Berwickshire,  died  in  1886. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Maither. 

William  Porteous,  whose  name  introduces  this  record,  when  a  little  boy 
attended  David  Hays  Academy,  where  the  children  of  David  Kennedy,  eminent 
Scotch  vocalist,  were  also  pupils,  and  while  a  young  man  he  sang  in  the  Tron-Kirk 
under  Tom  Watson  and  also  in  St.  Giles  Cathedral,  under  John  Sinclair.  He  was 
graduated  from  the  George  Watson  college  in  1876,  and  became  a  clerk  in  the 
employ  of  the  North  British  Railroad  Company,  thus  serving  tor  three  years.  On 
the  13th  of  March,  1879,  he  left  his  native  country,  landing  at  Canada  and  went 
directly  to  Portland,  Maine,  where  resided  an  old  friend,  who  was  employed  by 
the  Grand  Trunk  Railroad  Company.  Mr.  Porteous  entered  the  employ  of  the 
same  company  as  bill  clerk  and  occupied  that  position  until  October,  1880.  During 
that  period  he  sang  in  the  Williston  church  in  Portland,  the  birthplace  of  the 
Christian  Endeavor  Society.  He  there  studied  vocal  music  under  Henry  Dennett, 
the  first  teacher  of  the  famous  Anna  Louise  Carey,  and  also  sang  under  Herman 
Kotchmar,  the  director  of  the  Handel-Haydn  Society  of  Portland. 

In  1880  Mr.  Porteous  went  to  Boston  in  the  employment  of  the  Commercial 
Express  Past  Freight  Line,  and  in  that  city  continued  his  vocal  studies  under 
Charles  R.  Adams,  then  a  noted  teacher.  He  sang  in  Adoniah  Gordon's  Baptist 
church  under  George  W.  Chadwick,  now  head  of  the  New  England  conservatory  and 
later  went  with   him  to  Park  Street  church  on  the  corner  of  Boston  Common. 

In  August.  1882,  Mr.  Porteous  came  to  St.  Louis  and  opened  an  office  for  the 
Great  Eastern  Fast  Freight  Line,  in  connection  with  the  Grand  Trunk.  Wabash 
&    Lackawanna   Railroads.      In   January,    1883.    he   joined    the   choir  of    the   Second 


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Baptist  church  with  which  he  has  since  been  connected  and  thus  entered  the 
musical,  as  well  as  the  business  circles  of  his  adopted  city.  In  1889  he  became 
general  agent  of  the  Bluff  Line,  afterwards  the  Jacksonville  and  Southeastern  Rail- 
road, and  now  the  C.  P.  &  St.  L.  Railroad,  and  was  with  them  until  September  1, 
1892,  when  he  opened  the  office  of  the  Canadian  Pacific  Railway  and  has  since  been 
its   representative. 

Mr.  Porteous  has  always  taken  such  a  great  interest  in  music  that  it  seems 
strange  that  he  has  not  devoted  his  life  to  the  art.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Hatton 
Glee  Club,  which  sang  only  English  glees,  and  was  one  of  the  most  delightful 
organizations  of  its  kind.  Of  them  H.  M.  Blossom  said  that  they  gave  the  closest 
imitation  of  a  string  quartette  he  had  ever  heard.  It  is  conceded  that  Mr.  Porteous 
is  one  of  the  greatest  singers  of  Scotch  ballads  of  the  age. 

On  the  29th  of  September,  1883,  at  Montreal,  Canada,  Mr.  Porteous  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Mary  Carter  of  Edinburgh  who  came  to  this  country  to  become  his 
bride.  They  had  been  playmates  in  childhood  and  the  friendship  of  earlier  days 
ripened  into  love  as  they  approached  adult  life.  Mrs.  Porteous  is  a  daughter  of 
John  Carter,  late  superintendent  of  the  Ford  Glass  Works  at  Edinburgh.  They 
have  four  children:  John  Carter,  an  electrical  engineer,  employed  by  the  city  of 
New  York,  on  Randall's  Island;  William  M.,  who  is  with  the  Wabash  Railroad  at 
St.  Louis;  James  W..  who  is  with  the  Packard  Motor  Corporation  at  St.  Louis; 
and  Archibald  Allan,  a  high  school  pupil  at  Columbia,  Missouri.  Mr.  Porteous  was 
reared  in  a  family  that  has  been  Presbyterian  for  many  generations.  He  was  made 
a  Mason  in  Roman  Eagle  Lodge,  No.  160,  at  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  and  demitted  to 
Occidental  Lodge,  No.  163,  of  St.  Louis,  of  which  he  is  a  Past  Master.  He  also 
belonged  to  St.  Louis  chapter,  R.  A.  M.;  St.  Aldemar  Commandery,  K.  T.;  St.  Louis 
Consistory,  A.  A.  S.  R.;  and  Moolah  Temple  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.,  of  which  he  was 
Potentate  in  1902.  He  has  been  President  of  the  Caledonian  Society  of  St.  Louis, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association.  His  life  has  been  character- 
ized by  steady  progress  in  business  and  in  musical  circles,  in  both  of  which  he  has 
been   well   known   in   St.   Louis  for  many  years. 


THOMAS  J.   KAVANAUGH. 


Thomas  J.  Kavanaugh,  vice  president  of  the  Mississippi  Valley  Trust  Company, 
who  is  largely  regarded  as  an  authority  upon  questions  of  banking  and  credit,  was 
born  in  Tralee,  Ireland,  February  6,  1877.  His  father,  John  Kavanaugh,  also  a 
native  of  the  Emerald  isle,  came  to  the  United  States  in  1898,  settling  in  St.  Louis. 
He  had  been  a  successful  business  man  in  his  native  country  and  lived  retired  after 
coming  to  the  new  world.  He  married  Delia  Moriarity,  a  cousin  of  Bishop  Moriarity. 
She  was  born  in  Ireland  and  they  became  the  parents  of  nine  children,  of  whom 
Thomas  J.  is  the  youngest.  The  father  passed  away  in  1909  and  the  mother  in 
1910. 

Thomas  J.  Kavanaugh  acquired  his  classical  education  in  Ireland  and  crossing 
the  Atlantic  to  the  United  States  in  early  manhood,  landed  at  New  York  in  1896. 
For  a  short  time  he  had  been  a  newspaper  correspondent  in  Ireland  before  coming 
to  the  new  world.  Prom  New  York  he  made  his  way  at  once  to  St.  Louis  and  in 
1897  became  associated  with  the  Paddock-Hawley  Iron  Company  as  credit  man, 
occupying  that  position  for  a  period  of  nine  years  or  until  1906.  He  then  entered 
the  employ  of  the  Mississippi  Valley  Trust  Company  as  secretary  to  Julius  S.  Walsh, 
chairman  of  the  board  and  president  of  that  corporation.  In  December,  1911,  he 
organized  the  credit  department  for  the  company,  becoming  its  manager,  and  in 
1916  was  oflicially  made  credit  manager  of  this  great  trust  company. 

One  of  the  prominent  business  men  of  St.  Louis  said  of  Mr.  Kavanaugh:  "He 
is  unsurpassed  in  credits,  his  writing  upon  this  subject  being  widely  read.  His 
tendencies  are  progressive  but  not  extreme.  He  takes  a  heartfelt  interest  in  guiding 
those  seeking  his  advice  in  business  and  is  a  wonderful  judge  of  human  nature. 
His  success  is  due  to  his  natural  ability  to  size  up  situations  in  a  logical  manner 
and  give  decisions  beneficial  to  all,  a  result  attributable  mainly  to  the  fact  that  he 
is  well  read  and  has  had  a  tremendous  amount  of  practical  experience."  He  has 
written  largely  upon  banking  subjects,  particularly  the  credit  phase  of  the  business, 
and  has  published  works  entitled  "Essentials  in  the  Granting  of  Bank  Credits"  and 
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352  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

"The  Bank  Credit  Department."  He  is  instructor  of  the  credits  class  at  the  St.  Louis 
University,  in  which  connection  another  leading  business  man  ot  St.  Louis  said: 
"As  a  lecturer  on  finance  and  banking  he  has  a  clear  insight  into  its  requirements 
and  the  genius  to  transmit  it  to  his  class  in  an  attractive  way,  illuminating  even 
to  the  lay  mind.  With  the  same  ability  he  succeeds  in  reducing  this  clearness  to 
the  printed  page.  His  writings  on  banking,  credits  and  kindred  subjects  are 
nationally  sought  by  banking  institutions  and  universities  for  employes  and  stu- 
dents. Mr.  Kavanaugh's  ability  to  look  on  the  bright  side  ot  affairs  has  encouraged 
many  individuals  and  firms,  and  has  made  tor  him  a  host  of  friends  personally  as 
well  as  for  the  Mississippi  Valley  Trust  Company.  I  have  found  him  through  quite 
a  period  of  time  loyal  to  his  institution,  to  St.  Louis,  the  valley  and  his  beliefs; 
broad  in  his  friendships,  constructive  in  his  banking — with  a  vision  ot  a  greater 
St.   Louis   and  a  greater  valley." 

On  the  25th  of  November,  1902,  by  Archbishop  J.  J.  Harty,  Mr.  Kavanaugh 
was  married  to  Helen  Scully,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Katherine  Scully.  His  wife  passed 
away  March  17,  1919,  dying  of  influenza  after  a  most  happy  married  life.  She 
left  four  children:  Thomas  Joseph,  fourteen  years  of  age,  now  a  student  in  the 
St.  Louis  University;  Mary  Grace,  aged  twelve,  attending  the  St.  Ursula  Convent; 
Vincent  De  Paul  and  Leo  Francis,  aged  ten  and  eight  years  respectively,  also  in 
school.  Mr.  Kavanaugh  is  devoted  to  the  interests  of  his  family,  finding  his  greatest 
happiness  in  providing  for  their  welfare  and  advancing  the  interests  ot  his  children. 
He  is  a  devout  member  of  St.  Peter's  Roman  Catholic  church  and  he  belongs  also 
to  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  to  the  Elks  Lodge  No.  9.  His  membership  relations 
extend  likewise  to  the  Algonquin  Golf  Club.  He  has  been  a  consistent  and  forceful 
worker  for  the  Red  Cross  and  for  other  charitable  benefactions.  On  public  occa- 
sions he  is  a  pleasing  talker,  always  composed,  his  speeches  abounding  in  wit  and 
repartee,  and  a  brilliant  mind  enriched  by  his  familiarity  with  the  best  literature 
has  made  him  capable  of  painting  most  beautiful  word  pictures. 


JAMES  B.  WELSH. 


James  B.  Welsh  is  the  president  of  the  James  B.  Welsh  Realty,  Loan  &  Invest- 
ment Company  of  Kansas  City,  in  which  connection  he  has  built  up  a  business  of 
extensive  and  substantial  proportions.  He  has  closely  studied  every  phase  ot  the 
business,  formulates  his  plans  carefully  and  carries  them  forward  to  successful  com- 
pletion. There  is  no  man  more  thoroughly  familiar  with  real  estate  conditions  nor 
one  whose  valuations  of  property  are  more  accurate  than  those  ot  James  B.  Welsh. 

Mr.  Welsh  was  born  in  Danville,  Kentucky,  on  the  14th  of  March,  1852,  and  in 
that  state  he  spent  the  first  thirty  years  of  his  life.  He  supplemented  his  preliminary 
education  by  a  course  of  study  in  Centre  College,  from  which  he  was  graduated  •  in 
1872,  and  then  turned  his  attention  to  mercantile  interests  in  Danville,  being  thus 
engaged  until  1882.  The  latter  year  witnessed  his  arrival  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri, 
where  he  has  been  Identified  with  the  real  estate,  loan  and  investment  business  con- 
tinuously since,  or  for  a  period  covering  nearly  four  decades.  The  James  B.  Welsh 
Realty,  Loan  &  Investment  Company  occupies  a  fine  suite  of  rooms  in  the  Lathrop 
building  and  associated  with  Mr.  Welsh  in  the  enterprise  are  B.  Haywood  Hager- 
man,  vice  president,  and  Byron  G.  Bliss,  treasurer.  They  are  large  operators  in  real 
estate  and  also  conduct  an  extensive  business  in  insurance,  loans  and  in  the  manage, 
ment  of  estates. 

In  early  manhood  Mr.  Welsh  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  McKee,  a 
daughter  of  Dr.  John  L.  McKee,  D.  D.,  vice  president  of  Centre  College  at  Danville, 
Kentucky,  for  twenty-five  years.  In  1904,  having  lost  his  first  wife,  Mr.  Welsh  wedded 
her  sister,  Leila  S.  McKee,  who  is  a  graduate  ot  Wellesley  College,  which  conferred 
upon  her  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Philosophy.  She  became  a  successful  educator 
and  was  president  of  the  Western  College  at  Oxford,  Ohio,  for  a  period  of  sixteen 
years.  She  is  now  a  director  of  the  Young  Women's  Christian  Association  and  is 
very  active  in  philanthropic  and  religious  work  and  in  the  social  circles  of  the  city. 
Mr.  Welsh  has  two  sons,  McKee  and  George  W.,  both  of  whom  are  farming  near  Kansas 
City,  Missouri. 

Mr.  Welsh  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the 
Knife  &  Fork  Club,  the  Mission  Hills  Country  Club  and   is  very  prominent  as  a  pro- 


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moter  of  educational  and  moral  progress.  He  served  as  a  trustee  of  Park  College, 
also  as  trustee  of  the  Missouri  Valley  College  and  the  McCormick  Theological  Sem- 
inary. He  is  an  active  member  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  church  and  one  of  its 
most  generous  supporters.  He  is  serving  on  the  executive  committee  of  the  New  Era 
movement,  which  is  introducing  a  new  era  in  moral  development,  where  men  with 
broad  vision  have  seized  the  opportunities  for  cooperative  effort  in  the  moral  guidance 
of  the  world.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Kansas  City  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association  and  his  aid  and  influence  are  ever  found  on  the  side  of  development  and 
progress.  For  thirty-eight  years  he  has  been  a  resident  of  Kansas  City  and  during 
this  period  has  made  valuable  contribution  to  Missouri's  growth  and  upbuilding, 
his  name  being  most  prominently  and  honorably  associated  with  its  material,  in- 
tellectual,  social   and   moral   progress. 


ALLEN    MOORE. 


A  most  important  feature  in  the  educational  development  of  Missouri  is  the 
Chillicothe  Business  College,  which  now  has  an  annual  attendance  of  over  two 
thousand  students,  and  Allen  Moore  as  head  of  this  institution  is  today  recognized 
as  one  of  the  leading  educators  of  Missouri.  He  has  made  the  school  in  every 
particular  an  institution  fully  equipped  to  meet  the  demands  of  the  business  world 
for  thoroughly  trained  commercial  and  office  assistants.  His  ideals  are  high  and 
he  has  put  forth  evei-y  effort  to  secure  their  attainment,  with  results  that  have  been 
most  satisfactory. 

Mr.  Moore  is  a  native  son  of  Missouri,  his  birth  having  occurred  at  Stanberry, 
February  19,  1886.  He  is  a  son  of  Allen  Moore,  Sr.,  and  a  grandson  of  Samuel 
Moore,  the  latter  a  native  of  North  Carolina,  where  he  was  born  September  25, 
1818.  When  quite  young  he  accompanied  h'is  parents  to  Huntington  county, 
Indiana,  and  there  after  attaining  his  majority  he  took  up  the  occupation  of  farming, 
Continuing  a  resident  of  Huntington  to  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  June 
12,  1895.  His  political  endorsement  was  given  to  the  republican  party  and  his 
religious  faith  was  that  of  the  Society  of  Friends  or  Quakers.  On  the  7th  of 
October,  1846.  he  married  Elizabeth  Wiley,  who  was  born  in  Ohio,  October  20,  1826, 
but  spent  her  girlhood  in  Huntington  county,  Indiana.  They  became  the  parents 
of  eight  children,  which  number  included  Allen  Moore,  Sr.,  who  was  born  at 
Huntington,  July  4,  1853.  He  continued  a  resident  of  Indiana  until  about  1880, 
when  he  established  his  home  at  Stanberry,  Missouri,  and  a  decade  later  became  a 
resident  of  Chillicothe.  He  devoted  the  greater  part  of  his  life  to  the  conduct  of 
a  commercial  college  and  was  the  president  of  the  Stanberry  Normal  School,  the 
Springfield  Normal  School  and  the  Chillicothe  Normal  School,  the  latter  being 
established  by  Mr.  Moore  in  1890  as  a  private  normal.  The  main  school  building 
was  erected  by  the  citizens  of  Chillicothe  and  of  Livingston  county  and  in  1898 
Mr.  Moore  purchased  the  property  from  the  corporation  of  citizens  who  had  it  in 
control.  In  1900  he  erected  the  north  building,  which  is  now  used  as  a  dormitory. 
In  his  political  views  Allen  Moore,  Sr.,  was  an  earnest  democrat  and  his  religious 
faith  was  that  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  He  was  married  August  16,  1883,  at 
Linneus,  Missouri,  to  Miss  Emma  Dryden,  who  was  there  born  June  9,  1862,  and 
was  reared  in  Linn  county.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Julien  and  Martha 
Holland  (Russell)  Dryden,  the  former  a  native  of  Kentucky  and  the  latter  of 
Virginia.  Her  father  was  reared  in  Linn  county,  Missouri,  became  a  physician  and 
also  engaged  in  farming.  He,  too,  voted  with  the  democratic  party  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  church.  South.  His  wife  was  born  May  23,  1820,  in 
Virginia,  but  was  reared  in  Linn  county,  Missouri.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nathaniel  J. 
Dryden  had  a  family  of  fourteen  children,  including  Emma,  who  became  the  wife 
of  Allen  Moore,  Sr.  Of  their  marriage  were  born  seven  children:  Vincent  D.,  who 
was  born  October  1,  1884,  and  has  passed  away;  Allen;  Ralph  LeRoy;  Irene  M., 
who  was  born  May  16,  1890,  and  is  the  wife  of  J.  R.  Townsend,  a  real  estate  dealer 
of  Chillicothe;  Elizabeth  M.,  who  was  born  November  12,  1892,  and  is  the  wife  of 
R.  H.  Vertrees,  a  banker  of  Olustee,  Oklahoma;  Mabel,  who  was  born  August  12, 
1895,  and  is  deceased;  and  George  D.,  born  June  6,  1898.  The  death  of  the  father 
occurred  January  9,  1907,  in  Chillicothe  and  the  mother  passed  away  July  19,  1908. 

Allen  Moore  spent  his  youthful  days  under  the  parental  roof  and  attended  the 
public  schools  of  Chillicothe,  Missouri,  and  later  became  a  student  in  the  Chillicothe 


356  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Normal  School,  founded  by  his  father,  and  subsequent  to  his  graduation  from  that 
institution  he  attended  the  Valparaiso  University  of  Valparaiso,  Indiana,  until  1906. 
In  the  latter  year  he  became  the  associate  of  his  father  in  the  conduct  of  his 
various  educational  institutions  and  by  the  terms  of  his  father's  will  he  and  his 
brother  LeRoy  succeeded  to  the  ownership  of  the  Chillicothe  Normal  School,  Allen 
Moore.  Jr.,  becoming  the  president  thereof  and  also  the  vice  president  of  the 
Springfield  Business  College  at  Springfield,  Missouri.  In  the  fall  of  1909  they 
dropped  the  normal  work  from  the  school,  changing  the  name  to  the  Chillicothe 
Business  College.  In  1911  they  erected  Dryden  Hall  and  in  1918  erected  their 
fifth  building,  known  as  Vincent  Hall.  From  its  inception  the  college  has  grown 
year  by  year,  its  enrollment  constantly  increasing  until  they  now  have  an  annual 
enrollment  of  over  two  thousand  students  from  all  parts  of  Missouri  and  from 
almost  every  state  in  the  Union.  Their  course  of  instruction  covers  everything  in 
a  business  line  having  to  do  with  office  and  commercial  work  and  also  with  the 
telegraph  and  civil  service,  with  business  adminstration,  auditing,  banking,  adver- 
tising and  court  reporting.  It  has  become  one  of  the  strongest,  best  equipped  and 
most  efficient  business  colleges  not  only  of  the  Mississippi  valley  but  of  the  entire 
country.  In  the  conduct  of  the  school  LeRoy  Moore  has  continuously  been  asso- 
ciated with  his  brother,  Allen  Moore.  He  was  born  in  Sianberry,  Missouri,  August 
11,  1887,  and  on  the  5th  of  October,  1910,  was  married  at  Twelve  Mile,  Indiana, 
to  Miss  Maud  Maus,  a  native  of  that  place.  The  brothers  are  both  democrats  in 
their  political  affiliation  and  are  members  of  the  Methodist  church.  South,  and  also 
of  the  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  Their  efforts  and  attention  are  almost 
wholly  given  to  the  business  college  by  reason  of  its  steady  growth,  and  Chillicothe 
has  indeed  benefited  by  this  institution,  which  has  been  as  well  an  important  feature 
in  the  educational  activities  of  the  state.  The  brothers  have  continuously  advanced 
the  standards  of  the  schools,  securing  the  most  competent  instructors  in  the  various 
lines  and  doing  everything  to  meet  the  requirements  of  this  age  of  intense  and 
complex   business   activity. 


WILLIAM    SCOTT. 


William  Scott,  who  is  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  in  .St.  Louis,  is  a 
native  of  Scotland,  his  birth  having  occurred  at  Hawick,  Scotland,  June  2,  1867. 
his  parents  being  Adam  and  Elizabeth  (Anderson)  Scott.  The  father  was  also 
born  in  the  land  of  hills  and  heather  and  in  1870  came  to  the  new  world.  He 
established  his  home  at  Westmoreland,  in  Pottawatomie  county,  Kansas,  where  he 
successfully  engaged  in  farming  and  stock  raising.  It  was  in  Roxburghshire,  Scot- 
land, that  he  wedded  Elizabeth  Anderson  and  they  became  the  parents  of  nine  sons 
and  three  daughters,  of  whom  William  was  the  sixth  in  order  of  birth.  Seven  sons 
of  the  family  are  living:  Thomas  A.,  Robert,  Alexander,  Adam,  Charles  A.,  John  M. 
and  William.  The  members  of  the  family  who  have  passed  away  are  Agnes.  Sybella, 
Bessie.    David   and   Ebenezer. 

William  Scott  was  but  three  years  of  age  when  brought  by  his  parents  to  the 
new  world,  so  that  his  education  was  acquired  in  the  public  schools  of  Westmore- 
land, Kansas,  and  he  later  attended  the  Lawrence  Business  College  at  Lawrence, 
Kansas.  His  youthful  days  were  spent  upon  the  home  farm  until  he  had  reached 
the  age  of  twenty-two,  when,  putting  aside  the  work  of  the  fields,  he  secured  a 
clerkship  in  a  dry  goods  store  at  Wamego,  Kansas,  there  remaining  to  the  age  of 
twenty-five.  He  next  entered  the  employ  of  Trout  &  Leach,  who  were  engaged  in 
the  hardware  business  in  the  same  town,  acting  as  assistant  manager  for  the  firm, 
with  which  he  remained  for  fifteen  years.  On  the  expiration  of  that  period  he 
established  business  on  his  own  account  at  Bonner  Springs,  Kansas,  where  he 
continued  for  a  year  and  a  half.  He  then  sold  out  and  removed  to  St.  Louis  in 
1910  with  the  purpose  of  engaging  in  the  real  estate  business  in  this  city.  Here 
he  has  since  continued  and  is  now  with  the  Olive  Street  Terrace  Realty  Company 
in  the  capacity  of  salesman  and  assistant  manager.  He  has  thoroughly  acquainted 
himself  with  realty  conditions  in  the  city  and  is  making  steady  advancement  as  a 
factor  in   real  estate  circles   here. 

In  Wamego.  Kansas,  on  the  12th  of  November.  1895,  Mr.  Scott  was  married 
to  Miss  Mary  Isbell  Jacobs,  who  wae  an  adopted  daughter  of  Henry  Isbell,  of  Scotch 


•        CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  357 

and  English  descent.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Scott  are  now  parents  of  a  son  and  three 
daughters:  Emily  Marion,  the  wife  of  Otto  G.  Balser,  of  St.  Louis;  Frances  Isbell; 
William  Douglass;  and  Alberta  Eugenie.  The  family  resides  at  No.  317  North 
Boyle   avenue  in   St.   Louis. 

Mr.  Scott  is  a  republican  in  his  political  views,  having  supported  the  party 
since  becoming  a  naturalized  American  citizen.  His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the 
Presbyterian  church  and  he  is  an  exemplary  representative  of  the  Masonic  fraternity, 
belonging  to  Wamego  Lodge,  No.  75,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Wamego,  Kansas;  Kaw 
Valley  Chapter,  No.  53,  R.  A.  M.;  and  Hiram  Council,  No.  1,  R.  &  S.  M. 
of  St.  Louis.  He  is  also  identified  with  the  Salesmanship  Club  and  with  the  Men's 
Community  Club,  which  is  connected  with  St.  George's  church  of  St.  Louis.  His 
interests  center  along  those  lines  through  which  are  promoted  the  welfare  and 
progress  of  the  community,  the  uplift  of  the  individual  and  the  advancement  of 
the  state,  his  influence  being  ever  on  the   side  of   reform,   right  and  improvement. 


WILLIAM  B.  McGregor. 


William  B.  McGregor,  secretary  of  the  Brookfleld  Trust  Company,  was  born 
upon  a  farm  near  St.  Catharine,  in  Linn  county,  Missouri,  January  2  9,  1876,  his 
parents  being  Duncan  and  Rachel  Ellen  (Dick-Young)  McGregor.  The  father  was 
a  native  of  Prince  Edward  Island,  Nova  Scotia,  born  in  1832,  while  the  mother's 
birth  occurred  in  Ohio  in  1841.  He  was  but  a  year  old  when  taken  by  his  parents 
to  Scotland  and  in  the  land  of  hills  and  heather  was  reared  to  the  age  of  twenty- 
one.  He  then  came  to  the  United  States  and  for  some  time  was  a  resident  of 
Pennsylvania,  but  afterward  removed  westward  to  Missouri,  settling  at  Dry  Hill, 
near  St.  Louis.  There  he  engaged  in  mining  until  1860,  when  he  again  went  to 
Scotland  and  for  five  years  continued  his  residence  in  that  country.  Once  more 
he  came  to  the  United  States,  with  Missouri  as  his  destination,  and  settled  near 
St.  Catharine,  in  Linn  county,  where  his  remaining  days  were  passed.  On  the 
4th  of  March,  1875,  he  wedded  Rachel  Ellen  (Dick)  Young.  Both  were  keenly 
interested  in  everything  that  pertained  to  the  development,  welfare  and  improve- 
ment of  their  township  and  county  and  they  were  particularly  active  as  members 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  doing  everything  in  their  power  to  promote  its 
growth  and  extend  its  influence.  Mr.  McGregor  was  one  of  the  trustees  who  built 
the  Seeley  chapel  and  in  many  other  ways  he  contributed  to  the  church  work. 

William  B.  McGregor  is  indebted  to  the  district  school  system  for  the  early 
educational  opportunities  which  he  enjoyed.  H&  afterward  attended  the  high  school 
at  Marceline  and  later  was  a  pupil  in  the  college  at  Brookfleld.  After  leaving  that 
institution  he  secured  special  training  for  the  profession  of  teaching  as  a  student 
in  the  Kirksville  State  Normal  School.  When  twenty-one  years  of  age,  or  in  1897, 
he  began  teaching  and  for  three  years  was  thus  connected  with  the  rural  schools, 
while  later  he  spent  ten  years  as  principal  of  the  Brookfleld  schools,  imparting 
readily  and  clearly  to  others  the  knowledge  he  had  acquired,  while  as  principal 
he  carefully  directed  the  labors  of  the  teachers  who  were  under  his  direction  and 
inspired  both  teachers  and  pupils  with  much  of  his  own  zeal  and  interest  in  the 
work.  His  methods  were  practical  and  progressive  and  results  achieved  were  most 
satisfactory.  In  November,  1910,  his  fellow  townsmen  manifested  their  endorse- 
ment of  his  previous  public  service  by  electing  him  to  the  offlce  of  county  recorder 
with  a  majority  of  three  hundred  votes.  He  discharged  his  duties  so  capably  in 
the  latter  connection  that  he  was  reelected  in  1914  by  the  largest  majority  ever 
given  to  a  candidate  in  Linn  county  on  the  democratic  ticket.  He  served  through 
the  year  1918  and  then  entered  the  Brookfleld  Trust  Company  as  assistant  cashier. 
Later  he  was  chosen  seci'etary  and  is  now  filling  this  position.  He  is  a  man  of 
keen  discernment  and  unfaltering  enterprise  and  is  proving  an  active  factor  in 
financial  circles,  just  as  he  did  in  his  educational  work.  While  connected  with 
the  schools  he  won  a  well  deserved  reputation  as  a  promoter  of  manly  outdoor 
sports   and   athletics   and   also   as   a   most   capable   debater. 

On  the  24th  of  December,  1900,  Mr.  McGregor  was  married  to  Miss  Ida  Rose 
Burch,  daughter  of  D.  D.  Burch,  of  Marceline.  They  have  four  children:  Randolph 
R.,  Muriel,  Marguerite  and  Rubert.  The  eldest  son  is  an  expert  shorthand  reporter 
and  typewriter.     When  but  fourteen  years  of  age  he  became  one  of  the  Four  Minute 


358  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

men  and  made  speeches  throughout  Linn  county  in  support  of  government  activities 
and  that  government  propaganda  which  brought  enlightenment  to  the  public  con- 
cerning the  real  issues  and  conditions  of  the  war.  He  has  the  distinction  of  holding 
a  certificate  of  merit  from  the  government  in  recognition  of  the  service  rendered. 
Mr.  McGregor  was  the  secretary  of  the  county  democratic  committee  and  also 
secretary  of  the  Linn  county  board  of  education  for  several  years.  He,  too,  did 
his  full  share  in  public  work  during  the  war  period  and  was  chairman  of  the 
Pour  Minute  men  of  Linn  county,  which  was  regarded  as  the  strongest  organization 
of  this  character  in  this  part  of  the  state.  He  is  a  consistent  member  of  the  First 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  of  Brookfield,  belongs  to  the  Woodmen  of  the  World, 
the  Brotherhood  of  American  Yeomen  and  is  a  Knight  Templar  in  the  Masonic 
fraternity  and  takes  an  active  part  in  the  proceedings  of  all  of  these  bodies.  The 
story  of  his  life  is  the  story  of  honest  industry  and  thrift  and  every  day  in  his 
career  has  marked  off  a  fuU-faithed  attempt  to  know  more  and  to  grow  more, 
while  throughout  his  entire  career  he  has  united  the  intensely  practical  with  high 
ideality. 


FREDERICK   HERMAN   KREISMANN. 

Frederick  Herman  Kreismann,  a  prominent  figure  in  insurance  circles  of  St. 
Louis,  having  devoted  many  years  to  this  line  of  business  and  now  conducting 
a  large  general  agency,  is  also  well  known  as  a  leader  in  republican  circles,  his 
opinions  carrying  weight  and  influence  in  the  councils  of  his  party.  Many  tangible 
evidences  of  his  public  spirit  can  be  cited,  for  St.  Louis  has  profited  by  his  efforts 
in  various  directions. 

Mr.  Kreismann  was  born  in  Quincy,  Illinois,  August  7,  1869,  his  parents 
being  Frederick  and  Frances  (Bruner)  Kreismann.  The,  father  was  born  in 
Germany  and  came  to  the  United  States  in  1849  on  a  sailing  vessel.  Making  his 
way  across  the  country,  he  settled  in  Illinois  and  for  many  years  was  a  merchant 
of  Quincy.  He  died  in  St.  Louis  in  1893  at  the  age  of  sixty-six  years,  and  his 
wife  has  also  passed  away.  In  their  family  were  tour  children,  of  whom  three 
are  living. 

In  his  early  youth  Frederick  H.  Kreismann  became  a  pupil  in  the  public 
schools  of  Quincy,  Illinois,  and  with  the  removal  of  the  family  to  St.  Louis  he 
continued  his  education  there,  becoming  a  pupil  in  the  Central  high  school.  He 
started  in  the  business  world  in  connection  with  civil  engineering  and  surveying, 
being  thus  employed  from  1888  until  1890.  In  the  latter  year  he  made  his  ini- 
tial step  in  insurance  fields,  becoming  a  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  German  MutuaJ 
Fire  Insurance  Company  of  St.  Louis.  Prom  1891  until  1893  he  was  special 
agent  and  adjuster  with  the  Aetna  Insurance  Company  of  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
for  the  state  of  Nebraska,  and  he  then  entered  upon  a  local  insurance  business 
in  St.  Louis,  becoming  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Kreismann  &  Warfield.  An 
extensive  clientage  was  secured  by  this  firm  and  Mr.  Kreismann  gave  his  ener- 
gies to  the  further  development  of  the  business  until  called  upon  to  serve  as  cir- 
cuit clerk.  He  made  a  most  excellent  record  by  the  prompt  and  systematic  man- 
ner in  which  he  discharged  the  duties  of  that  position.  In  regard  to  his  political 
history,  a  contemporary  writer  has  said:  "From  the  time  that  age  conferred  upon 
him  the  right  of  franchise,  Mr.  Kreismann  has  been  a  stalwart  republican,  thor- 
oughly conversant  with  the  vital  questions  and  issues  of  the  day  and  the  intri- 
cate political  situation  of  the  country.  Standing  at  all  times  for  progress  and 
improvement  and  believing  that  his  party  is  best  calculated  to  conserve  public 
interests  in  this  line,  he  has  in  more  recent  years  been  identified  with  the  move- 
ment which  is  today  one  of  the  hopeful  signs  of  the  times,  a  movement  common 
to  both  parties  among  men  who  stand  for  the  highest  in  citizenship  and  for  the 
best  in  public  service.  It  was  Mr.  Kreismann's  position  as  an  advocate  of  mu- 
nicipal government  and  the  adoption  of  methods  of  practical  reform,  intrench- 
ments  in  useless  expenditures  and  progressiveness  in  lines  where  expenditure 
would  be  of  substantial  and  far-reaching  benefit,  that  caused  him  to  be  spoken 
of  some  months  ago  as  a  candidate  for  mayor.  His  candidacy,  urged  by  promi- 
nent republican  leaders,  soon  attracted  a  strong  following  and  the  people  voiced 
their   faith   in   him   in   the   splendid   plurality   which   they   gave   to    him   on    the    6th 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  (3F  MISSOURI  ,  361 

of  April,  1909."  His  mayoralty  record  justified  the  confidence  entertained  in 
him  by  his  supporters.  Promptness  and  dispatch  characterized  his  control  ot 
municipal  interests  and  he  sought  to  bring  about  needed  reform  and  improvement, 
his  labors  along  those  lines  being  splendidly  resultant.  He  gave  to  the  city  a 
most  businesslike  administration  through  four  years  and  retired  from  the  office 
as  he  bad  entered  it — with  the  confidence  and  high  regard  of  the  best  element  in 
the  citizenship  ot  St.  Louis.  He  then  resumed  active  connection  with  insurance 
interests  and  is  now  the  president  of  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  this 
city,   which   is  conducting   a   very   extensive   business. 

On  the  25th  of  June.  1902.  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Frederick  H. 
Kreismann  and  Mrs.  Pauline  Whitman,  who  by  her  former  marriage  had  two 
sons.  Golden  and  Paul  Whitman.  The  children  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kreismann 
are  twin  daughters,  Helma  Frances  and  Ruth  Josephine,  and  to  all  four  children 
most  liberal  educational  advantages  have  been  accorded.  Mrs.  Kreismann  is  a 
lady  of  broad  culture  who  has  traveled  extensively,  thus  gaining  wide  informa- 
tion, while  she  has  made  herself  conversant  with  the  best  literature  and,  more- 
over,  possesses  ability  as  a  pianist. 

Mr.  Kreismann  is  well  known  in  Masonic  circles,  having  attained  the  Knight 
Templar  degree  of  the  York  Rite.  He  also  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis,  Noonday, 
Sunset  and  other  clubs  of  the  city  and  his  religious  faith  is  indicated  by  his  mem- 
bership in  St.  George's  Episcopal  church.  His  yfe  has  been  characterized  by  high 
ideals  and  lofty  purposes  and  he  has  as  readily  and  effectively  utilized  bis  oppor- 
tunities for  the  advancement  of  municipal  welfare  as  for  the  promotion  of  his 
individual  business  interests. 


HENRY    A.    ROSSKOPF. 


Henry  A.  Rosskopf  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar,  practicing  as  junior 
partner  in  the  firm  of  Ferris  &  Rosskopf,  but  he  is  also  widely  known  in  other 
connections,  being  much  interested  in  civic  and  political  matters  from  the  stand- 
point of  public  service.  Mr.  Rosskopf  is  a  native  son  ot  St.  Louis,  born  December 
31,  1877.  His  father,  John  Rosskopf,  was  born  in  Germany,  September  12,  1847. 
but  was  only  about  six  years  of  age  when  brought  to  America  by  his  parents,  his 
boyhood  days  being  passed  at  Millstadt,  Illinois.  He  became  a  resident  ot  St.  Louis 
and  for  thirty-seven  years  was  connected  with  the  St.  Louis  Republic,  winning 
promotion  from  the  minor  position  of  fly  boy  until  he  bad  become  superintendent 
of  the  pressrooms.  Before  entering  upon  connection  with  the  St.  Louis  Republic 
he  bad  served  his  country  as  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  war,  enlisting  when  but  fifteen 
years  of  age  in  the  Union  army,  be  and  his  father,  Balthazar  Rosskopf,  serving  in 
the  same  company.  The  son  remained  in  the  army  tor  two  years  and  afterward 
did  duty  with  the  Home  Guard  for  some  time.  Following  the  attainment  ot  his 
majority  he  wedded  Susan  Hiestand,  who  was  born  at  Highland,  Illinois,  their 
marriage  being  celebrated  in  1870.  They  became  the  parents  of  six  children: 
Charles  E.:  Henry  A,;  Otto  R.;  Leah  S.,  the  wife  of  Emll  Weunsch;  Emma;  and 
Fred  W. 

Henry  A.  Rosskopf  was  tbe  second  in  order  of  birth  in  this  family  and  spent 
his  youtbful  days  in  the  home  ot  his  parents  in  St.  Louis,  pursuing  his  education 
in  the  Lyon  school  to  the  age  of  fifteen  years,  when  he  accepted  a  position  as  office 
boy  at  the  St.  Louis  Woodenware  Works.  His  industry  and  fidelity  are  best 
evidenced  in  the  fact  that  he  was  retained  in  the  employ  ot  the  company  for  eight 
years  and  won  successive  promotions  until  he  became  assistant  to  the  manager  and 
superintendent  and  was  recognized  as  a  most  efficient  judge  of  lumber,  his  duties 
including  tbe  purchase  of  raw  material.  Laudable  ambition,  however,  prompted 
Mr.  Rosskopf  to  prepare  for  a  professional  career  and  while  still  with  the  St.  Louis 
Woodenware  Works  he  devoted  the  hours  which  are  usually  termed  leisure  to  the 
study  of  law.  Severing  his  connection  with  the  company  January  21,  1901.  he 
continued  his  studies  in  the  Benton  College  of  Law.  from  which  he  was  graduated 
-in  the  month  of  June.  1901.  About  the  same  time  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and 
entered  upon  the  active  practice  of  his  profession,  being  associated  with  Charles 
F.  Krone  in  the  practice  of  civil  law.  In  1905  he  was  appointed  assistant  circuit 
attorney  by   Arthur  X.   Sager,   who   was   then   filling   the   office   ot   circuit   attorney. 


362  CENTENNIA-L  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

and  he  made  a  most  excellent  record  in  the  position,  displaying  thorough  under- 
standing of  legal  principles,  with  a  high  sense  of  honor  in  relation  to  the  prompt 
and  faithful  discharge  of  his  duties.  He  was  reappointed  to  the  position  December 
18,  1908,  by  S.  G.  Jones.  Since  his  retirement  from  office  he  has  entered  into  a 
partnership  relation  under  the  firm  style  of  Ferris  &  Rosskopf  and  is  thus  prac- 
ticing at  the  present  writing  in  1920.  One  who  has  long  known  him  said  of  him: 
"He  is  a  man  of  unimpeachable  integrity  and  industry,  perfectly  fearless  in  the 
performance  of  duty,  direct  and  straightforward  in  all  his  dealings.  He  has  a 
clear,  logical  mind,  and  while  modest  in  respect  to  his  own  attainments,  is  at  the 
same  time  sure  of  himself.  His  professional  career  is  characterized  by  careful, 
thoughtful  and  intelligent  preparation  of  his  cases,  and  his  utterances  are  char- 
acterized by  clear  and  logical  statement  rather  than  by  oratory." 

On  the  5th  of  June,  1905,  Mr.  Rosskopf  was  married  to  Mrs.  Gussie  Rogers 
(nee  Ottesky),  of  St.  Louis.  The  family  consists  of.  three  children:  Eugenia, 
Henry  A.,  Jr..  and  Susan  Lea.  The  religious  faith  of  the  family  is  that  of  the 
Evangelical  church  and  for  a  number  of  years  Mr.  Rosskopf  was  a  member  of  the 
choir  of  St.  Matthew's  Evangelical  church.  Politically  he  is  a  republican.  He 
belongs  to  various  Masonic  bodies,  holding  membership  in  Magnolia  Lodge,  No.  626, 
F.  &  A.  M.,  of  which  he  is  Past  Master;  St.  Louis  Chapter  No.  8,  and  St.  Aldemar 
Comraandery  No.  18.  And  he  is  likewise  interested  in  organizations  having  for 
their  object  the  promotion  of  trade  relations  and  the  advancement  of  the  business 
conditions  of  the  city.  He  belongs  to  the  Tower  Grove  Heights  Improvement  Asso- 
ciation, of  which  he  has  been  the  president,  and  he  was  in  1919-20  the  vice  president 
of  the  St.  Louis  school  board,  taking  a  most  active  and  helpful  part  in  its  work. 
In  fact  he  is  a  dynamic  force  in  support  of  the  improvement  of  the  schools  and 
existing  conditions  relative  thereto,  and  spoke  nightly  in  a  campaign  for  the  cause 
to  promote  educational  affairs  alike  beneficial  to  teachers  and  pupils. 

During  the  World  war  Mr.  Rosskopf  was  the  chairman  of  the  draft  board  of 
the  thirteenth  district  of  St.  Louis.  'Professionally  he  is  connected  with  the 
St.  Louis.  Missouri  State  and  American  Bar  Associations.  He  is  keenly  interested 
in  all  civic  and  political  matters  by  reason  of  his  earnest  desire  to  uphold  the  best 
interests  of  citizenship,  and  his  opinions  concerning  questions  of  vital  moment  are 
regarded  as  most  valuable,  for  his  advice  is  given  only  after  mature  deliberation 
of  any  question.  One  of  his  fellow  members  on  the  school  board  said  of  him:  "He 
is  one  of  the  most  lovable  persons  it  has  been  my  good  fortune  to  meet.  He  is 
stable  and  reliable  and  always  seems  to  do  what  is  exactly  right." 


ZACHARY   T.  STANDLY,   M.   D. 

There  are  certain  qualities  indispensable  to  real  success  in  the  practice  of 
medicine  and  surgery.  The  individual  must  possess  not  only  broad  scientific  knowl- 
edge but  must  have  as  well  that  humanitarian  spirit  which  finds  expression  in 
sympathy,  helpfulness  and  cheer.  Possessing  in  notable  measure  all  these  require- 
ments, Dr.  Zachary  T.  Standly  was  for  many  years  a  most  prominent,  capable  and 
successful  representative  of  the  medical  profession  in  Laclede  and  at  the  time  of 
his  death  was  the  oldest  practicing  physician  of  the  city.  He  had  carried  aid  and 
comfort  into  so  many  hundreds  of  households  in  his  section  of  the  state  that  the 
news  of  his  demise  brought  a  sense  of  personal  bereavement  to  all  who  knew  him 
and  his  memory  is  yet  cherished   in  the  hearts  of  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact. 

Dr.  Standly  was  born  near  Paris,  Edgar  county,  Illinois,  January  13,  1847,  his 
parents  being  Richard  and  Catherine  (Bullock)  Standly,  who  were  natives  of  eastern 
Tennessee.  The  father,  whose  birth  occurred  in  1812,  became  a  resident  of  Edgar 
county,  Illinois,  in  1840,  establishing  his  home  near  Paris,  the  county  seat,  where  he 
engaged  in  farming  throughout  his  remaining  days,  his  death  resulting  from  in- 
juries received  in  a  runaway  accident  which  occurred  in  October,  1869.  His  wife 
had  passed  away  in  September  of  the  same  year. 

Dr.  Standly  was  then  a  young  man  of  twenty-two  years.  He  had  been  reared 
upon  his  father's  farm,  having  the  usual  experiences  and  training  of  the  farm-bred 
boy.  He  supplemented  his  public  school  education  by  study  in  the  Edgar  Academy  at 
Paris  and  began  preparation  for  a  professional  career  by  reading  medicine  under 
the  direction  of  a  private   tutor.     In   1867   he  matriculated   in   the   medical  department 


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of  the  University  of  Michigan  and  in  the  following  year  attended  Rush  Medical 
-College  of  Chicago,  in  which  he  won  his  professional  degree  by  graduation  with  the 
class  of  February,  1870. 

Dr.  Standly  located  for  practice  at  Laclede  and  never  once  did  he  regret  his 
choice  of  a  location,  for  he  soon  developed  a  good  practice  that  grew  with  the  passing 
year^,  and  long  maintained  the  position  of  the  foremost  physician  and  surgeon  in 
his  part  of  the  state.  He  always  kept  abreast  with  the  trend  of  modern  scientific 
research  and  investigation  and  an  almost  intuitive  wisdom  in  such  matters  enabled 
him  to  select  just  what  was  needed  in  each  specific  case  to  further  the  purposes  of 
his  practice.  In  1880  he  also  became  a  partner  in  the  drug  firm  of  Markham  &  Com- 
pany, conducting  a  store  at  Laclede.  As  the  years  passed  and  he  prospered  in  his 
undertakings  he  likewise  broadened  the  scope  of  his  activity  and  his  investments 
and  became  a  partner  in  the  Lomax  &  Standly  Bank  of  Laclede,  of  which  he  long 
served  as  president,  continuing  in  that  position  to  the  time  of  his  demise.  He  was 
likewise  a  director  of  the  Central  States  Life  Insurance  Company  of  St.  Louis  and 
the  president  of  the  Laclede  Electric  Light  Company.  In  all  of  his  business  affairs 
he  was  actuated  by  a  most  progressive  spirit  that  sought  the  betterment  and  up- 
building of  existing  conditions  and  brought  added  welfare  and  success  to  the  busi- 
ness circles  of  his  adopted  city.  Throughout  his  life,  however,  he  regarded  the 
practice  of  medicine  as  his  real  life  work  and  nothing  could  swerve  him  from  his 
duty  in  that  connection.  For  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  he  was  surgeon  at 
Laclede  for  the  Burlington  Railroad  and  he  was  an  active  member  of  the  State 
Medical   Society   and   the   American   Medical   Association. 

On  the  2nd  of  June,  1872,  Dr.  Standly  was  married  to  Miss  Jennie  Vance,  also 
a  native  of  Edgar  county,  Illinois.  They  had  three  children,  of  whom  two  are  living: 
Catherine  V.,  the  wife  of  Walter  Brownlee;  and  Horace  M.,  of  Laclede,  Missouri. 
The  wife  and  mother  passed  away  November  29,  1882,  and  on  the  1st  of  May,  1895, 
Dr.  Standly  was  married  to  Miss  Ella  B.  Griffin,  of  Glidden,  Iowa.  They  have  one 
son,  Harold  G.,  who  is  a  student  in  the  University  of  Kansas  at  Lawrence,  where 
he  is  fitting  himself  for  the  banking  business  as  the  successor  of  his  father. 

Dr.  Standly  belonged  to  the  Masonic  fraternity,  the  Benevolent  Protective  Order 
of  Elks,  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  the  Woodmen  and  was  a  most 
devoted  and  faithful  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  his  religious  faith 
guiding  him  in  every  relation  of  life.  He  was  kindly,  genial,  courteous — a  man 
whom  to  know  was  to  esteem  and  honor,  and  when  he  passed  away  on  the  14th  of 
Decemljer,  1914.  there  was  not  one  who  knew  him  but  felt  that  a  noble  life  had 
been  brought  to   its   close. 


BIRD    HIX   McGARVBY. 


Bird  Hix  McGarvey  is  the  president  of  the  State  Bank  of  Kansas  City,  a  position 
which  he  has  filled  since  1911,  in  which  year  the  bank  was  organized.  He  has  been 
most  active  in  directing  its  policy  and  shaping  the  plans  which  constitute  the  basic 
elements  of  the  success  which  has  attended  the  institiition  since  its  inception.  He 
has  therefore  become  well  known  as  a  representative  of  the  banking  interests  of 
the  state  and  particularly  of  the  city,  in  which  he  has  made  his  home  since  1888. 
He  arrived  here  when  a  young  man  of  eighteen  years,  his  birth  having  occurred  on 
the  27th  of  August,  1870,  in  Lexington,  Kentucky.  He  is  a  son  of  Professor  John 
William  McGarvey,  deceased,  for  many  yeai's  an  eminent  educator,  minister  and 
author,  who  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1911  was  president  of  the  Bible  College  of 
the  University  of  Kentucky  at  Lexington.  The  family  is  of  Irish  lineage.  The 
father  of  Professor  John  W.  McGarvey  was  John  McGarvey,  who  came  from  the 
Emerald  isle  to  the  new  world  in  early  life  and  who  married  a  Miss  Thomson,  ot 
Kentucky  and  of  Virginian  ancestry.  The  early  death  of  John  McGarvey  in 
Christian  county,  Kentucky,  where  he  had  followed  merchandising,  left  his  wife 
with  several  children  to  support.  She  atterw^ard  became  the  wife  of  Dr.  G.  F. 
Saltonstall,  the  former  husband  of  her  deceased  sister.  The  children  of  their  two 
previous  marriages  and  of  their  own  marriage  constituted  a  household  of  nineteen. 
It  was  in  this  environment  that  Professor  McGarvey  was  reared.  In  183  9  the  family 
removed  to  Tazewell  county,  Illinois,  and  there  John  McGarvey  had  the  benefit  ot 
educational  instruction   in  a  private   school,   while  farm  labor  constituted  a  source 


366  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

of  splendid  phvsical  development.  He  afterward  attended  Bethany  College  of  West 
Virginia,  where  he  proved  a  painstaking  and  diligent  student,  being  graduated 
with  first  honors  July  4,  1850,  and  delivering  the  Greek  speech.  In  1848  he  became 
a  member  of  the  Church  of  Christ  and  thereafter  his  lite  was  devoted  to  the  work 
of  teaching  from  the  pulpit,  from  the  lecture  platform  and  in  the  schoolroom. 
Following  his  graduation  he  established  a  private  school  for  boys  at  Fayette, 
Missouri,  and  continued  his  work  as  a  teacher  in  Fayette  and   Dover,   Missouri,  tor 

twelve  years. 

While  in  Fayette  Mr.  McGarvey  married  Miss  Otway  Anna  Hix  in  18o3.  He 
had  been  ordained  to  the  ministry  in  18.51  and  was  pastor  of  the  Christian  church 
at  Fayette  until  1853.  For  several  years  he  successfully  conducted  a  school  at 
Dover  and  much  of  his  time  was  devoted  to  teaching,  yet  he  continued  his  work 
in  the  ministry.  In  1862  he  accepted  a  call  from  the  Main  Street  Christian  church 
at  Lexington,  Kv.,  where  he  resided  until  October  6,  1911,  remaining  as  pastor  of 
the  Main  Street  church  until  1869,  when  he  became  the  minister  of  the  newly 
organized  Broadway  Christian  church,  with  which  he  continued  until  1881,  when 
he  resigned  owing  to  the  fact  that  he  could  not  meet  the  demands  of  the  full 
professorship  in  the  College  of  the  Bible  and  his  ministerial  duties.  For  seventeen 
years  longer,  however,  he  continued  to  preach  regularly  for  large  country  churches, 
alwavs  preparing  his  sermons  most  carefully,  and  he  was  again  and  again  called 
to  tili  the  pulpits  of  the  leading  churches  of  his  denomination  throughout  the  country. 
For  more  than  forty  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Kentucky  Christian  missionary 
board  and  for  an  extended  period  its  chairman.  Through  most  of  his  college  life 
he  was  an  officer  of  the  Kentucky  Christian  Education  Society,  which  furnished  the 
financial  assistance  necessary  for  the  education  of  hundreds  of  men  for  the  ministry. 
His  efforts  were  a  vital  force  in  the  upbuilding  of  Hamilton  College  and  he  was 
also  president  of  the  Claude  Garth  Educational  Society.  He  was  ever  a  conspicuous 
figure  in  the  conventions  of  the  church,  particularly  in  the  centennial  convention 
at  Pittsburgh  in  1909.  His  executive  powers  were  manifested  most  strongly  in 
connection  with  the  management  of  the  College  of  the  Bible  and  the  upbuilding  of 
the  Institution  is  attributable  largely  to  his  efforts,  his  labors  making  it  a  most 
potent  force  in  the  educational  circles  of  the  Christian  church.  In  1895  he  suc- 
ceeded Robert  Graham  as  president  of  the  College  of  the  Bible  and  filled  that  office 
until  October  6,  1911.  His  executive  labors  were  discharged  with  remarkable 
promptness,   wisdom,   zeal   and   tact. 

Professor  McGarvey  was  equally  widely  known  as  a  writer.  He  was  one  of 
the  editors  of  the  Apostolic  Times,  published  for  years  in  Lexington,  and  he  wrote 
constantly  for  the  periodical  literature  of  the  church.  His  books,  of  which  there 
were  many,  were  without  exception  devoted  to  the  explanation  and  defense  of  the 
Scriptures"  When  he  became  a  professor  in  the  College  of  the  Bible  he  prepared 
four  volumes  of  Class  Notes,  embracing  all  the  historical  materials  contained  in 
the  Bible.  In  1864  his  Commentary  on  Acts  was  published.  This  he  revised 
twenty-nine  years  later  and  the  sale  of  the  work  continued  for  forty-eight  years. 
His  most  popular  work  was  Lands  of  the  Bible,  which  was  pronounced  "the  best 
single  volume  in  print  on  Palestine."  Professor  McGarvey  always  felt  that  his 
greatest  work  was  done  in  the  field  of  Biblical  criticism.  "His  religious  lite," 
according  to  one  of  his  biographers,  "was  beautiful,  childlike  in  its  faith  and  en- 
riched by  constant  devotional  study  of  the  Bible  and  of  Christian  hymns."  When 
Professor  McGarvey  passed  away  many  tributes  were  paid  to  his  memory,  including 
the  following  from  Professor  S.  M.  Jefferson.  "Great  as  he  was  as  champion  of  the 
truth,  he  was  greater  still  as  its  embodiment  and  the  living  exemplification  of  its 
blessedness  and  beauty  in  his  own  character  and  conduct.  He  realized  that  not 
warfare  but  work  is  the  ultimate  condition  of  all  true  progress  and  prosperity,  and 
that  having  earned  the  right  and  room  to  live,  the  real  worth  of  the  victory  is 
measured  by  the  life  achieved  in  peace.  And  so  he  grew  in  his  superior  greatness 
by  daily  nourishing  his  soul  with  the  word  of  life  by  fellowship  with  Jesus  Christ 
and  by  communion  with  God  and  with  the  Holy  Spirit.  Those  who  knew  him 
intimately  recognized  and  rejoiced  in  this  spiritual  greatness  most  of  all.  His 
family,  his  college  faculty  and  his  personal  friends  found  in  him  in  abundance  'the 
fruit  of  the  Spirit,  love,  joy,  peace,  long-suffering,  kindness,  goodness,  faithfulness, 
meekness,  self-control.'  Not  as  a  polemic  or  controversialist,  but  as  an  eminent 
and  inspiring  example  of  Christian  manhood  in  its  strength  and  beauty  will  his  most 
intimate    friends   revere   his   memory   and    mourn    his    loss."      Rev.    C.    S.    Medbury, 


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minister  of  tlie  great  University  Place  church  of  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  said:  "How  one 
is  moved  to  think  of  the  influences  of  this  strong  man  of  God!  In  every  part  of 
the  earth  today  tliere  are  men  and  women  preaching  the  Gospel,  teaching  in  Bible 
schools,  and  in  the  every  day  run  of  life's  activities,  whose  lives  reveal  the  influences 
of  this  fallen  saint  within  our  Israel.  And  how  rugged  the  type  of  those  who  have 
come  under  the  spell  of  his  life  and  teaching!  They  have  stood  for  things!  They 
have  counted!  They  have  been  back  of  work  that  will  abide!  And  great  hosts  of 
us,  who  never  knew  his  class  room  privileges,  have  yet  been  blessed  by  the  ministry 
of  his  years.  Personally  I  have  read  and  reread  every  book  from  his  hand  and 
almost  numberless  articles  from  his  pen.  How  much  I  owe  him  cannot  be  told. 
Surely  it  is  wonderful  so  to  live  that  when  at  the  end  of  a  long  journey  the  work 
is  laid  aside,  both  God  and  men  can  unite  in  saying,  'Well  done.'  "  Perhaps  there 
is  no  better  indication  of  the  character  of  the  man  in  his  relation  to  the  young  and 
especially  to  his  students  than  the  lines  written  by  one  of  them: 

"Our  father  is  gone,   boys;    McGarvey  is   gone; 
No  more  will  he  lead  us  so  smilingly  on. 
Nor  bid  us,  with  laughter  in  the  light  of  his  eye, 
To  rest  in  green  pastures,  the  still  waters  by. 
While  he  tells  us  a  story  from  the  Wonderful  Book, 
As  he  leans  on  his  staff,  boys,  as  he  rests  on  his  crook. 
-  Our  shepherd  is  gone,  boys,  our  shepherd  is  gone: 

No  more  will  he  lead  us  so  tenderly  on 
Through  the  lands  o'  the  Bible  away  over  there. 
Lead  ever  so  gently,  with  such  loving  care.   , 
But  we'll  see  him  again  boys,  we'll  see  him  again,  ^ 

And  many  more  stories  he'll  have  for  us  then; 
For  he's  in  the  Lands  o'  the  Bible — he's  over  there  now 
With   his  cane  and  ear  trumpet  and  quaint  little   bow. 
Neither  cane  nor  ear  trumpet  does  he  need  over  there; 
But  he  keeps  them  for  us,  boys,  and  keeps  them  with  care; 
For  he  is  our  shepherd  and  the  cane  is  his  crook. 
And  he  remembers  the  flock  that  he  left  by  the  brook; 
And  the  trumpet,   why  that  he  will  use  just  for  fun, 
A  happy  surprise  for  what  the  Saviour  has  done. 
He  knows  now  the  story  of  Jonah  was  true. 
And  rejoices  to  know  that  he  told  it  to  you. 
Together  they  walk  through  the  beautiful  Land. 
And  he  learns  what  the  Saviour  once  wrote  in  the  sand. 
He  remembers  us  all,  boys,   he  remembers  us  all, 
And  oft  'cross  that  River  he'll  send  one  a  call 
To  come  o'er  the  River  and  join  in  the  class 
Of  those  who  once  lay  with  us  here  on  the  grass. 
We'll  see  him  again,  boys,  how  inspiring  the  thought 
That  all  of  the  boys  in  the  Bible  he  taught 
Through  the  Lands  o'   the   Bible,   the  New  Jerusalem, 
Once  more  will  be  smilingly  guided  by  him." 

Mrs.  McGarvey,  who  was  a  fitting  helpmate  of  her  honored  husband,  survived 
him  but  a  few  months.  They  were  the  parents  of  eight  children,  of  whom  six 
are  living. 

Bird  Hix  McGarvey  of  this  family,  reared  amid  the  most  refining  home  in- 
fluences, was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Lexington,  Kentucky,  and  in  the 
Kentucky  University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1890.  In  the 
meantime,  however,  he  had  initiated  his  business  career  by  entering  the  employ 
of  the  Graham  Paper  Company,  a  large  wholesale  concern  of  Kansas  City,  with 
which  he  remained  for  two  years.  He  then  entered  banking  circles  as  an  employe 
of  the  Union  National  Bank,  with  which  he  continued  for  fifteen  years,  serving  in 
various  capacities  and  ultimately  i-eaching  the  position  of  receiving  teller.  He  was 
next  connected  with  the  Pioneer  Trust  Company  in  the  office  of  assistant  treasurer 
and  was  afterward  elected  treasurer,  his  connection  with  the  company  covering  a 
period  of  seven  years.  In  1911  he  entered  actively  into  the  work  of  organizing 
the  State  Bank  of  Kansas  City  in  association  with  David  Thornton,  who  is  chairman 

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of  the  board  of  the  bank,  while  from  the  inception  of  the  institution  Mr.  McGarvey 
has  remained  the  president,  and  to  his  executive  ability  and  administrative  powers 
the  success  of  the  bank  is  largely  attributable.  He  has  ever  recognized  the  tact 
that  the  bank  is  most  worthy  of  support  that  most  carefully  safeguards  the  interests 
of  its   depositors. 

In  1901  Mr.  McGarvey  was  married  to  Miss  Evans  Ross,  a  daughter  of  Judge 
James  E.  Ross,  of  Mexico.  Missouri,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  two 
children,  J.  W.  and  Miriam,  aged  respectively  thirteen  and  ten  years.  The  parents 
are  members  of  the  Independence  Boulevard  Christian  church,  in  the  work  of  which 
Mr.  McGarvey  is  actively  interested.  While  he  has  been  an  extremely  busy  man, 
he  has  always  found  time  to  aid  his  fellows,  prompted  by  a  humanitarian  spirit 
that  has  caused  him  to  reach  out  a  helping  hand  to  many  a  fellow  traveler  upon 
life's  journey.  He  is  now  treasurer  of  the  Anti-Tuberculosis  Society,  is  the  treas- 
urer of  the  Provident  Association  and  is  connected  with  many  organized  and  private 
charities.  He  has  always  been  a  great  reader  and  in  fact  is  a  student  of  history, 
science,  finance  and  other  subjects.  Nor  is  he  unappreciative  of  the  social  amenities 
of  life;  on  the  contrary  he  is  well  known  in  club  circles,  belonging  to  the  Kansas 
City  Country  Club,  the  .University  Club,  the  Rotary  Club,  and  the  Blue  Hills  Country 
Club,  and  his  interest  in  public  and  civic  affairs  is  manifest  in  his  connection  with 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce. 


CHARLES   WOODSON   BATES. 

Charles  Woodson  Bates,  member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar,  was  born  in  St.  Charles 
county,  Missouri,  January  23,  1864,  and  is  a  son  of  the  late  Richard  Bates,  also 
a  native  of  Missouri,  and  a  grandson  of  Edward  Bates,  who  was  born  in  Virginia 
and  became  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  St.  Louis.  The  family  is  of  English 
lineage,  but  was  founded  in  America  prior  to  the  Revolutionary  war,  in  which 
some  of  the  name  participated.  The  grandfather,  Edward  Bates,  became  the  first 
attorney  general  under  Lincoln  and  at  the  time  the  republican  national  conven- 
tion of  1860  was  held  he  was  also  a  candidate  for  the  presidential  nomination. 
Richard  Bates,  the  father  of  Charles  W.  Bates,  was  a  lawyer  by  profession  and 
during  the  Civil  war  served  in  the  United  States  navy.  He  married  Ellen  Wood- 
son, who  was  born  in  St.  Charles  county,  Missouri,  a  daughter  of  Charles  F.  and 
Ann  (Wilson)  Woodson,  who  became  early  settlers  of  St.  Charles  county,  there 
taking  up  their  abode  in  1840.  The  Woodson  family  is  also  of  English  lineage. 
Mrs.  Bates  is  still  living  and  yet  makes  her  home  in  St.  Charles  county.  She  has 
two  children,  the  daughter  being   Mrs.   Ann   Hersnan.   a   resident   of  St.   Louis. 

The  son,  Charles  Woodson  Bates,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  St, 
Charles  county  and  also  of  St.  Louis,  after  which  he  attended  Westminster  Col- 
lege, being  graduated  therefrom  in  1883  with  the  Bachelor  of  Science  degree. 
He  later  became  a  law  student  in  Washington  University  and  afterward  read  law 
in  the  office  and  under  the  direction  of  Judge  J.  L.  D.  Dryden,  being  admitted  to 
practice  in  1885,  With  the  exception  of  three  years,  from  1888  until  1890  inclu- 
sive, spent  in  Colorado,  he  has  continuously  been  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar, 
concentrating  his  efforts  and  attention  upon  general  civil  practice.  From  the 
beginning  his  career  has  been  unusually  prosperous  in  every  respect.  The  success 
which  he  has  attained  is  due  to  his  own  efforts  and  merit.  The  possession  of  ad- 
vantages Is  no  guarantee  whatever  of  professional  advancement.  This  comes  not 
of  itself  nor  can  it  be  secured  without  integrity,  ability  and  industry.  These  quali- 
ties Mr.  Bates  possesses  to  an  eminent  degree  and  he  is  faithful  to  every  interest 
committed  to  his  charge.  Throughout  his  whole  life,  whatsoever  his  hand  finds 
to  do,  whether  in  his  profession  or  in  other  relations,  he  does  with  his  might 
and  with  a  deep  sense  of  conscientious  obligation.  He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis, 
the  Missouri  State  and  the  American  Bar  Associations  and  enjays  the  high  con- 
fidence and  goodwill  of  his  professional  colleagues  and  contemporaries.  He  served 
as  city  counselor  of  St.  Louis  from  1902  until  1909,  being  appointed  to  the  office 
by  Mayor  Rolla   Wells. 

On  the  8th  of  June,  1916,  Mr.  Bates  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss  Binda 
E,  Porter,  a  native  of  Randolph  county,  Missouri,  and  a  daughter  of  I,  B,  and 
Elizabeth    (Gillman)    Porter. 


CHARLES  W.   BATES 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  371 

Mr.  Bates  belongs  to  Beta  Theta  Pi  and  to  Phi  Delta  Phi.  He  also  has  mem- 
bership in  the  University  Club,  St.  Louis  Club,  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  Sun- 
set Hill  Club  and  Century  Boat  Club,  and  his  religious  faith  is  evidenced  by  attend- 
ing the  Westminster  Presbyterian  church.  During  the  period  ot  the  World  war 
he  served  on  the  legal  advisory  board  in  St.  Louis.  He  has  long  been  accorded  a 
position  of  prominence  at  the  bar  of  this  city  and  his  record  is  in  harmony  with 
that  of  an  honored  and  honorable  ancestry. 


B.    DENNY    DAVIS. 


It  has  often  been  said  that  the  law  is  a  jealous  mistress — that  she  demands 
the  full  attention  of  her  devotees,  else  she  crowns  not  their  efforts  with  success. 
Recognizing  the  fact  that  industry,  close  application  and  persevei-ance  are  just  as 
essential  in  law  practice  as  in  the  conduct  of  Industrial  or  commercial  interests, 
B.  Denny  Davis  has  always  cultivated  these  qualities  and  has  made  for  himself  a 
creditable  position  among  the  younger  representatives  of  the  bar  of  Kansas  City. 
He  was  born  at  Weston,  Platte  county,  Missouri,  February  17,  1884,  and  is  a  son 
of  Thomas  J.  and  Rachel  S.  (Doyle)  Davis,  the  former  a  native  of  Missouri,  while 
the  latter  was  born  in  Iowa.  The  father  demoted  his  life  to  the  occupation  of 
farming  and  was  also  much  interested  in  public  affairs,  particularly  in  matters 
pertaining  to  the  educational  system  of  the  state.  For  many  years  he  served  as 
chairman  of  the  school  board  of  the  district  of  Platte  county,  Missouri,  did  every- 
thing in  his  power  to  promote  the  interests  of  the  schools,  and  gave  to  his  large 
family  of  children  good  educational  opportunities. 

B.  Denny  Davis  attended  the  schools  of  Weston  and  of  Platte  county  and  for 
two  years  was  a  pupil  in  St.  Benedict's  Catholic  College  at  Atchison,  Kansas,  while 
for  two  years  he  attended  the  normal  school  at  Chillicothe,  where  he  pursued 
literary  and  commercial  courses.  He  likewise  spent  a  year  in  the  Northwest  Missouri 
College  at  Albany,  Missouri,  and  for  three  years  was  a  law  student  in  the  Missouri 
State  University  at  Columbia,  being  there  graduated  in  1908  with  the  LL.  B.  degree. 
In  June  of  the  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  entered  upon  the  general 
practice  of  law  in  Kansas  City  on  the  13th  of  July  of  that  year.  In  the  intervening 
period  he  has  gained  a  very  gratifying  clientage  and  has  been  connected  with  con- 
siderable important  litigation.  The  thoroughness  and  care  with  which  he  prepares 
his  cases,  his  clearness  in  reasoning  and  his  logic  in  argument  are  strong  factors 
in  his  growing  success.  While  he  has  never  become  interested  in  politics  as  an 
office  seeker,  he  is  a  close  student  of  political  issues  and  a  keen  observer  of  political 
conditions.  He  stands  at  all  times  for  the  highest  standards  of  citizenship  and 
cooperates  heartily  in   any   project  for  the   public  good. 

On  the  28th  of  June,  1915,  at  Independence,  Missouri,  Mr.  Davis  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  Louise  Nagel,  whose  parents  are  Charles  A.  and  Minnie 
A.  Nagel,  of  Independence,  Missouri,  the  former  one  of  the  leading  merchants  of 
that  city.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Davis  has  been  born  a  son,  Carl  Denny.  The  religious 
faith  of  the  parents  is  that  of  the  Methodist  church,  South,  and  Mr.  Davis  belongs 
to  Ivanhoe  Lodge  No.  446,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  has  also  taken  the  degrees  of  Kansas 
City  chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  and  Kansas  City  Commandery,  Knights  Templar.  He  is  a 
loyal  and  worthy  follower  of  the  craft,  exemplifying  in  his  life  its  teachings  con- 
cerning the  brotherhood  of  man  and  the  obligations  thereby  imposed. 


MARK    D.    BAGLETON. 


This  is  preeminently  an  age  of  specialization.  Every  line  of  business  has  been 
so  systematized  and  divided  that  individuals  concentrate  along  a  single  branch, 
thereby  developing  efficiency  that  could  otherwise  not  be  attained.  This  is  true  in 
connection  with  the  legal  profession,  as  it  is  in  relation  to  industrial  and  commercial 
pursuits.  There  are  comparatively  few  lawyers  who  continue  in  the  broad  field  of 
general  practice,  and  Mark  D.  Eagleton  is  an  illustration.  He  was  admitted  to 
the   bar  about   1915   and  since  taking   up   practice  alone   has   largely  specialized   in 


372  CEMTEXNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

damage  and  insuranoe  law  and  has  become  recognized  as  a  most  capable  representa- 
tive of  this  branch. 

Mr.  Eagleton  is  one  of  the  native  sons  of  St.  Louis,  his  birth  having  here 
occurred  January  8,  1894.  his  parents  being  Thomas  F.  and  Mary  T.  (Hennelly) 
Eagleton.  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Ireland.  The  father  is  a  highly  educated 
man  who  came  to  the  new  world  when  twenty-one  years  of  age.  making  his  way 
to  St.  Louis,  where  he  is  now  connected  with  the  Laclede  Gas  Company  as  one  of 
its  suijerintendents.  He  was  educated  on  the  Emerald  isle  with  the  intention  of 
entering  the  priesthood.  He  studied  in  both  Ireland  and  France,  but  owing  to  the 
fact  that  his  brother  was  not  able  physically  to  do  hard  work,  Thomas  Eagleton 
gave  way  to  him.  as  his  parents  were  not  in  a  financial  position  to  allow  both  of 
them  to  pursue  the  necessary  training  that  would  qualify  them  for  priestly  offices. 
The  brother.  Mark  Eagleton.  therefore,  was  given  the  opportunity  and  became  a 
priest  of  prominence  in  Ireland,  being  very  active  in  connection  with  the  work  of 
winning  freedom  for  the  country  and  exercising  much  influence  in  Irish  national 
affairs. 

Mark  D.  Eagleton  was  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  in  the 
St.  Louis  University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1915  with  the  LL.  B.  degree. 
In  the  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  In  the  meantime  he  had  taken  up 
the  study  of  law,  beginning  his  reading  in  the  office  of  Kelley  &  Starke,  with  whom 
he  remained  for  about  three  years  as  a  law  student  and  for  about  a  year  after  he 
began  practice.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  alone  and  has  specialized  in  damage 
and  insurance,  being  thoroughly  familiar  with  the  law-  applicable  to  both  lines  of 
practice. 

Mr.  Eagleton  is  a  young  man  of  broad  culture  and  natural  refinement.  He 
holds  membership  in  the  Catholic  church  and  also  with  the  Knights  of  Columbus 
and  the  Friends  of  Irish  Freedom.  He  belongs  as  well  to  the  Missouri  Athletic 
Association  and  is  very  fond  of  outdoor  sports,  particularly  baseball  and  football, 
having  made  a  good  record  in  the  latter  connection.  His  political  allegiance  is  given 
to  the  republican  party  and  a  most  important  chapter  in  his  life  record  covers  his 
service  as  a  soldier  of  the  World  war.  for  in  1918  he  joined  the  Marines,  becoming 
a  member  of  the  Eleventh   Regiment,  and  with  that  command   went   to  France. 


THOMAS   R.   SHIELDS. 


Thomas  R.  Shields,  engaged  in  the  investment  business  and  prominently  known 
as  the  president  of  the  Sterling  State  Bank  of  Kansas  City,  was  born  upon  a  farm 
in  Halifax  county.  Missoiiri,  October  3.  1868,  his  parents  being  William  and  Lucy 
( Rees)"Shields,  the  father  a  native  of  Halifax,  while  the  latter  was  born  in  Bucking- 
ham. The  father  was  a  farmer  by  occupation,  devoting  his  attention  to  the  pro- 
duction of  fine  tobacco.  On  crossing  the  country  to  Missouri  he  established  his 
home  in  Independence,  where  he  followed  the  occupation  of  farming,  but  died  in 
young    manhood.      His    political    endorsement    was    given    to    the    democratic    party. 

Thomas  R.  Shields  acquired  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Independence, 
^Missouri,  pursuing  his  studies  to  the  age  of  thirteen  years,  and  then  started  out 
to  provide  for  his  own  support.  He  concentrated  his  efforts  and  attention  upon 
farming  and  market  gardening  and  thus  made  his  initial  steii  in  the  business  world. 
In  1898  he  removed  to  Kansas  City,  and  became  a  salesman  for  the  Fish,  Tower 
&  Doyle  Commission  Company  as  dealers  in  live  stock.  In  1899  he  turned  his 
attention  to  the  grain  business  in  connection  with  '  the  firm  of  H.  S.  Hartley  & 
Company,  and  was  in  charge  of  the  stock  yard  office  for  ten  years,  becoming  very 
popular  in  the  stock  exchange.  Gradually  he  formulated  his  plans  for  the  conduct 
of  important  financial  interests,  and  in  1900  organized  the  T.  R.  Shields  Investment 
Company,  for  the  conduct  of  a  real  estate  business.  Through  the  intervening 
period  he  has  developed  one  of  the  important  enterprises  of  this  character  in 
Kansas  City,  being  today  prominently  known  as  an  operator  in  real  estate  and 
investments.  He  belongs  to  the  real  estate  board  and  is  most  widely  and  favorably 
known  among  those  who  are  engaged  in  a  similar  line  of  business.  Mr.  Shields, 
however,  has  not  confined  his  efforts  solely  to  the  direction  of  the  affairs  of  the 
T.  R.  Shields  Investment  Company,  of  which  he  is  the  president,  for  in  February, 
1920,  he  organized  and  became  the  president  of  the  Sterling  State  Bank,  which  has 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  373 

enjoyed  unusual  growth  for  the  short  period  which  it  has  been  in  existence.  The 
bank  is  capitalized  for  one  hundred  thousand  dollars,  already  has  surplus  and  profits 
of  thirteen  thousand  dollars  and  its  deposits  amount  to  three  hundred  and  fifty-six 
thousand  dollars.  Its  board  of  directors  is  composed  of  men  of  well  known  business 
standing  and  stability,  and  in  connection  with  Mr.  Shields,  serving  as  its  officers 
are  A.  J.  Stephens,  vice  president,  B.  A.  Plummer,  cashier,  and  R.  L.  Fish,  assistant 
cashier. 

Mr.  Shields  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Fannie  R.  Jones  and  they  have 
become  the  parents  of  three  .children:  Gertrude  E.,  who  is  attending  the  Roanoke 
College  at  Roanoke,  Virginia;  Francis  R.,  and  Lucille  Margaret.  In  politics  Mr. 
Shields  is  a_  democrat  and  keeps  well  informed  on  the  questions  and  issues  of  the 
da.v  but  does  not  seek  nor  desire  political  office.  He  belongs  to  the  First  Baptist 
church  of  Independence,  Missouri,  in  which  he  served  as  a  trustee  for  three  terms. 
He  has  been  treasurer  of  the  Kansas  City  Automobile  Club,  also  belongs  to  the 
Kansas  City  Club,  and  is  a  well  known  Mason,  connected  with  McDonald  Lodge 
No.  324,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  is  likewise  identified  with  the  Consistory  and  the  Mystic 
Shrine  in  Kansas  City,  and  in  the  latter  has  a  life  membership.  He  is  ever  a  loyal 
and  faithful  follower  of  the  craft  and  exemplifies  in  his  life  its  beneficent  teachings 
concerning  the  brotherhood  of  man  and  the  obligations  thereby  imposed.  In  busi- 
ness affairs  he  has  made  for  himself  a  notable  place,  and  has  justly  won  the  proud 
American  title  of  a  self-made  man.  He  possesses  keen  discernment  and  broad 
vision   and  is  a   firm  believer  in   Kansas   City  and  its   opportunities. 


IMMACULATE    CONCEPTION    CHURCH. 

The  Immaculate  Conception  church  of  Hannibal  was  established  in  18  5  6  by 
Father  Murphy,  who  built  the  chapel,  which  was  the  fii'st  house  of  worship  owned 
by  the  parish,  but  previous  to  this  time  Bishop  Hogan  had  held  services  in  Hanni- 
bal. The  church  edifice  was  erected  in  1881  by  Father  Kennedy  and  the  St. 
Joseph  Academy  was  established  in  18  67  by  the  Sisters  of  St.  Joseph  of  St.  Louis. 
The  parish  now  numbers  about  three  hundred  and  fifty  families  and  there  are 
more  than  three  hundred  pupils  in  attendance  at  the  school. 

Rev.  D.  F.  Sullivan  came  to  this  parish  sixteen  years  ago,  or  in  February.  1904. 
He  was  born  in  Ireland  in  186  2  and  acquired  his  education  there  in  Holy  Cross 
College  of  Dublin  and  also  in  the  Carlow  Seminary.  In  1886  he  came  to  Missouri, 
going  fii-st  to  St.  Louis,  and  for  two  years  was  connected  with  St.  Patrick's  parish. 
He  was  then  transferred  to  Monroe  City,  where  he  was  given  charge  of  the  Holy 
Rosary  parish  and  there  remained  until  1904,  when  he  came  to  Hannibal,  where 
he  has  since  labored,  doing  much  for  the  benefit  of  the  church  and  the  extension 
of  its  work,  .„  , 


KINGSLBY  F.  NIEMOELLER. 

Kingsley  F.  Niemoeller,  business  manager  with  the  Associated  Retailers-  of  St. 
Louis,  is  a  man  of  keen  business  discernment  and  recognized  ability  in  handling 
important  interests.  Sound  judgment  has  characterized  all  of  his  activities  in 
connection  with  the  commercial  world  and  he  has  made  steady  progress,  but  has 
never  allowed  his  activities  in  this  direction  in  any  way  to  warp  his  kindly  spirit 
nor  dwarf  his  activities  for  the  benefit  of  others.  On  the  contrary  he  has  done 
much  good  in  connection  with  benevolent  and  public  interests  and  St.  Louis  num- 
bers him  among  her  valued  citizens.  He  is  a  native  son  of  Indiana,  his  birth 
having  occurred  at  Huntingburg  on  the  12th  of  January,  1874.  His  father,  J. 
Frederick  Niemoeller,  was  also  a  native  of  that  state,  where  he  successfully  fol- 
lowed farming  for  many  years,  his  father  having  come  to  the  new  world  from 
Germany.  J.  Frederick  Niemoeller  was  married  to  Miss  Eva  Knell,  a  daughter 
of  John  Knell,  who  was.  a  native  of  Germany  and  came  with  his  family  to  the 
United  States  when  his  daughter  was  a  maiden  of  sixteen  summers.  The  mar- 
riage of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Niemoeller  was  celebrated  in  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  in   1871, 


374  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

and  to  them  were  born  six  children,  five  sons  and  a  daughter,  of  whom  three 
sons  died  in  infancy.  The  others  are:  Ella,  who  is  living  with  her  father; 
Roscoe,  who  married  Lydia  Howard  and  is  a  farmer  of  Kansas;  and  Kingsley  F., 
of  this  review. 

The  last  named  acquired  a  grammar  school  education  in  Huntingburg,  Indiana, 
and  also  attended  high  school  for  a  year.  When  a  youth  of  seventeen  he  became 
ticket  agent  for  the  Southern  Railway  Company  at  Huntingburg,  Indiana,  where 
he  continued  for  a  year  and  then  removed  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  secured  a  clerkship 
in  the  freight  office  of  the  Southern  Railroad.  He  then  entered  the  service  of  the 
Wabash  in  the  accounting  department,  advancing  from  that  position  step  by  step 
until  he  reached  the  place  of  assistant  chief  clerk  in  the  accounting  department 
in  1907.  His  identification  with  the  Associated  Retailers  dates  from  1909.  He 
acted  as  office  manager  until  1912  and  was  then  made  business  manager  of  the 
association,  capably  filling  this  position  for  eight  years.  The  purpose  of  the 
organization  is  the  cultivation  of  cooperation  and  recognition  of  business  ethics 
for  the  promotion  of  the  St.  Louis  trade.  The  organization  is  making  steady  prog- 
ress toward  its  goal  and  the  results  achieved  have  been  largely  accomplished 
through  the  efforts,  discernment  and  executive  ability  of  Mr.  Niemoeller. 

In  St.  Louis,  on  the  28th  of  August,  1895,  Mr.  Niemoeller  was  married  to 
Miss  Lucille  Suits,  a  daughter  of  James  H.  and  Margaret  Suits.  They  are  now 
parents  of  two  sons:  Hugh  Martin,  seventeen  years  of  age,  who  is  a  student  in 
the  Soldan  high  school  and  is  planning  tq^pursue  a  course  in  commerce  and  finance 
in  the  Chicago  University;  and  Ralph  Kingsley,  sixteen  years  of  age,  also  a  high 
school   pupil.     The  family  residence   is  at  No.   5554   Maple  avenue. 

Mr.  Niemoeller  is  a  member  of  Tuscan  Lodge  No.  360,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and 
belongs  also  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  to  the  City  Club.  His  political 
belief  is  that  of  the  republican  party  and  his  religious  faith  is  evidenced  in  his 
membership  in  the  Fourth  Church  of  Christ  Scientist.  He  is  a  director  of  the 
St.  Louis  Tuberculosis  Society  and  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  managers  of  the 
Zoological  Society  of  St.  Louis.  His  cooperation  has  been  sought  and  freely 
given  in  many  measures  and  plans  for  the  general  good,  for  the  uplift  of  the 
individual,  for  the  amelioration  of  hard  conditions  of  life  for  the  unfortunate  and 
for  the  advancement  of  all  those  activities  which  make  for  progress,  for  improve- 
ment and  for  the  adoption  of  higher  ideals. 


DAVID  ANTONIO  FRANK. 


David  Antonio  Frank,  recognized  as  a  lawyer  of  unusual  ability,  who  since 
January,  1908,  has  been  connected  with  the  legal  department  of  telephone  interests, 
'was  made  general  counsel  of  the  Southwestern  Bell  Telephone  Company  in  April, 
1916,  and  through  the  intervening  period  has  made  his  home  in  St.  Louis.  He  was 
born  at  Willis,  Texas,  December  15,  1875,  his  parents  being  Antoine  and  Emma  Louise 
(Boykin) '  Frank.  The  father  was  born  in  Bordeaux,  France,  and  on  coming  to 
America  in  1858  settled  in  New  Orleans  but  afterward  removed  to  Mobile,  Alabama, 
and  in  1875  took  up  his  abode  at  Willis,  Texas,  where  during  the  later  years  of  his 
life  he  was  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits.  He  was  a  Civil  war  veteran,  having 
served  as  a  private  in  a  Louisiana  company  of  the  Confederate  army.  He  passed 
away  in  1908,  at  the  age  of  sixty-five  years,  while  his  wife  died  at  Willis,  Texas,  in 
1893,  at  the  age  of  forty.  She  was  born  in  Mobile,  Alabama,  and  was  a  representa- 
tive of  an  old  South  Carolina  family  of  English  descent.  By  her  marriage  she  be- 
came the  mother  of  nine  children,  five  sons  and  four  daughters,  of  whom  seven  are 
living. 

David  A.  Frank,  the  eldest  of  the  family,  after  attending  the  public  schools  of 
Willis,  Texas,  continued  his  education  in  the  University  of  Texas,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  in  1905  and  with  the  Bachelor  of  Laws 
degree  in  1903.  He  served  for  two  years  as  quiz  master  in  the  law  department  of 
the  University  of  Texas,  from  1903  until  1905.  Previous  to  this  he  was  editor  of  the 
Texas  Tobacco  Plant,  which  was  published  at  Willis,  Texas,  and  for  nine  years  he 
was  a  teacher  in  the  schools  of  Texas,  spending  the  last  two  years  of  that  period 
as  principal  of  the  high  school  at  Conroe,  Texas.  After  preparing  for  the  bar  he 
entered  upon   the   practice  of  law   in   the  office   of   the   general   attorney  of   the   South- 


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western  Bel!  Telephone  Company  at  Dallas  and  there  continued  from  1905  until 
September,  1914,  and  during  the  last  six  years  of  that  period  was  assistant  general 
attorney.  He  then  became  assistant  in  the  general  counsel's  office  of  the  American 
Telephone  &  Telegraph  Company  in  New  York,  where  he  continued  until  September, 
1916.  In  April  of  the  same  year,  however,  he  became  general  counsel  of  the  South- 
western Bell  Telephone  System  at  St.  Louis  and  has  since  occupied  this  position.  He 
was  also  president  and  assistant  general  attorney  of  the  Postal  Telegraph  Cable  Com- 
pany of  Texas  until  1914,  when  he  removed  to  New  York,  and  he  is  now  the  vice 
president  of  the  Grand  Prairie  &  Northern  Railroad  of  Texas.  He  is  well  grounded 
and  able  in  all  branches  of  the  law  but  excels  in  that  branch  of  corporation  law  relat- 
ing to  the  regulation  of  public  utilities.  He  has  always  been  a  forceful  speaker  and 
was  class  orator  at  the  time  of  his  graduation  from  the  University  of  Texas  in  1905. 
He  has  always  been  regarded  as  an  able  debater,  becoming  well  known  in  this  con- 
nection during  his  college  days,  and  he  has  likewise  been  keenly  interested  in  college 
athletics,  having  established  several  prizes  for  excellence  in  athletics  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Texas.  He  also  established  a  prize  for  the  best  poem  and  for  the  best  novel 
written  by  a  student  in  the  University  of  Texas,  thus  contributing  a  stimulating 
element    for   literary   production   as   well   as   athletic   excellence    in    the    university. 

While  in  Dallas,  Texas,  Mr.  Frank  was  married  June  12,  1906,  to  Nora  Warrena 
Finley,  a  native  of  the  Lone  Star  state  and  a  daughter  of  Judge  N.  W.  and  Minnie 
Lee  (Simms)  Finley,  the  latter  a  daughter  of  Captain  Simms,  a  Confederate  war 
veteran,  while  Judge  Finley  was  a  grandson  of  Dr.  Finley,  a  pioneer  Methodist  min- 
ister widely  known  throughout  the  south.  Judge  Finley  served  for  years  as  chief 
justice  of  the  court  of  civil  appeals  for  the  fifth  supreme  judicial  district  of  Texas 
and  was  a  most  eminent  jurist  and  prominent  citizen  of  the  south,  passing  away  in 
1909.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  had  three  children:  Minnie  Warrena,  who  was  born  in 
Dallas,  Texas,  March  17,  1907;  David  A.,  Jr.,  whose  birth  occurred  in  Dallas,  Texas. 
September  6,  1910;  and  Katherine  Louise,  born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  on  the  11th 
of  June,  1916.  The  wife  and  mother  died  October  22,  1918,  at  the  age  of  thirty-one 
years,  her  birth  having  occurred   August   8,   1887. 

Mr.  Frank  won  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  upon  his  graduation  from  college.  His 
military  record  covered,  service  as  corporal  of  Company  D,  Third  Texas  Volunteer 
Infantry,  during  the  Spanish-American  war.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Tuscan 
Lodge,  No.  360,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  St.  Louis,  and  has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree 
of  the  Scottish  Rite.  His  social  nature  finds  expression  in  his  membership  in  the 
bakewood  Golf  and  Country  Club  of  Dallas,  the  Sunset  Country  Club  of  St.  Louis,  the 
St.  Louis  Club,  the  Klwanis  Club,  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  the  City  Club,  the 
Civic  League  and  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  belongs  also  to  the  City  Club  of 
Dallas,  the  Southern  Society  of  New  York  and  the  Railroad  Club  of  New  York  City. 
He  is  keenly  and  helpfully  interested  in  the  work  of  St.  John's  Methodist  Episcopal 
church,  is  serving  on  its  official  board  and  as  assistant  superintendent  of  the  Sunday 
school.  Along  professional  lines  he  Is  connected  with  the  Dallas,  St.  Louis,  Texas' 
State,  Missouri  State  and  American  Bar  Associations.  The  interests  of  his  life  are 
broad  and  varied  and  his  aid  and  influence  have  always  been  given  on  the  side  of 
progress,  improvement,  right  and  reform.  He  is  a  man  of  philanthropic  disposition 
who  gives  generously  to  charity.  Polite,  courteous,  public  spirited,  patriotic  and 
democratic  in  spirit,  he  has  always  been  very  popular.  He  is  a  thorough  scholar,  a 
convincing  speaker  and  with  splendid  command  of  English.  In  a  word  he  was  well 
endowed  by  nature  and  he  has  used  his  talents  most  wisely,  not  only  for  his  own 
advancement  but  for  the  benefit  of  his  fellowmen,  and  he  finds  one  of  his  chief  interests 
in  life  in  putting  before  the  young  those  opportunities  which  shall  give  them  encour- 
agement and  lend  them  assistance  in  meeting  life's  responsibilities  and   duties. 


JOHN    J.    O'BRIEN. 


John  J.  O'Brien,  member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar,  was  born  June  26,  1867,  in  the 
city  which  is  still  his  home.  His  father,  Patrick  O'Brien,  was  a  native  of  Ireland 
and  came  from  that  country  to  St.  Louis  in  1850,  here  residing  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  1884,  when"  he  was  sixty  years  of  age.  He  was  a  teamster  and 
met    with    a   moderate   degree   of   success.     He    married    Alice   Hanrahan,    who   was 


378  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

also  born  on  the  Emerald  isle  and  who  came  to  the  United  States  alone  in  early 
girlhood,  arriving  in  1860.  In  St.  Louis  she  became  the  wife  of  Patrick  O'Brien 
and  she  passed  away  in  this  city  in   1906,  at  the  age  of  seventy  years. 

John  J.  O'Brien  was  the  fourth  in  order  of  birth  in  a  family  of  five  sons.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  and  parochial  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  from  1884  until 
1890  was  engaged  in  the  teaming  business,  while  later  he  turned  his  attention  to 
the  coal  and  ice  trade,  conducting  business  on  his  own  account.  Later  he  extended 
the  scope  of  his  activities  to  include  the  sale  of  hay  and  grain.  He  is  still  inter- 
ested in  the  coal  and  ice  trade,  having  established  the  business  in  1887,  since 
which  time  he  has  enjoyed  a  liberal  patronage  along  that  line.  However,  he  de- 
termined to  turn  his  attention  to  professional  interests  and  entered  the  Benton 
College  of  Law.  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  19  08  and  in  the  same  year  was 
admitted  to  practice.  He  has  since  successfully  followed  his  profession,  continuing 
in  the  general  practice  of  law.  trying  all  kinds  of  cases  and  trying  them  well.  He 
made  his  own  way  through  college,  meeting  the  expenses  of  his  course  from  his 
previous  earnings,  and  his  success  is  attributable  entirely  to  his  own  efforts,  his 
laudable  ambition  and  his  steady  determination. 

In  politics  Mr.  O'Brien  is  a  democrat.  He  was  the  nominee  for  circuit  judge 
in  1914  and  he  was  speaker  of  the  house  of  delegates  from  1905  to  1907.  He  is 
known  as  the  author  of  the  bill  for  the  purchase  of  the  playground  known  as  Yate- 
man  Square,  the  first  park  which  had  been  purchased  by  the  city  in  thirty  years. 
He  continued  a  member  of  the  house  of  delegates  for  six  years,  or  three  terms, 
representing  the  former  twentieth  ward.  He  belongs  to  St.  Leo's  Roman  Catholic 
church,  is  identified  with  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  with  the  Father  Mathew 
Society.  He  is  also  connected  with  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
the  Royal  Arcanum,  and  along  strictly  professional  lines  with  the  St.  Louis  and 
American  Bar  Associations. 

During  the  war  he  served  as  associate  member  of  the  legal  advisory  board 
for  the  nineteenth  division  of  the  city  of  St.  Louis,  also  as  a  member  of  Company  E 
of  the  Third  Regiment  of  Missouri  Home  Guards  as  a  private. 


HOWARD    J.    VROOMAN. 


Wise  planning  and  energetic  prosecution  of  his  plans  tells  the  story  of  the 
success  of  Howard  J.  Vrooman  as  a  builder  and  real  estate  operator.  He  is  now 
classed  with  the  leading  business  men  of  Kansas  City  and  is  a  native  son  of  Mis- 
souri, his  birth  having  occurred  in  St.  Louis.  November  15,  1875,  his  father  being 
Jacob  A.  Voorman.  He  was  educated  in  a  high  school  of  Kansas  City,  to  which 
place  he  removed  with  his  parents  in  his  youthful  days,  and  in  the  Washington 
University  of  St.  Louis,  of  which  he  is  a  graduate  of  the  class  of  1898.  Return- 
ing to  Kansas  City,  he  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  in  a  small  way  and 
through  the  intervening  period  has  been  the  architect  of  his  own  fortunes.  He 
is  a  man  of  great  energy,  and  strict  attention  to  his  business  combined  with  a 
forceful  personality  and  a  remarkable  shrewdness  or  business  intuition,  has 
enabled  him  to  win  success,  so  that  he  is  now  the  possessor  of  a  large  amount  of 
property,  although  he  started  out  in  the  business  world  empty-handed.  He  has  not 
only  been  the  architect  and  builder  of  his  own  fortunes  but  has  promoted,  financed 
and  erected  many  of  the  largest  hotels  and  apartment  buildings  in  Kansas  City, 
including  the  St.  Regis  Hotel.  His  thorough  understanding  of  business  conditions, 
his  keen  sagacity  and  enterprise  enabled  him  to  succeed  where  many  a  man  ot 
less  resolute  spirit  would  have  failed.  In  planning  out  a  business  project  it  seems 
that  not  a  single  point,  minor  or  important,  is  overlooked  in  the  slightest  degree. 
He  readily  recognizes  the  value  of  any  situation  or  opportunity  and  he  is  regarded 
as  a  dynamic  force  in  the  business  life  of  Kansas  City  and  the  state.  He  is  widely 
known  as  the  president  of  the  Jefferson  Real  Estate  &  Brokerage  Company  and 
as  a  director  and  officer  in  numerous  banks  and  financial  and  commercial  enter- 
prises. 

It  would  be  to  give  an  impartial  and  one-sided  view  of  Mr. Vrooman  to  speak 
of  him,  however,  only  as  a  successful  business  man.  He  is  keenly  Interested  in 
all  those  affairs  which  are  a  matter  of  public  concern,  and  during  the  war  period 
gave  most  liberally  of  his  time  and  efforts  for  the  public  good.     He  was  extremely 


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active  in  Red  Cross  and  war  work  and  personally  sold  Liberty  bonds  to  the  sum 
of  one  million  seven  hundred  and  thirty  thousand  dollars.  He  is  a  trustee  and 
superintendent  of  the  Thomas  Spofford  Receiving  Home  for  Children  and  he  is 
a  prominent  and  valued  member  of  the  Melrose  Avenue  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
'tewith,  in  the  work  of  which  he  takes  a  most  helpful  interest,  serving  now  as  super- 
intendent of  the  Sunday  school. 

In  1904  Mr.  Vrooman  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Laura  Ault.  daughter  of 
A.  F.  Ault,  a  very  prominent  resident  of  Kansas  City.  They  have  three  children, 
Howard  Jess,  Claude  Elliott  and  Prances,  aged  respectively  sixteen,  thirteen  and 
ten  years.  .  Mr.  Vrooman  is  most  devoted  to  his  family  and  counts  no  personal  sac- 
rifice or  effort  on  his  part  too  great  if  it  will  promote  the  happiness  of  the  members 
of  his  own  household.  Much  of  his  time  outside  of  business  hours  is  devoted  to  the 
care  of  his  home  and  its  surroundings,  and  he  is  too  good  a  husband  and  father  to 
care  much  for  diversion,  yet  he  is  a  valued  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Club,  the 
Kansas  City  Athletic  Club,  the  Knife  and  Fork  Club,  the  Noonday  Club  and  the 
Commercial  Club.  He  is  also  a  Mason,  Knight  Templar  and  Shriner.  He  turns  for 
recreation  to  golf  when  leisure  permits  and  he  greatly  enjoys  horticultural  pursuits. 
The  interests  of  his  life  are  thus  broad  and  varied,  making  his  a  well  rounded  char- 
acter, and  such  are  his  marked  characteristics  that  all  who  know  him  are  proud  to 
call  him  friend. 


NATIONAL  BANK  OF  COMMERCE. 

A  most  orderly  progression  has  characterized  the  growth  and  development  of 
the  National  Bank  of  Commerce,  resulting .  from  the  utilization  of  every  oppor- 
tunity presented,  combined  with  a  keen  understanding  on  the  part  of  the  officials 
of  every  phase  of  the  banking  business.  It  was  in  April,  1865,  that  the  present 
institution  had  its  inception  in  the  organization  of  the  Kansas  City  Savings  Asso- 
ciation, which  was  established  with  a  capital  of  ten  thousand  dollars  and  opened 
its  doors  for  business  on  Main  street,  between  Second  and  Third  streets.  Its 
president  was  General  John  W.  Reid,  a  former  member  of  congress,  widely  known 
for  his  courtly  manners,  while  the  cashier  was  Church  J.  White,  who  removed  from 
Liberty,  Missouri,  to  Kansas  City.  In  18  73  Dr.  James  Buchanan  Bell,  previously 
identified  with  the  banking  business  in  Chillicothe,  Missouri,  took  over  the  interests 
of  General  Reid  and  succeeded  to  the  presidency,  while  Henry  C.  Schwitzgebel, 
now  vice  president  of  the  Commerce  Trust  Company,  became  the  bookkeeper  for 
the  developing  institution.  Dr.  Bell's  interest  was  later  acquired  by  W.  A.  Powell, 
who  then  became  head  of  the  association,  and  he  in  turn  sold  out  in  18  81  to  Dr. 
W.  S.  Woods,  who  liad  formerly  been  associated  with  W.  B.  Grimes  in  the  dry 
goods  business.  Dr.  Woods  at  that  time  became  tlie  president  of  the  bank,  which 
in  the  interval  had  several  times  increased  its  capital,  which  had  now  reached  one 
hundred  thousand  dollars,  the  limit  fixed  by  its  charter. 

As  the  growth  of  the  bank  was  assured  it  seemed  necessary  to  secure  a  new 
charter,  as  its  name  did  not  express  the  commercial  character  of  the  bank,  nor 
did  the  old  charter  provide  for  sufficient  capital  to  meet  the  requirements  of  the 
growing  business.  Accordingly  a  reorganization  was  effected  in  1882,  under  the 
name  of  the  Bank  of  Commerce,  with  a  capital  of  two  hundred  thousand  dollars 
fully  paid,  which  absorbed  the  business  of  the  Savings  Association,  under  the  man- 
agement of  the  same  officers  with  the  addition  of  Luke  F.  Wilson  as  vice  president. 
The  capable  management  of  Dr.  Woods  and  Mr.  White,  the  cashier  of  the  bank, 
led  to  such  an  increase  in  the  business  that  enlarged  quarters  were  demanded  and 
in  1885  the  company  erected  a  unique  and  attractive  building  near  the  corner  of 
Sixth  street,  on  Delaware,  and  removed  thereto.  The  business  of  the  bank  con- 
tinued to  increase  rapidly  and  the  next  step  in  its  development  was  nationalizing 
the  institution  under  the  name  of  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce  and  increasing 
its  capital  to  two  million  dollars.  This  was  accomplished  in  the  summer  of  1887, 
at  which  time  W.  A.  Rule  became  chief  clerk  of  the  bank  and  the  following  year 
was  made  second  assistant  cashier,  while  upon  the  retirement  of  Mr.  White  from 
the  cashiership  in  1895,  Mr.  Rule  was  chosen  his  successor.  Later  it  was  found 
that  conditions  did  not  justify  a  two-million-dollar  capital  and  the  capitalization 
was  therefore  reduced  to  one  million.     The  combined  capital,  surplus  and  undivided 


382  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

profits  of  all  Kansas  City  banks  on  the  1st  of  June,  1886,  was  five  million  three 
hundred  twenty-five  thousand  three  hundred  and  forty-four  dollars,  while  the  com- 
bined deposits  did  not  exceed  fourteen  million   dollars. 

On  the  1st  of  January,  1889,  the  Midland  National  Bank  was  opened  for  busi- 
ness and  took  over  the  Armour  Banking  Company  in  November.  1890.  the  Metro- 
politan National  Bank  was  established  and  into  this  was  merged  the  German- 
American  National  Bank  and  the  Mercantile  Bank,  while  in  November,  1891,  the 
Metropolitan  also  bought  the  Merchants  National  Bank.  In  May,  1897,  the  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Commerce  purchased  the  Metropolitan  National  and  moved  into 
its  quarters  in  the  New  York  Life  building,  and  in  the  following  July  the  Com- 
merce took  over  the  Midland  National  by  purchase.  In  1898  the  National  Bank 
of  Commerce  purchased  the  old  Journal  building  on  the  northwest  corner  of  Tenth 
and  Walnut  streets,  remodeled  it  for  banking  purposes  and  thus  opened  the  first 
large  bank  south  of  Ninth  street,  where  the  business  continued  to  grow  and  develop 
until  it  became  the  largest  bank  west  of  Chicago  with  one  exception,  its  deposits 
reaching  thirty-six  million. 

It  is  said  that  no  other  banking  institution  has  equaled  the  National  Bank  of 
Commerce  for  building  up  and  developing  the  industrial  interests  of  Kansas  City. 
Many  large  and  prosperous  establishments  of  the  city  and  surrounding  country 
owe  their  existence  in  large  part  to  the  substantial  financial  aid  extended  them  by 
the  bank,  enabling  them  to  expand  rapidly  and  develop  their  trade.  The  country 
bankers,  too,  of  the  surrounding  district  have  from  time  to  time  received  substantial 
aid  from  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce,  tiding  them  over  critical  periods.  The 
Commerce  itself  faced  a  crisis  in  1907  and  1908  and  liquidated  nineteen  million 
five  hundred  thousand  dollars  of  its  desposits  in  six  weeks,  putting  up  an  unprec- 
edented fight  under  its  forceful  and  resourceful  director  general,  Dr.  W.  S.  Woods, 
and  his  associates,  and  winning  the  victory. 

On  the  30th  of  March,  1908,  Dr.  Woods  was  succeeded  in  the  presidency  by 
W.  B.  Ridgley.  while  George  T.  Cutts  became  vice  president  and  Edward  Ridgley 
was  elected  cashier.  At  this  time  the  deposits  of  the  bank  amounted  to  about 
twelve  million  dollars  and  the  capital  stock  was  again  increased  to  two  million. 
In  November,  1908,  the  three  mentioned  officers  retired  and  Dr.  W.  S.  Woods  was 
made  chairman  of  the  board,  while  David  T.  Beals  became  president,  with  W.  T. 
Kemper  as  active  vice  president,  James  T.  Bradley  cashier  and  W.  H.  Glaskin 
assistant  cashier.  The  expansion  of  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce  was  continued 
through  the  purchase  of  the  Union  National  Bank  on  the  21st  of  November,  1908. 
The  Union  had  been  organized  in  1887,  with  David  T.  Beals  as  president,  and  was 
the  successor  of  the  First  Traders  Bank,  which  was  established  in  1883.  Jn  April, 
1909,  Mr.  Beals  resigned  the  presidency  of  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce  and 
J.  W.  Perry,  then  vice  president  of  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce  in  St.  Louis, 
was  elected  his  successor,  while  the  vice  presidency  was  filled  by  W.  L.  Buechle, 
who  was  then  national  bank  examiner  for  Missouri.  In  July,  1912,  by  the  most 
diplomatic  and  skillful  management  on  the  part  of  Mr.  Perry  for  the  Commerce 
and  F.  P.  Neal  tor  the  Southwest  National  Bank,  a  most  successful  consolidation 
was  effected,  bringing  together  these  institutions  under  a  union  of  names  as  well 
as  of  business,  goodwill  and  the  personality  of  both,  resulting  in  the  Southwest 
National  Bank  of  Commerce,  with  a  capitalization  of  three  million  dollars,  surplus 
and  undivided  profits  of  one  million  two  hundred  thousand  dollars  and  deposits 
of  over  thirty  million  dollars,  while  its  earning  power  was  greater  than  any  other 
financial  institution  in  Kansas  City.  In  1918  the  word  "Southwest"  was  dropped, 
the  name  of  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce  being  retained,  at  which  time  the 
capitalization  was  increased  to  four  million  dollars  and  W.  T.  Kemper  became  chair- 
man of  the  board,  with  J.  W.  Perry  as  president,  R.  P.  Brewer,  Albert  Newman. 
James  T.  Bradley,  C.  M.  Vining  and  H.  Y.  Lemon  as  vice  presidents.  E.  P.  Wheat 
as  cashier,  W.  H.  Glaskin.  A.  B.  Elsenhower  and  A.  W.  Kennedy  as  assistant  cashiers. 
Later  additions  to  the  official  staff  were  F.  C.  Marqua  as  assistant  cashier  and 
manager  of  the  new  business  department  and  F.  B.  Brady  and  S.  A.  Kelley  as 
assistant  cashiers. 

To  meet  the  needs  and  growth  of  Kansas  City,  the  Commerce  Trust  Company 
was  organized  in  October,  1906,  with  a  capital  of  one  million  dollars.  Dr.  W.  S. 
Woods  becoming  the  president,  with  W.  T.  Kemper  as  vice  president  and  Henry 
C.  Schwitzgebel  as  secretary  and  treasurer.  With  the  retirement  of  Dr.  Woods  in 
1908,   he  was  succeeded  in  the  presidency   by  Mr.   Kemper,   while  J.   Z.   Miller,  Sr., 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  383 

became  vice  president.  Mr.  Schwitzgebel  was  elected  secretai-y  and  R.  C.  Menefee 
was  chosen  treasurer.  In  1914  Mr.  Miller  resigned  to  become  governor  of  the 
Federal  Reserve  Bank,  at  Kansas  City. 

The  safe  deposit  vault  of  the  Commerce  Trust  Company  is  the  finest  in  the 
west,  being  complete  in  every  detail,  and  under  able  and  courteous  management  it 
has  deservedly  won  the  unqualified  approval  of  its  patrons  for  its  service  and 
eflSciency.  In  1915  W.  S.  McLucas  was  elected  to  the  vice  presidency,  together 
with  Richard  C.  Menefee  and  Townley  Culbertson,  while  Jo  Zack  Miller  (III)  became 
treasurer.  In  1917  Mr.  Kemper  was  elected  chairman  of  the  board,  while  W.  S. 
McLucas  became  president  and  H.  C.  Schwitzgebel  vice  president.  Following  the 
original  plan,  all  of  the  stock  of  the  Trust  Company  was  purchased  by  the  National 
Bank  of  Commerce  and  Mr.  Kemper  became  chairman  of  the  boards  of  both  in- 
stitutions, while  the  officers  chosen  for  the  Trust  Company  were:  W.  S.  McLucas, 
president;  Richard  C.  Menefee,  Townley  Culbertson,  H.  C.  Schwitzgebel,  Gerald 
Parker  and  Jo  Zack  Miller  (III),  vice  presidents;  George  W.  Dillon,  secretary; 
J.  M.  Kemper,  treasurer;  W.  M.  Dyer,  assistant  vice  president;  and  F.  W.  Harper, 
W.  H.  Potts,  Charles  A.  Brpwer  and  William  E.  Graves,  assistant  secretaries.  B. 
C.  Howard  was  chosen  trust  officer,  with  Ralph  L.  Adams  as  assistant  trust  officer, 
and  F.  M.  Staker  was  made  manager  of  the  publicity  department  and  W.  H.  Win- 
ants  manager  of  the  safe  deposit  vaults.  Upon  the  death  of  Mr.  Winants  in  1920, 
C.  R.   Scheppe  became  manager  of  the  vaults. 

The  growth  of  the  Commerce  Trust  Company  has  been  phenomenal,  with  its 
capital  of  one  million  dollars,  surplus  and  undivided  profits  of  over  one  million 
one  hundred  thousand  dollars  and  deposits  of  over  thirty-six  million  dollars,  with 
resources  of  over  forty-six  millions.  To  meet  the  requirement  of  the  tremendous 
growth  of  business  of  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce  and  the  Commerce  Trust 
Company,  the  erection  of  a  splendid  building  was  begun  in  1907  and  completed 
the  following  year,  being  now  occupied  as  the  permanent  home  of  the  bank  and 
trust  company  and  standing  as  a  monument  to  the  untiring  life  work  of  the  men 
who  have  given  their  best  efforts  to  make  Kansas  City  the  great  financial  center 
west  of  Chicago.  Two  states  distant  on  the  south  lies  the  Gulf,  two  states  to  the 
north  brings  one  to  the  Canadian  border,  five  states  eastward  is  the  Atlantic  and 
by  the  same  count  of  commonwealths  westward  the  Pacific  is  reached,  constituting 
Missouri  the  canter  state  of  the  United  States,  while  Kansas  City  has  become  the 
great  financial  center  west  of  Chicago.  In  1870  there  was  a  population  of  thirty- 
two  thousand  and  the  city  numbered  ten  banks  with  a  combined  capital  of  four 
hundred  thousand  dollars,  while  its  annual  banking  business  reached  eighty  million 
dollars,  as  compared  with  eleven  billions  in  1919;  thus  placing  Kansas  City  in  the 
fifth  place  in  the  banking  business  of  the  United  States,  with  only  New  York, 
Chicago,  Philadelphia  and  Boston  leading.  This  result  is  attributable  in  no  small 
measure  to  the  efforts  of  the  men  who  have  been  back  of  the  National  Bank  of 
Commerce   and   the   Commerce   Trust   Company. 


MARCUS  B.   FETTY. 


Marcus  B.  Fetty  is  the  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Superior  Hay  Stacker 
Manufacturing  Company  of  Linneus,  which  is  one  of  the  most  extensive  and  im- 
portant productive  interests  of  this  section  of  the  state,  the  business  having  been 
developed  to  large  proportions.  Mr.  Fetty  is  therefore  occupying  a  leading  posi- 
tion in  manufacturing  circles  and  also  has  other  important  business  interests.  He 
was  born  in  Linn  county  in  1868  and  Is  a  son  of  Judge  Edward  G.  and  Sarah  C. 
(Schrock)   Fetty,  of  whom  mention  is  made  elsewhere  in  this  work. 

He  was  reared  on  his  father's  farm  and  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Linn  county,  after  which  he  took  up  the  profession  of  teaching,  which  he  fol- 
lowed for  three  years.  He  then  became  associated  with  his  father  in  the  hard- 
ware business  and  was  so  engaged  until  19  03,  when  he  was  elected  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Superior  Hay  Stacker  Manufacturing  Company  of  Linneus.  which 
was  organized  in  1900  and  incorporated  in  1903.  The  business  has  steadily  grown 
and  developed  and  their  output  is  now  used  in  nearly  all  of  the  states  west  of  the 
Mississippi.  They  manufacture  stackers  of  all  kinds  for  hay,  for  alfalfa  and  wagon 
stackers  and  their  output  also  includes  a  rigid  tongue  rake  with  side  hitch,  a  loose 

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384  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

tongue  rake  with  side  hitch  in  three  different  sizes,  and  a  power  lift  push  rake. 
The  hay  stackers  and  rakes  manufactured  by  this  company  have  been  in  constant 
use  for  the  past  nineteen  years  in  practically  all  of  the  hay  territory  of  the  country, 
and  their  advantageous  features,  exclusively  used  by  this  company,  entitle  them 
to  their  name,  Superior.  Since  the  organization  of  the  present  company  in  1900 
larger  buildings  have  been  erected  from  time  to  time  and  new  machinery  added 
to  the  equipment  and  the  foundry  is  today  in  splendid  shape  to  turn  out  the  higher 
class  work.  They  use  the  finest  grades  of  lumber,  paint  and  steel  in  all  their 
manufactured  products.  Their  foundry  is  under  the  management  of  an  expert 
molder,  and  in  addition  to  their  rakes  and  their  hay  stackers  they  have  recently 
put  upon  the  market  an  automatic  corn  cutting  machine  which  meets  a  long  felt 
need  and  which  cuts  two  rows  of  corn  at  a  time,  is  operated  by  one  horse,  holds 
the  corn  in  a  compact  upright  position  and  does  the  work  neatly  and  with  dispatch, 
while  all  danger  from  accident  is  eliminated.  At  the  head  of  the  Superior  Hay 
Stacker  Manufacturing  Company  are  three  most  efficient  business  men,  O.  P.  Vroom 
being  president,  J.  P.  Fell  vice  president  and  M.  B.  Fetty  secretary  and  treasurer. 
The  business  of  the  company  is  steadily  growing  through  recognition  of  the  value 
of  the  machines  sent  out  and  their  extensive  business  is  proof  of  the  fact  that 
satisfied  customers  are  the  best  advertisement.  In  addition  to  his  interest  in  the 
Superior  Hay  Stacker  Manufacturing  Company  Mr.  Fetty  is  vice  president  and 
director  of  the  Citizens  Bank  and  is  also  interested  in  a  large  farm,  which  is  op- 
erated under  his  supervision. 

In  1889  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Marcus  B.  Fetty  and  Miss  C.  Eva 
Willhite,  of  Grant  City,  Missouri,  and  they  have  one  daughter,  Viola.  The  wife 
and  mother  died  in  Aug\ist.  1894.  and  in  September.  1897,  Mr.  Fetty  wedded  Miss 
Nellie  V.  Stephens,  a  daughter  of  Colonel  George  W.  Stephens,  of  Linneus.  who 
was  a  captain  in  the  Mexican  war.  while  his  father  was  a  soldier  of  the  War  of  1812. 
Colonel  Stephens  became  a  prominent  attorney  of  Missouri  and  filled  several  im- 
portant offices  in  Linn  county,  including  that  of  probate  judge.  He  was  also 
president  of  the  Burlington  &  Southwestern  Railroad  and  contributed  extensively 
toward  its  construction.  He  was  born  in  Orange  county,  Virginia,  February  22, 
1826,  came  to  Linneus  on  the  11th  of  July,  1856,  and  thereafter  throughout  his 
remaining  days  contributed  in  substantial  measure  to  the  growth  and  upbuilding 
of  the  district  in  which  he  lived.  His  daughter  Mrs.  Fetty  is  an  active  member 
and  one  of  the  chairmen  of  the  Civics  Club,  and  she  was  most  earnestly  and  zeal- 
ously interested  in  Red  Cross  work  during  the  war.  Mr.  Fetty  has  served  as 
president  of  the  school  board,  doing  effective  work  for  the  cause  of  education,  and 
his  aid  and  cooperation  can  be  counted  upon  at  all  times  to  further  plans  and 
measures  for  the  general  good. 


CHRIS  J.   MUCKERMANN. 


Chris  J.  Muckermann.  who  is  at  the  head  of  the  Chris  J.  Muckermann  Insurance 
Agency  of  St.  Louis,  established  in  1913.  was  born  October  27,  1891,  in  the  city  in 
which  he  still  resides.  His  father,  John  C.  Muckermann,  is  also  a  native  of  St.  Louis, 
where  for  many  years  he  has  been  prominent  in  business  circles,  his  present  con- 
nection being  that  of  vice  president  of  the  Polar  Wave  Ice  &  Fuel  Company.  He 
married  Pauline  Leber,  who  was  born  in  St.  Louis  and  is  also  living.  Their  family 
numbered  three  sons  and  four  daughters. 

Chris  J.  Muckermann  was  accorded  liberal  educational  opportunities.  He  at- 
tended St.  Mary's  College.  Kansas,  and  the  St.  Louis  University  and  from  the  latter 
was  graduated  in  1913  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  Thus  well  qualified  by 
educational  training  for  life's  practical  and  responsible  duties,  he  established  an  in- 
surance agency  in  St.  Louis  on  the  9th  of  September,  1913,  and  has  since  carried 
on  the  business  under  the  style  of  the  Chris  J.  Muckermann  Insurance  Agency.  He 
was  first  connected  with  the  Travelers  Insurance  Company  and  now  handles  a  gen- 
eral line  of  insurance,  representing  the  Iowa  Bonding  &  Casualty  Company,  the 
Missouri  State  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Topeka,  Kansas,  and  various  others.  He 
now  employs  a  number  of  agents,  including  E.  J.  Lynch.  W.  C.  Woods.  Charles  P. 
Quinn.  Joseph  A.  Lynch,  E.  G.  Monnig,  Orr  C.  Frazer,  J.  Adam,  L.  A.  Loftus,  J.  G. 
Meyer.  Jerome  G.  Meyer,  Randolph  S.  Lyon  and  W.  A.   Patteson.     The  business  is 


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developing  rapidly  under  liis  careful  guidance  and  he  is  thoroughly  conversant  with 
every  phase  of  insurance. 

On  the  21st  of  April,  1915,  Mr.  Muckerraann  was  married  to  Miss  Marie  Stella 
Lynch,  of  St.  Louis,  and  their  children  are  three  in  number:  Marie  Stella,  John  C. 
and  Nancy  Jeanne.  Mr.  Muckermann  and  his  family  are  members  of  the  Immaculate 
Conception  Roman  Catholic  church  and  he  is  identified  with  the  Knights  of  Columbus. 
He  also  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  organization  finds  in  him  a 
stalwart  follower  of  its  leadership  in  relation  to  every  project  for  the  general  good. 
He  belongs  to  the  Glen  Echo  Country  Club  and  to  the  Liederkranz  and  is  partcularly 
Interested  in  golf  as  a  source  of  recreation.  He  is  likewise  identified  with  the  Mis- 
souri Athletic  Association.  He  is  yet  a  young  man — one  who,  actuated  by  a  laudable 
ambition,  has  made  steady  progress  until  he  has  won  a  creditable  place  in  insurance 
circles,  and  the  qualities  that  he  has  already  displayed  indicate  that  his  will  be  a 
successful  future. 


GEORGE  H.  EDWARDS. 


George  H.  Edwards,  of,  K^ansas  City,  is  a  prominent  man  in  the  jewelry  trade 
of- the  country,  having  twice  Jieen  honored,  by  election  to  the  presidency  of  the 
National  Jewelers  Association,  while  locally,  he  is  well  known  as  the  president  of 
the  Edwards-Ludwig-Fuller  Jewelry  Company,  owners  of  one  of  the  largest  and 
finest  jewelry  houses  of  the  middle  west.  He  has  also  figured  in  banking  circles 
and  through  his  various  activities  has  contriliuted  to  the  substantial  growth  and 
business  development  of  his  native  st^,te.  .  Jle  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  May  25,  1860, 
his  parents  being  Richard  and  Betsy  J.  (gamson)  Edwards.  The  latter  was  a 
native  of  Massachusetts  and  a  direct  descendant  of  Miles  Standish.  The  father  was 
a  native  of  Wales  and  when  a  youth  of  fourteen  came  to  the  United  States.  He 
attained  prominence  in  educational  circles,  was  president  of  the  Illinois  State  Uni- 
versity and  also  state  superintendent  of  instruction  of  Illinois. 

George  H.  Edwards  acquired  his  education  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of 
Princeton,  Illinois,  and  in  the  Illinois  State  Normal  University  at  Normal  but  did 
not  graduate  from  the  latter.  He  made  his  initial  step  in  commercial  circles  in 
1878  by  entering  the  jewelry  business  at  Princeton,  Illinois,  where  he  remained 
until  1880  and  then  went  to  Chicago,  after  which  he  traveled  for  a  New  York  and 
Chicago  house  until  1889.  In  the  latter  year  he  came  to  Kansas  City  and  pur- 
chased an  interest  in  the  S.  D.  Mills  Jewelry  Company,  which  afterward  was 
reorganized  under  the  name  of  the  Edwards-Ludwig-Fuller  Jewelry  Company,  of 
which  Mr.  Edwards  is  now  the  president.  His  close  application,  his  broad  busi- 
ness vision  and  his  unfaltering  enterprise  have  been  dominant  factors  in  the 
development  and  upbuilding  of  one  of  the  fine  jewelry  establishments  of  the  west, 
and  at  all  times  he  has  kept  in  the  vanguard  of  the  trade.  His  high  position  in 
mercantile  circles  is  manifest  in  the  fact  that  in  1912  he  was  elected  to  the  presi- 
dency of  the  National  Jewelers  Association  and  his  excellent  service  during  that 
term  led  to  his  reelection  in  1913.  He  was  also  at  one  time  president  of  the 
Mercantile  National  Bank,  which  was  taken  over  by  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce, 
of  which  he  is  now  one  of  the  directors. 

In  188  9  Mr.  Edwards  was  united  in  marriage  in  Lawrence,  Kansas,  to  Miss 
Isabelle  Dix,  a  daughter  of  Ralph  and  Jetta  (Graham)  Dix,  the  former  a  native 
of  Connecticut,  while  the  latter  was  born  in  Ireland.  The  father,  who  was  a  wagon 
maker  by  trade,  was  killed  in  the  raid  on  Lawrence,  Kansas,  August  1,  18  63,  this 
constituting  one  of  the  horrors  of  the  Civil  war.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edwards  were 
born  seven  children,  of  whom  the  eldest,  Alice  Louise,  died  in  infancy.  George  H., 
Jr.,  the  second  of  the  family,  was  a  captain  in  the  Quartermasters  Corps  during 
the  World  war  and  died  at  Trieste,  Italy,  February  14,  1919.  After  the  armistice 
he  served  with  the  United  States  food  administration  at  Trieste,  volunteering  for 
this  work  although  he  had  already  received  orders  to  return  to  the  United  States. 
He  was  the  first  to  report  at  Camp  Punston  upon  its  organization.  In  fact  he 
went  there  before  the  camp  was  completed  and  assisted  in  organizing  it.  He  was 
commissioned  a  second  lieutenant  while  at  that  camp  and  made  such  a  good  record 
at  Funston  that  he  was  transferred  to  Washington,  D.  C.,  in  the  Quartermaster 
General's   Department.     From  there  he  was  sent  to  France  in  July,   1918.   and  ad- 


388  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

vanced  to  a  first  lieutenancy.  His  appointment  as  captain  was  approved  on  the 
13th  of  February,  1919,  the  day  before  he  died.  The  third  member  of  the  family 
is  Lucile  B.,  wlio  is  at  the  head  of  tlie  physical  culture  department  of  Stephens 
College  at  Columbia,  Missouri.  Richard  Dix  was  a  second  lieutenant  in  the  Aviation 
Corps  during  the  World  war  and  was  made  a  flying  instructor  at  Sacramento,  Cali- 
fornia. Bessie  J.  is  a  teacher  in  the  kindergarten  department  of  the  Kansas  City 
schools.     Gertrude  M.   and  Grace   E.   complete   the   family. 

Mr.  Edwards  has  always  been  keenly  interested  in  public  affairs  and  is  a 
recognized  leader  in  the  ranks  of  the  republican  party  in  Kansas  City.  He  served 
for  two  terms  of  four  years  each  as  a  member  of  the  upper  house  of  the  city  council 
and  in  April,  1916,  was  elected  mayor  of  Kansas  City,  occupying  the  ofRce  for  one 
term,  during  which  he  gave  to  the  city  a  businesslike  and  progressive  administra- 
tion, bringing  to  bear  upon  municipal  problems  the  same  thoroughness  and  sagacity 
that  have  characterized  his  business  interests.  His  family  is  identified  with  the 
Congregational  and  Christian  Science  churches.  Fraternally  Mr.  Edwards  is  a 
Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  also  belongs  to  the  Loyal  Order  of  Moose.  He  is 
identified  with  the*  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  is  interested  in  all  of  the  efforts 
and  projects  of  that  organization  for  the  benefit  of  the  city,  the  extension  of  its 
trade  relations  and  the  upbuilding  of  its  civic  standards.  He  has  membership  with 
the  City  Club  and  that  he  is  appreciative  of  the  social  amenities  of  life  is  further 
indicated  in  his  connection  with  the  Hillcrest  Country  Club,  the  Mid-Day  Club 
and  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club.  He  is  fond  of  golf  and  finds  great  interest 
and  recreation  in  a  game  on  the  links.  He  recognizes  the  fact  that  the  well  bal- 
anced man  is  the  one  who  not  only  works  well  but  who  also  plays  well,  and  his 
is  a  carefully  regulated  life  as  to  leisure  and  industry.  That  he  has  displayed 
sound  judgment  and  keen  discrimination  in  his  business  life  is  manifest  in  the 
high  measure  of  success  which  has  come  to  him,  placing  him  with  the  foremost 
merchants  of  his  adopted  city.  During  the  period  of  the  World  war  he  was  ap- 
pointed by.  Governor  Gardner  as  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Council  of  Defense  and 
also  served  as  food  administrator  tor  Jackson  county.  Missouri. 


OWEN    STANARD    TILTON. 


Owen  Stanard  Tilton,  secretary  of  the  Stanard  Tilton  Milling  Company  of  St. 
Louis,  in  which  city  he  was  born  October  12.  1S85,  is  the  eldest  of  the  four  children 
of  Edgar  T.  and  Cora  (Stanard)  Tilton.  The  father,  who  passed  away  in  April, 
1917,  was  born  in  Ohio  and  was  a  representative  ot  one  of  the  old  families  of  that 
state,  the  town  of  Tiltonville  having  been  named  in  honor  of  his  father,  and  the 
land  upon  which  this  town  stands  was  originally  deeded  by  John  Adams  to  ancestors 
of  Mr.  Tilton  of  this  review,  when  John  Adams  was  serving  as  the  second  president 
of  the  United  States.  The  ancestral  line  in  America  can  be  traced  back  through 
five  generations.  Edgar  T.  Tilton  was  reared  in  Ohio  and  became  an  active  factor 
in  the  business  circles  of  St.  Louis,  where  he  was  vice  president  and  general  man- 
ager of  the  Stanard  Tilton  Milling  Company  at  the  time  of  his  death.  His  wife 
was  a  daughter  of  E.  O.  Stanard,  also  a  member  of  one  of  the  old  American  families. 
They  were  married  in  St,  Louis  in  1883  and  to  them  were  born  three  sons  and  a 
daughter:  Owen  S.;  Edgar,  who  is  now  living  in  New  York;  Webster,  who  is  with 
Lorenzo  E.  Anderson  in  the  stocks  and  bonds  business  in  St.  Louis;  and  Esther  T., 
the  wife  of  Henry  Meyer  Wheaton,  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri. 

Owen  S.  Tilton  was  educated  in  Smith  Academy  at  St.  Louis  and  in  the  St. 
Paul  School  of  Concord,  New  Hampshire.  He  entered  Amherst  College  at  Amherst, 
Massachusetts,  in  19  04,  there  pursuing  the  classical  course  to  the  time  of  his 
graduation  in  1908.  In  that  year  he  became  connected  with  the  Stanard  Tilton 
Milling  Company  as  a  general  clerk  and  thus  served  for  two  years.  He  afterward 
traveled  for  the  company  for  four  years  and  for  two  years  occupied  the  position 
of  treasurer,  while  in  1917  he  was  elected  secretary  aild  is  still  thus  officially  con- 
nected with  what  is  today  one  of  the  important  productive  industries  of  the  city. 
During  the  World  war  period  his  firm  made  considerable  flour  for  the  government. 
Mr.  Tilton  also  took  an  active  part  in  promoting  the  drives  to  finance  the  war  and 
to  promote  all  of  the  interests  and  welfare  of  the  soldiers  in  camp  and  field. 

•  In   Chicago,    on   the    3d    of   July,    1915.    Mr.    Tilton    was    married    to    Miss   Ellen 


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McNeills,  a  daughter  of  Mrs.  Charles  A.  Childs,  of  Indianapolis,  Indiana.  They 
reside  at  No.  6843  Waterman  avenue.  Mr.  Tilton  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce and  to  the  Merchants  Exchange  and  is  interested  in  all  those  forces  which 
make  for  the  progress  and  upbuilding  of  the  city  and  the  development  of  its  busi- 
ness connections.  In  politics  he  is  a  republican  and  religiously  is  connected  with 
Grace  Methodist  church  of  St.  Louis.  He  is  also  well  known  in  club  circles,  be- 
longing to  the  University,  St.  Louis,  Algonquin  Golf  and  Sunset  Hill  Country  Clubs, 
and  his  social  qualities  make  for  popularity  wherever  he  is  known.  His  labors 
have  at  all  times  been  carefully  and  intelligently  directed,  whether  for  the  benefit 
of  his  own  fortunes  or  as  a  factor  in  public  good,  and  he  has  used  his  opportunities 
along  the  latter  line  just  as  eagerly  and  just  as  effectively  as  in  the  promotion  of 
his  individual  interests. 


REV.  P.  ARENSBERG. 


Rev.  P.  Arensberg,  pastor  of  St.  Columban's  Catholic  church  at  Chillicothe, 
was  born  in  Holland  in  1880,  a  son  of  William  and  Aldegund  (Muskens)  Arensberg, 
who  came  to  the  United  States  in  1885,  settling  in  Kansas.  Their  son  began  his 
education  in  the  parochial  school  at  Atchison  and  afterward  attended  St.  Benedict's 
College.  He  completed  his  course  in  Kenrick  Seminary  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and 
was  ordained  to  the  priesthood  in  May,  1906.  His  first  appointment  was  to  St. 
Joseph's  cathedral  of  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  where  he  labored  for  six  years  and  was 
then  made  pastor  of  the  Catholic  church  at  Brookfield,  Missouri,  where  he  continued 
for  a  year.  He  also  spent  a  year  at  Weston,  Missouri,  and  at  CarrolUon,  whence 
he  removed  to  Chillicothe,  where  he  has  since  labored  as  pastor  of  St.  Columban's 
church. 

The  first  and  present  church  of  this  parish  was  built  in  1879,  the  corner  stone 
being  laid  by  Father  Hogan.  The  founder  of  the  first  Catholic  church  in  Chilli- 
cothe was  Rev.  Hogan,  who  came  to  Chillicothe  in  1857,  and  the  first  house  of 
worship  was  built  in  1858.  Father  Hogan  remained  as  pastor  until  1868.  The 
Franciscan  fathers  took  charge  in  1878  and  so  continued  until  1914,  when  the 
church. was  given  over  to  the  diocesan  clergy.  The  first  pastor  appointed  was  Rev. 
A.  A.  Schaefer,  who  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  P.  Arensberg  in  May.  1915.  The  fii'st 
parish  school  was  built  by  Father  Hogan  in  1861,  being  the  only  Catholic  school 
in  the  county  at  that  time.  The  Academy  of  St.  Joseph  was  opened  in  187  2  and 
is  conducted  by  the  Sisters  of  St.  Joseph.  The  present  parochial  school  was  built 
in  1913  at  a  cost  of  fifteen  thousand  dollars  and  now  has  an  attendance  of  one 
hundred  and  ten  children.  The  academy  gives  instruction  in  two  courses — a  high 
school  course  and  a  commercial  course,  and  has  about  thirty  boarders  and  fifty 
day  pupils.  There  are  one  hundred  and  thirty  families  in  the  parish,  numbering 
about  seven  hundred  people.  The  first  church  was  built  in  1858,  on  the  same  block 
on  which  St.  Joseph's  church  is  now  located,  in  the  southern  part  of  the  city,  and 
in  1879  was  moved  to  the  northern  part  of  the  city,  when  the  present  church  and 
Jackson  street,  and  the  second  church  in  that  parish  was  built  the  same  year.  Since 
taking  charge  in  1915,  Rev.  Arensberg  has  done  splendid  work  for  St.  Columban's. 
residence  was  built.  In  1895  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  Burke  divided  the  parish  and  formed 
a  new  congregation  out  of  the  southern  part  of  the  city,  the  dividing  line  being 
thoroughly  organizing  the  work  of  the  different  societies  and  greatly  promoting  the 
spirital  growth  of  the  community. 


DUDLEY  KINCADE. 


Dudley  Kincade  has  tor  seven  years  been  the  manager  at  St.  Louis  for  the  firm 
of  T.  H.  Mastin  &  Company,  attorneys,  and  in  this  connection  is  engaged  in  what 
is  known  as  reciprocal  insurance.  He  was  born  at  Fort  Scott,  Kansas,  in  January, 
1892,  and  is  a  son  of  George  Percy  and  Emma  (Crow)  Kincade.  On  the  paternal 
side  he  traces  his  ancestry  back  to  John  Knox.  The  father  removed  from  Ohio 
to  Fort  Scott,  Kansas,  in  1865,  and  in  1899  became  a  resident  of  Kansas  City, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  real  estate-  and  investment  business.     While  not  a  politician 


390  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

he  is  very  active  in  all  public  matters,  especially  in  welfare  work,  and  his  labors 
were  most  effective  in  connection  with  the  Red  Cross  work  during  the  World  war 
and  in  support  of  all  the  Liberty  Loan  drives  and  other  agencies  which  made  possible 
the  successful  prosecution  of  the  war  with  Germany.  He  married  Emma  Crow,  a 
native  of  Kansas,  her  father  being  prominent  in  the  public  affairs  of  that  state, 
where  he  served  as  sheriff  of  his  county  and  otherwise  filled  public   offices. 

Dudley  Kincade  obtained  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Joseph 
and  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  and  attended  the  University  of  Illinois  in  1912,  pur- 
suing a  course  in  architecture.  After  entering  business  circles  he  took  up  reciprocal 
insurance  in  connection  with  the  firm  of  T.  H.  Mastin  &  Company,  attorneys.  This 
is  something  new  in  automobile  insurance  and  for  seven  years  Mr.  Kincade  has  been 
with  the  company  as  manager  of  their  interests  in  St.  Louis.  Early  in  1908  Kansas 
City  motorists  refused  to  let  the  stock  insurance  companies  dictate  the  cost  of  auto- 
mobile insurance.  They  prevailed  upon  T.  H.  Mastin  &  Company  to  organize  a 
reciprocal  company  to  write  insurance  on  automobiles.  The  enterprise  was  a  success 
from  the  beginning  and  the  saving  to  the  motorists  so  substantial  that  today  over 
one-half  of  the  privately  owned  automobiles  of  Kansas  City  are  "absolutely  pro- 
tected at  actual  cost"  by  the  Consolidated  Underwriter?.  These  underwriters  refuse 
to  consider  anything  but  an  absolutely  preferred  risk,  both  as  to  car  and  owner. 
By  this  conservative  plan  of  eliminating  all  moral  hazard,  the  losses  drop  to  such 
a  minimum  as  the  stock  companies,  dealing  through  agents  and  accepting  all  kinds 
of  risks,  can  never  hope  to  reach.  By  accepting  only  the  better  class  of  business 
in  the  larger  cities,  the  Consolidated  Underwriters  have  built  up,  in  the  last  nine 
years,  the  largest  and  strongest  organization  of  its  kind  in  the  country.  It  is  this 
kind  of  business  which  is  handled  by  the  firm  of  T.  H.  Mastin  &  Company,  attorneys, 
and  through  the  seven  years  of  his  connection  with  the  business  as  manager  in 
St.  Louis,  Mr.  Kincade  has  secured  a  very  extensive  patronage  for  the  firm. 

At  America's  entrance  into  the  World  war  Mr.  Kincade  enlisted  in  the  United 
States  navy  and  was  appointed  ensign  on  the  Pennsylvania,  the  flagship  of  the 
Atlantic  fleet,  which  ship  directed  the  movements  of  all  ships  in  the  service  from 
the  bases  Nos.  1.  2  and  3.  He  was  on  the  sea  all  of  the  time  for  nineteen  months 
and  rendered  valuable  aid  in  this  connection.  He  belongs  to  the  Sigma  Chi,  a 
college  fraternity,  and  is  fond  of  all  kinds  of  manly  outdoor  sports  and  athletics, 
particularly  golf. 

In  June,  1917,  Mr.  Kincade  was  married  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  to  Miss  Helen 
Bryars,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Katherine  (Huttig)  Bryars.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Kincade  have  a  wide  acquaintance  in  St.  Louis  and  the  hospitality  of  many  of  the 
best  homes  of  the  city  is  cordially  extended  to  them. 


ROBERT  W.   WADDELL. 


Robert  W.  Waddell.  who  is  the  city  engineer  of  Kansas  City  and  who  has  suc- 
cessfully practiced  his  profession  independently,  was  born  at  Port  Hope,  Ontario, 
Canada,  October  31,  1859,  his  parents  being  Robert  Needham  and  Angeline  Ester 
(Jones)  Waddell,  the  former  a  native  of  Ireland,  while  the  latter  was  born  in  New 
York  city.  The  father  crossed  the  Atlantic  to  Canada  in  1827  and  there  spent  the 
greater  part  of  his  life.  For  many  years  he  was  a  merchant  in  Port  Hope  and  fol- 
lowing his  appointment  to  the  lite  position  of  high  sheriff  he  removed  to  Cobourg, 
Ontario,  where  he  remained  until  he  resigned  the  office.  About  1887  he  went  to 
Denver,  Colorado,  where  his  son  was  then  living,  and  there  passed  away  in  1889. 

Robert  W.  Waddell  largely  acquired  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Co- 
bourg and  in  boarding  schools  near  by,  prior  to  entering  McGill  University  at  Mont- 
real. Canada,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1881  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Science.  After  leaving  McGill  he  went  to  Omaha,  Nebraska,  as  assistant  engineer 
on  waterworks  and  fllled  that  position  for  about  four  months,  at  the  end  of  which 
time  he  resigned  and  removed  to  Denver,  Colorado,  where  he  conducted  a  general 
engineering  business,  locating  railroads  and  doing  construction  work  in  connection 
therewith.  He  also  did  engineering  work  in  connection  with  the  building  of  water- 
works and  all  kinds  of  municipal  bridge  work  and  dams.  He  was  the  engineer  who 
had  entire  charge  of  the  construction  of  Castlewood  dam,  the  flrst  big  dam   to   be 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  393 

built  in  the  state  of  Colorado.  This  was  in  1886.  In  1895  Mr.  Waddell  came  to 
Kansas  City,  where  he  established  himself  as  an  engineer,  his  labors  covering  field 
engineering,  as  in  Denver.  In  1900  he  was  appointed  city  engineer  of  Kansas  City 
and  filled  that  position  until  1903,  at  which  time  he  again  took  up  the  work  of  field 
engineering,  together  with  contracting.  In  1918  he  was  once  more  called  to  the 
office  of  city  engineer,  which  position  he  is  now  filling. 

On  the  24th  of  November,  1897,  in  Peterboro,  Ontario,  Canada,  Mr.  Waddell 
was  married  to  Miss  Sarah  E.  Vair,  who  father  was  a  Scotchman,  while  her  mother 
was  of  Canadian  birth.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Waddell  have  become  the  parents  of  two 
sons:  Gerald  Needham,  born  September  21,  1898;  and  Robert  D.,  born  September 
10,   1901.     They  are  both  students  in  the  State  University  at  Columbia,   Missouri. 

The  religious  faith  of  the  family  is  that  of  the  Episcopal  church  and  fraternally 
Mr.  Waddell  is  connected  with  the  Masonic  lodge.  Politically  he  is  a  democrat  but 
has  never  been  a  politician  in  the  sense  of  office  seeking.  His  entire  life  has  been 
characterized  by  devotion  to  his  profession  and  his  family,  by  a  love  of  books,  by 
thoughtful   consideration   of   others   and   by   allegiance   to   the   highest   ideals. 


MANSFIELD    CANFILL    BAY. 

The  steps  of  an  orderly  progression  in  his  business  career  have  led  Mansfield 
CanfiU  Bay  through  government  service  and  railroad  activities  into  close  connection 
with  the  lumber  industry  as  president  of  the  Bay  Brothers  Lumber  Company  of  St. 
Louis.  He  was  born  at  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  April  23,  1878,  and  is  a  son  of 
Joseph  L.  Bay,  who  passed  away  in  1908.  The  grandfather,  Samuel  Mansfield  Bay, 
was  the  author  of  Bay's  Reports,  regarded  by  many  as  authority  on  legal  points, 
and  he  was  a  brother-in-law  of  M.  V.  McClelland,  who  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  present  large  department  store  of  St.  Louis  now  conducted  under  the  name  of 
Scruggs,  Vandervoort  &  Barney.  Joseph  L.  Bay  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Lillian  Cantrell,  a  daughter  of  William  A.  Cantrell,  of  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  the 
wedding  being  celebrated  in  Little  Rock,  in  1875.  Their  family  numbered  two 
sons  and  four  daughters,  of  whom  one  daughter  died  in  infancy,  while  the  others 
are  living. 

Mansfield  C.  Bay  was  the  second  in  order  of  birth  and  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  in  the  Smith  Academy,  which  he  attended  for  two 
years.  Between  the  ages  of  nineteen  and  twenty-one  he  was  in  the  government 
service  in  the  quartermaster's  department,  engaged  in  the  work  of  constructing 
roads  in  Yellowstone  Park.  He  next  entered  upon  railroad  work  as  a  representa- 
tive of  the  St.  Louis  Southwestern  Railroad  Company  in  the  accounting  department, 
and  his  identification  wih  the  lumber  business  dates  from  1904,  at  which  time  he 
became  assistant  manager  of  the  Haywood  Lumber  Company  in  Texas  and  thus 
continued  for  six  years.  In  1910  he  oi-ganized  the  Bay  Brothers  Lumber  Company, 
of  which  he  is  president  and  general  manager.  They  have  operated  successfully 
through  the  past  decade,  conducting  an  extensive  wholesale  lumber  business  which 
extends  to  the  western  coast  and  throughout  the  south,  with  headquarters  in  the 
Arcade  building,  St.  Louis,  and  offices  in  Chicago,  and  Portland,  Oregon.  Their 
patronage  is  now  extensive  and  their  business  is  today  one  of  very  gratifying  and 
substantial  proportions.  Mr.  Bay  has  always  displayed  excellent  powers  of  organ- 
ization and  strong  executive  ability,  and  his  enterprise  and  energy  have  overcome 
all  difficulties  and  obstacles  in  his  path,  enabling  him  to  accomplish  his  purpose 
in  thQ  attainment  of  success. 

Mr.  Bay  was  united  in  marriage  in  St.  Louis  on  the  22d  of  November,  1905, 
to  Miss  Maude  M.  Hubbell,  a  daughter  of  Louis  Hubbell,  who  was  a  carriage  manu- 
facturer of  St.  Louis,  conducting  business  under  the  name  of  Hubbell  &  Waterhouse. 
Her  parents  were  born  in  Connecticut  and  represented  old  New  England  families. 
To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bay  have  been  born  three  daughters:  Barbara  H.,  Betty  C.  and 
Virginia  M. 

While  America  was  at  war  with  Germany,  Mr.  Bay  was  one  of  the  Four  Minute 
men  and  made  many  public  speeches  in  the  effort  to  enlighten  the  public  regarding 
the  real  issues  and  conditions  and  also  in  support  of  the  Liberty  loan,  doing  effec- 
tive v/ork  in  securing  subscriptions  thereto.  In  politics  he  has  always  maintained 
an   independent   course.     His   religious   faith   is    that   of   the   Episcopal   church   and 


394  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

fraternally  he  is  connected  with  RosehlU  Lodge  No.  550,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  in  which  he 
was  raised  in  1910.  He  is  also  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  a  member  of  Moolah 
Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  while  along  the  more  strictly  social  connections  he 
is  identified  with  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  Bellerive  Country  Club,  and 
the  Sunset  Hill  Country  Club.  Practically  his  entire  lite  has  been  passed  in  St. 
Louis  and  the  many  sterling  qualities  which  he  has  displayed  have  gained  for  him 
warm  friendship  and  high  regard,  while  in  business  he  has  established  himself  in 
a  most  creditable  position,  and  the  salient  characteristics  of  his  career  have  been 
such  as  have  won  to  him  a  gratifying  measure  of  prosperity. 


HERBERT  P.  WRIGHT. 


Herbert  P.  Wright,  investment  banlter  and  man  of  affairs  of  Kansas  City,  is  one 
who  holds  to  high  ideals  in  business  and  is  jealous  of  his  well  earned  reputation.  He 
possesses  a  genius  for  organization  of  business  enterprises  and  his  greatest  success 
has  been  in  aiding  corporations  in  developing  their  interests  and  in  the  organization 
and  financing  of  large  commercial  concerns,  in  which  connection  he  is  known  through- 
out the  country.  A  native  of  Illinois,  he  was  born  at  Stockton,  June  24.  1865,  and 
is  a  son  of  Burton  Wright,  whose  birth  occurred  in  Cuyahoga  county,  Ohio,  in  1828. 
The  father  still  survives  and  now  makes  his  home  at  Woodstock.  Illinois,  where  for 
a  long  period  he  was  a  prosperous  farmer,  taking  up  his  abode  there  in  pioneer  times. 
He  was  also  active  in  civic  affairs,  supporting  all  those  interests  which  constitute 
features  of  public  progress  and  improvement,  and  his  life  has  been  actuated  by  his 
belief  as  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden 
name  of  Hulda  Coon,  was  born  in  Ohio  and  is  also  living.  The  family  numbered  two 
children,  Herbert  P.  and  his  brother,  Charles  B.,  who  is  now  with  the  firm  of  Spencer 
Trask  &  Company  of  Chicago. 

Herbert  P.  Wright  was  educated  in  the  high  school  at  Woodstock,  Illinois,  and 
in  Northwestern  University  at  Evanston,  Illinois,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in 
1887  with  the  Bachelor  of  Science  degree,  while  in  1890  he  won  the  Master  of  Science 
degree.  He  was  elected  to  membership  on  the  board  of  trustees  of  Northwestern 
University  in  June,  1920.  In  1887  he  came  to  Kansas  City  and  through  the  interven- 
ing period  has  largely  been  identified  with  the  banking  business.  The  firm  of  the 
H.  P.  Wright  Investment  Company  occupies  large  ground  floor  offices  at  No.  923 
Baltimore  street.  They  deal  extensively  in  municipal  and  corporation  bonds.  The 
business  was  founded  in  1885.  In  1889  Mr.  Wright  acquired  an  interest  in  the  firm 
and  changed  the  name  to  H.  P.  Wright  &  Company.  In  1904  the  business  was  incorpo 
rated  as  The  H.  P.  Wright  Investment  Company  of  which  he  has  been  the  president  since 
its  incorporation.  In  the  conduct  of  the  business  the  company  specializes  in  Missouri 
and  Kansas  municipal  bonds,  also  handles  government  and  corporation  bonds.  Mr. 
Wright,  as  the  executive  head  of  the  company,  has  largely  directed  its  policy  and  its 
activities  yet  has  not  confined  his  attention  alone  to  this  line,  for  he  is  the  president  of 
the  Kansas  Gas  &  Electric  Company,  which  is  the  largest  public  utilities  company  of 
Kansas.  He  is  likewise  the  president  of  the  Home  Light,  Heat  &  Power  Company  of 
Pittsburg,  Kansas,  a  director  of  the  American  Power  &  Light  Company  of  New  York 
and  one  of  its  incorporators,  and  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  great  Loose-Wiles 
Biscuit  Company,  which  was  formed  in  1912  and  is  one  of  the  foremost  concerns  of  the 
kind  in  the  United  States.  He  is  likewise  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  Kansas  City 
Life  Insurance  Company,  of  which  he  is  a  director,  and  in  1915  he  organized  the  Sinclair 
Oil  Company  of  New  York,  which  ranks  second  in  its  volume  of  business  to  the 
Standard  Oil  Company. 

In  1890  Mr.  Wright  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Hattie  Haw,  of  Ottumwa, 
Iowa,  a  daughter  of  George  Haw,  a  prominent  citizen  and  pioneer  banker  and  whole- 
sale hardware  merchant  of  that  place,  connected  with  the  First  National  Bank,  which 
is  the  oldest  banking  institution  of  the  state.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wright  have  been  born 
two  children:  Herbert  E.,  who  was  drowned  while  a  junior  at  the  University  of  Wis- 
consin; and  Lillian,  twenty-one  years  of  age,  now  a  student  in  Northwestern  Univer- 
sity of  Illinois. 

Mr.  Wright  is  a  member  of  the  Sigma  Chi,  a  national  college  fraternity.  He 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Investment  Bankers  Association  of  America  and  has 
been  a  member  of   its  board  of  governors  and   its  vice  president  from  the  beginning 


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until  1918,  when  according  to  the  terms  o£  the  by-laws  he  was  no  longer  eligible  tor 
office.  He  also  belongs  to  the  American  Bankers  Association.  During  the  war  period 
he  served  on  the  executive  committee  tor  the  local  loan  drives  and  there  was  no  phase  of 
war  activity  which  sought  his  aid  in  vain.  He  was  a  member  of  the  capital  issues  board 
of  the  tenth  federal  reserve  district.  His  political  allegiance  has  always  been  given 
to  the  republican  party  and  he  is  thoroughly  in  touch  with  the  vital  questions  and 
problems  of  the  day.  For  thirty  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  iMethodist  Episcopal 
church,  guiding  his  life  according  to  its  teachings.  He  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City 
Club,  the  University  Club,  the  Blue  Hills  and  Mission  Hills  Country  Clubs,  the  Hillcrest 
Country  Club  and  various  hunting  and  fishing  clubs.  He  is  also  connected  with  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Kansas  City,  with  the  Union  League  Club  of  Chicago  and  the 
Bankers  Club  of  New  York  city.  He  finds  recreation  in  golf  and  he  is  a  man  who  takes 
keen  delight  in  the  solution  of  business  problems.  In  this  connection  he  displays  notable 
ability  in  coordinating  and  relating  seemingly  diverse  elements,  which  he  combines 
into  a  unified  and  harmonious  whole.  With  notable  prescience  he  seems  to  grasp  the 
main  features  and  opportunities  of  a  business  situation  and  so  utilizes  each  that  the 
most  desired  results  are  accomplished,  while  at  all  times  he  holds  to  the  highest  ideals 
of  business. 


JOHN  A.  KNOTT. 


John  A.  Knott,  journalist  and  public  official,  who  at  the  time  of  his  death  was 
serving  as  land  reclamation  commissioner  of  Missouri,  with  headquarters  at  Hanni- 
bal, was  born  at  Millersburg,  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  in  1852,  his  parents 
being  William  B.  and  Martha  (McClelland)  Knott.  His  father,  who  was  a  native 
of  Maryland,  died  during  the  early  infancy  of  the  son,  who  after  acquiring  a  very 
limited  education  in  the  public  schools  began  to  earn  his  own  living  when  a  lad  of 
eight  years.  He  was  employed  in  a  country  store  and  continued  to  engage  in  clerk- 
ing until  his  eighteenth  year,  when  he  turned  his  attention  to  newspaper  interests, 
becoming  the  owner  of  the  Chamois  (Mo.)  Leader.  For  a  long  period  thereafter 
he  was  prominently  connected  with  journalistic  interests  in  Missouri.  In  1878, 
he  and  his  brother,  William  J.  Knott,  founded  the  Free  Press  of  Troy,  Missouri, 
which  he  continued  to  publish  until  1885,  when  he  removed  to  Hannibal  and  there- 
after was  editor  and  part  owner  of  the  Morning  Journal  until  death  terminated  his 
labors.  He  became  widely  known  in  this  connection  throughout  the  state,  main- 
taining a  most  progressive  attitude  in  everything  relating  to  the  publication  of 
his  paper. 

Mr.  Knott  was  equally  widely  known  as  a  supporter  of  the  democratic  party 
and  his  opinions  carried  weight  not  only  in  the  local  but  state  councils  of  the 
democratic  organization.  He  was  a  delegate  to  almost  every  state  convention  from 
1885,  and  in  1896  he  was  one  of  the  active  committeemen  in  support  of  Richard  Bland. 
It  was  in  1896,  at  the  democratic  national  convention  in  Chicago,  that  he  worked 
-untiringly  for  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Bland.  In  1900  he  supported  William  Jennings 
Bryan  in  the  national  convention  at  Kansas  City  and  as  the  years  passed  he  became 
personally  known  to  many  of  the  leaders  of  the  party  throughout  the  country.  He 
was  placed  on  the  staff  of  Governor  Dockery  in  1900  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant 
colonel  and  in  1902  was  elected  state  railroad  and  warehouse  commissioner,  receiv- 
ing a  majority  of  more  than  forty  thousand  and  continuing  to  occupy  the  position 
until  the  abolishment  of  the  ofl5ce  in  1913.  In  that  year  Governor  Major  appointed 
him  state  oil  inspector  and  a  short  time  prior  to  his  demise  he  was  made  land 
reclamation  commissioner  for  Missouri.  Thus  he  remained  for  many  years  a  promi- 
nent factor  in  democratic  politics  in  his  native  state  and  of  him  it  has  been  written: 
"He  was  recognized  as  among  the  foremost  leaders  of  his  party  in  Missouri  and 
he  gave  freely  of  money,  time,  labor  and  newspaper  space  towards  upbuilding  it. 
During  campaigns  he  was  always  found  fighting  in  the  front  rank  for  his  party,  and 
to  him  belonged  no  small  amount  of  credit  for  continued  democratic  success  in 
Missouri.  During  the  campaign  of  1916  he  was  in  charge  of  the  publicity  bureau 
of  the  democratic  state  committee,  and  spent  weeks  in  St.  Louis  directing  this  phase 
of  Governor  Gardner's  campaign." 

On  the  9th  of  June,  1880,  at  Troy,  Missouri,  Mr.  Knott  was  united  in  marriage 
to   Miss   Hattie   Breckenridge,   a   daughter   of  Major  Thomas   E.    Breckenridge,    one 


398  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

of  the  pioneers  of  the  west  who  served  with  General  John  C.  Fi-emont  in  a  number 
of  Indian  campaigns  on  the  frontier.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Knott  became  the  parents  of 
a  daughter,  Elizabeth,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  Harold  A.  Stillwell,  of  Hannibal. 
The  death  of  John  A.  Knott  occurred  at  Hannibal,  July  27,  1917,  and  in  his  pass- 
ing the  state  mourned  the  loss  of  a  citizen  who  held  to  the  highest  ideals  of  life 
in  every  relation,  who  never  occupied  an  equivocal  position  and  who  in  fighting 
for  what  he  believed  to  be  right  always  fought  in  the  open.  Of  him  it  has  been 
written:  "He  was  a  strong  man  among  strong  men.  Through  all  the  years  his 
editorial  columns  stood  for  the  courage  of  his  convictions.  Although  he  may  have 
defied  conventions  at  times,  waived  aside  custom  and  special  privileges,  yet  he 
feared  no  man  and  he  spoke  his  convictions  with  the  courage  of  a  virile  mind.  He 
stood  aside  for  no  man.  What  he  believed  to  be  right  he  advocated  and  what  he 
believed  to  be  wrong  he  thoroughly  condemned,  and  he  did  both  in  a  manner  that 
left  no  doubt  as  to  where  he  stood  on  any  question.  The  columns  of  his  newspaper 
offer  the  highest  eulogy  to  his  character  and  principles  that  can  be  uttered,  and 
his  written  words,  read  by  so  many  thousands,  pay  their  own  high  tribute  to  his 
life  work." 

Mr.  Knott  belonged  to  the  Missouri  Editorial  Association,  the  Northeast  Mis- 
souri Press  Association  and  the  Missouri  Associated  Democratic  Clubs,  of  all  of 
which  he  was  at  one  time  president.  He  was  likewise  president  of  the  Country 
Club  of  Hannibal  in  1915  and  1916.  He  belonged  to  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and 
to  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America  and  was  a  loyal  member  of  the  First  Christian 
church  of  Hannibal.  His  city  at  all  times  benefited  by  his  efforts  for  her  progress 
and  upbuilding.  He  was  for  two  terms  a  director  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  did  some  most  important  committee  work  for  that  organization.  He  used  the 
columns  of  his  paper  for  the  advancement  of  civic  interests  and  was  a  member  of 
the  publicity  committees  of  the  Hannibal  Liberty  Loan  and  Red  Cross  campaigns. 
A  wage  earner  at  the  age  of  eight,  he  long  occupied  a  central  place  on  the  stage 
of  action  in  Missouri  and  his  labors  found  culmination  in  the  shaping  of  public 
opinion  and  in  the  development  of  public  activity  leading  to  substantial  progress. 
The  high  ideals  which  he  cherished  ever  found  embodiment  in  practical  effort  for 
their  adoption  and  his  labors  were  at  all  times  far-reaching  and  resultant. 


HARRY  WILLIAM  BREWER. 

Harry  William  Brewer  is  the  president  of  the  Standard  Pencil  Company  of 
St.  Louis,  and  in  the  conduct  of  the  business  has  inaugurated  an  enterprise  which 
has  no  competitor  in  the  entire  state,  being  the  only  business  of  the  kind  in  Missouri. 
The  trade  has  since  developed  to  extensive  proportions  through  the  wise  manage- 
ment and  constructive  methods  of  Mr.  Brewer,  who  is  a  most  progressive  business 
man.  He  was  born  in  Madison,  Indiana,  August  31,  1873.  his  parents  being  Samuel 
E.  and  Julia  P.  (Baird)  Brewer.  The  father  is  one  of  the  old-time  residents  of 
Coldwater.  Michigan.  The  mother  was  a  representative  of  a  well  known  family 
in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  passed  away  in  1889.  They  were  the  parents  of  three 
children:  Nancy,  who  is  with  her  father  in  Coldwater,  Michigan;  Charlotte,  the 
wife  of  Thos.  J.  Church,   of  Seattle,  Washington;   and  Harry  W.  of  this  review. 

The  last  named  spent  his  youthful  days  under  the  parental  roof  and  attended 
the  public  schools  of  Louisville,  Kentucky.  He  later  became  a  student  in  Hanover 
College  of  Indiana,  where  he  pursued  his  studies  to  the  year  of  1888.  He  started 
out  in  business  in  connection  with  his  father  at  Huron,  South  Dakota,  and  was  also 
identified  with  the  printing  business  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri.  Later  he  turned  his 
attention  to  his  present  line,  becoming  the  president  of  the  Standard  Pencil  Com- 
pany, with  plants  at  1822  to  1828  Locust  street.  This  is  the  only  lead  pencil  manu- 
facturing concern  in  St.  Louis  or  the  west.  The  firm  was  incorporated  in  April, 
1911,  for  a  small  amount  and  rapidly  increased  until  in  1920  it  i-eached  $250,000.00. 
The  business  has  grown  from  a  very  small  concern  that  was  started  at  Hutchinson, 
Kansas,  in  1910,  but  early  in  1911  was  removed  to  St.  Louis.  The  firm  employs 
one  hundred  and  seventy  people  at  the  St.  Louis  plant  and  also  operates  a  sawmill 
for  the  cutting  of  the  wood,  at  Cotter,  Arkansas.  As  the  years  have  passed,  a  large 
trade  has  been  developed.  In  1920  the  company  acquired  a  fifteen  acre  tract  of 
land   in   Brentwood,   and   has  erected   a   new   plant   with   every   improvement   in   ma- 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  399 

chinery  known  to  its  industry.  It  will  also  install  every  comfort  for  the  employes, 
including  cafeteria,  etc.  Their  patronage  comes  from  long  distances  and  they  enjoy 
not  only  a  large  business  in  the  United  States,  but  are  doing  an  extensive  export 
business  which  is  constantly  growing.  They  make  large  shipments  to  Australia, 
China,  South  America,  England  and  France,  in  addition  to  their  extensive  sales 
throughout  the  United  States, 

Mr.  Brewer  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  B.  Eyman,  a  daughter  of 
Julius  Eyman,  of  Warsaw,  Illinois,  the  wedding  being  celebrated  in  Kansas  City, 
Missouri,  December  22,  1903,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  four  children: 
Marian;  Mildred  Grace;  Harry  W.,  and  Dean.  Mrs.  Brewer  Is  a  native  of  Missouri 
and  is  well  known  in  this  state.  She  is  a  member  of  Grace  church  at  University 
City,  and  Mr.  Brewer  belongs  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association  and  the  Sunset 
Hill  Country  Club.  In  politics  he  is  a  republican.  He  turns  to  golf  for  recreation 
when  time  permits  but  the  major  part  of  his  attention  is  concentrated  on  his  busi- 
ness affairs,  which  have  been  gradually  developed  along  constructive  lines.  He  is 
an  excellent  manager,  thoroughly  I'eliable  and  his  manner  is  at  all  times  affable 
•and  genial.  He  greatly  enjoys  the  best  literature  and  at  all  times  is  an  earnest 
champion  of  the  cause  of  public  education  and  of  every  measure  that  tends  to  pro- 
mote intellectual  progress. 


WILLIAM  MAGRAW  REID. 


William  Magraw  Reid,  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  in  Kansas  City, 
where  his  birth  occurred  July  15,  1866,  displays  those  qualities  which  show  him 
to  be  thoroughly  conversant  with  modern-day  business  conditions  and  demands. 
He  is  actuated  by  a  spirit  of  enterprise  and  progressiveness  that  accomplishes  re- 
sults and  success  is  attending  his  well  defined  efforts.  His  father,  John  W.  Reid, 
is  mentioned  on  another  page  of  this  work.  William  obtained  his  early  education 
in  the  public  schools,  pursued  a  course  in  the  Central  high  school  of  Kansas  City 
and  then  entered  the  Washington  and  Lee  University  of  Virginia  as  a  member  of 
the  class  of  1887.  He  completed  his  course  there  and  thus  by  liberal  educational 
training  was  well  fitted  for  life's  practical  duties  and  responsibilities.  Turning  his 
attention  to  real  estate,  he  has  controlled  many  important  property  interests  and 
is  now  manager  of  the  large  estate  left  by  his  father.  This  embraces  some  very 
attractive  and  valuable  property  in  Kansas  City  and  in  its  management  the  son  dis- 
plays excellent  business  ability  and  keen  discernment. 

In  1889  Mr.  Reid  was  married  to  Miss  Alice  Moore,  a  daughter  of  L.  R.  Moore, 
of  Kansas  City.  They  liave  become  the  parents  of  a  daughter,  Dorothy.  Mr.  Reid 
is  well  known  in  the  club  circles  of  the  city,  belonging  to  the  University  Club  and 
many  other  leading  social  organizations  here,  his  genial  qualities  making  him  a 
favorite  wherever  he  is  known.  He  is  also  a  communicant  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal 
church,  in  which  he  is  serving  as  a  vestryman.  His  entire  life  having  been  passed 
in  Kansas  City,  he  has  a  very  wide  acquaintance  here,  his  business  and  social  position 
being  one  of  prominence  by  reason  of  personal  qualifications  as  well  as  family 
connections. 


CLAY  C.  BIGGER. 


Clay  C.  Bigger,  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  at  Laclede,  was  born  August  17, 
1855,  on  a  farm  near  the  city  in  which  he  now  makes  his  home.  He  is  a  son  of 
Harrison  E.  and  Clarinda  C.  (Gillispie)  Bigger.  The  father  was  born  in  Marion 
county,  Kentucky,  in  1812,  while  the  mother  was  a  native  of  Tazewell  county, 
Virginia.  The  former  came  to  Missouri  in  1840  and  settled  three  miles  north  of 
Laclede,  while  Mrs.  Bigger  arrived  in  this  state  in  1836.  Throughout  his  entire 
life  Harrison  E.  Bigger  followed  the  occupation  of  farming  and  he  also  served  as 
judge  of  the  county  court  of  Linn  county  for  a  period  of  twelve  years,  having  been 
first  elected  in  1866.  He  died  in  the  year  1885,  having  for  about  six  years  sur- 
vived his  wife,  who  passed  away  in  1879. 

Clay  C.  Bigger  was  reared  upon  the  old  homestead  farm  and  early  began 
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400  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

assisting  in  the  work  of  the  fields.  In  the  winter  months  he  attended  the  district 
schools  and  afterward  continued  his  education  in  the  high  school  at  Laclede  and 
in  the  Kirksville  State  Normal  School,  which  he  attended  for  three  years.  In  1878 
he  took  up  the  occupation  of  farming,  which  he  followed  for  a  period  of  four  years, 
but  it  was  his  earnest  desire  to  enter  upoij  a  professional  career  and  he  began  the 
study  of  law,  which  he  pursued  witli  thorovighness,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  upon 
examination  before  Judge  Burgess  in  1883.  He  then  opened  an  office  and  entered 
upon  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Laclede,  where  he  has  since  remained,  and 
through  the  intervening  period  of  thirty-seven  years  has  made  steady  progress, 
his  developing  powers  winning  him  place  as  one  of  the  leading  lawyers  of  his 
section  of  the  state.  For  one  term  he  served  as  prosecuting  attorney  of  Linn  county 
but  has  usually  confined  his  attention  to  the  private  practice  of  law  and  has  enjoyed 
a  good  clientage. 

In  1881  Mr.  Bigger  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Means,  daughter  of  Jacob 
and  Margaret  Means,  of  Linn  county,  Missouri,  and  they  have  one  son,  Birne  E., 
who  is  an  attorney  of  Hannibal,  Missouri,  and  now  serving  as  probate  judge  of  his 
county. 

Mr.  Bigger  gives  his  political  allegiance  to  the  democratic  party  and  his  frater- 
nal support  to  the  Masonic  order.  In  the  latter  he  is  very  active  and  prominent 
and  in  1910  was  elected  grand  master  of  the  grand  lodge  of  Masons  of  Missouri. 
He  is  now  serving  on  the  board  of  the  Masonic  Home  at  St.  Louis.  He  belongs  to 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  and  his  life  has  been  actuated  by  high  and  honorable 
principles,  while  in  his  career  at  the  bar  he  has  ever  been  careful  to  conform  his 
practice  to  the  highest  professional  ethics  and  standards. 


WILLIAM  EDWARD   BECKMANN. 

William  Edward  Beckmann  is  the  president  of  the  William  E.  Beckmann  Bakers' 
&  Confectioners'  Supply  Company,  in  which  connection  he  has  developed  a  business 
of  very  pleasing  proportions.  He  has  always  lived  in  St.  Louis,  where  his  birth 
occurred  January  13,  1854.  His  parents  were  William  C.  and  Eliza  (Freihaut) 
Beckmann,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Germany,  the  father's  birth  occurring  in 
Amelunxen,  Minden,  Hanover,  Germany.  He  came  to  America  in  1850,  making  his 
way  direct  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  successfully  engaged  in  the  wholesale  grocery  busi- 
ness for  a  number  of  years.  Loyal  to  the  interests  and  welfare  of  his  adopted  coun- 
try, he  served  as  a  private  tor  eight  months  in  the  Union  army  during  the  Civil  war. 
His  wife  was  born  in  Biblis,  Hesse-Darmstadt,  Germany,  and  they  were  married  in 
St.  Louis  in  1853.  They  became  the  parents  of  six  children,  of  whom  William  E. 
is  the  eldest.  The  others  are:  H.  C,  who  is  president  of  the  Progressive  Brick 
Company,  of  St.  Louis,  and  who  married  Anna  Slocke;  C.  H.,  a  retail  grocer,  who 
wedded  Clara  Kuhs;  Louisa,  the  wife  of  Fred  Kraushaar;  Augusta,  the  wife  of  Wil- 
liam Blaufuss;  and  Emma,  who  is  the  widow  of  Henry  Rehbein. 

William  Edward  Beckmann  pursued  his  education  in  the  German  Institute  and 
in  the  City  University  and  in  1870  started  out  in  the  business  world  as  a  clerk  with 
the  firm  of  Husbands  Brothers  of  St.  Louis,  with  whom  he  continued  until  1871. 
He  then  accepted  a  clerkship  in  the  retail  grocery  store  of  L.  Schnell,  with  whom 
he  continued  for  one  year,  and  in  1872  he  began  working  for  the  Goodwin-Behr 
Soap  and  Candle  Manufacturing  Company  as  a  clerk  and  salesman.  On  the  26th 
of  September,  1874,  he  established  a  retail  grocery  business  on  his  own  account  at 
No.  708  South  Fourth  street,  conducting  the  business  until  1882,  when  he  sold  to  his 
brother,  H.  C.  He  then  turned  his  attention  to  the  commission  business,  in  which 
he  engaged  until  1884,  when  he  established  a  baker  and  confectionery  supply  busi- 
ness. In  this  he  has  continued  successfully  to  the  present  time,  covering  a  period 
of  thirty-six  years,  and  has  steadily  promoted  his  interests  until  he  now  has  one 
of  the  leading  supply  houses  of  this  kind  in  St.  Louis,  caring  for  a  high-class  trade 
among  the  bakers  and  confectioners  all  over  the  southern  and  southwestern  states. 
He  furnishes  them  with  the  tools  and  machinery  needed  in  the  conduct  of  their  busi- 
ness, as  well  as  with  food  supplies,  and  he  is  most  widely  known  to  the  trade,  his 
enterprising  and  progressive  business  methods  and  his  thorough  reliability  securing 
to  him  a  liberal  patronage. 

On   the   2  6th   of  December,   1876,   Mr.   Beckmann   was  married   to   Miss  Louisa 


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Emily  Seidel,  a  daughter  of  Louis  Seidel,  who  was  a  cabinetmaker  with  the  firm 
of  Seidel  &  Winkler.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Beckmann  have  been  born  three  daughters: 
Oliva,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  Louis  Alewel,  who  is  secretary  for  the  company; 
Louisa,  the  wife  of  Albert  Albrecht,  a  machinist;  and  Augusta,  who  is  the  wife  of 
Dr.  F.  H.  Albrecht,  of  this  city. 

Mr.  Beckmann  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  to  the  Merchants  Ex- 
change, while  his  political  position  is  that  of  an  independent  republican.  He  is  a 
Protestant  in  religious  faith.  For  eight  years  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  German 
Protestant  board  and  has  always  been  a  loyal  supporter  of  any  cause  or  pro.1ect  which' 
he  has  espoused  and  which-  he  deems  will  prove  of  benefit  In  the  upbuilding  of  the 
city  and  the  promotion  of  its  welfare. 


SELBY  H.  KURFISS. 


Selby  H.  Kurfiss,  a  man  of  pronounced  ability  as  an  architect,  having  prepared 
for  his  profession  through  private  study  and  in  Columbia  University  of  New  York 
city,  has  since  practiced  in  Kansas  City  and  many  of  the  finest  structures  here  stand 
as  monuments  to  his  skill  and  handiwork.  A  native  of  Louisville,  Kentucky,  he 
was  born  October  10,  1871,  of, the  marriage' of  Charles  Frederick  and  Mary  (Hill) 
Kurfiss.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  and  in  Kan- 
sas City,  Missouri,  and  studied  ai'chitectu^e  under  Adriance  Van  Brunt  and  later 
under  Henry  Van  Brunt.  He  then  went  to  New  York  city,  where  he  entered  Co- 
lumbia University,  pursuing  a  special  course  in  architecture  in  order  to  round  out 
the  knowledge  he  had  previously  acquired.  He  left  the  east  in  1898  and  returned 
to  Kansas  City,  where  he  took  up  professional  work  alone.  That  he  is  an  architect 
of  eminent  ability  is^  today  proven  in  some  of  the  finest  and  most  beautiful  homes 
of  Kansas  City,  structures  of  his  designing. 

On  the  14th  of  June,  1899,  in  Kansas  City,  Mr.  Kurfiss  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Addie  Smith,  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Tilman  Smith  of  the  Methodist  'con- 
ference, whose  church  work  took  him  to  various  parts  of  the  country.  He  was  a 
native  of  Virginia  and  was  colonel  of  a  Confederate  regiment  during  the  Civil  war. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kurfiss  have  become  parents  of  two  children,  Alexander  and  Virginia. 
Mr.  Kurfiss  is  a  Mason  and  is  a  man  who  thinks  for  himself  on  all  vital  questions. 
His  judgment  is  sound  and  his  discrimination  keen,  while  in  business  circles  he 
has  made  for  himself  a  foremost  position  among  the  architects  of  the  middle  west. 


"WILLIAM  THOMAS  GRANT. 

That  'William  Thomas  Grant  is  a  man  of  unusual  business  ability  is  manifest 
in  the  results  which  he  has  achieved  as  vice  president  of  the  Business  Men's  Assur- 
ance-Association, and  with  his  splendid  powers  of  organization  and  executive  force 
he  combines  a  pleasing  personality  and  sound  judgment  regarding  men.  Thus  he 
has  been  able  to  build  up  a  splendid  organization  and  the  growth  of  the  business 
has  been  almost  phenomenal. 

Mr.  Grant  is  a  native  of  Middleport,  Ohio,  his  birth  having  there  occurred 
November  30,  1878.  He  was  largely  reared,  however,  upon  a  farm  in  Kansas  and 
gave  his  attention  to  the  work  of  the  fields  through  the  summer  seasons,  while 
the  winter  months  were  passed  in  attendance  at  the  district  school.  Later  he  was 
graduated  from  the  local  high  school  and  he  initiated  his  business  career  when  on 
his  nineteenth  birthday  he  began  working  in  a  bank  at  a  salary  of  five  dollars  per 
week.  His  faithfulness  and  capability  were  manifest  even  at  that  early  day  and 
after  two  years  he  was  receiving  the  sum  of  thirty-five  dollars  per  month.  Poor 
crops  in  that  vicinity  caused  the  bank  to  discharge  him,  as  the  institution  was  no 
longer  able  to  afford  his  salary  as  a  clerk.  He  then  began  selling  hail  insurance 
but  in  the  following  fall  went  to  Europe,  working  his  way  across  on  a  cattle  ship. 
His  entire  railway  and  steamship  fare  which  he  paid  out  from  Kansas  City  to  Eng- 
land and  return  to  New  York  was  nine  dollars.  Ambitious,  determined  and  energetic, 
he  entered  the  law  school  of  the  Kansas  University  in  1901,  meeting  the  expenses 
of  his  course  by  working  in  a  bank  in  the  afternoons.  He  returned  to  the  insurance 
field   the   following  summer,   however,   as   a  representative   of   the  National   Life   in 


40i  CENTEXXIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Colorado.  After  two  years'  connection  with  the  Denver  office  he  and  a  boyhood 
friend  were  sent  to  Butte,  Montana,  to  open  up  that  territory  for  the  company. 
They  made  good  and  in  19  04  were  transferred  to  Kansas  City,  in  chai'ge  of  the 
Kansas  and  western  Missouri  territory  for  the  National.  In  1905  Mr.  Grant  was 
given  charge  of  the  office  of  the  company  at  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  but  in  1906 
returned  to  his  former  connection  in  Kansas  City.  He  continued  with  the  National 
Life  for  seven  years  and  then  resigned  on  the  1st  of  January,  1909,  to  organize 
the  Bushiness  Men's  Accident  Association,  of  which  he  was  secretary  and  general 
manager  until  its  reorganization  as  the  Business  Men's  Assurance  Company  of 
America,   when   he   was  made  vice   president. 

The  business  was  incorporated  under  the  assessment  laws  of  the  state  of  Mis- 
souri, with  authority  to  write  accident  insurance  on  a  selected  class  of  business 
and  professional  men.  The  plan  adopted  was  similar  to  that  followed  for  many 
years  by  the  traveling  men's  associations,  the  theory  being  that  the  same  plan 
could  be  successfully  adapted  to  business  and  professional  men.  In  1911  health 
insurance  was  added  to  the  company's  business  and  from  that  time  until  March  1, 
1920,  the  association  continued  the  transaction  of  accident  and  health  business, 
gradually  broadening  the  coverage  under  their  policies  but  without  materially  in- 
creasing the  rate.  The  field  of  operation  was  gradually  extended  until  at  the  date 
mentioned  the  company  was  operating  in  eighteen  states.  The  income  in  the  mean- 
while had  grown  from  ?9, 248.00  in  1909  to  ?1. 273. 980. 00  during  1919,  that  being 
the  largest  income  of  any  life,  accident  or  health  company  of  any  character  what- 
soever commencing  business  on  or  after  July  1,  190  9.  the  date  on  which  the 
Business  Men's  Accident  Association  was  organized.  The  goodwill  created  by  the 
payment  of  over  fifty  thousand  claims  and  the  similarity  between  accident  and 
health  and  life  insurance  caused  a  considerable  and  growing  demand  for  life  in- 
surance in  the  company.  Realizing  the  impracticability  of  assessment  life  insurance, 
the  association  was  reincorporated  on  March  1,  1920.  as  an  old  line  legal  reserve 
company,  with  authority  to  do  a  life,  accident  and  health  business,  with  a  paid  in 
capital  and  surplus  of  $200,000.00.  The  company  has  recently  added  Louisiana  to 
its  list  of  licensed  states  and  expects  gradually  to  enlarge  and  develop  its  field 
of  operation  until  eventually  it  will  be  operating  throughout  all  the  states  of  the 
Union.  In  an  address  to  the  company  sales  force  published  in  the  Business  Men's 
Accident  Association  Bulletin.  Mr.  Grant  outlined  the  policy  for  the  present  year, 
asking  for  an  increase  of  twenty-five  per  cent  in  the  business  for  1920,  and  already 
within  the  first  six  months  of  the  year  the  business  has  been  increased  sixty-two 
per  cent.  Mr.  Grant  is  closely  studying  every  phase  of  the  business  and  his  in- 
itiative enables  him  to  form  many  original  plans  to  advance  the  interests  of  the 
company  and  promote  its  insurance  in  force. 

Aside  from  his  other  interests  Mr.  Grant  is  connected  with  many  important 
business  affairs.  He  is  the  vice  president  of  the  Peoples  Trust  Company,  a  director 
of  the  Anchor  Savings  &  Loan  Association,  a  director  of  the  Kansas  City  Conserva- 
tory of  Music,  a  director  of  the  Fine  Arts  Institute  of  Kansas  City,  and  a  director 
of  the  Provident  Association  of  Kansas  City.  He  was  twice  elected  vice  president 
of  the  Health  and  Accident  Underwriters  Conference,  an  organization  of  more 
than  one  hundred  accident  insurance  companies  throughout  the  United  States,  and 
served  one   term   as   president  of  the   International   Claim   Association. 

Notwithstanding  the  pressing  demands  of  his  business  interests  and  connec- 
tions, Mr.  Grant  became  a  most  active  war  worker.  He  served  two  terms  as  first 
vice  president  and  head  of  the  civics  department  of  the  Kansas  City  Chamber  of 
Commerce  of  five  thousand  members.  He  was  the  organizer  and  director  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  teams  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  men  which  sold  Second 
Liberty  Loan  bonds  to  the  amount  of  two  million  eight  hundred  thousand  dollars 
in  a  five  days'  campaign.  He  was  also  vice  chairman  of  the  committee  which  had 
charge  of  the  western  Missouri  and  Kansas  Red  Cross  Christmas  membership  drive. 

In  1908  Mr.  Grant  married  Miss  Frances  Downing,  a  daughter  of  John  F. 
Downing,  of  Middleport,  Ohio.  They  have  four  children:  Lucy  Jean,  Frances 
Elizabeth,   Esther  Jane  and  William   Downing. 

Mr.  Grant  is  well  known  in  Masonic  circles,  belonging  to  Ivanhoe  Lodge.  A.  F. 
&  A.  M.;  Kansas  City  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.;  Shekinah  Council.  R.  &  S.  M.:  Kansas 
City  Commandery,  K.  T.;  and  Ararat  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  likewise 
has  membership  with  the  City  Club,  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  the 
Knife  and  Fork   Club,   the  Real  Estate   Board,   the  Kansas   City  Athletic   Club,   the 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  405 

Mission  Hills  Country  Club,  the  Mid-Day  Club  and  the  Kansas  City  Club — connec- 
tions which  indicate  the  nature,  scope  and  breadth  of  his  interests  aside  from 
his  specific  lines  of  business.  He  is  most  alert  and  enterprising,  constantly  watchful 
of  opportunities,  which  he  utilizes  to  their  full  extent.  At  any  one  point  in  his 
career  he  seems  to  have  reached  the  possibility  for  successful  attainment  at  that 
point  and  to  him  might  well  be  applied  the  lines  of  Ella  Wheeler  Wilcox. 
"There  is  no  chance,  no  destiny,  no  fate. 

Can  circumvent,  or  hinder,  or  control 

The  firm  resolve  of  a  determined  soul. 

Gifts  count  for  little;  will  alone  is  great." 


ARTHUR  THACHER. 


Arthur  Thacher,  of  St.  Louis,  a  well  known  mining  engineer,  was  born  in  New- 
tonville,  Massachusetts,  May  8,  1857.  His  father,  Thomas  Thacher,  was  bom  in 
Yarmouth  Port,  Massachusetts,  and  traced  his  ancestry  back  to  the  year  of  1632. 
Three  of  his  ancestors  were  passengers  on  the  Mayflower,  and  other  representatives 
of  the  family  took  part  in  the  French  and  Indian  war  and  in  the  Revolutionary 
war.  The  father  became  identified  with  commercial  interests  in  the  east,  as  a 
commission  merchant.  He  married  Catherine  Worcester,  who  also  represented  one 
of  the  old  American  families,  the  ancestry  being  traced  back  to  the  year  1700.  She 
was  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Worcester  of  New  England,  and  by  her  marriage  became 
the  mother  of  six  children,  two  sons  and  four  daughters,  of  whom  Arthur  was  the 
third  In  order  of  birth.  The  others  are:  Alice,  the  wife  of  Louis  F.  Post,  now  in 
Washington,  D.  C;  Grace,  the  deceased  wife  of  Bayard  T.  Putman,  who  has  also 
passed  away;  Anna,  deceased;  Thomas  W.,  who  married  Josie  Reed  and  is  living 
In  Boston,  Massachusetts;  and  Amy  C,  also  a  resident  of  Boston.  These  children 
were  all  born  of  the  father's  second  marriage,  for  his  first  wife  was  Miss  Elizabeth 
Hallett,  by  whom  he  had  six  children,  five  of  whom  have  passed  away. 

Arthur  Thacher  was  educated  in  private  schools  of  New  York  and  in  Columbia 
College,  in  which  he  attended  the  School  of  Mines.  He  was  there  graduated  in 
June,  1877,  with  degrees  of  E.  M.  and  C.  E.  In  1878  he  went  to  Mexico  as  rep- 
resentative of  the  Progresso  Mining  Company  at  Triunfo,  in  Lower  California.  There 
he  was  engaged  in  engineering  and  surveying,  and  from  18  79  until  1883  he  was 
connected  with  mining  in  Arizona.  Through  the  succeeding  two  years  he  main- 
tained an  office  in  New  York  under  his  own  name,  making  examinations  of  mining 
property  in  western  states.  In  188  6  and  188  7  he  was  identified  with  the  Viola 
Mining  Company  of  Idaho,  doing  mining  work  in  that  state.  In  January,  1887,  he 
came  to  St.  Louis  with  Professor  William  B.  Potter,  and  from  1888  until  18  90  he 
was  adjunct  professor  of  metallurgy  in  Washington  University.  Through  the  five 
years  which  followed  he  was  connected  with  the  Central  Lead  Company  of  St.  Louis 
as  manager  and  later  became  general  manager  and  president.  This  corporation 
in  1905  sold  its  interests  to  the  Guggenheim  Corporation.  Through  the  succeed- 
ing year  Mr.  Thacher  was  consulting  engineer  with  the  American  Smelting  & 
Refining  Company,  and  in  1906  became  western  manager  and  consulting  engineer 
with  the  New  Jersey  Zinc  Company,  which  position  he  has  since  successfully  filled. 
His  professional  experiences  have  been  broad  and  have  brought  him  into  prominent 
connections.  He  is  constantly  developing  his  skill  and  efficiency  through  reading 
and  study  as  well  as  by  actual  work,  and  his  opinions  have  become  recognized  as 
most  valuable  in  mining  engineering  circles.  He  is  now  a  director  of  the  American 
Institute  of  Mining  and  Metallurgy,  and  is  also  a  director  of  the  American  Zinc 
Institute. 

Mr.  Thacher  was  married  in  St.  Louis,  June  19,  1890,  to  Miss  Carrie  Greene, 
a  daughter  of  Theodore  P.  and  Julia  Manning  (Kimmel)  Greene,  the  former  now 
deceased.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thacher  are  parents  of  three  children,  a  son  and  two  daugh- 
ters, of  whom  one  daughter  died  in  infancy.  Theodora  is  now  the  wife  of  Francis 
Ewing  Glasgow,  a  resident  of  St.  Louis,  and  Arthur  Worcester  is  in  the  insurance 
and  adjusting  business  with  F.  P.  Gillespie  in  St.  Louis. 

The  religious  faith  of  Mr.  Thacher  is  that  of  the  Swedenborgian  church.  His 
political  endorsement  is  given  to  the  republican  party  and  he  keeps  in  touch  with 
all  the  vital  questions  and  issues  of  the  day,  lending  his  support  to  various  measures 
and  interests  for  the  general  good.     He  is  well  known  in  the  club  circles  of  the  city. 


406  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

belonging  to  the  St.  Louis  University,  Noon-Day,  St.  Louis  Country  and  Round  Table 
Clubs,  also  to  the  American  Institute  of  Mining  and  Metallurgy,  the  Engineers' 
Club,  the  Academy  o£  Science,  and  to  the  Mining  and  Metallurgical  Society  of 
America. 

While  Mr.  Thacher  is  appreciative  o£  the  social  amenities  of  life  and  has  gained 
many  friends  in  St.  Louis,  and  wherever  he  has  been,  he,  nevertheless,  devotes  the 
major  part  of  his  time  and  attention  to  his  professional  duties  and  has  made  steady 
advancement  in  his  chosen  field.  Although  he  is  thoroughly  familiar  with  all  of 
the  scientific  principles  which  underlie  his  work,  his  activities  have  been  of  a  most 
practical  character,  and  for  intricate  professional  problems  he  finds  ready  solution 
by  reason  of  his  comprehensive  knowledge  and  skill. 


WILLIAM   H.   HAYS,   M.   D. 


Dr.  William  H.  Hays,  now  successfully  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine  in 
Hannibal,  was  born  in  1875  in  the  city  in  which  he  still  resides,  a  son  of  Dr.  Edgar 
C.  Hays,  at  one  time  a  prominent  and  honored  physician  here.  He  acquired  his 
early  education  in  the  schools  of  Hannibal  and  afterward  attended  the  Missouri 
Military  Academy  and  then  the  Missouri  State  University.  He  took  up  the  study 
of  medicine  at  the  Washington  University  in  St.  Louis  and  was  there  graduated 
with  the  class  of  1898.  He  immediately  afterward  establis'hed  practice  at  Hannibal, 
where  he  is  still  located,  and  for  many  years  has  enjoyed  an  extensive  patronage. 
At  all  times  he  keeps  thoroughly  informed  concerning  the  progress,  discoveries 
and  scientific  researches  of  the  profession.  Whether  inherited  tendency,  early  en- 
vironment or  natural  predilection  had  most  to  do  with  his  choice  of  a  profession 
it  is  perhaps  impossible  to  determine  clearly,  but  that  the  choice  was  wisely  made 
is  indicated  in  the  fact  of  his  growing  success. 

In  December,  1899,  Dr.  Hays  was  married  to  Miss  Maud  J.  Hamlin,  daughter 
of  Albert  Green  and  Jeannette  (Miller)  Hamlin.  The  father,  born  in  Maine  in 
1834,  came  to  Missouri  in  1853  and  here  engaged  in  the  lumber  business.  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Hays  have  become  the  parents  of  four  children,  of  whom  two  are  living, 
William  Harrison  and  Albert  Hamlin,  both  now  in  school. 

Dr.  Hays  is  a  democrat  in  his  political  views,  but  the  honors  and  emoluments 
of  office  have  had  no  attraction  for  him,  as  he  has  preferred  to  concentrate  his 
undivided  attention  upon  his  professional  duties. 


WILLIAM    L.    MOORE. 


The  life  of  every  individual  contributes  to  the  progress  and  advancement  of  the 
community  in  which  he  lives,  or  acts  as  a  bar  thereto,  and  the  man  of  patriotic 
spirit  is  he  who  acknowledges  in  days  of  peace  as  well  as  in  times  of  war  that  he 
owes  a  duty  to  his  country  and  fully  meets  the  obligation.  In  William  L.  Moore  was 
a  citizen  who  made  distinct  and  valuable  contribution  to  the  welfare  and  progress  of 
Linneus  and  Linn  county.  He  was  long  active  as  a  representative  of  the  agricultural 
interests  and  later  of  the  banking  business  in  his  county  and  at  the  same  time  found 
opportunity  to  assist  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  public  good. 

Mr.  Moore  was  born  in  Anderson  county,  Tennessee,  July  20,  1839,  and  was  a 
son  of  Joseph  C.  and  Jane  (Pate)  Moore,  who  were  representatives  of  old  southern 
families  long  resident  in  Tennessee.  The  parents  came  to  Linn  county,  Missouri, 
in  1842,  when  William  L.  Moore  was  but  three  years  of  age,  and  took  up  their  abode 
upon  a  farm  near  Linneus,  where  they  spent  their  remaining  days.  The  son  was 
reared  upon  that  farm  and  acquired  his  education  in  the  old-time  subscription  schools. 
After  reaching  man's  estate  he  engaged  in  farming  and  stock  raising  on  his  own 
account  and  successfully  continued  his  activity  along  that  line  until  he  was  num- 
bered among  the  most  prominent  and  prosperous  farmers  of  Linn  county,  becoming 
the  possessor  of  a  large  acreage  of  highly  productive  and  well  improved  land.  He 
also  kept  a  large  amount  of  live  stock  upon  his  place  and  both  branches  of  his 
business  proved  attractive  sources  of  revenue  to  Iwm.  In  1896  he  entered  banking 
circles,  forming  a  partnership  with  Major  Alexander  W.  Mullins  under  the  firm 
style   of   Moore   &   Mullins.     They   established   a   private   bank,   carrying   on   a   general 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  409 

banking  business,  and  by  close  attention  and  a  liberal  policy  in  conducting  their 
bank  made  it  one  of  the  largest  and  most  popular  financial  institutions  in  this  section 
of  the  state.  Mr.  Moore  contributed  in  marked  measure  to  this  result,  giving  his 
undivided  time  and  attention  to  the  management  of  the  bank.  He  closely  studied 
questions  of  finance  and  became  thoroughly  informed  upon  all  the  vital  problems 
relative  to  the  successful  management  of  banking  institutions.  His  business  integrity 
was  unassailable  and  his  reliability  as  well  as  his  enterprise  constituted  a  strong 
element  in  the  success  of  the  bank. 

On  the  18th  of  September,  1870,  Mr.  Moore  was  married  to  Miss  Emily  F.  Mul- 
Ilns,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  three  children,  Greely,  Robert  B.  and  Edith, 
the  last  named  being  the  wife  of  Frederick  H.  Powers,  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri. 
Mr.  Moore's  sons  succeeded  to  his  interest  in  the  bank  and  they  also  own  and  operate 
large  farms  adjacent  to  Linneu's  and  are  numbered  among  the  prominent  live  stock 
dealers  of  Linn  county.  They  reside  in  Linneus,  from  which  point  they  control  their 
important  business  interests,  and  they  occupy  a  most  prominent  position  in  the 
business  and   social  circles   of   the   city. 

The  family  circle  was  broken  by  the  hand  of  death  when  on  the  14th  of  March, 
1914,  Mr.  Moore  passed  away  when  in  the  seventy-fifth  year  of  his  age.  He  was  a 
man  of  public  spirit,  always  active  in  support  of  measures  and  plans  for  the  general 
good,  and  his  contribution  to  the  welfare  of  the  community  was  valuable.  If  a 
pen  picture  could  accurately  delineate  his  business  characteristics  it  might  be  given 
in  these  words:  a  progressive  spirit,  ruled  by  more  than  ordinary  intelligence  and 
good  judgment;  a  deep  earnestness.  Impelled  and  fostered  by  indomitable  persever- 
ance; a  native  justice  expressing  itself  in  correct  principle  and  practice.  Not  seeking 
honors,  but  simply  endeavoring  to  do  his  duty,  honors  were  yet  multiplied  to  him 
and  prosperity  followed  all  his  undertakings. 


RUDOLF  MARKGRAF. 


Rudolf  Markgraf,  a  Kansas  City  architect  whose  skill  and  ability  are  evidenced 
In  many  substantial  and  beautiful  structures,  was  born  in  Germany,  November  5, 
1860,  his  parents  being  William  and  Theresa  Markgraf.  The  days  of  his  boyhood 
and  youth  were  passed  in  his  native  country  and  on  the  4th  of  September,  1883, 
he  came  to  the  new  world,  leaving  his  parents  in  Germany,  where  they  remained 
until  death  called  them  several  years  ago. 

Rudolf  Markgraf  had  obtained  a  very  thorough  education  in  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  country  and  in  the  Architectural  College  of  the  city  of  Berlin,  Germany, 
where  he  won  his  professional  degree  in  1881.  While  in  Germany  he  served  one 
year  in  the  architectural  department  of  the  government  railways.  On  coming  to 
the  United  States  he  went  first  to  Rochester,  New  York-,  where  he  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  the  New  York  Central  Railroad  Company,  his  first  work  being  in  connection 
with  the  construction  of  grain  elevators.  He  was  in  Rochester,  New  York,  for 
about  three  months  and  later  made  his  way  to  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  where  he 
was  employed  by  a  sugar  refinery  company  in  the  construction  of  its  plant  in  East 
Bottom  in  1884.  He  then  started  out  in  business  independently  and  through  the 
intervening  period  has  made  a  specialty  of  industrial  plants  and  large  buildings. 
He  was  the  architect  for  the  Turkey  Creek  pumping  station  and  also  for  the  pump- 
ing station  of  Kansas  City,  Kansas.  He  designed  the  plants  of  the  American  Sash 
&  Door  Company,  the  Kelly  Mill  &  Elevator  Company,  the  Wolf  Laundry  Company, 
the  Silver  Laundry  Company,  the  Smith  Steam  Bakery,  which  is  one  of  the  largest 
in  the  west,  and  still  other  important  buildings  of  Kansas  City.  In  the  construction 
of  all  these  plants  Mr.  Markgraf  not  only  made  the  plans  for  the  buildings  but  also 
made  all  the  plans  for  the  placing  of  machinery  for  the  operation  of  the  plants. 
He  is  an  expert  in  that  branch  of  architecture.  He  also  designed  the  Shukert  office 
building,  the  Ormond  Hotel  and  the  George  N.  Neff  warehouse,  which  is  a  steel 
and  concrete  structure  erected  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Fifth  street  and  Grand 
avenue. 

In  1890  Mr.  Markgraf  was  married  in  Kansas  City  to  Miss  Katherine  Sharon, 
a  native  of  Wisconsin.  They  have  become  parents  of  three  daughters:  Mrs.  Frida 
Prouty,  of  Boise,  Idaho;  Mrs.  Marie  Ralney,  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri;  and  Mrs. 
Helen  Wolf,  also  of  Kansas  City. 


410  CENTEXXIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Mr.  Markgraf  is  a  democrat  in  politics  and  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order, 
the  Scottish  Rite  bodies  and  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  also  connected  with  the 
Christian  Science  church  and  the  Kansas  City  Chapter  of  the  American  Institute 
of  Architects,  of  which  he  is  a  past  president. 


GEORGE   P.   DOUGHERTY. 


George  P.  Dougherty,  a  lawyer  with  offices  in  the  International  Life  building  in 
St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Cleveland,  formerly  Mora,  New  Mexico,  October  15,  1879.  His 
father,  James  Dougherty,  a  native  of  Ireland,  came  to  America  in  1859  at  the  age 
of  fifteen  years  and  first  took  up  his  abode  in  New  York  city,  whence  he  removed  to 
Mora,  New  Mexico.  There  he  was  a  pioneer  stockman  and  merchant  and  in  both  pur- 
suits was  very  successful,  having  met  with  a  substantial  measure  of  prosperity  ere  he 
departed  this  life  December  23,  1907,  when  sixty-four  years  of  age.  His  wife  prior 
to  her  marriage  was  Miss  Mary  Langan,  a  native  of  Ireland.  They  had  become  sweet- 
hearts in  early  life  prior  to  his  emigration  to  the  new  world,  and  after  gaining  a  start 
on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic  he  returned  to  wed  the  love  of  his  youth,  bringing  his 
bride  back  with  him  to  America  in  1866.  She  became  the  mother  of  nine  children, 
seven  sons  and  two  daughters,  of  whom  six  are  yet  living.  The  mother  passed  away 
in  1892  at  the  age  of  thirty-five  years. 

George  P.  Dougherty,  who  was  the  third  in  order  of  birth  in  the  family,  was 
educated  in  the  Christian  Brothers  College  of  St.  Louis  and  in  Washington  University, 
being  graduated  from  the  former  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  in  1900  and  from 
the  latter  with  the  LL.  B.  degree  in  1902.  After  his  graduation  Mr.  Dougherty  in 
June,  1902,  successfully  passed  the  required  examination  for  admission  to  the  bar 
and  was  admitted  to  practice.  He  immediately  entered  upon  the  active  work  of  his 
profession,  in  which  he  has  since  been  engaged  with  the  exception  of  two  years,  which 
he  devoted  to  the  banking  business  in  Chaffee,  Missouri,  as  an  officer  and  director 
of  the  Chaffee  State  Bank  in  1907  and  1908.  He  is  also  a  director  and  was  the 
organizer  of  the  Easton-Taylor  Trust  Company  of  St.  Louis.  The  major  part  of  his 
time  and  attention,  however,  has  been  concentrated  upon  the  practice  of  law  and  he 
prepares  his  cases  with  great  thoroughness  and  care.  He  closely  studies  all  the  points 
relative  to  the  litigated  interests  under  his  direction  and  his  deductions  are  at  all 
times  logical  and  his  reasoning  sound  and  convincing. 

On  the  15th  of  October,  1908,  Mr.  Dougherty  was  married  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
to  Miss  Irene  Woods,  a  native  of  this  city  and  a  daughter  of  D.  H.  and  Elizabeth 
(Mills)  Woods,  the  latter  a  representative  of  one  of  the  old  and  prominent  families 
of  St.  Louis.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dougherty  have  two  sons:  George  P.  Jr.  born  in  St. 
Louis,  April  7,  1912;  and  Edward  Woods,  April  18,  1914. 

During  the  World  war  Mr.  Dougherty  served  on  the  legal  advisory  board.  In 
politics  he  is  an  active  democrat  and  his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
church.  He  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  he  is  identified  with  the  Benevo- 
lent Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He  also  has  membership  in  the  City  Club  and  is  inter- 
ested in  all  those  questions,  activities  and  forces  which  have  to  do  with  the  welfare 
and  upbuilding  of  the  city  and  the  development  of  civic  interests. 


C.    BERNARD    CARMAN. 


C.  Bernard  Carman,  who  in  March,  1913,  became  identified  with  the  business 
circles  of  St.  Louis,  as  representative  of  the  Mutual  Benefit  Life  Insurance  Company 
of  Newark,  New  Jersey,  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Benton  Township.  Eaton  county, 
Michigan,  February  10,  1887.  His  father,  Albert  Edwin  Carman,  is  now  living  In 
Lansing,  Michigan,  and  he,  too,  is  a  native  of  Eaton  county.  His  father,  Hiram 
M.  Carman,  was  born  in  the  state  of  New  York  where  the  family  has  been  repre- 
sented for  many  generations,  but  when  he  was  only  five  years  of  age  he  accom- 
panied his  parents  to  Michigan,  and -now  makes  his  home  at  Charlotte,  Michigan; 
Albert  E.  Carman,  was  accorded  liberal  educational  advantages,  and  is  a  graduate 
of  Albion  College  of  Michigan.  He  prepared  for  the  Methodist  ministry  and  devoted 
a  number  of  years  to  preaching  the  gospel,  but  is  now  in  business  life  and  connected 


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•with  fhe  Reo  Automobile  Company.  He  married  Maude  Van  Dyke,  also  a  native 
ot  Eaton  county,  and  of  Dutch  descent.     She  is  also  living. 

In  the  schools  of  Albion,  Michigan,  C.  Bernard  Carman  pursued  his  education 
until  graduating  from  the  high  school  with  the  class  of  1905,  and  later  spent  two 
years  as  a  student  in  Albion  College.  Following  his  college  course  he  was  cost 
accountant  for  the  Gale  Manufacturing  Company  of  Albion,  farm  implement  manu- 
facturers, for  four  years.  He  afterward  worked  into  the  life  insurance  business, 
representing  the  Mutual  Benefit  Life  Insurance  Company,  of  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
at  Albion,  and  in  March,  1913,  came  to  St.  Louis  as  agency  manager.  He  is  virtually 
assistant  to  Mr.  George  E.  Black,  a  prominent  insurance  man,  represented  elsewhere 
in  this  work. 

On  the  11th  of  July,  1910,  at  Albion,  Michigan,  Mr.  Carman  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Vera  E.  Leonard,  of  Stanton,  Michigan,  a  daughter  of  John 
Leonard,  whose  death  resulted  from  an  accident  several  years  prior  to  the  marriage 
of  his  daughter.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carman  have  three  children:  Donna  M.;  C.  Bernard, 
Jr.;  and  John  Mattison.  Mr.  Carman  and  his  family  are  members  of  the  Methodist 
church,  attending  the  Haggerty  Memorial  Church  at  Webster  Groves.  In  politics 
he  is  a  republican,  and  while  at  Albion  college  he  became  a  memb.er  of  the  Alpha 
Tau  Omega.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Webster  Groves  No.  84,  F.  and  A.  M.  He 
is  identified  with  no  other  clubs  or  social  organizations,  finding  his  recreation  at 
his  own  fireside,  while  the  larger  part  of  his  time  is  devoted  to  his  important  busi- 
ness affairs. 


JOSEPH  LEE  FREBLAND. 


Joseph  Lee  Freeland,  president  of  the  Stock  Yards  Loan  Company  of  Kansas 
City,  was  born  in  Platte  county,  Missouri,  a  son  of  James  Milton  and  Sarah  (Hen- 
derson) Freeland.  The  family  home  was  established  in  Missouri  in  1840  and  John 
Freeland,  grandfather  of  Joseph  Lee  Freeland,  was  judge  of  the  county  court  of 
Platte  county  in  the  succeeding  decade  and  was  well  known  among  the  pioneer 
families  of  this  section  of  the  state.  James  M.  Freeland  became  a  farmer  of  the 
state  and  a  very  active  citizen  of  his  community.  His  political  support  was  given 
to  the  democratic  party,  and  he  lived  as  a  consistent  member  of  the  Methodist  _ 
church. 

Joseph  Lee  Freeland  spent  his  boyhood  days  upon  the  home  farm  and  divided 
his  time  between  the  work  of  the  fields  and  attendance  at  the  country  schools, 
supplemented  by  a  course  in  a  business  college.  When  sixteen  years  of  age  he 
obtained  a  clerkship  in  a  bank  at  Parkville,  Missouri.  He  was  reared  in  the 
democratic  faith  and  early  became  not  only  a  stalwart  supporter  of  the  party,  but 
also  an  active  worker  in  its  ranks.  For  eight  years  he  served  as  circuit  clerk  and 
recorder  of  Platte  county.  He  then  again  became  connected  with  financial  interests 
as  cashier  of  the  Exchange  Bank  of  Platte  City,  and  in  1902  he  accepted  the  position 
of  cashier  of  the  Stock  Yards  Bank  at  St.  Joseph.  In  1909  he  organized  the  Stock 
Yards  Loan  Company  of  Kansas  City  and  became  its  president.  This  company 
handles  loans  on  cattle  throughout  Oklahoma,  Texas,  and  Missouri,  and  the  busi- 
ness has  been  developed  to  extensive  proportions,  its  loans  being  placed  in  various 
markets  throughout  the  country.  In  addition  to  his  activity  in  that  line  of  business, 
Mr.  Freeland  is  a  stockholder  and  director  in  the  Pioneer  Trust  Company,  in  the 
Stock  Yards  National  Bank  of  Omaha,  in  the  Stock  Yards  National  Bank  of  Kansas 
City,  and  the  Union  Stock  Yards  Bank  of  Wichita,  Kansas;  in  addition  to  the 
conduct  of  the  Stock  Yards  Loan  business  at  Kansas  City  the  company  maintains 
branch  offices  in  San  Antonio  and  Fort  Worth,  Texas.  Mr.  Freeland  has  always 
been  the  president  of  the  company  and  J.  Milton  Freeland  is  secretary  and  treasurer. 

Mr.  Freeland  was  married  to  Miss  Anna  E.  Holt,  a  daughter  of  J.  M.  Holt,  of 
Knox  county,  Missouri.  Holt  county,  Missouri,  was  named  in  honor  of  the  family, 
a  brother  of  J.  M.  Holt  having  been  in  the  legislature  when  the  county  was 
organized.  The  father  of  Mrs.  Freeland  successfully  practiced  medicine  at  Farley, 
Missouri,  for  many  years  and  afterward  became  a  prominent  farmer  of  Knox  county. 
Mr.  Freeland  and  his  wife  are  parents  of  three  children:  Eula,  the  wife  of  E.  L. 
Hart,  cashier  of  the  Union  Stock  Yards  Bank  at  Wichita;  Susan  F.,  the  wife  of 
Dr.  J.  M.  Walker  of  Kansas  City;  and  J.  Milton,  who  is  a  graduate  of  the  University 


414  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

of  Virginia,  and  during  the  World  war  became  connected  with  the  aviation  branch 
of  the  navy.  He  married  Miss  Mary  F.  Holmes  of  Kansas  City,  and  tliey  have'  a 
daughter,  Jeanne.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Country  'Club  and  is  well 
known    socially. 

Mr.  Freeland  belongs  to  the  Masonic  fraternity,  having  taken  the  degrees  of 
Lodge,  Chapter,  Commandery  and  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
City  Club  and  of  the  Hill  Crest  Country  Club.  He  is  appreciative  of  the  social 
amenities  of  life,  and  his  personal  characteristics  are  such  as  make  for  popularity 
among  a   wide  circle  of  friends  and   acquaintances. 


FRANZ    J.    HERDING. 


Franz  J.  Herding,  a  successful  St.  Louis  architect,  with  offices  in  the  Title 
Guaranty  building,  was  born  in  Basel,  Switzerland,  June  22,  1887.  His  father, 
Eugene  Herding,  who  passed  away  in  1908,  never  came  to  America  but  always 
followed  the  profession  of  architecture  in  Basel.  He  married  Rosa  Buhler.  who  is 
still  living  in  Switzerland,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  three  ch-ildren,  two  sons 
and  a  daughter:  Hans  and  Bertha  who  are  living  in  Switzerland,  Bertha  being 
the  wife  of  Rudy  Gloor;   and  Franz  J.,  who  is  the  youngest. 

The  last  named  pursued  a  public  school  education  in  his  native  city,  acquired 
his  high  school  training  there  and  afterward  attended  college  in  Stuttgart,  Germany. 
He  took  up  the  study  of  architecture  and  city  planning  and  was  graduated  in  June, 
1909.  He  practiced  his  profession  in  Switzerland  until  1917,  and  then  left  to  make 
a  trip  around  the  world.  After  visiting  Africa,  India  and  Australia  he  came  to  the 
United  States,  spent  one  year  in  California,  and  then  came  to  St.  Louis.  In  1916 
he  established  his  home  in  St.  Louis,  opening  an  office  in  the  Title  Guaranty  build- 
ing as  partner  in  the  firm  of  Herding  &  Boyd.  They  have  operated  successfully  to 
the  present  time  and  are  most  widely  and  favorably  known  by  reason  of  their 
architectural  work  and  city  planning.  Mr.  Herding  has  recently  presented  to  the 
housing  committee  of  the  Civic  League  a  plan  to  rebuild  on  modern  lines  what  he 
terms  the  "blighted  district"  of  St.  Louis,  that  portion  of  the  city  bordering  Olive 
street  east  of  Grand  avenue.  He  is  constantly  studying  modern  housing  and 
architectural  problems,  and  while  holding  to  high  ideals,  employs  the  most  practical 
methods  in  their  accomplishment.  He  is  continually  studying  to  promote  his 
knowledge  and  efficiency  and  is  familiar  with  the  highest  standards  of  architectural 
art  in  Europe  as  well  as  in  America. 

In  Sacramento,  California,  on  the  4th  of  April,  1918,  Mr.  Herding  was  married 
to  Miss  Lena  Schelcher,  a  daughter  of  George  Schelcher,  of  Sacramento,  California, 
and  tliey  have  one  child,  Rosalie  Louisa,  who  was  born  November  6,  1919. 

Mr.  Herding  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  St.  Louis,  also  to  the 
City  Club  and  the  Civic  League  and  is  interested  in  all  those  forces  which  make 
for  progress  and  improvement  in  city  building  and  in  civic  planning.  His  religion 
is  that  of  the  Protestant  faith  and  his  life  has  ever  been  actuated  by  honorable 
principles,  while  the  sterling  worth  of  his  cliaracter  is  attested  by  all  with  whom 
he  has  come  in  contact.  He  has  never  had  occasion  to  regret  his  determination 
to  leave  Europe,  for  he  has  here  found  the  opportunities  which  he  sought  and  in 
their  utilization  has  steadily  advanced  toward  that  success  which  is  the  legitimate 
goal  of  all  human  endeavor. 


HON.    EDWARD    G.    FETTY. 


Hon.  Edward  G.  Fetty,  who  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  president  of  the 
Citizens  Bank  of  Linneus,  a  position  which  he  had  filled  tor  five  years,  was  found 
in  every  relation  of  life  as  a  supporter  of  those  interests,  activities  and  principles 
which  measure  up  to  the  highest  standards  of  manhood  and  citizenship.  He  was 
born  in  Marion  county,  Virginia,  March  20,  1843,  a  son  of  Hartley  and  Catherine 
(Roberts)  Fetty,  who  were  also  natives  of  the  Old  Dominion.  On  removing  west- 
ward to  Missouri  they  settled  in  Sullivan  county  in  1851.  The  father  was  a  clergy- 
man  of  the   Methodist   Episcopal   church.   South,   and   was   a  stanch   advocate   of   the 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  415 

Confederate  cause  during  the  Civil  war.  Because  ot  the.  opposition  to  the  opinions 
which  he  held  at  that  time  he  left  the  state,  but  after  the  close  of  hostilities  he 
returned  and  toolv  up  his  abode  in  Randolph  county,  where  he  resided  until  his 
death,   which   occurred   some   years   later. 

His  son,  Judge  Fetty  of  this  review,  attended  the  schools  of  Virginia  in  early 
youth  and  afterward  completed  his  education  in  the  schools  of  Sullivan  county, 
Missouri.  In  1862  he  went  west  and  for  four  years  lived  in  Washington  and  Idaho. 
In  the  autumn  of  1865  he  returned  to  Missouri  and  on  the  24th  of  February,  1866, 
was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Cornelia  Schrock,  a  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Charlotte 
E.  (Burns)  Schrock.  of  Sullivan  county.  They  have  four  children:  Marcus  B., 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Superior  Haystacker  Manufacturing  Company,  and 
mentioned  elsewhere  in  this  work;  J.  H.,  president  ot  several  big  lumber  concerns 
in  Savannah,  Georgia,  and  well  known  throughout  America  in  the  lumber  industry, 
also  identified  with  a  sugar  factory  and  other  big  manufacturing  concerns;  and  Edna 
F.,  who  is  the  wife  of  Dr.  W.  R.  Adams,  a  prominent  physician  of  Savannah,  Georgia. 

At  the  time  of  his  marriage  Judge  Fetty  removed  to  Linn  county,  where  he 
spent  his  remaining  days.  He  first  took  up  the  occupation  ot  farming,  and  followed 
that  pursuit  for  a  number  of  years.  In  1888  he  was  elected  judge  of  the  county 
court  on  the  democratic  ticket  and  made  so  creditable  a  record  in  office  through 
the  fairness  and  impartiality  of  his  decisions  that  he  was  reelected  in  1891.  Re- 
moving to  Linneus,  he  entered  the  hardware  business  after  his  retirement  from 
the  county  bench  and  was  thus  actively  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  until  1905, 
when  the  Citizens  Bank  was  organized  and  he  was  chosen  its  president,  continuing 
to  act  in  that  capacity  until  his  death,  which  occurred  on  the  11th  of  December, 
1909.  Whatever  he  undertook  he  carried  forward  to  successful  completion  and 
as  the  chief  executive  of  the  bank  he  largely  shaped  the  policy  which  has  made  it 
one  of  the  strong  financial  concerns  of  'this  section  of  the  state. 

In  politics  Judge  Fetty  was  always  a  stanch  democrat  and  was  keenly  interested 
in  matters  of  public  concern.  He  served  as  president  ot  the  board  ot  education 
of  Linneus  and  in  other  public  positions,  the  duties  ot  which  he  discharged  with 
marked  capability  and  fidelity.  He  belonged  to  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
Soutli,  and  his  lite  was  characterized  by  honorable  purposes  and  kindly  deeds  that 
prompted  him  again  and  again  to  extend  a  helping  hand  to  a  fellow  traveler  upon 
life's  journey. 


HERMAN    C.    KRALEMANN. 

Herman  C.  Kralemann,  engaged  in  the  insurance  business  in  St.  Louis  and 
also  active  in  the  public  life  of  the  city,  serving  now  as  a  member  of  the  board  of 
aldermen,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  January  5,  1870.  The  father,  Casper  Kralemann, 
a  native  of  Germany,  came  to  the  United  States  with  his  parents  in  18  65,  the  family 
home  being  established  in  St.  Louis  where  Casper  Kraleman  eventually  became  well 
known  as  an  insurance  broker.  He  passed  away  in  1916.  The  wife,  who  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Adelheid  Lachmann,  was  also  born  in  Germany  and  came  to 
St.   Louis  to  become  the  bride  of  Mr.   Kralemann.     She   is  still   living  in   this  city. 

Herman  C.  Kralemann  pursued  his  education  in  public  and  parochial  schools, 
attending  St.  John's  Evangelical  school  until  fourteen  years  of  age,  then  entering 
the  public  schools  and  afterward  becoming  a  student  in  Johnson's  Business  College 
of  St.  Louis.  He  started  out  in  the  business  world  as  a  clerk  in  the  grocery  store 
ot  his  father,  for  whom  he  worked  about  twelve  years.  He  then  secured  a  position 
as  a  deputy  assessor  ot  St.  Louis  under  A.  H.  Frederick,  spending"  eight  years  in 
that  connection,  and  in  1902  embarked  in  the  insurance  business  with  his  father. 
He  is  agent  for  the  St.  Paul  Fire  &  Marine  Insurance  Company,  Fidelity,  Phoenix 
Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York,  New  Hampshire  Fire  Insurance  Company, 
Pennsylvania  Fire  Insurance  Company,  Springfield  Fire  &  Marine  Insurance  Com- 
pany and  the  Jefferson  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  St.  Louis.  He  has  thus 
built  up  a  business  large  and  satisfactory  and  is  well  known  in  insurance  circles 
of  the  city. 

On  the  20th  of  April,  1893,  Mr.  Kralemann  was  married  to  Miss  Katie  Justin, 
a  daughter  of  Christian  Justin  of  St.  Louis.  He  came  from  Germany  in  time  to 
enlist  for  service  ,in  the  Union  army  in  the  Civil  war,  in  which  he  became  a  sergeant. 

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416  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

His  wife,  Mrs.  Caroline  Justin,  was  born  in  St.  Louis  and  was  a  representative  of 
the  Schott  family,  one  of  the  old  and  prominent  families  of  that  city. 

Mr.  Kralemann  is  a  republican  in  his  political  view.-;  and  is  an  active  worker 
in  the  ranks  of  the  party.  In  1915  he  was  elected  without  opposition  as  alderman 
from  the  twenty-second  ward  of  St.  Louis  and  was  re-elected  in  1919,  receiving  a 
majority  of  twenty-eight  thousand  at  his  first  election  and  thirty  thousand  at  the 
second.  He  did  not  seek  the  office,  but  his  eminent  fitness  was  such  that  he  was 
called  to  the  office  and  had  no  opposing  candidate.  That  he  has  made  a  most 
excellent  record  is  indicated   by  the  fact  of  his  re-election. 

Mr.  Kralemann  is  a  member  of  St.  Peter's  Evangelical  church  and  a  member 
of  the  board  of  trustees  of  St.  Peter's  cemetery.  Fraternally  he  is  a  Mason,  belong- 
ing to  Westgate  Lodge,  No.  445,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Bellefontaine  Chapter,  No.  25, 
R.  A.  M.;  Ivanhoe  Commandery,  K.  T.;  and  Alhambra  Grotto.  He  belongs  to  the 
Inter-State  Sportsmen's  Protective  Association  and  the  Blue  Wing  Gun  Club,  and 
he  is  fond  of  hunting  and  fishing.  He  is  a  director  of  Laclede  Trust  Company, 
a  member  of  the  Million  Population  -Club,  The  North  St.  Louis  Business  Men's 
Association  and  The  West  End  Business  Men's  Association,  but  his  chief  interests 
and  activities,  outside  of  his  office  and  his  business,  center  in  philanthropic  work. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  aid  society  of  the  Good  Samaritan  Old  Folks  Home  of 
St.  Louis  and  is  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Protestant  Orphans'  Aid  Society  in  con- 
nection with  the  German  Protestant  Orphan's  Home  on  the  St.  Charles  Rockroad 
in  St.  Louis  county,  serving  as  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  that  institution, 
with  which  he  has  been  connected  in  various  capacities  for  a  third  of  a  century. 
There  are  now  about  two  hundred  children  in  the  home,  who  live  there  and  attend 
the  public  schools.  The  home  keeps  these  children  until  they  reach  the  age  of 
eighteen  years,  if  necessary,  but  usually  finds  homes  for  them  in  private  families 
before  they  reach  that  age.  Mr.  Kralemann  is  particularly  tenderhearted  where 
the  welfare  of  children  is  concerned  and  there  are  many  who  have  reason  to  bless 
him  for  his  activities  in  .this  field  of  helpfulness. 


BENJAMIN   C.    MOORE. 


Benjamin  C.  Moore,  president  of  the  Moore-Seaver  Grain  Company  of  Kansas 
City,  has  worked  his  way  upward  from  a  humble  position  until  he  stands  today  as 
one  of  the  prominent  grain  merchants  of  the  southwest.  A  native  of  Kansas  City,  he 
was  born  February  4,  1876,  and  is  a  son  of  Colonel  John  W.  Moore,  who  was  one  of 
the  first  mayors  of  Kansas  City,  having  settled  here  in  pioneer  times.  He  was  born 
in  Danville,  Kentucky,  November  25,  1840,  and  with  the  family  removed  to  Gallatin, 
Tennessee,  when  but  five  years  of  age.  In  1849  the  family  home  was  established  on 
a  farm  near  Blue  Springs,  Missouri,  and  at  the  age  of  nineteen  years  Colonel  Moore 
was  entrusted  with  a  freighting  train  operating  over  the  western  plains.  He  dis- 
played great  ability  as  a  commander  of  military  force*  in  the  Civil  war,  serving  as 
a  colonel  on  General  Marmaduke's  staff.  In  1872  he  married  Sallie  Bryant,  daughter 
of  William  Bryant,  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Jackson  county,  Missouri.  With  the  business 
development  and  progress  of  Kansas  City  he  was  closely  associated  for  many  years. 
He  built  and  operated  the  first  roller  mill  in  this  vicinity,  the  site  thereof  being  at 
Nineteenth  and  Walnut  streets.  In  1885  he  was  elected  mayor  of  Kansas  City  and 
he  became  also  a  charter  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Board  of  Trade,  serving  as  its 
president  in  1899.  He  was  one  of  the  owners  and  active  in  the  control  of  the  business 
carried  on  under  the  name  of  the  Moore  Grain  &  Elevator  Company  and  thus  he 
figured  prominently  in  connection  with  the  political  and  civic  interests  and  the  com- 
mercial progress  of  this  section  of  the  state.  He  passed  away  in  Kansas  City,  June 
5,  1917,  after  an  illness  of  five  months,  survived  by  his  widow  and  his  son,  Benjamin 
C.  Moore,  of  Kansas  City.  Fraternally  Colonel  Moore  was  connected  with  the  Masons 
and  had  attained  the  Knights  Templar  degree  of  the  York  Rite  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  long  held  membership  in  the  Presbyterian  church,  of  which 
he   served   as  elder. 

Benjamin  C.  Moore,  after  attending  the  public  schools  and  the  high  school  of 
Kansas  City,  entered  the  Missouri  Valley  College  at  Marshall,  Missouri,  and  later 
became  connected  with  his  father  in  the  grain  and  elevator  business.  Through  the 
intervening  period  he  has  made  steady  progress  along  that  line  and  in  1906  he  estab- 


COLONEL  JOHN  W.  MOOEE 


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CENTENNIAL  HIST(3RY  OF  MISSOURI  419 

lished  and  Incorporated  the  Moore-Seaver  Grain  Company,  with  offices '  in  the  Board 
of  Trade  building.  They  have  a  large  elevator  and  conduct  a  warehousing  and  grain 
business  which  has  now  assumed  mammoth  proportions.  Mr.  Moore  started  out 
independently  with  but  small  capital  but  has  Steadily  progressed  until  he  ranks  with 
the  leading  grain  merchants  of  the  southwest.  He  is  courageous  and  careful  in  the 
conduct  of  his  affairs,  full  of  energy  and  a  man  of  the  strictest  integrity.  In  1916  he 
served  as  president  of  the  Board  of  Trade  of  Kansas  City  and  thus  furnished  the  only 
instance  when  father  and  son  have  been  president  in  the  history  of  the  organization. 

In  1899  Mr.  Moore  was  married  to  Miss  Lilian  Johnson,  who  was  born  at  Holden, 
Missouri,  a  daughter  of  E.  P.  Johnson,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  that  place.  They 
now  have  one  child,  Martha,  who  is  sixteen  years  of  age. 

Mr.  Moore  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  Blue  Hills  Country  Club 
and  the  Hillcrest  Country  Club  and  is  a  devotee  of  golf.  Fraternally  he  is  a  Mason, 
belonging  to  Temple  Lodge  No.  299,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  also  to  Oriental  Chapter  No.  102, 
R.  A.  M.;  Oriental  Commandery  No.  35,  K.  T.;  and  Ararat  Temple  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine.  He  is  identified  with  the  Grace  Presbyterian  church  and  is  a  supporter 
of  all  of  its  various  activities  tor  the  moral  progress  and  improvement  of  the  city. 
His  business  is  now  so  thoroughly  organized  that  he  is  able  to  leave  it  largely  in  the 
care  of  others  and  travel  extensively.  A  broad-gauged  man,  he  has  a  host  of  friends, 
and  something  of  his  popularity  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  has  been  chosen  to 
serve  on  the  board  of  directors  of  all  the  various  clubs  with  which  he  is  identified. 


JOHN  WILLIAM   WITHERS. 

John  William  Withers,  who  is  one  of  the  outstanding  men  among  the  public 
school  superintendents  in  large  cities  of  the  United  States,  was  appointed  to  the 
position  of  superintendent  of  instruction  in  St.  Louis  in  1917.  He  started  life  as  a 
poor  boy,  worked  his  way  through  college  and  university,  studied  and  taught 
mathematics,  but  later  became  more  interested  in  philosophy  and  education.  Today 
he  ranks  high  among  the  educators  of  the  country  as  a  man  of  vision  whose  ideas 
find  practical  embodiment  in  his  work. 

Born  at  Ben  Lomond,  West  Virginia,  on  the  23d  of  September,  1868,  Dr. 
Withers  is  a  son  of  John  M.  and  Sarah  Ann  (George)  Withers.  His  early  environ- 
ment was  that  of  the  farm,  with  the  usual  advantages  of  the  farm  bred  boy  of  that 
period.  He  began  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Mason  county.  West  Vir- 
ginia, and  ambitious  for  further  intellectual  advancement,  became  a  student  in 
Gallia  Academy  at  Gallipolis,  Ohio.  He  won  his  Bachelor  of  Science  degree  upon 
graduation  from  the  National  Normal  University  at  Lebanon,  Ohio,  in  1890,  the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  in  1891,  and  that  of  Doctor  of  Pedagogy  in  1896,  while 
in  1902  Yale  University  conferred  upon  him  the  Master  of  Arts  degree  and  in  1904 
that  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy.  He  was  a  University  Fellow  at  Yale  from  19  02  until 
1904,  and  having  completed  his  work  in  mathematics  and  philosophy,  winning  the 
Ph.  D.  degree,  he  thus  gained  a  broad  foundation  for  the  educational  interests 
which  he  has  cultivated.  Beyond  his  academic  training  he  has  through  his  contact 
with  schools  developed  a  profound  interest  in  public  affairs  and  in  general  educa- 
tion. He  entered  upon  his  professional  career  as  a  teacher  in  the  country  schools 
of  West  Virginia,  spending  three  years  in  that  way.  For  two  years  he  was  principal 
of  the  Kentucky  Normal  School  and  from  1893  until  18  9  6  was  dean  of  the  pre- 
paratory school  and  teacher  of  higher  mathematics  at  the  National  Normal  Univer- 
sity at  Lebanon,  Ohio.  He  was  made  vice  president  of  the  institution  in  1896 
and  president  in   1897,  so  continuing  until   1901. 

Dr.  Withers  became  identified  with  the  schools  of  St.  Louis  as  principal  of 
the  Yeatman  high  school  in  1904-05  and  in  the  latter  year  was  called  to  the  prin- 
cipalship  of  the  St.  Louis  Teachers'  College.  His  work  of  this  character  has  received 
the  highest  commendation  of  educators  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the 
land.  Henry  Suzallo,  president  of  the  University  of  Washington,  said  of  him: 
"As  president  of  the  Harris  Teachers'  College  Dr.  Withers  gave  us  one  of  the  best 
institutions  for  the  training  of  teachers  in  the  United  States  and  created  an 
inspiring  intellectual  influence  in  the  midst  of  school  teachers  of  St.  Louis."  In 
1916,  at  the  request  of  the  National  Commission  of  Education,  he  surveyed  the 
public   schools   of    San   Francisco,    California,    and   in    1917,    at   the    request   of   the 


420  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

state  commissioner  of  education  of  tlie  state  of  New  Jersey,  he  surveyed  the  state 
normal  schools  of  New  Jersey.  In  February,  1917,  he  was  appointed  superintendent 
of  public  instruction  in  St.  Louis.  In  June  of  the  same  year  the  degree  of  LL.  D. 
was  conferred  upon  him  by  the  Washington  University  of  St.  Louis  and  in  June, 
1918,  he  received  the  same  degree  from  the  Missouri  University.  George  D. 
Srayer,  professor  of  educational  administation  in  the  Teachers'  College  of  Columbia 
University,  said  of  him:  "He  is,  in  my  estimation,  one  of  the  ablest  men  in  the 
field  of  public  education  in  the  United  States.  His  work  in  the  St.  Louis  schools 
has  been  responsible  in  large  measure  for  the  excellence  of  the  schools  of  that  city. 
If  one  were  to  pick  out  today  a  group  of  ten  of  the  most  important  men  in  educa- 
tional administration  in  the  United  States.  Dr.  Withers'  name  would  always  be 
found  on  such  a  list.  His  judgment  and  advice  are  sought  by  the  men  of  his  pro- 
fession throughout  the  nation."  Another  eminent  educator  said  of  him:  "Dr. 
Withers  is  one  of  the  best  trained  men  in  the  field  of  public  education.  He  com- 
bines theory  and  practice,  science  and  administration,  in  an  unusual  degree.  He 
moves  with  extraordinary  facility  from  scholarship  to  execution.  His  is  an  open 
mind  which  profits  from  suggestion  and  experiences  from  all  human  directions; 
his  is  a  judicial  mind  in  that  he  is  able  to  sort  out  everything  that  comes  to  him 
and  to  give  it  an  accurate  relative  valuation:  his  is  a  singularly  conscientious  mind, 
in  that  intellectual  factors  always  involve  with  him  responsibility  to  act.  Since 
becoming  superintendent  of  the  schools  of  St.  Louis  he  has  shown  a  great  moral 
integrity  and  fearlessness  in  upliolding  sound  standards  of  educational  policy  in 
the  public  school  system." 

On  the  10th  of  January,  1895,  Dr.  Withers  was  married  in  Lebanon,  Ohio,  to 
Miss  Margaret  C.  Mathews  and  they  have  three  sons,  John  Edwin.  Herbert  William 
and  Charles  Robert.  Their  son  John  Edwin  was  at  the  Missouri  University  at  the 
beginning  of  America's  connection  with  the  World  war,  and  joining  the  Students' 
Army  Training  Corps,   went   into  the  camp  at   the  university. 

While  the  trend  of  Dr.  Withers'  mind  is  notably  literary  and  philosophic,  he 
has  always  remained  a  close  student  of  those  interests  and  activities  which  bear 
upon  the  welfare  of  mankind  and  has  become  a  member  of  the  Civic  League  of 
St.  Louis,  cooperating  earnestly  in  the  plans  of  that  organization  for  the  city's 
benefit.  He  has  written  for  various  educational  journals  and  is  the  author  of 
"Euclid's  Parallel  Postulate:  an  Essay  in  the  Philosophic  Foundations  of  Geometry," 
which  was  published  in  1905  by  the  Open  Court  Publishing  Company.  He  has 
many  professional  membership  connections,  belonging  to  the  National  Educational 
Association,  the  American  Mathematical  Society,  the  Missouri  Society  of  Mathe- 
matical and  Science  Teachers,  the  St.  Louis  Society  of  Teachers  of  Mathematics  and 
Science,  the  St.  Louis  Schoolmasters'  Club  and  in  1910-11  was  president  of  the 
Missouri  State  Teachers'  Association.  He  has  likewise  filled  the  presidency  of  the 
Missouri  Society  of  Teachers  of  Science  and  Mathematics,  has  been  a  member  of 
the  board  of  directors  of  the  School  of  Social  Economy  of  Washington  University 
and  a  member  of  the  advisory  council  of  Abbotsholme,  a  school  for  boys,  at  Derby- 
shire, England.  His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  He 
belongs  to  the  Town  and  Gown  Club  and  finds  recreation  in  pedestrian  exercises 
and  in  motoring.  There  are  few  men  who  combine  in  such  notable  measure  high 
scholarly  attainments  with  ability  to  put  ideas  and  ideals  into  practical  effect,  and 
St.  Louis  is  to  be  congratulated  upon  the  fact  that  she  has  at  the  head  of  her 
school  system  "one  of  the  ten  most  eminent  public  school  superintendents  of  the 
country." 


REV.    T.    J.    BARRETT. 


Rev.  T.  J.  Barrett,  pastor  of  the  Immaculate  Conception  Catholic  church  at 
Macon,  was  born  in  Ireland  in  1879.  a  son  of  Edward  and  Catherine  (Clynes) 
Barrett.  He  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  common  schools  of  his  home  parish 
and  afterward  attended  St.  Patrick's  at  Maynooth.  He  completed  his  course  in 
1902  and  was  ordained  a  priest  at  that  time.  He  then  left  Ireland  for  America, 
going  first  to  St.  Louis,  being  attached  to  St.  Mary's  church  there.  In  1913  he  was 
transferred  to  Macon  as  priest  of  the  Immaculate  Conception  church,  of  which  he 
has  since   had   charge.      During   the   period   of   his   stay   in    Macon    he   has   purchased 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  421 

a  fine  residence  and  has  also  recently  .purchased  the  Martinique  Hotel,  which  was 
built  by  Colonel  Blees.  This  will  be  remodeled,  the  first  floor  to  be  used  tor  church 
services  and  the  second  as  a  parochial  school  building  and  Sisters'  Academy.  When 
Rev.  Barrett  took  possession  of  this  parish  he  found  some  indebtedness,  which  he 
has  lifted,  and  in  addition  has  acquired  the  properties  mentioned  at-a  value  of  at 
least  seventy  thousand  dollars.  There  are  about  eighty-five  families  in  the  territory 
in  which  he  labors,  which  comprises  three  fields  in  addition  to  Macon.  The  first 
Catholic  priest  at  Macon  was  the  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  Hogan,  who  had  charge  of  the 
work  of  the  church  in  all  of  this  part  of  the  state.  He  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  Welch 
in  1867,  the  latter  continuing  until  1872,  when  Rev.  McNamree  took  charge.  The 
church  was  under  the  guidance  of  Rev.  Cahill  from  1873  until  1898  and  of  Rev. 
O'Leary  until  1902,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  Healy,  who  remained  until 
1913,   when  Fatlier  Barrett  entered   upon   the   work. 


RAYNOLDS    BARNUM. 


Raynolds  Barnum  is  one  of  the  leading  insurance  men  of  Kansas  City,  con- 
ducting business  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Brown,  Mann  &  Barnum.  He  was 
born  in  New  York  city,  January  24.  1876.  His  father,  General  Henry  A.  Barnum, 
was  a  native  of  Syracuse,  New  York,  and  became  an  attorney  of  New  York  city. 
He  was  also  warden  of  the  port  of  New  York  and  further  figured  prominently  in 
the  public  life  of  the  Empire  state  as  a  member  of  the  general  assembly.  He  was 
in  active  service  in  the  Civil  war  as  colonel  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-ninth 
New  York  Volunteers  and  took  part  in  many  battles.  He  was  confined  tor  a  time 
in  Libby  prison  and  he  was  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Malvern  Hill,  being  shot 
through  the  abdomen.  The  ball  passed  through  the  body  and  yet  he  lived  with 
a  tube  through  the  abdomen  until  1892,  the  ball  passing  through  without  injuring 
an  intestine.  This  was  considered  one  of  the  wonderful  wounds  of  the  war. 
Raynolds  Barnum  has  a  brother  named  Malvern  Hill  Barnum,  so  called  from  the 
fact  that  their  father  was  wounded  in  the  battle  of  Malvern  Hill.  This  brother  is 
now  a  Colonel  in  the  regular  United  States  army. 

Raynolds  Barnum  pursued  his  education  in  the  schools  of  Nantucket,  Massa- 
chusetts. He  afterward  went  to  Omaha,  Nebraska,  where  he  engaged  in  the  in- 
surance business  for  sixteen  years  and  then  came  to  Kansas  City,  being  made  state 
agent  of  the  Agricultural  Insurance  Company,  which  he  thus  represented  for  five 
years.  In  1912  he  became  associated  with  the  Ann  of  which  he  is  now  a  representa- 
tive and  which  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  insurance  firms  of  Kansas  City. 

In  19  01  Mr.  Barnum  was  married  to  Miss  Olevia  Erickson,  of  Holdrege,  Ne- 
braska, a  daughter  of  A.  P.  Erickson.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Hillcrest  Country 
Club  and  the  Mid-Day  Club  and  also  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  As  a  Mason 
he  has  membership  with  Ivanhoe  Lodge.  His  political  endorsement  is  given  to  the 
republican  party  and  his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Episcopal  church. 


FRANCIS   ROEDER. 


Francis  Roeder,  operating  successfully  in  the  field  of  insurance  in  St.  Louis, 
was  born  in  Ste.  Genevieve.  Missouri,  September  26,  1855,  and  was  the  second  in 
a  family  of  six  children,  whose  parents  were  Conrad  and  Agatha  (Grither)  Roeder, 
the  former  a  native  of  Culmbach,  Bavaria,  and  the  latter  of  St.  Amarin,  Alsace. 
The  father  came  to  America  in  1847  and  cast  in  his  lot  with  the  early  residents 
of  Missouri.  He  is  represented  in  the  biography  of  his  eldest  son.  which  appears 
elsewhere  in  this  volume. 

Francis  Roeder,  who  was  the  second  in  order  of  birth  in  the  family,  pursued 
his  education  in  the  public  and  private  schools  of  St.  Louis,  and  continued  his 
studies  by  attending  night  school  after  starting  out  in  the  business  world.  His 
first  employment  was  with  the  "Daily  Journal,"  then  located  at  27  South  Third 
street,  with  which  paper  he  was  associated  for  about  eighteen  months.  Eugene 
Field  was  at  that  time  working  as  reporter  on  the  "Journal,"  and  Mr.  Roeder  came 
to  know  him  very  well.  Only  three  St.  Louisans  survive  who  were  connected  with 
the   paper  at   that  time.      In    1871    he   became   office   boy   for   the   American   Central 


422  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Insurance  Company  of  St.  Louis,  and  remained  with  that  firm  for  forty-six  years, 
or  until  January.  1917.  He  won  steady  advancement  by  reason  of  his  capability 
and  fidelity  until  he  reached  the  position  of  assistant  manager  of  the  city  depart- 
ment, having  in  the  meantime  served  as  supply  clerk  and  as  traveling  salesman. 
In  1917  he  became  connected  with  the  Home  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  as 
special  agent  for  St.  Louis  and  St.  Louis  county.  He  has  successfully  represented 
this  company  to  the  present  time,  handling  fire  and  tornado  insurance,  with  office 
at  No.  123  North  Third  street.  He  has  made  a  close  study  of  insurance,  and  can 
speak  most  intelligently  upon  every  phase  of  the  branches  in  which  he  is  active. 
For  two  years  he  was  the  treasurer  of  the  Underwriters'  Salvage  Corps.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Merchants  Exchange,  and  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  well  known 
and   progressive   insurance   men   of   the   city. 

It  was  at  Ste.  Genevieve,  Missouri,  on  the  28th  of  October,  1885,  that  Mr. 
Roeder  was  married  to  Miss  Clara  Hertich,  a  daughter  of  Charles  S.  Hertich,  who 
was  of  Swiss  descent,  and  of  Mary  L.  (Rozier)  Hertich,  a  representative  of  an  old 
American  family.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roeder  have  been  born  three  children:  Conrad 
Charles,  who  died  in  infancy;  ^-Blanche,  who  is  now  at  home;  and  Clara,  the  wife 
of  John  F.  Darby  Taylor,  whose  grandfather  was  twice  a  member  of  the  state 
legislature  and  was  three  times  mayor  of  St.  Louis.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Taylor  have 
become  the  parents  of  two  sons  and  a  daughter;  Blanche  Elise;  John  F.  Darby,  Jr., 
and    Francis    Roeder. 

The  family  are  Catholics  in  religious  faith,  belonging  to  St.  Rose's  church  of 
St.  Louis.  In  politics  Mr.  Roeder  maintains  the  course  of  an  independent  repub- 
lican, usually  supporting  the  party  but  never  hesitating  to  cast  an  independent 
ballot  if  his  judgment  so  dictates.  He  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  to 
the  Royal  League  and  to  the  Insurance  Club,  and  also  holds  membership  in  the 
Mississippi  Valley  Pond  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Order  of  the  Blue  Goose. 
He  may  truly  be  called  a  self-made  man,  for  he  started  out  in  the  business  world 
empty-handed  and  has  steadily  worked  his  way  upward  through  the  wise  use  of 
his  opportunities,  through  his  indefatigable  energy  and  his  sound  judgment. 


HENRY   NICOLAUS. 


Henry  Nicolaus,  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Brevi-ing  Association,  was  born  at 
Gommersheim,  Rheinpfalz,  Germany,  August  14,  1850.  His  father,  the  late  Gott- 
fried Nicolaus.  was  a  successful  farmer  and  wine  grower  who  spent  his  entire  life  in 
Germany,  passing  away  in  189  7  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven  years.  His  wife  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Caroline  Fiihrmann  and  became  the  mother  of  three  children,  of 
whom  two  are  living,  Henry  and  Gottfried,  the  latter  a  prominent  jurist,  who  for 
many  years  was  recognized  as  an  eminent  member  of  the  bar,  later  was  circuit 
judge  and  now  is  retired.  The  mother  passed  away  in  1872  at  the  age  of  forty-one 
years. 

Henry  Nicolaus  was  educated  in  Germany,  where  he  attended  high  school  and  col- 
lege. He  came  to  America  at  the  age  of  seventeen  years,  or  in  1867,  making  his  way 
direct  to  St.  Louis.  He  had  previously  served  a  full  apprenticeship  at  the  brewer's 
trade  and  upon  coming  to  this  city  was  first  employed  by  Becker  &  Hoppe,  maltsters, 
and  his  first  acquaintance  in  St.  Louis  was  Henry  Harstick.  In  1880  Mr.  Nicolaus 
became  superintendent  and  one  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Green  Tree  Brewery  and 
was  thus  identified  until  its  consolidation  with  the  St.  Louis  Brewing  Association. 
On  the  1st  of  January,  1903,  he  became  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Brewing  Associa- 
tion and  has  since  filled  that  position.  He  is  also  the  vice  president  of  the  Kinloch 
Telephone  Company,  a  director  of  the  Hammer  Dry  Plate  Company,  president  of  the 
Gilsonite  Construction  Company,  a  director  of  the  Merchants  &  Manufacturers  Invest- 
ment Company  and  a  director  of  the  Stiefel  Nicolaus  Investment  Company.  His 
business  interests  have  thus  become  extensive  and  important  and  he  has  long  occu- 
pied a  prominent  place  in  the  commercial  and  manufacturing  circles  of  the  city. 

On  the  26th  of  April.  1883,  Mr.  Nicolaus  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss  Marie 
Uhrig,  a  daughter  of  Ignatz  and  Josephine  (Soderer)  Uhrig.  They  became  the  parents 
of  three  children.  Stella  is  the  wife  of  August  Anheuser,  a  resident  of  Germany. 
Louis  J.  makes  his  home  in  St.  Louis.  Elsa  K.  is  the  wife  of  Daniel  McLuney,  also 
of  St.  Louis.  The  wife  and  mother  passed  away  April  6,  1S99,  in  St.  Louis,  when 
forty  years  of  age.  her  birth  having  occurred  in  this  city  August  15,  1859.     On  the 


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27th  of  July,  1907,  Mr.  Nicolaus  was  again  married,  wedding  Mathilda  Steinwender 
in  Denver,  Colorado.  She  was  the  widow  the  Benjamin  Griesedieck  and  a  daughter 
of  the  late  Herman  and  Caroline  (Scheller)  Steinwender.  By  her  former  marriage 
Mrs.  Nicolaus  has  a  daughter,  Edna,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  Edwin  T.  Stanard. 

Mr.  Nicolaus  is  a  democrat  in  his  political  views,  having  supported  the  party 
since  becoming  a  naturalized  American  citizen.  He  belongs  to  Meridian  Lodge,  A.  F. 
&  A.  M.,  also  to  the  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  to  the  consistory,  in  which  he  has  attained 
the  thirty-second  degree  of  the  Scottish  Rite,  and  to  the  Mystic  Shrine.  His  religious 
faith  is  that  of  the  Lutheran  church.  His  interest  in  community  affairs  is  indicated 
in  his  connection  with  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  he  is  well  known  in  the  club 
circles  of  the  city  as  a  member  of  the  Liederkranz,  the  St.  Louis  Club,  the  Sunset 
Hill  Country  Club  and  the  Log  Cabin  Club. 


EDWARD  GOCKB. 


Edward  Gocke  of  St.  Louis  is  a  well  known  real  estate  dealer  who  has  the  con- 
fidence of  his  clients  and  in  all  transactions  displays  sound  judgment  and  close 
attention  to  his  business,  whether  acting  for  himself  or  as  agent.  By  reason  of 
these  qualities  he  has  made  steady  progress  and  has  therefore  gained  a  sub- 
stantial measure  of  success.  A  native  of  Illinois,  he  was  born  in  Jerseyville,  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1870,  and  is  a  son  of  Gustav  A.  and  Elizabeth  Gocke,  who  were  natives 
of  Germany  but  met  and  were  married  in  Jerseyville,  Illinois.  The  mother  came 
to  the  new  world  with  her  parents  in  1860  and  it  was  in  1865  that  Gustav  A.  crossed 
the  Atlantic.  He  took  up  his  abode  upon  a  farm  near  Jerseyville  and  has  since 
made  his  home  there.  While  he  has  never  sought  or  desired  office  he  has  always 
been  active  in  public  affairs.  The  mother's  people  were  also  prominent  in  their 
locality,  the  maternal  grandfather  of  Edward  Gocke  having  a  farm  about  midway 
between  Alton  and  Jerseyville,  Illinois,  on  the  old  stage  line,  and  it  was  at  this 
home  that  they  stopped  to  feed  and  change  horses.  He  conducted  a  tavern  which 
was  well  known  in  the  early  days  before  the  era  of  raili-oad  travel,  and  he  was 
very  active  and  prominent  in  all  public  affairs  and  was  especially  an  advocate  for 
good  roads. 

Edward  Gocke  obtained  a  public  school  education  in  Jerseyville,  pursuing  his 
studies  there  until  1886,  after  which  he  attended  a  business  college  in  Springfield, 
Illinois,  being  graduated  in  1890.  In  the  same  year  he  came  to  St.  Louis  and 
accepted  a  position  as  bookkeeper  for  the  Charles  A.  Drack  Electrotype  Company 
with  which  he  remained  for  about  five  years.  In  189  6  he  entered  the  employ  of 
C.  H.  Wyman  &  Company,  custom-house  brokers  on  import  matters  and  there  re- 
mained until  1904.  In  the  spring  of  1905  he  turned  his  attention  to  the  real  estate 
business  and  lias  made  a  specialty  of  handling  St.  Louis  county  property  on  his 
own  account,  handling  no  city  property  whatever.  He  has  put  upon  the  market 
with  great  success  the  Meridian  subdivision  of  eighty  acres;  Lyndhurst,  eighty 
acres;  Ashly  Place,  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres;  Charlack,  two-hundred  and  eighteen 
acres;  West  Delmar,  seventy  acres;  Maryland  Heights,  one  hundred  and  thirty  acres; 
and  Overland  No.  2,  containing  sixty-three  acres.  In  handling  these  subdivisions 
he  has  aimed  to  retain  the  country  life  idea  by  dividing  the  property  into  large 
lots,  there  being  nothing  less  than  one  hundred  foot  frontage.  The  Ashly  Place 
subdivision  was  laid  out  in  two  or  four-acre  lots  with  restrictions  as  to  building, 
no  home  being  erected  at  a  cost  of  less  than  five  thousand  dollars,  and  restricted 
also  to  the  building  of  but  one  house  on  the  lot.  In  connection  with  this  subdivision 
he  organized  and  laid  out  the  grounds  of  the  Midland  Valley  Country  Club  which 
Is  one  of  the  finest  country  clubs  in  the  county.  Naturally  Mr.  Gocke  has  been 
intensely  interested  in  the  question  of  good  roads  and  public  improvements  which 
tend  to  give  all  of  the  advantages  of  the  city,  yet  retain  all  of  the  beauties  of 
country  life.  His  own  home,  a  most  attractive  residence,  is  in  the  Ashly  Place 
subdivision.  As  one  visits  these  districts  which  have  been  improved  by  Mr.  Gocke, 
he  recognizes  the  fact  that  a  master  mind  has  been  back  of  all  the  planning,  one 
that  can  visualize  the  effects  that  may  be  obtained  by  a  landscape  gardener,  and 
that  has  had  in  its  purpose  to  make  beauty  the  added  purpose  of  giving  the  people 
full  value  in  every  way.  One  who  has  long  known  Mr.  Gocke  and  has  witnessed 
his  methods  in  business  life  says  of  him:  "His  integrity  is  unassailable;  morally 
he  is  one  hundred  per  cent,"  while  another  speaks  of  him  as:     "A  man  of  unusual 


426  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

reliability  in  business,  displaying  good  judgment  in  all  things,  and  enjoying  the 
full  confidence  of  his  clients."  In  1900  Mr.  Gocke  Vas  married  to  Miss  C.  Adelia 
Hutcheson  of  Edina,  Knox  county,  Missouri,  whose  father,  Elijah  Hutcheson,  was 
very  important  in  the  development  of  his  county,  where  he  owned  one  of  the 
largest   farms. 

Mr.  Gocke  is  extremely  fond  of  hunting,  fishing,  and  golf  to  which  he  turns  for 
recreation.  He  has  a  genial  nature  and  kindly  spirit,  but  selects  his  friends,  and 
his  cordiality  never  descends  into  familiarity.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of 
the  Midland  Valley  Country  Club  and  has  served  on  the  board  of  governors  for 
six  years.  He  has  contributed  much  to  the  success  of  the  organization.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Automobile  Club  of  St.  Louis  of  which  he  is  a  director  and  he 
belongs  to  various  other  clubs. 


MAJOR  ALEXANDER   W.   MULLL\S. 

The  memory  of  Major  Alexander  W.  Mullins  is  enshrined  in  the  hearts  of  those 
who  knew  him,  crowned  with  lasting  honor  because  of  his  useful  achievements  and 
high  attainments.  Of  him  it  was  said:  "He  was  of  heroic  type  in  bearing,  mind  and 
character,  and  in  his  death   Missouri   lost   one  of  its  truly  gi'eat   men." 

A  native  of  Kentucky,  Alexander  W.  Mullins  was  born  in  Marion  county,  April  12, 
1835,  and  was  a  son  of  Berryman  and  Susannah  (Crews)  Mullins,  who  removed  to 
Missouri  when  their  son  was  a  lad  of  but  nine  years.  The  family  home  wis  established 
in  Linn  county  and  he  was  reared  upon  the  farm  near  Linneus,  early  becoming 
familiar  with  the  duties  and  labors  incident  to  the  development  and  cultivation  of 
the  soil,  while  at  the  same  time  he  attended  the  public  schools  of  the  county  and 
supplemented  his  early  educational  opportunities  by  study  in  McGee  College  of  Macon 
county.  When  his  college  days  were  over  he  became  a  law  student  in  the  office  of 
Judge  Jacob  Smith,  an  eminent  member  of  the  Missouri  bar,  practicing  at  Linneus. 
Mr.  Mullins  applied  himself  with  great  diligence  and  thoroughness  to  the  mastery 
of  the  principles  of  jurisprudence  and  in  1857  was  admitted  to  the  bar  upon  examina- 
tion before  Judge  James  A.  Clark,  of  Linn.  He  at  once  entered  upon  the  practice  of 
his  profession,  but  with  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  became  a  private  of  the  First 
Regiment  Cavalry,  Missouri  State  Militia,  and  was  soon  afterward  commissioned  a 
major  by  Governor  Gamble'. 

Following  the  close  of  his  military  experience  Major  Mullins  resumed  his  law 
practice  and  steadily  forged  to  the  front  in  that  connection,  long  occupying  a  position 
of  distinction  as  a  representative  of  the  legal  fraternity  of  Missouri.  He  early  gave 
evidence  of  superior  ability  in  the  trial  of  cases,  which  he  prepared  most  carefully 
and  thoroughly,  so  that  he  entered  the  courtroom  well  qualified  for  defense  as  well  as 
for  attack.  He  was  seldo.n,  if  ever,  at  fsult  in  the  application  of  a  legil  principle  and 
his  familiarity  with  statutory  law  was  exact  and  comprehensive.  He  was  always 
courteous  to  the  court,  never  abusive  of  tn  adversary,  and  while  his  devotion  to  his 
clients'  interests  was  proverbial,  he  never  forgot  that  he  owed  a  still  higher  allegiance 
to  the  majesty  of  the  law.  He  was  nominated  by  the  republican  party  for  the  office 
of  judge  of  the  supreme  court  of  Missouri  and  for  attorney  general  of  the  state,  but 
in  neither  instance  did  he  make  any  active  personal  campaign,  preferring  to  remain 
with  his  family  and  devote  his  energies  to  the  practice  of  his  chosen  profession.  In 
1877  he  was  appointed  United  States  attorney  for  the  western  district  of  Missouri  by 
President  Grant.  As  his  financial  resources  increased  he  made  judicious  investments 
in  lands  and  in  b?.nk  stock  and  acquired  valuable  property  of  this  character  that 
enabled  him  in  the  later  years  of  his  life  to  live  retired,  enjoying  the  companionship 
of  his  family  and  friends.  He  became  one  of  the  l.irge  stockholders  of  the  Moore  & 
Mullins  Bank,  of  which  he  was  the  president,  and  during  his  later  years  it  was  his 
daily  custom,  when  the  we.ither  would  permit,  to  visit  the  bink  and  there  advise 
with  the  officers  concerning  its  business  man:  gement  or  converse  entertainingly  with 
his  friends  as  they  would  come  and  go.  The  people,  recognizing  the  value  of  his 
counsel,  -especially  in  matters  of  law,  were  accustomed  to  c.iU  upon  him  for  advice, 
which   he  gave  not  only  gratuitously   but  most   willingly. 

On  the  10th  of  January,  1863,  M.uor  Mullins  was  married  to  Miss  Xerrissa  Smith, 
daughter  of  Judge  Jacob  Smith,  who  was  his  preceptor  in  l;.w.  They  became  the 
parents  of  six  children:  John  D.,  A.  W.,  Roscoe  C.  and  Ben  H.,  all  of  Linn  county; 
Mrs.   .Mabel   Amick,  of   St.   Joseph;    and   Mrs.    Frances   Dillon,  of   Grant    City,   Missouri. 


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The  mother  and  all  of  the  children  are  living,  the  family  circle  remaining  unbroken 
by  the  hand  of  death  until  the  passing  of  Major  Mullins  on  the  8th  of  February,  1920. 
Major  Mullins  had  been  so  long  a  prominent  factor  in  the  life  of  the  community, 
had  been  so  true  in  his  friendships  and  so  honorable  in  all  his  purposes  that  the  news 
of  his  death  brought  a  sense  of  personal  bereavement  into  almost  every  household  of 
Linn  county.  He  had  for  forty  years  been  a  member  of  the  board  of  education  of 
Linneus  and  for  more  than  one-half  of  that  time  had  served  as  its  president.  The 
school  system  of  the  city  is  largely  a  monument  to  his  devotion  to  the  cause.  At  all 
times  his  aid  and  cooperation  could  be  counted  upon  to  further  measures  for  the  gen- 
eral good  and  it  was  ofttimes  his  initiative  that  promoted  such  measures  and  thus 
advanced  the  welfare  of  the  community.  He  filled  the  office  of  county  treasurer 
and  numerous  other  responsible  positions  in  a  most  creditable  and  satisfactory  manner 
and  twice  he  was  called  upon  to  represent  his  district  in  the  state  legislature.  He 
was  always  a  stalwart  republican  and  was  recognized  as  one  of  the  influential  leaders 
of  the  party  in  Missouri,  but  in  his  friendships  no  political  lines  were  recognized. 
When  death  called  him  the  family  received  telegrams  and  otfier  expressions  of  con- 
dolence from  friends  throughout  the  country,  who  spoke  of  Major  Mullins  as  a  dis- 
tinguished jurist  and  citizen  and  a  man  of  many  excellent  qualities.  He  was  not 
only  respected  and  admired  by  all  who  knew  him,  but  by  reason  of  the  kindliness  of 
his  nature  and  the  charitableness  of  his  opinions  he  won  the  affectionate  regard  of 
many.  At  his  demise  one  of  the  local  papers  said:  "The  passing  of  Major  Mullins 
is  a  loss  to  every  citizen  of  Linn  county,  and  especially  of  Linneus.  He  was  a  courtly 
gentleman,  the  soul  of  honor,  eminent  in  his  profession,  liberal  in  the  support  of 
every  good  work,  a  man  of  kindly  nature  and  lovable  qualities  that  evoked  admiration 
from  people  in  all  walks  of  life."  '  '• 


J.   L.   MYERS,   M.   D. 


Dr.  J.  L.  Myers,  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Drs.  Myers,  Kansas  City,  Missouri, 
is  the  son  of  Simeon  and  Susan  Alexander  Myers,  the  former  a  native  of  Ohio,  a 
veteran  of  the  Civil  war  (1861-65),  always  a  staunch  advocate  of  the  highest  stand- 
ards in  politics,  education  and  religion,  and  the  latter  a  daughter  of  the  south. 
After  the  Civil  war  Simeon  Myers  was  attracted  to  the  west  with  thousands  of  other 
ex-soldiers  and  settled  in  Livingston  county,  Missouri,  later  marrying  Mrs.  Susan 
Alexander  Wright,  from  which  marriage  there  were  six  sons  born,  of  whom  John 
L.  Myers  was  the  oldest,  born  March  29,  1872.  He  was  born  at  Avalon,  Missouri, 
and  attended  the  village  academy,  later  matriculating  in  Park  College  at  Parkville, 
Missouri,  which  in  1901  conferred  upon  him  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree.  He  after- 
ward pursued  a  medical  course  at  Kansas  City  and  gained  his  M.  D.  degree  in  1904, 
being  an  alumnus  of  what  is  now  the  University  of  Kansas.  He  pursued  post- 
graduate work  at  Philadelphia,  Cincinnati  and  New  York  in  1910,  and  went  abroad 
for  study  in  London  in  1914.  For  ten  years,  1904-14,  he  practiced  in  Alaska, 
locating  at  Ketchikan,  where  in  addition  to  the  general  practice  of  medicine,  he 
served  as  mine  surgeon.  Following  a  year  of  post-graduate  work  he  located  at 
Seattle,  Washington,  where  he  remained  for  a  year  specializing  on  the  ear,  eye, 
nose  and  throat,' locating  the  next  year  in  Kansas  City,  as  partner  to  Dr.  J.  E. 
Sawtell  in  the  same  line  of  work.  He  is  now  associated  with  his  brothers,  Drs. 
B.  L.  and  W.  A.  Myers,  under  the  firm  name  of  Drs.  Myers,  limiting  himself  to  his 
specialty.  Dr.  J.  L.  Myers  not  only  holds  membership  in  the  Jackson  county, 
Missouri  State  and  American  Medical  Associations,  and  was  for  years  president  of 
the  Alaska  Board  of  Medical  Examiners,  but  also  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Opthalmo-Oto-Rhino-Larynological  Academy.  When  America  was  engaged  in  war 
with  Germany,  he  received  a  captain's  commission  and  on  August  1918  went  to 
Camp  Greenleaf  tor  training,  later  being  transferred  to  the  Base  Hospital  at  Camp 
Wheeler  where  he  continued  until  December  1918,  when  he  received  his  honorable 
discharge. 

In  1904  Dr.  Myers  was  married  to  Miss  Florence  Young  of  Clarlnda,  Iowa, 
whose  parents  were  natives  of  Pennsylvania,  and  whose  father  is  a  retired  merchant. 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Myers  have  membership  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  and  his  political 
course  is   an   independent  one.      He  belongs  to  the   Kansas   City  Club,   to   the  City 


430  CENTEXXIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Club,   is   a   Mason,   a   Redman,   and   belongs   also   to   the   Independent   Order  of   Odd 
Fellows. 

Dr.  Myers  is  an  enthusiastic  religious  and  social  worker,  and  has  been  instru- 
mental in  advancing  the  cause  of  education  in  his  Alma  Mater  by  raising  endow- 
ments and  building  funds.  He  is  attending  surgeon  in  his  specialty  to  the  St.  Mary's 
and  Bell  Memorial  Hospitals  and  is  instructor  in  the  Medical  College  of  the  Kansas 
State  University. 


BENJAMIN    LEE    MYERS,    M.    D. 

Dr.  Benjamin  Lee  Myers  is  a  man  of  the  highest  ethical  standards  and  educa- 
tional achievements.  He  is  a  native  of  Missouri,  a  brother  of  Drs.  J.  L.  and  W.  A. 
Myers,  born  June  26,  1878,  at  Avalon,  Livingston  county.  He  spent  his  early  life 
on  his  father's  farm,  received  his  early  education  from  the  rural  schools  and  village 
academy,  and  his  college  training  at  Park  College,  Parkville,  Missouri,  where  he 
was  a  leader  in  debate  and  oratory,  and  where  he  graduated  in  1906  with  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  He  spent  one  year  in  University  Medical  College,  Kansas  City, 
Missouri,  securing  a  year's  credit  for  advanced  scientific  work  done  in  College, 
where  he  was  assistant  in  the  scientific  departments  for  his  junior  and  senior  years. 
His  third  and  fourth  years  of  medical  work  were  spent  in  Nebraska  University,  at 
Omaha,  where  he  spent  also  his  interneship  in  surgery  in  the  Swedish  Immanuel 
Hospital.  He  was  married  in  1910  to  Miss  Maron  MacLean  of  Chicago,  Illinois, 
after  which  they  immediately  left  for  Ketchikan,  Alaska,  where  he  established  an 
enviable  practice  in  accident  and  general  surgery,  associating  himself  with  his 
.brother.  Dr.  J.  L.  Myers.  Here  he  always  stood  tor  scientific  medical  standards, 
clean  politics,  and  fair  play  in  this  thriving  village,  "the  gateway  to  the  north." 
He  was  named  by  the  Governor  of  Alaska  as  president  of  the  Territorial  Board  of 
Medical  Examiners  in  1915,  which  position  he  held  until  he  left  Alaska.  In  1912, 
and  1917  he  took  postgraduate  work  in  the  States,  and  in  1920  established  his 
office  in  Kansas  City,  associating  himself  with  his  brothers.  The  first  year  of  this 
association  he  spent  in  study  in  the  surgical  clinics  of  America  and  England. 

Dr.  Myers  has  always  been  a  leader  of  men — he  is  a  thorough  student,  con- 
scientious in  his  work,  a  man  and  surgeon  of  unusually  clear  judgment.  He  is  a 
stanch  supporter  of  educational  and  religious  institutions,  and  though  a  surgeon 
has  a  hobby  for  collecting  and  enjoying  landscape  and  other  scenic  themes,  which 
he  has  incorporated  into  lectures,  especially  of  the  northwest.  He  thoroughly 
enjoys  travel  and  the  out-of-doors,  but  is  essentially  a  lover  of  home  and  the  associa- 
tion of  his  wife  and  two  children,  Alexander  and  Francis.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Nu  Sigma  Nu  Medical  Fraternity,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Jackson  County,  Missouri, 
State    and    the    American    Medical    Associations. 


WILSON  ALEXANDER  MYERS,   M.   D. 

Dr.  Wilson  Alexander  Myers  is  junior  member  of  the  firm  of  Drs.  Myers,  having 
located  in  Kansas  City.  January  1,  1916.  He  is  the  youngest  of  six  brothers,  born 
March  18,  1883,  lived  on  a  farm  in  his  early  life  and,  like  his  brothers,  received 
his  inspiration  for  higher  education  from  his  father  who  was  a  stanch  supporter 
of  the  small  Academy  of  Avalon,  Missouri.  He,  too,  graduated  from  Park  College, 
with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  (1908),  and  passed  directly  into  his  study  of 
medicine  at  the  University  of  Nebraska.  At  each  of  these  schools  he  was  the 
recipient  of  honors  for  public  speaking.  He  completed  his  work  in  medicine  at 
Rush  Medical  College,  1912,  and  followed  this  with  two  years  of  study  in  the 
Michael  Reese  Hospital,  Chicago.  In  April,  1914,  he  turned  westward,  taking  the 
practice  of  his  brother  J.  L.  Myers  who  was  going  abroad  for  study.  In  Ketchikan, 
Alaska,  he  practiced  for  almost  two  years.  He  helped  form  the  first  Medical  Society 
in  Alaska  at  Ketchikan.  In  January,  1916,  he  opened  an  office  in  Kansas  City, 
associating  himself  with  Dr.  W.  W.  Duke  for  three  years,  his  line  of  work  being 
diagnosis   and   internal   medicine. 

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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  431 

for  service,  but  was  held  by  the  government  as  instructor  at  the  Kansas  State 
University  Medical  College. 

On  September  2,  1916,  Dr.  Myers  was  married  at  Mound  City,  Missouri,  to 
Miss  Ruth  Hall,  whose  parents  were  natives  of  Missouri.  The  children  of  this 
marriage  are  Marguerite  and  John  Simeon.  Dr.  Myers  is  a  Presbyterian  and  belongs 
to  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  to  the  Arctic  Brotherhood,  the  latter 
Order  having  as  members  only  those  who  have  lived  in  the  territories  of  Alaska 
and  Yukon.  He  is  a  member  of  Jackson  County,  Missouri  State  and  American 
Medical  Association,  the  Kansas  City  Academy  of  Medicine,  the  Catholic  Hospital 
Association  and  the  American  Congress  of  Physicians.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Nu  Sigma  Nu  Fraternity.  He  is  serving  on  the  staff  of  Kansas  City  General  Hospital, 
is  attending  physician  at  St.  Mary's  Hospital  and  is  Assistant  Professor  in  the 
Kansas  State  University  School  of  Medicine. 

Dr.  Myers  is  a  thorough  scholar  and  an  industrious  student,  always  searching 
tor  truth  and  accepting  it  however  much  it  may  differ  from  his  preconceived  ideas. 
He  is  fond  of  research  and  is  an  ardent  advocate  of  progress  in  medicine,  religion 
and  politics.  To  him  the  world  is  still  in  the  making.  Imbued  with  an  altruistic 
ambition  he  gives  liberally,  one  might  say  prodigally,  of  time  and  money  to  any 
means  or  method  that  will   help   his   fellows. 


WALTER   J.    HAUSMAN. 


Walter  J.  Hausman.  department  manager  for  the  Underwood  Typewriter  Com- 
pany in  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Trinidad,  Colorado,  July  10,  1885.  His  father, 
Joseph  Hausman,  was  a  native  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  was  of  German  descent. 
He  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  and  largely  concentrated  his  attention  upon 
surgical  work,  practicing  in  Cincinnati.  During  the  Civil  war  he  served  with  the 
northern  army  and  by  his  military  aid  followed  in  the  footsteps  of  his  father,  who 
had  been  one  of  the  American  soldiers  in  the  Mexican  war.  Joseph  Hausman  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Celia  Wichgar.  a  daughter  of  Louis  and  Hannah  (Zoller) 
Wichgar,  in  Cincinnati,  September  24,  1884,  and  to  them  were  born  three  children: 
Walter  J.,  Justine  and  Agnes.  The  younger  daughter  nArried  Wales  Smart  and 
is  a  resident  of  Cincinnati. 

Walter  J.  Hausman  is  indebted  to  the  public  school  system  of  Cincinnati  for 
the'  educational  opportunities  which  he  enjoyed,  and  after  attending  the  public 
schools  he  pursued  a  classical  course  there  in  St.  Xavler  College.  He  left  Cincinnati 
at  the  age  of  sixteen  years  for  Trinidad,  Colorado,  and  from  1901  until  1904  was 
a  clerk  with  the  Hausman  Drug  Company  of  that  city,  conducting  a  wholesale  and 
retail  drug  business.  In  the  latter  year  he  returned  to  Cincinnati  and  became  an 
employe  of  the  Stein-Gray  Drug  Company,  taking  charge  of  the  order  department. 
During  his  work  in  that  connection  he  studied  accounting  for  a  year,  devoting  his 
leisure  time  to  the  mastery  of  that  branch  of  learning.  In  19  06  he  obtained  a 
position  as  bookkeeper  with  the  George  Wiedemann  Brewing  Company  in  Newport, 
Kentucky,  and  was  thus  employed  until  1911,  when  he  went  with  the  Elliott-Fisher 
Company  as  a  salesman,  that  company  being  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  book- 
keeping machines.  After  a  year's  time  he  was  given  charge  of  the  Kentucky 
territory,  with  headquarters  at  Louisville,  where  he  remained  until  August,  1914. 
He  then  came  to  St.  Louis  as  field  manager,  which  position  he  capably  filled  until 
November,  1917,  when  he  entered  into  business  relations  with  the  Underwood  Type- 
writer Company  as  manager  of  the  bookkeeping  machine  department.  This  position 
he  has  filled  to  the  present  time  and  is  a  most  efficient  and  capable  representative 
of  the  company,  his  ability  being  thoroughly  recognized  by  the  firm. 

In  Cincinnati,  February  8,  1908,  Mr.  Hausman  was  married  to  Miss  Anna 
Miller,  a  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Mary  (Teal)  Miller.  Her  father  is  now  deceased, 
having  died  from  the  effects  of  his  service  in  the  Civil  war.  The  mother  belonged 
to  the  family  from  which  Tealtown,  Ohio,  derived  its  name.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hausman  have  been  born  two  children:  Walter  J.,  whose  birth  occurred  September 
9,   1910;   and  Jean,  boi-n  January   29,   1915. 

During  the  period  of  the  World  war  Mr.  Hausman  took  active  part  in  promoting 
the  sale  of  Liberty  bonds  and  other  war  drives  and  subscribed  most  liberally  to 
all   war   activities,   while   his   wife    was   an   active   member   of   the    Red   Cross.      He 

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belongs  to  Robert  Burns  Lodge  No.  163,  A.  F.  &  A,  M..  at  Newport,  Kentucky,  in 
which  he  was  raised  in  April,  1909.  In  religious  faith  he  is  a  Protestant  and  in 
politics  his  course  is  that  of  an  independent  republican.  His  interest  in  local  affairs 
and  community  progress  is  shown  in  his  connection  with  the  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
He  belongs  to  the  City  Club,  the  Optimists  Club  and  the  Riverview  Club,  and  his 
social  qualities  are  such  as  make  for  personal  popularity  among  his  large  and 
constantly   increasing  circle   of   friends. 


ANTHONY   EDWARD   FAUST. 
("Tony  Faust") 

Anthony  Edward  Faust,  who  for  many  years  figured  as  a  leading  restaurateur  in 
St.  Louis,  winning  a  national  reputation  in  that  connection,  passed  away  in  1906.  He 
was  at  that  time  seventy  years  of  age,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Germany,  January 
3,  1836.  He  was  a  son  of  Conrad  and  Katherine  (Gerlach)  Faust  and  while  spending 
his  youthful  days  under  the  parental  roof  pursued  his  education  in  the  Gymnasium 
and  the  Realschule  in  his  native  land.  He  was  seventeen  years  of  age  when  in  1853 
he  crossed  the  Atlantic  to  the  United  States,  landing  at  New  York.  Making  his  way 
westward,  he  first  became  a  resident  of  Dubuque,  Iowa,  and  afterward  removed  to 
St.  Louis,  where  until  1862  he  worked  at  the  trade  of  ornamental  plastering.  Ambitious, 
however,  to  engage  in  business  on  his  own  account,  he  saved  his  earnings  until  his 
economy  and  industry  had  brought  him  sufficient  capital  to  enable  him  to  open  a 
small  restaurant  in  that  part  of  the  city  known  as  FYenchtown.  The  new  undertak- 
ing prospered  from  the  beginning  and  after  a  brief  period  he  removed  to  the  location 
which  became  famous  as  "Tony  Faust's  restaurant."  In  1877  the  place  was  destroyed 
in  the  Southern  Hotel  fire  but  at  once  was  rebuilt  on  a  larger  scale  and  the  first  roof 
garden  in  the  United  States  was  opened.  Something  of  the  progressive  spirit  of  Mr. 
Faust  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  in  1878  he  purchased  an  electric  light  plant  at 
the  Paris  Exposition,  which  he  put  in  operation  in  his  restaurant,  thus  installing  the 
first  electric  light  system  of  St.  Louis.  From  the  beginning  he  held  to  the  highest 
standards  in  the  nature  of  the  service  rendered  in  his  establishment  and  in  the  food 
and  drink  served  to  his  customers.  Because  of  this  he  had  no  trouble  in  holding  his 
trade  and  in  1889,  his  quarters  being  insufficient  to  accommodate  his  steadily  growing 
business,  he  razed  the  building  and  rebuilt  on  a  much  larger  scale.  From  that  time 
until  his  death  the  restaurant  of  Mr.  Faust  was  one  of  the  show  places  of  St.  Louis 
and  the  resort  of  its  best  people — those  who  might  be  considered  connoisseurs  in  the 
matter  of  food.  In  1879  Mr.  Faust  opened  the  Fulton  Market,  conducting  a  wholesale 
and  retail  business  in  delicacies  of  all  kinds,  and  remained  one  of  its  directors,  his 
son,  Edward  A.,  becoming  the  president  thereof.  Mr.  Faust  was  also  the  president 
of  the  St.  Louis  Catering  Company  and  each  business  enterprise  with  which  he  be- 
came connected  profited  by  the  stimulus  of  his  activity  and  progressive  spirit. 

In  St.  Louis,  in  1865,  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Anthony  E.  Faust  and  Miss 
Elizabeth  Bischoft.  They  became  the  parents  of  two  sons  and  a  daughter:  Edward 
A.,    mentioned    elsewhere    in    this    work;    Anthony    R.;    and    Mrs.    Mollie    Giannini. 

Mr.  Faust  was  a  member  of  the  Liederkranz  and  several  other  prominent  organi- 
zations of  St.  Louis  and  was  a  foremost  figure  in  the  business  circles  of  this  city, 
where  for  more  than  a  half  century  he  made  his  home.  The  year  1906  marked  the 
passing  of  one  who  was  long  classed  with  the  prominent  and  well  known  residents  of 
St.  Louis. 


EDWARD  AUGUSTUS  FAUST. 

Edward  Augustus  Faust,  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Boat  &  Engineering  Company, 
was  born  in  St.  Louis,  January  13,  1869,  his  parents  being  Anthony  E.  and  Elizabeth 
(Bischoff)  Faust.  After  attending  the  public  schools  he  continued  his  education  in 
Smith  Academy  and  in  Packard's  School  of  New  York.  In  1885  he  became  connected 
with  commercial  interests  in  the  eastern  metropolis,  entering  the  employ  of  Tode 
Brothers,  engaged  in  the  wholesale  and  retail  fancy  grocery  business.  Mr.  Faust 
continued  with  that  house  until  1887  and  for  eleven  years  thereafter  was  associated 
with  his  father  under  the  firm  style  of  Faust  &  Sons  Oyster  &  Restaurant  Company. 


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In  1893  he  was  elected  the  vice  president  and  secretary  of  that  company  and  so  con- 
tinued until  1902.  In  the  meantime  he  had  also  become  identified  with  other  business 
interests  and  in  1898  was  elected  a  vice  president  and  director  of  the  Anheuser-Busch 
Brewing  Association  as  the  successor  of  Adolphus  Busch,  Jr.,  who  had  passed  away. 
He  was  also  made  general  manager  of  the  St.  Louis  Refrigerator  Car  Company.  In 
1915  he  became  the  president  of  the  Standard  Shipbuilding  Corporation  of  New  York 
and  later  was  elected  to  the  presidency  of  the  St.  Louis  Boat  &  Engineering  Company, 
the  latter  being  one  of  the  largest  inland  steel  boatbuilding  companies  in  the  United 
States.  Moreover,  Mr.  Faust  has  other  very  important  business  connections,  being 
a  representative  of  the  directorate  of  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce  of  St.  Louis,  of 
the  Laclede  Gas  Company,  of  the  Kinloch  Telephone  Company  and  of  the  Missouri. 
Kansas  &  Texas  Railroad  Company.  He  has  his  office  in  the  Bank  of  Commerce  build- 
ing, from  which  point  he  directs  the  important  and  extensive  business  interests  under 
his  control. 

On  the  20th  of  March,  1897,  Mr.  Faust  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss  Anna 
Louise  Busch,  a  daughter  of  Adolphus  Busch,  and  they  are  parents  of  two  children, 
Leicester  Busch  and  Audrey.  Mr.  Faust  is  a  prominent  figure  in  club  circles,  belong- 
ing to  the  St.  Louis,  Racquet,  Noonday,  St.  Louis  Country,  Sunset  Inn,  Bellerive 
Country  and  Log  Cabin  Clubs,  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association  and  to  the  Lieder- 
kranz.  During  the  period  of  the  war  his  elder  son  was  a  member  of  the  Students 
Army  Training  Corps  at  Yale.  Politically  Mr.  ^ Faust  is  a  republican,  thoroughly  in- 
formed concerning  the  vital  questions  and  issues  of  the  day,  yet  has  never  been  an 
office  seeker.  His  time  and  attention  have  been  concentrated  upon  his  growing  busi- 
ness interests,  which  have  constantly  developed  until  his  position  is  today  one  of 
leadership  in  connection  with  inland  boatbuilding  in  the  United  States. 


DAVID  B.   ORMISTON. 


David  B.  Ormiston,  editor  of  the  Linn  County  News,  published  at  Linneus,  was 
born  March  6.  1859,  near  Marietta,  Washington  county,  Ohio,  his  parents  being 
William  and  Harriet  M.  Ormiston,  who  came  to  Missouri  on  the  22d  of  February, 
1865,  settling  in  Linn  county,  where  the  father  engaged  in  farming,  contracting  and 
building,  which  he  followed  until  his  death  in  1904.  He  was  born  in  Edinburgh, 
Scotland,  in  1824  and  was  therefore  eighty  years  of  age  when  he  passed  away  in 
Iowa,  to  which  state  he  had  removed  some  time  before  his  demise.  For  several 
years  he  filled  the  office  of  justice  of  the  peace. 

David  B.  Ormiston  was  feared  and  acquired  his  education  in  the  public  schools 
of  Linn  county  and  in  the  State  Normal  of  Kirksville.  He  also  attended  the  Gem 
City  Business  College  at  Quincy,  Illinois,  and  was  graduated  therefrom  with  the  class 
of  1881.  When  but  seventeen  years  of  age  he  took  up  the  profession  of  teaching, 
which  he  followed  successfully  for  twelve  years  in  Linn  county,  imparting  readily 
and  clearly  to  others  the  knowledge  he  had  acquired.  On  the  expiration  of  that 
period  he  purchased  the  Linn  County  News,  of  which  he  became  owner  in  1884, 
and  throughout  the  intervening  period  he  has  published  this  paper,  having  secured 
for  it  one  of  the  largest  circulation  lists  in  the  county.  The  paper  was  founded  in 
1882  by  James  Brunemer  at  Laclede,  Missouri,  and  was  purchased  by  Colonel  B.  P. 
Northcott  &  Son,  who  brought  the  paper  to  Linneus.  For  thirty-six  years  Mr. 
Ormiston  has  been  in  charge  and  has  made  his  paper  both  the  mirror  and  the  molder 
of  public  opinion. 

On  the  25th  of  December,  1884,  Mr.  Ormiston  was  married  to  Miss  Nellie 
Northcott,  daughter  of  Colonel  B.  P.  and  Elizabeth  A.  Northcott,  who  were  natives 
of  Kentucky  and  came  to  Linn  county,  Missouri,  about  1857  from  Illinois.  Pour 
children  were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ormiston:  Juanita,  now  the  wife  of  M.  P. 
Homan,  a  resident  of  Macon;  Genevieve,  the  wife  of  Arthur  B.  Stannard,  of  Atchison, 
Kansas;  Todd  N.,  who  married  Winnie  Allen  and  is  a  resident  of  Kansas  City,  being 
on  the  staff  of  the  Kansas  City  Star;  and  Susa,  now  the  wife  of  Carlos  B.  Western, 
living  at  Linneus. 

Mr.  Ormiston  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  also  of  the  Modern  Wood- 
men of  America  and  the  nature  of  the  rules  and  principles  which  govern  his  conduct 
is  further  indicated  in  his  membership  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  His 
political   allegiance  is  given   to   the   republican   party,   of  which   he  is  a  stanch   ad- 


436  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

vocate.  He  was  postmaster  during  Harrison's  administration  and  was  reappointed 
by  President  McKinley,  serving  continuously  until  the  early  part  o£  President 
Wilson's  administration.  He  was  also  a  member  tor  three  consecutive  terms  of  the 
republican  state  central  committee  from  the  second  district  and  has  exerted  con- 
siderable influence  over  political  thought  and  action   in   the  state. 


HOMER    B.    MANN. 


There  are  tew  agencies  which  work  for  public  good,  for  progress  and  municipal 
improvement  in  which  Homer  B.  Mann  does  not  take  a  most  active  and  helpful 
part,  his  labors  being  at  all  times  far-reaching  and  resultant.  He  is  a  well  known 
representative  of  insurance  interests  and  for  many  years  was  the  recognized  leader 
of  the  republican  party  in  Kansas  City.  He  has  also  been  a  champion  of  educational 
advancement  and  a  liberal  contributor  to  the  work  of  the  church.  In  fact  all  those 
interests  which  make  for  the  uplift  of  the  individual  and  the  advancement  of  the 
community  receive  his  endorsement  and  cooperation,  and  thus  Kansas  City  numbers 
him  among  her  most  valued  residents.  He  was  born  in  Chester.  Illinois,  June  16, 
1869,  in  the  same  house  in  which  occurred  the  birth  of  his  father,  the  Rev.  Alfred 
M.  Mann,  who  became  a  minister  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  removed  from 
Illinois  to  Wellington,  Kansas,  being  the  first  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  church  in 
the  southwestern  part  of  the  state.  He  rode  the  circuit  and  devoted  forty-tive  years 
of  his  life  to  preaching  the  gospel,  being  connected  at  different  periods  with  twenty- 
two  churches  in  Kansas.  He  passed  away  in  Kansas  City,  Kansas,  in  1915,  honored 
and  respected  by  all  who  knew  him  because  of  the  upright  life  he  had  led  and  the 
good  work  he  had  done.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  also  of 
the  Knights  of  Pythias.  During  the  Civil  war  he  served  as  a  captain  in  an  Illinois 
regiment  and  thus  aided  in  the  defense  of  the  Union.  He  married  Sarah  S.  Hood, 
of  Chester,  South  Carolina,  who  was  but  six  years  of  age  when  she  was  taken  to 
Illinois,  living  at  Sparta,  that  state,  to  the  time  of  her  marriage.  She  became  the 
mother  of  six  children,  of  whom  three  survive,  two  having  died  in  infancy  and  one 
in  recent  years. 

Homer  B.  Mann  began  his  education  in  the  schools  of  Kansas  and  continued 
his  studies  in  Park  College.  After  an  interval  of  twenty-seven  years  he  is  now 
serving  as  president  of  the  official  board  of  his  alma  mater  and  is  a  member  of  its 
alumni  association.  After  leaving  college  he  went  to  North  Dakota  and  secured 
a  position  in  the  First  National  Bank  at  Minot.  He  afterward  purchased  the  Minot 
Journal,  which  he  owned  and  edited  for  a  year  and  a  half,  and  in  the  fall  of  1894 
he  disposed  of  his  interests  in  North  Dakota  and  came  to  Kansas  City.  Here  he 
took  up  work  in  connection  with  the  Daily  Drovers  Telegram,  with  which  he  was 
associated  for  a  year  and  a  half.  For  some  time  thereafter  he  concentrated  his 
efforts  and  attention  largely  upon  political  interests  and  for  a  number  of  years  was 
the  recognized  leader  of  the  republican  party  in  Kansas  City.  In  189  6  he  wasi 
appointed  chief  clerk  in  the  engineering  department  and  spent  two  years  in  the 
city  hall  in  that  connection.  In  1898  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  general 
assembly  from  the  second  legislative  district  and  received  the  largest  vote  on  the 
republican  ticket  in  a  democratic  district.  While  a  member  of  the  house  he  served 
on  two  important  committees — that  on  ways  and  means  and  that  on  appropriations. 
He  also  introduced  the  first  bill  to  provide  for  the  agricultural  department  of  the 
University  of  Missouri. 

At  the  close  of  his  legislative  service  Mr.  Mann  returned  to  Kansas  City  and 
became  identified  with  the  W.  S.  Dickey  Clay  Manufacturing  Company,  with  which 
he  remained  until  1902.  In  that  year  he  was  elected  alderman  from  the  tenth  ward 
and  was  afterward  reelected  by  a  very  large  majority  and  was  made  speaker  of 
the  council,  being  elected  by  both  parties.  In  1908  he  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  republican  state  committee  tor  the  fifth  congressional  district  and  in  1910  was 
elected  chairman  of  the  republican  county  central  committee  of  the  same  district. 
In  1912  he  was  chosen  a  delegate  to  the  republican  national  convention  and  acted 
as  chairman  of  the  Roosevelt  caucus,  but  did  not  leave  the  party  with  the  pro- 
gressives. For  fifteen  years  he  was  a  dominant  figure  in  the  republican  party  in 
Kansas  City,  largely  shaping  its  policy  and  directing  its  activities.  He  still  feels 
the  keenest  interest  in  alT  questions  of  citizenship  and  all  the  problems  that  affect 
the    welfare    of    the   community,    the    commonwealth    and    the    country,    but    is    not 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  437 

working  in  the  ranks  of  the  party  to  the  extent  that  he  formerly  did.  In  1905  he 
entered  the  insurance  field  with  the  firm  of  Brown,  Mann  &  Barnum  and  has  since 
advanced  to  a  prominent  position  in  connection  with  insurance  interests  in  this 
city.  His  success  in  the  business  world  is  due  to  his  willingness  to  work  and  his 
intimate  understanding  of  human  nature.  Mr.  Mann  is  also  the  owner  of  a  farm 
of  two  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  devoted  to  the  raising  of  Hereford  cattle  and  Duroc 
Jersey  hogs.  In  his  farm  he  finds  his  chief  diversion  and  delights  in  pitching  hay, 
riding  the  mowing  machine  and  doing  other  work  incident  to  its  development  and 
improvement. 

On  the  5th  of  October,  1892,  Mr.  Mann  was  married  to  Miss  Sallie  H.  Campbell, 
of  Paola,  Kansas,  and  they  have  two  sons:  Fred  C,  twenty-seven  years  of  age, 
who  married  Geneva  V.  Campbell  and  has  one  son,  Fred  C;  and  Robert  H.,  who 
is  associated  with  his  father  in  business.  Both  sons  entered  the  First  Officers' 
Training  Camp  and  became  lieutenants.  Lieutenant  Robt.  H.  Mann  went  to  France, 
where  he  saw  active  service  in  the  Three  Hundred  and  Forty-second  Machine  Gun 
Company  Battalion.  Lieutenant  Fred  C.  Mann  was  in  the  air  service  for  seventeen 
months. 

Mr.  Mann  is  well  known  in  Masonic  circles,  belonging  to  Ivanhoe  Lodge,  A.  F. 
&  A.  M.,  the  Royal  Arch  chapter,  the  Knights  Templar  commandery  and  Ararat 
Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Linwood  Boulevard  Presbyterian 
church,  with  which  he  has  been  identified  for  twenty-four  years,  serving  as  one 
of  its  trustees  for  twelve  years  and  for  a  long  period  as  teacher  of  the  young  men's 
Bible  class.  He  belongs  also  to  the  Kansas  City  Club,  to  the  Mid-Day  Club  of 
Kansas  City  and  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Kansas  City.  His  deep  interest 
in  community  affairs  is  shown  in  the  fact  that  for  six  years  he  was  one  of  the 
directors  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  has  also  been  its  vice  president.  He 
manifests  the  keenest  interest  in  all  civic  affairs  and  is  a  man  of  broad  views,  strong 
determination,  deep  conviction  of  right  and  wrong,  and  expresses  his  opinions  on 
suitable  occasions  in  a  most  forceful  and  convincing  manner.  His  work  in  behalf 
of  Park  College  has  been  tar-reaching  and  resultant.  He  has  given  much  time  and 
thought  to  the  interests  of  the  college  and  during  the  years  that  he  has  been 
president  of  the  board  has  done  much  toward  increasing  the  endowment  fund.  The 
breadth  and  nature  of  his  interests  have  indeed  made  him  a  valuable  citizen,  while 
his  intelligently  directed  effort  has  become  a  resultant  factor  in  every  field  of 
activity  in  which  he  has  labored. 


WILLIAM  K.   TRIMBLE,   M.   D. 

Dr.  William  K.  Trimble,  whose  thorough  professional  training  and  continued 
study  keep  him  in  touch  with  modern  thought  and  progress  as  related  to  the  science 
and  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery,  was  born  in  Oregon,  Holt  county,  Missouri, 
September  28,  1874,  his  parents  being  R.  P.  and  Elizabeth  A.  (Jeffries)  Trimble, 
who  were  natives  of  West  Virginia  and  came  to  Missouri  about  1865,  the  father 
devoting  his  life  to  farming  and  merchandising  in  Oregon,  Missouri.  He  served 
in  "the  Civil  war  as  a  member  of  the  Union  army,  being  a  most  fearless  man,  for 
he  was  surrounded  by  a  community  that  believed  in  slavery.  He  joined  an  artillery 
company  and  was  made  first  lieutenant,  serving  throughout  the  war. 

Dr.  Trimble  supplemented  his  common  school  education  by  a  high  school  course 
in  Kansas  City  and  was  graduated  in  1896.  He  afterward  entered  the  Kansas  City 
Medical  College  in  which  he  finished  his  studies  in  1900,  the  M.  D.  degree  being 
then  conferred  upon  him.  In  the  same  year  he  began  practice  in  Kansas  City  and 
about  four  years  later  entered  Harvard  Medical  College  for  post-graduate  work, 
specializing  in  pathology  of  laboratory  diagnosis.  He  is  a  teacher  in  the  University 
of  Kansas  and  at  one  time  was  director  of  the  laboratory  research  work  at  the 
hospital.  He  also  served  on  the  staff  of  St.  Luke's  Hospital  and  of  the  Swedish 
Hospital,  with  both  of  which  he  is  still  connected.  He  is  now  professor  of  Internal 
Medicine  in  the  University  of  Kansas  and  is  recognized  as  an  authority  upon  that 
department  of  practice. 

In  1903,  in  Kansas  City,  Dr.  Trimble  was  married  to  Miss  Bertha  J.  Miller, 
whose  parents  were  natives  of  this  state.  His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Method- 
ist church,  and  he  is  a  Knight  Templar  Mason.     He  belongs  to  the  Meadow  Lake 


438  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Country.  Golf  Club  and  also  to  the  City  Club,  and  his  political  support  is  given  to 
the  republican  party.  Along  strictly  professional  lines  his  membership  relation  is 
with  the  Kansas  City  Academy  of  Medicine,  the  Jackson  County,  Missouri  State  and 
American  Medical  Associations.  He  is  of  a  most  studious  nature  and  disposition, 
thorough  in  everything  he  undertakes,  and  in  the  diagnosis  of  a  case  he  is  seldom, 
if  ever,   at  fault. 


JOHN   BROOKS   PEW. 


John  Brooks  Pew,  a  Kansas  City  lawyer  who  brings  to  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion high  ideals  of  honor  and  integrity,  coupled  with  thorough  preparation  for  his 
work,  was  born  in  Grundy  county,  Missouri,  December  28,  1877.  He  has  back  of  him 
an  ancestry  that  has  been  distinctively  American  in  thought,  feeling  and  purpose 
for  many  generations.  His  grandfather,  William  Pew,  was  a  native  of  Kentucky  and 
the  father,  George  C.  Pew,  was  also  born  in  that  state.  The  latter  came  to  Missouri 
with  his  parents,  the  family  home  being  established  in  Grundy  county  when  George 
C.  Pew  was  but  a  year  old.  He  has  since  been  a  resident  of  this  state  and  is  now 
living  retired.  He  has  long  been  an  exemplary  follower  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and 
a  faithful  member  of  the  Baptist  church.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of 
Janie  Brooks,  was  born  in  Grundy  county,  Missouri,  and  they  became  the  parents  of 
six  children,  of  whom  three  are  living,  John  B.  being  the  youngest.  The  wife  and 
mother  passed  away  in  1917.  She  had  been  very  active  in  church  and  charitable 
work  and  an  untiring  supporter  of  the  prohibition  cause. 

In  his  youthful  days  John  B.  Pew  was  a  pupil  in  a  preparatory  school  at  Chilli- 
cothe,  Missouri,  and  afterward  entered  the  William  Jewell  College,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1899. 
Still  more  advanced  educational  opportunities  were  accorded  him  and  he  won  his 
LL.  B.  degree  upon  the  completion  of  a  law  course  in  Yale  University  in  1902. 
While  in  the  William  Jewell  College  he  became  a  member  of  Sigma  Nu  and  he  is 
also  a  member  of  Phi  Alpha  Delta,  a  law  fraternity.  In  the  year  of  his  graduation 
from  Yale  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  has  since  been  engaged  in  the  general 
practice  of  his  profession,  being  now  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Pew  &  Harris  of 
Kansas  City.  His  personal  magnetism  before  the  jury  is  coupled  with  the  strongest 
and  most  convincing  argument.  He  maintains  that  no  lawyer  can  long  succeed  in 
attempting  to  do  that  which  is  not  just.  His  wonderful  acquaintance  with  human 
kind  and  his  firm  belief  in  and  practice  of  a  "square  deal"  are  the  qualities  which 
have  made  Mr.  Pew  a  successful  lawyer  and  litigant.  He  has  marked  oratorical 
ability  and  he  shows  notable  originality  in  his  approach  to  legal  and  other  questions. 
For  fourteen  years  he  has  been  a  lecturer  in  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law  and  the 
enthusiasm  of  the  students  tor  their  professor  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  they 
recently  planned  the  organization  of  a  "Pew  for  Governor  Club"'  but  Mr.  Pew  declined 
to  consider  the  office  in  any  way.  He  is  president  of  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Associa- 
tion, taking  office  October  9,  1920,  and  he  is  also  a  member  of  the  Missouri  State 
Bar  Association. 

In  19  03  Mr.  Pew  was  married  to  Miss  Mayzie  V.  Pittman,  daughter  of  Rev.  and 
Mrs.  N.  R.  Pittman,  a  sketch  of  whom  appears  in  "Who's  Who"  in  view  of  his 
literary  ability.  The  marriage  of  Mr.  Pew  and  Miss  Pittman  was  celebrated  at  St. 
Joseph,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  five  children:  Annie  Vivian,  John  B., 
Jr.,  Dorothy  Jane  and  Mary  Virginia,  aged  respectively  fifteen,  twelve,  ten  and  eight 
years  and  all  In  school;  and  Alfred  Pittman,  a  little  lad  of  three  summers. 

Mr.  Pew  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Meadow  Lake  Country  Club.  He  belongs 
also  to  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club  and  his  deep  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the 
city  is  indicated  in  his  active  cooperation  with  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  is  a 
Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  member  of  Ararat  Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.  Active  in  poli- 
tics, he  ran  for  the  nomination  for  congress  on  the  democratic  ticket,  failing  of 
election  by  four  hundred  votes.  His  position  upon  any  vital  question  is  never  an 
equivocal  one.  He  stands  loyally  for  what  he  believes  to  be  right.  During  the  war 
period  he  was  most  active  in  all  the  drives  and  various  lines  of  war  work  and  in  the 
mayoralty  contest  of  1920  he  took  a  strong  stand  in  defense  of  the  first  ward  because 
of  his  belief  in  fair  play.  This  barkens  back  to  his  service  in  connection  with  the 
drives  and  campaigns  of  the  war,  when  he  was  solicited  to  go  with  the  Liberty  Loan 
workers  to  speak  in  that  section  of  the  city.     He  found  instant  response  from  the 


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men  who  are  recognized  as  the  toilers  o£  the  world,  their  subscriptions  being  not  only 
liberal  but  most  generous,  and  he  found,  too,  that  no  other  ward  sent  as  large  a  rep- 
resentation to  the  battle  front.  When  in  the  mayoralty  campaign  an  attack  was 
made  upon  the  men  in  the  first  ward,  Mr.  Pew  in  a  public  address  before  thousands 
of  people  said:  "I  say  that  you  cannot  when  we  are  in  war  and  great  danger  send  me 
down  among  these  men  of  the  first  ward  to  make  speeches  and  tell  them  we  are 
fellow  Americans,  that  we  are  all  equal,  that  we  are  fighting  in  a  common  cause  and 
then,  after  they  have  met  the  danger  and  won  us  a  speedy  victory  and  the  survivors 
return,  within  a  little  over  a  year  ask  me  under  the  false  name  of  reform  to  go 
before  the  people  and  call  these  self-same  heroes  and  defenders  of  our  country  crooks, 
ghosts,  thugs,  repeaters  and  bunkhouse  dwellers.  Such  an  act  would  be  unAmerican 
and  would  be  monstrously  wrong.  The  basest  human  trait  is  ingratitude  and  I 
say  that  it  is  with  ill  grace  that  these  returned  heroes,  these  defenders  of  our 
country  are  now  called  such  names."  In  such  a  speech  Mr.  Pew  displayed  his  ruling 
sense  of  justice  and  his  belief  in  the  protection  and  assistance  of  the  less  fortunate 
classes  of  the  world.  He  is  recognized  as  an  orator  of  ability,  a  convincing  and 
forceful  speaker  and  his  services  are  frequently  sought  to  deliver  graduation  addresses 
and  other  lectures  before  the  general  public.  He  is  a  most  active  worker  and  member 
of  the  Calvary  Baptist  church,  in  which  he  is  serving  as  deacon,  and  in  the  high 
principles  of  the  Christian  religion  are  found  the  motive  springs  of  his  conduct. 


ARTHUR   E.    HAID. 


Arthur  E.  Haid,  a  careful  and  industrious  lawyer  of  St.  Louis  was  born  in  that 
city,  October  21,  1877,  his  parents  being  Frederick  W.  and  Sophia  0.  (Kraemer) 
Haid,  both  of  whom  are  deceased.  The  father  came  from  Germany  about  1848  when 
a  youth,  and  was  a  volunteer  during  the  Civil  war,  while  the  mother  was  a  native 
of  Tennessee.  Their  family  numbered  ten  children  of  whom  three  died  in  infancy, 
while  seven  are  yet  living,  namely:  George  P.,  an  attorney;  Arthur  B.;  Frederick  H., 
who  is  a  clerk  of  the  St.  Louis  probate  court;  Emma  C,  the  wife  of  W.  D.  Achuff; 
Edward  A.,  who  is  a  practicing  attorney;  Mrs.  Clara  V.  Purviance;  and  Walter  S., 
a   resident  of  Wichita  Falls,   Texas. 

After  acquiring  a  public  school  education  Arthur  E.  Haid  attended  the  Benton 
College  of  Law,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1907  with  the  LL.  B.  degree. 
From  that  date  until  1918  he  was  assistant  general  attorney  of  the  Frisco  System 
and  since  1918  has  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  law  with  good  success.  He 
displays  thoroughness  and  earnestness  in  the  preparation  of  his  cases,  is  a  clear 
thinker  and  logical  reasoner  and  has  made  a  creditable  position  in  connection  with 
railroad  and  interstate  commerce  law. 

On  the  3rd  of  September,  1902,  Mr.  Haid  was  married  to  Miss  Carrie  B.  Conner, 
a  representative  of  an  old  and  prominent  family  of  Knox  county,  Illinois,  whose 
ancestral  line  can  be  traced  back  to  1776.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Haid  have  had  two  children, 
Jean  Gertrude  and  Arthur  Albert.  The  parents  are  members  of  the  Methodist 
church  and  Mr.  Haid  gives  his  political  support  to  the  republican  party,  yet  is 
liberal  in  his  views.  During  the  war  he  was  a  member  of  the  legal  advisory  board 
of  the  twenty-eighth  ward.  He  belongs  to  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association, 
and  is  a  member  of  West  Gate  Lodge  No.  445,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  and  St.  Louis  and 
Missouri  Bar  Associations.  His  sterling  worth  is  recognized  by  all  and  he  has  made 
for  himself  a  creditable  position  as  a  man  and  citizen. 


EDGAR  C.   HAYS,   M.   D. 


There  is  perhaps  no  one  who  comes  into  closer  relationship  with  a  community 
than  does  the  family  physician,  and  the  man  of  sympathy  who  holds  to  the  highest 
ethical  standards  of  the  profession  comes  in  time  to  be  greatly  beloved,  trusted  and 
respected  by  those  whom  he  serves  in  hours  of  emergency  or  distress.  The  memory 
of  Dr.  Edgar  C.  Hays  is  revered  by  many  who  knew  him  because  of  the  place  which 
he  made  for  himself  in  the  regard  of  his  fellow  townsmen  of  Hannibal.  He  was 
a  native  son  of  Missouri,  born  in  Ralls  county  in  1838.  He  was  a  son  of  George 
Campbell   Hays,    a   native   of   Kentucky,   who    was   a   soldier   of   the   War   of    1812,- 


442  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

enlisting  in  Tennessee  as  a  member  of  the  Tennessee  Rifles  and  participating  in 
the  battle  of  New  Orleans.  He  was  married  in  Tennessee  to  Miss  Sarah  Dillard 
Collins  and  eight  children  were  born  to  them,  three  of  whom  are  yet  living.  In 
the  year  1S35  George  Campbell  Hays  brought  his  family  to  Missouri,  settling  at 
New  London,  in  Ralls  county,  where  he  engaged  in  merchandising  until  his  death. 
The  town  was  situated  along  the  trail  to  the  west,  so  that  immigrants  were  con- 
tinually passing  through,  and  his  business  grew  to  e.xtensive  proportions.  Not- 
withstanding the  fact  that  he  lost  heavily  in  a  great  fire  in  St.  Louis,  he  prospered 
as  the  years  passed.  He  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land,  was  a  natural  and  success- 
ful trader  and  in  addition  to  his  mercantile  and  other  interests  he  became  in  the 
early  '5  0s  associated  with  Garty  &  Bates  in  the  steamboat  business  and  he  also 
remained   an   active  factor  in   mercantile  pursuits   to  the  time  of  his  death. 

Dr.  Edgar  C.  Hays  was  born  and  reared  in  Ralls  county  and  pursued  his  early 
education  at  Palmyra,  Missouri,  while  later  he  attended  Bethany  College  of  Vir- 
ginia. At  the  time  of  the  Civil  war  he  joined  Forrest's  Cavalry  and  was  at  the 
siege  of  Vicksburg,  leaving  that  place  with  his  men  after  Vicksburg  was  surrounded, 
without  the  loss  of  a  man.  It  was  subsequent  to  the  close  of  the  Civil  war  that 
Dr.  Hays  determined  upon  the  practice  of  medicine  as  a  lite  work  and  pursued  a 
course  in  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College  at  St.  Louis.  He  later  went  to  Fort  Scott, 
Kansas,  where  he  opened  an  oflRce  and  engaged  in  practice  until  1873,  when  he 
removed  to  Hannibal,  where  his  remaining  days  were  passed.  He  soon  gained  a 
liberal  patronage,  being  recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  physicians  of  his  part  of 
the  state,  and  for  years  he  occupied  a  place  of  prominence.  Dr.  Hays  married 
soon  after  the  close  of  the  Civil  war,  Margaret  Morton  Harrison,  daughter  of  William 
P.  Harrison.  Five  children  were  born  to  them:  Ellen,  now  Mrs.  John  H.  Williams 
of  New  York;  Margaret  M.,  deceased;  William  H.,  mentioned  elsewhere  in  this 
work;   and  Daisy  and  Ruth,  deceased. 


JOHN  S.  LEAHY. 


John  S.  Leahy,  attorney  at  law,  with  offices  in  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce 
building  in  St,  Louis,  is  the  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Leahy  &  Saunders.  St.  Louis 
numbers  him  among  her  native  sons,  his  birth  having  here  occurred  August  4,  1872, 
his  parents  being  Stephen  and  Jane  (Doyle)  Leahy.  The  father  was  a  native  of  Ire- 
land and  came  to  America  with  his  parents  in  1851,  the  family  settling  originally  in 
New  York,  where  he  was  reared  and  educated.  In  1868  he  came  to  St.  Louis,  where  he 
married  and  resided  until  his  death.  He  was  a  manufacturer  of  oil  cloth  and  became 
a  well  known  figure  in  the  business  circles  of  this  city.  He  passed  away  in  1873.  at 
the  age  of  thirty-five  years.  The  Doyle  family  was  established  in  St.  Louis  in  1834 
by  the  maternal  grandfather  of  John  S.  Leahy,  who  came  direct  from  Ireland,  his  dis- 
.?atisfaction  v/ith  political  and  other  conditions  of  that  country  causing  him  to  seek  a 
home  in  the  new  world.  He  was  a  stone  contractor  and  was  identified  with  the  erection 
of  many  of  the  foremost  buildings  of  St.  Louis  during  the  period  of  his  active  life  here. 
He  completed  the  St.  Louis  courthouse,  erected  Christ  Church  cathedral  and  many  other 
of  the  large  and  prominent  buildings  of  the  city.  During  the  Civil  war  he  aided  in 
equipping  the  Seventh  Missouri  Regiment  and  was  an  active  factor  in  military  affairs. 
Prior  to  his  death  he  made  provisions  whereby  he  left  the  sum  of  one  hundred  thousand 
dollars  as  an  endowment  to  the  St.  Louis  University  and  the  Christian  Brothers  College 
for  perpetual  scholarships  tor  the  education  of  the  children  of  the  working  classes. 
He  was  also  a  very  prominent  factor  in  republican  politics  and  served  as  a  member  of 
the  Missouri  legislature  in  1861  and  1862.  He  passed  away  in  1867,  at  the  age  of 
sixty-seven  years.  His  daughter  Jane  became  the  wife  of  Stephen  Leahy  and  the 
mother  of  two  children;  Lawrence  A.,  who  is  now  a  Jesuit  priest  of  Detroit,  Michigian, 
having  prepared  tor  the  priesthood  in  St.  Mary's  College;   and  John  S.,  of  this  review. 

The  latter  was  educated  in  Christian  Brothers  College,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree,  while  later  the  Master  of  Arts  degree  was  conferred 
upon  him.  He  also  attended  St.  Louis  University  and  Georgetown  University  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  being  there  graduated  with  the  LL.  B.  degree.  He  at  once  located  for 
practice  in  St.  Louis  and  has  since  confined  his  attention  almost  entirely  to  corporation 
and  insurance  law,  especially  that  relating  to  fire  and  life  insurance.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  St.  Louis,  the  Missouri   State  and  American   Bar  Associations. 

On  the  7th  of  December,  1900,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Leahy  was  married  to  Miss  Julia 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  445 

steer,  a  native  of  St.  Louis  and  a  daughter  of  P.  A.  and  Margaret  (Crawford)  Steer, 
botii  representatives  of  old  St.  Louis  families.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leahy  have  three  children: 
Jane,  born  February  2,  1907;  John  S.,  June  14,  1912;  and  Justin  Crawford,  October 
28,  1915.  All  were  born  in  St.  Louis  and  are  with  their  parents  at  No.  4630  Lindell 
boulevard. 

During  the  World  war  Mr.  Leahy  served  on  the  legal  advisory  board  and  was 
very  active  in  support  of  the  Red  Cross  and  the  Liberty  Loan  drives.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Roman  Catholic  church,  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  for  five  years 
was  state  deputy.  He  also  has  membership  in  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  is  inter- 
ested in  all  of  the  activities  of  that  organization  for  the  city's  upbuilding  and  progress. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Noonday,  St.  Louis  and  Algonquin  Clubs  and  he  gives  his  political 
allegiance  to  the  republican  party,  which  elected  him  to  the  office  of  city  councilman 
in  1912  for  a  two  years'  term.  He  manifests  keen  interest  in  everything  relating  to 
the  material,  intellectual,  social,  political  and  moral  upbuilding  of  St.  Louis  and  is 
most  widely  and  favorably  known  in  the  city  where  he  has  spent  his  entire  life. 


GEORGE  W.  McFADDEN. 


George  W.  McFadden,  superintendent  of  agents  at  St.  Louis  for  the  Prudential 
Insurance  Company,  was  born  in  Sardinia,  South  Carolina,  January  29,  1872.  The 
father,  Eli  McFadden,  was  also  a  native  of  Sardinia  and  his  life  record  extended 
to  1907.  He  was  a  descendant  of  John  McFadden,  who  was  the  founder  of  the 
family  in  America,  leaving  the  north  of  Ireland  with  his  two  brothers,  all  young 
men,  in  1729  during  the  great  Irish  immigration,  landing  in  Philadelphia.  They 
went  to  South  Carolina  where  they  took  up  fifty  thousand  acres  of  land  which 
had  been  granted  them  for  services  to  the  British  government.  This  land  has  never 
been  sold  to  people  outside  of  the  family,  which  has  intermarried  and  today  uses 
about  all  of  the  land. 

John  McFadden  imported  from  England  the  brick  which  he  used  in  the 
building  of  his  residence  on  the  land  between  Charleston  and  Columbia  in  Clarendon 
county,  and  traces  of  this  old  home  are  still  to  be  seen.  It  was  occupied  by  the 
McFaddens  for  generations  but  at  length  fell  into  decay.  Several  representatives 
of  the  family  served  in  the  Revolution  and  in  the  War  of  1812,  some  taking  part 
in  the  battle  of  New  Orleans.  They  were  also  prominent  in  connection  with  the 
Indian  and  Mexican  wars,  while  in  the  Civil  war  and  in  the  recent  World  war, 
various  McFaddens  and  their  kin  took  active  part.  The  family  comes  of  Scotch- 
Irish  ancestry  and  they  have  ever  been  a  race  of  Presbyterians.  They  were  planters 
and  merchants  by  occupation.  Eli  McFadden,  father  of  George  W.  McFadden, 
married  Adelaide  Williams,  also  a  native  of  Clarendon  county.  South  Carolina. 
She  survived  her  husband  for  twelve  years,  passing  away  in  1919.  Her  father 
was  the  owner  of  seventy-five  slaves  and  took  his  personal  servant  to  the  Civil 
war  when  he  joined  the  Confederate  army.  The  Williams  family  comes  of  an 
equally  old  and  honorable  ancestral  line. 

George  W.  McFadden  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  state 
and  in  Davison  College  of  North  Carolina  where  he  pursued  his  studies  until  1896. 
He  returned  home  but  subsequently  went  to  New  Orleans  where  he  remained  for 
three  years.  In  1900  he  came  to  St.  Louis  and  was  employed  in  the  real  estate 
department  of  the  Mississippi  Valley  Trust  Company  for  four  years.  Later  he 
was  with  the  Commonwealth  Trust  Company  until  1909,  when  he  entered  the  in- 
surance field  as  representative  of  the  Prudential  Insurance  Company  with  which 
he  has  since  continued  and  is  now  superintendent  of  agents.  He  has  made  steady 
progress  in  the  business  world  and  today  his  position  is  a  responsible  and  remun- 
erative one. 

On  the  12th  of  March,  1907,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  McFadden  was  married  to  Miss 
Nellie  Beattie,  a  daughter  of  Giles  W.  Beattie,  who  for  thirty  years  was  connected 
with  the  Missouri,  Kansas  and  Texas  Railroad.  He  was  born  in  Saybrook,  Connecti- 
cut, but  when  a  lad  of  six  years  left  that  place  and  spent  the  greater  part  of  his 
life  in  New  Orleans,  where  the  father,  a  Presbyterian  minister,  occupied  a  pulpit. 
He  was  preaching  in  Saybrook  when  the  Civil  war  broke  out  and  went  to  New 
Orleans  to  fill  the  pulpit  of  Rev.  Benjamin  B.  Palmer,  who  had  become  a  chaplain 
in  the  Confederate  army.     The  grandfather  of  James  Beattie,   who  bore  the  same 


446  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

name,  was  professor  of  moral  philosophy  in  the  University  of  Aberdeen,  Scotland, 
to  which  school  the  sons  of  royalty  were  sent.  His  portrait  was  painted  by  Sir 
Joshua  Reynolds  and  for  years  he  carried  on  a  correspondence  with  Dr.  Samuel 
Johnson.  He  was  also  very  friendly  with  Dr.  Gray,  author  of  "Gray's  Elegy." 
He  was  on  such  terms  of  intimacy  with  Ki4ig  George  III  that  he  had  the  unusual 
privilege   of  visiting   him   at   all   times. 

Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McFadden  has  been  born  a  son,  George  W.,  Jr.,  who  is  now 
in   school. 

Mr.  McFadden  votes  with  the  democratic  party  but  is  not  an  active  political 
worker.  He  belongs  to  the  Washington  Compton  Presbyterian  church  and  has 
served  as  deacon  in  the  First  Presbyterian  church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Gideons 
and  is  vice  president  for  Missouri,  besides  being  chairman  of  the  Bible  committee 
of  the  St.  Louis  camp.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Masons  as  a  member 
of  the  Corner  Stone  Lodge,  No.  323,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.:  and  has  recently  taken  the 
Scottish  Rite  degrees  in  the  St.  Louis  Consistory..  He  is  connected  with  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  and  for  recreation  turns  to  golf  and  hunting,  each  year  spending  a 
month  on  the  eleven  thousand  acre  family  preserve  near  the  sea  in  South  Carolina. 
He  is  a  wort'liy  son  of  his  race,  holding  to  the  high  standards  which  have  ever 
dominated  the  McFadden  family.  ' 


CHARLES  NAGEL. 

Charles  Nagel  was  born  in  Colorado  county,  Texas,  August  9,  1849,  a  son  of 
Dr.  Herman  and  Fredericka  Nagel.  His  paternal  grandfather  was  engaged  in  com- 
mercial pursuits  and  was  a  man  of  influence  in  his  small  community.  The  maternal 
grandfather  and  great-grandfather  of  Charles  Nagel  were  Lutheran  clergymen.  His 
father  was  a  physician,  graduated  at  the  University  of  Berlin,  Germany,  in  the  early 
forties.  In  the  year  1847  his  parents  landed  at  New  Orleans  and  proceeded  to 
the  interior  of  Te:  as,  where  they  resided  until  1863,  when  because  of  his  sympathy 
with  the  Union,  his  father  was  obliged  to  leave  the  south.  Taking  his  son  Charles 
with  him  he  fled  to  Mexico.  In  January  they  left  for  New  York  by  sailing  ship, 
and  arrived  in   St.   Louis,   Missouri,   in   February,   1864. 

In  the  acquirement  of  his  education  Charles  Nagel  attended  a  German  country 
school  in  Austin  county,  Texas,  and  later  a  German  private  school  in  St.  Louis. 
He  afterward  entered  the  high  school  at  St.  Louis,  and  was  there  graduated  in 
1868.  He  was  valedictorian  of  his  class.  His  preparation  for  the  bar  was  made 
as  a  student  in  the  St.  Louis  Law  School,  in  which  he  completed  a  two  years' 
course,  and  also  in  a  one  year's  course  at  the  University  of  Berlin,  Germany,  where 
he  specialized  in  the  study  of  Roman  law,  political  economy,  history  and  kindred 
subjects,  thus  pursuing  branches  of  study  of  the  greatest  value  to  him  in  his  law 
practice.  On  again  taking  up  his  abode  in  St.  Louis,  Mr,  Nagel  opened  a  law  office 
and  through  the  intervening  period  has  concentrated  his  time  and  efforts  upon  his 
profession.  The  zeal  with  which  he  has  devoted  his  energies  to  his  law  practice, 
the  careful  regard  evinced  for  the  interests  of  his  clients  and  an  assiduous  and 
unrelaxing  atten'ion  to  all  the  details  of  his  cases  have  brought  him  a  large  busi- 
ness and  made  him  ve'-y  successful  in  its  conduct.  He  frequently  contributes  to 
magazines  and  nev/spapers,  and  devotes  considerable  time  to  the  discussion  of  public 
questions.  His  bret's  always  show  wide  research,  careful  thought,  and  the  best 
and  strongest  reasons  which  can  be  urged  for  his  contentions,  presented  in  cogent 
and  logical  f6rm  and  illustrated  by  a  style  unusually  lucid  and  clear.  He  has 
been  equally  successful  in  the  educational  field.  In  1885  he  was  appointed  to 
a  professorship  in  the  St.  Louis  Law  School,  a  position  which  he  filled  for  twenty- 
four  years.  He  has  been  most  clear  in  his  exposition  of  the  law  and  wise  in  his 
direction  of  the  men'al  development  of  pupils  along  the  line  of  jurisprudence.  Aside 
from  his  professional  activities  he  has  become  a  director  of  the  Northwestern  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company,  the  St.  Louis  Union  Trust  Company,  the  International 
Bank  of  St.  Louis,  and  vice  president  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the  United 
States.  In  1911  he  received  the  LL.  D..  degree  from  Brown  University.  The  same 
degree  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Villanova  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  by 
the  Washington  University  of  St.  Louis.  In  his  law  practice  he  has  maintained 
several  partnership  relations  having,  among  others,  been   a  member  of  the  firm   of 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  447 

Pinkelnburg,  Nagel  &  Kirby  from  1903  until  1905,  of  the  firm  of  Nagel  &  Kirby 
from  1905  until  1909,  while  in  1913,  after  he  retired  from  tlie  cabinet,  he  again 
entered  upon  that  relation. 

On  the  4th  of  August,  1876,  Mr.  Nagel  was  married  to  Fannie  Brandeis,  of 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  who  died  in  1890.  On  the  1st  day  of  May,  1895,  he  married 
Anne  Shepley,  of  St.  Louis.  His  children  are:  Hildegard  Nagel;  Mary  S.,  the  wife 
of  Homer  L.  Sweetser,  of  Brookline,  Massachusetts,  who  in  1917  volunteered  for 
the  navy  and  served  as  an  ensign,  being  on  duty  iirst  in  Washington,  while  later 
he  was  assigned  to  a  transport;  Edith,  who  is  the  wife  of  Henry  Augustus  Rice 
Putnam,  who  was  graduated  from  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  as 
a  mining  engineer  and  served  as  a  captain  of  engineers  in  the  United  States  Army 
during  the  World  war;  Charles  Nagel,  Jr.,  who  joined  the  United  States  Naval 
Reserve  at  Yale  about  the  time  he  was  to  enter  upon  his  first  year's  studies  there 
and  was  mustered  out  at  the  close  of  December,  1918,  but  has  not  yet  been  dis- 
charged;  and  Anne  Dorothea. 

In  politics  Mr.  Nagel  has  always  been  a  stalwart  republican  and  is  a  recognized 
leader  in  the  ranks  of  his  party  in  Missouri.  In  1881  he  was  called  upon  to 
represent  his  district  in  the  general  assembly,  serving  for  the  two  years'  term.  In 
1893  he  became  president  of  the  St.  Louis  City  Council,  and  filled  that  position  for 
four  years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  republican  national  committee  from  1908  until 
1912  and  from  March,  1909,  until  March,  1913,  was  secretary  of  commerce  and 
labor  in  the  cabinet  of  President  Taft.  He  is  a  trustee  of  Washington  University 
of  St.  Louis,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  board  of  control  of  the  St.  Louis  Museum 
of  Fine  Arts.  He  has  connection  with  the  worth  while  clubs  of  St.  Louis,  including 
the  University,  St.  Louis,  Commercial,  Round  Table,  Mercantile,  Noonday  and  the 
St.  Louis  Country  Club;  also  with  the  Bankers  Club  of  New  York,  and  the  Metro- 
politan and  Cosmos  Clubs  of  Washington,  D.  C.  As  a  member  of  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  of  the  United  States,  which  .was  organized  through  his  efforts  as 
secretary  of  commerce  and  labor,  he  participated  in  the  war  work  during  1917  and 
1918,  particularly  as  a  member  of  the  price  committee  and  the  war  committee. 
While  secretary  of  commerce  and  labor  he  presided  over  the  convention  of  dele- 
gates representing  the  United  States,  Great  Britain,  Russia  and  Japan,  which  for- 
mulated the  Seal  Treaty,  thereby  putting  an  end  to  the  endless  and  costly  con- 
troversies upon  that  subject,  and  resulting  in  the  conservation  of  the  valuable  seal 
herds  of  the  several  countries.  He  has  exerted  a  widely  felt  influence  over  public 
thought  and  opinion  in  his  city  and  state,  and  has  had  not  a  little  to  do  with  shap- 
ing public  policy.  He  is  usually  found  in  those  gatherings  where  men  of  intelli- 
gence are  met  for  the  discussion  of  vital  problems,  and  it  is  well  known  that  asso- 
ciation with  him  means  expansion  and  elevation. 


WENDELL  HOLMES  CLOUD. 

Wendell  Holmes  Cloud,  who  as  counselor,  debater  and  corporation  lawyer  has 
gained  a  most  creditable  position  at  the  Kansas  City  bar,  possessing  wide  knowledge 
of  the  principles  of  jurisprudence,  with  ability  to  apply  accurately  these  principles 
to  the  points  in  litigation,  was  graduated  from  the  St.  Louis  Law  School  with  the 
LL.  B.  degree  in  19  05.  He  was  at  that  time  a  young  man  of  twenty-two  years, 
his  birth  having  occurred  in  Chillicothe,  Missouri,  March  19,  1883.  His  father, 
Abel  S.  Cloud,  was  born  in  Burke  county,  North  Carolina,  and  served  in  the  Con- 
federate army  as  a  member  of  the  Sixteenth  North  Carolina  Regiment  of  A.  P. 
Hill's  division.  He  was  captured  at  Gettysburg  and  sent  as  a  prisoner  of  war 
to  Johnston's  army.  He  likewise  served  for  a  time  as  a  member  of  the  staff  of 
General  Lee.  Following  the  close  of  the  Civil  war  he  became  a  resident  of  St. 
Louis,  where  he  lived  for  a  time  and  then  removed  to  Chillicothe,  Missouri.  He 
served  as  a  member  of  the  legislature  for  one  term  and  was  always  keenly  inter- 
ested in  the  vital  problems  of  the  state,  giving  his  aid  and  influence  to  many 
measures  for  the  public  good.  In  1885  he  removed  to  Kiowa,  Kansas,  where  he 
was  the  representative  of  the  Gould  interests  to  the  time  of  his  demise,  which 
occurred  in  1913.  In  early  manhood  he  wedded  Bettie  Sebree  Robinson,  who 
passed  away  at  Kiowa,  Kansas.     She  was  a  native  of  Howard  county,  Missouri. 

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448  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Wendell  Holmes  Cloud,  reared  under  the  parental  roof,  attended  the  Uni- 
versity of  Missouri  at  Columbia  for  two  years,  and  with  broad  literary- learning 
to  serve  as  the  foundation  upon  which  to  build  the  superstructure  of  professional 
knowledge,  he  entered  the  St.  Louis  Law  School,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1905  with  the  LL.  B.  degree.  He  then  began  practice  in  Kiowa,  Kansas,  and 
was  elected  to  the  office  of  county  attorney  of  Barber  county.  He  served  in  that 
position  for  a  two  years'  term  and  latter  removed  to  Oklahoma  City,  where  he 
was  solicitor  for  the  Frisco  Railroad  until  1911.  In  that  year  he  came  to  Kansas 
City,  where  he  has  since  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  law  independently  and 
the  recognition  of  his  superior  ability  in  handling  cases  has  brought  to  him  a  large 
clientage.  He  was  but  twenty-two  years  of  age  when  elected  prosecuting  attorney 
of  Barber  county,  Kansas,  and  he  filled  the  position  with  such  credit  that  it  was 
embarrassing  for  his  predecessors.  It  was  immediately  after  this  and  in  recogni- 
tion of  the  ability  that  he  had  displayed  that  he  was  made  attorney  for  the  Frisco 
Railroad.  His  practice  now  is  extensive  and  of  a  distinctively  representative  char- 
acter. He  is  scrupulously  honest,  is  thoroughly  informed  concerning  the  law,  most 
able  in  the  presentation  of  his  cause  and  sincere  in  his  allegiance  to  the  highest 
ethical  standards  of  the  profession.  He  manifests  the  most  absolute  fairness  and 
frankness  with  his  clients  and  his  devotion  to  his  calling  stands  above  any  ulterior 
gain.  It  is  said  that  he  iinds  his  keenest  pleasure  in  taking  some  poor  man's  case 
without  pay  and  seeking  to  win  justice  for  the  client  whom  he  thus  represents. 
He  is  recognized  as  a  wise  counselor,  safe  in  debate  and  a  most  able  corporation 
lawyer.  Clear  thought  and  studious  habits,  backed  by  a  lofty  ambition,  have 
constituted  the  basis  of  his  success.  He  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City,  Missouri  State 
and  American  Bar  Associations  and  he  is  a  member  of  Phi  Delta  Phi,  a  legal  fra- 
ternity of  the  St.  Louis  Law  School. 

In  1912  Mr.  Cloud  was  married  to  Miss  Nannie  Davis,  of  Kansas  City,  daughter 
of  Francis  ^.  Davis.  In  politics  Mr.  Cloud  is  an  active  democrat,  giving  unfaltering 
allegiance  to  the  party.  He  belongs  to  the  Hill  Crest  Country  Club  and  to  the 
University  Club.  He  was  a  football  player  at  school,  has  always  been  fond  of 
athletics  and  now  largely  turns  for  recreation  to  outdoor  life  and  fishing.  He  is 
an  expert  gardener  and  in  that  work  gains  rest  from  the  arduous  duties  of  his 
professional  career. 


OWEN   C.   GRAVES. 


Owen  C.  Graves,  who  for  the  past  five  years  has  devoted  his  attention  to  the 
oil  development  business,  having  large  holdings  in  Oklahoma  and  Texas,  promotes 
his  operations  as  president  of  the  Owen  C.  Graves  Development  Company,  with  offices 
In  the  Syndicate  Trust  Building  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  born  in  Portland,  Oregon,  Octo- 
ber 30,  1881.  His  father,  Charles  A.  Graves,  was  a  native  of  eastern  Oregon,  the 
family  having  been  among  the  earliest  of  the  pioneers  of  the  northwest.  He  became 
an  extensive  dealer  in  cattle  and  horses,  owning  large  ranches  in  his  native  state. 
His  death  was  occasiond  by  a  street  car  accident  in  1914.  His  wife,  who  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Lena  M.  Lewis,  is  also  a  native  of  Oregon,  where  her  father  settled 
in  1844,  having  crossed  the  plains  by  ox  team.  He  cast  in  his  lot  with  the  earliest 
residents  of  Oregon  and  contributed  in  large  measure  to  the  development  and  up- 
building of  the  state.     The  town  of  Lewis  was  named  in  his  honor. 

Owen  C.  Graves  attended  the  public  schools  of  Oregon  to  the  age  ot  fourteen 
years  and  then  started  out  to  provide  for  his  support.  Since  that  time  he  has  been 
dependent  entirely  upon  his  own  resources  and  has  justly  won  the  proud  American 
title  of  a  self-made  man.  For  four  years  in  young  manhood  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Pacific  Coast  Life  Saving  Guards  and  was  stationed  at  Yaquina  Bay,  where  he  per- 
sonally and  also  in  connQption  with  others  saved  many  lives.  He  is  a  man  of  fine 
physique,  strong  and  robust,  and  did  splendid  service  in  battling  with  wind  and  wave 
for  the  lives  of  his  fellowmen.  He  afterward  engaged  in  the  confectionery  business, 
in  which  he  continued  very  successfully  tor  five  years,  and  his  worth  as  a  man  and 
citizen  was  indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  was  elected  mayor  of  Newport,  Oregon, 
when  but  twenty-four  years  of  age,  his  administration  of  city  affairs  being  highly 
satisfactory  to  his  fellow  townsmen.  At  length  he  disposed  of  his  confectionery  busi- 
ness and  returned  to  his  native  city  of  Portland,  where  he  entered  the  real  estate  busi- 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  451 

ness  in  connection  with  the  Columbia  Trust  Company,  in  which  Ladd  &  Tilton,  promi- 
nent bankers  of  Portland,  were  interested.  Mr.  Graves  continued  active  in  the  real 
estate  field  tor  a  number  of  years  and  in  November,  1912,  removed  to  St.  Louis, 
after  which  he  spent  three  years  with  the  Davis  Realty  &  Development  Company. 
Five  years  ago,  or  in  1915,  he  turned  his  attention  to  the  development  of  oil  inter- 
ests and  organized  the  Owen  C.  Graves  Development  Company,  of  which  he  is  the 
president.  Since  then  he  has  built  up  a  big  business,  with  large  holdings  in  Oklahoma 
and  Texas.  Singleness  of  purpose,  concentration  and  close  application  have  been 
strong  elements  in  his  advancement,  and  his  close  study  of  the  oil  fields  and  condi- 
tions has  enabled  him  to  become  the  owner  of  fine  producing  oil  properties.  He  is 
also  the  president  and  owner  of  the  O.  C.  Graves  Townsite  Company,  which  has  pro- 
moted and  developed  the  town  of  Oakhurst,  a  very  thriving  place  between  Tulsa  and 
Sapulpa  in  Oklahoma. 

Mr.  Graves  is  a  man  of  social  nature  and  genial  disposition  and  is  popular  as  a 
representative  of  the  Benevolnt  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  the  Missouri  Athletic 
Association,  the  Liederkranz  and  the  Sunset,  Riverview  and  Country  Clubs.  Starting 
out  empty-handed  when  a  youth  of  fourteen,  the  years  have  chronicled  his  continuous 
success  as  step  by  step  he  has  advanced  until  he  now  occupies  a  most  creditable 
and  enviable  position  in  the  development  of  one  of  the  important  industries  of  the 
country. 


EMMETT  S.  BALLARD,  M.  D. 

Holding  to  the  highest  professional  standards  and  careful  at  all  times  to 
conform  his  practice  to  the  most  advanced  professional  ethics.  Dr.  Emmet  S.  Ballard 
is  now  one  of  the  leading  physicians  and  surgeons  of  St.  Joseph.  He  was  born 
October  23,  1874,  at  Ballard,  Missouri,  a  town  which  was  named  in  honor  of  his 
father.  Senator  Jasper  N.  Ballard,  who  was  a  native  of  Cooper  county,  Missouri, 
and  a  representative  of  one  of  the  old  pioneer  families  of  the  state.  In  the  '60s 
he  married  Louisa  J.  Starke,  who  was  also  born  in  Cooper  county.  His  death  oc- 
curred in  Bates  county,  Missouri,  about  eleven  years  ago,  when  he  was  sixty-six 
years  of  age,  and  his  widow  died  about  four  years  ago,  having  spent  the  last  few 
years  of  her  life  in  the  home  of  her  son.  Dr.  Ballard.  The  father  had  a  most 
interesting  career  and  was  recognized  as  an  important  factor  in  democratic  circles 
in  Missouri.  He  served  as  representative  to  the  state  legislature,  also  as  senator 
and  as  judge  of  the  county  court  of  Bates  county  and  thus  left  the  impress  of  his 
individuality  upon  the  history  of  the  commonwealth.  He  also  engaged  extensively 
in  farming,  in  banking  and  in  the  creamery  and  lumber  business  and  was  con- 
sulted upon  many  matters  of  importance  to  the  life  of  the  community  and  the  state. 

Dr.  Ballard  first  attended  the  public  schools  of  Butler,  Missouri,  and  afterward 
entered  Central  College  of  Fayette,  Missouri,  where  he  completed  his  course  and 
won  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  in  1895,  while  in  1896  the  Master  of  Arts  de- 
gree was  conferred  upon  him.  Having  determined  to  engage  in  the  practice  of 
medicine  as  a  life  work,  he  then  went  to  New  York  city,  where  he  entered  Belle- 
vue  Hospital  Medical  College,  completing  a  three  years'  course  in  1898  and  thus 
winning  the  M.  D.  degree.  He  afterward  spent  a  year  in  the  City  Hospital  of  New 
York  as  an  interne,  gaining  broad  and  valuable  experience  in  that  way.  With  his 
return  to  Missouri  he  settled  at  Butler,  where  he  continued  in  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine until  1903,  after  which  he  removed  to  St.  Joseph,  where  he  has  since  been  an 
active  physician  and  surgeon.  His  professional  ability  is  widely  recognized  and 
in  addition  to  his  large  private  practice  he  is  now  serving  as  visiting  physician  for 
the  Baby  Welfare  Society  of  St.  Joseph.  He  is  also  chief  examiner  for  the  New 
York  Life  Insurance  Company,  is  surgeon  for  the  Kansas  City  Clay  Company  and 
St.  Joseph  Railway  Company  and  is  assistant  surgeon  for  the  Street  Railway  Com- 
pany of  St.  Joseph.  He  belongs  to  the  Buchanan  County  Medical  Society,  the 
Missouri  State  Medical  Society,  the  Missouri  Valley  Medical  Society  and  the  Ameri- 
can Medical  Association. 

On  the  11th  of  December,  1900,  Dr.  Ballard  was  married  to  Miss  Gertrude 
Kenyon,  of  Albany,  Missouri,  where  the  wedding  was  celebrated.  She  is  a  daughter 
of  Allen  and  Alwilda  (Cranor)  Kenyon  and  has  become  the  mother  of  two  sons. 
Vineyard  Kenyon  and  Emmett  Starke. 


452  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Fraternally  Dr.  Ballard  is  connected  with  Zeredatha  Lodge.  No.  189,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.;  Mitchell  Chapter,  No.  14,  R.  A.  M.;  St.  Joseph  Council,  No.  9,  R.  &  S.  M.; 
has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree  of  the  Scottish  Rite  and  is  a  member  of 
Moila  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  at  St.  Joseph.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the 
Rotary  Club  of  St.  Joseph,  is  a  member  of  the  Highlands  Golf  and  Country  Club 
and  a  member  of  the  Royal  Knights  of  Roubidoux.  He  is  likewise  identified  with 
the  Commerce  Club  of  St.  Joseph  and  he  is  keenly  interested  in  everything  that 
pertains  to  the  welfare  and  progress  of  the  city,  while  his  interest  in  its  moral 
advancement  Is  indicated  through  his  connection  with  the  Francis  Street  Methodist 
Episcopal  church.  He  gives  his  political  allegiance  to  the  democratic  party  and  for 
eight  years  served  as  city  health  officer  of  St.  Joseph.  Moreover,  he  practices 
surgery  at  all  the  .St.  Joseph  hospitals  and  is  at  present  a  member  of  the  board 
of  education  of  St.  Joseph. 


WILLIAM  MAFFITT  BATES. 

Through  the  eight  years  ot  his  connection  with  the  St.  Louis  bar  William 
Maffitt  Bates  has  made  steady  progress  in  the  general  practice  of  law  and  now  has 
a  large  clientele  that  brings  him  into  close  connection  with  many  important  litigated 
interests.  St.  Louis  numbers  him  among  her  native  sons.  He  was  here  born 
August  2,  1890,  his  parents  being  Charles  F.  and  Nancy  (MafBtt)  Bates,  the  latter 
a  daughter  of  the  late  William  and  Julia  (Chouteau)  Maffitt.  Charles  F.  Bates 
is  a  native  of  Erie,  Pennsylvania,  and  a  representative  of  an  old  New  York  state 
family  of  English  descent.  During  the  latter  part  ot  the  '60s  he  came  to  St.  Louis 
and  throughout  his  active  business  life  was  engaged  in  the  tobacco  manufacturing 
business  but  is  now  living  retired.  To  him  and  his  wife  have  been  born  three  chil- 
dren, of  whom  William  M.  is  the  eldest,  the  others  being;  Julia,  the  wife  of 
Arthur  Hiemenz.  of  St.  Louis;  and  Nancy  Maffitt  Bates,  who  is  at  home  with  her 
parents. 

In  preparation  for  a  professional  career  William  M.  Bates  attended  the  St. 
Louis  University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1912  with  the  LL.  B.  degree. 
He  immediately  afterward  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession,  in  which 
he  has  since  continued,  and  though  advancement  at  the  bar  is  proverbially  slow, 
he  has  made  consistent  progress,  employing  his  native  talents  and  his  time  in  so 
admirable  a  manner  as  to  win  a  place  among  the  thoroughly  qualified  and  able 
lawyers  of  the  St.   Louis  bar. 

On  the  16th  of  May,  1914,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Bates  was  married  to  Miss  Frances 
Garneau,  daughter  of  James  Garneau,  member  of  an  old  and  prominent  St.  Louis 
family.  They  have  become  parents  of  two  children,  Frances  Garneau  and  William, 
M.  Jr.,  both  born  in  St.  Louis.     The  family  residence  is  at  No.  4353  Westminster. 

During  the  period  of  the  war  Mr.  Bates  served  on  the  legal  advisory  board  and 
was  also  a  lieutenant  in  the  Quartermaster's  Corps  of  the  United  States  army.  His 
religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church  and  he  has  membership  with 
the  Knights  of  Columbus.  In  politics  he  is  a  republican,  earnest  in  his  support  of 
party  principles  yet  not  an  office  seeker.  He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  Country  Club, 
the  Noonday  Club  and  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association  and  along  strictly  pro- 
fessional lines  his  connection  is  with  the  St.  Louis  and  Missouri  State  Bar  Asso- 
ciations, his  colleagues  and  contemporaries  entertaining  for  him  warm  regard  by 
reason  of  his  close  conformity  to  the   highest  ethical  standards  of  the  profession. 


CONRAD   N.    E.    ROEDER. 


Conrad  N.  E.  Jloeder,  assistant  secretary  of  the  American  Central  Insurance 
Company  in  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Sainte  Genevieve,  Missouri,  October  18,  1853. 
His  father,  Conrad  Roeder,  who  passed  away  December  16,  1876.  was  a  native  of 
Culmbach,  Bavaria,  and  came  to  America  in  1847.  He  cast  in  his  lot  with  the 
early  settlers  of  Missouri,  where  he  was  well  known  as  an  artist,  devoting  his  entire 
life  to  that  profession.  He  did  work  for  people  all  over  the  United  States  and 
won  a  wide  and  well   deserved   reputation   for  his  artistic   ability.      During  the  Civil 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  453 

war  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  Home  Guard  and  was  also  at  one  time  captain 
o£  Lafayette  Fire  Company  No.  1  at  Alton,  Illinois.  He  married  Agatha  Grither, 
who  was  born  in  St.  Amarin,  Alsace,  their  marriage  being  celebrated  at  Sainte 
Genevieve,  Missouri,  May  4,  1852.  They  became  the  parents  of  three  sons  and 
three  daughters,  of  whom  one  son  died  in  infancy.  The  others  are:  Conrad  N.  E., 
who  is  the  eldest  of  the  family;  Francis;  Belle,  who  died  at  the  age  of  three  years; 
Dorothea;   and  Barbara,  who  also  passed  away  in  infancy. 

Conrad  N.  E.  Roeder  was  educated  in  private  schools  in  St.  Louis,  his  course 
being  equivalent  to  that  of  a  high  school  education.  When  sixteen  years  of  age 
he  entered  the  employ  of  the  American  Central  Insurance  Company  as  an  office 
hoy  and  has  been  associated  with  the  corporation  throughout  all  the  intervening 
years,  working  his  way  steadily  upward  through  intermediate  positions  to  that 
of  assistant  secretary,  in  which  capacity  he  has  served  since  1890,  making  a  most 
enviable  record  in  the  position.  Previously  he  had  been  connected  with  the  col- 
lection department  and  was  also  cashier  from  1875  until   1890. 

During  the  war  period  Mr.  Roeder  was  one  of  the  Four  Minute  men  and  he 
subscribed  liberally  to  all  of  the  drives  and  supported  all  of  the  activities  which 
contributed  to  the  successful  prosecution  of  the  war  through  home  service.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Catholic  church  and  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  of 
which  he  is  a  fourth  degree  member,  and  also  holds  membership  in  the  order  of 
The  Blue  Goose.  Something  of  the  nature  of  his  recreation  is  indicated  in  the 
fact  that  he  has  membership  in  the  Forest  Park  Golf  Club.  His  political  allegiance 
is  given  to  the  republican  party,  which  finds  in  him  a  stalwart  champion.  It  is 
as  a  business  man,  however,  that  he  is  best  known  and  the  thoroughness  and 
efficiency  of  his  work  are  indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  has  remained  continuously 
with  the  American  Central  Insurance  Company  since  starting  out  in  business  life 
when  a  youth  of  sixteen. 


H.   CLAY   SURBECK. 


H.  Clay  Surbeck,  cashier  of  the  Farmers  &  Merchants  Bank  at  La  Plata,  was 
born  February  4,  1882,  in  Macon  county,  Missouri,  a  son  of  J.  M.  and  Eva  Dorothy 
Surbeck.  He  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  district  schools,  later  became  a 
student  in  the  Blees  Military  Academy  of  Macon  and  also  attended  the  Gem  City 
Business  College  at  Quincy,  Illinois,  there  being  graduated  on  the  completion  of 
a  course  in  bookkeeping  and  banking  with  the  class  of  1903.  In  the  following 
year  he  organized  the  Bank  of  Gifford  at  Gifford,  Missouri,  and  was  cashier  of 
that  institution  for  three  years.  He  then  sold  out  his  interest  in  the  bank  and 
removed  to  Atlanta,  Missouri,  where  he  organized  the  Bank  of  Atlanta,  of  which 
he  remained  cashier  for  two  and  a  half  years;  but  owing  to  an  accident  he  was 
compelled  to  give  up  the  business  for  about  a  year.  He  then  purchased  an  interest 
in  the  Bank  of  Revere  at  Revere,  Missouri,  where  he  filled  the  office  of  cashier  for 
two  years,  when  on  account  of  the  death  of  his  father  he  disposed  of  his  interest 
in  that  institution  and  returned  to  Elmer  where  he  took  charge  of  his  father's  bank- 
ing and  agricultural  interests.  He  is  now  the  president  of  the  Elmer  Exchange 
Bank  and  is  largely  directing  its  activities  and  shaping  its  public  policy.  He  like- 
wise has  charge  of  the  landed  possessions  of  his  father's  estate,  comprising  about 
seventeen  hundred  acres.  On  the  1st  of  August,  1918,  he  entered  the  Farmers  & 
Merchants  Bank  of  La  Plata  as  cashier  and  he  likewise  supervises  farming  interests 
near  La  Plata.  He  is  engaged  in  breeding  and  raising  Aberdeen  Angus  cattle,  of 
which  the  family  has  about  four  hundred  head  of  high  grade  stock.  His  business 
affairs  are  all  wisely,  carefully  and  successfully  conducted  and  energy  and  enterprise 
have  enabled  him  to  solve  many  intricate  business  problems,  while  his  labors  have 
been  productive  of  most  substantial  and  gratifying  results.  He  has  done  not  a 
little  to  advance  the  business  of  the  Farmers  &  Merchants  Bank  since  becoming  its  . 
cashier.  This  bank  has  a  capital  stock  of  thirty-five  thousand  dollars,  a  surplus 
of  seven  thousand  dollars,  undivided  profits  of  about  thirty-five  hundred  dollars, 
and  deposits  amounting  to  more  than   three   hundred   and  fifty   thousand   dollars. 

Mr.  Surbeck  is  a  republican  in  his  political  views,  having  supported  the  party 
since  age  conferred  upon  him  the  right  of  franchise,  but  he  has  never  been  .a  poli- 
tician  in   the  sense   of  office   seeking.     Fraternally   he   is   connected   with   the   Inde- 


454  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

pendent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  with  the  Masonic  lodge  and  is  a  loyal  follower 
of  the  teachings  of  both  organizations.  He  belongs  to  one  of  the  old  families  of 
Macon  county,  is  well  known  in  this  section  of  the  state  and  is  justifying  in  his 
business  career  and  personal  activities  the  high  regard  which  is  entertained  for 
him  by  all  who  know  him. 


CLARENCE    J.   CURBY. 


Clarence  J.  Curby,  an  outstanding  figure  in  the  business  circles  of  bt.  Louis,  is 
widely  known  as  the  vice  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Smith  &  Davis  Manu- 
facturing Company  and  as  such  is  controlling  one  of  the  important  pro;luctlve  industries 
of  the  city.  He  is  yet  a  young  man  and  has  made  progress  of  such  notable  and  sub- 
stantial character  that  his  future  career  will  be  well  worth  watching.  Born  in  San 
Francisco,  California,  on  the  29th  of  August,  1883,  he  is  a  son  of  Clarence  E.  Curby,  a 
native  of  Pennsylvania,  who,  removing  westward  to  St.  Louis,  was  identified  with 
mercantile  interests  and  became  secretary  of  the  Smith  &  Davis  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, a  position  which  he  occupied  for  a  number  of  years.  He  passed  away  in  August, 
1912. 

Clarence  J.  Curby  was  educated  in  the  Western  Military  Academy,  in  which  he 
completed  a  course  of  study  with  the  class  of  1902.  He  then  started  in  the  business 
world  with  the  Smith  &  Davis  Manufacturing  Company,  of  which  his  father  was 
the  secretary,  and  the  son  is  now  practically  sole  owner  of  this  extensive  business, 
with  offices  and  factories  at  No.  1925  Locust  street,  in  St.  Louis.  They  are  manu- 
facturers of  iron  and  brass  bedsteads,  spring  and  wire  mattresses  and  hospital  furni- 
ture, and  do  a  mammoth  business,  the  output  being  very  extensive.  The  officers  of 
the  company  are:  B.  H.  Jones,  president;  C.  J.  Curby,  vice  president  and  general 
manager;  J.  H.  Kentnor,  secretary;  and  W.  H.  Whltehill,  treasurer.  Mr.  Curby  is 
the  executive  head  and  directs  the  policy  of  the  business,  which  uncler  his  wise  guid- 
ance has  steadily  developed,  becoming  one  of  the  important  manufacturing  interests 
of  St.  Louis. 

In  1904  Mr.  Curby  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Rose  Davidson,  a  daughter  of 
John  Davidson,  of  St.  Louis,  and  they  have  two  children,  Ruth  D.  and  John  Edgar, 
aged  respectively  twelve  and  nine  years  and  both  in  school.  The  parents  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Second  Presbyterian  church,  of  which  Mr.  Curby  is  a  trustee.  He  is  fond 
of  outdoor  life  and  belongs  to  the  Sunset  Hill  Club,  the  Ridgedale  Club  and  also  to 
the  St.  Louis  Club  and  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association. 


LLOYD  PARKER  WELLS. 


Many  important  chapters  have  been  added  to  the  pages  of  world  history  dur- 
ing the  past  few  years  and  there  has  been  ample  proof  that  personal  bravery  is 
not  lacking  in  the  present  generation,  that  patriotism  is  not  dead  and  that  men 
hold  principle  and  honor  dearer  than  life.  On  the  record  of  those  men  whom  St. 
Louis  sent  overseas  appears  the  name  of  Lloyd  Parker  Wells  with  the  rank  of 
first  lieutenant.  In  business  circles  of  the  city  he  is  well  known  as  the  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  Mortgage  Trust  Company.  St.  Louis  numbers  him  among  her  native 
sons,  his  birth  having  here  occurred  March  9,  1885.  His  father,  Rolla  Wells,  was 
the  son  of  Erastus  Wells,  who  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  figures  in  the  life 
of  St.  Louis.  Rolla  Wells  is  still  living  and  is  mentioned  elsewhere  In  this  work. 
He  married  Jennie  H.  Parker,  of  St.  Louis,  descended  from  an  old  Delaware  family. 

Lloyd  Parker  Wells  was  educated  in  Smith  Academy  of  St.  Louis  and  in  the 
Lawrenceville  Preparatory  School  of  New  Jersey  before  entering  Princeton  Univer- 
sity, from  which  he  was  graduated  in  19  07  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Literature. 
While  at  Princeton  he  was  a  member  of  the  Tiger  Inn  and  took  an  active  part  in 
all  college  affairs. 

Following  his  graduation  he  returned  to  St.  Louis  and  for  about  a  year  was 
paymaster  of  the  Southern  Coal  &  Mining  Company.  He  then  entered  into  the 
organization  of  the  Mortgage  Trust  Company  and  the  Mortgage  Guarantee  Company 
of  St.   Louis  and  at  the  present  time  is  a  director  and  the  vice   president  o£  both 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  457 

these  prosperous  institutions,  which  figure  among  the  leading  financial  concerns 
■of  the  city.  Mr.  Wells  put  aside  all  business  and  personal  considerations,  however, 
when  America  entered  the  World  war.  On  the  13th  of  May,  1917,  he  went  to 
the  First  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Fort  Riley,  Kansas,  and  in  due  time  was  com- 
TQissioned  second  lieutenant  of  the  Quartermasters  Corps  and  assigned  to  Camp 
Funston  in  Kansas.  Subsequently  he  was  transferred  to  the  Three  Hundred  and 
Fourteenth  Ammunition  Train  of  the  Eighty-ninth  Division  and  was  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  first  lieutenant  in  December,  1917.  On  the  28th  of  June,  1918,  he 
sailed  for  France  and  until  the  following  November  was  stationed  in  the  St.  Mihiel 
sector.  He  entered  Germany  with  the  army  of  occupation,  was  transferred  to  the 
Seventh  Corps  Headquarters  and  was  stationed  at  Salmrohr,  Germany.  Some  time 
afterward  he  was  transferred  back  to  the  Eighty-ninth  Division  and  in  May,  1919, 
sailed  for  America,  being  honorably  discharged  and  mustered  out  on  the  28th  of 
May. 

On  the  4th  of  October,  1919,  Lieutenant  Wells  was  married  to  Miss  Helen  L. 
Boynton,  daughter  of  Charles  B.  Boynton  of  East  Orange,  New  Jersey,  and  a  direct 
descendant  of  John  and  Priscilla  Alden. 

In  his  political  views  Lieutenant  Wells  is  a  democrat.  His  religious  faith  is 
evidenced  by  his  membership  in  the  Central  Presbyterian  church.  He  belongs  to 
no  secret  orders  but  is  a  member  of  the  Noonday  Club,  the  Florissant  Valley 
Club,  the  St.  Louis  Country  Club  and  the  Racquet  Club,  and  finds  his  chief  recrea- 
tion in  golf  and  tennis.     He  is  also  a  member  of  the  American  Legion. 


GROVER  CHILDERS. 


In  1912  Grover  Childers  arrived  in  Kansas  City, -^quipped  with  a  college  edn- 
cation  but  no  money.  Three  years  later  he  was  graduated  from  the  Kansas  City 
School  of  Law  and  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession.  He  now  has  a 
large  clientele  of  the  younger  business  men  of  the  city,  who  place  confidence  in  his 
business  judgment  and  his  legal  knowledge,  fits  attention  being  given  mostly  to 
office  practice.  The  progress  that  he  has  made  indicates  clearly  the  wise  use  he 
has  made  of  his  time,  talents  and  opportunities. 

Mr.  Childers  is  a  native  son  of  Missouri,  his  birth  havipg  occurred  near  La 
Grange,  in  Lewis  county,  October  8,  1886,  his  parents  being  George  W.  and  Emma 
(Woodcock)  Childers,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Quincy,  Illinois,  and  came  to 
Missouri  in  early  life,  settling  in  Lewis  county,  where  George  W.  Childers  took  up 
the  occupation  of  farming  and  stock  raising,  which  he  followed  for  many  years. 

Grover  Childers  spent  his  youthful  days  in  the  usual  manner  of  the  farm  bred 
boy.  He  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  and  in  the  La  Grange 
high  school,  while  later  he  attended  the  La  Grange  College  and  won  his  Bachelor 
of  Arts  degree  in  1907.  He  afterward  taught  school  in  Clark  and  Marion  counties 
for  a  period  of  four  years  and  in  1912  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  entered 
the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law.  He  was  at  that  time  the  possessor  of  five  dollars 
and  a  large  fund  of  determination  and  laudable  ambition.  He  worked  his  way 
through  school  and  when  he  had  graduated  he  had  accumulated  without  outside 
assistance  over  a  thousand  dollars.  He  then  entered  upon  the  active  practice  of 
law  and  has  gained  a  good  clientage  among  the  younger  business  men  of  the  city, 
who  recognize  the  soundness  of  his  judgment  in  business  affairs  as  well  as  the 
comprehensiveness  of  his  legal  knowledge.  His  business  discernment  is  shown  in 
the  success  which  has  attended  the  investments  that  he  has  personally  made. 

In  1917  Mr.  Childers  was  married  to  Miss  Alice  J.  Cahill,  of  Warrensburg, 
Missouri,  and  they  occupy  an  enviable  social  position,  having  many  warm  friends 
in  Kansas  City  and  enjoying  the  hospitality  of  many  of  the  best  homes.  Fraternally 
Mr.  Childers  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  the  lodge,  chapter,  commandery  and  Mystic 
Shrine,  also  to  the  Eastern  Star  and  to  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America.  When 
the  country  entered  the  World  war  he  enlisted  as  a  private  and  from  the  10th  of 
December,  1917,  until  January  9,  1919,  was  in  the  army.  He  went  first  to  Jeffer- 
son Barracks,  Missouri,  and  was  warranted  first  sergeant  in  the  Ordnance  Corps 
within  sixty  days  after  his  enlistment.  He  was  later  placed  in  charge  of  the 
personnel  records  at  Raritan  arsenal  and  served  in  that  capacity  until  discharged, 
refusing   further  promotion   leading  to   a   commission.      He   was   with   the   army   al- 


458  CEXTENXIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

together  tor  thirteen  months  and  then  returned  to  his  home  to  resume  the  private 
practice  of  law  and  to  take  up  again  his  activities  along  other  lines.  He  Is  the 
prelate  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  Lodge  No.  1  and  while  residing  in  Lewis  county, 
Missouri,  served  as  district  deputy  of  the  Modern  Woodmen.  He  is  now  keenly 
interested  in  the  state  movement  for  the  abolishment  of  the  public  service  com- 
mission. He  was  the  organizer  of  the  State  League  for  the  Repeal  of  the  Public 
Service  Commission  Act.  which  now  has  a  membership  of  twenty-seven  thousand, 
and  he  is  president  thereof,  being  known  throughout  the  state  for  his  work  in  this 
connection.  He  belongs  to  the  Baptist  church  and  he  is  interested  in  all  those 
forces  which  make  for  the  benefit  of  the  community.  He  is  particularly  a  lover 
of  justice  and  does  not  hesitate  to  criticise  injustice  under  whatever  guise  it  is 
found. 


ANTHONY  P.  NUGENT. 


Anthony  P.  Nugent  is  regarded  as  of  the  best  type  of  the  young  American 
lawyer,  earnest,  studious,  energetic,  having  always  before  him  the  highest  ideals  and 
professional  standards  of  conduct.  Moreover,  he  is  a  veteran  of  the  World  war  who 
rose  from  the  ranks  to  a  first  lieutenancy,  and  has  to  his  credit  a  year's  overseas  serv- 
ice. He  was  born  in  Kansas  City.  Kansas.  August  3.  1890,  and  Is  a  son  of  Owen 
Nugent,  a  native  of  Ireland,  who  came  to  the  new  world  in  the  '70s.  The  father 
who  devoted  part  of  his  life  to  contracting  and  building  and  merchandising,  passed 
away  in  1916.  having  throughout  the  period  of  his  connection  with  America  made 
his  home  in  Kansas  City.  Kansas.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church 
and  was  an  active  supporter  of  the  republican  party.  His  wife,  who  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Mary  Smith,   was  born  in   Ireland  and  died  in   1908. 

Anthony  P.  Nugent  is  the  youngest  in  a  family  of  sixteen  children,  of  whom 
twelve  are  living.  He  was  educated  in  St.  Mary's  Parochial  and  Kansas  City.  Kansas 
high  school  also  Christian  Brothers  College,  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  and  determining 
upon  the  practice  of  law  as  his  life  work,  he  later  matriculated  in  the  Kansas  City 
School  of  Law.  in  which  he  won  his  LL.  B.  degree  in  1914.  The  same  year  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  and  has  since  practiced  in  Kansas  City  save  for  the  period 
of  his  service  in  the  war.  Those  who  know  him  speak  of  him  as  a  man  honest, 
capable  and  energetic,  holding  to  high  professional  ideals,  in  every  way  a  good  citizen 
and  a  trustworthy  man.  He  goes  at  his  work  with  diligence  and  with  contagious 
enthusiasm  and  has  risen  rapidly  in  the  practice  of  law,  enjoying  now  a  large 
clientage  of  a  distinctively  representative  character. 

On  the  25th  of  May,  1917,  Mr.  Nugent  enlisted  for  service  in  the  American 
army,  with  which  he  remained  until  discharged  in  March,  1919.  He  spent  during 
that  time  one  year  in  France  and  rose  from  the  ranks  to  a  first  lieutenancy  of  the 
Signal  Corps.  As  a  second  lieutenant  of  infantry  he  was  connected  with  the  gas 
service  at  the  signing  of  the  armistice.  He  belongs  to  the  American  Legion,  being 
the  one  who  chose  the  name  William  L.  Fitzsimmons  Post  No.  8  for  the  first 
one  organized  in  St.  Louis,  and  also  belongs  to  the  Veterans  of  Foreign  Wars.  He 
is  the  senior  vice  commander  of  Craig  Post  of  the  Veterans  of  Foreign  Wars  and  is 
editor  of  the  paper  called  the  Craig  Poster,  a  bright  little  sheet  published  "for  the 
fighting  men  of  Kansas  City." 

On  the  11th  of  February,  1920,  Mr.  Nugent  was  married  to  Miss  Elizabeth  M. 
Dwyer,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Dvvyer,  of  Kansas  City.  Kansas.  Mr.  Nugent 
is  vice  president  of  and  counsel  for  the  Federal  Securities  Company  of  Kansas  City, 
Missouri.  The  religious  faith  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nugent  is  that  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
church  and  Mr.  Nugent  is  a  fourth  degree  Knight  of  Columbus.  He  is  identified  with 
several  of  the  leading  clubs  of  the  city,  including  the  Kansas  City  Field  Club,  the 
City  Club,  and  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  His  political  belief  is  that  of  the  republi- 
can party,  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Missouri  Republican 
Club,  and  secretary  of  the  Harding-Coolidge  Club  of  the  tenth  ward.  He  was  also 
a  member  of  the  Bar  Association  to  meet  with  the  governor  to  consider  police  condi- 
tions. He  has  been  urged  by  friends  to  run  for  office,  but  has  declined.  He  possesses 
marked  oratorical  ability,  is  widely  recognized  throughout  the  state  as  a  good 
speaker  and  a  man  politically  influential.  Moreover,  if  there  is  money  to  be  raised 
for  any  worthy  project,  such  as  the  Red  Cross,  Liberty  loans  and  other  public  inter- 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  461 

ests,  he  is  usually  made  a  leader  in  the  movement  which  brings  about,  the  desired 
result,  by  his  assistance  to  the  speakers'  bureau.  He  also  gives  liberally  of  his  own 
means  to  philanthropic  and  civic  interests,  while  as  a  lawyer  he  excels  in  the  kind 
of  ability  which  comes  from  close  application,  and  the  distinguishing  feature  in  his 
favor  is  that  he  always  meets  his  adversary  with  absolute  candor  and  honesty,  present- 
ing his  cause  with  the  eloquence  of  earnest  conviction  and  thorough  preparation. 
He  is  the  secretary  of  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association  and  belongs  to  the  Phi  Alpha 
Delta,  a  legal  fraternity,  the  American  Bar  Association,  and  to  the  Ancient  Order 
of  Hibernians. 


WILLIAM   C.  VAN   CLEVE. 


William  C.  Van  Cleve,  who  has  devoted  the  years  of  his  active  business  life 
to  newspaper  publication,  being  now  one  of  the  owners  of  the  Moberly  Monitor- 
Index  and  also  of  the  Democrat-Forum,  the  latter  published  at  Maryville,  was  born 
September  4,  1869,  near  Darksvllle,  Randolph  county,  Missouri,  his  parents  being 
John  S.  and  Catherine  (Crist)  Van  Cleve.  The  father  came  to  Randolph  county 
in  1855,  when  but  eight  years  of  age,  from  Virginia.  He  was  of  Holland  lineage 
in  the  paternal  line,  but  his  mother  was  born  near  London,  England.  She  bore 
the  maiden  name  of  Martha  Marvin  and  was  a  distant  relative  of  Bishop  Marvin 
and  Lord  Cornwallis.  John  S.  Van  Cleve  remained  a  resident  of  Randolph  county 
to  the  time  of  his  death  in  1918  and  for  many  years  was  a  leading  business  man 
of  Moberly.  He  always  refused  to  accept  public  office,  though  urged  many  times 
to  do  so.  His  wife,  Mrs.  Catherine  (Crist)  Van  ;Cleve,  was  born  in  Ohio  and  both 
were  members  of  the  old  school  Baptist  church.  ^  - 

William  C.  Van  Cleve  attended  the  country  schools,  also  McGee  College  and 
La  Grange  College  at  La  Grange,  Missouri,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the 
Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  in  1891.  At  an  early  age  he  learned  the  printer's  trade 
at  home  and  did  small  work  in  an  inland  town  when  a  boy.  Thus  he  accumulated 
enough  to  pay  partially  his  college  expenses.  In  other  ways  he  worked  his  way 
through  college,  serving  the  last  two  years  as  tutor.  He  was  then  offered  a  five- 
year  contract  to  teach  in  La  Grange  but  decided  to  take  up  newspaper  work  and 
accepted  a  position  on  the  Moberly  Democrat  in  1891,  making  steady  advance  in 
that  connection  until  he  became  manager.  He  sold  his  interest  in  the  paper  In 
189  9  and  at  different  periods  he  has  published  the  Evening  Record  of  Springfield, 
Missouri,  the  Democrat  at  Bethany,  Missouri,  and  is  now  connected  with  the  Demo- 
crat-Forum of  Maryville  and  the  Moberly  Monitor-Index.  He  purchased  an  interest 
in  the  Maryville  Forum  in  189  9  and  soon  after  effected  a  consolidation  with  the 
Maryville  Democrat  and  absorbed  the  Maryville  Daily  Republican  under  the  name 
of  the  Democrat-Forum.  This  paper  has  grown  to  be  one  of  the  most  successful 
and  profitable  small  dailies  in  the  country,  enjoying  a  daily  circulation  of  thirty- 
five  hundred  in  a  town  of  seven  thousand.  This  paper  is  still  owned  by  Mr.  Van 
Cleve  and  his  partner,  James  Todd.  In  July,  1919,  they  purchased  a  controlling 
interest  in  the  Moberly  Daily  Monitor  and  the  Daily  Index  and  merged  them  into 
the  Monitor-Index,  and  both  papers  are  now  being  successfully  published  under 
their  control.  Of  both  the  Maryville  Publishing  Company  at  Maryville  and  the 
Moberly  Index  Printing  Company  at  Moberly,  Missouri,  Mr.  Van  Cleve  is  the  presi- 
dent. 

On  the  17th  of  October,  1895,  at  La  Grange,  Missouri,  Mr.  Van  Cleve  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Josephine  Hagood,  a  daughter  of  J.  N.  Hagood,  who  was  the 
chief  owner  of  the  La  Grange  Savings  Bank  and  a  representative  of  one  of  the 
leading  families  of  Kentucky.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Van  Cleve  have  two  sons:  John 
Kenneth,  who  is  connected  with  the  Commerce  Trust  Company  of  Kansas  City, 
Missouri;   and  William  T.,  a  student  in  the  Missouri  State  University. 

Mr.  Van  Cleve  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows  and  has  filled  all  of  the  chairs  in  the  local  lodge  of  the  former.  In 
politics  he  is  a  democrat  but  forms  his  opinions  independent  of  party  dictation. 
He  has  always  refused  to  become  a  candidate  for  office  but  has  held  some  appointive 
positions.  He  served  for  eight  years  as  bill  clerk,  tally  clerk,  assistant  journal 
clerk  and  journal  clerk  of  the  house  of  representatives  at  Washington,  D.  C,  and 
he  was  appointed  oil  inspector  by  Governor  Stephens.     Following  his  eight  years' 


462  CEXTEXXIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

service  in  Ihe  various  positions  in  the  house  of  representatives  at  the  national 
capital  from  April,  1911.  to  June  20,  1919,  he  assumed  the  management  of  the 
consolidated  Monitor-Index  at  Moberly  and  is  concentrating  his  efforts  and  attention 
upon  the  publication  of  the  paper  at  the  present   time. 


EDWARD    CHESTER    DUCKWORTH. 

Edward  Chester  Duckworth  is  superintendent  of  the  Hughes  Printing  Company 
of  St.  Louis.  He  has  been  a  lifelong  resident  of  this  city,  his  birth  having  here 
occurred  July  1,  1866.  He  is,  however,  a  representative  of  a  well  known  Kentucky 
family.  His  father,  Edward  James  Duckworth,  a  native  of  that  state,  was  a 
painter  by  trade  and  also  a  pilot  on  the  Mississippi  river.  During  the  Civil  war 
Tie  served  with  the  Confederate  troops.  He  married  Elizabeth  Brooks,  a  native 
of  England,  and  they  became  parents  of  five  sons,  of  whom  Edward  C.  is  the  fourth 
in  order  of  birth.  The  others  are:  Milton  and  Edmund,  both  deceased;  Harry 
Liee,  who  is  employed  in  the  Liggett  &  Myers  tobacco  factory  of  St.  Louis  and  who 
wedded  Margaret  Laughlin;  and  Arthur,  who  married  Margaret  Sandoph  and  is  a 
printer  on  the  Post-Dispatch  of  St.  Louis. 

Edward  C.  Duckworth  acquired  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis, 
pursuing  his  studies  to  the  age  of  fifteen  years,  when  he  started  out  in  business 
life  by  securing  a  position  as  cash  boy  with  the  firm  of  H.  D.  Mann  &  Company. 
When  a  youth  of  sixteen  he  entered  the  employ  of  a  dentist  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen 
turned  his  attention  to  the  printing  business.  When  twenty  years  of  age  he  worked 
as  a  printer  for  the  Western  Printing  Company  of  St.  Louis,  there  remaining  for 
lour  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  decided  to  engage  in  business  on  his  own 
account  and  entered  into  partnership  with  Clarence  A.  Hughes  under  the  firm  style 
of  the  Hughes  Printing  Company.  Since  that  time  the  firm  has  conducted  a  suc- 
cessful and  growing  business,  doing  a  large  amount  of  commercial  printing.  The 
work  turned  out  is  of  high  standard  and  their  patronage  has  steadily  grown.  Mr. 
Duckworth  has  thorough  knowledge  of  the  business  in  every  detail  and  his  compre- 
Tiensive  understanding  of  the  printing  trade  makes  him  most  efficient  in  his  duties 
as  superintendent  of  the  plant. 

On  the  12th  of  June,  1889,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Duckworth  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Elizabeth  Clabes,  a  daughter  of  Andrew  Clabes.  They  had  two  children: 
Edwin  Andrew,  who  has  passed  away;  and  Edna  Elizabeth,  who  is  with  her  parents. 

Mr.  Duckworth  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Missouri  Lodge,  No.  1,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
in  which  he  was  raised  in  1910,  and  he  is  also  identified  with  the  Royal  Arch  chapter 
and  with  Grotto  No.  47.  His  political  endorsement  is  not  given  to  any  particular 
party,  for  he  maintains  an  independent  course,  voting  according  to  the  dictates  of 
his  judgment.  In  religion  he  is  an  Episcopalian,  having  membership  in  Christ 
Cathedral  at  Thirteenth  and  Locust  streets  in  St.  Louis.  He  is  interested  in  all 
that  makes  for  advancement  and  progress  along  material,  intellectual,  social  and 
moral  lines  and  his  aid  can  be  counted  upon  to  further  various  measures  for  the 
general  good. 


GREENFIELD  SLUDER,  M.  D. 

Dr.  Greenfield  Sluder  has  throughout  his  career  specialized  in  the  treatment 
of  diseases  of  the  nose  and  throat.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  1865,  and  is  a  son 
of  Aaron  Baldwin  Sluder,  a  native  of  Nashville,  Tennessee.  The  Sluder  family  is 
of  Holland  descent.  Aaron  B.  Sluder  came  to  St.  Louis  in  1850  and  here  established 
a  furniture  business,  continuing  prominently  in  that  line  of  trade  for  many  years. 
In  1875  he  withdrew  from  active  connection  with  the  furniture  business  and  lived 
retired  thereafter  to  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  on  the  12th  of  April, 
1878.  He  had  married  Martha  Virginia  Greenfield,  a  native  of  Nashville,  Tennessee, 
in  which  state  she  was  reared  and  educated.  She  passed  away  March  5,  1898,  at 
the  age  of  seventy-one. 

Dr.  Sluder  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis  and 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  463 

afterward  attended  the  manual  training  school  of  the  Washington  University. 
Having  determined  upon  the  practice  of  medicine  as  a  life  work,  he  then  entered 
the  St.  Louis  Medical  College,  now  the  Washington  University  Medical  School,  from 
which  he  received  his  M.  D.  degree  in  1888.  From  1891  until  1896  he  was  in- 
structor in  urinology  and  clinical  medicine  in  the  St.  Louis  Medical  School  and  from 
1896  until  1905  was  lecturer  on  laryngology,  while  since  the  latter  date  he  has 
been  clinical  professor  and  director  of  the  department  of  laryngology  in  the  Wash- 
ington University  Medical  School.  After  his  graduation  from  the  college  where  he 
has  long  been  an  instructor,  he  served  an  interneship  and  was  also  resident  physi- 
cian of  the  City  Hospital.  He  then  became  a  graduate  student  in  Vienna  under 
Hajek  and  others  of  the  best  rhinologists  and  laryngologists  in  the  world.  Through- 
out the  intervening  period  he  has  been  a  most  earnest  and  discriminating  student 
and  has  kept  in  touch  with  the  most  scientific  research  and  investigation  along 
the  line  in  which  he  specializes.  He  was  the  collaborator  with  Dr.  A.  E.  Ewing 
in  discovering  the  cause  of  headache  in  disturbances  of  the  eye  and  nose;  also  the 
discoverer  of  one  of  the  causes  of  headache  in  affections  of  nerves  in  relation  to 
the  air  sinuses.  He  is  also  the  inventor  of  a  most  successful  method  of  removing 
tonsils  and  is  the  author  of  an  authoritative  and  original  book  on  Headache  of 
Nasal  Origin.  He  is  regarded  as  a  most  capable  instructor  and  has  displayed  marked 
inventive  ingenuity  in  accomplishing  various  surgical  operations  in  his  special  field 
of  practice. 

Dr.  Sluder  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Medical  Society,  the  Missouri  State 
Medical  Society  and  the  American  Medical  Association,  also  of  the  American  Academy 
of  Ophthalmology  and  Oto-Laryngology,  the  American  Laryngological,  Rhinological 
and  Otological  Society,  the  American  Laryngological  Association  and  the  American 
Association  of  Anatomists. 

Something  of  the  breadth  of  his  interests  aside  from  his  profession  is  indicated 
in  the  fact  that  he  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Anthropological  Society  and  a 
member  of  the  Scientific  Society  of  the  Sigma  Xi.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Sons 
of  the  Revolution   and  is  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars. 

On  the  3d  of  December,  1904,  Dr.  Sluder  was  married  to  Miss  Ella  Andrews 
Cochran,  a  daughter  of  Alexander  G.  Cochran,  who  for  twenty-five  years  was  gen- 
eral solicitor  for  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad  Company  but  is  now  living  retired. 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Sluder  have  three  children,  Mary  Virginia,  MarHia  Greenfield  and  .John 
Cochran.  •  The  parents  are  members  of  the  Episcopal  church. 

Dr.  .Sluder  largely  finds  his  recreation  in  scientific  study  and  research  and 
thus  it  is  that  he  has  attained  professional  height?.  Endowed  by  nature  with 
strong  mentality,  deliberate  and  methodical  in  temperament  and  with  deep  interest 
in  the  scientific  aspects  of  his  subject,  he  has  added  to  these  long  and  careful 
training  and  has  never  felt  that  he  has  reached  finality  in  his  preparation. 


MRS.   LILY   HERALD  FROST. 

Mrs.  Lily  Herald  Frost,  who  in  1907  assumed  the  business  and  editorial  con- 
trol of  the  Vandalia  Leader  and  has  made  for  herself  a  most  creditable  and  enviable 
position  in  journalistic  circles  in  Missouri,  is  a  native  of  Fidelity,  Illinois.  Her 
birth  there,  however,  was  incidental  and  she  is  a  Missourian  by  inheritance,  in 
thought  and  in  purpose  as  well  as  in  residence.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Dr.  George 
W.  and  Nancy  E.  (Richardson)  Herald  and  in  both  lines  comes  of  English  ancestry. 
The  first  representatives  of  the  Herald  family  in  America  came  over  with  the  British 
troops  in  1776,  while  the  maternal  ancestors  were  English  colonists  in  the  Carolinas. 
The  Frosts  were  also  English.  Dr.  George  W.  Herald  was  born  December  10,  1832, 
in  Greenup  county,  Kentucky,  near  Paducah,  and  came  to  Missouri  when  twelve 
years  of  age.  He  was  a  Civil  war  veteran,  participating  in  many  of  the  most  im- 
portant engagements  in  the  south.  He  lived  in  Saline  county,  at  Saline  City  and  at 
Arrow  Rock,  for  many  years  and  eventually  went  to  Texas  for  his  health,  there 
passing  away  in  1909.  He  had  been  graduated  from  the  old  McDowell  Medical 
College  of  St.  Louis  and  later  from  the  St.  Louis  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons and  throughout  his  professional  career  was  an  able  and  successful  practi- 
tioner.    His  wife  was  a  native  of  Boone  county,  Missouri,  and  a  daughter  of  Larkin 

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464  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Richardson,  who  married  Jane  Jones,  daughter  of  Mosias  Jones,  a  leading  pioneer 
citizen  of  Boone. 

Mrs.  Lily  LeMoyne  (Herald)  Frost  was  graduated  from  Hardin  College  at  Mexico, 
Missouri,  with  the  class  of  1886.  In  the  following  year,  on  the  19th  of  April,  1887, 
at  Arrow  Rock,  Missouri,  she  became  the  wife  of  Prank  Newman  Frost,  who  was 
born  at  Ravenswood,  West  Virginia,  December  14,  18.56,  son  of  William  P.  and 
Martha  (Snodgrass)  Frost,  of  West  Virginia,  who  became  residents  of  Mexico, 
Missouri,  In  the  late  '50s.  Mr.  Frost  was  engaged  in  the  newspaper  business, 
becoming  owner  and  editor  of  the  Vandalia  Leader,  and  thus  it  was,  upon  the 
death  of  her  husband  in  1907,  that  Mrs.  Frost  assumed  business  and  editorial  con- 
trol of  the  paper.  She  had  previously  done  considerable  work  for  the  Mexico  Daily 
Intelligencer  and  in  taking  over  the  management  of  the  Leader  she  seems  to  have 
entered  upon  a  field  of  labor  for  which  her  talents  admirably  fitted  her.  She  has 
been  in  the  lead  tor  every  progressive  movement  tor  the  town  and  her  personal 
and  journalistic  activities  have  constituted  a  very  material  fac*or  in  acquiring  all 
public  improvements.  The  paper  is  published  in  the  interests  of  the  democratic 
party  and  Mrs.  Frost  discusses  with  great  clearness  and  intelligent  comprehension 
the  vital  political  problems  and  issues  of  the  day. 

Of  the  Saturday  Club,  which  was  organized  in  1898  and  is  the  oUTest  social 
club  in  the  county,  Mrs.  Frost  is  a  charter  member.  She  was  also  the  organizer 
of  the  Cosmos  Club,  one  of  the  foremost  women's  clubs  in  this  section  of  Missouri 
and  which  was  formed  in  1905.  It  was  through  her  leadership  that  the  Vandalia 
public  library  was  organized  and  thus  in  many  fields  of  extreme  usefulness  she 
has  contributed  to  the  city's  welfare  and  upbuilding.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
Baptist  church,  having  united  with  that  denomination  in  1886,  while  attending 
Hardin  College. 

Mrs.  Frost  has  a  family  of  four  children:  Frances,  who  is  now  the  wife  of 
Dudley  Catron  Butler,  of  Vandalia,  Missouri;  J.  Herald,  who  is  now  the  business 
manager  of  the  Vandalia  Leader;  Charlotte,  the  wife  of  W.  Wells  Macdonald,  of 
St.  Louis;  and  Phyllis  LeMoyne,  also  in  Vandalia.  The  son,  J.  Herald  Frost,  was 
married  in  1914  to  Miss  Sue  Wright  of  Vandalia.  and  in  1917  he  enlisted  in  the 
balloon  section  of  the  aviation  department  of  the  United  States  army.  He  was 
accepted,  but  not  being  called,  he  went  with  the  first  Audrian  contingent  to  Camp 
Funston,  where  he  was  made  sergeant.  He  left .  for  France  in  May,  1918.  as  a 
member  of  Company  K,  Three  Hundred  and  Fifty-fourth  Infantry  of  the  Eighty- 
ninth  Division,  and  after  the  St.  Mihiel  drive  he  was  sent  to  the  officers'  training 
school  at  Langres.  Following  the  signing  of  the  armistice  he  asked  to  be  released 
in  order  to  return  to  his  wife  and  two  children. 


W.  L.  SCHACHNER. 


In  a  review  of  the  career  of  W.  L.  Schachner,  the  head  of  the  stock  and  bond  brok- 
erage firm  operating  under  the  name  of  the  W.  L.  Schachner  Company,  it  seems  that 
he  has  reached  his  present  position  in  financial  circles  almost  by  leaps  and  bounds, 
for  within  a  period  of  seven  years  he  has  risen  from  a  very  humble  place  in  the 
business  world  to  a  point  where  he  is  representing  a  large  clientele  in  investments.  Mr. 
Schachner  Is  a  native  of  O'Fallon,  Illinois.  He  was  born  April  25,  1888,  and  is  a  son 
of  Christ  O'Fallon  and  Sophie  (Lucksinger)  Schachner,  the  father  a  successful  and 
prominent  miller.  The  family  numbered  three  daughters,  but  W.  L.  Schachner  is  the 
only  son.  At  the  usual  age  he  became  a  pupil  in  the  common  schools,  passing  through 
consecutive  grades  to  the  high  school  and  eventually  pursuing  a  normal  course  and 
also  a  business  course  in  the  Columbia  University  College.  He  first  became  a  resident 
of  Missouri  in  1905. 

Mr.  Schachner  entered  upon  his  business  career  as  a  newspaper  reporter  and  has 
at  various  periods  been  connected  with  all  the  different  departments  of  newspaper 
work.  In  this  connection  he  has  traveled  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific,  working  at 
different  periods  on  papers  in  Portland,  Oregon,  Los  Angeles,  California,  New  York  and 
St.  Louis.  While  thus  engaged  as  representative  of  the  Star  and  Times  of  St.  Louis 
he  was,  in  1913,  offered  an  opening  with  a  representative  New  York  broker  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  branch  house  in  St.  Louis.  He  undertook  the  work,  although  without 
previous  experience  of  this  character,  and  such  was  his  success  that  within  the  following 


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year  he  bought  out  his  employer  and  organized  the  present  corporation  known  as  the 
W.  L.  Schachner  Company,  of  which  he  has  since  been  the  president  and  the  moving 
spirit.  The  company  is  engaged  in  the  stock  and  bond  brokerage  business,  with  offices 
in  the  Central  National  Bank  building,  and  does  not  handle  anything  but  safe,  substan- 
tial securities  and  will  not  touch  any  speculative  stock  whatever.  They  keep  in  constant 
touch  with  their  clients  and  irreproachable  integrity  permeates  all  their  business  trans- 
actions, contributing  in  substantial  measure  to  their  growing  success.  Prom  a  small 
organization  in  1913  they  have  grown  to  a  powerful,  well  established  corporation  with 
unlimited  credit  and  hundreds  of  satisfied  customers. 

Mr.  Schachner  is  a  Blue  Lodge  Mason,  having  his  membership  at  O'Fallon,  Illinois. 
He  is  connected  with  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  St.  Louis  and  with  the  Sunset  Hill 
Club.  He  was  active  in  all  the  war  campaigns  for  the  sale  of  Thrift  Stamps  and  Liberty 
Bonds  and  in  days  of  peace  is  equally  loyal  in  his  support  of  those  interests  which  are 
working  for  higher  ideals  in  citizenship  and  larger  accomplishments  in  city  building. 
Mr.  Schachner  may  well  be  termed  one  ot  the  dynamic  forces  in  the  business  cirlces 
of  St.  Louis.  Starting  with  practically  no  capital  seven  years  ago,  his  assets  are  now 
written  in  six  figures,  and  there  are  few  men  more  thoroughly  conversant  with  the 
stock  and  bond  market  today  than  is  W.  L.  Schachner. 


RT.    REV.   JOHN   J.   GLBNNON,    D.    D. 

A  Catholic  archbishop  is  supposed  to  be  a.  prudent,  able,  efficient,  generous 
and  religious  man — in  a  word,  he  should  be  a  churchriian  and  a  statesman.  View- 
ing the  subject  of  our  sketch  from  every  angle,  no  one  will  hesitate  to  acknowldege 
that  John  J.  Glennon,  archbishop  of  St.  Louis,  measures  up  to  standard  in  every 
detail.  His  was  the  vocation  and  faithful  has,  he  ever  been  to  the  ideals  held  out 
to  him  in  the  vocation. 

John  Joseph  Glennon.  archbishop  of  St.  Louis,  and  in  the  current  era,  one  of 
the  eminent  divines  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church  in  the  United  States,  was  born 
in  Kinnegad,  County  Meath,  Ireland,  June  14,  1862,  his  parents  being  Matthew  and 
Catherine  (Kinsella)  Glennon.  Reared  in  the,  land  of  his  nativity,  he  pursued  a 
preparatory  course  of  study  in  St.  Mary's  College  at  MuUingar,  and  was  graduated 
from  All  Hallows  College  in  Dublin  with  the  class  of  1883.  Having  determined 
to  take  holy  orders,  he  prepared  for  the  ministry  of  the  church  and  was  ordained 
to  the  priesthood  in  1884.  His  first  active  assignment  was  the  charge  of  assistant 
pastor  in  St.  Patrick's  church,  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  where  he  remained  from  1884 
until  1887.  He  was  then  promoted  to  the  pastorate  of  the  Cathedral  church  in  that 
city  under  Bishop  Hogan,  and  in  1892,  because  ot  his  executive  ability,  as  also  be- 
cause of  his  tact  in  dealing  with  men.  Father  Glennon  was  chosen  to  fill  the  office^ 
of  vicar  general  of  the  diocese.  He  held  this  position  for  ten  years  and  ably 
assisted  the  bishop  of  Kansas  City  in  bringing  to  a  successful  issue  matters  religious, 
and  civic,  so  much  so  that  when  it  became  necessary  for  Bishop  Hogan  to  ask  Rome> 
to  give  him  an  assistant,  he  petitioned  that  John  J.  Glennon  be  made  his  coadjutor. 
The  bishop's  request  was  heeded  and  Father  Glennon,  on  March  26,  1896,  was 
consecrated  codajutor  bishop  of  Kansas  City  and  titular  bishop  of  Pinara  in  the- 
cathedral  of  Kansas  City. 

When,  in  1903,  Archbishop  Kain  of  St.  Louis,  because  of  tailing  health,  asked" 
that  a  coadjutor  be  given  him,  Rome,  at  the  suggestion  of  the  St.  Louis  clergy  and' 
with  the  approval  of  the  archbishops  of  the  United  States,  appointed  the  then  very 
youthful  coadjutor  bishop  of  Kansas  City  to  this  high  ecclesiastical  office. 

Arriving  in  St.  Louis  in  1903  the  new  archbishop  began  to  map  out  a  vigorous 
policy  in  regard  to  the  growing  needs  of  this  great  middle  west  province,  and  spe- 
cially noteworthy  is  his  work  in  the  building  of  institutions  suitable  to  its  dignity 
and  expansion.  His  every  effort  was  crowned  with  success  and  under  his  guidance 
and  influence  the  church  speedily  took  on  a  new  strength  as  a  forceful  factor  in- 
the  moral  and  material  progress  of  this  city.  The  massive,  magnificent  and  domi- 
nating cathedral  on  Lindell  boulevard  commands  the  admiration  and  wonder  of  all. 
Erected  at  a  cost  of  several  millions  of  dollars,  it  stands  today  without  indebtedness, 
a  monument  to  his  zeal,  ability  and  singularly  efficient  energy.  And  just  outside 
of   the   city   limits,   in   Glennon    Park,   the   superb   and   very   complete   new   Kenrick; 


468  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Seminary,  representing  an  outlay  of  over  one  million  dollars,  is  another  striking 
object  lesson  of  his  activity  and  enterprise  in  all  that  is  involved  in  the  upbuilding 
and  permanency  of  the  church  whose  spiritual  guide  he  is,  as  it  is  also  an  out- 
standing evidence  of  the  vitality  of  the  metropolis  of  St.  Louis. 

As  a  citizen.  Archbishop  Glennon  at  all  times  and  among  all  people  commands 
esteem,  respect  and  admiration.  His  is  a  wonderful  personality.  In  public  life 
he  is  sought  for  everywhere  and  has  always  proved  himself  reliable,  dependable 
and  well  balanced.  The  writer  of  this  sketch  only  lately  heard  the  present  governor 
of  Missouri,  Frederick  A.  Gardner,  in  a  public  address  referring  to  the  archbishop, 
characterize  him  as  one  of  the  foremost  patriots  of  our  country,  who  as  a  member 
of  the  National  Defense  Council,  by  his  prudence,  judgment,  wisdom  and  discre- 
tion,— in  a  word,  by  his  master  mind, — had  afforded  the  greatest  and  most  useful 
aid  in  piloting  the  committee  through  many  of  its  most  difficult  problems  during 
the  jostling  and  ugly  days  of  the  recent  World  war. 

Both  as  a  citizen  and  as  a  churchman,  all  who  have  seen  and  heard  the  sub- 
ject of  our  sketch  must  concede  that  he  is  a  man  of  keenly  receptive  and  intensely 
active  temperament,  versatile,  eloquent,  sagacious  and  talented,  of  matchless  mod- 
esty and  refinement,  one  who  dominates  in  any  assembly,  be  it  in  the  sanctuary 
or  state  house;  be  it  at  home  or  among  his  people.  Always  a  gentleman,  a  scholar, 
a   churchman,   ever  a  loyal,   devoted   and   self-sacrificing   American. 

Many  are  his  works  and  accomplishments  for  St.  Louis  and  its  advancement, 
and  for  the  country  at  large  and  its  stability.  He  is  known  and  loved  by  all.  In 
public  or  in  private,  at  home  or  in  his  cathedral,  in  secular  or  in  church  gather- 
ings, all  are  happy  to  be  with  him  and  are  proud  to  say:  "That  is  the  archbishop 
of  St.   Louis;    our  archbishop." 


J.   O.   STRIBLING. 


J.  O.  Stribling  is  the  president  of  the  Clarence  S''vings  Bank  at  Clarence, 
Shelby  county.  He  was  born  at  Florida.  Monroe  county.  Missouri,  October  8,  1840, 
and  is  a  son  of  Taliafarro  and  .Jance  C.  (Boggs)  Stribling,  the  former  a  native 
of  Virginia,  while  the  latter  was  born  in  Pennsylvania.  Both  became  identified 
with   Missouri   in   pioneer  times. 

J.  O.  Stribling  had  but  limited  educational  privileges,  attending  to  some  extent 
the  public  schools  of  Monroe  county,  and  in  1859,  at  the  age  of  nineteen  years, 
he  left  home  to  make  his  way  to  Pike's  Peak.  Colorado.  He  had  proceeded  only 
a  short  distance  in  that  direction,  however,  when  he  was  obliged  to  return  to 
his  home  in  Monroe  county  on  account  of  illness.  He  there  continued  until  the 
outbreak  of  the  Civil  war,  when  he  joined  the  Confederate  army  and  participated 
in  the  battles  of  Monroe  City,  Lexington  and  Pea  Ridge.  Arkansas.  He  enlisted  at 
Florida,  Monroe  county,  joining  the  troops  under  General  Price.  Shortly  after  the 
battle  of  Pea  Ridge  he  was  captured  by  the  Union  forces  and  placed  in  a  prison 
camp  at  Clinton  in  Henry  county,  where  he  remained  for  only  a  week.  He  was 
then  taken  to  Sedalia,  Missouri,  where  he  continued  for  a  few  days  and  was  then 
transferred  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  to  be  placed  in  McDowell's  Medical  College, 
which  was  then  used  as  a  prison  camp.  Owing  to  the  fact,  however,  that  the 
college  was  crowded  he  was  placed  in  "Lynch's  nigger  pen,"  where  he  remained 
until  he  took  the  oath  not  to  take  up  arms  again  against  the  Union,  also  furnishing 
a  thousand  dollar  bond.  He  was  then  set  free  and  immediately  returned  to  Florida, 
Monroe  county.  He  subsequently  gave  his  attention  to  farming  for  a  time  and 
later  removed  to  Hannibal,  Missouri,  where  he  worked  in  the  railroad  car  shops. 
After  giving  up  his  position  there  he  once  more  returned  to  Monroe  county  but 
later  removed  to  Lakenan,  Shelby  county,  Missouri,  where  he  engaged  in  carpenter- 
ing. He  remained  in  that  business  for  a  time  and  in  1889  came  to  Clarence,  Mis- 
souri, where  he  has  since  resided.  Here  he  gave  his  attention  to  flour  milling  in 
connection  with  Frank  Crow,  forming  a  partnership  under  the  firm  style  of 
Stribling  &  Crow.  Some  time  later  the  junior  partner  sold  his  interest  to  J.  B. 
Shale  and  the  firm  name  of  Stribling  &  Shale  was  then  adopted.  This  relation- 
ship was  maintained  until  Mr.  Stribling  sold  his  interest  in  the  business  to  J.  B. 
Wine.  He  then  became  agent  for  all  timber  used  by  the  Burlington  Railroad 
at   Clarence   and   at   several   other   stations   along    the    line.      He   buys    timber    for 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  469 

the  railroad  when  they  have  occasion  to  use  it  at  Clarence  and  at  other  stations 
in  this  district.  In  1912  he  was  elected  the  president  of  the  Clarence  Savings  Bank 
and  has  since  continued,  thus  being  one  of  the  officers  of  the  largest  banking  in- 
stitution in  Shelby  county. 

In  1868  Mr.  Strlbling  was  married  to  Miss  Sue  B.  Hamilton,  a  daughter  of 
C.  A.  Hamilton,  of  Monroe  county,  and  to  them  were  born  seven  children,  five  of 
whom  are  living:  Mrs.  Jane  O.  McDonald,  Mrs.  Mary  Leila  Stuetz,  Mrs.  Dorothy 
Loretta  Yates,  and  Ava  Anna.  Clyde  C.  is  deceased.  Mr.  Stribling  and  his  family 
are  members  of  the  Catholic  church  and  fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Knights 
of  Pythias  at  Clarence,  while  in  politics  he  is  a  democrat.  He  has  the  distinction 
of  having  driven  the  first  binder  ever  used  in  Shelby  county.  During  the  Civil  war 
he  carried  a  message  from  General  Harris  in  Monroe  county  to  Martin  E.  Green 
near  the  Iowa  line,  making  the  trip  on  horseback — a  distance  of  one  hundred  miles. 
Mr.  Stribling  is  now  recognized  as  one  of  the  most  substantial  citizens  of  Clarence, 
where  he  has  lived  for  the  past  thirty  years.  He  is  now  in  the  eightieth  year  of 
his  age  but  is  yet  hale  and  hearty  and  is  still  actively  connected  with  business 
interests  of  importance.  Old  age  need  not  necessarily  suggest  idleness  nor  want 
of  occupation,  and  although  Mr.  Stribling  is  now  almost  an  octogenarian,  in  spirit 
and  interests  he  seems  yet  in  his  prime  and  to  a  notable  measure  keeps  in  touch 
"with  the  trend  of  modern  thought  and  progress. 


HEMAN  JUDSOJSr  PETTENGILL. 

Heman  Judson  Pettengill,  chairman  of  the  Southwestern  Bell  Telephone  System 
at  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Brunswick,  Maine,  a  son  of  Heman  Pettengill,  who  was 
a  native  of  Bridgewater,  Massachusetts,  and  a  descendant  of  Richard  Pettengill, 
who  came  to  this  country  from  England  in  1632  and  became  a  resident  of  Salem, 
Massachusetts.  Among  his  descendants  were  those  who  participated  in  the  Colonial 
war.s.  Heman  Pettengill  was  engaged  in  the  marble  business  and  spent  his  entire 
life  in  Brunswick,  Maine,  where  he  passed  away  in  1866,  at  the  age  of  seventy 
years.  His  wife  was  Rebecca  (Hamilton)  Berry,  a  native  of  Maine  and  a  repre- 
sentative of  one  of  the  old  families  of  that  state.  Mrs.  Pettengill  died  during 
the  infancy  of  her  son,  Heman  J. 

Heman  J.  Pettengill  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town,  and  when  fourteen  years  of  age,  started  out  to  earn  his  own  livelihood.  His 
purpose  was  to  learn  telegraphy,  and  having  gained  a  sufficient  initial  knowledge 
of  the  business  to  take  up  work  of  that  character,  he  was  employed  as  an  operator 
by  the  Western  Union.  He  was  afterward  with  the  American  Rapid  Telegraph 
Company  in  Boston,  as  manager,  and  later  was  superintendent  of  the  Postal  Tele- 
graph-Cable Company  for  the  New  England  states,  from  1882  until  1899.  Since 
18  9  9  he  has  been  identified  with  companies  affiliated  with  the  American  Telephone 
&  Telegraph  Company,  becoming  president  of  the  Southwestern  Telegraph  and 
Telephone  Company,  with  headquarters  at  Dallas,  Texas,  in  1905,  and  so  continuing 
until  1912.  In  1912  he  was  elected  to  the  presidency  of  the  Southwestern  Bell  Tele- 
phone System,  operating  in  Missouri,  Kansas,  Arkansas,  Oklahoma  and  Texas,  and  in- 
cluding the  Bell  Telephone  Company  and  the  Pioneer  Telephone  Company  of  Okla- 
homa, and  the  Southwestern  Telegraph  and  Telephone  Company  of  Arkansas  and 
Texas.  On  the  12th  of  September,  1919,  he  was  elected  chairman  of  the  company, 
with  headquarters  in  St.  Louis.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Bank  of  Commerce  of 
St.  Louis  for  several  years. 

At  Boston,  Massachusetts,  in  1875,  Mr.  Pettengill  was  married  to  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Keene,  who  died  in  1897,  leaving  three  children,  Harrison  V.,  Heman  J.,  Jr,, 
and  Russell  A.  On  the  2nd  of  November,  1904,  Mr.  Pettengill  wedded  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth Lee   (Hayes)   Murphy,  a  native  of  Kentucky. 

Mr.  Pettengill  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  having  attained  the  thirty-second  de- 
gree, and  he  is,  also,  a  past  commander  of  Hugh  de  Payens  Commandery,  K.  T.,  of 
Melrose,  Massachusetts.  He  belongs,  also,  to  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  in  club  circles 
his  connection  is  with  the  Noonday,  St.  Louis,  St.  Louis  Country,  Bellerive  and 
Sunset  Hill  Country  Clubs. 

He  was  president  of  the  New  England  Society  of  St.  Louis  In   1917,   and  is, 


470  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

at  the  present  time,  governor  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  the  state  of  Mis- 
souri. He  likewise  belongs  to  the  Old  Time  Telegraphers'  Association.  His  politi- 
cal faith  is  that  of  the  republican  party,  and  his  religious  belief  is  indicated  in 
his  membership   in   St.   Peter's   Episcopal  church. 

When  the  United  States  became  involved  in  war  with  Germany,  and  there 
were  new  demands  made  upon  every  loyal  and  patriotic  American  citizen,  Mr. 
Pettengill  measured  up  to  the  highest  standards  and  did  most  important  work  in 
behalf  of  his  country.  He  served  as  chairman  of  War  Camp  Environs  Committee 
Service  Board  of  St.  Louis;  is  now  a  director  of  the  Red  Cross  chapter  of  this 
city;  also,  a  director  of  the  St.  Louis  Home  and  Housing  Association;  a  director 
of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  Metropolitan  Board;  a  member  of  the 
executive  committee  of  the  National  Security  League  of  St.  Louis;  was  a  member 
of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Military  Training  Camp  Association  of  St.  Louis; 
and  acted  as  captain  of  a  team  in  the  Red  Cross  Christmas  membership  drive,  and, 
also,  in  the  Thrift  and  War  Savings  Stamps  campaign.  In  October,  1919,  he  was 
chosen,  by  ex-President  William  H.  Taft,  of  the  League  to  Enforce  Peace,  as  chair- 
man of  that  organization  for  Missouri.  Now  that  the  country  no  longer  needs  his 
special  aid,  he  is  concentrating  his  efforts  and  attention  upon  the  development  of 
the  business  of  which  he  is  the  head.  His  career  has  been  characterized  by  not- 
able progress  from  the  point  of  telegraph  operator  to  that  of  executive  of  one  of 
the  large  telephone  systems  of  the  country. 


ARTHUR  P.  MEAGHER. 


Arthur  P.  Meagher  is  widely  known  in  business  and  financial  circles  as  the 
president  of  the  Charles  H.  Wyman  Shipping  Company  of  St.  Louis,  conducting  a 
customs,  forwarding  and  warehousing  business.  He  became  connected  with  the  com- 
pany in  a  humble  capacity  but  steadily  worked  his  way  upward,  qualifying  through 
experience  and  study  for  larger  responsibilities  until  he  was  called  to  official  position 
in  the  concern  and  eventually  became  its  executive  head.  The  extent  and  importance 
of  the  interests  which  he  controls  in  this  connection  have  brought  him  a  wide  ac- 
quaintance throughout  the  country. 

Mr.  Meagher  is  a  native  son  of  St.  Louis,  born  March  16,  1886,  his  parents  being 
Cornelius  and  Margaret  A.  (Keough)  Meagher,  both  of  whom  were  of  Irish  descent. 
His  grand  uncle,  Thomas  Francis  Meagher,  was  exiled  from  Ireland  to  Australia  by 
the  British  government  but  managed  to  reach  America  and  here  organized  and 
commanded  the  Irish  Brigade  during  the  Civil  war.  Cornelius  Meagher  was  born 
on  the  Emerald  isle,  in  Tipperary,  and  left  there  at  the  time  of  the  1848  revolution, 
coming  to  the  new  world  when  a  boy  of  eleven  years.  He  made  his  way  to  Hardins- 
burg,  Kentucky,  and  at  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  war  enlisted  in  a  Kentucky 
mounted  infantry  regiment,  of  which  he  became  sergeant  major.  Later  he  was 
transferred  to  the  cavalry  and  remained  with  that  branch  of  the  service  throughout 
the  period  of  hostilities.  He  was  seriously  wounded  in  the  battle  of  Shiloh  and  never 
fully  recovered  from  his  injuries.  He  went  with  Sherman  on  the  famous  march 
from  Atlanta  to  the  sea  and  took  part  in  other  important  campaign  movements  and 
battles.  He  likewise  participated  in  the  Indian  wars  of  the  west  and  was  also 
along  the  border  in  Texas,  attaining  the  rank  of  lieutenant  colonel  during  his  mili- 
tary experience.  In  later  life  he  resigned  from  the  army  and  entered  the  treasury 
department  at  Washington,  D.  C.  His  wife  was  likewise  a  native  of  Ireland,  her 
people  being  from  Dublin,  whence  they  crossed  to  New  York  city  and  about  1860 
became  residents  of  St.  Louis,  where  in  1876  Mr.' and  Mrs.  Cornelius  Meagher  were 
married. 

Arthur  P.  Meagher  obtained  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  St. 
Louis,  pursuing  his  studies  until  1899,  when  at  the  age  of  thirteen  years  he  went 
to  work.  Owing  to  his  father's  death  he  faced  the  necessity  of  providing  for  his 
own  support  and  secured  employment  as  a  messenger  with  the  Western  Union  Tele- 
graph Company.  In  1903  he  became  connected  with  the  publicity  department  of 
the  St.  Louis  World's  Fair  under  the  department  chief,  R.  H.  Sexton.  Later,  on 
account  of  ill  health,  he  went  to  El  Paso,  Texas,  and  remained  for  a  year  on  the 
border.      He    next   became    connected    with    the    traffic    department    of    the    Wabash 


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Railroad,  continuing  there  for  a  year,  and  In  1907  he  entered  the  employ  of  Charles 
Hadley  Wyman  as  his  secretary.  It  was  through  the  influence  of  Mr.  Wyman 
that  Mr.  Meagher  attended  McGill  University  at  Montreal,  Canada,  pursuing  his 
studies  there  in  1907  and  1908  and  thus  becoming  better  qualified  tor  the  respon- 
sibilities of  his  business  career.  He  is  keenly  Interested  in  educational  matters 
and  strongly  believes  in  assisting  young  men  to  enjoy  advantages  of  that  char- 
acter. After  his  two  years  at  McGill  he  returned  to  Mr.  Wyman's  employ  in  1908 
and  again  resumed  his  duties  as  secretary.  Through  the  intervening  period  he 
has  made  steady  advancement  in  connection  with  the  business  and  is  now  the 
president  of  the  Charles  H.  Wyman  Shipping  Company  and  also  president  of  the 
Meagher-Devoy  Shipping  Company  of  New  York.  The  Wyman  Company  conducts 
a  custom  house  brokerage  business  and  something  of  the  extent  of  Its  interests  is 
indicated  in  the  fact  that  they  maintain  large  offices  in  New  York,  San  Francisco, 
•Denver,  Paris,  London  and  Genoa.  Their  St.  Louis  headquarters  are  in  the  Syndi- 
cate Trust  building  and  they  have  an  extensive  freight  and  shipping  business  in 
this  city. 

By  reason  of  the  nature  of  his  business  Mr.  Meagher  has  become  thoroughly 
acquainted  with  all  shipping  and  customs  conditions  in  various  lands  and  some  time 
ago  he  was  considered  by  Secretary  McAdoo  for  the  post  of  assistant  secretary 
of  the  treasury,  in  charge  of  customs  in  Washington.  He  has  recently  issued  a  five 
hundred  page  volume  on  the  Underwood  tariff  and  income  tax  act  of  October  3,  1913, 
bringing  out  his  publication  a  month  ahead  of  similar  ones  to  be  issued  by  Downing 
and  Vandagrift,  both  of  New  York.  He  was  the  first  western  customs  expert  to 
undertake  the  task  of  compiling  the  enormous  detail  necessary  to  such  a  volume, 
marketing  it  ahead  of  the  eastern  publications.  This  is  indicative  of  the  readiness 
with  which  Mr.  Meagher  meets  every  situation.  He  is  at  all  times  alert  and  ener- 
getic. Two  years  or  more  before  America's  entrance  into  the  World  war  he  was 
connected  with  a  number  of  prominent  importers,  chiefly  from  the  middle  west, 
endeavoring  to  organize  a  Dollar  Merchant  Marine  among  the  American  shippers  to 
relieve  the  then  unusual  shipping  congestion  among  the  North  Atlantic  ports.  This, 
however,  was  brought  to  a  sudden  halt  upon  America's  entrance  into  the  World  war, 
when  Mr.  Meagher  offered  his  services  to  President  Wilson  on  April  9,  1917,  and  was 
placed  on  the  committee  of  public  information  as  a  four-minute  man.  He  spent 
much  of  his  time  campaigning  throughout  Missouri,  bringing  the  people  to  a  realiza- 
tion of  the  Ideals  for  which  the  war  was  fought.  After  the  victorious  ending  of 
the  conflict  Mr,  Meagher  returned  to  his  business.  There  are  few  men  in  this  country 
so  thoroughly  conversant  with  all  trade  conditions  with  foreign  lands  and  through 
individual  enterprise  Mr.  Meagher  has  come  to  the  head  of  an  Immense  exporting 
and  importing  business. 


HARRY  W.  BLACK. 


Harry  W.  Black,  a  man  who  is  a  believer  in  a  square  deal  and  who  as  a 
steel  manufacturer  has  closely  studied  not  only  every  phase  of  the  business  in 
relation  to  its  development  and  expansion  but  also  all  of  the  labor  problems  and 
questions  which  affect  the  welfare  of  those  in  his  employ,  has  come  to  be  ranked 
with  the  representative  business  men  of  Kansas  City.  He  was  born  in  Nellltown, 
Pennsylvania,  April  4,  1876.  His  father,  William  W.  Black,  a  native  of  the  same 
place,  was  connected  with  the  development  of  the  oil  industry  in  Pennsylvania,  in 
which  he  was  one  of  the  pioneers.  He  was  also  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  war,  render- 
ing valiant  aid  to  the  Union  cause.  He  belonged  to  the  Presbyterian  church  and  in 
that  faith  passed  away.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Sarah  Neill,  was 
also  a  native  of  Pennsylvania  and  by  her  marriage  became  the  mother  of  eleven 
children,  of  whom  Harry  W.  is  the  youngest. 

It  was  in  the  public  schools  of  Titusville,  Pennsylvania,  that  Harry  W.  Black 
pursued  his  education.  He  became  a  civil  engineer  through  practical  experience 
and  training  and  for  some  years  devoted  his  attention  to  that  profession.  In  1889 
he  became  identified  with  the  steel  industry  at  Monessen,  Pennsylvania,  and  has 
since  been  active  along  that  line.  He  is  now  the  president  of  the  Black  Steel  & 
Wire  Company,  which  was  organized  and   incorporated  in    1916.     It  is  capitalized 


474  ^-EXTEXXIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

for  one  million,  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  and  is  one  of  the  important  corpo- 
rations operating  in  western  Missouri.  The  mills  of  the  company  are  located  at 
Centropolis.  where  they  employ  three  hundred  men  in  the  making  of  steel  and 
the  converting  of  this  into  rods.  Their  product  is  used  in  the  oil  fields  throughout 
the  United  States  and  in  various  parts  of  the  world.  They  are  also  large  manu- 
facturers of  wire  rope,  used  in  sinking  oil  wells,  and  their  largest  patronage  comes 
from  Oklahoma  and  Texas,  where  the  oil  fields  are  heing  rapidly  developed. 

In  1903  Mr.  Black  was  married  to  Miss  Emma  Portz,  a  daughter  of  John  Portz, 
of  Fostoria,  Ohio,  and  they  have  one  daughter,  Sarah  Louise.  Mr.  Black  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  Midday  Club  and  the  Blue  Hills  Golf  Club.  He 
and  his  wife  belong  to  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  church  and  Mrs.  Black  is  very  active 
in  social  and  church  affairs.  Mr.  Black  gives  his  political  allegiance  to  the  republi- 
can party  and  strongly  endorses  its  principles.  He  takes  a  keen  and  active  interest 
in  civic  affairs  and  his  cooperation  can  at  all  times  be  counted  upon  to  further  any 
plan  or  measure   for  the  general  good. 

Mr,  Black  is  a  man  of  fine  presence,  of  affability  and  of  great  force  of  char- 
acter, whose  success-  is  entirely  due  to  his  own  efforts,  as  his  father  suffered  a 
reversal  of  fortune  a  few  years  before  his  death.  Prom  his  youthful  days,  therefore, 
Mr.  Black  has  been  dependent  upon  his  own  resources,  and  industry  and  determina- 
tion have  been  the  basis  of  his  advancement.  He  is  efficient,  enterprising  and 
progressive  and  has  been  very  successful  in  handling  labor,  due  to  understanding 
obtained  through  his  personal  experience  of  the  problems  and  difficulties  which 
laboring  men  have  to  face.  He  always  studies  a  question  from  every  possible 
standpoint  and  his  employes  feel  that  they  have  in  him  a  friend  who  is  looking  out 
for  their  welfare  and  interest  as  well  as  for  his  own.  In  the  conduct  of  his  busi- 
ness interests  he  has  ever  followed  progressive  and  constructive  methods.  His 
path  has  never  been  strewn  with  the  wreck  of  other  men's  fortunes  and  his  has 
never  been  the  command  of  the  tryant  to  go  but  the  call  of  the  leader  to  come. 


EMORY  J.  SWEENEY. 


Emory  J.  Sweeney,  of  Kansas  City,  a  man  who  inspires  confidence  in  others  and  a 
man  who  never  stops  short  of  the  attainment  of  his  purposes  and  his  ideals,  is  now  at 
the  head  of  the  Sweeney  Automobile  &  Tractor  School,  which  is  the  largest  of  the  kind 
in  the  world,  having  an  enrollment  of  ten  thousand  students  from  all  parts  of  the 
United  States.  Of  this  school  he  was  the  founder  ani  has  always  been  the  president, 
and  the  great  institution  stands  as  a  monument  to  his  enterprise  and  ability.  Mr. 
Sweeney  was  born  in  Chicago.  Illinois,  December  23,  1883,  and  is  a  son  of  John  M.  and 
Mary  (Connell)  Sweeney.  The  father,  a  native  of  Cmada,  was  a  large  cattle  dealer, 
conducting  an  extensive  business  to  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  in  Kansas 
City,  Missouri,  July  5,  1919.  His  widow  survives  and  is  now  living  in  Kansas  City, 
Missouri. 

Emory  J.  Sweeney  was  educated  in  a  parochial  school  of  Kansas  City,  Kansas, 
and  in  the  manual  training  high  school.  He  then  became  connected  with  his  father 
in  the  cattle  business  to  which  business  he  devoted  a  few  years,  and  afterward  became 
a  mechanic  in  an  automobile  repair  shop,  where  he  earned  a  wage  of  twenty-five  dol- 
lars per  week.  While  thus  engaged  he  conceived  the  idea  of  teaching  men  how  to 
operate  and  repair  automobiles  and  with  this  end  in  view  launched  his  school  with 
a  partner  in  the  business.  Their  original  investment  consisted  of  a  dollar  and  sixty- 
five  cents  for  an  advertisement  in  the  want  ad  columns  of  a  local  newspaper  and  seventy- 
five  dollars  for  their  first  month's  rent.  They  had  nothing  left  for  furnishings  or  equip- 
ment for  their  school,  but  the  advertisement  for  mechanically  inclined  young  men  to 
learn  the  automobile  business,  which  appeared  on  Saturday  afternoon,  brought  them 
an  enrollment  of  five  pupils  on  Monday  morning.  These  each  paid  twenty-five  dollars 
down  for  a  six  weeks'  course  and  with  the  sum  thus  secured  the  proprietors  of  the 
school  bought  materials  for  some  work-benches  and  also  invested  in  tools,  while  the 
typewriters  and  desks  were  rented.  An  ancient  Cadillac  was  then  found  that  looked 
as  though  it  needed  repairing  and  Mr.  Sweeney  made  arrangements  with  the  owner 
to  repair  it  for  nothing.  Thus  the  school  was  established  and  by  the  end  of  the 
first  week  there  was  an  enrollment  of  twenty  students.     Several  years  passed,  however, 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  477 

before  the  school  had  been  placed  on  the  paying  basis  that  has  led  to  the  present  notable 
success.  Most  of  the  students  in  those  days  were  planning  to  be  chauffeurs,  not  garage 
owners,  and  were  interested  primarily  in  driving  and  secondarily  in  the  repair  work. 
The  school  did  not  have  the  money  to  buy  driving  cars  and  while  there  were  cars  for 
repair,  their  owners  naturally  wanted  them  back  as  soon  as  they  were  in  running 
order.  The  partners  could  not  agree  as  to  the  methods  to  be  pursued  and  after  several 
months  Mr.  Sweeney  sold  his  share  in  the  school  for  seventy-flve  dollars.  One-third  of 
this  he  gave  to  his  wife,  another  third  was  paid  as  the  first  month's  rent  on  a  small 
store  room  and  the  remaining  twenty-five  dollars  was  invested  in  tools.  At  his  wife's 
suggestion  he  called  his  new  place  the  Sweeney  Automobile  School.  It  was  not  long  before 
complications  sprang  up  and  it  seemed  that  his  competitors  were  doing  more  business 
than  Mr.  Sweeney  although  he  was  the  pioneer  in  this  field.  Because  he  had  little  else 
to  sell  beside  talk,  he  allowed  the  students  to  come  for  two  of  the  six  weeks'  course 
on  trial  and  if  they  were  not  satisfied  at  the  end  ot  the  half-month,  they  could  leave  and 
not  pay  a  cent.  Many  of  them  did  leave  and  Mr.  Sweeney  determined  to  find  out  the 
reason.  Accordingly  he  interviewed  two  students  who  had  remained  for  only  two 
weeks  and  who  in  reply  to  his  questions  stated  that  they  liked  the  instruction  and  liked 
him,  but  thought  something  must  be  wrong  or  he  would  have  a  better  looking  shop. 
This  explanation  was  a^  source  of  valuable  enlightenment  to  him  and  immediately  he 
rented  a  large  vacant  garage  closer  down  town.  After  paying  the  first  month's  rent  of  two 
hundred  and  twenty-five  dollars  he  had  biit  eighteen  dollars  remaining  in  the  bank, 
and  again  it  was  necessary  to  make  the  school  flrfance  itself.  He  had  become  somewhat 
known  in  the  meantime  and  he  succeeded  in  interesting  others  in  his  proposition.  He 
went  to  five  or  six  acquaintances  who  owned  trucks  and  gave  them  free  storage  in  the 
new  garage.  He  also  advertised  for  automobiles  to  be  repaired  at  low  rates  and  he 
put  a  large  sign  on  the  front  of  the  building,  announcing  it  to  be  the  home  of  the 
Sweeney  Automobile  School.  At  once  in  this  better  location  he  began  to  get  students 
and  the  enrollment  grew  rapidly. 

But  one  night  when  the  school  had  about  eighty  students,  with  several  cars  of 
its  own  and  a  number  ot  others  in  the  shop  for  repairs,  some  one  broke  into  the  place, 
smashed  the  school  cars,  cut  their  tires,  stole  all  the  tools  and  left  unmolested  only  the 
cars  that  were  in  the  shop  for  repairs.  It  seemed  then  that  he  was  facing  unsurmount- 
able  diflSculties.  When  the  students  arrived  the  next  morning  he  called  them  together, 
laid  the  case  frankly  before  them,  telling  them  he  had  no  funds  to  replace  what  was 
broken  and  gone  and  that  even  their  tuition  had  been  put  into  the  equipment.  He 
sought  their  advice  and  after  some  friendly  discussion  one  of  the  students  said  he 
believed  in  the  school,  that  he  had  about  one  hundred  dollars  which  he  had  brought 
with  him  to  pay  his  expenses  and  that  he  would  turn  this  over  to  the  school  if  other 
students  would  do  likewise,  drawing  only  enough  for  their  needs  from  week  to  week. 
It  was  this  that  saved  the  school,  which  has  since  steadily  developed.  Successive  remov- 
als were  made  in  1911  and  in  1913  and  while  the  school  was  located  on  East  Fifteenth 
street  the  enrollment  increase  until  the  necessity  for  more  room  led  to  the  erection  of 
the  present  building  at  Twenty-fourth  and  Wyandotte,  which  was  completed  October 
1,  1917.  Something  of  the  very  rapid  growth  of  the  school  is  indicated  in  the  fact 
that  in  1917  there  was  an  enrollment  of  thirty-six  hundred  and  seventy-four  and  in 
1919  the  number  of  students  had  reached  seven  thousand,  nine  hundred  and  seventeen. 
Rapid  indeed  has  been  the  progress  of  the  school,  not  only  in  the  matter  of  attendance 
but  in  the  matter  of  equipment  and  instruction.  A  new  million  dollar  school  has  been 
erected  that  is  ten  stories  high,  two  hundred  and  eighteen  feet  long,  built  entirely 
of  concrete,  steel  and  brick.  It  is  absolutely  fireproof  and  is  the  most  beautiful  struc- 
ture in  Kansas  City.  It  contains  twelve  acres  of  floor  space,  every  foot  of  which  is 
devoted  to  the  interests  of  the  students.  The  building  is  the  first  structure  that  greets 
the  eye  of  the  visitor  on  arriving  at  the  Union  station.  Especially  is  this  the  case  at 
night  because  of  the  famous  electrical  sign,  which  is  on  the  roof  and  towers  eighty  feet 
above  the  top  of  the  building.  It  is  the  largest  sign  of  the  kind  in  the  world  and  con- 
tains five  thousand  electrical  lamps,  the  electricity  for  the  sign  and  the  building  being 
furnished  by  a  big  generating  plant  in  the  basement  of  the  building. 

One  of  the  greatest  features  ot  the  new  school  and  one  greatly  appreciated  by  the 
students  is  the  arrangement  of  the  different  departments,  which  are  now  distinct  and 
separated  from  each  other  by  sound-proof  walls.  Every  detail  in  the  new  building  was 
carefully  worked  out  by  Mr.  Sweeney,  who  kept  always  in  view  the  welfare  of  the 
students,  and  no  expense  was  spared  to  make  everything  convenient  and  comfortable, 
even  down  to  the  smallest  particular.    The  entire  building  is  thoroughly  cleansed  each 


478  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

day  by  a  vacuum  system,  which  does  away  with  unhealthy  dust  always  made  by  sweep- 
ing with  a  broom  or  brush.  On  each  floor  of  the  building  are  sanitary  porcelain  drink- 
ing fountains.  A  refrigerating  plant  keeps  the  water  ice  cold,  but  the  water  does  not 
come  in  contact  with  the  ice.  Lavatories  and  free  shower  baths  are  on  each  floor, 
there  is  hot  and  cold  running  water  at  all  times  and  soap  and  towels  in  abundance. 
Steel  lockers  are  provided  for  the  personal  belongings  of  each  student.  There  is  an 
emergency  hospital  with  skilled  physicians  and  nurses  always  in  attendance.  There 
are  dormintory  bedrooms  with  a  single  bed  tor  each  student,  the  bedding  of  which  Is 
changed  twice  weekly.  A  cafeteria  and  restaurant  are  maintained  with  home  cooking 
and  the  prices  are  reasonable.  There  are  also  free  club  rooms  for  the  students,  supplied 
with  a  plaver  piano  and  a  victrola,  with  plenty  of  easy  leather  chairs  and  a  free 
reading  and  writing  room,  in  which  are  found  all  the  latest  copies  of  automobile,  tractor, 
truck  and  airplane  trade  journals  for  the  use  of  students.  A  white  tiled  swimming 
pool  contains  pure  filtered  water,  which  flows  in  and  out  continuously.  All  these 
things  are  supplied  without  charge  to  the  students.  In  addition  there  is  a  barber  shop, 
a  drug  store  and  soda  fountain,  a  furnishing  goods  and  dry  goods  store  and  a  postoffice 
Is  maintained  which  is  open  from  eight  in  the  morning  until  five  in  the  afternoon. 

Mr.  Sweeney  has  always  displyaed  extraordinary  talent  in  writing  his  own  adver- 
tisements. A  few  years  ago  he  published  a  large  catalog  of  his  school,  containing  a 
complete  and  detailed  description  thereof  and  of  the  methods  of  instruction.  This  was 
taken  as  a  model  of  its  kind  at  the  National  Advertisers'  convention  at  Detroit  that 
year  by  one  of  the  chief  speakers.  There  is  probably  no  man  in  this  section  of  the 
country  whose  knowledge  of  automobiles  surpasses  and  perhaps  equals  that  of  Mr. 
Sweeney.  He  possesses  great  mechanical  skill  and  ingenuity  and  has  designed  a  very 
successful  tractor. 

In  1905  Mr.  Sweeney  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  C.  Smith,  daughter  of  L.  J.  Smith, 
who  died  leaving  nine  children,  namely:  Anthony;  Madaline;  Rosemary;  Catherine; 
Mary   Margaret;    Josephine;    Theodotta;    Emory   John,   Jr.;    Louis   Joseph. 

In  1918  Mr.  Sweeney  wedded  Virginia  R.  Kossuth,  a  native  of  California.  Their 
religious  faith  is  manifest  in  the  fact  that  they  are  communicants  of  the  Visitation 
Roman  Catholic  church  and  Mr.  Sweeney  is  connected  with  the  Knights  of  Columbus. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club,  City  Club, 
Automobile  Club  and  the  Hillcrest  Country  Club.  He  is  a  great  lover  of  music  and 
has  installed  a  fine  pipe  organ  in  his  home.  He  has  likewise  a  notable  collection 
of  paintings  and  may  be  termed  an  art  connoisseur.  Success  has  not  spoiled  Mr. 
Sweeney,  who  is  most  democratic  in  manner  and  popular  with  all  who  know  him.  He 
Is  very  charitable,  contributing  to  every  call  for  civic  and  philanthropic  interests. 
and  the  public  feels  that  his  position  as  one  of  the  most  prominent  residents  of  Kansas 
City  has  been  well  earned  and  is  justly  merited.  A  distinguished  statesman  has  said: 
"The  thing  supremely  worth  having  is  the  opportunity  coupled  with  the  capacity  to  do 
well  and  worthily  a  piece  of  work  which  shall  be  of  vital  significance  to  mankind."  Such 
has  been  the  opportunity  which  has  come  to  Emory  J.  Sweeney,  and  that  he  has  fully 
met  the  conditions  and  requirements  is  manifest  in  the  tangible  proof  of  the  splendid 
automobile  school  building  which  meets  the  eye  as  one  enters  Kansas  City. 


J.  WILLIAM   MAYS,   M.   D. 


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Dr.  J.  William  Mays  has  been  successfully  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine 
St.  Joseph  since  1913  but  has  been  numbered  among  the  representatives  of  the 
jjrofession  in  Missouri  since  1900.  He  was  born  in  Buchanan  county,  this  state, 
April  13,  1872,  and  is  a  son  of  Samuel  M.  and  Ermine  (Bayless)  Mays.  The  father 
was  borii  and  reared  at  Greensburg,  in  Green  county,  Kentucky,  as  was  the  mother. 
They  attended  school  together  at  the  place  of  their  nativity  and  the  friendship 
of  their  childhood  ripened  into  love  and  ultimately  consummated  in  marriage.  How- 
ever, Mrs.  Mays  left  Kentucky  a  year  prior  to  the  removal  from  that  state  of  her 
future  husband  and  took  up  her  abode  at  Halleck,  Missouri,  where  the  wedding 
was  later  celebrated.  Throughout  his  entire  life  Mr.  Mays  has  followed  farming. 
He  first  rented  an  eighty-acre  tract  of  land  at  Halleck,  Missouri,  but  afterward 
removed  from  that  place  and  purchased  a  small  truck  farm  of  twenty-five  acres 
which   is   located   at   the   old   town   of   Sparta.      He   has   resided   upon    that   place   for 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  479 

thirty-three  years  and  is  yet  a  most  active  and  energetic  man  although  he  has  now 
attained  the  age  of  seventy-six  years.  His  wife  passed  av^^ay  May  16,  1913,  at 
the  age  of  seventy-one. 

Dr.  J.  William  Mays  of  this  review  was  a  pupil  in  the  Sparta  district  school 
and  through  the  period  of  his  hoyhood  assisted  his  father  in  the  work  of  the  home 
farm  to  the  age  of  seventeen.  On  reaching  his  seventeenth  birthday  he  decided 
that  he  wished  to  take  up  the  study  of  medicine  and  with  that  end  in  view  entered 
upon  a  business  course  in  the  St.  Joseph  Business  University  and  later  completed 
a  course  in  the  Central  high  school  of  St.  Joseph.  Thus  he  qualified  for  his  pro- 
fessional training,  which  was  received  in  the  Ensworth  Medical  College  of  St. 
Joseph,  from  which  institution  he  was  graduated  on  the  14th  of  March,  1900, 
when  twenty-seven  years  of  age,  thus  winning  the  M.  D.  degree.  He  had  met  the 
expenses  of  his  college  course  by  teaching  a  class  in  chemistry.  Later  he  attended 
the  Chicago  Post  Graduate  Medical  College  and  the  Chicago  Polyclinic,  of  Chicago, 
Illinois,  completing  courses  in  each  and  thus  greatly  promoting  his  professional 
ability  and  skill.  He  entered  upon  active  practice  at  Easton,  Missouri,  in  1900 
and  there  remained  until  1913,  when  he  removed  to  St.  Joseph  and  now  maintains 
an  office  in  the  Physicians  and  Surgeons  building  of  that  city.  During  the  recent 
war  he  offered  his  aid  as  a  member  of  the  Volunteer  Medical  Service  Corps  and 
was  accepted  just  two  days  before  the  signing  of  the  armistice. 

On  the  11th  of  June,  1902,  Dr.  Mays  was  married  to  Miss  Stella  M.  White, 
daughter  of  Isaac  and  Elizabeth  (Hartman)  White.  Her  father  passed  away  at 
the  St.  Joseph  Hospital  in  1919,  but  the  mother  is  still  living  at  Bolckow,  Missouri. 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Mays  have  become  the  parents  of  four  children,  but  the  youngest, 
Virgil  Joseph,  died  in  infancy.  Those  still  living  are:  Vester  Wallace,  who  was 
born  March  15,  1903;  Verdis  Lee,  whose  birth  occurred  August  28,  1904;  and 
Vernon  Samuel,  whose  natal  day  was  January  25,  1909. 

Dr.  Mays  gives  his  political  support  to  the  democratic  party  and  fraternally 
he  is  connected  with  Charity  Lodge,  No.  331,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  St.  Joseph,  and  also 
with  King  Hill  Lodge  No.  19,  I.  O.  O.  P.  He  and  his  family  are  members  of 
the  Huffman  Memorial  Methodist  Episcopal  church  and  he  manifests  keen  interest 
in  all  that  pertains  to  the  material,  intellectual,  social  and  moral  progress  of  the 
community.  His  practice,  however,  demands  the  greater  part  of  his  time  and 
attention,  for  in  addition  to  his  extensive  private  practice  he  is  physician  at  St. 
Joseph  Hospital,  Ensworth  Hospital  and  also  practices  to  some  extent  in  Noyes 
Hospital.  He  belongs  to  the  Buchanan  County  Medical  Society,  the  Missouri  State 
Medical  Society,  the  Missouri  Valley  Medical  Society  and  the  American  Medical 
Association  and  through  the  proceedings  of  these  bodies  keeps  in  close  touch  with 
the  trend  of  advanced   professional   thought. 


CLARENCE  T.  CASE. 


During  a  period  of  twenty-one  years  Clarence  T.  Case  has  been  a  member  of 
the  St.  Louis  bar  and  in  a  profession  where  advancement  depends  entirely  upon 
individual  merit  and  ability  he  has  made  steady  progress  and  he  is  now  senior 
member  of  the  firm  of  Case  &  Miller,  one  of  the  leading  law  firms  of  the  city, 
enjoying  a  large  clientele.  He  was  born  in  Chillicothe,  Missouri,  February  11, 
1874,  and  is  a  son  of  Henry  Case,  a  native  of  Wisconsin,  who  in  early  life  became 
a  resident  of  Missouri,  where  for  many  years  he  engaged  in  general  merchandising. 
He  was  much  interested  in  political  and  civic  affairs  and  gave  his  support  to  many 
plans  and  projects  which  he  deemed  essential  to  the  city's  welfare  and  development. 
He  was  also  very  prominent  in  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  at  one  time  was  eminent 
commander  of  the  Knights  Templars  Commandei-y  of  the  state  of  Missouri.  He 
passed  away  in  1892,  honored  and  respected  by  all  who  knew  him.  His  wife, 
who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Matilda  Hoffman,  was  a  native  of  Illinois,  and  died 
in  189  7.  In  the  family  were  two  sons:  J.  Henry,  a  resident  of  Muscogee,  Okla- 
homa;  and  Clarence  T. 

After  being  graduated  from  the  high  school  at  Chillicothe,  Missouri,  Clarence 
T.  Case  continued  his  education  in  the  State  University  at  Columbia,  there  pursuing 
a  literary  course.     He  then  returned  to  his  native  city  and  took  up  the  profession 

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480  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

of  teaching,  becoming  principal  of  the  schools  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  years.  There 
he  remained  for  three  years,  proving  an  able  educator,  but  he  regarded  this  merely 
as  an  initial  step  to  other  professional  labor,  as  it  was  his  desire  to  become  a 
member  of  the  bar.  Accordingly  in  1897  he  removed  to  St.  Louis  and  entered  the 
St.  Louis  Law  School,  in  which  he  gained  the  LL.  B.  degree  as  a  member  of  the 
class  of  1899.  The  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  entered  the  office 
of  Henry  M.  Pollard,  with  whom  he  remained  for  three  years.  He  then  began 
practicing  independently  and  was  alone  in  business  until  1918,  when  he  admitted 
Victor  J.  Miller  to  a  partnership  under  the  firm  style  of  Case  &  Miller.  Two  other 
lawyers  are  now  associated  with  them  and  they  occupy  a  large  suite  of  rooms  in 
the  Third  National  Bank  building.  They  engage  in  general  practice  and  their 
clientage  is  extensive  and  Important. 

In  1908  Mr.  Case  was  married  to  Miss  Alice  M.  Kitchen,  of  Kirkwood,  Mis- 
souri, a  daughter  of  C.  M.  Kitchen  and  a  representative  of  one  of  the  early  families 
of  the  state.  She  passed  away  in  February,  1917,  leaving  three  children:  Theodore 
Jackson,  now  eleven  years  of  age,  who  is  attending  school;  Robert  Nichols,  aged 
six;   and  Dorothy  Mildred,  who  is  four  years  of  age. 

Mr.  Case  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church,  also  of  the  Glen  Echo  Country 
Club  and  greatly  enjoys  a  game  of  golf.  Along  strictly  professional  lines  he  has 
connection  with  the  St.  Louis  and  Missouri  State  Bar  Associations  and  has  been  a 
very  successful  lawyer,  early  manifesting  ability  in  solving  intricate  legal  problems, 
while  throughout  his  entire  career  he  has  remained  a  close  student  of  the  principles 
of  jurisprudence. 


WILLIAM  TERRY  RUTHERFORD. 

William  Terry  Rutherford,  a  St.  Louis  lawyer,  practicing  as  a  partner  in  the 
firm  of  Charles  &  Rutherford,  was  born  near  Carthage,  Hancock  county,  Illinois. 
October  9,  1866.  His  father,  the  late  James  Thomas  Rutherford,  was  a  native  of 
Tennessee  and  was  of  Scotch  lineage.  The  grandfather  was  a  farmer  and  the  father 
a  merchant  at  Nashville,  .Tennessee,  and  before  removing  to  Missouri  engaged  in  the 
wholesale  grocery  business.  He  removed  to  Clark  county,  Missouri,  in  1831,  there 
residing  until  1872.  One  of  the  ancestors,  Stephen  Terry,  served  at  the  battle  of 
Brandywine  in  the  Revolutionary  war  and  was  there  shot  through  the  body  but  not 
killed.  He  was  born  in  Louisa  county,  Virginia,  aboiit  1757  and  spent  his  last  days  in 
Todd  county,  Kentucky.  During  the  Civil  war  the  Rutherfords  on  account  of  their 
sympathy  with  the  south  were  forced  to  leave  Clark  county,  Missouri,  and  became 
refugees  in  Hancock  county,  Illinois.  It  was  during  this  period  that  William  T.  Ruth- 
erford was  born.  -The  Sanford  family,  from  whom  he  is  descended  in  the  maternal 
line,  traces  its  ancestry  directly  back  to  Oliver  Cromwell.  The  mother  of  William 
T.  Rutherford  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Mary  Jane  Sanford  and  was  born  in  Clark 
county,  Missouri,  being  a  daughter  of  the  late  Charles  Oliver  Sanford,  a  native  of 
Elmira,  New  York,  and  of  English  descent.  The  death  of  Mrs.  Rutherford  occurred 
June  18,  1918,  at  the  old  family  homestead  when  she  was  seventy-six  years  of  age. 

William  T.  Rutherford  was  the  eldest  in  a  family  of  nine  children,  five  sons  and 
four  daughters.  At  the  usual  age  he  entered  the  public  schools  of  Clark  county, 
Missouri,  and  is  indebted  to  the  educational  system  of  that  district  for  the  early 
opportunities  which  he  enjoyed.  He  afterward  attended  the  Missouri  State  Univer- 
sity and  was  graduated  from  the  law  department  in  1889,  being  admitted  to  practice 
at  the  bar  of  the  state  in  1890.  He  opened  an  office  at  Kahoka,  Missouri,  where  he 
continued  successfully  until  1913,  when  he  was  appointed  assistant  attorney  general 
at  Jefferson  City  and  occupied  that  position  for  four  years.  On  the  1st  of  April, 
1917,  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law  in  connection  with  Benjamin  H.  Charles  of  St. 
Louis  under  the  firm  style  of  Charles  &  Rutherford.  The  firm  has  since  specialized 
exclusively  in  the  law  of  municipal  bonds  and  there  are  few  who  are  as  familiar  with 
this  branch  of  law  as  are  Messrs.  Charles  &  Rutherford.  The  latter  belongs  to  the 
Missouri  State  Bar  Association.  From  1891  until  1897,  or  for  a  period  of  six  years, 
he  served  as  prosecuting  attorney  of  Clark  county  and  was  also  engrossing  clerk  in 
the  thirty-seventh  general  assembly.     In  politics  he  has  always  been  a  very  active 


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democrat,  doing  everything  in  his  power  to  promote  the  growth  and  insure  the  suc- 
cess of  the  party. 

On  the  30th  of  January,  1895,  in  Clark  county,  Missouri,  Mr.  Rutherford  was 
married  to  Miss  Emily  B.  Martin,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  J.  J.  and  Elizabeth  (Wright) 
Martin,  the  former  now  deceased.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rutherford  have  the  following 
children:  Frances  Elizabeth,  born  at  Kahoka,  Clark  county,  Missouri,  February  27, 
1902;  Mary  Virginia,  born  at  Kahoka,  July  16,  1905;  and  James  Martin,  born  at 
Kahoka,  January  11,  1907. 

During  the  period  of  the  World  war  Mr.  Rutherford  served  continuously  as  a 
member  of  the  legal  advisory  board.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Knights 
of  Pythias,  the  Odd  Fellows  and  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America  and  was  formerly 
keeper  of  the  records  and  seal  in  the  first  named  organization. 


WILLIAM   FRED   HOLTMANN. 

William  Fred  Holtmann,  assistant  superintendent  of  the  municipal  building  in 
St.  Louis  was  born  in  that  city  on  the  twenty-sixth  of  November,  1877.  His  father, 
Herman  Henry  Holtmann,  was  born  in  Germany,  coming  to  the  United  States  when 
very  young,  and  engaging  first  in  the  shoe  business  and  then  in  the  wholesale  liquor 
trade  in  St.  Louis.  The  death  of  his  o\vn  mother  occurred  in  his  early  infancy,  and 
William  Fred  Holtmann  was  brought  up  by  his  stepmother,  Sophia  (Hackman)  Holt- 
mann. 

Mr.  Holtmann  was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  in  Smith  Academy  and  at 
St.  Louis  University.  Interested  in  architecture,  he  entered  the  ofl5ce  of  J.  H.  Ran- 
dall of  that  profession,  leaving  the  firm  in  1904  to  take  a  position  as  a  civil  engineer 
draughtsman  in  the  construction  of  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  building  of 
the  World's  Fair.  Upon  the  completion  of  this  work  he  entered  the  architectural 
department  of  the  St.  Louis  Terra  Cotta  Company  and  remained  with  the  firm  for 
ten  years  until  he  received  the  appointment  to  the  office  of  assistant  superintendent 
of  municipal  building,  which  position  he  still  holds. 

Mr.  Holtmann  is  a  republican.  Fraternally  his  connections  are  with  the  Masons, 
belonging  to  Polar  Star  Lodge,  No.  79,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  he  also  belongs  to  Red  Cross 
Lodge  No.  54,  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  to  the  Eagles. 


COLONEL   RUBY  D.   GARRETT. 

Colonel  Ruby  D.  Garrett,  member  of  the  Kansas  City  bar,  practicing  as  senior 
pai'tner  in  the  firm  of  Garrett,  Howell  &  Boley,  has  been  prominently  spoken  of  in 
the  current  year — 1920 — as  candidate  for  governor,  but  while  undoubtedly  not 
without  that  political  ambition  which  is  an  incentive  for  the  best  efforts  in  public 
office,  he  nevertheless  regards  the  pursuits  of  private  life  as  in  themselves  abundantly 
worthy  of  his  best  efforts  and  is  concentrating  his  attention  upon  his  law  practice 
with  a  result  that  has  won  him  a  prominent  position  as  a  representative  of  the  legal 
profession.  He  was  born  in  Rock  Creek,  Alamance  county.  North  Carolina,  July 
22,  1882,  and  is  a  son  of  John  Newton  and  Mary  Ellen  (Phillips)  Garrett.  The 
father  was  a  circuit  rider  of  the  Methodist  church.  The  mother  is  still  living  and 
makes  her  home  in  North  Carolina. 

The  son.  Colonel  Ruby  D.  Garrett,  acquired  his  education  at  the  Yadkin  Col- 
legiate Institute  of  North  Carolina  and  at  the  early  age  of  sixteen  years  began 
teaching  school.  He  was  thus  engaged  until  1902,  when  he  came  to  Missouri  and 
entered  the  Kansas  City  Law  School  in  1905.  He  worked  his  way  through  the 
institution,  being  graduated  with  the  class  of  1908,  and  through'  the  intervening 
period  he  has  continued  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Kansas  City  save  for 
the  period  of  his  service  in  the  army.  For  a  time  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Garrett  &  Pickett,  an  association  that  was  maintained  from  1914  to  1917.  Since 
his  return  from  France  he  has  become  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Garrett,  Howell 
&  Boley  and  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  capable  lawyers  of  Kansas  City,  well 
liked  by  all  who  know  him.     In  the  preparation  of  a  case  he  displays  most  careful 


484  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

analysis  and  clear  and  cogent  reasoning,  and  possessing  all  the  requisites  of  the 
able  lawyer  he  has  advanced  steadily  to  an  enviable  position  in  the  ranks  of  the 
legal  fraternity  of  this  city. 

Colonel  Garrett  is  also  widely  known  by  reason  of  his  military  activity.  In 
1902  he  enlisted  in  the  United  States  army,  thus  serving  until  1905.  In  1909  he 
Joined  the  Missouri  National  Guard  and  was  commissioned  first  lieutenant  of  the 
Signal  Corps  in  February,  1910.  In  August,  1912,  he  took  charge  of  the  Signal 
Corps  in  Missouri  and  on  the  1st  of  March,  1913,  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
captain.  He  served  on  the  Mexican  border  from  June  16,  1916,  until  January  15, 
1917,  and  in  April  of  the  latter  year  organized  the  first  field  battalion  of  the  Mis- 
souri Signal  Corps  and  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  major  on  the  2d  of  that  month. 
He  was  made  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  National  Guard  Association  at  Kansas 
City  and  he  had  charge  of  recruiting  for  all  organizations  in  Kansas  City  following 
America's  entrance  into  the  World  war.  He  was  called  into  the  federal  service 
on  the  5th  of  August,  1917,  and  with  the  Missouri  Signal  Corps  became  a  part  of 
the  famous  Rainbow  Division  on  the  5th  of  September.  On  the  18th  of  October  he 
embarked  for  France  and  was  made  chief  signal  officer  of  the  Rainbow  Division  on 
the  7th  of  January,  1918.  This  was  followed  by  his  promotion  to  a  lieutenant- 
colonelcy  on  the  12th  of  September.  1918,  and  he  served  with  the  Rainbow  Division 
during  eleven  engagements,  including  the  Vosges  Mountains,  the  Champaigne  de- 
fensive, the  Aisne-Marne  offensive,  which  included  Chateau  Thierry,  the  reduction 
of  the  St.  Mihiel  salient  and  both  phases  of  the  Argonne  and  was  afterward  with 
the  army  of  occupation.  He  was  awarded  the  highest  class  of  war  cross  by  the 
French  government,  the  Croix  de  Guerre  with  palm,  and  was  cited  by  his  division 
commander  and  by  General  Pershing.  On  the  25th  of  April,  1919,  he  returned  to 
America  and  was  discharged  on  the  5th  of  May.  He  has  since  been  in  charge  of 
the  Missouri  Soldiers,  Sailors  and  Marine  Employment  Commission  and  declined  a 
regular  lecture  engagement  at  good  pay  to  do  this  employment  work  without  pay, 
such  being  the  interest  which  he  yet  feels  in  his  fellow  comrades  in  arms.  It  is  in- 
teresting in  this  connection  to  know  that  he  is  a  descendant  of  Revolutionary  war 
ancestry. 

Those  who  know  Colonel  Garrett  recognize  the  fact  that  while  there  is  about 
him  no  shadow  of  mock  modesty,  he  is  nevertheless  an  unassuming  man  and  he 
has  left  it  to  others  to  tell  the  story  of  his  service  abroad.  That  he  has  the  love 
and  loyalty  of  the  men  who  served  under  him  was  plainly  manifest  in  a  pamphlet 
which  they  Issued,  urging  that  he  be  made  the  democratic  candidate  for  governor. 
In  this  pamphlet  the  ex-service  men  wrote:  "War  is  the  crucible  that  tests  men's 
souls  and  reveals  their  innermost  characteristics,  and  one  year  of  observation  of  a 
man  in  active  military  life  gives  clearer  insight  into  his  character  than  would  be 
possible  in  a  dozen  years  of  casual  observation  in  civil  lite.  Yes,  we  know  Colonel 
Ruby  D.  Garrett;  we  know  him  as  the  intrepid  commander  whose  gameness  was 
demonstrated  when,  three  days  after  undergoing  a  surgical  operation,  he  led  us 
through  the  snow  and  slush  of  the  Vosges  Mountains  in  France  in  zero  weather, 
facing  a  raging  blizzard,  while  his  official  motor  transportation  was  used  to  carry 
the  equipment  of  exhausted  men.  True  to  his  custom,  he  said  to  us:  'Come  with 
me,  boys,'  instead  of  saying,  'Boys,  you  go  do  it.'  And,  this  is  merely  one  instance 
out  of  many  which  might  be  cited  to  illustrate  his  superb  nerve  and  unflinching 
loyalty  to  his  country  and  to  his  men.  The  fact  that  he  had  in  his  earlier  years 
served  four  years  as  an  enlisted  man  enabled  Colonel  Garrett  to  see  army  life  from 
our  viewpoint,  as  well  as  from  the  viewpoint  of  a  commander,  and  that  early  experi- 
ence equipped  him  with  a  sympathetic  understanding  that  never  could  have  been 
acquired  except  by  actual  experience  as  an  enlisted  man.  And  prior  to  his  dis- 
tinguished service  in  France,  Colonel  Garrett  was  in  his  country's  service  on  the 
Mexican  border  at  a  time  when  hostilities  seemed  imminent.  Some  of  us  were 
with  him  there,  too,  and  then,  as  later,  we  knew  him  as  splendid  soldier,  patriot 
and  friend.  If  space  permitted  we  could  write  a  large  volume  of  incidents  illus- 
trative of  the  character  of  Colonel  Garrett  but  here  is  one  out  of  the  many  that 
indicates  the  affection  and  the  profound  respect  held  for  him  by  the  soldiers  who 
followed  him  in  France:  Colonel  Garrett  is  not  a  preacher,  he's  merely  a  man, 
a  man  with  a  clear  head,  steady  nerve  and  tender  heart,  but  soon  after  our  return 
from  France  one  of  our  boys  lost  his  father  in  death  and  in  his  hour  of  grief  his 
first  source  of  earthly  consolation,  the  very  first  to  whom  his  thoughts  turned,  was 
his    former   commander.    Colonel    Garrett,    and    so    impressed    was   this   soldier   boy 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  485 

that  he  appealed  to  Colonel  Garrett  to  deliver  a  funeral  oration  at  the  grave-side  o£ 
the  father.  And  on  another  occasion,  this  time  in  France,  Colonel  Garrett  was 
called  upon  to  say  a  few  words  at  the  military  funeral  of  a  soldier  boy — the  first 
of  our  signal  men  to  die  in  the  service,  and  bronzed  commander  as  he  was,  the 
death  of  the  boy  in  khaki  touched  his  heart  and  he  was  so  overcome  that  his  voice 
broke  and  it  was  several  minutes  before  he  could  proceed  with  the  service.  Yes, 
we  know  Ruby  D.  Garrett,  the  soldier,  also  Ruby  D.  Garrett,  the  man,  and  knowing 
him  as  we  do,  we  have  for  him  that  abiding  admiration  and  affection  which  can 
only  exist  where  the  acid  test  discloses  merit.  In  this  brief  testimonial  we  present 
to  the  people  of  Missouri,  Ruby  D.  Garrett,  citizen  and  soldier.  His  unselfish  and 
distinguished  service  for  his  country,  his  record  and  achievements  'over  there,'  stand 
out  as  a  shining  star  in  Missouri's  diadem.  His  record  is  writ,  and  cannot  be 
forgotten  nor  effaced  by  time.  As  the  man,  all  the  mothers  and  fathers  of  sons 
'over  there'  should  be  proud  to  know  him.  His  infinite  care  and  patience,  his  high 
moral  standards,  and  his  solicitude  for  the  welfare  of  his  boys — yes,  that's  exactly 
the  way  he  regarded  them,  'his  boys' — endeared  him  to  all  who  came  in  contact  with 
him.  He  refused  a  promotion  as  corps  signal  officer  in  order  to  remain  with  his 
own  boys  who  had  followed  him  over.  His  first  and  last  thought  was  for  them, 
and  when  at  last  he  brought  back  to  their  beloved  soil  those  who  had  not  made 
the  supreme  sacrifice  and  who  are  not  now  sleeping  in  alien  soil,  he  received  hand- 
some offers  for  his  services  as  a  lecturer  on  war  subjects.  Did  he  accept?  No!  In- 
so  recently  out  of  army  service,  and  many  were  thus  enabled  to  get  a  new  start 
and  a  new  foothold  in  civil  life.      For  this  service  Colonel  Garrett  received  no  pay." 

The  ex-service  men  dedicated  their  little  booklet  as  an  effort  "to  pay  a  well 
earned  tribute  to  our  beloved  comrade  and  commander,  Colonel  Ruby  D.  Garrett, 
one  of  the  cleanest,  gamest,  squarest  and  most  efficient  officers  who  ever  gave  a  com- 
mand." Colonel  Garrett  was  a  delegate  from  the  Forty-second  or  Rainbow  Division 
to  the  organization  of  the  American  Legion  in  Paris,  March  15,  1919.  He  was  made 
a  member  of  the  first  national  executive  committee  of  the  Legion,  also  of  the  state 
executive  committee  and  was  the  commander  of  William  T.  Fitzsimmons  Post,  the 
largest  post  of  the  state.  He  was  also  made  first  chairman  of  the  city  central  execu- 
tive committee,  composed  of  members  of  all  city  posts,  and  lectured  for  the  Ameri- 
can Legion  throughout  the  state  on  reconstruction  topics.  Colonel  Garrett  is  also  a 
member  of  Gate  City  Lodge  No.  522,  A.  F.  &  A.  M..  while  along  strictly  professional 
lines  his  connection  is  with  the  Kansas  City,  the  Missouri  State  and  the  American 
Bar  Associations.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  City  Club,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
and  the  Boy  Scout  Council. 

On  the  9th  of  February,  1910,  Colonel  Garrett  was  married  to  Miss  Alma  Marie 
Ahlfeldt,  a  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  August  Ahlfeldt,  of  Audrain  county,  Missouri, 
the  former  a  farmer  and  rancher  with  extensive  interests  in  Arkansas  and  Kansas. 
To  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Garrett  has  been  born  one  son.  Ruby  D.,  Jr.  Those  who  come 
within  the  close  circle  of  warm  friendship  know  that  with  Colonel  Garrett  his  interest 
centers  in  his  home.  They  recognize,  too,  that  his  interest  in  church  work,  especially 
in  young  men,  claims  a  large  part  of  his  time  and  thought,  for  he  is  teaching  a  large 
class  of  young  men  in  the  Sunday  school  of  the  Linwood  Boulevard  Christian  church. 
He  is  a  lover  of  literature  and  is  largely  familiar  with  the  contents  of  his  extensive 
private  library.  Always  a  supporter  of  the  democratic  party,  the  members  of  the 
Rainbow  Division  who  served  with  him  in  France  promoted  a  campaign  to  make  him 
the  democratic  nominee  for  governor,  and  while  he  withdrew  early  in  the  campaign, 
there  are  thousands  of  Missouri  citizens  who  would  have  rejoiced  to  see  him  at  the 
head  of  the  state  and  who  felt  that  he  was  in  every  way  qualified  for  this  highest 
honor  within  the  gift  of  Missourians.  Because  it  indicates  not  only  his  devotion 
and  his  capability  as  a  military  officer  but  also  shadows  forth  the  salient  traits  of 
his  character  in  other  directions,  this  article  cannot  be  brought  to  a  close  in  more 
suitable  manner  than  by  quoting  from  one  or  two  letters  written  concerning  Colonel 
Garrett.  Colonel  William  N.  Hughes,  Jr.,  chie£-of-staff  of  the  Rainbow  Division, 
said:  "I  want  to  express  to  you  again  my  deep  gratitude  for  your  loyalty  to  me  and 
my  great  appreciation  of  the  very  able  and  efficient  manner  with  which  you  handled 
all  matters  which  came  to  you,  but  more  particularly  the  signal  work  of  the  Division. 
Your  management  of  the  signal  communications  and  liaison  of  the  Division  could 
not  be  improved,  so  great  was  their  efficiency.  Your  devotion  to  your  men,  their 
health,  comfort  and  happiness  was  always  an  inspiration  to  me."     Speaking  of  Colonel 


486  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Garrett.  Major  General  Charles  T.  Menoher,  the  commanding  general  of  the  Forty- 
second  Division  during  all  of  its  combat  experience,  said:  "During  the  long  period 
of  contact  in  the  Luneville  and  Baccarat  sector  the  good  work  of  Colonel  Garrett  con- 
tinued. But  it  was  when  we  came  to  actual  contact  with  the  enemy  in  pitched 
battle,  from  the  1st  of  July  on  until  the  armistice,  that  the  real  character  of  his  work 
manifested  itself.  The  work  which  he  and  his  Signal  Battalion  performed  during 
this  time  was  always  of  the  most  excellent  and  efficient  character.  At  no  time  in 
my  recollection  was  the  Division  Headquarters  out  of  touch  with  the  elements  up  on 
the  firing  line  and  for  this  and  for  the  ability  of  the  Division  Headquarters  always 
to  keep  Corps  Headquarters  informed  as  to  our  disposition  and  position  of  our  ad- 
vance troops,  the  Division  was  commended  on  more  than  one  occasion.  I  came  to 
take  it  as  a  matter  of  course  that  our  communications  would  be  looked  after  in  the 
most  efficient  manner  and  I  was  able  to  dismiss  this  important  consideration  prac- 
tically from  my  mind  long  before  the  armistice  was  signed.  Then  I  had  occasion 
two  or  three  times  to  get  an  insight  into  Colonel  Garrett's  intimate  character  and 
from  this  I  was  able  to  form  some  idea  in  my  mind  as  to  why  he  was  able  to  get 
such  excellent  results  from  the  men  serving  under  him.  I  consider  Colonel  Garrett 
one  of  the  highest  types  of  men  that  I  have  ever  known." 


WILLIAM  KERR  KAVANAUGH. 

William  Kerr  Kavanaugh,  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Southern  Coal, 
Coke  &  Mining  Company,  with  offices  in  the  Security  building  in  St.  Louis,  was  born 
In  Saline  county,  Missouri,  July  13,  1860,  a  son  of  Richard  Parsons  Kavanaugh,  who  was 
a  native  of  Huntsville,  Alabama,  and  who  devoted  his  life  to  the  professions  of  teaching 
and  preaching.  He  was  for  many  years  connected  with  the  State  School  for  the  Deaf 
at  Fulton,  Missouri,  and  was  an  authority  on  and  expert  in  this  field  of  instruction.  His 
life  was  one  of  great  usefulness  in  promoting  methods  of  teaching  this  class  of  unfor- 
tunates. He  passed  away  July  28,  1870,  and  it  can  be  said  of  him  that  he  was  a  most 
successful  man  if  one  judges  from  the  standpoint  of  a  modern  philosopher  who  has 
said:  "Not  the  good  that  comes  to  us,  but  the  good  that  comes  to  the  world  through  us, 
is  the  measure  of  our  success."  In  early  manhood  he  married  Sarah  Talbot,  who  was 
born  at  Loutre  Island  in  Montgomery  county,  Missouri,  and  she,  too,  has  passed  away. 
In  the  family  were  but  two  sons,  of  whom  Lewis  T.  Kavanaugh,  brother  of  William 
K.  Kavanaugh,  was  manager  of  the  Mississippi  warrior  section  of  the  railway  admin- 
istration until  April,  1920,  when  accidentally  drowned. 

William  K.  Kavanaugh  attended  the  schools  of  Fulton,  Missouri,  to  his  sixteenth 
year,  when  it  became  necessary  for  him  to  provide  for  his  own  support,  but  while  his 
schoolroom  instruction  was  over  his  textbooks  were  not  put  aside,  and  throughout 
his  entire  life  he  has  remained  a  reader  and  student.  His  first  task  was  stripping 
tobacco  at  twenty-five  cents  per  day.  He  worked  in  that  way  through  one  summer  and 
afterward  was  engaged  in  the  railway  tie  business.  He  came  to  St.  Louis  in  1878 
and  secured  a  position  with  the  State  Savings  Association,  beginning  work  as  a  messen- 
ger when  in  his  eighteenth  year.  For  seven  years  he  continued  with  this  bank,  then 
at  Third  and  Vine  streets,  which  occupied  quarters  in  the  Security  building,  now  used 
by  the  State  National  Bank.  Within  the  seven-year  period  Mr.  Kavanaugh  rose  to  a 
position  of  responsibility  and  not  only  gave  excellent  service  to  the  bank  but  also 
secured  much  valuable  training  and  experience.  The  condition  of  his  health  forced 
him  to  leave  that  institution,  after  which  he  formed  a  partnership  with  his  brother  in 
the  railway  tie  business,  having  their  plant  on  the  Tennessee  river  at  Decatur,  from 
■  which  point  they  shipped  ties  by  river  to  different  railroads.  They  developed  there  a 
business  of  large  and  gratifying  proportions.  Later  they  organized  the  Kavanaugh 
Sand  Company  and  introduced  the  first  centrifugal  sand  pump  in  the  west,  pumping 
sand  from  the  river.     This  business  was  located  at  Memphis,  Tennessee. 

At  length  William  K.  Kavanaugh  turned  the  business  over  to  his  brother  and  again 
became  a  resident  of  St.  Louis,  where  he  organized  the  Union  Sand  Company,  carrying 
on  a  profitable  undertaking  of  that  character  for  a  number  of  years.  He  next  concen- 
trated his  attention  upon  the  car  transfer  business  and  organized  the  Interstate  Car 
Transfer  Company,  which  transferred  cars  across  the  Mississippi  river.  Subsequently 
he  sold  the  business  to  the  Terminal   Railway  Association   of   St.   Louis,  of  which  he 


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continued  president,  and  he  was  also  made  president  of  the  Wiggins  Ferry  Company, 
which  operated  the  East  St.  Louis  Connecting  Railway  and  the  St.  Louis  Transfer 
Railway.  He  later  organized  the  Mississippi  River  &  Bonne  Terre  Transfer  Company 
and  the  Kavanaugh-Lockwood  Tow  Company,  having  a  large  towing  and  barge  busi- 
ness for  the  transfer  of  railway  cars.  Mr.  Kavanaugh  is  now  the  president  and  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  Southern  Coal,  Coke  &  Mining  Company,  which  was  established 
in  1895  and  which  has  an  extensive  suite  of  rooms  in  the  Security  building  in  St. 
Louis,  controlling  a  large  volume  of  business  at  the  present  time.  The  most  casual 
observer  can  easily  see  that  each  change  in  his  business  connections  has  marked  a 
forward  step,  that  his  activities  have  constantly  broadened  in  scope  and  importance 
and  that  through  individual  effort  and  merit  he  has  risen  steadily  to  a  foremost  place  in 
business  circles. 

On  the  21st  of  August,  1890,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  Mr.  Kavanaugh  was 
married  to  Miss  Edna  Lee  Boggs.  He  has  two  children:  Josiah  Boggs  Kavanaugh, 
a  captain  of  the  United  States  army,  who  married  Lolo  Bilgere;  and  Sarah  Talbot, 
the  wife  of  Captain  Walter  Valentine  Churchill-Longman,  of  the  English  army,  who 
is  living  in  London,  England.     They  have  one  daughter  Valerie  Lee. 

Mr.  Kavanaugh  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  and  Noonday  Clubs  and  the  Mis- 
souri Athletic  Association  and  is  keenly  appreciative  of  the  social  amenities  of  lite, 
while  his  genial  manner  and  cordial  disposition  make  for  popularity  wherever  he  is 
known.  His  religious  faith  is  indicated  by  his  membership  in  the  Southern  Methodist 
church.  In  politics  he  is  an  independent  democrat,  and  while  never  an  office  seeker, 
he  has  been  keenly  interested  in  questions  of  public  concern  and  in  problems  of  vital 
worth  to  the  community.  He  has  been  a  most  earnest  champion  of  deep  watefway  projects 
and  is  the  president  of  the  Lakes-to-the-Gulf  Deep  Waterway  Association,  which  is 
working  to  establish  a  deep  waterway  that  will  connect  the  Great  Lakes  with  the 
Gulf  of  Mexico  through  the  Mississippi  river.  He  has  given  much  of  his  time  and  effort 
to  this  matter.  Being  a  man  of  broad  vision,  he  realizes  what  the  value  of  such  a 
project  will  be  to  the  country  and  is  gradually  overcoming  the  opposition  of  narrow- 
minded  men  who  do  not  look  beyond  the  exigencies  of  the  moment  to  the  possibilities 
and  opportunities  of  the  future.  Mr.  Kavanaugh  is  a  splendid  type  of  that  American 
manhood  which  finds  its  strength  in  opportunity  and  which  develops  its  powers  in 
overcoming  difficulties  and  opposition  in  a  business  way,  tor  he  started  out  without 
financial  resources  when  a  youth  of  sixteen  and  today  is  directing  most  important 
business  affairs  as  president  of  the  Southern  Coal,  Coke  and  Mining  Company  and 
equally  important  interests  of  public  concern  as  president  of  the  Lakes-to-the-Gulf 
Deep  Waterway  Association.  He  was  called  to  the  latter  office  on  the  16th  of  Novem- 
ber, 1906,  and  has  continued  to  act  in  that  capacity  and  since  1909  has  been  chairman 
of  the  Missouri  Waterway  Commission.  He  was  also  made  a  member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  National  Board  of  Steam  Navigation  at  New  York  and  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  National  Rivers  and  Harbors  Congress  at  Washington,  D.  C. — tacts  which 
indicate  that  throughout  the  country  he  is  recognized  as  an  expert  authority  on  all 
questions  which  have  to  do  with  the  improvement  of  internal  navigation  interests.  His 
recognition  of  the  rights  and  interests  of  others  has  always  been  a  dominant  feature 
in  his  career. 


JOHN  W.   FAESSLER. 


John  W.  Faessler  is  the  president  of  The  J.  Faessler  Manufacturing  Company, 
manufacturers  of  standard  and  special  tools  lor  boiler  makers,  the  product  of  his 
factory  being  used  by  stationary,  marine,  and  railroad  boiler  builders,  while  the 
output  is  also  to  be  found  in  the  boiler  rooms  of  most  of  the  large  seagoing  vessels. 
The  enterprise  is  of  vast  importance  in  the  industrial  and  commercial  development 
of  Moberly,  where  Mr.  Faessler  has  spent  his  entire  life.  He  was  born  July  25,  1878, 
in  the  city  which  is  yet  his  home,  his  parents  being  John  and  Christina  (Klore)  Faess- 
ler, the  former  a  native  of  Switzerland,  while  the  latter  was  born  in  Germany.  The 
father  came  to  the  United  States  as  a  boy  of  fourteen  years,  while  the  mother  made 
the  voyage  to  the  new  world  with  her  parents  when  an  infant  in  arms.  They  were 
married  at  Decatur,  Illinois,  in  1876,  but  Mr.  Faessler  had  become  a  resident  of 
Moberly,  Missouri,  some  years  before,  and  after  his  marriage  he  brought  his  bride 


490  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

to  this  city.  For  a  number  of  years  he  occupied  the  position  of  foreman  in  the  tool 
department  of  the  Wabash  Railroad  shops  and  was  a  master  of  his  craft.  He  devel- 
oped considerable  inventive  genius  and  in  18S3  he  established  the  present  business, 
then  operated  as  a  private  concern  under  the  name  of  J.  Paessler.  He  was  thus  identi- 
fied with  the  industrial  interests  of  Moberly  until  his  death,  which  occurred  March 
9,  1899,  after  which  his  son,  John  W.  Faessler,  took  over  the  management  and  con- 
tinued the  business. 

His  youthful  days  had  been  passed  in  Moberly,  his  education  being  acquired  in 
the  public  schools,  and  his  business  and  industrial  training  was  received  under  his 
father's  direction.  On  the  6th  of  July,  1899,  about  four  months  after  his  father's 
death,  he  incorporated  the  business  under  the  name  of  The  J.  Faessler  Manufacturing 
Company,  of  which  he  became  the  president.  The  plant  has  since  been  greatly 
extended  and  enlarged  and  the  product  finds  a  market  in  all  parts  of  the  world,  the 
enterprise  being  today  one  of  the  leading  industries  of  northeastern  Missouri. 

On  the  7th  of  October,  1902,  Mr.  Faessler  was  married  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Neber- 
gall,  of  Moberly,  daughter  of  John  H.  Nebergall.  proprietor  of  the  Moberly  Steam 
Laundry.  Politically  Mr.  Faessler  is  a  republican  and  fraternally  is  connected  with 
Moberly  Lodge,  No.  344,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Moberly  Chapter,  No.  79,  R.  A.  M.;  and 
Tancred  Commandery,  No.  25,  K.  T.,  of  Moberly.  He  has  likewise  crossed  the  sands 
of  the  desert  with  the  Nobles  of  Ararat  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  and  in  the  Scot- 
tish Rite  branch  of  Masonry  he  has  attained  the  thirty-second,  degree  as  a  member  of 
Missouri  Consistory  No.  1.  He  belongs  also  to  Moberly  Lodge,  No.  936,  B.  P.  O.  E., 
and  he  and  his  wife  are  consistent  members  of  the  Baptist  church.  Mr.  Faessler  is 
moreover  connected  with  the  Moberly  Country  Club,  of  which  he  was  at  one  time 
president,  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Moberly.  The  devel- 
opment of  his  business  interests,  which  have  been  most  wisely  and  carefully  con- 
ducted, has  made  him  one  of  the  wealthy  citizens  of  his  native  county  and  now,  aside 
from  his  important  manufacturing  interests,  he  is  the  vice  president  of  the  Moberly 
Trust  Company  and  president  of  the  Missouri  Hay  Press  Company.  He  displays 
sound  judgment  in  everything  that  he  undertakes  and  has  manifested  particular 
ability  in  bringing  diverse  interests  into  a  unified  and  harmonious  whole  productive 
of  most  gratifying  results. 


FREDERIC    C.    SHARON. 


Frederic  C.  Sharon,  founder  and  promoter  of  the  F.  C.  Sharon  Real  Estate 
Company  of  Kansas  City,  with  offices  in  the  Republic  building,  and  who  for  two 
terms  has  been  the  president  of  the  Kansas  City  Real  Estate  Board,  a  position  which 
indicates  his  high  business  standing,  was  born  in  Carrollton,  Illinois,  March  24, 
1872.  His  father,  John  J.  Sharon,  a  native  of  Ohio,  engaged  in  the  produce  commis- 
sion business  at  Carrollton,  Illinois,  where  he  took  up  his  abode  in  1850,  becoming 
prominent  there  and  remaining  active  in  its  business  circles  to  the  time  of  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  1906.  He  was  a  loyal  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and 
was  also  one  of  the  founders  of  the  republican  party  in  his  locality.  He  married 
Frances  Harriet  Bowman,  a  native  of  Illinois  and  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  old 
families  of  Virginia.     Mrs.  Sharon  survives  and  is  yet  living  in  Carrollton. 

Frederic  C.  Sharon  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city,  pass- 
ing through  consecutive  grades  to  his  graduation  from  the  high  school  with  the 
class  of  1888.  He  afterward  entered  the  Lake  Forest  College  at  Lake  Forest,  Illinois, 
and  completed  his  course  there  in  1893.  During  his  college  days  he  became  a 
member  of  Phi  Kappa  Sigma.  Turning  his  attention  to  railroad  interests,  he  entered 
the  general  offices  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  at  St.  Louis  and  there 
remained  from  1893  until  1899,  connected  with  various  departments,  holding  the 
position  of  chief  rate  clerk  when  he  left  St.  Louis.  He  was  then  sent  to  Kansas 
City  as  city  passenger  agent  in  1899  and  in  1903  was  made  southwestern  passenger 
agent  for  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Road.  Two  years  later  he  turned  his 
attention  to  the  real  estate  business  in  connection  with  Fletcher  Cowherd,  and 
became  the  vice  president  of  the  company  which  they  organized.  In  1915  he  estab- 
lished a  real  estate  agency  on  his  own  account  under  the  name  of  the  F.  C.  Sharon 
Real  Estate  Company,  with  offices  In  the  Republic  building,  and  here  he  has  secured 


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a  very  extensive  clientage  until  he  is  now  regarded  as  one  of  the  foremost  real 
estate  men  of  Kansas  City,  having  built  up  a  business  second  to  none  simply  through 
square  dealing,  courteous  treatment  and  thorough  understanding  of  market  condi- 
tions. He  has  ever  displayed  untiring  energy  and  zeal  and  he  never  stops  short  of 
the  successful  accomplishment  of  his  purpose.  The  recognition  of  his  powers  and 
capability  in  the  real  estate  field  came  to  him  in  his  election  to  the  presidency  of 
the  Kansas  City  Real  Estate  Board,  which  office  he  has  filled  for  two  terms  during 
1916  and  1917.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Fidelity  National  Bank  &  Trust  Company 
of  Kansas  City.  He  was  elected  president  of  the  Kansas  City,  Missouri  Chamber 
of  Commerce  in  June,  1920,  to  serve  from  October  1,  1920  to  October  1,  1921. 

In  1903  Mr.  Sharon  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  Bruce  Green,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  and  Henrietta  (Bruce)  Green,  of  Covington,  Kentucky.  They  have 
one  child,  Henrietta  Bruce,  now  nine  years  of  age.  Mr.  Sharon  is  greatly  interested 
in  both  golf  and  motoring,  to  which  he  turns  for  recreation  and  diversion.  He  is 
fond  of  good  literature  and  has  a  large  private  library.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
University  Club,  of  which  he  is  a  director,  of  the  City  Club,  the  Knife  and  Fork 
Club,  the  Kansas  City  Country  Club,  and  also  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  is 
keenly  interested  in  everything  that  pertains  to  the  city's  welfare  and  upbuilding 
and  his  cooperation  can  always  be  counted  upon  to  further  any  measures  which  he 
deems  of  public  worth  and  benefit.  During  America's  connection  with  the  World  war 
Mr.  Sharon  was  active  in  all  of  the  Liberty  loan  and  other  drives  and  had  charge 
of  the  publicity  work  in  connection  therewith.  His  outstanding  prominence  can 
doubtless  be  attributed  to  his  success  as  a  publicity  man  for  all  war  work  campaigns 
and  for  all  civic  activities.  In  preparing  for  any  campaign  in  the  city  in  which  he 
makes  his  home  it  has  become  the  natural  thing  to  inquire  first  of  all  whether 
Mr.  Sharon's  services  can  be  obtained  as  head  of  the  publicity  department  and  his 
particular  genius  along  this  line  contributed  to  a  considerable  extent  to  the  success  of 
all  war  work  campaigns  in  Kansas  City.  He  remains  one  of  the  most  active  men 
in  his  community  in  civic  work  and  is  a  prominent  figure  in  club  life.  He  is  a  man 
of  fine  personality,  inspires  confidence  in  others,  is  thoroughly  honest  and  above 
all  a  true  gentleman. 


WILMER  CURTIS   STITH. 


Throughout  his  entire  connection  with  business  affairs  Wilmer  Curtis  Stith  has 
been  identified  with  railroad  interests  and  after  the  government  took  over  the  rail- 
roads he  was  traffic  manager  of  those  lines  forming  the  St.  Louis-East  St.  Louis 
terminal  district  of  the  southwestern  region  of  the  United  States  railroad  adminis- 
tration. Mr.  Stith  was  born  and  reared  in  St.  Louis  and  educated  in  the  public 
schools.  He  has  been  connected  with  the  traflSc  department  of  railway  or  kindred 
service  throughout  a  period  of  more  than  forty  years.  He  was  first  employed  as 
messenger  in  the  general  freight  office  of  the  St.  Louis,  Iron  Mountain  &  Southern 
Railway  and  in  September,  1886,  became  assistant  general  freight  agent  of  the 
Missouri  Pacific,  Iron  Mountain  System  at  St.  Louis.  He  was  later  general  freight 
agent  of  the  Kansas  City,  Fort  Scott  &  Memphis  Railroad  at  Kansas  City,  Missouri, 
being  called  to  that  position  in  January,  1890.  Two  years  later  he  returned  to  the 
Missouri  Pacific.  Iron  Mountain  System  at  St.  Louis  as  general  freight  agent  and 
in  December,  1899,  was  appointed  freight  traffic  manager  of  this  system,  continuing 
in  that  connection  until  December,  1907.  He  acted  as  traffic  manager  for  the 
Waters-Pierce  Oil  Company  of  St.  Louis  from  April,  1908,  until  April,  1911,  and 
then  entered  the  service  of  the  Terminal  Railroad  Association  in  July,  1912.  On  the 
1st  of  June,  1913,  he  was  appointed  traffic  manager  of  the  Terminal  Railroad  Asso- 
ciation and  was  traffic  manager  of  the  St.  Louis-East  St.  Louis  terminal  district  of 
the  southwestern  region  of  the  United  States  railroad  admipistration  from  the  13th 
of  July,  1918,  until  the  roads  were  turned  back  to  the  original  owners  in  March, 
1920.  In  the  last  mentioned  position  he  was  traffic  manager  for  the  Terminal  Rail- 
road Association  of  St.  Louis,  the  St.  Louis  Merchants  Bridge  Terminal  Railway, 
the  St.  Louis  Transfer  Railway,  the  Interstate  Car  Transfer,  the  Alton  &  Southern 
Railroad,  the  East  St.  Louis  &  Suburban  Railway,  the  St.  Louis  &  Belleville  Elec- 
tric Railway,  the  Litchfield  &  Madison  Railway,  the  St.  Louis  &  O'Fallon  Railway, 


494  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

the  St.  Louis  National  Stock  Yards,  the  St.  Louis.  Troy  &  Eastern  Railroad  and  the 
East  St.  Louis  Connecting  Railway.  He  was  also  freight  service  representative  at 
St.  Louis  ot  the  Freight  Service  Organization  of  the  southwestern  region,  United 
States  railroad  administration. 

On  the  22d  of  September,  1886,  Mr.  Stith  was  married  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Ward- 
ner  Staples,  who  passed  away  in  1910.  His  family  numbers  two  sons:  Wilmer  Cur- 
tis, Jr.,  who  is  in  the  advertising  business  in  New  York  city  and  who  served  as  a 
lieutenant  in  the  Heavy  Tank  Service  during  the  World  war;  and  Edwin  Emerson, 
of  St.  Louis,  who  married  Virginia  A.  Zeibig  and  has  a  daughter  and  two  sons.  The 
only  daughter  of  Mr.  Stith  is  Laura  Phelps,  now  the  wife  ot  J.  Arthur  Corbitt,  of 
St.  Louis. 

Mr.  Stith  is  a  member  of  the  Church  of  the  Ascension  (Episcopal).  He  is  also 
assistant  treasurer  of  Grace  Holy  Cross  Mission  in  North  St.  Louis,  is  secretary  of 
the  pension  fund  committee  ot  the  diocese  of  Missouri  and  was  a  delegate  to  the 
general  convention  of  the  Episcopal  church  at  Detroit  in  October.  1919.  In  the 
campaign  of  1916-17  in  the  diocese  of  Missouri  he  was  chairman  of  the  church 
pension  fund  committee.  In  politics  he  has  not  been  active  and  has  neither  sought 
nor  held  public  office.  He  is  a  member  of  the  City  Club  ot  St.  Louis  and  during 
the  recent  World  war  was  active  in  promoting  the  Red  Cross  and  Liberty  Loan  cam- 
paigns. 


FRANKLIN   D.    GLORE. 


Franklin  D.  Glore,  who  is  regarded  as  a  careful  and  competent  as  well  as 
successful  attorney,  ranking  with  the  ablest  of  the  younger  members  of  the  bar 
of  Jackson  county,  makes  his  home  in  Kansas  City  and  has  his  offices  in  the 
Scarritt  building.  He  was  born  in  Weaubleau,  Missouri,  January  20,  1879.  His 
father,  William  H.  Glore,  was  a  native  of  Kaskasia,  Illinois,  and  a  Civil  war  veteran, 
who  for  four  years  saw  service  as  a  member  of  Company  G,  Thirty-fourth  Illinois 
Volunteer  Infantry.  He  afterward  engaged  in  farming  in  Missouri  for  many  years 
and  passed  away  in  1918.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Maria  Bilder- 
back,   is  living  in   Springfield,   Missouri. 

Franklin  D.  Glore  is  the  sixth  in  order  of  birth  in  a  family  of  ten  children, 
of  whom  seven  are  yet  living.  He  was  educated  in  the  district  schools  of  Hickory 
county,  where  his  father  followed  farming,  and  he  also  attended  the  Weaubleau 
Christian  College,  from  which  he  was  graduated  as  valedictorian  of  the  class  of 
1898.  He  then  took  up  the  profession  of  teaching,  which  he  followed  for  four 
years  in  connection  with  the  public  schools,  beginning  at  the  age  of  nineteen. 
Later  he  was  with  the  VanNoy  News  Company  as  auditor,  but  desirous  of  entering 
upon  the  practice  of  law,  attended  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law  as  a  night  student 
and  there  secured  his  LL.  B.  degree  in  1908.  In  the  same  year  he  was  admitted 
to  practice  at  the  bar  of  Missouri.  He  has  always  followed  his  profession  inde- 
pendent of  partnership  relations,  and  while  advancement  at  the  bar  is  proverbially 
slow,  he  has  made  steady  progress  and  now  enjoys  a  large  clientage  in  the  general 
practice  of  law.  He  belongs  to  the  Missouri  State  and  to  the  Kansas  City  Bar 
Associations.  He  has  a  profound  knowledge  of  law  and  is  an  unusually  careful 
counselor. 

On  the  14th  of  August,  1908.  Mr.  Glore  was  married  to  Miss  Cecil  Gilbert, 
daughter  of  George  W.  and  Jennie  (Moore)  Gilbert,  of  lantha,  Missouri.  Three 
children  have  been  born  ot  this  union.  Mary  Frances,  seven  years  of  age;  Vida 
Margaret,  aged  five;   and  Jane  Gilbert,  two  and  a  half  years. 

Mr.  Glore  is  a  member  of  the  City  Club,  of  the  Kiwanis  Club,  the  Meadow 
Lake  Country  Club  and  also  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  is  like- 
wise a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  he  is  a  director  of 
the  Odd  Fellows  Hall  Association.  His  religious  belief  is  evidenced  in  his  con- 
nection with  the  Linwood  Boulevard  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  in  the  work  of 
which  he  takes  an  active  and  helpful  part.  He  is  a  teacher  of  a  Bible  class  of 
over  one  hundred  men  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  official  board  of  the  church. 
His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  republican  party  and  his  opinions  carry 
weight  in   its  councils.      He  is  recognized  as  a  forceful  speaker,   always   presenting 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  495 

his  point  clearJy,  so  that  he  never  fails  to  impress  his  hearers.  Devoted  to  his 
family,  he  finds  his  greatest  happiness  in  promoting  their  welfare,  and  he  is  a 
man  who  at  all  times  and  in  every  relation  of  life  measures  up  to  the  highest 
standards  of  American  manhood  and  chivalry. 


JULIUS  A.  BERNINGHAUS. 


Julius  A.  Berninghaus,  vice  president  of  the  Indiahoma  Refining  Company  of 
St.  Louis,  in  which  city  he  was  horn  October  5,  1878,  is  a  son  of  the  late  Edmond 
O.  Berninghaus,  a  native  of  Germany,  who  came  to  America  in  1850,  making  his 
way  direct  to  St.  Louis,  where  his  remaining  days  were  passed,  his  death  occurring 
in  1904,  when  he  had  reached  the  age  of  fifty-eight.  He  was  for  many  years  suc- 
cessfully engaged  in  manufacturing  and  conducted  a  patent  partition  bottle  paclfing 
factory  which  he  also  established.  During  the  Civil  war  he  served  for  a  short 
period  as  a  drummer  boy  in  an  Ohio  company.  He  married  Augusta  Helgenberg, 
who  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  a  daughter  of  Henry  Helgenberg,  an  early  and  promi- 
nent resident  here.  Her  death  occurred  in  1900,  when  she  had  reached  the  age 
of  fifty-four.  Of  the  family  of  two  sons  and  three  daughters  four  are  yet  living, 
one  of  the  daughters  having  passed  away. 

Julius  A.  Berninghaus,  the  third  child,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
and  in  the  St.  Louis  Polytechnic  School.  He  also  pursued  a  two  years'  course  in 
the  night  sessions  of  the  Benton  Law  College.  In  1892,  when  fourteen  years  of 
age,  he  took  a  position  as  messenger  boy  in  the  old  Mechanics  Bank  of  St.  Louis, 
continuing  with  it  and  its  successors  until  1909,  during  which  time  he  was  steadily 
advanced  and  during  the  last  six  years  served  as  assistant  cashier.  This  institu- 
tion was  later  called  the  Mechanics  American  National  Bank  and  is  now  part  of 
the  First  National  of  St.  Louis.  In  1909  Mr.  Berninghaus  resigned  his  position 
to  accept  the  cashiership  of  the  Central  National  Bank,  which  position  he  filled 
for  five  years,  when  he  was  made  vice  president  and  remained  in  active  service  as 
such  until  March,  1918,  when  he  resigned  to  accept  the  vice  presidency  of  the 
Indiahoma  Refining  Company,  but  still  remains  as  a  director  of  the  Central  National 
Bank  and  in  the  City  Trust  Company. 

On  the  31st  of  March,  1903,  Mr.  Berninghaus  was  married  at  St.  Louis  to  Miss 
Mabel  Benedict,  a  native  of  this  city  and  a  daughter  of  Silas  and  May  (Wempel) 
Benedict,  representatives  of  old  Ohio  families  who  settled  near  Toledo,  and  of 
Revolutionary  stock. 

Mr.  Berninghaus  is  a  stanch  believer  in  protective  tariff  and  other  republican 
principles  and  gives  to  the  party  earnest  support.  He  is  a  member  of  Anchor  Lodge 
No.  447,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  also  of  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  the  St.  Louis 
Club,  the  Ridgedale  Country  Club,  the  Sunset  Hill  Country  Club  and  St.  John's 
Methodist  Episcopal  church,  of  which  he  is  a  steward.  During  the  World  war  he 
served  on  the  Liberty  Loan,  Red  Cross  and  Y.  M.  C.  A.  drives,  doing  everything  in 
his  power  to  uphold  the  interests  of  the  government  and  the  soldiers  in  camp  and 
field.  His  record  is  an  inspiring  one,  tor  he  started  out  in  the  business  world 
at  a  salary  of  but  two  dollars  per  week  and  gradually  he  has  advanced  until  he  is 
now  the  executive  head  of  a  most  important  corporation,  its  far-reaching  business 
interests  and  wide  volume  of  trade  bringing  him  substantial  success. 


WILLARD  C.  PROUD,  M.  D. 

This  is  an  age  of  specialization  and  in  no  field  of  labor  is  the  tendency  of  the 
age  more  manifest  than  in  medical  practice.  The  work  of  the  physician  and  sur- 
geon has  become  so  complex  that  it  would  be  impossible  for  any  one  individual 
to  attain  the  highest  possible  degree  of  efficiency  in  all  departments  of  practice 
and  therefore  men  have  concentrated  along  a  single  line  with  the  result  that  they 
have  developed  high  power  in  their  pai-ticular  field.  Following  this  course,  Dr. 
Proud  is  now  limiting  his  practice  to  the  eye,  ear,  nose  and  throat  and  displays 
marked  efficiency  in  his  work  of  that  character.  A  native  son  of  Missouri,  he  was 
born  at  Oregon,  June   28,   1873,   his   parents  being  Clark  O.   and   Rebecca    (Curtis) 

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496  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Proud,  the  former  a  native  of  Ohio  and  the  latter  of  Missouri.  The  father  left 
the  Buckeye  state  in  company  witli  his  parents  and  made  his  way  to  Oregon, 
Missouri,  where  he  and  his  uncle,  Rueben  King,  established  a  pharmacy,  conducting 
business  under  the  name  of  the  King  &  Proud  Pharmacy.  This  relationship  was 
maintained  for  thirty-two  years,  Clark  O.  Proud  being  long  numbered  among  the 
leading  merchants  of  the  state. 

Dr.  Willard  C.  Proud  was  graduated  from  the  Oregon  high  school  and  after- 
ward took  up  the  study  of  pharmacy  and  of  medicine  in  the  University  Medical 
College  at  Kansas  City,  having  previously  obtained  considerable  experience  in  his 
father's  drug  store,  his  great-uncle,  Mr.  King,  devoting  considerable  time  to  per- 
sonal instruction  of  the  young  man  with  reference  to  his  later  course  at  the  Uni- 
versity Medical  College.  He  was  graduated  from  that  institution  in  189  3,  after 
devoting  five  years  to  study  there.  He  later  pursued  a  full  course  in  Rush  Medical 
College  of  Chicago  and  is  numbered  among  its  alumni  of  1900.  For  two  years 
he  remained  in  Chicago  and  during  part  of  that  time  did  post  graduate  work  at 
the  Chicago  Polyclinic.  Returning  to  Oregon,  he  remained  in  general  practice 
there  for  a  number  of  years  and  again  took  up  special  professional  work  in  1914. 
He  spent  about  four  months  as  a  student  in  the  Tulane  Medical  College  at  New 
Orleans  and  afterwards  went  to  Vienna,  Austria,  and  to  London,  England,  where 
he  specialized  in  the  study  of  head  surgery.  Soon  after  his  return  to  New  York 
City  the  World  war  was  declared.  Dr.  Proud  continued  in  New  York  during  the 
latter  part  of  1914  and  a  part  of  the  year  1915,  attending  some  of  the  best  medical 
institutions  in  the  American  metropolis.  With  his  return  to  Missouri  he  settled 
at  St.  Joseph,  where  he  has  since  remained,  with  offices  in  the  Physicians  &  Sur- 
geons building.  He  is  now  limiting  his  practice  to  the  eye,  ear,  nose  and  throat 
and  has  displayed  marked  ability  in  his  chosen  field.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Buch- 
anan County,  the  Missouri  State  and  the  Missouri  Valley  Medical  Societies  and  he 
thus  keeps  in  close  touch  with  the  advancement  of  the  profession.  He  is  ever 
eager  to  promote  his  knowledge  and  advance  his  efficiency  and  his  colleagues  and 
contemporaries  attest  his  professional  worth. 

On  the  11th  of  November,  1896,  Dr.  Proud  was  married  to  Miss  Alice  M. 
Kunkel,  of  Oregon,  Missouri,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  three  children, 
Kathleen,  Genevieve  and  O'Neil.  Fraternally  Dr.  Proud  is  connected  with  the 
Elks  lodge,  No.  4  0,  of  St.  Joseph  and  he  and  his  family  are  widely  and  prominently 
known  in  the  social  circles  of  the  city,  the  hospitality  of  the  best  homes  being  freely 
accorded  them. 


TRUMAN   CROSS   BEASLEY. 


Truman  Cross  Beasley,  merchant  and  banker,  is  a  man  to  whom  opportunity  has 
ever  been  the  call  to  action — a  call  to  which  he  has  made  immediate  response.  To 
him  the  attainment  of  success  has  not  been  the  sole  end  and  aim  of  his  activities. 
He  has  delighted  in  playing  the  game  and  playing  it  fair,  in  solving  intricate  prob- 
lems and  bringing  unrelated  and  ofttimes  seemingly  diverse  elements  into  a  harmon- 
ious whole.  He  has  thus  for  many  years  figured  prominently  in  the  commercial 
and  financial  circles  of  Livingston  county  as  a  leading  merchant  and  as  the  president 
of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Chillicothe. 

A  native  Missourian,  Mr.  Beasley  was  born  September  16,  1855,  in  Jasper  county, 
and  is  a  son  of  Andrew  Jackson  and  Eudora  (Perry)  Beasley.  The  father's  birth 
occurred  May  25,  1826,  in  Pike  county,  Missouri,  where  he  was  reared.  The  paternal 
grandfather  of  our  subject  was  Ephraim  Beasley,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  where  he 
was  reared  to  agricultural  pursuits,  which  he  followed  during  his  life.  He  was  a 
democrat  and  also  an  adherent  of  the  Christian  church.  The  paternal  grandmother 
in  her  maidenhood  was  Rebecca  Ruddel,  a  native  of  Scott  county,  Kentucky,  where 
she  passed  her  girlhood  days.  In  the  family  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ephraim  Beasley  were 
ten  children.  In  Pike  county,  Missouri,  Andrew  Jackson  Beasley  eventually  took 
up  the  business  of  farming  and  stock  raising,  so  continuing  until  1861,  when  he 
removed  to  Chillicothe,  of  which  city  he  remained  a  resident  for  fifty  years  or  until 
his  demise  on  the  6th  of  July,  1911.  He  was  always  a  stalwart  advocate  of  democratic 
principles   and    equally    faithful    in    his    allegiance   to   the    teachings   of   the    Christian 


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church.  It  was  on  the  4th  of  January,  1853,  in  Jasper  county,  Missouri,  that  he  wedded 
Eudora  Perry,  who  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Tennessee,  January  4,  1837.  She  was 
brought  to  Missouri  in  1851,  when  but  fourteen  years  of  age,  by  her  parents,  Alexander 
and  Elizabeth  (Woodlea)  Perry,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Tennessee.  Her  father 
devoted  his  life  to  the  occupation  of  farming.  He  gave  his  political  support  to  the 
democratic  party,  was  a  soldier  of  the  War  of  1812  and  in  religious  faith  was  a 
Methodist.  His  death  occurred  in  Arkansas  in  1862.  To  him  and  his  wife  were 
born  eight  children.  Eudora  became  the  wife  of  Andrew  Jackson  Beasley  and  the 
mother  of  four  children:  "William  Herschel,  who  was  born  December  13,  1853,  and 
died  March  31,  1902;  Truman  C;  Ida  Ella,  who  was  born  September  11,  1860,  and 
died  August  28,  1865;  and  Lula,  who  was  born  September  30,  1870,  and  passed  away 
November  19,  1876. 

Truman  Cross  Beasley,  the  only  surviving  member  of  his  father's  family,  was 
reared  in  Chillicothe  and  attended  the  public  schools.  He  decided  to  turn  his  atten- 
tion to  commercial  pursuits  and  when  twenty-one  years  of  age  secured  a  clerkship 
in  a  store  at  Pattonsburg,  Missouri,  in  which  connection  he  steadily  worked  his  way 
upward — merit,  faithfulness  and  ability  winning  him  promotion  from  time  to  time — 
and  eventually  became  a  partner  in  the  business.  At  the  end  of  sixteen  years  of 
efficient  service  for  the  house  he  bought  the  interests  of  his  partners  and  conducted 
the  business  successfully  being  connected  therewith  altogether  for  twenty-nine 
years.  In  fact  he  is  still  president  of  tlie  company,  which  is  operating  under  the 
name  of  the  Pattonsburg  Mercantile  Company,  and  he  is  also  president  of  the  Botts- 
Minteer  Dry  Goods  Company  at  Chillicothe.  During  twenty-seven  of  the  twenty-nine 
years  in  which  he  was  active  in  the  control  of  his  mercantile  interests  he  made  trips 
to  St.  Louis,  Chicago  and  New  York  to  buy  goods.  As  a  merchant  he  has  displayed 
sound  judgment,  unfaltering  enterprise  and  progressiveness,  ever  recognizing  the 
fact  that  satisfied  patrons  are  the  best  advertisement.  In  the  meantime  he  also 
entered  the  banking  business,  dividing  his  time  between  commercial  and  financial 
pursuits.  He  became  the  president  of  the  Daviess  County  Bank  at  Pattonsburg  and 
in  1906,  removing  to  Chillicothe,  he  assumed  the  presidency  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  that  city.  This  bank  was  founded  in  1887  and  capitalized  for  fifty  thousand 
dollars,  its  first  president  being  George  Milbank  and  the  cashier  A.  M.  Johnson.  Since 
1906  Mr.  Beasley  has  continuously  served  as  president  and  under  his  direction  the 
business  of  the  bank  has  steadily  developed  and  increased.  Today  the  institution 
is  capitalized  for  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  and  has  a  surplus  of  eighty  thousand 
dollars,  with  deposits  five  times  as  great  as  when  the  bank  first  opened  its  doors  for 
business.  With  the  thoroughness  that  characterizes  everything  he  has  undertaken, 
Mr.  Beasley  has  made  a  close  study  of  the  banking  business  in  every  phase  and  his 
opinions  are  largely  accepted  as  authority  upon  many  questions  relative  thereto.  He 
has  always  recognized  the  fact  that  the  bank  which  most  carefully  safeguards  the 
interests  of  its  depositors  is  most  worthy  of  support,  and  has  therefore  tempered 
progressiveness  with  a  safe  conservatism  in  the  management  of  the  financial  inter- 
ests under  his   control. 

On  the  30th  of  May,  1888,  Mr.  Beasley  was  married  at  Pattonsburg,  Missouri,  to 
Miss  Mattie  Ewing,  whose  birth  occurred  near  Bedford,  in  Trimble  county,  Kentucky, 
September  14,  1866.  Her  father,  George  Douglas  Ewing,  was  born  at  Ewingsford, 
Kentucky,  January  2,  1842,  and  there  resided  until  1885,  when  he  became  a  resident 
of  Pattonsburg,  Missouri,  opening  there  an  insurance  office  in  which  he  soon  estab- 
lished an  extensive  business.  His  political  support  has  always  been  given  to  the 
democratic  party  and  his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Methodist  church.  South.  When 
in  Kentucky  he  represented  his  district  in  the  state  legislature  in  1879  and  1880,  and 
he  served  with  the  Confederate  army  during  the  Civil  war,  with  the  rank  of  orderly 
sergeant,  and  was  a  member  of  Colonel  Giltner's  staff  of  the  First  Brigade  of  General 
John  H.  Morgan's  cavalry  division.  He  was  married  in  Trimble  county,  Kentucky, 
July  13,  1865,  to  Artimesia  Bain,  who  was  there  born  October  27,  1842,  and  they 
became  the  parents  of  four  children:  Charles  Bain,  born  August  10,  1870;  Iva  Wat- 
kins  and  Ira  Scott,  twins,  born  June  4,  1875,  the  former  dying  October  6,  1881,  and 
the  latter  September  5,  1877;  and  Mrs.  Beasley.  The  paternal  grandparents  of  Mrs. 
Beasley  were  Fulton  and  Rachel  Watkins  (Bobbins)  Ewing.  The  former  was  born 
in  Henry  county,  Kentucky,  November  4,  1809,  and  followed  farming  and  stock  raising. 
He  was  a  democrat  in  politics  and  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 
South.     He  passed   away   at   Ewingford,  Kentucky,   July   18,   1889.     His   wife   was  also 


500  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

born  in  Henry  county,  Kentucky,  and  their  marriage  occurred  March  14,  1833.  Their 
family  numbered  ten  children.  The  maternal  grandfather  of  Mrs.  Beasley  was  Charles 
Bain,  who  was  born  in  Virginia,  October  2,  1795,  and  was  fallen  by  his  parents  to 
Kentucky,  where  he  grew  to  manhood  and  followed  farming.  He,  too,  belonged  to 
the  Methodist  church.  South,  and  was  a  democrat  in  his  political  views.  On  the 
16th  of  June,  1831,  in  Trimble  county,  Kentucky,  he  wedded  Nancy  Trout,  who  was 
born  in  Switzerland  county,  Indiana,  December  14,  1809,  but  was  reared  in  Kentucky. 
To  this  marriage  there  were  born  eleven  children.  The  ancestral  line  of  Mrs.  Beasley 
can  be  traced  back  to  a  still  more  remote  period.  Her  great-grandparents,  James  and 
Robina  (Scott)  Ewing,  were  born,  educated  and  married  in  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  and 
in  1799  sailed  for  the  new  world.  The  ship  on  which  they  took  passage  was  driven 
hither  and  thither  by  the  gales,  shipwreck  added  to  its  lelays  and  six  months  had 
passed  before  they  reached  their  destination.  Their  first  child  was  born  at  sea  and 
was  named  Douglas  in  honor  of  the  Douglas  clan  of  Scotland,  to  which  the  great- 
grandmother  of  Mrs.  Beasley  belonged.  She  was  one  of  the  leaders  in  a  movement 
for  higher  education  of  girls  and  at  Frankfort  established  the  first  girls'  high  school  in 
Kentucky.  Mrs.  Beasley  began  her  education  in  the  schools  of  Kentucky  and  con- 
tinued her  studies  in  the  high  school  at  Pattonsburg,  Missouri,  She  is  a  lady  of 
innate  culture  and  refinement  who  occupies  a  prominent  social  position  in  Chillicothe. 
Mr.  Beasley  is  well  known  as  a  representative  of,  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  he  is  also  a  consistent,  faithful  and  helpful 
member  of  the  Christian  church.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  democratic 
party,  but  he  has  never  desired  to  fill  political  positions.  He  has  rendered  much 
valuable  service  to  the  public  in  other  connections,  however,  and  his  cooperation  has 
at  all  times  been  counted  upon  and  gladly  given  in  connection  with  the  development 
and  progress  of  his  city  and  state.  He  is  now  a  member  of  the  Missouri  State  His- 
torical Society.  In  his  business  life  he  has  been  a  persistent,  resolute  and  energetic 
worker,  possessing  strong  executive  powers,  keeping  his  hand  steadily  upon  the  helm 
of  his  business  and  strictly  conscientious  in  his  dealings  with  debtor  and  creditor 
alike.  Keenly  alive  to  the  possibilities  of  every  new  avenue  opened  in  the  natural 
ramifications  of  trade  and  banking,  he  has  passed  over  the  pitfalls  into  which  un- 
restricted progressiveness  is  so  frequently  led  and  has  been  enabled  to  focus  his 
energies  in  directions  where  fruition  is  certain.  His  business  characteristics  might 
be  summed  up  in  these  words:  A  progressive  spirit  ruled  by  more  than  ordinary 
intelligence  and  good  judgment,  a  deep  earnestness  impelled  and  fostered  by  indomit- 
able perseverance,  a  native  Justice  expressing  itself  in  correct  principle  and  practice. 


HARMON   J.   BLISS. 


Harmon  J.  Bliss,  attorney  at  law,  of  St.  Louis,  who  has  engaged  in  practice 
since  October,  1885,  was  born  at  Westfield,  New  York,  November  16,  1858,  and 
is  the  son  of  Harmon  J.  Bliss,  also  a  lawyer  and  a  native  of  the  Empire  state,  and 
Mary  E.  Bliss,  daughter  of  Alvin  Plumb  of  Westfield,  New  York.  Mr.  Bliss'  father 
at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  joined  the  Union  army  and  became  captain  of  a 
company  in  the  Seventieth  Regiment  of  New  York  Volunteer  Infantry,  his  regi- 
ment being  brigaded  in  the  Excelsior  Brigade  under  the  command  of  General  Daniel 
E.  Sickles.  He  took  part  in  all  the  engagements  of  his  command  from  the  opening 
of  the  war  and  was  mortally  wounded  in  tlie  battle  of  Chancellorsville.  Captain 
Bliss'  wife  survived  him  many  years,  passing  away  in  June,  1913,  at  the  advanced 
age  of  eighty  years.  On  her  maternal  side  she  was  the  granddaughter  of  Dr. 
Ramus  Davis,  a  physician  and  planter  of  St.  Martinsville,  Louisiana,  who  was  a 
surgeon  in  the  United  States  army  at  the  battle  of  New  Orleans,  fought  January  8, 
1815.  Dr.  Davis  was  a  native  of  New  York  and  a  son  of  Major  John  Davis,  major 
Fourth  New  York  Line,  Colonel  Livingstone's,  regiment,  and  in  service  in  the  Mohawk 
valley.  New  York,  during  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 

Harmon  J.  Bliss,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  educated  in  private  schools, 
at  the  Westfield  academy  and  at  Hamilton  College,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1881  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree.  After  his  graduation  he  resided  for 
several  years  in  the  south  and  was  instructor  in  Latin  and  elocution  in  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  in  a  private  school  for  boys  conducted  by  Professor  A.  S.  Leche. 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  501 

Mr.  Bliss  came  to  St.  Louis  in  the  early  part  o£  1885  and  entered  the  law 
office  of  the  late  Judge  John  Wickham,  being  admitted  to  practice  in  October  o£ 
that  year.  On  entering  upon  the  practice  o£  the  law,  Harmon  J.  Bliss  took  up  a 
work  for  which  his  mind  and  taste  evidently  well  qualified  him  for  he  has  enjoyed 
continued  success  almost  from  the  beginning  and  has  taken  part  in  much  important 
litigation.  He  has  displayed  great  thoroughness  in  the  preparation  of  his  cases  and 
is  strong  in  argument,  clear  in  his  reasoning  and  logical  in  his  deductions. 

Mr.  Bliss  was  married  February  10,  1901,  to  Adelaide  Aimee  Bouny,  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  J.  L.  Emile  Bouny  and  Ernestine  Bouny,  n6e  AUard,  of  New  Orleans. 
Both  Mr.  Bouny  and  his  wife  were  members  of  old  French  families  identified 
with  the  history  of  New  Orleans  and  of  Louisiana.  Mr.  Bliss  has  never  held  office 
nor  taken  an  active  part  in  politics  but  has  always  shown  a  lively  interest  in  public 
questions  and  in  all  pertaining  to  the  duties  of  a  citizen  or  that  affects  the  public 
welfare,  state  or  national.  In  politics  he  is  affiliated  with  the  democratic  party  along 
its  old  and  constitutional  lines.  Without  at  the  same  time  failing  to  preserve  a  due 
amount  of  independence  of  judgment  and  action.  During  the  World  war  Mr.  Bliss 
was  United  States  appeal  agent  in  the  seventeenth  ward  and  was  officially  discharged 
May  31,  1919.  He  also  did  war  work  for  the  treasury  department  of  the  United 
States,  served  on  the  Liberty  Loan  drives,  was  a  member  of  the  speakers'  staff 
and  did  effective  work  in  that  connection.  He  started  out  with  very  moderate 
financial  resources,  but  energy  and  determination  have  guided  his  career  and  laud- 
able ambition  has  prompted  him  to  put  forth  every  effort  in  the  attainment  of 
success.  In  a  calling  where  advancement  depends  mainly  upon  individual  merit, 
he  has  made  steady  progress,  and  his  ability  is  now  widely  recognized. 

Along  strictly  professional  lines  he  has  membership  in  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Asso- 
ciation, the  Missouri  State  Bar  Association  and  the  American  Bar  Association.  He 
has  interested  himself  at  all  times  in  organizations  of  a  patriotic  and  historical 
character,  and  is  at  the  present  time  one  of  the  honorary  vice  presidents  of  the 
Missouri  Society,  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  He  is  a  communicant  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  church,  and  has  taken  part  in  the  activities  of  the  Knights  of  Col- 
umbus and  the  St.  Vincent  de  Paul  Society. 


THOMAS   L.   ANDERSON. 


Thomas  L.  Anderson,  who  as  a  member  of  the  bar  specializes  in  corporation 
practice,  is  a  native  of  Louisiana,  Missouri,  a  son  of  Thomas  L.  Anderson  and  grand- 
son of  Thomas  L.  Anderson,  both  of  whom  were  members  of  the  bar,  well  known 
jurists  and  able  legislators.  The  mother  of  Thomas  L.  Anderson,  who  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Fanny  McQuie,  was  a  native  of  Virginia. 

After  mastering  the  early  branches  of  learning  taught  in  the  public  schools, 
Mr.  Anderson  entered  Central  College,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1896  with 
the  A.  B.  degree,  after  which  he  became  a  student  in  the  St.  Louis  Law  School, 
which  in  1898  conferred  upon  him  the  LL.  B.  degree.  In  the  same  year  he  was 
admitted  to  the  St.  Louis  bar  and  has  since  been  an  active  representative  of  the 
profession,  enjoying  a  growing  prominence  and  success.  For  ten  years  he  was  city 
attorney  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  also  excise  commissioner  and  judge  of  the  circuit 
court  of  St.  Louis  in  the  years  1916-17,  but  resigned  to  enter  again  upon  the  private 
practice  of  law  and  through  the  intervening  period  has  specialized  in  corporation 
work,  meeting  with  great  success  in  this  important  branch  of  the  profession.  He 
ia  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis,  Missouri  and  American  Bar  Associations. 

On  the  25th  of  April,  1905,  Mr.  Anderson  was  married  to  Miss  Margaret  Ger- 
trude Ballard,  a  daughter  of  Theodore  Ballard,  president  of  the  Merchants  Exchange 
of  St.  Louis.  They  had  one  child,  Frances,  who  has  passed  away.  The  parents 
are  members  of  St.  John's  Methodist  church  and  in  the  work  thereof  take  a  helpful 
interest. 

Mr.  Anderson  turns  to  golf,  hunting  and  trout  fishing  for  recreation  and  when 
leisure  permits  indulges  his  love  of  these  sports.  He  is  an  eloquent  and  gifted  orator 
and  is  much  in  demand  as  a  public  speaker.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the 
democratic  party  and  he  has  made  campaign  addresses  throughout  the  state  and  in 
many  other  states  as  well  during  the  national  campaigns.    His  logical  trend  of  thought 


502  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

enables  him  to  present  with  great  clearness  any  point  which  he  wishes  to  make  and 
his  utterances  never  fail  to  make  a  strong  impression  upon  the  minds  o£  his  audi- 
ence. For  three  generations  the  name  of  Anderson  has  now  been  associated  with 
the  legal  profession  and  the  work  of  the  bench  and  has  ever  been  a  synonym  not  only 
of  high  ability  but  of  marked  devotion  to  duty  in  this  direction. 


CHARLES  L.  ALLEN. 


Charles  L.  Allen,  who  enjoys  the  reputation  of  being,  according  to  a  prominent 
citicen  of  St.  Louis,  "absolutely  reliable  and  a  splendid  business  man,"  is  the  cashier 
of  the  First  National  Bank,  to  which  responsible  position  he  was  called  in  July, 
1919,  when  three  of  the  oldest  and  strongest  financial  institutions  of  the  city  were 
merged  into  a  new  organization,  since  known  as  the  First  National.  Mr.  Allen 
was  born  in  Rolla,  Missouri,  October  8,  1876.  His  father,  Granville  Allen,  a  native 
of  Lexington,  Kentucky,  became  the  owner  of  several  fine  farms  near  Rolla,  Missouri, 
and  was  a  very  active  and  prominent  citizen  of  his  community.  He  wedded  Mary 
Ludwig,  who  was  born  at  Lewisburg,  Pennsylvania,  a  representative  of  a  very  promi- 
nent and  influential  family  of  the  Keystone  state,  to  whose  efforts  is  attributed  the 
founding  of  Bucknell  University  in  1845.  The  death  of  Granville  Allen  occurred  in 
St.  Louis  in  1912.  To  him  and  his  wife  were  born  but  two  children,  the  younger 
being  Alice,   now  the  wife  of  W.  A.   Leach,   of   Centralia,   Missouri. 

Charles  L.  Allen  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  schools  and  in  the 
Rolla  School  of  Mines  and  obtained  his  initial  business  training  in  the  People's 
Bank  at  De  Soto,  Missouri,  with  which  he  was  connected  until  1898.  He  then 
entered  the  Mechanics  American  Bank  of  St.  Louis  and  in  19  05  was  made  assistant 
cashier,  being  thus  identified  with  the  institution  until  July,  1919,  when  the 
Mechanics  American  Bank,  the  St.  Louis  Union  Bank  and  the  Third  National  Bank 
formed  a  merger  resulting  in  the  organization  of  the  great  First  National  Bank. 
He  became  cashier  of  this  large  institution,  which  has  a  capital  and  surplus  of 
fifteen  million  dollars  and  resources  of  one  hundred  and  forty-nine  million  dollars. 
Mr.  Allen's  ability  as  a  banker  is  very  highly  regarded.  The  executive  managers 
of  the  bank  are  N.  A.  McMillan,  Walker  Hill  and  F.  O.  Watts,  the  last  named  being 
the  president.  With  mammoth  resources  at  its  command,  the  bank  has  become 
a  most  forceful  factor  In  the  financial  circles  of  the  Mississippi  valley  and  in  the 
successful  conduct  of  its  business  Charles  L.  Allen  is  playing  an  important  part. 

In  1905  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Allen  and  Miss  Mary  T.  Hollingshead, 
a  native  of  Iowa  and  a  daughter  of  J.  D.  Hollingsliead,  now  of  Chicago.  They 
have  two  children,  Laura  Mary  and  Alice  L.,  aged  respectively  ten  and  five  years. 
The  religious  faith  of  the  parents  is  indicated  in  their  membership  in  the  Second 
Baptist  church.  Mr.  Allen  is  very  fond  of  horseback  riding  and  all  phases  of  out- 
door life.  He  belongs  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  is  a  member  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  is  a  man  of  fine  presence,  affable  and  popular  and  a  most 
capable  executive,  one  who  numbers  his  acquaintances  by  the  thousands  and  whose 
circle  of  friends  is  almost  coextensive  therewith. 


EDWARD    F.    SWINNEY. 


Edward  F.  Swinney,  who  throughout  his  entire  business  career  seems  to  have 
accomplished  at  every  point  the  utmost  possibility  for  accomplishment  at  that  point, 
has  for  a  number  of  years  been  the  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Kansas 
City  and  his  high  standing  in  financial  circles  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  has 
been  honored  with  the  presidency  of  the  American  Bankers  Association.  He  has 
been  a  close  student  of  all  the  problems  of  finance  and  the  thoroughness  with  which 
he  has  mastered  the  lessons  of  life  has  been  one  of  the  strong  elements  in  the 
attainment  of  his  present-day  success,  which  places  him  among  the  most  prominent 
residents  of  Kansas  City. 

Virginia  claims  Mr.  Swinney  as  a  native  son,  his  birth  having  occurred  on  the 
1st  of  August,  1857,  in  the  little  town  of  Marysville,  in  Campbell  county,  that  state. 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  505 

There  lie  began  his  education  as  a  common  school  pupil  but  afterward  had  the 
advantage  of  a  course  of  study  in  the  Blackburg  (Va.)  Military  Academy.  In 
November,  1875,  soon  after  leaving  that  institution,  he  went  to  Fayette,  Missouri, 
a  youth  of  eighteen  years,  who  was  not  especially  trained  for  any  line  of  business 
but  was  ambitious  to  gain  a  start  and  accepted  a  position  as  delivery  boy  in  a 
grocery  store  at  a  wage  of  twenty  dollars  a  month.  He  had  to  bear  all  expenses 
during  that  period  and  he  worked  from  early  morning  until  late  at  night.  While 
satisfied  thus  to  make  a  start,  his  laudable  ambition  prompted  him  to  seek  some- 
thing better  and  he  eai-ly  realized  the  fact  that  advancement  could  be  gained 
through  industry,  capability  and  fidelity.  These  qualities,  therefore,  he  has  care- 
fully cultivated  as  the  years  have  passed  and  after  a  year's  experience  in  the 
grocery  store  he  was  advanced  to  a  salary  of  twenty-fiVe  dollars  per  month  in  con- 
nection with  a  clerkship  in  a  dry  goods  store.  From  time  to  time  his  wages  were 
Increased  and  he  remained  in  that  establishment  until  August  15,  1878.  In  the 
meantime  a  long  cherished  idea  had  been  taking  definite  shape  in  his  mind  and 
ledto  his  accepting  a  position  in  a  Fayette  (Mo.)  bank,  with  which  he  was  connected 
from  August  15,  1878,  until  September,  1882.  He  next  accepted  a  more  responsi- 
ble position  at  Rich  Hill,  Missouri,  and  a  year  later  went  to  Colorado  City,  Texas, 
where  he  was  made  cashier  of  a  bank  that  was  organized  with  Fayette  capital. 
There  he  continued  until  March  1,  1887,  when  he  became  a  factor  in  the  business 
circles  of  Kansas  City  by  accepting  the  position  of  cashier  in  the  First  National 
Bank. 

A  contemporary  writer  has  said  of  Mr.  Swinney-  "Thoroughness  has  ever 
characterized  all  of  his  work.  From  the  beginning  of  his  connection  with  banking 
he  made  it  his  purpose  to  master  the  business  in  principle  and  detail  and  his  un- 
faltering diligence  and  close  application  won  him  continued  advancement  until  after 
a  service  of  thirteen  years  as  cashier  of  the  First  National  he  was  elected  to  the 
presidency  of  what  Is  now  one  of  the  strongest  financial  institutions  of  the  west. 
He  is  justly  accounted  one  of  Kansas  City's  leading  business  men  and  conservative 
financiers.  In  matters  of  business  policy  his  judgment  is  sound  and  reliable,  and 
while  he  does  not  jump  at  conclusions,  he  forms  his  plans  readily  and  is  determined 
in  their  execution.  He  has  ever  regarded  a  banking  position  as  one  of  special  trust 
and  with  the  utmost  care  has  safeguarded  the  interests  placed  in  his  hands.  He 
has  wrought,  too,  along  modern  business  lines  for  the  growth  and  development  of 
the  institution  of  which  he  is  now  chief  executive  officer  and  the  increase  of  its 
business  is  attributable  in  large  degree  to  his  labors,  to  his  keen  insight  and  his 
ability  to  combine  and  coordinate  forces.  When  asked  on  a  certain  occasion  how 
best  to  obtain  success  he  said:  'To  the  young  man  who  wants  to  succeed  I  would 
only  give  this  brief  little  creed:  Show  to  his  employer  that  he  has  his  interests 
at  heart  in  everything.  No  man  is  so  hard  that  he  does  not  become  interested  in 
a  young  fellow  whom  he  knows  is  interested  in  him.  Make  a  little  and  save  a  little 
and  you  will  soon  have  a  capital  to  start  on,  though  it  may  be  small.'  Whether 
Mr.  Swinney  had  formulated  this  creed  at  the  beginning  of  his  career  is  not  known, 
but  It  is  a  fact  that  its  embodiment  has  been  found  in  his  own  life  record."  Mr. 
Swinney  has  not  confined  his  attention  alone  to  banking  interests,  for  he  had 
served  in  former  years  as  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad  and 
was  also  a  representative  of  the  directorate  of  the  Fidelity  Trust  Company  and  the 
Missouri  Savings  Bank.  With  the  establishment  of  the  Federal  Reserve  Banks  he 
became  a  member  of  the  Federal  Reserve  Bank  Advisory  Board  of  the  tenth  district 
and  is  so  serving. 

On  the  14th  of  November,  1882,  Mr.  Swinney  was  married  in  Howard  county, 
Missouri,  to  Miss  Ida  Lee  and  they  have  reared  an  adopted  daughter,  Edna  S., 
who  is  now  the  wife  of  Willard  P.  Hovey.  Mr.  Swinney  has  ever  manifested  the 
keenest  interest  in  all  those  activities  which  have  had  to  do  with  the  progress 
and  upbuilding  of  community,  commonwealth  and  country.  The  cause  of  educa- 
tion has  ever  found  in  him  a  stalwart  champion  and  tor  twenty-seven  years  he 
has  been  treasurer  of  the  Kansas  City  school  board.  He  has  been  a  prominent 
figure  in  the  Commercial  Club,  which  has  had  much  to  do  with  the  industrial 
and  commercial  development  of  Kansas  City,  and  his  position  in  banking  circles 
is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  in  1905  he  was  elected  president  of  the  American 
Bankers  Association.  He  belongs  to  the  Country  Club  of  Kansas  City  and  he  has 
ever  kept  in  touch  with  those  interests  which  mark  the  world's  progress  along 
many  lines.     When  America  entered  the  World  war  he  devoted  much  of  his  time 


506  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

to  public  service  in  that  connection  and  was  a  member  of  several  of  the  war  boards 
in  Kansas  City  and  was  very  prominent  in  promoting  the  Liberty  Loan  drives. 
Without  special  advantages  at  the  outset  of  his  career,  he  has  made  steady  advance- 
ment and  though  his  opportunities  have  been  modest  he  has  turned  them  to  ex- 
cellent account.  The  wisdom,  energy  and  success  with  which  he  has  pushed  his 
way  along  is  a  study  tor  American  youth.  The  simplicity  and  beauty  of  his  daily 
life  as  seen  in  his  home  and  family  relations  constitutes  an  even  balance  to  his 
splendid  business  ability.  His  personal  characteristics  and  social  qualities  are 
pronounced  and  he  is  an  acceptable  coxnpanion  in  any  society  in  which  intelligence 
is  the  necessary  attribute  to  agreeableness. 


FRANK  E.   SHELDON. 

Frank  E.  Sheldon  has  long  been  actively  associated  with  the  lumber  industry,  in 
which  connection  he  has  developed  interests  of  large  proportions.  The  salient  points 
in  his  successful  career  have  been  industry,  intelligence,  energy  and  ambition.  No 
esoteric  phases  will  be  met  by  any  who  care  to  delve  deep  into  his  career  and  study 
of  his  record  will  bring  to  light  many  points  worthy  of  emulation,  while  his  entire 
career  excites  the  admiration  of  those  who  are  willing  to  accord  to  individual  achieve- 
ment  the   right   to   its   reward. 

Prank  E.  Sheldon  was  born  July  15,  1861,  at  Billerica,  Massachusetts,  and  New 
England  was  the  home  of  his  ancestors  through  many  generations,  the  family  having 
been  founded  in  America  by  two  brothers  who  in  early  colonial  days  crossed  the 
Atlantic  and  settled  on  the  Massachusetts  coast.  Many  generations  of  the  family 
continued  in  Massachusetts,  but  Oren  Sheldon,  the  father  of  Frank  E.  Sheldon,  was 
born  in  New  Hampshire,  and  in  that  state  was  married  to  Jane  Wight,  a  represen- 
tative of  one  of  the  old  New  Hampshire  families  that  traces  its  ancestry  back  to  the 
Isle  of  Wight,  England. 

After  mastering  the  branches  of  learning  taught  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town  and  in  McCoy's  school,  a  private  educational  institution  at  Lowell,  Massachusetts, 
Frank  E.  Sheldon  started  out  in  the  business  world.  Even  prior  to  this  time  he  had 
learned  the  value  of  industry  and  perserverance  in  the  performance  of  various  tasks 
upon  the  home  farm  outside  of  school  hours.  This  not  only  included  the  work  of 
the  fields  but  also  such  tasks  as  carpentering  and  painting,  and  from  each  experi- 
ence in  life  Mr.  Sheldon  gained  skill  and  knowledge  which  have  proven  of  value  to 
him  in  later  years.  A  desire  to  enjoy  better  opportunities  than  he  felt  could  be 
secured  in  his  native  village  led  him  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years  to  sever  home  ties 
and  start  for  the  west.  He  made  his  way  to  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  where  he  at  once 
secured  employment  in  a  printing  office,  a  step  that  was  very  necessary,  as  he  was  the 
possessor  of  but  thirty-five  dollars  when  he  arrived  in  the  west.  He  afterward  ob- 
tained a  position  in  a  lawyer's  office  and  gradually  made  advancement  in  his  busi- 
ness career,  utilizing  every  opportunity  that  would  bring  him  a  broader  outlook  and 
larger  financial  returns. 

In  the  spring  of  1880  Mr.  Sheldon  secured  a  position  in  connection  with  the 
survey  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  under  Colonel  Dodge,  chief  engineer  on  the 
Yellowstone  division.  There  his  willingness  to  work  and  the  readiness  with  which 
he  grasped  and  utilized  an  idea  brought  him  to  the  position  of  chainman  and  his 
experience  in  this  connection  made  him  more  and  more  largely  familiar  with  en- 
gineering problems.  His  advancement  in  efficiency  enabled  him  to  secure  a  position 
as  a  member  of  the  first  exploration  survey  under  Major  Rogers  when  the  Canadian 
Pacific  Railroad  was  being  extended  into  western  territory.  It  was  this  surveying 
party  that  discovered  Kicking  Horse  Pass.  After  considerable  survey  work  they 
returned  the  following  winter  overland  and  on  foot  and  with  a  wagon  train,  covering 
about  twelve  hundred  miles,  a  trip  that  was  fraught  with  many  hardships  and 
dangers.  In  the  spring  of  1882  Mr.  Sheldon  was  made  an  engineer  in  charge  of  con- 
struction when  the  work  of  actual  building  was  being  extended  westward,.  He 
occupied  that  position  for  five  years  while  the  Canadian  Pacific  was  being  built 
across  the  country,  his  task  being  a  most  arduous  one  by  reason  of  the  topography 
of  the  country — a  highly  picturesque  but  mountainous  region  that  presented  many 
difficulties   to   railroad   building.     In   Kicking  Horse   Pass   Mr.   Sheldon   had   been   one 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  509 

of  the  exploring  party  to  devise  the  best  means  to  overcome  the  problems  of  rail- 
road construction  involved  in  the  wonderfully  broken  topography  of  that  neighbor- 
hood and  returned  to  direct  the  labors  of  the  workmen  in  the  actual  accomplish- 
ment of  the  task.  He  was  in  charge  of  divisions  in  the  Kicking  Horse  Pass  and  the 
eastern  slope  of  the  Selkirks  and  constructed  a  loop  of  the  Canadian  Pacific,  which 
is  regarded  as  one  of  the  best  examples  of  American  engineering  ingenuity.  The 
hours  which  are  usually  termed  leisure  and  which  were  devoted  by  Mr.  Sheldon  to 
study  when  he  was  serving  as  rodman  were  now  bearing  fruit  in  the  financial  success 
and  the  reputation  which  he  made  for  himself  in  the  building  of  the  Canadian  Pacific. 

It  was  about  this  time  that  Mr.  Sheldon  turned  his  attention  to  the  lumber  in- 
dustry and  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  George  E.  Snell  &  Company,  opening  a 
wholesale  and  retail  yard  on  West  Seventh  street  in  St.  Paul  for  the  sale  of  white 
pine  and  hardwood  lumber.  His  associate  in  this  enterprise  was  an  old  friend  and 
companion  of  his  surveying  days  who,  leaving  the  field  of  civil  engineering,  had 
become  connected  with  the  lumber  trade  in  a  clerical  capacity.  From  the  sale  of 
lumber  Mr.  Sheldon  branched  out  into  other  fields  of  the  trade,  taking  up  the  work 
of  lumber  manufacturing  early  in  1892  in  association  with  his  brother,  W.  0.  Sheldon, 
under  the  firm  style  of  the  Lawrence  County  Lumber  Company,  operating  a  plant 
at  Summertown,  Tennessee.  Not  long  after  financial  difficulties  involved  the  entire 
country  and  the  new  enterprise  felt  the  financial  stringency  but  struggled  on  for 
two  or  three  years  before  the  business  was  closed  out.  Frank  E.  Sheldon,  who  had 
had  charge  of  the  marketing  of  the  company's  product,  had  in  this  way  made  the 
acquaintance  of  lumber  buyers  in  the  middle  Mississippi  valley,  including  T.  H.  Garrett, 
a  prominent  lumberman  of  St.  Louis.  Mr.  Garrett  had  been  an  occasional  purchaser 
from  the  Sheldon  company  and  each  gentleman  recognized  in  the  other  certain  busi- 
ness qualifications  which  he  admired  and  regarded  as  valuable  assets  in  a  business 
career.  Their  mutual  interests,  therefore,  led  to  a  combination  of  financial  inter- 
ests, which  on  the  1st  of  March,  1895,  resulted  in  the  organization  of  the  T.  H.  Garrett 
Lumber  Company.  The  association  yet  continues  and  from  the  beginning  passed 
on  to  broad  fields  of  activity  until  it  is  today  one  of  the  most  successful  and  prosperous 
of  the  St.  Louis  enterprises.  In  1901,  in  connection  with  others,  Mr.  Sheldon  and 
Mr.  Garrett  organized  the  Grant  Lumber  Company,  Limited,  of  Selma,  Louisiana,  of 
which  Mr.  Sheldon  became  secretary  and  treasurer,  and  also  occupied  a  similar  posi- 
tion with  the  allied  company  operating  under  the  name  of  the  Louisiana  Railway  Com- 
pany and  having  headquarters  at  Selma.  The  business  at  that  point  was  successfully 
managed  until  early  in  the  year  1908,  when  an  interest  was  sold  to  the  William  Buch- 
anan interests  and  now  continues  under  the  name  of  the  Grant  Timber  &  Manu- 
facturing Company,  of  Selma,  Louisiana.  The  lumber  business  of  St.  Louis,  however, 
does  not  comprise  the  full  extent  of  Mr.  Sheldon's  interests,  for  he  is  connected  with- 
the  Louisiana  Saw  Mill  Company  of  Glenmora,  Louisiana,  the  Haynesville  Lumber 
Company  of  Haynesville,  Louisiana,  and  is  also  a  director  of  the  Bienville  Lumber 
Company  of  Forest,  Mississippi,  the  Grant  Timber  &  Manufacturing  Company,  and 
various  other  lumber  companies.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Boatmen's  Bank,  one  of 
the  strongest  and  ablest  managed  financial  institutions  in  St.  Louis,  a  director  of  the 
Lumbermen's  Exchange  of  St.  Louis,  a  director  of  the  American  Thermometer  Com- 
pany of  St.  Louis,  and  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Pleasantly  situated  in  his  home  life  since  his  marriage  on  the  29th  of  September, 
1892,  to  Miss  Jennie  Maude  Hammett  of  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Sheldon  has  become  well  known 
in  the  social  circles  of  the  city  and  has  been  a  supporter  of  many  activities  and  inter- 
ests for  the  benefit  of  the  Missouri  metropolis.  In  politics  he  has  usually  voted  with 
the  republican  party  where  national  issues  and  questions  are  involved  but  at  local 
elections  has  cast  an  independent  ballot  when  the  matter  to  be  considered  was  merely 
the  capability  of  the  candidate  for  the  office  he  sought.  Mr.  Sheldon  holds  ideals  in 
politics  just  as  he  does  in  relation  to  every  other  interest  of  his  life.  He  is  an 
opponent  of  machine  rule  and  a  believer  in  the  real  expression  of  public  opinion 
concerning  the  vital  issues  of  the  day.  His  cooperation  can  always  be  counted  upon 
to  further  any  plan  for  the  general  good  and  his  influence  has  ever  been  used  for 
the  adoption  of  high  civic  standards.  He  belongs  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Club  and 
the  St.  Louis  Club,  and  enjoys  outdoor  sports.  None  come  in  contact  with  him  but 
speedily  recognize  the  sterling  worth  of  his  character.  His  early  experiences  and 
training  in  the  pioneer  west  and  in  connection  with  the  building  of  the  Canadian 
Pacific  showed  him  how  valueless  are  all  artificialities — that  the  real  worth  of  the 
man   is  found   in  his  character,  and   this  has  ever   been  the   standard   by   which   Mr. 


510  CENTEXXIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Sheldon  has;  judged  his  companions.  He  has  found  his  friends  among  high  and  low, 
rich  and  poor,  and  there  are  none  who  have  been  associated  with  him  but  have 
speedily  recognized  his  ability  and  the  strength  of  his  nunhool.  Intelligently  directed 
effort  has  brought  him  to  the  forefront  in  business  and  in  the  regard  of  those  with 
whom   social   or   other   relations  have   associated   him. 


SAMUEL   B.   SEBREE. 


Samuel  B.  Sebree,  who  excels  in  law  practice  as  a  counselor  and  is  also  an  able 
advocate  before  the  courts,  was  born  in  Marshall,  Missouri,  November  14,  1886,  and 
is  a  son  of  Frank  P.  Sebree,  a  distinguished  attorney  of  Kansas  City,  so  that  the  son 
Is  "to  the  manner  born."  He  was  educated  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  his 
native  city,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1904,  and  he  then  matriculated  in  the 
Missouri  State  University  and  won  his  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  in  1907.  He  then 
became  a  student  in  the  Harvard  Law  School  and  in  1910  the  LL.  B.  degree  was  con- 
ferred upon  him.  In  January  of  the  following  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
and  has  since  actively  engaged  in  practice,  being  now  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of 
Sebree  &  Sebree,  in  which  he  is  associated  with  his  father,  with  offices  in  the  Scar- 
ritt  building.  They  have  a  large  and  important  clientage, -largely  concentrating  their 
attention  upon  corporation  law,  and  among  their  clients  are  a  number  of  the  lead- 
ing banks  and  railway  companies  of  this  section  of  the  country.  The  son.  like  the 
father,  has  won  a  place  among  the  ablest  representatives  of  the  Kansas  City  bar. 
He  is  particularly  widely  known  as  a  sate  counselor  and  he  also  excels  in  the  trial 
and  briefing  of  court  cases.  He  is  a  thorough  student  of  history,  jurisprudence  and 
law  and  it  is  his  custom  to  read  all  advanced  sheets  of  the  reporters  giving  the 
recent  adjudicated  cases  of  law.  He  is  a  clear  and  convincing  speaker,  with  a  per- 
sonality that  always  holds  his  audience,  whether  addressing  the  court  or  speaking 
to  the  general  public  upon  topics  of  wide  interest.  He  belongs  to  the  American  Bar 
Association,  the  Missouri  State  Bar  Association  and  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association. 
He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Liberty  Trust  Company  of  Kansas  City. 

In  1913  Mr.  Sebree  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Alice  Smith,  a  daughter  of 
William  J.  Smith,  of  Kansas  City,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  one  child. 
Phyllis.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sebree  are  members  of  St.  George's  Episcopal  church.  His 
political  endorsement  is  given  to  the  democratic  party  and  he  belongs  to  the  Kansas 
City  Country  Club,  the  University  Club  and  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club.  He  is 
likewise  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Temple  Lodge,  No.  299.  A. 'F.  &  A.  M.  He  is  inter- 
ested in  many  philanthropic  and  religious  movements  and  has  held  various  execu- 
tive positions  in  connection  with  such  work.  He  is  recognized  as  a  man  of  irre- 
proachably high  character,  of  strong  and  pleasing  personality  as  well  as  of  marked 
ability  in  his  profession,  and  his  professional  career  has  been  marked  by  steady 
progress,  that  has  resulted  from  his  natural  gifts  and  acquired  talents  in  the  prac- 
tice of  law. 


GEORGE   JUDD   TANSEY. 


George  Judd  Tausey,  member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar,  is  numbered  among  that 
class  of  valued  citizens  who  during  the  crisis  in  world  history  responded  to  the  needs 
of  the  world  by  doing  active  service  in  connection  with  the  proper  distribution  of 
food.  Important  business  interests  had  hitherto  claimed  his  attention,  but  all  these 
were  put  aside  and  his  duty  to  his  country  was  made  his  first  consideration.  Mr. 
Tansey  was  born  at  Alton,  Illinois,  March  25,  1865,  his  parents  being  Robert  Park 
and  Maria  (Mangum)  Tansey.  The  father  was  born  in  County  Antrim,  Ireland, 
October  2,  1833,  and  the  mother's  birth  occurred  in  County  Down,  Ireland,  about 
the  same  time.  It  was  in  1848  that  Robert  P.  Tansey  bade  adieu  to  friends  and 
native  land  and  sailed  alone  for  the  United  States,  arriving  in  New  Orleans  on  the 
3d  of  January.  For  a  brief  period  he  remained  in  that  city  and  in  Baton  Rouge, 
Louisiana,  and  then  made  his   way  northward  to  Alton.   Illinois.      There   he   wedded 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  511 

Maria  Mangum,  who  had  been  brought  to  the  United  States  by  her  parents   when 
but  three  years  o£  age,  her  people  also  settling  in  Alton. 

About  1869  Robert  P.  Tansey  removed  with  his  family  from  Illinois  to  St.  Louis 
and  through  the  intervening  period  George  Judd  Tansey  has  been  a  resident  of  this 
city.  He  attended  the  Stoddard  grammar  school  and  the  Central  high  school  of  St. 
Louis,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  June,  1884.  In  the  fall  of  the  same  year 
he  entered  Cornell  University  at  Ithaca,  New  York,  and  there  pursued  a  literary 
course,  winning  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Letters  upon  graduation  in  1888.  He 
then  returned  to  St.  Louis  and  became  a  student  in  the  St.  Louis  Law  School,  being 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  June,  1889.  While  at  Cornell  he  was  a  member  of  the  Delta 
Upsilon  fraternity  and  was  active  in  all  undergraduate  affairs  during  his  college 
course  and  was  a  commencement  speaker.  For  ten  years  after  his  admission  to 
the  bar  George  J.  Tansey  was  actively  engaged  in  practice  in  St.  Louis,  first  as  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Laughlin,  Kern  &  Tansey  and  afterward  of  Laughlin  &  Tan- 
sey. He  so  continued  for  a  decade  and  upon  the  death  of  his  father  in  1899  he 
retired  from  the  practice  of  law  to  assume  the  presidency  of  the  St.  Louis  Transfer 
Company  as  the  successor  of  his  father,  who  had  been  identified  with  that  business 
for  a  third  of  a  century.  Mr.  Tansey  then  concentrated  his  efforts  and  energies  upon 
the  further  development  of  the  business,  which  grew  apace  under  his  wise  direction 
and  became  the  most  important  concern  of  this  character  in  Missouri.  In  March, 
1918,  however,  he  retired  from  the  presidency  of  the  St.  Louis  Transfer  Company  to 
assume  the  position  of  chief  counsel  for  the  United  States  Food  Administration  and 
the  Food  Administration  Grain  Corporation  in  the  Enforcement  Division  in  Zone 
No.  11,  covering  twelve  states,  with  headquarters  at  St.  Louis.  This  government 
ofiice  he  filled  without  compensation  until  July  1,  1919,  when  the  government  dis- 
banded its  Enforcement  Division  except  as  administered  in  Washington  and  New 
York.  Mr.  Tansey  then  resumed  the  private  practice  of  law,  in  which  he  is  now 
engaged.  It  was  }a  1900  that  Mr.  Tansey  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Grace 
Fisher,  of  St.  Louis.  He  is  well  known  in  the  social  circles  of  the  city  and  in  con- 
nection with  many  of  the  most  important  public  projects  here.  In  1901  he  was 
elected  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Merchants  Exchange  and  he  became  a  director 
of  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  Company,  which  held  a  most  attractive  world's 
fair  in  1904.  He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis,  Noonday,  Sunset  Hill  Country  and  Cor- 
nell Clubs.  He  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  wittiest  and  most  versatile  after-dinner 
speakers  in  St.  Louis.  In  politics  he  has  always  been  an  earnest  democrat  and  in 
the  presidential  contest  of  1896  was  one  of  the  active  managers  of  the  national  gold 
democrat  party  movement  and  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  conduct  of  the  cam- 
paign in  Missouri.  He  has  never  been  an  office  seeker,  preferring  to  concentrate 
his  time  and  attention  upon  his  individual  interests.  All  those  matters  which  affect 
the  general  welfare,  however,  are  to  him  questions  of  deep  concern  and  his  aid  and 
support  are  always  given  on  the  side  of  progress  and  improvement.  He  makes  each 
hour  subscribe  its  dole  of  effort  and  each  day  in  his  life  marks  off  a  full-faithed 
attempt  to  grow  more  and  to  know  more.  He  looks  at  life  from  a  broad  standpoint, 
recognizing  the  duties  and  obligations  which  devolve  upon  every  individual,  and  ho 
has  never  faltered  in  the  performance  of  any  duty. 


LOUIS   A.   HOERR. 


Louis  A.  Hoerr,  president  of  the  Western  Railway  Equipment  Company  of 
St.  Louis,  a  man  of  splendid  business  qualifications,  thoughtful,  farseeing  and  per- 
sistent, was  born  in  Denison,  Texas,  April  27,  1876.  His  father,  the  late  John 
Hoerr,  was  a  native  of  Germany  and  on  coming  to  America  settled  first  in  Minne- 
sota, whence  he  afterward  removed  to  Texas  in  1874.  The  year  of  his  emigratioD 
to  the  new  world  was  1866.  He  was  a  chemist  who  successfully  followed  his  pro- 
fession throughout  his  active  life,  passing  away  April  26,  1901,  in  St.  Louis,  where 
he  had  resided  from  1882.  He  was  fifty-two  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his 
death  and  he  is  still  survived  by  his  widow,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Mary 
Bergman  and  is  a  native  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  but  now  resides  in  St.  Louis.  Their 
family  numbered  five  sons  and  four  daughters,  of  whom  two  sons  and  one  daugh- 

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512  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

ter  are  living,   the  eldest  of  these   being  Louis  A.     The  others  are  Roland  M.'  and 
Esther,  wife  of  Max  Schnaedelbach,  both  of  St.  Louis. 

In  the  acquirement  of  his  education  Louis  A.  Hoerr  attended  the  public  and 
manual  training  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  the  Washington  University.  He  initiated 
his  business  career  when  a  youth  of  eighteen  by  accepting  the  position  of  drafts- 
man in  the  Ramming  Machine  Works.  He  was  afterward  with  the  Brownell  Car 
Company  as  a  draftsman  and  in  1896  entered  the  service  of  the  Western  Railway 
Equipment"  Company  as  a  draftsman.  From  that  position  he  has  worked  his  way 
upward  through  the  various  departments  until  he  has  not  only  come  into  executive 
control  but  has  also  acquired  the  ownership  of  the  business,  being  one  of  the 
largest  enterprises  of  the  kind  in  the  west.  Mr.  Hoerr  and  his  company  hold 
patents  on  more  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  devices  largely  used  in  railway  equip- 
ment and  for  kindred  purposes,  and  during  the  late  war  one  of  the  patents  was 
adopted  in  connection  with  the  government  control  of  the  railroads,  saving  to  the 
country  during  the  war  period  more  than  a  half  million  dollars.  Many  of  these 
inventions  have  resulted  from  the  initiative  and  original  thought  and  design  of 
Mr.  Hoerr.  He  is  likewise  the  president  of  the  Railway  Devices  Company,  presi- 
dent of  the  Midvale  Mining  &  Manufacturing  Company,  vice  president  of  the  Copper 
Clad  Malleable  Range  Company,  secretary  of  the  Hinchman  Construction  Company 
and  a  director  of  the  United  States  Bank. 

On  the  16tli  of  November,  1904,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Hoerr  was  married  to  Miss 
S.  M.  Hinchman,  a  native  of  this  city  and  daughter  of  George  and  Elizabeth  Hinch- 
man. They  reside  at  3534  Hawthorne  boulevard.  Politically  Mr.  Hoerr  is  a  re- 
publican and  fraternally  is  a  well  known  Mason,  belonging  to  George  Washington 
Lodge,  No.  9,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Missouri  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.;  Ascalon  Comraandery, 
K.  T.;  the  Scottish  Rite  bodies  and  Moolah  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  His 
religious  belief  is  that  of  the  Unitarian  church.  Socially  he  is  connected  with 
the  St.  Louis,  Noonday,  Sunset  Golf,  Algonquin  Golf,  Ridgedale  Golf  and  Normandie 
Golf  Clubs  and  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association.  He  is  likewise  a  representative 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  is  keenly  interested  in  all  that  has  to  do  with 
the  welfare  and  progress  of  the  city.  He  finds  his  chief  diversion  in  hunting  and 
outdoor  sports  and  maintains  a  large  hunting  preserve  in  the  state,  where  he  spends 
considerable  time  in  the  pursuit  of  this  pleasure.  He  is  generous  in  support  ot 
philanthropic  activities  but  is  most  unostentatious  in  this  regard,  nor  is  he  inclined 
along  any  line  to  take  special  credit  to  himself.  His  friends,  however,  speak  of 
him  as  a  man  of  unqualified  honesty,  fidelity,  energy  and  great  natural  ability. 


EDGAR  M.  HARBER. 


Edgar  M.  Harber,  city  counselor  ot  Kansas  City,  was  born  in  Madison  county, 
Kentucky,  his  parents  being  Thomas  B.  and  Mildred  (Phelps)  Harber,  both  of  whom 
were  natives  of  Kentucky,  born  in  Madison  county,  their  ancestors  being  prominent 
people  of  that  state.  The  mother  was  a  cousin  of  Senator  William  J.  Stone  of 
Missouri.  Thomas  B.  Harber  engaged  in  the  hotel  and  mercantile  business  and  was 
a  widely  known  and  prominent  citizen  of  Grundy  county,  Missouri,  to  which  he  re- 
moved in  1873.  He  was  presiding  judge  of  the  county  court  of  that  county  and  was 
also  postmaster  of  Trenton,  the  county  seat,  during  the  second  administration  of 
President  Cleveland.  He  was  always  very  active  in  matters  ot  public  interest  and 
his  support  was  ever  given  to  the  most  progressive  measures  having  to  do  with  the 
upbuilding  and  development  of  the  section  in  which  he  lived. 

Edgar  M.  Harber  attended  the  common  schools  ot  Nebraska  City,  Nebraska,  his 
parents  having  moved  there  from  Clinton  county,  Missouri,  where  they  resided 
during  the  war  period.  After  hostilities  had  ceased  they  returned  to  Clinton 
county  for  a  short  time,  then  went  to  Trenton,  Missouri,  where  Edgar  M.  Harber 
resumed  his  education  as  a  public  school  pupil.  Ambitious  to  enter  upon  a  profes- 
sional career  and  deciding  upon  the  law  as  his  chosen  lite  work,  he  became  a  student 
in  the  office  of  Captain  H.  J.  Herrick,  an  attorney  of  Trenton,  Missouri,  and  after 
thorough  preliminary  reading  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1876.  He  then  entered 
upon  the  general  practice  of  his  profession  in  Trenton,  where  he  rem-ained  continu- 
ously until  1914,  enjoying  a  very  extensive  practice.     No  dreary  novitiate  awaited 


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him.  Almost  immediately  he  gained  a  good  clientage  which  constantly  increased 
in  volume  and  importance  as  the  years  passed.  While  a  resident  of  Trenton  he  also 
served  as  city  attorney  and  city  counselor  for  several  years  and  was  prosecuting 
attorney  of  Grundy  County  from  January,  18  83  until  January,  1885.  He  acted  as 
division  attorney  for  the  Rock  Island  Railway  for  fifteen  years,  having  charge  of  all 
the  legal  business  in  his  division  for  that  corporation,  and  was  for  a  period  of  five 
years  the  attorney  for  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railway  for  Missouri  out- 
side of  Kansas  City.  In  1914  he  was  appointed  collector  of  internal  revenue  for  the 
sixth  district  of  Missouri,  assuming  the  duties  of  this  position  early  in  1915,  and 
removed  to  Kansas  City,  abandoning  one  of  the  large  law  practices  of  the  state  in 
order  to  take  up  the  duties  of  that  position.  He  continued  as  collector  for  over 
three  years,  resigning  the  position  in  April,  1918,  to  accept  the  position  of  city 
counselor,  to  which  position  he  had  been  appointed  by  Mayor  James  Cowgill.  He  is 
now  serving  for  the  second  term  and  is  most  carefully  safeguarding  the  legal 
interests  of  this  great  city.  He  was  appointed  by  the  supreme  court  as  member  of 
first  board  of  law  examiners  of  Missouri — served  two  years  and  resigned,  as  the 
position  took  too  much  time  from  his  other  professional  obligations. 

In  1880  Mr.  Harber  was  married  at  Trenton,  Missouri,  to  Miss  Lizzie  Austin, 
daughter  of  Colonel  James  and  Susan  Austin.  Mrs.  Harber  passed  away  September 
21,  1907,  her  death  being  deeply  regretted  by  all  who  knew  her.  Mr.  Harber  has 
always  been  a  stanch  advocate  of  democratic  principles  and  is  a  recognized  leader 
in  the  ranks  of  the  party  in  Missouri.  He  was  a  delegate  to  every  state  democratic 
convention  from  1878  until  the  primary  election  law  was  adopted  in  1909.  He 
was  also  a  delegate  to  the  democratic  national  conventions  which  nominated  Grover 
Cleveland  in  1884  and  Woodrow  Wilson  in  1912,  and  he  has  been  elector  for  the 
second  Missouri  district  on  several  occasions.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  and  with  the  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and  for  the 
past  twenty  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Supreme  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias. 
His  high  standing  as  a  lawyer,  as  an  official,  as  a  man  and  as  a  citizen  places  him 
in  the  front  rank  among  the  representative  residents  of  Missouri. 


JOHN  JAMES. 

John  James,  president  of  the  Synodical  College  at  Fulton,  Missouri,  was  born, 
at  Maple  Hill,  in  Pender  county.  North  Carolina,  February  3,  1888,  and  is  a  son 
of  Gibson  and  Annebelle  (Murray)  James.  The  ancestry  in  the  paternal  line  can 
be  traced  back  to  John  James,  baronet  of  Scotland,  to  whom  Sir  Walter  Scott  dedi- 
cated his  poem,  "Lady  of  the  Lake."  Later  three  brothers  of  the  name  came  to 
the  new  world  with  the  Jamestown  colony  and  finally  separated,  one  going  to  the 
north  and  one  remaining  in  Virginia,  while  the  other  settled  in  North  Carolina. 
From  these  three  brothers  are  descended  most  of  those  who  bear  the  family  name 
in  the  United  States.  Professor  John  James  of  this  review  bears  a  name  that  has 
been  handed  down  from  the  oldest  son  to  the  oldest  son  through  many  generations 
and  has  in  his  possession  various  interesting  family  relics  which  have  come  as  an 
inheritance  with  the  name.  His  father,  Gibson  James,  has  devoted  his  life  to  farm- 
ing and  merchandising  and  the  lumber  business  and  has  not  only  figured  promi- 
nently in  agricultural  and  commercial  circles  but  has  likewise  taken  active  part 
in  shaping  political  interests  of  the  state.  For  several  years  he  was  a  member  of 
the  state  legislature  at  the  time  when  "white  supremacy"  and  "red  shirts"  were 
familiar  terms  in  connection  with  the  political  activities  of  the  south. 

John  James  supplemented  his  early  education  by  study  in  Davidson  College  at 
Davidson,  North  Carolina,  where  he  won  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degrees  in  1909. 
He  afterward  attended  the  University  of  Virginia  and  during  his  college  days  was 
a  member  of  the  various  athletic  teams,  becoming  captain  of  the  track  team  which 
won  the  silver  trophy  cup.  He  was  also  vice  president  of  the  senior  class  during 
his  college  days,  was  a  member  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  cabinet,  was  toast  master  at 
the  sophomore  banquet,  was  a  member  of  the  Annual  Staff  and  also  of  the  "D" 
Club,  composed  of  college  athletes  who  had  won  athletic  honors.  His  great  interest 
in  athletics  led  him  to  become  physical  director  of  the  City  Y.  M.  C.  A.  at  Durham, 
North  Carolina.     He  occupied  that  position  during  the  summer  following  his  gradu- 


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ation  and  then  resigned  to  become  superintendent  ot  the  city  schools  at  Hunters- 
ville,  North  Carolina.  He  afterward  occupied  similar  positions  in  that  state  tor  a 
period  of  five  years,  during  which  time  he  spent  the  summer  months  as  professor 
ot  Greek  at  the  Lincoln  Memorial  University  in  Tennessee.  He  was  also  for  a 
year  at  the  Staunton  Military  Academy  at  Staunton,  Virginia,  as  professor  of  French. 
In  1914  he  entered  upon  his  present  position  as  president  of  the  Synodical  College 
at  Fulton,  Missouri.  During  his  incumbency  here  the  institution  has  been  thoroughly 
standardized,  the  attendance  trebled  and  more  than  ninety-five  thousand  dollars 
added  to  the  resources  of  the  college.  Just  now  he  is  entering  upon  a  campaign 
to  raise  three  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars.  President  Hill  of  the  Missouri 
University  said:  "During  the  administration  of  President  James,  Synodical  Col- 
lege has  made  remarkable  progress."  Dean  Jones  of  the  Missouri  University  said: 
"During  the  administration  of  President  James,  Synodical  College  has  made  won- 
derful progress:  the  general  plant  has  been  greatly  improved,  a  better  class  of 
teachers  engaged,  a  finer  class  of  students  attracted  to  the  college,  and  higher 
educational  ideals  instilled  into  every  department  of  the  college." 

On  the  19th  of  July,  1911,  at  Mooresville,  North  Carolina,  Mr.  James  was 
married  to  Miss  Estelle  Mott,  daughter  ot  Dr.  H.  Y.  Mott,  a  prominent  republican 
who  has  had  much  to  do  with  the  political  history  of  Missouri.  He  is  also  a  farmer 
and  physician  and  is  a  Civil  war  veteran.  His  brother.  Dr.  J.  J.  Mott,  has  for 
many  years  been  prominent  in  national  republican  politics.  To  Professor  and  Mrs. 
James  have  been  born  two  children,  Mary  Anna  and  John  James,  Jr. 

Professor  James  is  a  director  of  the  Fulton  Commercial  Club  and  is  keenly 
interested  in  all  those  forces  which  make  for  progress  and  development  along  in- 
tellectual and  cultural  lines.  From  a  long  line  of  democratic  ancestry  he  has 
inherited  his  political  proclivities  yet  has  never  been  active  in  political  circles  aside 
from  the  exercise  of  his  right  of  franchise.  He  belongs  to  the  Junior  Order  ot  the 
United  American  Mechanics,  also  to  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  in  Masonry  has 
taken  the  degrees  of  the  lodge,  chapter  and  comraandery,  being  now  high  priest 
of  Orion  Chapter,  No.  49,  R.  A.  M.,  and  prelate  of  Calvary  Commandery,  No.  28, 
K.  T.  He  belongs  to  the  Presbyterian  church  and  served  as  deacon  in  the  home 
church  in  North  Carolina,  while  at  Fulton  he  has  been  one  of  the  church  elders 
and  clerk  of  the  session.  He  is  also  a  teacher  in  the  Sunday  school  and  member 
of  the  choir,  and  the  nature  of  his  further  interests  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that 
he  is  a  member  of  the  Fulton  Music  Club  and  a  charter  member  ot  the  Fulton 
Country  Club.  That  he  is  a  man  of  broad  scholarly  attainments  is  a  fact  shadowed 
forth  between  the  lines  of  this  review.  He  is  fortunate  in  having  back  of  him 
an  ancestry  honorable  and  distinguished  and  his  own  career  is  one  which  has  re- 
flected credit  upon  the  family  name. 


THE  GLOVER  AND  BRADFORD  FAMILIES. 

No  history  of  St.  Louis  would  be  adequate  or  complete  without  mention  ot 
the  Glover  family,  for  through  many  years  Henry  Glover  and  later  his  son,  Henry 
Glover,  Jr.,  took  active  part  in  promoting  the  welfare  and  upbuilding  of  the  city 
and  were  especially  active  in  support  of  some  of  its  leading  benevolences  and 
philanthropies.  The  father  was  also  one  of  the  early  promoters  of  glass  manu- 
facturing in  St.  Louis  and  was  otherwise  identified  with  commercial  and  manufac- 
turing interests.  He  was  born  in  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  in  1806.  In  the  ma- 
ternal line  the  ancestry  can  be  traced  back  through  many  generations  to  one  Wil- 
liam Bradford,  who  was  born  in  Leicester,  England,  in  1658  and  in  1682  came 
to  America  on  the  ship  Welcome,  which  brought  William  Penn  to  his  new  provinces 
on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic.  William  Bradford  was  a  printer  by  trade,  having 
just  completed  his  apprenticeship  with  the  Quaker  printer,  Andrew  Sowle,  of  Lon- 
don. Evidently  he  had  visions  of  establishing  himself  in  the  new  provinces  and 
while  there  is  little  data  relating  to  his  first  visit  to  this  country,  circumstantial 
evidence  points  to  the  fact  that  he  was  intending  to  marry  his  master's  daughter 
and  sought  to  gain  a  start  in  the  business  world  by  setting  up  a  printing  shop  in 
Penn's  new  provinces,  although  he  was  but  twenty-one  years  of  age  at  the  time. 
If  there  was  any  agreement  between  Penn  and  the  young  printer  beyond  a  verbal 
suggestion  it  is  not  a  matter  ot  record  and  it  is  probable  that  so  cautious  a  man 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  517 

as  the  founder  of  Pennsylvania  would  not  have  encouraged  the  young  printer  to 
>  establish  business  in  a  city  that  had  just  been  founded,  knowing  that  the  inhabitants 
thereof  could  scarcely  yet  support  a  printing  business.  William  Bradford,  however, 
did  not  settle  in  Philadelphia  but  soon  returned  to  London,  where  a  short  time 
afterward  he  purchased  a  printing  outfit  and  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Sowle.  He 
then  set  sail  for  the  shores  of  Delaware,  where  he  arrived  some  time  in  1685.  There 
he  engaged  in  the  printing  business,  but  the  precise  location  of  his  plant  has  never 
been  determined  as  he  describes  himself  as  "near  Philadelphia,"  and  it  is  supposed 
that  his  shop  was  in  the  neighborhood  of  Kensington,  That  he  was  printing  there 
in  1685  is  borne  out  by  his  first  work,  an  almanac,  or  "Kalendarum  Pennsilvan- 
iense,"  as  he  styled  the  publication  for  the  year  1686.  A  copy  of  this  unique, 
pamphlet  is  in  the  collection  of  the  historical  society  of  Pennsylvania.  This  was 
the  first  book  to  be  published  in  the  middle  colonies  and  Bradford  was  the  first 
printer  south  of  Massachusetts.  The  year  1686  was  otherwise  an  eventful  one  for 
him  and  for  Philadelphia,  as  his  eldest  child,  Andrew  Bradford,  was  born  in  that 
year  and  became  a  well  known  newspaper  publisher  of  Philadelphia.  About  two 
years  later  William  Bradford  issued  a  prospectus  for  the  printing  of  a  large  Bible 
In  folio  form,  such  as  was  common  at  that  time.  It  was  an  ambitious  attempt  and 
Indicates  perhaps  the  unsophisticated  character  and  youth  of  Mr.  Bradford,  who 
was  probably  then  only  in  his  twenties.  The  population  of  New  England  and  the 
middle  colonies  was  not  more  than  one-tenth  of  the  present  population  of  Phila- 
delphia, if  it  was  that  great,  so  that  there  could  have  been  little  encouragement 
for  the  printing  of  such  a  volume.  However,  Mr.  Bradford  issued  his  prospectus, 
so  that  Philadelphia  has  the  honor  of  being  the  first  place  in  which  it  was  proposed 
to  print  the  Holy  Scriptures  in  the  new  world.  Later  Mr.  Bradford  sought  new 
fields  tor  his  activities.  In  1690  he  engaged  with  the  Rittenhouses  to  begin  the 
manufacture  of  paper,  which  up  to  that  time  had  been  imported  from  Europe. 
Every  sheet  had  to  be  brought  three  thousand  miles  across  the  Atlantic  in  rather 
unseaworthy  vessels  and  consequently  must  have  been  very  costly.  The  young 
printer  realized  that  to  make  printing  successful  it  must  be  made  cheap  and  one 
of  the  ways  to  do  this  at  that  time  was  to  have  home-made  paper.  The  result  was 
that  Philadelphia  saw  the  establishment  of  the  first  paper  mill  on  this  side  of  the 
Atlantic.  In  169  3  Mr.  Bradford  removed  to  New  York  city,  where  he  resided  to 
the  time  of  his  death  in  1749. 

In  the  direct  line  of  descent  comes  his  son,  William  Bradford  (II),  who 
married  Sytgi  Sandvoort.  They  were  the  parents  of  William  Bradford  (III),  a 
soldier  of  the  Colonial  and  of  the  Revolutionary  wars,  who  was  born  in  Hanover 
Square,  New  York,  January  19,  1721,  and  at  an  early  age  removed  to  Philadelphia, 
making  that  city  his  home  until  his  demise.  He  married  Rachel  Budd,  of  Burling- 
ton, New  Jersey,  and  died  September  25,  1791.  Thomas  Bradford,  of  the  fourth 
generation  in  line  of  descent  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  May  4,  1750,  and  wedded 
Mary  Fisher,  his  death  occurring  May  7,  1838.  The  ancestral  line  in  the  fifth  genera- 
tion is  represented  by  Mary  Bradford,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Fisher) 
Bradford.  She  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  January,  1774,  and  on  the  3d  of 
February,  1803,  became  the  wife  of  William  Flintham  and  died  October  2,  1806. 
Their  daughter,  Susan  Dana  Flintham,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  June  2,  1805, 
and  became  the  wife  of  Henry  Glover,  the  father  of  Jane  Beal  Glover,  to  whom  we 
are  indebted  for  the  record  of  the  family. 

Henry  Glover,  reared  in  New  England,  removed  from  Boston  to  St.  Louis  in 
1847  and  following  his  arrival  in  this  city  became  connected  with  industrial  inter- 
ests as  a  manufacturer  of  glass.  After  continuing  that  business  tor  some  time 
he  became  proprietor  of  a  grocery  store  and  a  few  years  later  he  engaged  in  the 
saddlery  business  in  connection  with  John  Howe,  but  subsequently  again  entered 
upon  glass  manufacturing  and  developed  an  important  productive  concern  of  that 
character,  utilizing  modern  processes  of  manufacture  and  producing  an  output  of 
high  quality.  Of  him  it  was  said:  "He  was  a  man  of  great  resources,  who  re- 
garded no  position  as  final,  but  always  believed  that  irom  one  point  of  accom- 
plishment he  could  work  onward  to  a  higher  point  of  perfection  and  success.  He 
never  believed  that  any  condition  was  inevitable,  knowing  that  unfaltering  enter- 
prise and  effort  could  better  it.  His  ready  resources  and  adaptability,  as  well  as 
his  careful   systematization  and  management  made  him   a  very  successful  man." 

Mr.  Glover  was  one  of  the  members  of  the  old  guard  of  Missouri  and  all 
through  the  war  was  a  stanch  Union  man,  doing  everything  in  his  power  to  support 


518  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

the  Federal  government.  He  belonged  to  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows 
and  gave  stalwart  allegiance  to  the  republican  party,  while  his  religious  faith  was 
that  of  the  Unitarian  church.  He  believed  that  the  world  was  growing  better, 
that  there  was  opportunity  for  each  individual,  and  his  spirit  was  ever  that  of 
helpfulness  and  encouragement.  He  was  interested  in  the  city's  progress  and 
cooperated  in  many  movements  for  the  general  good,  but  though  public-spirited  to 
an  eminent  degree  and  faithful  at  all  times  in  his  friendships,  his  best  traits  of 
character  were  reserved  for  his  own  home  and  fireside,  and  his  greatest  happiness 
came  to  him  in  ministering  to  the  welfare  of  his  wife  and  children. 

In  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Mr.  Glover  was  married  to  Miss  Susan  D.  Flintham,  whose 
mother  was  a  Bradford,  of  the  old  Bradford  family  of  Philadelphia,  as  previously 
indicated.  They  became  the  parents  of  three  children,  Eliza,  Henry  and  Jane  B., 
but  the  first  two  mentioned  have  passed  away. 

The  son,  Henry  Glover,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  October  17,  1836,  and 
passed  away  in  St.  Louis,  August  11,  1872.  His  activities  were  chiefly  concen- 
trated upon  philanthropic  and  benevolent  interests  and  he  gave  most  liberally  toward 
charitable  work.  He  was  connected  with  Messrs.  Eliot,  Garland  and  others  in  the 
organization  of  the  Newsboys'  Home,  doing  everything  in  his  power  to  assist  those 
waifs  of  the  street.  He  believed  that  each  lad  should  have  his  opportunity  and 
he  did  his  utmost  to  provide  in  an  institution  those  interests  and  advantages  which 
are  denied  to  the  newsboys  in  their  lack  of  home  life. 

The  only  surviving  member  of  the  family  is  Miss  Jane  B.  Glover,  who  resides 
in  a  beautiful  residence  on  Westminster  avenue,  in  which  hang  many  fine  old 
paintings  of  members  of  the  family.  Its  furnishings  are  most  tasteful  and  beauti- 
ful and  hospitality  is  one  of  the  chief  charms  of  the  place.  Miss  Glover  is  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Governors  through  Governor  Hinckley  of  the 
paternal  line.  Through  the  maternal  ancestry  she  has  become  a  member  of  the 
St.  Louis  Chapter  of  Colonial  Dames  of  the  Seventeenth  Century  and  is  serving 
as  treasurer  of  the  chapter.  She  is  also  a  member  of  Laclede  Chapter  of  the  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution.  Her  ancestral  record  is  one  of  which  she  has 
every  reason  to  be  proud  and  the  name  of  Glover  has  been  an  honored  one  in  St. 
Louis  through  more  than  three-fourths  of  a  century. 


AUGUST  H.   HEMAN. 

August  H.  Heman  was  serving  his  fourth  term  as  mayor  of  University  City  when 
death  called  him  on  the  3rd  of  July,  1920.  His  life  was  one  of  great  activity  and 
usefulness  and  he  ranked  with  the  substantial  business  men  of  St.  Louis,  where  he 
was  at  the  head  of  the  Heman  Construction  Company,  and  with  the  representative 
citizens  of  Missouri.  He  maintained  the  highest  standards  in  every  relation  of  life, 
and  the  sterling  worth  of  his  purposes,  his  undaunted  integrity  and  his  progressive- 
ness  gained  him  rank  with  the  leading  residents  of  the  commonwealth.  He  was  born 
in  St.  Louis,  October  17,  1855,  a  son  of  Frederick  Heman,  who  was  born  in  Germany 
and  came  to  America  with  his  parents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harmon  Heman,  when  but  five 
years  of  age.  The  family  home  was  established  in  Washington,  Missouri,  in  1832, 
and  there  the  grandfather  of  August  H.  Heman  took  up  the  business  of  farming  and 
stock  raising,  casting  in  his  lot  with  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Franklin  county,  where 
he  resided  throughout  his  remaining  days,  passing  away  at  the  advanced  age  of 
eighty-three  years.  His  son,  Frederick  Heman,  came  to  St.  Louis  when  a  youth  of 
fifteen  years  and  completed  his  education  in  the  schools  of  this  city.  Later  he  was 
engaged  in  the  brick  manufacturing  business,  conducting  a  brickyard  on  Twelfth 
street,  near  Market,  then  one  of  the  outlying  districts  of  the  city.  He  followed  the 
business  successfully  to  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1902,  when  he  had 
reached  the  age  of  seventy-five  years.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Eliza- 
beth Schreifer,  was  also  a  native  of  Germany  and  came  alone  to  America  about  1848, 
settling  in  St.  Louis,  where  she  met  and  married  Mr.  Heman.  She  became  the  mother 
of  six  children,  five  sons  and  one  daughter,  of  whom  August  H.  was  the  fourth  in 
order  of  birth.  She,  too,  reached  an  advanced  age,  having  passed  the  seventy-fifth 
milestone  on  life's  journey  when  called  to  her  final  rest. 

August    H.    Heman    was    educated    in    the    public    schools    of    St.    Louis    and    early 


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turned  his  attention  to  construction  work.  At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  became  city 
contractor  for  St.  Louis  in  the  construction  and  repairing  of  streets  and  sidewalks  and 
for  a  period  of  forty-six  years  he  continued  in  the  city  service.  In  1888  he  organized 
the  Heman  Construction  Company,  of  which  he  remained  the  president  to  the  time 
of  his  demise.  He  was  then  the  oldest  contractor  in  St.  Louis.  Not  only  did  he 
execute  important  city  contracts  but  his  firm  also  constructed  several  of  the  build- 
ings at  the  Chain  of  Rocks  waterworks  station  and  built  the  Cascades,  the  chief 
scenic  feature  of  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  of  1904,  on  Art  Hill  in  Forest 
Park.  They  did  much  street  and  sewer  building,  and  in  addition  to  operating  under 
the  name  of  the  Heman  Construction  Company,  Mr.  Heman  likewise  became  president 
of  the  Trinidad  Asphalt  Manufacturing  Company,  the  first  business  of  the  kind  estab- 
lished in  St.  Louis.  He  manifested  a  spirit  of  progress  throughout  his  entire  career 
and  was  ever  ready  to  take  a  forward  step  when  the  way  was  open.  His  business 
integrity  was  unassailable  and  constituted  a  strong  supplementary  force  to  his  enter- 
prise and  indefatigable  industry. 

On  the  30th  of  April,  1888,  Mr.  Heman  was  united  in  marriage  at  Percy,  Illinois, 
to  Miss  Leota  Lightner,  a  native  of  Illinois  and  a  daughter  of  Captain  A.  S.  Lightner, 
a  prominent  and  well  known  Mississippi  river  captain  of  the  early  days.  To  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Heman  was  born  a  son,  Alonzo  G.,  who  in  June,  1913,  completed  a  course 
in  the  Washington  University  Law  School  as  its  youngest  graduate.  A  life  of  great 
promise  was  cut  off  when  on  the  28th  of  May,  1916,  at  the  age  of  twenty-four  years, 
he  passed  away.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Heman  made  their  home  at  No.  6361  Washington 
avenue,  in  University  City,  and  there  the  death  of  Mr.  Heman  occurred  on  the  3rd 
of  July,  1920,  after  an  illness  of  but  one  day.  His  political  allegiance  was  given 
to  the  democratic  party  and  for  eight  years  he  was  the  honored  and  efficient  mayor 
of  University  City.  He  always  took  a  deep  interest  in  politics  and  he  labored  untir- 
ingly to  advance  civic  interests  and  promote  civic  standards  in  the  tity  in  which  he 
made  his  home.  He  belonged  to  the  Democratic  Club  and  he  was  the  last  president 
of  the  Jefferson  Club.  He  was  likewisp  a  member  of  University  City  Lodge,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  and  he  belonged  to  the  Riverside  Club  and  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  His 
life  was  ever  actuated  by  high  and  honorable  principles.  His  career  was  a  helpful 
element  in  public  progress  as  well  as  in  the  field  of  business  activity,  and  the  sterling 
■worth  of  his  character  was  recognized  by  all  who  knew  him. 


GEORGE  O.  PERRY. 


George  O.  Perry  has  made  for  himself  a  creditable  name  and  place  in  financial 
circles  at  Moberly,  being  now  the  president  of  the  Moberly  Trust  Company.  As 
executive  head  of  this  corporation  he  has  been  a  most  instrumental  factor  in  the 
development  of  one  of  the  strong  financial  institutions  of  the  state  and  one  which 
from  the  beginning  has  enjoyed  steady  and  gratifying  growth.  There  is  much  that 
is  inspiring  and  worthy  of  emulation  in  his  life  record,  which  had  its  beginning 
at  Barnard,  Nodaway  county,  Missouri,  on  the  1st  of  January,  1877.  He  is  a 
son  of  James  H.  and  Martha  E.  (Davis)  Perry,  the  former  a  native  of  Virginia 
and  the  latter  of  Georgia.  They  were  married,  however,  in  Missouri  in  1867, 
having  come  to  this  state  with  their  respective  parents  They  began  their  domestic 
life  upon  a  farm  near  St.  Joseph  and  soon  thereafter  removed  to  Nodaway  county, 
•where  they  resided  continuously  until  1919,  Mr.  Perry  having  in  the  meantime 
become  one  of  the  leading  and  representative  agriculturists  of  his  section  of  the 
state.  In  the  year  indicated  he  disposed  of  his  farm  and  he  and  his  wife  retired 
to  Kansas  City,  where  they  are  now  making  their  home,  the  success  of  his  former 
years  enabling  him  to  rest  from  further  business  cares. 

George  O.  Perry  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Nodaway  county  to  the 
age  of  sixteen  years,  when  he  took  up  the  study  of  pharmacy  in  a  drug  store  at 
Maryville  and  was  made  a  registered  pharmacist  in  1901.  He  worked  for  wages 
for  about  five  years  and  in  189  8  established  a  drug  store  on  his  own  account,  pur- 
chasing the  business  of  the  man  for  whom  he  had  formerly  worked.  He  then 
conducted  his  store  with  growing  success  for  five  years  and  in  19  03  identified 
himself  with  the  banking  business,  accepting  the  position  of  assistant  cashier  in 
the  Bank  of  De  Witt  at  De  Witt,  Arkansas.     He  is  one  of  four  brothers  now  well 


522  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

known  in  banking  circles,  his  plder  brotlier,  J.  W.  Perry,  being  the  president  of 
the  National  Bank  of  Commerce  at  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  while  H.  C.  Perry  was 
until  recently  president  of  the  American  National  Bank  of  McAlester,  Oklahoma, 
but  Is  now  engaged  in  the  crushed  stone  business  at  that  place.  A  third  brother, 
B.  L.  Perry,  was  formerly  assistant  cashier  of  the  Moberly  Trust  Company  but  is 
now  vice  president  of  the  Condon  National  Bank  at  Coffeyville,  Kansas,  a  two- 
million-dollar  institution. 

It  was  at  De  Witt,  Arkansas,  that  George  O.  Perry  laid  the  foundation  of  his 
banking  education  and  subsequent  success.  He  remained  at  De  Witt  for  three 
years,  gaining  comprehensive  knowledge  of  the  business  in  various  phases.  In 
1906  he  came  to  Moberly  to  assist  in  the  organization  of  the  Moberly  Trust  Com- 
pany and,  when  this  was  effected,  he  was  made  secretary  of  the  company  and  in 
1910  was  elected  to  the  presidency  of  the  institution,  which  now  has  assets  of 
practically  one  million  dollars.  The  bank  is  capitalized  for  fifty  thousand  dollars, 
has  surplus  and  undivided  profits  of  about  twenty-three  thousand  dollars,  while 
its  deposits  reach  approximately  eight  hundred  and  seventy  thousand  dollars.  Mr. 
Perry  had  no  acquaintances  when  he  removed  to  Moberly  in  July,  1906.  Through 
the  intervening  period  the  business  of  the  bank  has  steadily  grown  and  as  his 
acquaintance  has  widened  he  has  become  recognized  as  one  of  the  most  forceful, 
resourceful  and  prominent  factors  in  the  financial  circles  of  northeastern  Missouri. 

On  the  14th  of  June,  1906,  Mr.  Perry  was  married  at  Paris,  Tennessee,  to 
Miss  Cecile  Greer  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  six  children,  live  of  whom 
are  living:  George  G.,  Katherine,  Martha,  William  H.  and  Marian.  The  fourth 
child,  Jerry  W.,  has  passed  away. 

Mr.  Perry  is  a  member  of  Moberly  Lodge,  No.  344,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  also  of 
Moberly  Lodge,  No.  936,  B.  P.  O.  E.,  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America,  the  Mob- 
erly Country  Club  and  the  Moberly  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Through  the  period 
of  the  World  war  he  was  very  active  in  promoting  all  those  interests  which  had 
to  do  with  sustaining  the  government  and  maintaining  the  interests  of  the  soldiers. 
He  was  chairman  of  the  Red  Cross  committee  of  Randolph  county,  was  the  district 
chairman  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  county  chairman  of  the  Salvation  Army  war  work. 
He  gave  to  all  war  activities  the  most  loyal  and  patriotic  support  and  his  efforts 
in  behalf  of  these  various  organizations  were  far-reaching  and  resultant.  Mr.  Perry 
is  an  ardent  republican  in  politics  but  has  never  had  desire  for  public  office,  pre- 
ferring to  devote  his  undivided  time  to  his  banking  and  other  interests.  Notwith- 
standing this  he  has  never  been  remiss  in  the  duties  of  citizenship  and  takes  an 
active  and  helpful  part  in  all  civic  matters,  giving  his  allegiance  to  those  projects 
which  are  promoted  for  the  welfare  of  city,  commonwealth  or  country.  He  and 
his  wife  are  members  of  the  Christian  church  and  are  people  of  the  highest  social 
prominence,  his  position  in  that  regard  being  equal  to  the  place  of  leadership  which 
he  occupies  in  business  circles. 


MILLARD  F.  WATTS. 


For  forty-one  years  Millard  F.  Watts  has  been  engaged  in  law  practice  in  St. 
Louis.  Possessing  none  of  those  spectacular  qualities  which  often  dazzle  but  are 
seldom  enduring,  he  has  by  reason  of  his  knowledge  of  the  law  and  his  devotion 
to  the  interests  of  his  clients  won  a  most  creditable  position  as  a  capable  and 
thoroughly  dependable  lawyer,  who  as  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Watts,  Gentry 
&  Lee,  is  largely  concentrating  his  energy  upon  corporation  practice. 

Mr.  Watts  was  born  in  Missouri  and  is  descended  from  old  and  distinguished 
American  families,  having  every  reason  to  be  proud  of  his  ancestral  history.  The 
family  came  originally  from  England  in  the  year  1670.  In  the  paternal  line  the 
ancestry  can  be  traced  back  to  the  Jefferson  family.  Miss  Mary  Jefferson,  a  sister 
of  Thomas  Jefferson,  third  president  of  the  United  States  and  author  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  becoming  the  wife  of  a  Mr.  Turpin,  and  their  daughter 
was  married  to  Colonel  Obadiah  Smith,  while  a  daughter  of  this  marriage  became 
Mrs.  Watts,  the  grandmother  of  Millard  F.  Watts.  His  father,  James  J.  Watts, 
a  native  of  Virginia,  came  to  Missouri  in  1838  and  for  many  years  continued  in 
the  practice  of  medicine  at  Payette,  where  he  continued  to  make  his  home  until  his 


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death  in  1894.  In  early  manhood  he  wedded  Martha  W.  Lewis,  who  was  also  a 
representative  of  an  old  Virginia  family  and  who  passed  away  in  1907. 

Millard  F.  Watts,  reared  in  Fayette,  entered  upon  his  college  course  as  a 
student  in  Central  College  in  his  native  city  and  afterward  attended  Cornell  Uni- 
versity at  Ithaca,  New  York,  and  still  later  the  Washington  University  at  St.  Louis, 
matriculating  there  as  a  law  student  and  graduating  in  18  7  8.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1879  and  through  the  intervening  period  of  more  than  four  decades 
has  successfully  practiced  his  profession  in  St.  Louis.  He  was  associated  with 
Judge  S.  M.  Breckenridge  until  the  latter's  death,  and  in  1898  he  entered  into 
partnership  relations  with  Judge  Shepard  Barclay  and  Judge  McKeighan.  The 
firm  maintained  an  uninterrupted  existence  until  1901,  after  which  Mr.  Watts 
continued  the  partnership  with  Judge  McKeighan.  In  1903  they  were  joined  by 
Judge  Horatio  D.  Wood,  who  continued  a  partner  until  his  death  in  1905,  after 
which  Mr.  Watts  and  Judge  McKeighan  were  again  alone  until  the  latter  passed 
away  in  March,  1908.  Several  years  later  Mr.  Watts  joined  with  Judge  W.  M. 
Williams  and  Tyson  S.  Dines  in  organizing  the  firm  of  Watts,  Williams  &  Dines. 
In  1913  the  firm  of  Watts,  Gentry  &  Lee  was  formed  and  they  have  since  concen- 
trated their  attention  upon  corporation  law.  Mr.  Watts  was  general  counsel  for 
the  Terminal  Railroads  Association  of  St.  Louis  for  many  years.  He  is  a  man  of 
strong  determination,  fearless  and  honest,  and  possesses  comprehensive  knowledge 
of  the  principles  of  jurisprudence,  especially  as  relating  to  all  corporation  matters. 
He  is  identified  with  the  St.  Louis,  Missouri  State  and  American  Bar  Associations, 
and  has  at  all  times  enjoyed  the  full  confidence  and  highest  respect  of  his  colleagues 
and  contemporaries  in  the  profession. 

Mr.  Watts  is  married  and  occupies  a  beautiful  home  in  St.  Louis.  He  is  a 
member  of  St.  Peter's  Episcopal  church,  in  which  he  served  for  many  years  as 
vestryman,  and  his  political  allegiance  has  always  been  given  to  the  republican 
party.  He  has  ever  kept  thoroughly  informed  concerning  the  vital  questions  and 
issues  of  the  day  and  upon  all  sociological,  economic  and  political  problems  keeps 
abreast  with  the  best  thinking  men  of  the  age. 


ELBERT   LEE  WILLIAMS. 


Elbert  Lee  Williams,  assistant  cashier  of  the  Security  National  Bank  of  Kansas 
City,  was  born  in  Mitchell  county,  Kansas,  in  1885,  a  son  of  E.  J.  and  Elmira 
(Weaver)  Williams,  the  former  a  native  of  the  state  of  New  York,  while  the  latter 
was  born  in  Nova  Scotia.  They  were  married  in  Wisconsin,  the  father  becoming 
a  pioneer  settler  of  the  southern  section  of  that  state.  Later  he  was  connected 
with  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railway  and  did  much  important  construction  work  for 
that  corporation.  Subsequently  he  was  for  years  in  charge  of  the  Grand  Avenue  sta- 
tion in  Kansas  City,  devoting  much  of  his  life  to  railroad  service.  He  is  now  living 
retired  at  the  age  of  eighty  years,  having  been  born  on  the  1st  of  January,  1840, 
and  he  is  in  full  possession  of  his  faculties,  greatly  enjoying  travel  and  outdoor 
life.  He  belongs  to  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  has  long  given  his 
stalwart  support  to  the  republican  party.  He  was  a  son  of  Daniel  Williams,  who 
was  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  of  Wisconsin  and  who  reached  the  notable  old  age 
of  ninety-five  years. 

Elbert  Lee  Williams  was  the  second  in  a  family  of  three  children.  He  pur- 
sued a  high  school  education  at  Stockton,  Kansas,  and  afterward  spent  two  years 
as  a  student  at  Washburn  College.  Since  that  time  he  has  given  his  attention 
to  banking.  He  was  first  assistant  cashier  of  the  Exchange  State  Bank,  which 
later  became  the  Stockton  National  Bank,  and  of  this  he  was  elected  cashier,  filling 
the  position  for  ten  years.  Later  he  was  in  the  government  service  of  Kansas 
as  deputy  bank  commissioner  under  Walter  E.  Wilson,  filling  that  position  for 
three  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  came  to  Kansas  City  and  on  the  1st  of 
July,  1919,  entered  the  Security  National  Bank  as  its  assistant  cashier,  in  which 
capacity  he  has  since  served.  He  also  organized  the  Farmers  State  Bank  at  Speed, 
Kansas,  of  which  he  is  yet  the  vice  president  and  one  of  the  large  stockholders. 
He  is  very  attentive  to  business  and  in  its  conduct  displays  unfailing  tact  and 
courtesy,   which  command   for  him  high   respect. 


526  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

In  Boulder,  Colorado,  in  190  7,  Mr.  Williams  was  married  to  Miss  Ethel  Smith, 
daughter  of  John  G.  Smith,  and  they  have  three  children,  Clara  Elmira,  Dorothy 
Jean  and  Elbert  John,  aged  respectively  six,  four  and  two  years.  The  religious 
faith  of  the  parents  is  that  of  the  Congregational  church  and  in  political  belief 
Mr.  Williams  is  a  republican.  He  belongs  to  the  Masonic  fraternity,  having  taken 
the  degrees  in  Stockton  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  while  later  he  became  a  represen- 
tative of  the  chapter,  council  and  commandery  and  is  now  a  member  of  Isis  Temple 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine  at  Salina.  Kansas.  He  formerly  filled  many  of  the  chairs 
in  Masonry  and  has  ever  been  a  loyal  and  exemplary  representative  of  the  craft. 
He  is  fond  of  all  outdoor  sports,  to  which  he  turns  for  recreation.  In  matters 
of  citizenship  he  always  stands  on  the  side  of  progress,  reform  and  improvement 
and  during  the  period  of  the  World  war  he  was  very  active  in  promoting  the  loan 
drives.  A  lover  of  music,  he  possesses  a  good  bass  voice  and  has  frequently  been 
a  solo  singer  in  chui-ches.  Those  who  meet  him  in  social  relations  entertain  for 
him  the  warmest  regard  and  he  has  the  happy  faculty  of  making  friends  wherever 
he  goes.  In  business,  too,  he  has  accomplished  everything  that  he  has  undertaken. 
His  thoroughness  in  investigating  the  financial  condition  of  customers  to  whom  he 
would  give  credit,  combined  with  his  experience,  has  made  him  a  substantial  factor 
in  financial  circles  and  in  this  connection  he  is  making  continuous  progress. 


CLEMENT   A.   LAWLER. 


Clement  A.  Lawler,  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  law  in  Kansas  City,  was 
born  at  Prairie  du  Chien,  Wisconsin,  September  13,  1874,  his  parents  being  John 
and  Catharine  (Dinan)  Lawler,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Ireland.  They  came 
as  children  to  the  United  States  with  their  respective  parents  and  John  Lawler 
became  a  railroad  official  at  various  points  in  the  east,  and  in  1857  moved  to 
Prairie  du  Chien,  when  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railway  Company  ex- 
tended its  lines  to  that  point.  He  was  also  active  in  public  affairs  of  his  community 
and  was  a  recognized  leader  in  the  ranks  of  the  democratic  party  in  the  northwest. 

Clement  A.  Lawler  attended  the  schools  of  his  native  city  and  also  became  a 
student  in  Campion  College  at  Prairie  du  Chien,  while  later  he  matriculated  in 
Cornell  University,  in  which  he  took  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  and  then  took 
up  the  study  of  law,  gaining  the  LL.  B.  degree. 

In  1898  Clement  A.  Lawler  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  chosen  profession 
in  Kansas  City  in  connection  with  Frank  Hagerman,  and  from  1902  until  1908 
he  was  one  of  the  trial  lawyers  with  the  Metropolitan  Street  Railway  Company  of 
Kansas  City,  remaining  in  its  legal  department  until  he  took  up  general  practice 
alone  in  1908.  Through  the  intervening  period  he  has  enjoyed  a  good  clientage 
that  has  connected  him  with  much  important  litigation. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Lawler  has  always  been  a  democrat  and  is  keenly 
interested  in  the  success  of  the  party.  He  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Club,  the 
City  Club,  to  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  to  the  Knights  of  Col- 
umbus and  to  the  Catholic  Club  of  Kansas  City.  He  is  a  past  grand  knight  and 
district  deputy  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  he  is  a  very  active  worker  in  the 
Catholic  church. 


ORRON  D.   EVANS. 


Orron  D.  Evans,  well  known  in  insurance  circles  of  St.  Louis,  is  conducting 
business  under  the  name  of  Orron  D.  Evans  Underwriters  Agency.  He  was  born 
in  Rome,  Georgia,  September  13,  1886,  and  is  a  son  of  Walter  M.  and  Lena  A. 
(Godwin)  Evans.  The  father  was  a  prominent  manufacturer  and  distiller,  who 
was  born  in  Rome,  Georgia,  and  died  in  1908,  having  for  three  years  sui-vived  his 
wife,  who  passed  away  in  19  05,  leaving  a  family  of  seven  children,  all  of  whom 
are  living. 

The  eldest  is  Orron  D.  Evans  of  this  review,  who  pursued  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  Weaver,  Alabama,  but  left  school  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years  and 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  527 

has  .since  made  his  own  way  in  the  world.  Whatever  success  he  has  achieved 
is  attributable  entirely  to"  his  own  labors  and  enterprise.  He  came  to  St.  Louis 
in  1906  and  entered  the  employ  of  the  American  Car  &  Foundry  Company,  with 
which  he  remained  for  a  year  as  a  draftsman.  He  was  afterward  with  Edward 
M.  Davis  &  Company,  an  insurance  Arm,  which  he  represented  as  a  solicitor,  and 
later  he  was  connected  with  the  St.  Louis  Fire  Insurance  Company  until  1911. 
He  then  established  business  on  his  own  account  under  the  name  of  the  Orron  D. 
Evans  Underwriters  Agency,  occupying  rooms  in  the  Pierce  building.  They  are 
sole  agents  for  the  Equitable  Fire  &  Marine  Insurance  Company  of  Hartford, 
Connecticut,  at  St.  Louis,  and  are  also  agents  for  a  number  of  other  companies, 
handling  all  kinds  of  insurance  save  life. 

In  1911  Mr.  Evans  was  married  to  Miss  Bessie  Healey,  daughter  of  Ira  A. 
Healey,  of  Texas,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  two  children:  Margaret 
Lee,  seven  years  of  age,  who  is  attending  school;  and  Jeannette,  a  little  maiden  of 
five  summers. 

Mr.  Evans  is  a  member  of  the  City  Club,  of  Keystone  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.; 
St.  Louis  Chapter,  R.  A.  il.;  Ascalon  Commandery,  K.  T.;  and  Moolah  Temple 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Third  Baptist  church  and  in  these 
organizations  is  held  in  high  esteem  by  the  membership,  who  know  him  as  a  man 
of  personal  worth  as  well  as  business  ability,  loyal  in  his  friendships  and  progress- 
ive in  citizenship. 


CHARLES  P.  COMER. 


Charles  P.  Comer,  attorney  at  law,  was  born  in  Coffeyville,  Kansas,  April  10, 
1880,  his  parents  being  Stephen  S.  and  Eliza  (Hughes)  Comer,  the  latter  a  native 
of  Illinois.  The  father  became  a  physician  and  practiced  medicine  for  many  years, 
but  is  now  living  retired  in  North  Dakota.  While  a  resident  of  Kansas  he  was  a 
very  prominent  worker  in  the  church  and  acted  as  superintendent  of  the  Sunday 
school.  To  him  and  his  wife  were  born  three  children,  two  daughters  and  Charles 
P.  Comer,  who  is  the  eldest. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  st&te  Charles  P.  Comer  began  his  educa- 
tion, which  was  continued  in  the  Missouri  University  and  in  a  night  school  of  St. 
Louis.  Having  determined  upon  the  practice  of  law  as  a  life  work,  he  carefully 
studied  the  principles  of  jurisprudence  and  won  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  1908 
and  tlirough  the  intervening  period  of  twelve  years  he  has  successfully  engaged 
in  practice.  He  was  associated  with  John  Dowdall,  but  later  the  partnership  was 
dissolved  and  he  has  since  been  alone.  Recognizing  the  value  of  thorough  prepara- 
tion of  his  cases,  he  never  enters  the  court  room  unprepared  to  present  his  cause 
in  the  strongest  possible  light  and  to  meet  the  attacks  of  the  opposing  counsel.  He 
has  won  many  favorable  verdicts  for  his  clients  and  he  is  now  at  the  head  of  a 
large  law  practice. 

Mr.  Comer  has  also  been  active  in  republican  politics  and  is  now  a  member 
of  the  Missouri  general  assembly,  serving  on  a  number  of  important  committees, 
including  that  on  private  corporations  and  municipal  corporations.  He  belongs 
to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association  and  makes  his  home  in  its  club  rooms.  He 
has  a  wide  acquaintance  among  leading  business  men  of  the  city  and  is  highly 
esteemed  not  only  in  St.  Louis  but  throughout  the  state. 


CHARLES  MARCUS  RICE. 


Charles  Marcus  Rice  is  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  at  the  St.  Louis  bar, 
being  associated  with  Joseph  W.  Lewis  under  the  firm  style  of  Lewis  &  Rice.  He 
is  a  son  of  Jonathan  Rice,  who  won  distinction,  prominence  and  success  in  the  com- 
mercial field,  and  the  record  of  the  son  rivals  that  of  his  father  as  a  representative 
of  the  profession  of  law.  The  history  of  his  parents  and  of  his  ancestry  is  given 
at  length  on  another  page  of  this  work. 

Charles  Marcus  Rice  who  was  born  in   St.   Louis,   April   8,   1882,   was  educated 

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528  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

in  the  public  schools,  in  Smith  Academy  and  in  Washington  University,  being 
graduated  from  the  last  named  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  in  1904  and  with 
the  LL.  B.  degree  in  1907.  Having  determined  upon  the  practice  of  law  as  a  life 
work  and  having  qualified  for  admission  to  the  bar,  he  entered  upon  the  active 
duties  of  the  profession  in  January,  1906,  and  has  since  been  admitted  to  the  United 
States  supreme  court.  He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  and  Missouri  Bar  Associations 
and  enjoys  the  high  regard  and  confidence  of  his  professional  colleagues  and  con- 
temporaries. 

On  the  23d  of  September,  1908,  Mr.  Rice  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss  May 
Goldman,  a  native  of  this  city  and  a  daughter  of  J.  D.  and  Sarah  (Hirsch)  Goldman. 
They  have  became  the  parents  of  three  children:  Erna,  Jay  D.  and  Jonathan,  all 
born   in   St.   Louis. 

During  the  World  war  Mr.  Rice  was  active  in  support  of  the  Red  Cross.  He 
is  the  secretary  of  the  Jewish  Hospital  and  is  constantly  making  ready  and  generous 
response  to  calls  for  aid  along  many  lines  beneficial  to  his  fellowmen.  He  belongs 
to  the  Columbian  and  Westwood  Clubs,  the  City  Club  and  the  Missouri  Athletic 
Association.  He  is  much  interested  in  all  that  has  to  do  with  the  welfare  and 
progress  of  the  community  and  aside  from  his  profession  he  has  been  closely  asso- 
ciated with  business  affairs  as  a  director  of  the  International  Bank,  a  director  of 
the  Marquette  Cloak  &  Suit  Company,  of  the  North  American  Electric  Lamp  Com- 
pany and  many  other  industrial  and  commercial  concerns.  His  judgment  is  sound, 
his  discrimination  keen,  and  his  unfaltering  enterprise  has  produced  splendid  results 
in  the  attainment  of  success  in  the  commercial  field  as  well  as  along  professional 
lines. 


CHARLES   S.   ALVES. 


Charles  S.  Alves,  president  of  the  Peoples  Trust  Company  of  Kansas  City,  a  man 
of  judgment,  of  vision  and  keen  insight  into  financial  problems,  has  developed  one 
of  the  strong  financial  institutions  of  the  state  since  organizing  the  Peoples  Trust 
Company,  which  opened  its  doors  for  business  on  the  20th  of  September,  1917.  He 
dates  his  residence  in  Kansas  City  from  1906,  having  come  to  this  state  from  Kentucky. 
Joseph  B.  Alves,  father  of  Charles  S.  Alves,  was  born  in  Henderson,  Kentucky,  and 
became  a  man  of  affairs  and  prominence  there,  widely  known  as  the  president  of 
the  Henderson  Woolen  Mills.  He  married  Annie  Henderson  and  they  became  the 
parents  of  five  children,  all  of  whom  are  living,  but  both  parents  have  passed  away. 

Charles  S.  Alves  was  educated  in  the  public  scholos  of  his  native  city,  being 
graduated  from  the  high  school  at  Henderson.  He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1906, 
being  then  a  young  man  of  nineteen  years,  and  was  first  employed  in  the  old  American 
National  Bank  for  a  year.  He  later  became  general  bookkeeper  for  the  Central 
National  Bank,  occupying  that  position  for  six  months,  after  which  he  was  sent  by 
Granville  M.  Smith,  chairman  of  the  board  of  the  Commonwealth  National  Bank  of 
Kansas  City,  to  Strasburg,  Missouri,  and  was  made  cashier  of  the  Farmers  Bank  of 
that  place.  He  continued  there  for  a  year  and  a  half  and  on  the  expiration  of  that 
period  returned  to  Kansas  City,  where  in  connection  with  Messrs.  Smith  &  Ricker, 
members  of  a  very  prominent  live  stock  firm,  he  gained  added  valuable  business 
experience,  remaining  with  them  until  1910,  when  he  organized  the  Southwest  Boule- 
vard State  Bank  and  became  its  cashier.  He  continued  in  that  position  until  September, 
1917,  when  with  others  he  organized  the  Peoples  Trust  Company,  of  which  he  is  the 
president.  He  is  also  the  chairman  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Southwest 
Boulevard  State  Bank  of  Kansas  City;  a  director  of  the  Union  State  Bank  of  Kansas 
City;  a  director  of  the  Colonial  State  Bank  of  Kansas  City;  and  stockholder  of  the 
State  Bank  of  Wichita,  Kansas.  The  Western  Financier  said:  "When  Charles  S. 
Alves  organized  the  Peoples  Trust  Company,  which  opened  for  business  September 
20,  1917,  with  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  capital,  it  was  his  strong  desire 
to  make  that  a  bank  for  the  people  *  *  *  representative  of  the  service  such  an  institu- 
tion should  render,  and  the  fact  that  he  has  succeeded  could  be  told  best  in  the  story 
of  figures,  showing  the  deposits  as  follows:  September  20,  1917,  $790,000.00;  Decem- 
ber 31,  1917,  $1,094,018.00;  March  4,  1918,  $1,130,161.00;  June  9,  1918,  $1,661,257.00; 
November  1,  1918,  $2,373,570.00;   December  31,  1918,  $2,431,792.00,  while  in  the^ast  few 


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months  of  the  year  1920  the  deposits  we»e  over  $5,000,000.00.     Mr.  Alves  is  one  of  the 
youngest   presidents   of   a   city  bank   in   the   country, — only   thirty-three. 

In  1907  Mr.  Alves  was  married  to  Miss  Katharine  Triplett  Kitchell,  a  daughter 
of  Nathaniel  A.  Kitchell,  of  Henderson,  Kentucl^y,  and  they  have  become  the  parents 
of  two  children:  Margaret  Henderson,  born  in  1908;  and  Elizabeth  Merritt,  in  1912. 
Mr.  Alves  is  well  known  in  the  club  circles  of  the  city  and  is  now  treasurer  of  the 
Mission  Hills  Country  club.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Kansas  City  Club  and  has 
membership  in  the  Mid-day  Club  and  in  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  is  a  Mason, 
belonging  to  Temple  Lodge,  No.  299,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  he  has  membership  in  St. 
Paul's  Episcopal  church.  He  is  a  man  of  attractive  personality  who  in  his  business 
career  has  displayed  marked  initiative,  and  his  enterprise,  combined  with  splendid 
powers  of  organization,  has  brought  him  to  the  front  in  the  financial  circles  of  the 
state. 


CHARLES    A.    LOOMIS. 


Charles  A.  Loomis,  filling  the  office  of  justice  of  the  peace  in  St.  Joseph,  was 
born  in  Buchanan  county,  Missouri,  September  10,  1878,  and  is  a  son  of  Orton  M. 
and  Louise  E.  (Miller)  Loomis.  The  father  was  originally  from  the  state  of  New 
York,  while  the  mother  came  from  Virginia.  When  twenty-two  years  of  age  the 
former  removed  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  thence  came  to  St.  Joseph  by  boat.  Upon 
reaching  the  latter  city  he  started  up  the  street,  where  among  the  first  people  he 
saw  was  the  Rev.  C.  Van  Deventer,  who  later  performed  liis  marriage  ceremony 
and  also  officiated  at  his  funeral.  Mrs.  Loomis  came  to  St.  Joseph  with  her  parents, 
Michael  and  Polly  Miller,  during  her  infancy,  the  family  being  among  the  early 
pioneer  farming  people  of  Washington  township,  where  they  settled  prior  to  1840, 
the  land  on  which  they  located  being  known  as  a  part  of  the  Platte  Purchase. 
Throughout  their  remaining  days  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Miller  continued  to  reside  at  that 
place  and  they  took  an  active  and  helpful  part  in  promoting  the  pioneer  develop- 
ment and  subsequent  progress  of  the  region.  Mr.  Miller  preempted  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  of  land  upon  his  arrival  and  afterwards  secured  other  land,  thus 
acquiring  a  large  farm  property,  which  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  divided  among 
his  four  children. 

Orton  M.  Loomis  was  a  young  man  in  the  twenties  when  he  wedded  Louise 
B.  Miller.  Previous  to  this  time  he  had  followed  the  milling  trade  but  after  their 
marriage  the  young  couple  located  upon  a  farm,  which  was  the  land  which  she 
had  received  from  her  father.  Mr.  Loomis  erected  all  of  the  buildings  upon  the 
place,  including  the  dwelling,  and  added  other  improvements,  keeping  the  farm 
in  excellent  condition  and  gathering  therefrom  abundant  harvests  as  the  years 
passed.  He  remained  in  active  identification  with  agricultural  pursuits  to  the  time 
of  his  death,  which  occurred  August  24,  1900.  His  widow  survives  and  now 
resides  in  St,  Joseph  with  her  son,  Milton  M.  Loomis,  and  is  enjoying  good  health, 
although  she  has  now  passed  the  eightieth  milestone  on  life's  journey.  The  property 
on  which  the  State  Hospital  for  the  Insane,  No.  2,  is  now  located  was  all  originally 
the  homestead  of  Michael  Miller  and  was  purchased  from  H.  R.  Hartwig  and  O.  M. 
Loomis  on  the  14th  of  June,  1872,  for  the  sum  of  twenty-eight  thousand  dollars. 
Charles  A.  Loomis  attended  the  district  schools  of  Washington  township 
and  was  reared  to  the  occupation  of  farming,  his  youthful  days  being  divided  be- 
tween the  duties  of  the  schoolroom,  the  pleasures  of  the  playground  and  the  work 
of  the  fields.  With  the  exception  of  two  years  spent  in  Colorado  he  continued,  to 
assist  his  father  in  the  further  improvement  and  cultivation  of  the  farm  until  the 
father's  death. 

On  the  16th  of  February,  1915,  Mr.  Loomis  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Agnes  L.  McEvoy,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  McEvoy,  but  death  terminated  a 
most  happy  relation  when  on  the  26th  of  May,  1915,  after  about  three  months  of 
married  life,  Mrs.  Loomis  was  called  to  the  home  beyond.  On  the  24th  of  July, 
1917,  Mr.  Loomis  was  again  married,  his  second  union  being  with  Birdie  J.  Kirtley, 
daughter  of  Phillip  Kirtley,  who  was  an  early  settler  of  Platte  county,  living  near 
Camden  Point.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kirtley  still  survive  and  are  now  residents  of 
St.  Joseph. 


532  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

From  1906  until  1908  Mr.  Loomis  wa,s  in  the  office  of  the  constable  in  the 
county  courthouse  at  St.  Joseph  and  in  1910  was  elected  justice  of  the  peace,  in 
which  position  he  has  since  continued,  having  twice  been  reelected.  He  is  a  demo- 
crat in  politics  and  an  earnest  worker  for  the  success  of  the  party.  He  is  today 
the  oldest  justice  in  point  of  length  of  service  in  St.  Joseph  and  he  is  known  as 
one  whose  decisions  are  always  fair  and  impartial,  so  that  he  "has  won  golden 
opinions  from  all  sorts  of  people."  Mr.  Loomis  is  a  member  of  the  Fraternal  Order 
of  Eagles,  No.  46,  also  of  the  Brotherhood  of  American  Yeoman  and  the  Knights 
of  Pythias.  His  father  was  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  war  and  Mr.  Loomis  during  the 
period  of  the  World  war  did  everything  in  his  power  to  further  the  interests  of 
the  country  and  served  as  a  member  of  the  Red  Cross  committee,  taking  part  in  its 
drives.  He  is  a  representative  of  two  of  the  old  pioneer  families  of  this  section  of 
the  state  and  his  course  has  been  in  harmony  with  the  records  that  have  made  the 
names  of  Loomis  and  Miller  ever  a  synonym  of  the  highest  respectability  and  worth. 


ARTHUR   ELMORE    BOSTWICK 

Arthur  Elmore  Bostwick,  editor  of  the  scientific  department  of  the  Literary 
Digest  since  1894  and  librarian  of  the  St.  Louis  public  library  since  1909,  was  born 
in  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  March  8,  1860,  a  son  of  David  Elmore  and  Adelaide 
(McKinley)  Bostwick.  The  immigrant  ancestor,  Arthur  Bostock  or  Bostwick,  came 
from  Tarporley,  Cheshire.  England,  in  1640,  settling  at  Stratford,  Connecticut.  He 
was  of  the  Bostocks  of  Bostock  Manor,  whose  ancestor,  Osmer  de  Botestock,  was 
the  Saxon  proprietor,  being  named  as  such  in  the  Doomsday  Book.  Also  through 
Hawise  de  Kevelioc,  countess  of  Lincoln,  the  wife  of  Sir  Warine  de  Bostock,  the 
ancestry  can  be  traced  back  through  various  remote  lines.  His  father,  David  Elmore 
Bostwick,  was  a  physician,  who  won  his  professional  degree  upon  graduation  from 
the  Albany  Medical  School.  He  was  active  in  public  affairs,  served  as  a  member 
of  the  Connecticut  legislature  and  at  one  time  was  grand  master  of  Free  Masons 
in  Connecticut.     The  mother  was  born  in  Philadelphia. 

Arthur  E.  Bostwick  pursued  his  education  in  the  Litchfield  Institute,  a  pre- 
paratory school,  and  in  Yale  University,  where  he  took  a  three  years'  post  graduate 
course,  being  during  that  time  the  first  holder  of  the  Silliman  Fellowship  in  physical 
science.  He  was  graduated  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  in  1881  and  received 
the  Ph.  D.  degree  in  1883.  In  1884  he  was  substitute  instructor  and  proctor  at 
Yale  and  from  1884  until  1886  was  teacher  in  the  high  school  at  Montclair,  New 
Jersey.  During  the  two  succeeding  years  he  was  on  the  editorial  staff  of  Appleton's 
Cyclopedia  of  American  Biography  and  in  1889  and  1890  was  engaged  in  compila- 
tion and  editorial  work  with  Henry  Holt  &  Company.  From  1890  until  1892  he 
was  assistant  editor  of  The  Forum  and  through  the  succeeding  three  years  was 
associate  editor  of  the  Standard  Dictionary.  In  1894  he  became  editor  of  the 
scientific  department  of  the  Literary  Digest  and  so  continues.  From  1895  until 
1899  he  was  librarian  of  the  New  York  Free  Circulating  Library  and  in  the  latter 
year  became  librarian  of  the  Brooklyn  Public  Library,  so  continuing  until  1901. 
In  the  latter  year  he  was  made  chief  of  the  circulation  department  of  the  New 
York  Public  Library,  but  resigned  his  position  after  eight  years,  or  in  1909,  to 
become  librarian  of  the  St.  Louis  Public  Librai-y.  His  editorial  work  and  his 
authorship  have  made  him  known  not  only  throughout  this  country,  but  in  foreign 
lands  as  well.  He  is  the  editor  of  Classics  of  American  Librarianship,  the  first 
two  volumes  of  which  were  issued  in  1915  and  1917.  He  also  was  editor  of 
Frederick  M.  Crunden,  a  memorial  bibliography,  and  issued  many  reports,  pamphlets 
and  articles.  In  1890  he  was  joint  author  with  John  D.  Champlin,  Jr.,  of  the  Young 
Folks  Cyclopedia  of  Games  and  Sports.  In  1910  he  published  The  American  Public 
Library,  in  1913  The  Different  West,  in  1914  Earmarks  of  Literature,  and  in  1915 
The  Making  of  an  American's  Library. 

At  Carmel,  New  York,  on  the  23d  of  June,  1885,  Mr.  Bostwick  was  married 
to  Miss  Lucy  Sawyer,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Rollin  A.  and  Martha  (Linn)  Sawyer. 
Her  father  was  for  many  years  minister  of  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Irvington, 
New  York,  and  had  as  his  parishioners  some  of  the  best  known  New  Yorkers,  in- 
cluding Cyrus  W.  Field  and  Jay  Gould.     Later  he  was  an  editorial  writer  on  The 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  533 

Evangelist  of  New  York  and  a  professor  in  the  Theological  School  at  Bloomfleld, 
New  Jersey.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bostwick  are  the  parents  of  two  sons  and  a  daughter: 
Andrew  Linn,  who  married  Margaret  McKittrick,  daughter  of  William  Victor  Jones, 
of  St.  Louis;  Elmore  McNeill,  who  married  Alma  Sterling,  daughter  of  Fitzhugh 
Simon,  of  St.   Louis;    and  Esther. 

Since  1874  Mr.  Bostwick  has  been  a  communicant  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
cEurch,  is  now  identified  with  the  parish  of  St.  Peter's  and  in  1914-'16  was  president 
of  the  Church  Club  of  St.  Louis.  His  political  endorsement  is  given  to  the  re- 
publican party.  He  is  a  prominent  figure  in  connection  with  various  fraternities 
and  clubs,  having  membership  with  the  Scroll  and  Key  Society  of  Yale,  with  Yale 
Chapter  of  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  fraternity,  with  the  Authors  Club  of  New  York, 
the  Library  Club  of  New  York,  the  University  and  City  Clubs  of  St.  Louis,  the 
Round  Table,  the  Artists  Guild,  the  Town  and  Gown  Club  of  St.  Louis  and  in  the 
Civic  League.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Pageant  Drama  Association  of  St.  Louis 
and  is  now  a  director  of  the  Municipal  Theatre  Association,  and  he  has  been  an 
active  directing  force  in  connection  with  many  organizations  in  both  the  east  and 
the  west  having  to  do  with  intellectual  and  cultural  progress.  He  was  president 
of  the  New  York  Library  Club  from  1897  until  1899  and  from  1901  until  1903  of 
the  New  York  (State)  Library  Association.  In  1907-08  he  was  president  of  the 
American  Library  Association  and  in  1916  of  the  Missouri  (State)  Library  Associa- 
tion, while  from  19  09  until  1912  he  was  president  of  the  American  Library  Institute 
and  of  the  Missouri  Library  Commission  from  1911  until  1917.  In  1912-13  he 
served  as  president  of  the  City  Club  of  St.  Louis,  in  1915  was  president  of  the 
St.  Louis  Society  of  the  American  Institute  of  Archaeology,  in  1911  of  the  New 
England  Society  of  St.  Louis,  was  a  member  of  the  council  of  New  York  State 
University  in  1904  and  a  delegate  to  the  Copyright  Conference  in  1905-06,  while 
since  1917  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Municipal  Art  Commission  of  St.  Louis. 
He  has  recently  been  elected  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Art  League. 


W.    WYAN    GOODWIN. 


W.  Wyan  Goodwin,  attorney  at  law  of  Kansas  City,  was  born  in  Cooper  county, 
Missouri,  March  16,  1881.  He  is  a  son  of  John  H.  Goodwin,  whose  birth  occurred 
in  Louisa  county,  Virginia,  and  who  at  an  early  day  removed  to  Cooper  county, 
Missouri,  becoming  one  of  the  prosperous  and  representative  farmers  there,  while 
later  he  won  equal  success  in  connection  with  the  banking  business.  He  was  like- 
wise prominent  in  public  and  civic  affairs  of  Cooper  county,  his  influence  being  a 
potent  element  on  the  side  of  development  and  upbuilding.  He  married  Frances 
Gentry,  a  native  of  Winchester,  Kentucky,  and  his  death  occurred  in  November, 
1914.  Their  family  numbered  two  children,  the  brother  of  W.  Wyan  being  R. 
Gentry  Goodwin,  also  of  Kansas  City. 

W.  Wyan  Goodwin  attended  the  William  Jewell  College  at  Liberty,  Missouri, 
after  spending  his  early  youth  as  a  district  school  pupil  in  Cooper  county,  and  in 
preparation  for  a  professional  career  he  matriculated  at  Yale  and  was  there  gradu- 
ated in  1902  with  the  LL.  B.  degree.  While  at  William  Jewell  College,  in  which 
he  completed  his  course  in  189  9,  he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Alpha  and  while  at 
Yale  became  a  member  of  the  Book  &  Gavel  Society.  In  1902  he  was  admitted 
to  practice  at  the  bar  of  Missouri  and  entered  into  professional  relations  with  the 
firm  of  Goodwin  &  Pew,  while  a  change  in  the  personnel  later  led  to  the  adoption 
of  the  firm  style  of  Borland,  Goodwin  &  Pew.  He  is  now  practicing  alone  and  is 
making  a  specialty  of  real  estate  law,  in  which  branch  of  the  profession  he  is 
regarded  as  an  authority.  He  is  also  operating  extensively  in  real  estate  and  has 
become  the  owner  of  much  valuable  property. 

On  the  10th  of  January,  1906,  Mr.  Goodwin  was  married  to  Miss  Cara  Lee 
Withers,  daughter  of  Webster  Withers,  of  Kansas  City,  and  they  have  two  children: 
John  Herndon,  twelve  years  of  age;  and  Cara  Lee,  a  little  maiden  of  nine  summers. 
The  parents  are  members  of  the  Calvary  Baptist  church  and  politically  Mr.  Goodwin 
is  a  democrat.  He  finds  recreation  in  outdoor  sports  and  is  especially  fond  of  golf, 
in  which  he  holds  the  present  championship  of  the  Kansas  City  Country  Club.  He 
likewise  belongs   to  the  University   Club   and  to   the   Kansas   City   Bar  Association. 


534  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

He  has  made  steady  progress  in  his  profession  and  has  also  become  known  in  the 
business  circles  of  the  city  through  his  connection  with  the  Pioneer  Trust  Company 
as   one  of   its   directors. 


JAMES  EDWARD  NUGENT. 


James  Edward  Nugent,  one  of  the  younger  representatives  of  the  Kansas  City 
bar,  is  a  member  of  the  prominent  law  firm  of  Morrison,  Nugent  &  Wylder.  He 
was  born  in  Paris,  Missouri,  May  25,  1883,  and  is  a  son  of  David  T.  and  Sarah 
(Delaney)  Nugent.  The  father  was  born  in  Shelbyville,  Kentucky,  and  followed 
the  occupation  of  farming  as  a  life  work.  His  political  allegiance  was  given  to 
the  democratic  party.  He  died  March  8,  1917,  and  Mrs.  Nugent  is  now  living  at 
Paris,   Missouri.     They   were  the   parents   of   seven   children,   all   of   whom    survive. 

James  E.  Nugent  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  and 
passed  through  consecutive  grades  to  his  graduation  with  the  class  of  1S99".  He 
afterward  entered  the  University  of  Missouri  for  the  study  of  law  and  won  his 
LL.  B.  degree  upon  graduation  in  1905.  On  the  21st  of  September  of  that  year 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  has  since  engaged  in  practice.  He  was  first  asso- 
ciated with  the  firm  of  Walsh  &  Jlorrison,  later  the  present  firm  of  Morrison, 
Nugent  &  Wylder  was  organized.  In  his  practice  he  specializes  to  a  considerable 
extent  in  insurance  law  and  in  court  work.  He  is  successful  because  he  is  thoroughly 
equipped  by  training,  temperament  and  willingness  to  put  forth  that  industry  which 
is  just  as  essential  in  professional  life  as  in  other  business  lines.  He  is  also 
thoroughly  ethical  and  honorable  and  the  confidence  in  his  fellow  lawyers  is  one 
of  his  greatest  assets. 

On  the  29th  of  October,  1919,  Mr.  Nugent  was  married  to  Miss  Ada  B.  Cochran, 
daughter  of  William  F.  and  Kitty  W.  Cochran,  of  Kansas  City.  Mr.  Nugent  is 
identified  with  various  fraternal  and  social  organizations.  He  belongs  to  Kappa 
Sigma,  also  to  Phi  Delta  Phi  and  is  a  member  of  the  American,  the  Missouri  State 
and  the  Jackson  County  Bar  Associations.  His  membership  relations  also  extend 
to  the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  City  Club,  Mission  Hills  Country  Club  and  the  Hill- 
crest  Country  Club.  Of  tlie  Trans-Mississippi  Golf  Association  he  is  the  president 
and  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Western  Golf  Association.  He  is  keenly  interested  in 
the  public  schools  and  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  board  of  education,  doing 
everything  in  his  power  to  promote  the  standards  of  the  schools  and  render  them 
effective  to  the  highest  possible  point  in  preparing  the  young  for  the  practical 
and  responsible  duties  of  life.  Politically  he  is  a  democrat  and  from  1909  unfit 
1911  he  served  as  assistant  corporation  counsel  of  the  city.  He  belongs  to  the 
Independence  Avenue  Christian  church  and  is  teacher  of  the  Bible  class  in  its 
Sunday  school.  An  eminent  member  of  the  bar  characterized  Mr.  Nugent  as  one 
of  the  substantial  young  men  of  the  city.  He  is  an  excellent  speaker,  his  frank 
manner  appealing  to  his  audience,  and  in  every  relation  of  life  he  is  regarded 
as  a  dependable  man,  the  public  as  well  as  his  fnany  friends  having  come  to  know 
that  what  he  says  he  will  do. 


JOHN    GILBERT    HUGHES. 


John  Gilbert  Hughes  is  the  president  of  the  State  Exchange  Bank  at  Macon 
and  as  such  has  contributed  in  marked  measure  to  the  rapid  growth  and  develop- 
ment of  this  institution,  which  largely  stands  as  a  monument  to  his  skill  and  busi- 
ness ability.  Esteemed  and  respected  by  all,  no  man  occupies  a  more  honored 
position  in  commercial  or  financial  circles  and  his  life's  labors  have  constituted  a 
valuable  contribution  to  the  development  and  progress  of  the  section  of  the  state 
in  which  he  makes  his  home. 

Mr.  Hughes  was  born  in  Bevier,  Macon  county,  on  the  3d  of  December,  1877, 
his  parents  being  Joseph  R.  and  Lenora  S.  (Davis)  Hughes.  The  father'^  birth 
occurred  in  Pomeroy,  Meigs  county,  Ohio,  on  the  28th  of  June,  1850,  and  he  was 
reared  and  educated  in  the  state  of  Illinois,  being  but  a  young  child  at  the  time  of 


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the  removal  o£  his  parents  westward.  From  Illinois  they  went  to  Bevier,  Missouri, 
and  there  Joseph  R.  Hughes  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  to  which  he  gave  his 
attention  in  the  early  '70s.  He  afterward  took  up  the  business  o£  general  mer- 
chandising, in  which  he  was  active  for  a  few  years.  Later  he  again  became  a  con- 
tractor and  builder  and  was  thus  active  to  the  time  of  his  demise,  which  occurred 
February  12,  1882,  he  being  but  thirty-two  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
In  politics  he  was  a  stalwart  republican  and  labored  untiringly  for  the  success  of 
the  party.  He  served  as  the  first  clerk  in  the  village  of  Bevier  after  its  incorporation 
and  in  all  matters  of  citizenship  his  course  was  characterized  by  progress  and  ad- 
vancement and  marked  devotion  to  the  general  good.  The  many  sterling  traits 
of  his  character  have  caused  his  memory  to  be  revered  and  honored  by  all  who 
knew  him.  He  belonged  to  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  his  religious 
belief  was  that  of  the  Congregational  church.  It  was  on  the  7th  of  September, 
1875,  that  he  wedded  Miss  Lenora  S.  Davis,  who  was  also  a  native  of  Ohio  and  who 
since  the  death  of  her  first  husband  has  become  the  wife  of  Edward  Elias,  of 
Chicago.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hughes  were  born  three  children,  of  whom  two  are 
living,   John   Gilbert   and   Ruth   L. 

The  former  was  about  four  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death. 
His  boyhood  and  youth  were  passed  in  Bevier,  Missouri,  where  he  attended  the 
public  schools,  while  later  he  had  the  benefit  of  instruction  in  the  Spalding  Business 
College  of  Kansas  City.  He  started  upon  his  business  career  in  1894  as  bookkeeper 
in  the  State  Bank  of  Bevier  and  his  capability  and  fidelity  were  soon  manifest  and 
won  him  promotion.  In  April,  1898,  he  was  made  assistant  cashier  and  continued 
to  serve  in  that  capacity  until  May,  1901,  when  he  was  advanced  to  the  position  of 
cashier.  He  displayed  much  initiative,  power  and  marked  discrimination  in  con- 
trolling financial  interests  and  it  was  largely  due  to  his  policy  and  efforts  that  the 
State  Bank  became  one  of  the  substantial  and  popular  institutions  of  Bevier.  He 
still  remains  one  of  its  directors  and  in  April,  1898,  was  secretary  of  the  Bevier 
Building  &  Loan  Association,  rendering  effective  aid  to  that  corporation  for  a  period 
of  five  years.  It  was  not  long  before  he  had  gained  a  most  favorable  position  in 
banking  circles  in  Missouri  and  he  was  made  the  secretary  of  the  State  Bankers 
Association  for  the  year  1905-6  and  was  also  secretary  of  Group  1  of  that  or- 
ganization. In  1906  he  was  made  chairman  of  Group  1  of  the  association.  In 
May,  1919,  he  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  association,  a  position  which  he  occupies 
at  the  time  of  the  writing  of  this  sketch.  He  is  most  widely  known  among  the 
leading  bankers  of  Missouri,  all  of  whom  entertain  tor  him  warm  regard.  Before 
coming  to  Macon  he  had  entered  into  other  business  relations  as  a  stockholder  and 
director  of  the  New  Cambria  Land  Company,  which  was  incorporated  under  the 
laws  of  Missouri  with  a  capital  stock  of  ten  thousand  dollars.  On  the  1st  of  August, 
1917,  Mr.  Hughes  removed  to  Macon  and  was  chosen  vice  president  of  the  State 
Exchange  Bank,  while  in  January,  1918,  he  was  elected  to  the  presidency  and  is 
still  the  directing  head  of  the  institution,  the  history  of  which  is  an  interesting  one 
because  of  the  steady  progress  -and  substantial  development  of  the  bank,  which  is 
today  the  largest  banking  institution  of  Macon  county.  Its  present  officers  are: 
John  Scovern,  chairman  of  the  board  of  directors;  John  G.  Hughes,  president; 
John  T.  Doneghy,  vice  president;  Chris  R.  Maffry,  cashier;  and  John  J.  Shea,  assist- 
ant cashier.  Something  of  the  remarkable  growth  of  the  institution,  which  is 
capitalized  for  one  hundred  thousand  dollars,  is  shown  in  the  fact  that  on  the  30th 
of  December,  1919,  its  deposits  amounted  to  eight  hundred  and  sixty-nine  thousand, 
five  hundred  and  seventy-nine  dollars,  a  growth  of  three  hundred  and  seventy-two 
thousand,  one  hundred  and  twelve  dollars  in  the  last  tour  years.  Its  deposits 
December  30,  1915,  were  four  hundred  and  ninety-seven  thousand,  four  hundred 
and  sixty-six  dollars  and  seventy-six  cents;  December  30,  1916,  five  hundred  and 
sixty-five  thousand,  four  hundred  and  ninety- four  dollars  and  thirty-two  cents; 
December  30,  1917,  six  hundred  and  seventy-nine  thousand,  four  hundred  and  fifty- 
six  dollars  and  nine  cents;  December  30,  1918,  seven  hundred  and  sixteen  thousand, 
eight  hundred  and  sixty-three  dollars  and  three  cents.  The  State  Exchange  Bank 
is  the  only  one  in  Macon  county  which  is  a  member  of  the  Federal  Reserve  System, 
with  which  it  became  identified  in  April,  1918.  It  was  in  1882  that  there  was 
established  in  Macon  the  Scovern,  Logan  &  Willson  Bank,  which  institution  changed 
its  name  to  the  First  National  Bank  in  1896.  There  was  also  formerly  a  Bank  of 
Macon  and  a  State  Exchange  Bank  and  in  1896  through  the  consolidation  of  these 


•538  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

two  institutions  there  was  developed  ttie  State  Exchange  Bank  of  Macon.  In  1908 
the  present  State  Exchange  Bank  was  formed  by  a  consolidation  of  the  old  bank 
of  that  name  and  the  First  National  Bank  of  Macon  and  from  that  time,  through 
the  leadership  of  its  efficient  staff  of  officers  and  directors,  the  new  institution  by 
leaps  and  bounds  has  come  to  the  front  until  it  is  now  outranked  by  none  in  Macon 
county.  In  fact  it  occupies  a  position  of  leadership  among  the  moneyed  institutions 
of  this  section  of  the  state. 

On  the  12th  of  June,  1907,  Mr.  Hughes  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Walker, 
who  was  born  in  Clinton  county,  Missouri,  a  daughter  of  Judge  T.  W.  Walker,  who 
is  now  deceased.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hughes  have  three  children:  Ruth  Lindsay,  Joseph 
Rowland  and  John  Gilbert,  Jr. 

Mr.  Hughes  has  always  given  his  unfaltering  allegiance  to  the  republican  party 
and  is  interested  in  its  success,  but  has  never  consented  to  become  a  candidate  for 
public  office,  willing  at  all  times,  however,  to  perform  faithfully  his  public  duties 
as  a  private  citizen.  He  is  connected  with  the  Masonic  lodge  at  Bevier,  also  with 
the  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows 
and  the  Knights  of  Pythias.  Throughout  the  period  of  the  World  war  he  did 
effective  work  in  connection  with  various  activities  for  the  support  of  the  govern- 
ment and  the  advancement  of  the  interests  of  the  soldiers  in  camp  and  field.  On 
the  28th  of  September.  1917,  he  became  state  chairman  of  the  Liberty  Loans  and 
so  continued  through  the  second,  third,  fourth  and  Victory  Loan  drives,  having 
charge  of  ninety-four  counties  in  the  state,  comprising  all  the  counties  in  Missouri 
in  the  eighth  federal  reserve  district.  He  likewise  acted  as  county  chairman  in  the 
first  Red  Cross  drive.  In  formulating  his  plans  for  government  work  and  in  per- 
fecting the  organization  he  made  heavy  demands  upon  his  time  and  energy,  but 
with  him  duty  to  his  country  was  paramount  to  all  else  and  he  never  hesitated  to 
give  unstintedly  of  his  labors,  of  his  resources  and  all  of  his  personal  funds  to 
support  the  government.  As  a  banker  he  knew  much  concerning  the  financial  re- 
sources of  the  state  and  was  thus  able  to  plan  the  Loan  drives  and  gain  the  support 
which  each  community  was  able  to  give.  He  gathered  around  him  a  competent 
corps  of  assistants  and  Missouri's  record  in  connection  with  the  loan  is  largely 
attributable  to  his  efforts   and   powers  of  organization. 


GEORGE  K.  WARNER. 


George  K.  Warner  is  a  well  known  railway  official  of  St.  Louis  who  since 
December,  1883,  has  been  connected  with  the  St.  Louis  Southwestern  Railway  Com- 
pany and  since  December,  1888,  has  been  its  treasurer.  He  was  born  in  Mobile, 
Alabama,  September  2.  1860,  and  is  a  son  of  George  0.  and  Martha  D.  (Horn)  Warner. 
The  father  was  born  in  Macon,  Georgia,  and  became  a  cotton  merchant,  well  known 
in  that  connection.  For  four  years  he  served  in  the  Confederate  army  under  General 
Joseph  E.  Johnston  in  the  Civil  war  and  his  last  days  were  spent  in  Mobile,  Alabama, 
where  he  passed  away  in  January,  1884.  The  Masonic  fraternity  found  in  him  an 
exemplary  representative.  His  wife -was  born  in  North  Carolina  and  departed  this 
life  in  August,  1907.  Their  family  numbered  seven  children,  six  of  whom  are  yet 
living. 

George  K.  Warner  is  indebted  to  the  public  school  system  of  his  native  city  for 
the  educational  privileges  which  he  enjoyed  and  which  qualified  him  for  life's  prac- 
tical and  responsible  duties.  He  was  graduated  from  the  Barton  Academy  at  Mobile, 
Alabama,  with  the  class  of  1874.  Starting  out  in  the  business  world,  he  was  employed 
in  the  cotton  business  in  Mobile,  thus  spending  a  few  years.  He  then  turned  his 
attention  to  railway  interests,  becoming  connected  with  the  Louisville  &  Nashville 
Railroad  Company  as  storekeeper  at  Mobile,  where  he  continued  until  December, 
1883.  At  that  date  he  was  made  chief  clerk  in  the  mechanical  department  of  the 
Texas  &  St.  Louis  Railway  Company,  now  the  St.  Louis  Southwestern  Railway  Com- 
pany, and  was  at  Jonesboro  and  Pine  Bluff,  Arkansas,  from  December,  1883,  until 
July,  1884.  At  the  latter  date  he  became  bookkeeper  in  the  accounting  department 
of  the  same  company  at  St.  Louis,  so  continuing  until  1885,  when  he  was  advanced 
to  the  position  of  chief  clerk  and  thus  served  until  1888.  On  the  5th  of  December 
of  the  latter  year  he  was  made  treasurer  of  the  St.  Louis  Southwestern  Railway  Com- 


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pany  and  has  continued  in  this  position  to  the  present  time,  covering  almost  a  third 
of  a  century.-  He  is  also  assistant  secretary  of  that  company  and  is  vice  president, 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Paragould  Southeastern  Railway  Company,  the  Pine 
Bluff  Arkansas  River  Railway,  the  Grays  Point  Terminal  Railway  Company  and  the 
Central  Arkansas  and  Eastern  Railroad  Company,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Shreveport  Bridge  &  Terminal  Company,  and  assistant  secretary  and  assistant  treas- 
urer of  the  St.  Louis  Southwestern  Railway  Company  of  Texas,  the  Stephenville, 
North  &  South  Texas  Railway  Company  and  the  Eastern  Texas  Railroad  Company. 
His  interest  in  and  connection  with  railroads  thus  became  extensive  and  he  is  promi- 
nently known  as  a  railway  official.  He  is  also  officially  connected  with  other  business 
corporations. 

In  October,  1882,  Mr.  Warner  was  married  to  Miss  Helen  R.  Ewing,  daughter  of 
James  L.  Ewing,  a  native  of  Scotland,  and  of  Martha  A.  (Hunter)  Ewing,  a  native 
of  Alabama.  The  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Warner  was  celebrated  in  Mobile,  Alabama, 
and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  eleven  children:  Martha,  who  is  the  wife  of 
Miller  Patterson,  of  Maplewood;  four  who  died  in  infancy;  Robert  H.,  also  living 
at  Maplewood;  Anne  T.;  James  L.,  of  St.  Louis;  George  0.,  who  is  married  and  makes 
his  home  in  St.  Louis;  Lula  D.,  the  wife  of  Herbert  Rodway,  of  St.  Louis;  and 
Margaret. 

Mr.  Warner  is  identified  with  the  St.  Louis  Railway  Club,  the  St.  Louis  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  the  Citizens  Industrial  Association  of  St.  Louis,  the  City  Club  of  St. 
Louis,  the  Zoological  Society  of  St.  Louis,  the  St.  Louis  Art  League,  and  the  Society 
of  Railway  Financial  Officers.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Communion 
(Episcopal),  in  which  he  is  serving  as  vestryman,  junior  warden  and  treasurer.  He 
is  a  splendid  type  of  the  southern  gentleman,  never  too  busy  to  be  courteous  and 
never  too  courteous  to  be  busy. 


RUDOLPH  S.   VITT,   M.  D. 


Dr.  Rudolph  S.  Vitt,  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery 
and  now  filling  the  office  of  coroner  in  St.  Louis,  was  born  at  Washington,  Missouri, 
May  29,  1874,  his  youthful  days  being  spent  upon  the  farm  of  his  grandfather, 
Eberhardt  Vitt,  a  native  of  Germany,  who  on  coming  to  America  during  the  '40s 
made  his  way  direct  to  Franklin,  Missouri,  where  he  became  a  pioneer  settler  and 
spent  the  remainder  of  his  days.  He  was  a  farmer  and  stock  raiser  who  met  with 
substantial  success  in  the  conduct  of  his  business.  He  was  also  a  Civil  war  veteran, 
having  engaged  in  military  duty  for  several  years  during  the  period  of  hostilities 
between  the  north  and  the  south.  He  married  Katherin  Decker,  a  native  of 
Germany  who,  coming  to  the  new  world,  settled  in  Iowa  with  her  parents.  The 
marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Vitt  was  celebrated  in  the  Hawkeye  state  and  they  became 
the  parents  of  seven  children,  six  of  whom  were  daughters,  and  six  are  yet  living. 
The  death  of  Mr.  Vitt  occurred  in  1888,  when  he  was  seventy-four  years  of  age, 
while  his  wife  reached  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-t-wo  years,  passing  away  in  1910. 

Dr.  Vitt  pursued  his  early  education  in  the  country  schools  at  Campbellton, 
Missouri,  and  at  the  age  of  thirteen  entered  upon  an  apprenticeship  to  Ludwig 
Muench,  a  pioneer  pharmacist  at  Washington,  Missouri,  with  whom  he  remained 
for  four  years,  receiving  a  very  thorough  training  during  that  period,  for  which  he 
has  ever  been  grateful,  attributing  much  of  his  success  in  later  life  to  the  thorough- 
ness which  his  employer  insisted  upon  and  which  constituted  the  basis  of  his  later 
advancement.  Removing  to  St.  Louis,  he  entered  the  employ  of  Alexander  Mast- 
brook,  who  conducted  the  Olympic  Pharmacy.  There  he  was  employed  for  three 
years,  during  which  time  he  studied  in  the  St.  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy  and  was 
graduated  with  the.  Ph.  G.  degree  in  April,  1893.  He  next  became  a  clerk  for 
Francis  Hemm  on  the  1st  of  May,  1893,  and  in  1895  he  was  admitted  to  a  partner- 
ship, while  in  189  7  he  became  sole  proprietor  by  the  purchase  of  his  partner's 
interest.  He  continued  in  the  business  until  1904  and  during  the  latter  four  years 
of  the  period  studied  medicine  at  the  St.  Louis  University,  where  he  was  graduated 
May  30,  1904.  Selling  his  drug  business,  he  then  entered  upon'  the  practice  of 
medicine  and  surgery,  opening  an  office  at  3924  South  Broadway,  where  he  has 
since  maintained  his  home  and  office,  continuing  In  the  practice  there  for  the  past 


542  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

twenty-seven  years.  He  holds  to  high  professional  standards,  specializing  to  some 
extent  in  internal  medicine.  He  has  traveled  extensively  to  perfect  himself  in  his 
chosen  profession  by  visiting  the  different  hospitals  and  medical  schools,  and  to 
his  studious  habits  and  his  natural  and  acquired  ability  may  be  attributed  his  con- 
stantly growing  success.  He  belongs  to  the  American  Medical  Association,  the 
Missouri  State  Medical  Society  and  the  St.  Louis  Medical  Society,  of  which  lie  was 
vice  president  in  1919,  while  for  many  years  he  was  a  delegate  and  counselor  of 
that  organization.  On  the  6th  of  November,  1916,  he  was  elected  to  the  office  of 
coroner  for  a  four  years'  term  and  he  was  for  many  year  treasurer  of  the  National 
Association  of  Retail   Druggists. 

On  the  26th  of  October,  1898,  in  St.  Louis,  Dr.  Vitt  was  married  to  Miss 
Caroline  C.  Fisher,  a  native  of  St.  Louis  and  a  daughter  of  Ferdinand  and  Ernestina 
Fisher.  They  have  one  son,  Edwin  Fisher,  who  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  July  30, 
1899.  He  became  a  student  in  the  Missouri  Military  Academy  at  Mexico,  Missouri, 
which  he  attended  for  three  years.  He  then  entered  the  Students'  Army  Training 
Corps  from  Washington  University  and  was  there  studying  medicine  during  the 
war  period.  He  is  now  a  student  in  the  University  of  Missouri  at  Columbia.  Dr. 
Vitt  during  the  war  was  medical  examiner  for  the  eleventh  ward  exemption  board. 

In  politics  Dr.  Vitt  has  always  been  a  republican  and  in  local  and  state  politics 
has  taken  an  active  interest  from  the  age  of  twenty-one  years.  His  religious  faith 
is  that  of  the  Lutheran  church  and  fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Meridian  Lodge, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  with  the  Scottish  Rite  consistory,  v^'ith  Moolah  Temple  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine,  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  the  Maccabees,  the  Royal  Arcanum,  the  Woodmen 
of  the  World  and  the  Fraternal  Order  of  Eagles.  Something  of  the  nature  of  his 
recreation  is  indicated  in  his  membership  in  the  Western  Rowing  and  Century 
Rowing  Clubs.  His  friends  bear  testimony  to  his  sterling  character  and  irreproach- 
able integrity,  saying  that  his  word  is  as  good  as  his  bond.  His  friends  are  legion 
and  something  of  his  popularity  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  led  his  ticket  when 
elected  coroner  of  St.   Louis. 


ADOLPH    PPEIFFER. 


Through  the  years  of  his  active  business  career  Adolph  Pteiffer,  now  deceased, 
was  closely  associated  with  the  drug  trade  of  the  city.  His  activities,  however, 
extended  beyond  that  field  and  he  became  connected  with  various  other  interests 
which  contributed  to  the  business  enterprise  and  upbuilding  of  various  sections. 
He  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  November  26,  1854,  and  was  a  son  of  Jonas  M.  and  Fannie 
(Block)  Pfeiffer,  who  came  to  the  United  States  in  young  manhood  and  womanhood, 
he  from  Bavaria  and  Mrs.  Pteiffer  from  Carlsbad,  Germany.  They  were  married 
in  St.  Louis,  v/here  for  many  years  they  made  their  home.  The  father  was  a  highly 
educated  man,  having  entered  upon  an  educational  course  in  preparation  for  the 
ministry.  He  was  a  broad  and  liberal  thinker  and  after  coming  to  the  new  world 
took  up   mercantile  pursuits. 

Adolph  Pfeiffer  was  educated  in  the  graded  and  high  schools  of  St.  Louis  and 
in  the  St.  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy,  from  which  institution  he  received  the  Ph.  G. 
degree  in  1872.  Prior  to  entering  upon  his  college  course,  however,  he  had  been 
employed  in  the  Catlin  Pharmacy  at  the  corner  of  Sixth  street  and  Washington 
avenue.  He  returned  to  the  store  following  his  graduation  and  became  chief 
pharmacist  in  the  establishment,  continuing  with  that  house  until  1879,  when  he 
purchased  a  drug  store  at  the  corner  of  Broadway  and  Salisbury  street  in  North 
St.  Louis,  there  conducting  business  for  three  years.  On  the  expiration  of  that 
period  he  disposed  of  the  store  in  order  to  open  a  downtown  pharmacy  on  Olive 
street  opposite  the  post  office,  at  which  location  he  remained  for  four  years.  The 
close  confinement  of  the  store,  however,  was  telling  upon  his  health  and  he  sold 
out,  turning  his  attention  to  the  manufacture  of  proprietary  medicines,  with  which 
business  he  was  identified  to  the  time  of  his  demise.  He  did  not  confine  his  atten- 
tion, however,  solely  to  one  line  and  his  activity  was  an  element  in  the  upbuilding 
of  St.  Louis  and  the  promotion  of  its  business  development.  He  erected  one  of  the 
largest  garages  in  the  city,  known  as  the  Cabana  Garage,  on  De  Balivre  avenue. 
He   was   instrumental   in    the   upbuilding   of   the   section   of   the   city   at   Washington 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  543 

avenue  and  St.  Charles  street,  where  he  established  a  moving  picture  show.  He 
was  keenly  interested  in  St.  Louis  and. her  progress  and  did  everything  in  his  power 
to  assist  in  the  growth  and  development  of  the  city.  It  was  said  of  him  that  he 
carried  a  memorandum  in  his  pocket  of  positions  open  and  of  applicants  for  posi- 
tions and  would  go  to  almost  any  length  to  assist  one  needing  work. 

On  the  29th  of  May,  1881,  Mr.  Pfeiffer  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Sadie 
Lilienfeld,  daughter  of  Samuel  Lilienfeld,  who  lived  and  died  in  Germany.  The 
daughter  came  to  this  country  as  a  young  girl  to  make  her  home  with  a  sister 
residing  in  St.  Louis.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pfeiffer  became  the  parents  of  one  child.  Rose  B., 
now  the  wife  of  Dr.  Samuel  E.  Newman,  one  of  the  leading  surgeons  of  St.  Louis. 
They  have  two  children,   Ivy  and  Eric. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pfeiffer  were  members  of  the  Shaare-Emeth  Jewish  church  at 
the  corner  of  Lindell  and  Vandeventer  streets  and  Mr.  Pfeiffer  was  connected  with 
the  various  Jewish  charitable  societies  of  the  city.  He  was  most  generous  and 
charitable,  doing  everything  in  his  power  to  ameliorate  the  hard  conditions  of  life 
for  the  unfortunate.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Alumni  Association-  of 
the  St.  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy,  of  which  he  was  later  made  corresponding  secre- 
tary and  afterward  president.  He  and  his  wife  made  four  trips  to  Europe,  traveling 
extensively  and  gaining  that  broad  and  liberal  knowledge  and  culture  which  can 
never  be  so  readily  obtained  in  any  other  way  as  through  wide  travel.  The  death 
of  Mr.  Pfeiffer  occurred  March  15,  1918.  He  had  made  valuable  contribution  to 
the  development  of  St.  Louis  and  in  his  own  business  affairs  had  reaped  the  rewards 
of  earnest  labor,  persistency  of  purpose  and  sound  judgment.  But  it  was  the  many 
good  deeds  which  he  did  for  his  fellowmen  that  will  make  him  longest  remembered 
and  cause  his  name  to  be  cherished  in  the  hearts  of  all  who  shared  in  his  benefactions. 


JOHN    REID    TURNEY. 


John  Reid  Turney,  assistant  general  solicitor  for  the  St.  Louis  Southwestern 
Railway  Company,  with  ofllces  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Nashville,  Ten- 
nessee, July  4,  1887.  His  father,  John  E.  Turney,  is  also  a  native  of  Nashville  and 
of  French  descent,  the  family  being  founded  in  America  during  the  early  part  of 
the  seventeenth  century  by  his  ancestors,  who  settled  in  Virginia.  He  is  a  lawyer 
by  profession  and  has  won  prominence  as  a  representative  of  the  bar  in  his  native 
city.  He  married  Bessie  Maury  Reid,  who  was  born  in  Tennessee  and  was  of  Scotch 
lineage,  her  people  settling  in  Tennessee,  however,  at  an  early  period  in  the  develop- 
ment of  the  state.  Mrs.  Turney  passed  away  in  1896,  at  the  age  of  twenty-nine 
years,  leaving  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 

John  Reid  Turney,  the  eldest  of  the  family,  began  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Nashville,  afterward  attended  the  high  school  at  Kirkwood,  Missouri, 
and  then  pursued  an  academic  course  in  Vanderbilt  University,  winning  his  LL.  B. 
degree  in  1908.  In  the  summer  of  that  year  he  was  admitted  to  practice  and  opened 
a  law  office  in  Nashville,  where  he  remained  for  two  years,  when  he  removed  to 
Jonesboro,  Arkansas.  One  who  knew  him  during  that  early  period  in  his  pro- 
fessional career  said  of  him:  "He  came  to  Jonesboro,  Arkansas,  a  young  man 
recently  out  of  the  law  school,  inexperienced,  without  money  and  without  friends, 
and  within  a  very  short  time  he  demonstrated  not  only  to  his  brother  lawyers  but 
to  the  public  generally  that  he  was  a  man  of  the  highest  character,  absolutely  honest, 
sober,  energetic  and  painstaking,  and  as  a  result  he  made  steady  professional  ad- 
vancement and  before  leaving  the  state  became  associated  with  one  of  the  leading 
lawyers  of  Arkansas.  As  a  student  of  law  he  was  energetic  and  resourceful  and 
in  the  trial  of  cases  demonstrated  conclusively  that  he  had  a  broad  legal  mind, 
capable  of  correctly  construing  and  interpreting  what  he  had  read.  Since  connecting 
himself  with  the  legal  department  of  the  St.  Louis  Southwestern  Railway  Company 
he  has  given  most  of  his  time  and  attention  to  interstate  matters,  and  the  briefs 
which  he  has  prepared  show  that  he  has  mastered  the  subject  and  has  been  pains- 
taking and  energetic.  He  is  a  logical  and  convincing  speaker  and  every  lawyer 
recognizes  his  ability,  while  judges  give  to  him  careful  attention  and  consideration." 
It  was  in  January,  1917,  that  Mr.  Turney  left  Arkansas  and  came  to  St.  Louis,  being 
appointed    assistant    attorney    for    the    St.    Louis    Southwestern    Railway    Company, 

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544  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

while  in  August,  1919,  he  was  advanced  to  general  attorney,  and  on  March  1.  1920, 
to  the  position  of  assistant  general  solicitor.  He  is  a  member  of  both  the  Tennessee 
and  Arkansas  State  Bar  Associations  and  of  the  American  Bar  Association. 

On  the  19th  of  April,  1911,  Mr.  Turney  was  married  to  Miss  Martha  E.  Perkins, 
a  native  of  Nashville,  Tennessee,  and  daughter  of  William  O'Neill  Perkins,  of  an 
old  family  of  Williamson  county,  Tennessee.  Three  children  have  been  born  of 
this  marriage:  John  R.,  Jr.,  whose  birth  occurred  at  Jonesboro,  Arkansas,  Sep- 
tember 28,  1913;  Ann  Elizabeth,  born  at  Jonesboro,  Arkansas,  December  8,  1916; 
and  William  O'Neill,  who  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  December  11,  1918. 
The  religious  faith  of  the  family  is  that  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  Mr.  Turney 
has  extended  his  membership  relations  to  the  City  Club  and  to  Jonesboro  (Ark.) 
Lodge,  No.  129,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  In  politics  he  maintains  an  independent  course. 
He  is  truly  a  domestic  man,  spending  his  leisure  time  largely  at  his  home  with  his 
family,  finding  recreation  in  garden  work  and  in  the  study  of  political  and  civic 
problems,  history  and  classic  literature.  He  is  said  to  possess  exceptional  genius 
for  the  development  of  statistical  data  and  the  interpretation  thereof  and  as  an 
attorney  seems  to  excel  in  developing  cases  usually  considered  hopeless  into  winning 
cases  when  tried.  Among  his  colleagues  and  contemporaries  at  the  bar  he  is  re- 
garded as  a  chancery  and  civil  lawyer  of  more  than  average  ability,  while  in 
connection  with   railroad  and  interstate  matters  he  has  also  excelled. 


EDWARD  ANSON  MORE. 


Edward  Anson  More,  chairman  of  the  Board  of  the  More-Jones  Brass  &  Metal 
Company  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  November  7,  1848, 
and  is  a  son  of  Edward  B.  and  Margaretta  (Rambo)  More.  He  was  educated  in  the 
West  Jersey  Academy,  in  which  he  completed  a  course  in  1863,  and  he  initiated 
his  business  career  as  a  clerk  tor  the  firm  of  More  &  Company  in  1865,  remaining 
with  that  house  until  1876.  He  then  gave  up  his  position  to  take  entire  charge  of 
the  brass  and  metal  business  which  he,  with  Mr.  Jones  had  organized  in  1874,  while 
still  associated  with  the  other  firm.  He  incorporated  this  business  in  1899  under 
the  name  of  the  More-Jones  Brass  &.  Metal  Company,  of  which  he  was  elected  presi- 
dent and  treasurer,  and  throughout  the  intervening  period  he  continued  in  this 
dual  office  until  recently  elected  chairman  of  the  board  of  directors,  while  J.  B. 
Strauch  was  elected  president.  This  business  has  become  one  of  the  important 
commercial  and  manufacturing  interests  of  St.  Louis.  In  addition  to  the  brass  and 
metal  business  he  is  the  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Chilled  Bearing  Company. 

On  the  20th  of  March,  1879,  Edward  Anson  More  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to 
Miss  Mary  C.  More  and  their  children  are  Lucius  Elmer,  Enoch  Anson,  Cyrus  Burn- 
ham,   and  Catherine  Alice,  but  the  last   named  is  now  deceased. 

Mr.  More  gives  stalwart  allegiance  to  the  republican  party.  He  belongs  to 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  also  to  the  Civic  League,  to  the  St.  Louis  Country  Club, 
the  Bellerive  Country  Club,  the  Racquet  Club,  and  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Club. 
He  finds  his  recreation  largely  in  golf  and  outdoor  sports.  He  is  keenly  interested 
in  all  those  forces  which  make  for  the  benefit  and  upbuilding  of  St.  Louis  and  the 
advancement  of  the  state,  and  his  co-operation  is  counted  upon  as  a  valuable  asset 
in  furthering  measures  for  the  general  good. 


THOMAS    T.    CRITTENDEN. 

Thomas  T.  Crittenden,  elected  governor  of  Missouri  in  1880  and  twice  repre- 
sentative of  his  district  in  congress,  after  which  he  refused  a  third  nomination,  was 
one  who  left  a  deep  and  beneficial  impress  upon  the  history  of  the  state.  Absolutely 
fearless  in  office  and  actuated  by  high  ideals,  he  introduced  many  reforms  as  well 
as  many  progressive  measures.  He  was  born  January  1,  1832,  in  Shelby  county, 
Kentucky,  his  birthplace  being  a  farm  near  Shelbyville,  upon  which  he  spent  his 
youthful  days.  He  attended  an  old-time  subscription  school  at  Shelbyville  and 
afterward   continued   his   education   at   Center   College   in    Danville,    Kentucky,    from 


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which  he  was  graduated,  as  were  several  other  men  who  won  distinction  in  later 
years,  including  Judge  John  F.  Philips  o£  Kansas  City,  Governor  John  Young  Brown 
of  Kentucky,   Boyd  Winchester   and   W.   P.   C.   Breckinridge,   both   of   Kentucky. 

Mr.  Crittenden  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  in  the  oflice 
of  his  uncle,  John  J.  Crittenden.  He  was  a  young  man  of  twenty-four  years  when 
on  the  13th  of  November,  1856,  in  Frankfort,  he  married  Miss  Carrie  W.  Jackson, 
and  soon  afterward  they  removed  to  Lexington,  Missouri,  where  he  entered  upon 
the  practice  of  his  chosen  profession,  opening  a  law  office  and  continuing  in  the 
work  of  the  courts  until  after  the  inauguration  of  the  Civil  war.  He  then  became 
active  in  organizing  a  regiment  of  Union  troops  in  connection  with  Judge  John  F. 
Philips  and  the  command  was  mustered  in  at  Georgetown,  Pettis  county,  in  1862 
in  response  to  the  call  for  three  years'  troops.  He  had  risen  to  the  rank  of  colonel 
ere  his  regiment  was  mustered  out  on  the  7th  of  April,  1865,  two  days  before  the 
surrender  of  General  Lee.  On  one  occasion  he  was  reported  killed  in  the  battle 
of  Westport,  south  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  against  Price's  army.  An  orderly 
came  to  Judge  Philips,  who  was  in  command  of  the  regiment,  and  reported  that 
Crittenden  had  been  shot.  Colonel  Philips  went  to  where  his  friend  "Tom"  lay 
and  found  him  with  a  white  face,  looking  like  one  from  whom  life  had  departed. 
Judge  Philips,  however,  tore  open  the  vest  and  blouse  of  his  friend  and  on  the  pit 
of  his  stomach  was  a  blue  mark  but  no  wound.  He  then  took  his  canteen,  in  which 
he  had  some  brandy,  and  poured  it  down  Governor  Crittenden's  throat.  In  a  few 
moiqents  the  latter  opened  his  eyes  and  asked:  '*Am  I  dead.  Philips?"  The  Judge 
laughed  and  told  Mr.  Crittenden  that  he  was  very  much  alive.  A  few  moments  later 
he  sat  up  and  said:  "Let's  go  on  with  the  scrap,"  and  immediately  went  into  the 
battle.  His  life  had  been  saved  by  his  pocketbook,  in  which  he  carried  his  money 
and  some  papers,  a  spent  bullet  having  struck  the  book  on  his  stomach  with  such 
force  as  to  knock  him  breathless.  Another  of  the  name  of  Crittenden  figured  in 
connection  with  the  military  history  of  the  country,  this  being  his  uncle,  William 
Logan  Crittenden,  who  was  one  of  about  two  hundred  native  Americans  that  joined 
General  Lopez  in  an  expedition  to  free  Cuba.  He  was  a  West  Point  graduate  and 
at  the  time  was  twenty-eight  years  of  age.  It  was  in  the  spring  of  1851  and  they 
sailed  from  New  Orleans.  A  heavy  gale  compelled  them  to  make  a  landing  about 
twenty  miles  from  Havana,  where  they  were  captured  by  the  Spanish  troops  and 
confined  in  the  Atares  castle,  where  they  suffered  all  the  tortures  of  the  old  Spanish 
Inquisition  until  death  came  to  their  relief. 

After  the  close  of  the  war  Colonel  Crittenden  removed  to  Warrensburg,  Mis- 
souri, in  1865,  for  feeling  still  ran  high  at  Lexington,  MissouW,  at  that  period.  He 
there  formed  a  partnership  with  General  Francis  M.  Cockrell  of  the  Confederate 
army  and  they  practiced  together  successfully  until  Mr.  Crittenden  was  elected  to 
congress  in  1872.  The  partnership,  however,  was  not  dissolved  at  that  time,  but 
continued  until  General  Cockrell  was  elected  to  the  United  States  senate.  Mr. 
Crittenden  remained  in  congress  until  1878,  when  he  refused  to  become  a  candidate 
for  reelection,  having  already  served  for  two  terms,  during  which  he  rendered  signal 
aid  in  support  of  many  progressive  and  important  public  measures.  In  188  0  he 
was  nominated  for  governor  over  John  S.  Marmaduke,  who  became  his  successor, 
and  John  A.  Hockaday,  who  had  been  attorney  general  under  his  predecessor.  The 
four  years  of  Governor  Crittenden's  administration  are  known  as  the  most  tem- 
pestuous in  the  history  of  the  state.  During  that  period  occurred  the  great  lawsuit 
with  the  Hannibal  &  St.  Joseph  Railroad,  which  Mr.  Crittenden  as  governor  adver- 
tised for  sale.  This  brought  together  the  best  legal  ability  in  the  United  States, 
including  Glover  &  Shepley,  of  St.  Louis,  Henderson  &  Shields,  also  of  St.  Louis, 
and  Attorney  General  Mclntyre,  representing  the  state,  while  Judge  John  F.  Dillon, 
Elihu  Root  and  Attorney  General  Bartlett  represented  the  road.  The  verdict  was 
favorable  to  the  state.  One  of  the  most  important  acts  of  Governor  Crittenden's 
administration  led  to  the  breaking  up  of  the  noted  Jesse  James  band  of  outlaws. 

After  retiring  from  the  position  of  governor  Mr.  Crittenden  came  to  Kansas 
City,  where  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law,  in  which  he  was  engaged  from  1885 
until  1893.  He  was  then  appointed  by  President  Grover  Cleveland  as  consul  general 
to  Mexico  and  filled  that  position  for  four  years,  greatly  enjoying  the  many  charms 
which  Mexican  life  offers  and  having  many  interesting  experiences  during  his  sojourn 
in  the  Mexican  republic.  After  his  four  years'  service  in  the  position  he  returned 
to  Kansas  City,  where  he  maintained  his  residence  until  death  called  him,  enjoying 


548  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

the  respect  and  honor  of  his  fellow  townsmen  and  of  all  who  knew  him  throughout 
the  entire  country. 

On  the  13th  of  November,  1856.  Governor  Crittenden  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Caroline  W.  Jackson  and  on  the  occasion  of  the  celebration  of  their  golden  wed- 
ding on  the  13th  of  November.  1906,  they  received  many  congratulatory  letters, 
including  one  from  Chief  Justice  Harlan  of  the  United  States  supreme  court,  from 
Henry  Watterson  of  Kentucky  and  from  many  other  prominent  men  throughout 
the  country. 

Governor  Crittenden  was  a  lifelong  democrat  and  his  sons  have  followed  in 
his  political  footsteps,  his  son  Thomas,  Jr.,  being  at  one  time  mayor  of  Kansas  City. 
Governor  Crittenden  was  a  man  of  most  thoughtful  nature,  a  wide  and  profound 
reader  and  a  most  thorough  student  of  the  science  of  government.  In  manner  he 
was  ever  courtly  and  gracious,  a  splendid  type  of  American  manhood  and  chivalry. 
He  passed  away  May  29,  1909,  in  Kansas  City  and  thus  ended  the  life  of  one  who 
had  left  a  deep  impress  upon  the  history  of  the  commonwealth, — a  man  whose  entire 
career  was  marked  by  devotion  to  duty,  by  the  highest  sense  of  personal  honor  and 
by  the  keenest  recognition  of  the  responsibilities  and  opportunities  of  life.  Asso- 
ciation with  him  meant  expansion  and  elevation  and  he  found  his  warmest  friends 
among  some  of  the  most  distinguished  men  of  the  state  and  nation. 


MAJOR    J.    LILLY. 


Major  J.  Lilly,  of  Moberly,  enjoying  a  well-earned  reputation  as  one  of 
Missouri's  able  attorneys  and  gifted  orators,  was  born  upon  a  farm  in  Randolph 
county,  this  state,  March  25,  1872.  his  parents  being  James  M.  and  Margaret  (Orr) 
Lilly,  the  former  a  native  of  Oldham  county,  Kentucky,  and  the  latter  of  Washing- 
ton county,  Virginia.  The  father  came  to  Missouri  in  1836.  settling  in  Marion 
county,  whence  in  1838  he  removed  to  Randolph  county.  He  was  a  farmer,  stone 
mason  and  blacksmith,  and  his  varied  activities  were  contributing  elements  to  the 
early  development  and   upbuilding  of  the  section   in   which   he  lived. 

Major  J.  Lilly,  acquiring  a  common  school  education  in  his  native  county, 
afterward  attended  the  State  Normal  School  at  Kirksville.  Missouri,  and  in  early 
manhood  taught  in  the  rural  schools  of  Randolph  and  Monroe  counties  for  two 
years.  Later  he  was  for  two  years  a  teacher  in  the  public  schools  of  Moberly  and 
for  a  similar  period  was  superintendent  of  schools  at  Unionville,  Missouri.  He 
regarded  this,  however,  merely  as  an  initial  step  to  other  professional  labor  and, 
while  thus  engaged,  devoted  his  leisure  hours  to  the  study  of  law.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  at  Fayette,  Missouri.  April  2,  1901,  and  since  that  date  has  been  con- 
tinuously engaged  in  general  practice  at  Moberly.  He  has  made  steady  progress 
in  his  chosen  field  of  labor  and  has  been  connected  with  much  important  litigation 
tried  in  the  courts  of  the  district.  His  natural  oratorical  gift  has  been  a  valuable 
asset  in  his  law  practice,  while  at  the  same  time  his  reasoning  is  clear,  his  deduc- 
tions sound  and  his  knowledge  of  the  principles  of  jurisprudence  is  comprehensive 
and  exact.  He  is  now  attorney  tor  the  Wabash  Railroad  Company  and  also  for  the 
Missouri,  Kansas  &  Texas  Railroad  Company  as  well  as  other  corporations  and  he 
has  justly  won  a  place  among  Missouri's  ablest  lawyers.  He  belongs  to  the  Randolph 
County  Bar  Association,  the  Missouri  Bar  Association  and  the  American  Bar 
Association. 

On  the  17th  of  July,  1901,  in  Monroe  county.  Missouri,  Mr.  Lilly  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Irnia  Ragland.  daughter  of  Frank  B.  Ragland.  and  their  children 
are  Margaret  and  Frank  Lilly.  The  parents  are  members  of  the  Presbyterian 
church   and   in  social  circles  they   occupy   an   enviable   position. 

Mr.  Lilly  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  a  past  master  of  Moberly 
Lodge,  No.  344,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  a  past  high  priest  of  Moberly  Chapter,  No.  79. 
R.  A.  M.;  past  eminent  commander  of  Tancred  Commandery,  No.  25,  K.  T. ;  and 
past  worthy  patron  of  Randolph  Chapter.  No.  150.  O.  E.  S.  He  has  also  served 
as  a  member  of  the  committee  on  appeals  and  grievances  of  the  Masonic  Grand 
Lodge  of  the  State  of  Missouri  and  he  is  a  member  of  Ararat  Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N. 
M.  S.  He  likewise  belongs  to  Moberly  Lodge,  No.  936,  B.  P.  O.  E.,  of  which  he  is 
a   past   exalted   ruler. 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  549 

•  In  his  political  views  Mr.  Lilly  has  always  been  a  stalwart  democrat  and  has 
served  as  county  chairman  ot  the  democratic  committee  ot  Randolph  county  for 
two  terms  and  as  a  member  ot  the  democratic  state  committee  ot  Missouri  for  two 
terms  from  the  second  congressional  district  and  during  the  latter  term  was  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee.  He  was  chairman  ot  the  meeting  at  Moberly 
in  which  Senator  Reed  opened  his  first  campaign  for  the  United  States  senate.  At 
various  times  he  has  been  called  to  public  office.  In  1894-5  he  was  school  com- 
missioner of  Randolph  county,  first  appointed  by  the  late  Senator  Stone,  then 
governor  of  Missouri,  and  afterwards  elected  to  the  position.  He  was  circuit  clerk 
of  Randolph  county  for  two  terms,  being  first  elected  in  1898.  He  has  served  as 
special  judge  of  the  Randolph  county  circuit  court  several  times.  In  1917,  when 
the  attorney  general  of  Missouri  filed  a  complaint  in  the  supreme  court,  charging 
a  number  of  coal  operators  of  being  in  a  trust  to  control  the  prices  of  coal,  Mr. 
Lilly  was  appointed  special  examiner  by  Chief  Justice  Graves  to  take  the  testimony. 
During  the  World  war  he  devoted  practically  his  entire  time,  without  compensation, 
to  war  activities,  serving  as  branch  chairman  of  the  Military  Training  Camps  Asso- 
ciation, as  permanent  member  of  the  legal  advisory  board  of  Randolph  county,  as 
chairman  of  the  legal  committee  of  the  National  Council  of  Defense,  as  federal  fuel 
administrator  of  Randolph  county  and  he  also  campaigned  in  behalf  of  the  different 
Liberty  Loan.  Red  Cross  and  other  drives.  In  all  matters  of  citizenship  his  integrity, 
his  patriotism  and  his  high  purpose  have  been  above  question  and  Moberly  and  the 
state  acknowledge  their  indebtedness  to   him  in  many  ways. 


ADAM   E.    FISHER. 


Adam  E.  Fisher,  a  patent  attorney  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Hannibal,  Mis- 
souri, July  10,  1871.  His  father  is  William  H.  Fisher,  a  native  of  the  state  of 
New  York,  who  became  a  resident  of  St.  Louis  in  1865  and  removed  to  Hannibal 
in  1866.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  war,  serving  with  the  Missouri  state 
militia.  By  profession  he  is  a  lawyer  and  for  many  years  engaged  in  active  prac- 
tice but  is  now  living  retired.  He  married  Alice  V.  Vandercook,  a  native  of  Jack- 
son, Michigan.  She  was  a  descendant  of  Anneka  Jahns,  one  of  the  first  Dutch 
settlers  of  America.  The  death  of  Mrs.  Fisher  occurred  at  Hannibal,  Missouri, 
in  1916,  when  she  was  seventy-five  years  of  age.  She  had  a  family  of  eight  chil- 
dren, two  sons  and  one  daughter  now  deceased  and  four  sons  and  one  daughter 
still  living. 

Adam  E.  Fisher,  the  third  in  order  of  birth,  was  educated  in  the  public 
and  high  schools  of  Hannibal,  Missouri,  and  in  Gates  College  at  Neligh,  Nebraska, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1895,  receiving  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree.  He 
afterward  took  up  the  study  of  law  under  the  direction  of  his  father  and  Colonel 
Rufus  E.  Anderson  of  Hannibal  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1898.  He  then 
entered  upon  general  practice  in  his  native  city  and  there  remained  until  1908. 
serving  as  city  attorney  of  Hannibal  in  1904.  In  1908  he  removed  to  Washington, 
D.  C,  where  he  entered  the  service  of  the  United  States  government  in  connection 
with  the  patent  department.  In  1909  he  removed  to  St.  Louis,  since  which  time 
he  has  specialized  in  patent  law.  and  he  is  today  recognized  as  one  of  the  leaders 
in  that  field  in  the  west.  He  enjoys  the  high  respect  and  confidence  of  his  col- 
leagues and  contemporaries  in  the  profession.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Na- 
tional Barriun  &  Chemical  Company  of  St.  Louis,  is  the  president  of  the  Adam 
Fisher  Manufacturing  Company  of  St.  Louis,  which  manufactures  patented  spec- 
ialties, this  being  the  only  exclusive  business  of  the  kind  in  the  city,  and  is  the 
secretary  of  the   General   Aerial   Transportation   Company. 

At  Kahoka.  Missouri,  June  7,  1899,  Mr.  Fisher  was  married  to  Miss  Floda 
Hayman,  a  native  of  this  state  and  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Hayman  and  Melinda  (Davis) 
Hayman.  The  former,  now  deceased,  was  a  prominent  physician  of  Kahoka.  Both 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Hayman  were  representatives  of  prominent  Missouri  families.  To 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fisher  has  been  born  a  daughter,  Katherine.  whose  birth  occurred 
at  Hannibal,  April  21,  1900.  Mrs.  Fisher  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Art  Club 
and  is  very  prominent  in  social  circles. 

Mr.   Fisher,   while   the   United   States   was   at   war   with   Germany,   served   as   a 


550  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

member  of  the  legal  advisory  board  of  the  twenty-sixth  ward.  Fraternally  'he 
is  connected  with  the  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  belonging  to  Lodge 
No.  9,  and  with  Missouri  Council,  No.  107,  Royal  Arcanum,  of  which  he  was  regent 
in  1917-1918.  His  deep'  interest  in  the  welfare  and  progress  of  the  city  is  indi- 
cated in  his  connection  with  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  City  Club,  the  Civic 
League,  Riverview  Club,  the  St.  Louis  Art  League  and  the  West  End  Business 
Men's  Association.  His  aid  and  cooperation  can  at  all  times  he  counted  upon  to 
further  plans  and  measures  for  the  general  good.  Nature  endowed  him  with 
splendid  intellectual  powers  and  through  the  passing  years  he  has  used  his  talents 
wisely  and  well  not  only  for  the  development  of  his  own  fortunes  but  for  the 
benefit  of  his  fellowmen.  At  the  same  time  in  the  conduct  of  his  practice  he 
has  won  distinction  as  a  patent  attorney  and  has  also  become  identified  with  im- 
portant corporation  interests  which  have  contributed  to  the  commercial  growth 
and  progress  of  St.   Louis. 


GENERAL  JOHN  \V.  REID. 


The  life  history  of  General  John  W.  Reid  was  closely  interwoven  with  the  annals 
of  Kansas  City,  rendering  it  imperative  that  mention  be  made  of  him,  else  any  record 
of  the  public  activities  of  the  city  would  be  incomplete  and  unsatisfactory.  General 
Reid  was  born  near  Lynchburg,  'Virginia,  June  14,  1820,  his  parents  being  John 
Charles  and  Esther  (Austin)  Reid.  The  family  comes  of  Irish  ancestry,  the  line 
being  traced  back  through  four  generations  to  James  Reid,  who  was  the  first  of  the 
family  to  cross  the  Atlantic.  He  came  from  County  Tyrone,  Ireland,  in  1731,  and 
established  his  home  in  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania.  Since  that  time  various 
members  of  the  family  have  figured  prominently  in  connection  with  interests  and 
activities  which  have  constituted  a  vital  force  in  the  development  of  different  section^ 
of  the  country.  John  Charles  Reid  and  his  brother,  the  Rev.  Henry  Reid,  who  was 
a  prominent  minister  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  were  the  masters  of  a  noted  sem- 
inary at  Lynchburg,  Virginia.  The  first  named  served  during  the  War  of  1812  as  a 
member  of  a  company  of  Virginia  militia  commanded  by  Captain  Dunnington,  and 
valor  and  loyalty  have  ever  been  among  the  marked  characteristics  of  the  represen- 
tatives of  the  name.  In  early  manhood  John  C.  Reid  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Esther  Austin,  a  daughter  of  William  Austin,  representative  of  an  old  Welsh  family, 
who  served  as  a  captain  in  the  colonial  militia  and  afterward  held  a  similar  com- 
mission while  on  duty  with  the  colonial  troops  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  Mrs.  Reid 
was  also  the  granddaughter  of  Robert  Alexander,  founder  of  Liberty  Hall  Academy, 
now  the  Washington  and  Lee  University,  which  was  the  first  classical  school  west 
of  the  Alleghany  mountains. 

After  spending  the  early  years  of  his  life  in  his  native  state  John  W.  Reid,  when 
a  lad  of  twelve,  was  taken  to  Laporte,  Indiana,  where  he  attended  the  publia  schools 
and  also  continued  his  education  under  private  instruction,  thus  acquiring  a  good 
classical  training.  He  came  to  Missouri  when  a  young  man  of  about  twenty  years, 
residing  at  various  periods  in  Saline,  Cass,  Clay  and  Jackson  counties,  and  as  the 
years  passed  on  he  came  more  and  more  into  prominence  with  the  professional  and 
public  interests  of  the  state.  He  first  took  up  the  work  of  school  teaching  and  while 
thus  engaged  read  law,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  after  thorough  preparation  therefor. 
He  always  applied  himself  with  thoroughness  to  the  mastery  of  legal  principles  and 
displalyed  considerable  ability  in  the  handling  of  litigated  interests.  When  the  United 
States  entered  into  war  with  Mexico  he  put  aside  all  business  and  personal  considera- 
ations  and  raised  a  company  of  mounted  volunteers  in  Saline  county,  of  which  he  was 
elected  captain.  This  company  was  attached  to  the  command  of  General  A.  W.  Doni- 
phan and  participated  in  the  great  overland  march  to  northern  Mexico.  The  success 
which  attended  the  operations  of  this  small  expedition  was  extraordinary,  and  one 
might  say  that  to  it  and  to  Kearny's  expedition,  operating  on  identical  lines,  was 
due  the  acquisition  of  all  territory  gained  by  the  United  States  prior  to  1898.  General 
Doniphan  had  high  regard  for  Captain  Reid  as  a  most  ambitious  and  resolute  officer, 
and  in  the  "History  of  Doniphan's  Expedition,"  written  by  Hughes,  the  same  estimate 
of  his  character  and  ability  is  given.  While  in  Mexico,  Captain  Reid  was  wounded 
and  left  the  service  when  his  command  was  mustered  out  at  New  Orleans  the  fol- 
lowing year. 


GENERAL  JOHN  W.  REID 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  553 

With  his  return  to  western  Missouri,  Captain  Raid  entered  upon  the  practice  of 
law  at  Independence,  Jackson  county,  and  in  1855  assisted  in  the  revision  of  the 
statutes  of  the  state.  He  was  a  recognized  leader  in  political  circles  and  served  as 
a  member  of  the  legislature  and  also  took  a  considerable  part  in  the  border  troubles 
preceding  the  Civil  war.  He  was  twice  a  candidate  for  congress,  being  defeated  on 
the  first  occasion  but  elected  in  1860,  although  he  resigned  his  seat  a  few  months 
later.  He  was  appointed  a  commissioner  to  adjust  claims  against  the  Confederate 
government  but  probably  had  little  time  for  the  exercise  of  this  function,  as  through 
the  exigencies  of  war  he  spent  a  year  in  the  federal  prison  in  St.  Louis,  being  re- 
leased  on  parole   to  take  no  further  part  in   the  war. 

Captain  Reid  became  a  resident  of  Kansas  City  about  1865  and  resumed  the 
practice  of  law.  He  likewise  became  interested  in  financial  affairs.  In  April,  1865, 
upon  the  organization  of  the  Kansas  City  Savings  Association,  he,  became  president 
of  this  institution,  which  was  the  forerunner  of  a  number  of  banks  in  the  state,  the 
movement  reaching  its  ultimate  achievement  in  the  establishment  of  thfe  National 
Bank  of  Commerce  of  Kansas  City.  As  a  means  of  developing  the  material  interests 
of  the  city  and  because  of  his  earnest  desire  to  promote  the  public  welfare,  Mr.  Reid 
became  an  active  factor  in  political  circles,  although  not  an  aspirant  for  office.  He 
nevertheless  exerted  much  influence  in  molding  public  thought  and  opinion  and  was 
closely  associated  with  many  important  public  activities.  He  was  largely  instru- 
mental in  securing  the  first  bridge  and  also  the  building  of  the  first  railroad  into 
Kansas  City,  which  probably  more  than  any  other  agency  influenced  the  future 
development  of  the  then  small  town.  In  later  years  he  gradually  withdrew  from  the 
practice  of  law  to  devote  his  attention  to  his  private  business  affairs  and  was  thus 
engaged  when  death  suddenly  called  him  at  Lee's  Summit  in  1893,  while  he  was 
returning  from  his  farm  near  that  place.  The  sterling  worth  of  his  character,  his 
contribution  to  public  progress,  his  loyalty  to  his  friends  and  his  many  substantial 
and  admirable  traits  caused  his  death  to  be  a  matter  of  keen  regret  to  all  with  whom 
he  had  been  brought  in  contact. 

Mr.  Reid  was  first  married  to  Mrs.  Flournoy  and  they  had  one  son,  John  Henry. 
Captain  Reid  afterward  wedded  Sallie  Cochrane  Magraw,  a  daughter  of  William 
M.  P.  Magraw,  of  Independence,  Missouri,  who  was  a  pioneer  in  the  Santa  Fe  trade 
and  a  man  of  means  and  influence.  The  son  of  this  marriage,  William  M.  Reid,  is 
mentioned  at  length  on  another  page  of  this  work.  By  the  careful  management  of 
his  business  interests  Mr.  Reid  had  become,  in  the  course  of  years,  a  man  of  large 
wealth,  and  he  had  left  the  impress  of  his  individuality  and  ability  upon  the  history 
of  his  adopted   city   and   state   in   many  ways. 


PAUL   J.    WIELANDY. 


Paul  J.  Wielandy  is  the  president  of  the  Blackwell-Wielandy  Book  &  Stationery 
Company  of  St.  Louis,  but  he  is  much  more  than  that.  He  is  a  man  of  well  rounded 
character  whose  activities  touch  the  general  interests  of  society.  While  he  has  been 
a  potent  force  in  the  upbuilding  of  one  of  the  important  commercial  enterprises  of 
the  city,  he  has  at  the  same  time  been  the  champion  and  promoter  of  many  public 
interests  of  wide  general  worth,  patriotism  standing  as  an  unquestioned  fact  in  his 
career,  while  in  the  adoption  of  high  public  ideals  he  utilizes  the  most  practical 
methods.  Then,  too,  the  social  qualities  of  his  nature  are  such  that'the  circle  o£ 
his  friends  is  almost  coextensive  with  the  circle  of  his  acquaintance. 

Mr.  Wielandy  is  a  native  son  of  Missouri,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Jefferson 
City.  June  5,  1864.  His  father,  John  F.  Wielandy,  was  born  in  Geneva,  Switzerland, 
and  came  to  Missouri  in  his  youth.  Taking  up  the  study  of  law,  he  was  examined 
for  admission  to  the  bar  by  Abraham  Lincoln.  For  many  years  he  maintained  a 
prominent  position  as  an  active  lawyer,  as  a  legislator  and  a  man  of  affairs  in 
Missouri.  Five  times  he  represented  his  district  in  the  general  assembly  and  left 
the  impress  of  his  individuality  and  ability  upon  the  laws  of  the  state.  He  was 
also  secretary  of  the  board  of  agriculture  for  Missouri.  He  married  Kate  Wagner, 
who  came  to  the  United  States  from  Germany  when  five  years  of  age,  her  parents 
being  among  the  early  settlers  of  this  city.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wielandy  had  a  family 
of  seven  children,  of  whom  Paul  J.  was  the  fourth  in  order  of  birth.  The  mother 
passed  away  in   1899,   while  the   death  of  the  father  occurred   in   the  year  of   1912. 


554  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Paul  J.  Wielandy  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis, 
where  for  forty  years  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  book  and  stationery  business. 
He  was  first  employed  by  the  old  St.  Louis  Book  &  News  Company  and  then  went 
upon  the  road  for  the  firm  of  Shorb  &  Boland,  a  book  and  stationery  house  of 
St.  Louis,  which  he  thus  represented  ffJr  twenty  years.  He  withdrew  from  that 
connection  to  organize  the  present  Blackwell-Wielandy  Book  &  Stationery  Company, 
joining  in  this  undertaking  his  brother,  F.  H.  Wielandy,  and  A.  M.  Blackwell,  ot 
Las  Vegas,  New  Mexico.  The  partnership  was  formed  in  January,  19  02,  with  Mr. 
Blackwell  as  the  president  and  Mr.  Wielandy  as  the  vice  president.  The  new  com- 
pany bought  out  the  John  L.  Boland  Book  &  Stationery  Company  on  the  18th  ot 
June,  1910.  From  the  beginning  it  has  constantly  increased  its  business  and  ex- 
tended the  scope  of  its  activities,  being  today  one  of  the  mammoth  commercial 
concerns  of  St.  Louis,  employing  four  hundred  people.  The  business  was  incor- 
porated December  24,  1901,  with  a  paid  up  capital  of  one  hundred  thousand  dollars 
and  the  company  opened  its  doors  for  business  May  1,  1902.  A  year  later  the 
capital  stock  was  increased  to  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  and  more 
commodious  quarters  were  secured.  In  July,  1904,  the  capital  stock  was  doubled 
and  the  business  of  the  house  was  greatly  increased  in  1910,  when  they  took  over 
the  interests  of  the  John  L.  Boland  Book  &  Stationery  Company.  In  1912  they 
began  the  manufacture  of  loose  leaf  .blank  books,  under  controlling  patents,  box 
files,  tablets,  typewriter  papers  and  stationery  specialties.  From  time  to  time 
they  have  added  the  most  modern  machinery  with  all  labor-saving  devices  and 
their  plant  may  be  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  up-to-date  and  best  equipped  in 
the  country.  While  the  company  is  capitalized  for  five  hundred  thousand  dollars, 
they  also  have  a  surplus  of  two  hundred  and  forty-seven  thousand,  four  hundred 
and  forty-eight  dollars.  The  annual  sales  have  reached  more  than  four  million 
dollars.  They  have  recently  erected  a  large  new  building  ninety  by  one  hundred 
and  fifty-five  feet,  seven  stories  in  height  with  basement,  adjoining  their  old  build- 
ing, thus  giving  them  a  frontage  ot  one  hundred  and  ninety  feet  on  Locust  street, 
with  a  full  depth  of  one  hundred  and  fifty-five  feet  on  Sixteenth  street,  their  plant 
covering  an  area  of  approximately  two-thirds  of  a  square  city  block.  Mr.  Wielandy 
has  also  been  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Blackwell-Wielandy  Realty  Company, 
which  was  organized  to  furnish  capital  to  erect  adequate  factory  and  warehouse 
quarters,  and  he  is  interested  as  a  director  in  large  automobile  and  insurance 
companies.  The  Blackwell-Wielandy  Book  &  Stationery  Company  have  fourteen 
large  showrooms  in  fourteen  cities  and  do  an  enormous  business  in  books,  stationery 
and  holiday  goods  for  children.  In  1893  Mr.  Wielandy  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Louise  Angermueller,  of  St.  Louis,  and  they  have  one  daughter,  Louise,  who 
is  now  eleven  years  of  age.  Mr.  Wielandy  is  a  most  enthusiastic  hunter  and  fisher- 
man and  he  is  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Fish  and  Game  League,  formed  to  promote 
protective  legislation  for  game  and  fish,  for  the  true  sportsman  is  the  one  who  seeks 
to  protect  from  wilful  and  useless  slaughter  all  those  things  which  must  be  guarded 
against  extermination. 

Mr.  Wielandy  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Mount  Moriah  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
and  he  has  taken  the  degrees  of  both  the  York  and  Scottish  Rites,  while  with  the 
Nobles  of  Moolah  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  he  has  crossed  the  sands  ot  the 
desert.  He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  Chamber  of  Commerce,  also  to  the  Business 
Men's  League  and  to  the  Civic  League,  in  which  he  has  served  as  a  member  of  the 
executive  committee.  He  is  now  the  president  of  the  City  Club,  is  an  active  worker 
in  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  serving  on  its  official  board,  and  is  a 
valued  member  of  the  Evangelical  Lutheran  church.  His  political  allegiance  is 
given  to  the  republican  party  and  his  patriotism  is  such  as  transcends  all  partisan- 
ship. He  was  most  helpfully  interested  in  many  war  activities  and  was  one  of  the. 
captains  in  St.  Louis  on  the  Liberty  Loan  drives.  In  all  ot  his  undertakings, 
whether  in  the  upbuilding  of  his  individual  fortunes  or  the  advancement  of  the 
public  welfare,  he  has  been  remarkably  successful.  He  has  fathered  many  public 
matters,  often  against  strong  opposition,  but  he  never  makes  an  enemy,  displaying 
notable  tact  in  handling  men  and  never  losing  his  temper.  He  has  never  been 
known  to  surrender  a  principle  to  popularity.  He  is  a  man  ot  excellent  judgment 
and  he  cannot  be  swerved  from  a  stand  which  he  believes  to  be  right,  yet  it  would 
be  difficult  to  find  one  who  awakens  so  little  antagonism  among  those  who  hold 
dissimilar  views.  One  who  has  known  him  for  many  years  said:  "Energy,  ver- 
satility  and   power   to    handle   men   are    among   his   marked   characteristics.      He   is 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  555 

regarded  as  a  most  efficient  and  popular  leader  in  club  activities  and  is  an  enter- 
tainer of  unusual  charm  and  humor.  He  is  a  pleasing  and  convincing  talker,  notably 
quick  at  repartee,  especially  at  public  banquets."  Another  has  said:  "He  is  a 
delightful  companion,  very  witty,  full  of  good  cheer,  possesses  a  keen  sense  of  humor 
and  is  an  exceptionally  good  story  teller.  He  is  a  grand  host  and  his  family  rela- 
tions are  ideal."  His  entire  life  has  been  the  embodiment  of  the  Emersonian 
philosophy,   "The  way  to  win  a  friend  is  to  be  one." 


JOHN    S.    BATES. 


John  S.  Bates,  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  law  in  Kansas  City,  was  born 
at  Sarcoxie,  Missouri,  November  27,  1886.  His  mother  died  during  his  infancy. 
His  father,  John  R.  Bates,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  removed  to  Illinois  in  early  life 
and  was  a  prosperous  farmer  of  that  state  in  the  later  years  of  his  life,  previous 
to  which  time,  however,  he  had  for  years  been  superintendent  of  a  state  institution 
at  Jacksonville,  Illinois.  During  the  gold  rush  to  California  in  1849  he  made  his 
way  to  the  Pacific  coast  and  while  en  route  participated  in  fights  with  the  Indians. 
He,  too,  has  passed  away. 

John  S.  Bates,  after  attending  the  district  schools  of  Greene  county,  Missouri, 
was  graduated  from  the  high  school  at  Springfield,  Missouri,  and  was  also  a  student 
of  Drury  College  at  Springfield.  He  later  became  a  student  in  the  Kansas  City 
School  of  Law  and  won  his  LL.  B.  degree  in  1912.  He  was  then  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  Jackson  county,  where  he  has  since  practiced  his  profession.  He  has  never 
entered  into  partnership  relations,  always  continuing  alone,  and  his  success  and 
progress  may  be  attributed  entirely  to  his  own  efforts  and  ability.  Never  special- 
izing in  any  particular  line,  he  has  continued  in  general  practice,  trying  all  kinds 
of  cases  and  trying  them  well. 

In  1915  Mr.  Bates  was  married  to  Miss  Myrtle  Tyler,  of  Cabool,  Missouri,  and 
they  have  two  children,  Ruth  and  Eva,  aged  respectively  four  and  two  years.  Mr. 
Bates  belongs  to  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  and  is  identified  with  several 
fraternal  organizations,  belonging  to  Albert  Pike  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  also 
to  Sicilian  Lodge  No.  39  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Lodge 
No.  10  of  the  Loyal  Order  of  Moose,  while  of  the  social  order,  the  Knights  of 
Khorassan,  he  is  the  royal  vizier.  In  politics  he  is  an  active  republican.  He  is 
likewise  widely  known  as  "a  campaign  speaker  and  his  oratory,  his  convincing  state- 
ments and  his  sound  logic  have  had  no  little  influence  upon  shaping  the  growth 
and  securing  support  for  the  party.  Along  strictly  professional  lines  his  connect 
tion  is  with  the"  Jackson  County  Bar  Association. 


WILLIAM  HARRISON  McINTIRE. 

William  Harrison  Mclntire  is  an  excellent  example  of  that  class  of  men  to 
whom  energy  and  enterprise  have  constituted  the  key  that  unlocked  the  portals 
of  success.  Today  he  is  prominently  known  in  newspaper  circles  and  also  through 
his  activities  in  the  field  of  real  estate  at  Vandalia,  handling  both  city  and  farm 
properties.  He  was  born  upon  a  claim  near  El  Dorado,  Kansas,  October  23,  1876, 
and  is  a  son  of  Edwin  C.  and  Prances  Mclntire.  The  father  was  the  son  of  a 
Methodist  preacher  and  enjoyed  a  liberal  university  education.  Becoming  inter- 
ested in  the  west  and  its  opportunities,  he  went  to  Kansas,  settling  on  a  claim, 
and  there  he  engaged  in  farming  and  hunting  with  the  Indians  while  growing  up 
with  the  country.  The  grasshopper  scourge,  however,  which  completely  destroyed 
the  crops,  so  discouraged  him  that  he  returned  to  Indiana  in  a  "boomer"  wagon. 
He  had  taken  his  wife  to  this  claim  as  a  bride  and  she  had  experienced  all  the 
hardships  and  privations  incident  to  frontier  life  with  her  husband.  While  there 
residing  they  drove  to  Wichita  in  a  big  wagon  to  do  their  trading,  and  as  there 
were  no  fences,  it  was  a  cross  country  trip  which  required  all  day  to  go  and  come. 
Their  claim  was  situated  near  the  present  site  of  the  leading  oil  field  of  the  world. 
Following  their  return  to  Indiana  they  remained  in  that  state  until  they  could 
again  get  upon  their  feet  financially,  after  which  they  once  more  became  residents 


556  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

of  Kansas,  settling  in  Rice  county,  where  Mr.  Mclntire  engaged  in  railroading, 
continuing  in  that  business  until   his  death. 

William  Harrison  Mclntire  had  the  advantages  only  of  a  public  and  high 
school  education,  pursued  in  Caldwell,  Kansas,  and  in  Syracuse,  New  York.  The 
greater  part  of  his  knowledge  has.  been  gained  in  the  school  of  experience  and 
hard  knocks.  He  has  had  varied  business  training,  working  at  different  times  in 
connection  with  the  hardware  and  grocery  business,  also  in  a  feed  store,  an  eating 
house,  a  dry  goods  store  and  in  connection  with  telephone  and  newspaper  interests. 
His  advancement  has  not  been  made  by  leaps  and  bounds  but  by  that  orderly 
progression  which  indicates  a  mastery  of  every  task  undertaken.  From  grocery 
clerk  he  has  worked  up  gradually,  trading  and  saving,  until  today  as  the  result 
of  his  capability  and  judicious  investments  he  is  the  owner  of  two  fine  farms,  one 
of  a  hundred  and  sixty  acres  and  the  other  of  two  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  which 
return  to  him  a  most  gratifying  annual  income.  He  also  buys  and  sells  real 
estate,  dealing  in  farm  and  city  properties,  and  his  activities  of  that  character 
have  contributed  in  substantial  measure  to  his  present  prosperity.  He  is  likewise 
a  prominent  newspaper  man,  owning  a  fine  plant  housed  in  its  own  business  build- 
ing, and  publishing  the  Vandalia  Mail. 

On  the  14th  of  June,  1900,  in  Caldwell,  Kansas,  Mr.  Mclntire  was  married 
to  Miss  Molly  E.  Ridings,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  H.  Ridings,  and  they  are 
now  parents  of  three  children:  Deirdre,  Glenn  and  Bruce.  The  parents  hold 
membership  in  the  Christian  church  and  Mr.  Mclntire  is  a  Knight  Templar  and 
thirty-second  degree  Mason  and  Shriner;  also  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows.  His  political  endorsement  is  given  to  the  democratic  party,  but 
the  honors  and  emoluments  of  office  have  had  no  attraction  for  him,  as  he  has 
preferred  always  to  concentrate  his  efforts  and  attention  upon  his  business  affairs, 
his  close  application  and  indefatigable  energy  winning  him  a  substantial  place 
among   the   prosperous  residents   of  Vandalia. 


ARCHIBALD   McVEY. 


Eighty-three  years  have  been  added  to  the  cycle  of  the  centuries  since  Archibald 
McVey  started  upon  life's  journey.  The  United  States  was  at  that  time  under  the 
leadership  of  its  fifth  president,  three  of  the  number,  however,  having  served  tor 
a  second  term.  In  the  years  which  have  come  and  gone  wonderful  indeed  have 
been  the  changes  wrought  and  the  progress  made  along  many  lines,  and  at  all 
times  Mr.  McVey  has  been  an  interested  witness,  while  in  his  home  locality  he 
has  ever  been  prominent  in  the  work  of  progress  and  advancement.  He  was  born 
in  Genesee  county,  New  York,  in  18.36  and  is  a  son  of  William  and  Margaret  (Dow) 
McVey,  who  were  natives  of  Scotland,  born  in  180  6  and  1808  respectively.  In 
early  manhood  the  father  crossed  the  Atlantic  and  became  a  resident  of  western 
New  York,  where  he  devoted  his  life  to  farming. 

Archibald  McVey  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  state  and  worked 
upon  the  home  farm  during  the  period  of  his  boyhood  and  youth.  At  the  time 
of  the  Civil  war,  however,  he  put  aside  all  business  and  personal  consideration 
and  joined  the  navy,  becoming  paymaster  with  rank  the  same  as  captain  in  the 
army.  In  1862  and  1863  he  was  connected  with  the  West  Gulf  Squadron  under 
Admiral  Farragut  and  through  the  succeeding  two  years  served  as  paymaster  in 
the  South  Atlantic  Squadron  for  the  flagship  John  Adams,  upon  which  he  was 
stationed  and  which  was  then  standing  off  Charleston.  He  likewise  had  charge  of 
accounts  of  ten  mortar  schooners  and  tugs  and  a  naval  battery  on  Morris  Island 
numbering  one  hundred  men.  making  in  all  the  largest  number  of  men  and  officers 
carried  on  the  books  of  any  volunteer  naval  paymaster  in  the  service.  Among  the 
responsible  duties  which  fell  to  his  lot  was  that  of  provisioning  the  fleet  of  Charles- 
ton, a  fleet  that  never  numbered  less  than  thirty  vessels,  some  of  them  being  the 
largest  in  the  naval  service.  Considered  from  all  points  of  view,  the  position  which 
he  filled  was  about  the  most  important  held  by  any  officer  of  his  rank  away  from 
a  home  station.  A  unique  feature  of  the  duties  which  fell  to  his  lot  and  the 
only  incident  of  the  kind  occurring  during  the  war,  was  his  paying  off  a  month's 
salary  by  flag  of  truce  to  the  naval  officers  in  the  prison  in  Charleston.     This  money 


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was  taken  charge  of  by  General  Ripley,  who  was  in  command  at  Charleston  at  the 
time,  and  every  dollar  of  it  was  scrupulously  paid  by  the  General  to  those  for  whom 
it  was  intended.  General  Ripley  was  a  man  of  the  highest  sense  of  honor  and  a 
West  Pointer,  and  this  package  of  money  which  was  given  to  him  for  transmis- 
sion was  of  more  actual  value  than  all  the  Confederate  script  In  the  city  of  Charles- 
ton. Captain  McVey  was  the  first  to  laud  at  that  city  after  the  surrender  and  he 
received  his  honorable  discharge  in  1866. 

When  the  blockade  was  lifted  and  Captain  McVey  returned  northward  he  left 
New  York  with  the  intention  of  making  his  way  to  Omaha,  but  changed  his  mind 
and  in  December,  1866,  arrived  in  Chillicothe,  still  wearing  the  blue  naval  uniform 
of  his  country.  From  that  time  to  the  present  he  has  been  a  valued  and  honored 
resident  of  this  city,  where  for  many  years  he  figured  prominently  in  connection 
with  its  mercantile  interests.  He  established  a  small  general  store  and  with  the 
growth  of  the  city  he  enlarged  his  establishment  until  the  McVey  Dry  Goods  store 
became  and  remains  today  the  largest  of  the  kind  in  the  city.  He  erected  a  modern 
double  store  building  supplied  with  all  modern  fixtures  in  the  way  of  lighting  and 
heating  as  well  as  counter  and  other  equipment.  He  made  his  store  in  every  way 
attractive  to  the  public  through  its  neat  and  tasteful  arrangement,  the  fine  line  of 
goods  carried  and  the  treatment  accorded  patrons.  Thus  his  business  grew  year 
by  year,  Mr.  McVey  remaining  an  active  factor  in  its  conduct  until  1913,  when  he 
retired  from  active  business  and  has  since  enjoyed  a  rest  which  he  has  truly  earned 
and  richly  deserves. 

In  1866  Mr.  McVey  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Carrie  E.  Hawley,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Alonzo  Hawley,  and  two  children  were  born, to  this  union:  Prances  M.,  the 
wife  of  J.  H.  Barclay,  of  Chillicothe;  and  Nellie,  the  wife  of  W.  D.  Vincent,  of 
Spokane,  Washington.  Mr.  Barclay  became  a  partner  of  Mr.  McVey  in  the  McVey 
Dry  Goods  Company. 

Captain  McVey  has  long  been  an  exemplary  representative  of  the  Masonic 
fraternity,  connected  with  lodge,  chapter  and  commandery,  and  he  also  belongs 
to  the  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and  the  Loyal  Legion.  The  cause 
of  education  has  ever  found  in  him  a  stalwart  champion  and  for  eleven  years  he 
was  a  member  of  the  school  board  of  Chillicothe.  He  entered  the  board  determined 
to  secure  for  the  city  good  school  buildings  and  he  never  ceased  his  efforts  until 
this  was  accomplished.  He  was  curator  for  six  years  of  the  Missouri  State  Uni- 
versity, being  appointed  by  Governor  Dockery.  For  several  years  he  served  as  a 
member  of  the  city  council  of  Chillicothe  and  for  two  terms  as  mayor  of  the  city 
and  his  public  duties  were  ever  discharged  with  marked  capability,  promptness, 
and  fidelity.  His  entire  life  has  been  one  of  valuable  service  to  his  fellowmen 
and  he  is  today  one  of  tjie  most  honored  as  well  as  one  of  the  most  venerable 
citizens  of  Chillicothe.  For  many  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Episcopal 
church,  of  which  he  is  now  senior  warden.  His  long  lite  has  been  one  of  useful 
activity  and  in  life's  twilight  his  friends  have  reason  to  feel  that  the  flower  of  his 
youth  has  reached  rich  fruition  in  manhood. 


ORESTES  MITCHELL. 


Orestes  Mitchell,  president  of  the  St.  Joseph  Bar  Association  and  enjoying  a 
large  and  lucrative  practice,  principally  in  corporation  law,  was  born  near  Beuna 
Vista,  Indiana,  December  26,  1876,  his  parents  being  Levi  and  Sarah  E.  Mitchell. 
The  father  was  a  farmer  and  school  teacher,  devoting  many  years  to  those  pur- 
suits, but  for  several  years  past  has  been  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  in 
St.  Joseph. 

The  removal  of  the  family  to  this  city  enabled  Orestes  Mitchell  to  pursue 
his.  education  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  St.  Joseph  and  later  he  entered 
the  Missouri  State  University  as  a  law  student,  being  graduated  therefrom  in  June, 
1900,  with  the  LL.  B.  degree.  He  at  once  entered  upon  active  practice,  becoming 
assistant  claims  attorney  for  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  at  St. 
Joseph.  He  occupied  that  position  until  March  1,  1907,  when  he  resigned  and 
entered  upon  the  general  practice  of  his  profession,  in  which  he  is  still  engaged. 
He  has  always  largely  specialized  in  corporation  law  and  his  practice  of  this  char- 

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560  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

acter  is  extensive  and  lucrative.  He  enjoys  the  confidence  and  high  regard  of  his 
professional  colleagues  and  contemporaries  and  he  is  remarkable  among  lawyers 
for  the  wide  research  and  provident  care  with  which  he  prepares  his  cases.  His 
logical  grasp  of  facts  and  principles  of  the  law  applicable  to  them  has  been  a 
potent  element  in  his  success  and  the  remarkable  clearness  of  expression  and  ade- 
quate and  precise  diction  which  enable  him  to  make  others  understand  not  only 
the  salient  points  of  his  argument  but  his  every  fine  gradation  of  meaning,  may 
be  accounted  one  of  his  conspicuous  gifts  and  accomplishments. 

On  the  15th  of  April,  1901,  Mr.  Mitchell  was  married  to  Miss  Inez  Altavia 
Samuel  at  St.  Joseph,  daughter  of  Cumberland  G.  and  Martha  A.  Samuel.  Their 
children  are  Samuel  Orestes,  Martha  Elizabeth,  Francis  Marion  and  Maryle  Florence. 
The  parents  are  members  of  the  Huffman  Memorial  Methodist  Episcopal  church 
and  Mr.  Mitchell  also  has  membership  in  the  St.  Joseph  Country  Club,  the  Com- 
mercial Club  and  the  Elks  Club.  He  is  a  very  prominent  Mason,  belonging  to 
Charity  Lodge,  No.  331,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  which  he  served  as  worshipful  master 
during  1910.  He  is  likewise  a  member  of  Radiant  Chapter,  No.  88,  of  the  Order 
of  Eastern  Star,  of  which  he  was  worthy  patron  in  1910.  He  has  gone  up  through 
both  routes,  belonging  to  Mitchell  Chapter,  No.  14,  R.  A.  M.;  Hugh  de  Payens 
Commandery,  No.  4,  K.  T.;  St.  Joseph  Council,  No.  9,  R.  &  S.  M.:  Moila  Temple, 
A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.,  of  which  he  was  potentate  during  the  year  1918,  while  in  the 
Scottish  Rite  he  is  connected  with  St.  Joseph  Lodge  of  Perfection,  No.  6;  St. 
Joseph  Chapter  of  the  Rose  Croix;  Albert  Pike  Council  of  Kadosh;  and  St. 
Joseph  Consistory,  No.  4,  S.  P.  R.  S.  He  served  as  venerable  master  of  St. 
Joseph  Lodge  of  Perfection,  No.  6,  and  he  was  made  a  knight  commander  of 
the  Court  of  Honor  by  the  Supreme  Council,  A.  A.  S.  R.,  on  the  19th  of 
October,  1911.  He  received  the  honorai-y  thirty-third  degree  at  Washington, 
D.  C,  October  24,  1913,  and  on  the  18th  of  September,  1919,  he  was  ap- 
pointed grand  junior  deacon  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Masons  of  Missouri.  His 
political  endorsement  is  given  to  the  democratic  party  and  in  August,  1911,  he  was 
its  candidate  for  nomination  for  circuit  Judge  of  Buchanan  county.  He  served  as 
a  member  of  the  board  of  education  of  St.  Joseph  from  April  1,  1911,  until  April, 
1920,  and  was  elected  president  of  the  board  for  the  years  1916-18.  During  the 
World  war  he  was  a  permanent  member  of  the  legal  advisory  board  and  govern- 
ment appeal  agent,  associated  with  draft  board  No.  1  at  St.  Joseph.  He  was  also 
a  member  of  the  Americanization  committee  of  the  State  Council  of  Defense,  rep- 
resenting Buchanan  and  neighboring  counties;  was  one  of  the  Four  Minute  men  of 
St.  Joseph  and  participated  in  all  of  the  war  drives.  In  fact  during  the  period  of 
hostilities  he  devoted  the  greater  portion  of  his  time  to  the  various  activities 
incident  to   the   war  work.  , 


R.   KING   KAUFFMAN. 


Among  those  men  who  form  the  coterie  of  leaders  in  the  financial  circles  of  St. 
Louis  is  numbered  R.  King  Kauffman,  the  vice  president  of  the  Mercantile  Trust 
Company,  nor  have  his  efforts  been  confined  alone  to  one  line,  but  have  been  important 
elements  in  the  organization  and  direction  of  various  business  concerns  which  are 
elements  in  the  commercial  and  financial  growth  of  the  city  as  well  as  sources  of 
profit   to    individual    stockholders. 

Mr.  Kauffman  dates  his  residence  in  St.  Louis  from  1887,  but  is  a  native  of  San 
Diego,  Texas,  his  birth  having  there  occurred  August  25,  1879.  He  is  a  son  of  Albert 
B.  Kauffman,  who  was  a  colonel  of  the  United  States  army,  in  which  he  served  for 
forty-eight  years,  participating  in  the  Mexican  and  Civil  wars  and  in  two  Indian 
wars.  His  entire  service  was  west  of  the  Mississippi  and  upon  the  country's  frontier 
boundaries.  He  was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  as  was  his  father,  while  his  grand- 
father came  originally  from  Holland.  Colonel  Kauffman  established  his  home  in 
Missouri  and  spent  twenty-eight  years  in  this  state,  passing  away  in  1917.  He  rendered 
most  valuable  aid  to  his  country  through  almost  a  half  century  and  his  name  should 
be  inscribed  high  on  the  military  records  of  the  nation.  He  wedded  Sarah  F.  Cochrane. 
a  native  of  Massachusetts,  who  is  still  living  at  the  age  of  seventy-one  years,  and  they 
became  the   parents  of   five   children. 


R.    KING    KAUFFMAN 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  563 

R.  King  Kauffman  was  educated  in  various  schools  at  the  different  army  posts 
where  his  father  was  stationed,  also  attended  the  schools  of  Webster  Groves,  a  suburb 
of  St.  Louis,  and  for  a  time  was  a  student  in  Washington  University.  Like  his  father 
he  joined  the  army,  becoming  a  member  of  the  Eighth  United  States  Cavalry,  to  which 
he  was  attached  for  two  years,  during  which  time  he  was  on  duty  in  Cuba,  serving 
as  sergeant  when  he  left  the  army.  When  he  took  up  the  pursuits  of  civilian  life 
he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Wabash  Railway,  with  which  he  was  connected  in  a 
clerical  capacity  for  three  years.  He  was  later  with  the  Pacific  Express  Company 
for  three  years  and  then  became  connected  with  the  Mercantile  Trust  Company  in 
its  real  estate  department.  He  worked  his  way  upward  through  various  positions, 
winning  advancement  by  his  highly  developed  capability  until  he  was  elected  to  the 
office  of  vice  president  of  this  great  financial  concern  in  1917.  He  is  likewise  the 
vice  president  and  one  of  the  directors  of  the  John  R.  Thompson  Company  of  Chicago, 
controlling  many  restaurants  in  the  United  States;  is  the  vice  president  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Temtor  Corn  &  Fruit  Products  Company,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the 
organizers,  this  company  being  extensively  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  syrups  and 
preserves;  is  a  director  of  the  Best-Clymer  Company,  a  subsidiary  preserving  com- 
pany of  the  Temtor  company;  is  a  director  of  the  Piggly-Wiggly  Company,  having 
organized  the  Missouri  branch  of  that  great  commercial  concern;  and  is  also  a  trustee 
of  the  Home  &  Housing  Association  of  St.  Louis;  a  director  of  the  St.  Louis  Real 
Estate  Exchange;  a  director  and  vice  president  of  Lowe's  Real  Estate  &  Amusement 
Company;  a  director  of  No.  1  Wall  Street  Corporation,  of  which  he  is  also  treasurer; 
and  a  director  of  the  St.  Louis  Coliseum  Company.  Thus  with  many  corporations 
he  is  actively  connected,  his  voice  having  weight  in  the  management  of  these  exten- 
sive concerns,  which  are  among  the  most  prominent  commercial  and  financial  interests 
of  America. 

In  1903  Mr.  Kauffman  was  married  to  Miss  E.  Eleonore  Lohr  of  Cairo,  Illinois, 
a  daughter  of  Andrew  Lohr,  one  of  the  pioneers  and  prominent  citizens  of  that  place. 
Two  children  have  been  born  of  this  marriage:  R.  King,  Jr.,  twelve  years  of  age; 
and  Anne  Drew,  nine  years  of  age,  both   in  school. 

Mr.  Kauffman  is  a  popular  figure  in  the  club  circles  of  St.  Louis.  He  belongs 
to  the  St.  Louis  City,  Sunset  Hill  and  Algonquin  Clubs,  the  Illinois  Athletic  Club, 
the  New  York  Athletic  Club,  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  the  Legion  of  For- 
eign Wars,  the  Rotary  Club,  the  Travel  Club  of  America,  the  St.  Louis  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  the  Automobile  Club  and  the  St.  Louis  Salesmanship  Club.  He  is  a  Mason, 
and  belongs  to  Ascalon  Commandery,  No.  16,  of  the  Knights  Templar.  His  business 
activities  have  made  his  name  a  familiar  one  almost  from  coast  to  coast  and  his 
social  qualities  have  rendered  him  popular  wherever  he  is  known.  He  has  long 
since  passed  the  point  of  mediocrity  and  reached  a  position  where  he  is  active  in 
control  of  mammoth  interests,  being  a  man  of  broad  vision  and  high  purpose,  while 
his  intelligently  directed  effort  has  made  his  career  one  of  successful  accomplishment. 


ROBERT   L.   LUND. 


Robert  L.  Lund,  since  1906  identified  with  the  shoe  trade  of  St.  Louis,  his. 
efforts  constituting  a  potent  force  in  making  this  one  of  the  great  shoe  manufac- 
turing and  distributing  centers  of  tlie  country,  was  born  in  Louisville,  Kentucky, 
June  14,  1875,  his  parents  being  Harry  M.  and  Sarah  (Stevens)  Lund,  whose  family 
numbered  two  daughters  and  two  sons:  Elizabeth,  Clara,  Robert  L.  and  Alfred  M. 
The  father  is  now  deceased.  The  mother,  who  is  still  living,  is  a  descendant  of  the 
famous  Stevens  family  of  England,  which  gave  to  the  world  the  inventor  of  the 
steam  engine. 

Robert  L.  Lund  attended  the  public  schools  of  Louisville  and  the  Vanderbilt 
University  at  Nashville,  Tennessee,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  degree 
of  Civil  Engineer  in  1895,  while  in  1897  he  received  the  Master  of  Science  degree. 
In  the  latter  year  he  was  made  professor  at  the  Vanderbilt  University  and  so 
continued  until  1903.  Through  the  succeeding  three  years  he  was  consulting  en- 
gineer at  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  and  in  1906  came  to  St.  Louis  where  he  entered 
into  connection  with  the  shoe  manufacturing  firm  of  Roberts,  Johnson  &  Rand, 
later  merged  into  the  International  Shoe  Company,   in  the  capacity  of  department 


Mi-i  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

manager.  He  afterward  became  one  o£  the  directors,  so  serving  until  1912.  In 
1915  Mr.  Lund  organized  the  Lund-Mauldin  Shoe  Compan.v,  now  capitalized  for 
one  million  dollars,  and  they  conduct  salesrooms  at  1101  Washington  avenue  and 
operate  shoe  factories  at   Highland  and   Vandalia,   Hlinoi.s. 

Mr.  Lund  was  married  at  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  to  Miss  Minnie  Yowell,  and 
their  children  are  Robert  L.,  Joel  Y.,  William  R.  and  Dorothy  Y.  Mrs.  Lund 
traces  her  ancestry  back  to  Captain  Madearis  (1770)  and  her  parents  were  promi- 
nent in  Little  Rock  circles.  Her  father  was  state  representative  of  the  Union 
Central  Lite  Insurance  Company  and  enjoyed  a  large  acquaintance  throughout 
Arkansas. 

Mr.  Lund  belongs  to  the  Noonday  and  City  Clubs  and  the  Ridgedale  Country 
Club  of  St.  Louis.  In  politics  he  is  inclined  to  the  democratic  party,  but  is  not 
strongly  partisan.  His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He 
greatly  enjoys  golf  and  motoring  and  has  recently  returned  from  a  motor  trip  of 
thirty-two  hundred   miles  through  Yellowstone   Park  and   the  golden   west. 


THOMAS  ADAMS  WITTEN. 


Thomas  Adams  Witten  is  a  lawyer  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri.  He  comes  from 
a  line  of  professional  men  of  Scotch  and  Irish  stock,  which  early  migrated  to 
Virginia  and  the  Carollnas,  the  family  settling  in  Tazewell  county.  Virginia,  before 
the  Revolution,  where  they  have  ever  since  been  influential,  particularly  in  pro- 
fessional and  political  affairs.  They  there  established  Witten  Fort,  which  became 
a  stronghold  of  importance  in  the  Indian  and  Revolutionary  wars.  The  father, 
Robert  W.  Witten,  was  a  physician  of  Tazewell  county  before  the  Civil  war.  .  He 
married  Sarah  F.  Riggs  of  Virginia.  Afterward  he  removed  to  Beckley,  Raleigh 
county,  (now)  West  Virginia;  and  it  was  here,  in  1858,  that  Thomas,  the  second 
of  five  children,  was  born.  The  name.  Adams,  is  in  honor  of  Steven  Adams,  a 
friend  of  the  family,  author  of  the  noted  song,  "The  Blue  Alsatian  Mountains," 
and  who  was  also  a  resident  of  Beckley.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  Dr. 
Witten  returned  to  Tazewell  county  and  entered  the  Confederate  service  under  the 
command  of  General  Henry  A.  Wise,  serving  with  distinction  as  a  surgeon  through- 
out the  war.  In  1866.  he  came  with  his  family  to  Grundy  county.  Missouri;  and 
was  one  of  the  leading  physicians  in  that  part  of  the  state  until  his  retirement 
from  active  practice  in  1895.  The  later  years  of  his  life  were  spent  with  his  son. 
Dr.   K.  W.  Witten  of  Oklahoma  City. 

Thomas  A.  Witten  spent  his  boyhood  in  Grundy  county.  He  there  attended, 
and,  at  an  early  age,  was  a  teacher  in  the  public  schools.  He  was  educated  in 
the  sciences,  the  classics  and  in  literature  in  Grand  River  College  at  Edinburg. 
Missouri,  and  was  graduated  with  high  honors  from  that  college  in  1879,  receiving 
the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts.  The  year  of  his  graduation,  he  went  to  Huntington, 
West  Virginia;  and  for  the  school  year  ensuing  was  elected  and  served  as  first 
assistant  principal  of  Marshall  College.  During  this  and  the  succeeding  year,  he 
also  devoted  himself  to  the  study  of  the  law  under  the  guidance  of  his  uncle.  Judge 
E.  Ward,  then  judge  of  the  ninth  judicial  district  of  West  Virginia;  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  West  Virginia  bar  in  1881.  He  returned  in  the  fall  of  1881  to 
Trenton,  Missouri:  and  there  he  began,  and,  for  six  years,  pursued  the  practice 
of  the  law.  But  the  increasing  demands  of  his  business  were  such  that,  in  October. 
1887,  he  removed  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  lived  and  been  active  in  the  prac- 
tice since.  He  was  a  partner  for  a  number  of  years  with  Judge  I.  H.  Kinley  and 
Samuel  Foster,  under  the  name  of  Kinley,  Witten  and  Foster.  Later  he  formed  a 
partnership  with  Roland  Hughes,  under  the  firm  name  of  Witten  and  Hughes, 
which  lasted   until   1896.      Since  then   he  has  practiced   alone. 

The  early  lite  of  Mr.  Witten  was  marked  with  the  vicissitudes  incident  to  the 
Civil  war;  yet  he  overcame  them  mainly  through  his  own  efforts,  graduated  into 
a  well  rounded  scholar,  and  had  won  for  himself  a  reputation  for  integrity  and 
honor  at  the  outset  of  his  professional  career.  He  is  a  lawyer  of  a  stddious  and 
energetic  nature,  is  possessed  with  a  strong,  resourceful  and  keenly  analytical  mind; 
and  by  virtue  of  these  he  has  become  one  of  the  most  profound  and  learned  mem- 
bers  of    the   Missouri    bar.      His    qualities    as    a    lawyer    and    his   high    ideals    of    the 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  565 

profession  have  given  him  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the  bar  and  have  gained 
him  an  exceedingly  desirable  clientage,  which  has  led  him  into  all  classes  of  courts 
and  into  a  mastery  of  every  branch  of  the  law. 

In  politics  he  is  a  democrat  of  the  conservative  class.  He  has  been  a  careful 
student  of  the  history  and  principles  of  his  party  and  of  the  science  of  government, 
and  is  a  stanch  and  able  advocate  of  his  party's  cause.  In  1882,  he  was  appointed 
city  attorney  of  Trenton;  and  during  his  residence  there,  he  represented  his  party 
in  the  various  county,  district  and  state  conventions.  In  189  6,  he  refused  to 
follow  the  leadership  of  Bryan  in  the  free  silver  campaign;  but  advocated  the 
election  of  the  gold  democratic  ticket,  and  made  not  less  than  a  hundred  speeches 
throughout  the  state  in  that  behalf.  In  1908,  he  was  a  democratic  candidate  for 
congress   for   the   fifth   Missouri   district. 

After  the  time  of  the  Spanish-American  war,  he  organized,  with  Captain  H.  H. 
Craig,  a  regiment  of  volunteers,  which  was  tendered  to  the  governor  of  Missouri 
though  not  accepted,  but  from  which  seven  companies  of  the  Fifth  Missouri  Vol- 
unteers were  later  recruited.  In  1901,  when  the  possibilities  of  the  automobile 
were  beginning  to  be  foreseen,  he  started  the  movement  for  good  roads;  and  for 
ten  years  thereafter,  he  urged  in  speech  and  press  the  building  of  a  system  of  state 
and  national  highways  and  it  was  the  efforts  of  Mr.  Witten  that  started  the  good 
roads  movement  in  America;  and  he  did  not  cease  his  efforts  until  the  move- 
ment was  thoroughly  established  and  had  become  national  in  character.  His  work 
was  mostly  done  in  cooperation  with  the  Kansas  City  Star.  When  the  late  war 
began,  his  understanding  of  the  problems  of  the  day  and  his  ties  of  blood  quickly 
brought  his  sympathies  in  line  with  the  allied  cause;  and  when  the  United  States 
entered  the  conflict,  he  became,  much  to  the  exclusion  of  business  affairs,  one  ot 
the  most  active  civilian  workers  of  Kansas  City,  wherein  he  served  with  great 
ability  and  credit  to  himself  on  various  committees  and  as  a  member  of  one  of 
the  legal  advisory  boards. 

His  natural  tastes  and  early  training  have  carried  him  into  a  long  and  careful 
study  in  the  field  of  literature,  in  the  pursuit  ot  which  he  has  become  an  exceed- 
ingly interesting  an*  thorough  literary  scholar.  He  has  written  much  which  ranks 
well  with  the  productions  of  the  best  authors  of  the  present  day,  and  which  reveals 
a   versatile   and   discerning   mind. 

He  was  married  November  24,  1889,  to  Carrie  Louise  Bailey  of  Delavan, 
Illinois,  who  died  July  12,  1895.  Of  this  marriage  two  children  were  born:  a  son, 
F.  Donald,  a  civil  engineer  of  Tulsa,  Oklahoma,  and  a  daughter.  Hazel,  C.  B.  His 
present  wife  was  Belle  Gladstone  Steele,  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  whom  he  married 
in  October.  1901.  He  has  two  brothers,  Pickett  Witten,  a  member  of  the  United 
States  Secret  Service,  and  W.  W.  Witten,  a  lawyer  of  Okmulgee,  Oklahoma. 

Mr.  Witten, is  a  member  of  the  County,  State  and  American  Bar  Associations, 
and  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  City  Club  of  Kansas  City. 


WILLIAM  H.   GIESE. 


William  H.  Giese  is  the  secretary-treasurer  of  the  British-American  Rubber 
Company.  Through  successive  stages  in  an  active  business  career  he  has  reached 
his  present  connection  and  is  thus  active  in  control  of  one  of  the  important  com- 
mercial interests  of  St.  Louis,  his  native  city.  He  was  born  February  7,  1888,  of 
the  marriage  of  William  B.  and  Anna  Giese.  The  father,  also  a  native  of  St.  Louis, 
was  for  many  years  successfully  engaged  in  contracting  and  building.  He  is  now 
the  president  of  the  Baden  Bank  of  St.  Louis  but  is  practically  living  retired.  To 
him  and  his  wife  were  born  five  children,  all,  like  the  parents,  born  in  St.  Louis, 
and  all  are  living.     These  are:      P.  W.,  Jr.,  William  H.,  Edwin  C,  Lottie  and  Minnie. 

At  the  usual  age  William  H.  Giese  became  a  public  school  pupil,  passing 
through  consecutive  grades  to  the  high  school  and  later  attending  business  col- 
lege. He  afterward  became  associated  with  his  father  in  contracting  and  building 
and  was  thus  active  for  a  number  of  years.  He  next  entered  the  employ  of  the 
J.  S.  Merrell  Drug  Company,  a  wholesale  drug  house  of  St.  Louis,  with  which  he 
continued  for  six  years.  He  later  entered  the  Baden  Bank,  of  which  his  father 
is  president,  and  for  five  years  was  associated  with  that  institution.  Being  ambitious 
to   engage   in   business   on   his   own    account,    he    established,    in    1912,    the    British- 


566  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

American  Rubber  Company,  entering  into  partnership  with  his  father-in-law,  H.  L. 
Ludinghaus.  They  are  large  manufacturers  of  and  dealers  in  rubber  coats  and 
kindred  goods  and  have  built  up  an  extensive  trade  in  this  connection.  Mr.  Giese 
has  from  the  beginning  been  the  secretary-treasurer  and  general  manager  of  the 
business  and  the  success  of  the  enterprise  is  attributable  in  very  large  measure 
to  his  energy,  initiative  and  able  management. 

Mr.  Giese  was  married  in  1912  to  Miss  Clara  Ludinghaus,  of  St.  Louis,  daugh- 
ter of  H.  L.  Ludinghaus,  and  they  now  have  two  children,  Clara  and  William  H., 
aged  respectively  six  and  four  years. 

Mr.  Giese  is  a  member  of  the  Riverview  and  Ridgedale  Country  Clubs.  He 
also  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  During  the  period  of  the  war  he 
was  very  active  in  Red  Cross  work.  While  the  son  of  a  banker,  he  has  made  his 
o^n  way  in  the  world  through  industry  and  ability  and  as  the  years  have  passed 
has  made  a  host  of  warm  friends.  He  is  a  young  man  of  magnetic  personality  and 
many  admirable  qualities,  which  have  made  him  popular  among  those  who  know 
him. 


FRANK  CLAYTON  MITCHELL. 

Frank  Clayton  Mitchell,  vice  president  of  the  State  Bank  of  Kansas  City  and 
active  in  its  management  and  control,  is  a  well  known  figure  in  banking  circles  in 
Missouri  and  is  equally  well  known  by  reason  of  his  excellent  work  in  connection 
with  the  Liberty  Loan  drives  made  during  the  progress  of  the  World  war.  A  native 
of  Centralia,  Missouri,  he  was  born  August  5,  1885,  and  is  a  son  of  John  T.  Mitchell, 
whose  birth  occurred  at  Rocheport,  Boone  county,  Missouri,  and  who  is  now  a  promi- 
nent citizen  and  leading  banker  of  Centralia.  He  became  the  founder  of  the  Bank  of 
Centralia,  one  of  the  strongest  financial  institutions  of  the  state.  The  Mitchell  fam- 
ily has  long  figured  in  Missouri,  for  the  grandfather  of  Frank  C.  Mitchell  was  born 
in  Boone  county  eighty-eight  years  ago.  His  father,  however,  was  a  native  of  Vir- 
ginia. The  mother  of  Frank  C.  Mitchell  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Belle  Clayton 
and  was  born  in  Rocheport,  where  her  girlhood  days  were  passed.  Like  her  husband, 
she  enjoys  the  warm  regard  of  many  friends  in  Centralia,  where  they  have  long 
resided.  They  have  become  the  parents  of  five  children,  all  of  whom  are  living. 
These  have  enjoyed  the  careful  rearing  of  a  devoted  mother,  who  is  a  woman  of  great 
strength  of  character  and  personal  charm. 

Frank  C.  Mitchell  was  educated  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  his  native 
city  and  early  received  his  initial  training  in  banking,  for  when  but  ten  years  of  age 
he  began  assisting  his  father  in  the  Bank  of  Centralia.  However,  he  continued  his 
education  until  he  had  completed  the  high  school  work  in  Centralia  and  afterward 
entered  the  University  of  Missouri,  from  which  he  was  graduated  as  a  law  student 
with  the  class  of  1908,  winning  the  LL.  B.  degree.  While  he  has  never  engaged  in 
active  practice,  his  knowledge  of  the  law  has  been  of  immense  benefit  to  him  in  his 
other  business.  In  1913  he  was  appointed  state  bank  examiner  of  Missouri.  He  is  a 
banker  "to  the  manner  born,"  affable,  courteous,  energetic  and  competent  in  every 
way.  From  the  position  of  assistant  cashier  of  the  Bank  of  Centralia  he  passed  on 
to  the  position  of  state  bank  examiner,  thus  serving  from  1913  until  1917.  On  the 
15th  of  March  of  the  latter  year  he  was  chosen  assistant  cashier  of  the  Southwest 
National  Bank  of  Commerce  and  on  the  1st  of  April,  1919,  was  elected  to  the  vice 
presidency  of  the  Kansas  City  State  Bank,  a  position  which  he  still  fills.  He  became 
one  of  the  stockholders  of  this  bank  on  the  15th  of  March,  1918,  and  he  is  now  bend- 
ing his  efforts  to  administrative  direction  and  executive  control  of  the  institution. 

Mr.  Mitchell  was  numbered  among  the  Liberty  loan  state  chairmen  who  attained 
enviable  prominence  in  the  handling  of  that  important  work.  He  was  state  chairman 
for  the  portion  of  Missouri  embraced  within  the  tenth  federal  reserve  district,  contain- 
ing nineteen  counties.  His  splendid  organizing  ability  placed  the  district  under  his 
direction  third  in  the  country  in  the  matter  of  percentage  of  subscription  to  quota.  He 
continued  to  act  as  state  chairman  during  the  third,  fourth  and  Victory  Loan  cam- 
paigns and  from  Washington  he  received  a  letter,  dated  June  9,  1919,  reading  as  fol- 
lows: 
"My  dear  Mr.  Mitchell: 

With  the  successful  conclusion  of  the  Victory  Liberty  Loan  campaign,  we  may 


FRANK    C.    MITCHELL 


TH  WK  y^yir 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  569 

review  the  work  of  the  past  two  years  with  a  large  measure  of  gratification.  A  task 
seemingly  impossible  has  been  accomplished;  over  twenty  millions  of  our  people  have 
been  brought  closer  together  by  lending  their  aid  to  a  common  and  righteous  cause, 
and  most  of  them  for  the  first  time  have  a  direct  financial  interest  in  their  govern- 
ment and  feel  in  a  measure  responsible  for  its  activities. 

Throughout  the  land  a  community  pride  has  been  awakened,  and  the  spirit  of 
real  democracy  strengthened.  As  the  rich  and  the  poor,  the  high  and  the  low  have 
died  together  under  the  flag  of  their  country,  so  the  rich  and  the  poor,  the  high  and 
the  low  have  here  at  home  labored  side  by  side  in  this  great  cause. 

I  desire  to  express  to  you  individually  my  very  deep  appreciation  for  your  con- 
tinued  services  as  a  member   of  the   organization   in   the   tenth   district.      You   have 
served  loyally  at  the  sacrifice  of  your  personal  interests,  and  you  deserve  the  grati- 
,tude  of  your  country.  '  Sincerely  yours, 

Cakter  Glass." 

On  the  29th  of  June,  1910,  Mr.  Mitchell  was  married  to  Miss  Bertie  Boatman,  of 
Centralia,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  W.  W.  Boatman,  who  for  many  years  was  a  minister 
of  the  Christian  church.  They  became  the  parents  of  three  children,  but  all  are 
deceased. 

Mr.  Mitchell  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Club,  also  of  the  Kansas  City  Coun- 
try Club,  the  Mid-Day  Club,  the  Bankers  Club,  the  Credit  Men's  Association  and 
other  organizations.  He  is  a  York  Rite  Mason  and  a  member  of  Ararat  Temple 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine  of  Kansas  City.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Benevolent  Protective 
Order  of  Elks  of  Mexico.  Missouri.  He  finds  his  recreation  largely  in  golf.  His 
political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  democratic  party  and  he  is  interested  In  the 
vital  questions  and  issues  of  the  day  but  is  not  a  politician.  He  belongs  to  the 
Linwood  Boulevard  Christian  church,  in  which  he  is  an  active  worker.  He  is 
liberal  to  a  fault,  yet  his  charity  is  of  a  most  quiet  and  unostentatious  character. 
Those  things  which  make  for  the  uplift  of  fhe  individual — art,  music  and  the  best 
literature — receive  a  due  proportion  of  his  attention,  while  in  business  his  energy, 
judgment,  inherited  stability  and  adaptability  to  banking  have  been  potent  factors 
in  winning  him  success  and  prominence.  Loyalty  is  one  of  his  marked  character- 
istics and  his  courtesy  and  aliility  to  win  friends  have  featured  prominently  in 
his  career. 


JIM  LEE  HAMMETT. 


Jim  Lee  Hammett,  president  of  the  J.  M.  Hammett  Banking  Company  of  Hunts- 
ville,  was  born  in  Randolph  county,  Missouri,  May  12,  1864,  a  son  of  Francis  Marion 
and  Mary  Susan  (Robertson)  Hammett.  The  father  is  also  a  native  of  Missouri, 
his  parents  having  come  to  this  state  from  Kentucky,  where  they  were  members 
of  old  Kentucky  families.  The  mother  was  likewise  born  in  Missouri  and  was  of 
Virginia  parentage,  while  her  ancestors  had  long  resided  in  the  Old  Dominion.  The 
present  banking  house  of  the  J.  M.  Hammett  Banking  Company  was  founded  by 
the  paternal  grandfather,  Joseph  Miller  Hammett,  in  1874  and  he  remained  in 
active  identification  with  the  business  until  his  death,  after  which  Francis  Marion 
Hammett  took  over  the  business  and  was  president  of  the  bank  until  1907,  but 
during  the  last  seventeen  years  of  that  period  was  not  active  in  the  management 
of  the  bank,  being  only  the  nominal  head  of  the  institution,  while  his  son,  Jim  L. 
Hammett,  was  in  active  charge  of  affairs  from  189  0  and  for  the  past  thirty  years 
has  had  complete  charge  of  the  financial  policy  of  the  institution. 

Jim  L.  Hammett  was  educated  in  the  district  schools  of  Raijdolph  county  and 
at  the  age  of  seventeen  years  was  sent  west  to  work  on  his  father's  cattle  ranch 
In  Colorado.  There  he  remained  for  three  years,  after  which  he  returned  to 
Randolph  county,  Missouri,  and  during  the  succeeding  six  years  was  actively  engaged 
in  farming  and  in  the  cattle  business  in  this  state,  the  Hammett  family  having 
large  holdings  in  Randolph  county.  In  1890  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  active 
conduct  of  the  bank  and  in  1908,  after  the  death  of  his  father,  he  was  elected 
to  the  presidency.  This  is  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  substantial  moneyed  insti- 
tutions of  Missouri,  well  housed  in  a  substantial  bank  building  and  equipped  to 
care  for  a  constantly  growing  business.     The  bank  is  capitalized  for  fifty  thousand 


570  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

dollars;  has  surplus  and  undivided  profits  of  about  seventeen  thousand  dollars 
and  deposits  amounting  to  five  hundred  and  seventy-six  thousand,  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty-nine  dollars.  As  oflficers  of  the  bank  associated  with  the  president 
are:  J.  H.  Hammett  and  C.  F.  Crist  as  vice  presidents;  and  W.  L.  Dameron  as 
cashier.  In  addition  to  his  l)anking  interests  J.  L.  Hammett  is  a  heavy  land  holder 
in  Arkansas  and  in  Randolph  county,  his  investments  having  been  most  judiciously 
made,  so  that  substantial  profits  accrue  therefrom. 

In  1891,  Mr.  Hammett  was  married  to  Miss  Laura  Proctor,  daughter  of  Senator 
J.  M.  Proctor,  of  Boone  county,  and  they  now  have  one  son,  Francis  Harold,  an 
attorney  at  law,  now  located  at  Conway,  Arkansas.  Mr.  Hammett  belongs  to  Hunts- 
ville  Lodge,  No.  30,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Moberly  Chapter,  No.  79,  R.  A.  M.;  Centralia 
Chapter,  No.  34,  R.  &  S.  M.;  Tancred  Commandery,  K.  T.;  and  also  to  the  Knights 
of  Pythias  Lodge  at  Huntsville.  He  is,  moreover,  a  popular  representative  of  the  ■ 
Moberly  Country  Club  and  of  the  Huntsville  Commercial  Club  and  in  the  latter 
organization  gives  his  willing  aid  and  support  to  all  measures  which  he  believes 
will  prove  of  benefit  to  the  city.  He  is  now  president  of  the  Huntsville  library 
board  and  he  served  on  the  various  war  work  bodies  and  was  a  member  of  the 
executive  committee  of  the  Liberty  Loan  committee  during  the  fifth  Liberty  Loan. 
He  also  served  on  the  committees  having  in  charge  the  Red  Cross,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and 
other  drives  and  he  did  everything  in  his  power  to  promote  the  war  work.  His 
political  support  is  given  to  the  democratic  party  and  he  was  made  presidential 
elector  of  his  district  by  the  convention  held  at  Joplin,  Missouri,  in  April,  192U. 
He  and  his  family  are  members  of  the  Southern  Methodist  church,  in  connection 
with  which  he  has  been  made  centenary  treasurer  of  the  Missouri  conference,  an 
honor  which  came  to  him  unsolicited.  He  is  keenly  interested  in  everything  that 
pertains  to  the  material,  intellectual,  social,  political  and  moral  progress  of  his 
community.  He  keeps  abreast  with  the  best  thinking  men  of  the  age  on  the  great 
political,  sociological  and  economic  problems  of  the  country  and  in  all  that  he 
does  is  actuated  by  a  most  progressive  spirit,    i 


EDWARD  C.   ELIOT. 


Edward  C.  Eliot  has  not  only  won  high  honors  as  a  representative  of  the  St. 
Louis  bar,  but  has  also  been  a  prominent  figure  in  directing  many  public  activities 
looking  to  the  welfare  and  upbuilding  of  the  city,  the  uplift  of  the  individual  and 
the  advancement  of  civic  standards.  His  deep  interest  in  St.  Louis  and  her  progress 
is  due  in  part  at  least  to  the  fact  that  he  is  one  of  her  native  sons,  his  birth  hav- 
ing here  occurred  July  3,  1858.  His  parents  were  William  Greenleaf  and  Abby 
Adams  (Cranch)  Eliot,  the  ancestral  line  being  traced  back  to  Andrew  Eliot,  who 
came  from  England  about  1650  and  was  the  founder  of  the  family  in  the  new 
world.  William  Greenleaf  Eliot  became  a  minister  of  the  Unitarian  church  and 
chancellor  of  Washington  University  and  his  life  of  usefulness  was  in  harmony 
with  the  record  of  an  honored  ancestry  long  connected  with  the  colonial  epoch  of 
the  country.  He  was  born  in  New  Bedford,  Massachusetts,  was  educated  at  Col- 
umbian College  at  Georgetown,  Virginia,  and  in  1834  made  his  way  to  St.  Louis, 
where  for  more  than  a  half  century  he  figured  as  a  distinguished  and  prominent 
citizen.  He  married  a  daughter  of  .Judge  William  Cranch,  of  Washington,  D.  C, 
who  was  a  son  of  Richard  Cranch,  who  came  from  Devonshire,  England,  in  174  7 
and  settled  at  Qulncy,  Massachusetts.  Richard  Cranch  served  as  judge  of  the 
probate  court  there  and  was  prominent  in  the  public  life  of  his  community. 

Edward  C.  Eliot  is  a  graduate  of  Washington  University  of  the  class  of  1878, 
at  vi'hich  time  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  was  conferred  upon  him,  while  in  1881 
he  received  from  his  alma  mater  the  Master  of  Arts  degree.  He  had  early  deter- 
mined upon  the  profession  of  law  as  a  life  work  and  with  that  end  in  view  entered 
the  St.  Louis  Law  School  and  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws  in  the  class 
of  1880.  In  the  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  practice  at  the  Missouri  bar  and 
entered  at  once  upon  the  active  work  of  his  profession,  in  which  he  has  since 
been  engaged.  He  is  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Eliot,  Chaplin,  Blayney  &  Bedal 
and  his  name  has  figured  prominently  in  connection  with  many  important  cases 
which  have  established  his  reputation  as  an  eminent  member  of  the  St.  Louis 
bar.      He    is    also    well    known    as    a   law   educator,    having    been    lecturer   on    com- 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  571 

mercial  law  in  the  St.  Louis  Law  School  from  1887  until  1903,  and  upon  interna- 
tional law  since  that  date. 

At  Boston,  Massachusetts,  on  the  1st  of  November,  1883,  Mr.  Eliot  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  A.  Munroe,  a  representative  of  an  old  New  England  family. 
She  died  October  13,  1911.  The  five  children  born  of  this  marriage  are:  Edward 
M.,  who  completed  a  course  in  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology;  Frank  M., 
who  was  graduated  from  Washington  University  and  is  now  connected  with  the 
Hydraulic  Pressed  Brick  Company;  Alice,  a  graduate  of  Mary  Institute  and  of 
Washington  University;  William  Cranch,  who  studied  at  Smith  Academy  and  at 
Washington  University;    and  John  Greenleaf,   who  Is  a  student  at  Yale  University. 

Mr.  Eliot  belongs  to  the  Round  Table  and  the  Noonday  Club.  He  is  also 
connected  with  the  Unitarian  church  and  with  the  Soldiers'  Orphans'  Home.  He 
has  membership  in  the  New  England  Society,  of  which  he  was  president  in  1907, 
and  he  is  interested  in  many  of  the  projects  and  organizations  which  have  to  do 
with  the  benefit  and  upbuilding  of  St.  Louis  and  with  the  promotion  of  its  cul- 
tural and  intellectual  standards.  In  1903-4  he  was  the  president  of  the  Civic 
League  of  St.  Louis  and  since  1903  he  has  been  a  trustee  of  the  Missouri  Botanical 
Gardens,  while  from  1897  until  1903  he  was  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  board  of 
education  and  acted  as  its  president  in  1898-9.  His  labors  were  a  most  potent 
and  valuable  force  in  advancing  the  public  school  system  of  the  city  and  placing 
it  upon  a  sound  administrative  basis.  His  political  allegiance  has  always  been 
given  to  the  republican  party.  He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association,  of 
which  he  was  president  in  18  9  8,  to  the  Missouri  State  Bar  Association  and  the 
American  Bar  Association,  and  in  1904  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Universal  Con- 
gress of  Lawyers  and  Jurists  at  St.  Louis,  which  was  attended  by  eminent  mem- 
bers of  the  profession  from  all  over  the  world. 


ORRA   A.   WILSON. 


Orra  A.  Wilson,  attorney  at  law,  is  recognized  as  a  good  trial  lawyer  and  is 
particularly  successful  in  oflSce  practice  or  as  a  counselor  and  to  the  latter  branch 
of  the  profession  gives  the  major  part  of  his  time  and  attention.  A  native  of 
Nebraska,  he  was  born  at  Seward,  July  3,  1887,  and  is  a  son  of  Robert  Franklin 
and  Etta  M.  (Daily)  Wilson,  the  former  a  native  of  Kentucky,  while  the  latter 
was  born  in  New  York.  A  removal  was  made  to  Nebraska  in  1881  and  in  his 
community  there  Robert  F.  Wilson  was  a  quiet  but  prominent  and  influential  man. 
In  1899  he  went  to  Hiawatha,  Kansas,  where  he  resided  until  he  retired  and  took 
up  his  abode  in  Kansas  City. 

Orra  A.  Wilson  attended  the  country  schools  of  his  native  state,  going  eight 
miles  to  attend  high  school  at  Hiawatha,  Kansas.  He  started  out  to  provide  for 
his  own  support  in  the  train  service  of  the  Rock  Island  Railroad  at  Fairbury, 
Nebraska,  and  after  he  abandoned  railroading  he  began  learning  the  tinner's  trade 
at  Lincoln.  In  1904  he  removed  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  continued  to  work  at 
his  trade  with  some  of  the  best  companies  here,  doing  work  as  a  cornice  and 
ornamental  draftsman,  his  labors  being  seen  in  some  of  the  best  buildings  of 
Kansas  City.  In  1911  he  matriculated  in  the  Kansas  City  Law  School  and  at 
the  same  time  continued  to  work  at  his  trade  in  order  to  provide  for  his  support. 
He  made  very  high  grades  In  his  law  school  work  and  in  1914  he  entered  upon 
the  practice  of  his  profession  and  also  established  a  collection  agency.  In  1918  he 
entered  the  office  of  John  T.  Barker  and  has  since  specialized  in  real  estate  law. 
He  is  especially  strong  in  briefing,  preparing  cases  for  trial  and  in  office  practice. 
He  is  now  giving  his  attention  largely  to  real  estate  law,  to  general  corporation 
law  and  to  office  practice. 

Mr.  Wilson  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Marie  Whistler,  of  Burlington, 
Kansas,  a  daughter  of  Leo  Whistler,  one  of  the  first  white  children  born  in  the 
vicinity  of  Burlington,  Kansas,  his  father  having  been  an  Indian  trader  of  that 
locality.  Leo  Whistler  became  a  freighter  in  the  early  days  and  subsequently 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business  at  Burlington,  Kansas. 

Mr.  Wilson  is  well  known  in  fraternal  circles.  He  is  a  past  chancellor  com- 
mander  of   Kansas    City    Lodge   No.    1,    K.    P.,    and    maintains    other    fraternal    re- 


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lations.  In  politics  lie  is  an  active  republican  and  an  untiring  worker  for  clean 
politics,  being  associated  with  many  ot  those  wholesome  and  purifying  reforms 
which  are  characteristic  of  the  age  and  which  have  been  springing  up  in  both 
parties,  indicating  the  trend  and  tendency  of  the  times. 


HERMAN  HUNICKE. 


Herman  Hunicke,  vice  president  of  the  Liberty  Bank  of  St.  Louis,  was  born 
in  Bremen,  Germany,  July  3,  1843,  a  son  of  Henry  A.  and  Meta  (Engelke)  Hunicke. 
He  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  his  native  land  and  when  in  his  fifteenth  year 
came  alone  to  the  new  world,  crossing  the  Atlantic  in  1858  and  arriving  in  New 
Orleans  in  the  month  of  June.  He  did  not  tarry  in  the  Crescent  city,  however, 
but  made  his  way  at  once  to  St.  Louis,  and  his  first  position  was  that  of  a  clerk 
at  Ripley,  Bond  county,  Illinois.  After  a  short  period  spent  there  he  returned 
to  St.  Louis  and  .secured  the  position  of  shipping  clerk  with  Angelrodt  &  Barth, 
commission  merchants.  He  continued  in  the  latter  position  until  the  outbreak  of 
the  Civil  war,  when  he  enlisted  in  February,  1861,  in  the  United  States  Reserve 
Corps  in  response  to  the  call  tor  three  months'  service.  He  next  enlisted  for 
three  years  in  Company  A,  Fourth  Missouri  Volunteer  Infantry,  in  which  he  was 
made  a  sergeant,  continuing  with  that  command  until  honorably  discharged  in  the 
latter  part  of  18  63. 

Mr.  Hunicke  afterward  secured  a  position  with  the  old  German  Savings  In- 
stitution of  St.  Louis,  now  the  Liberty  Bank,  beginning  in  a  humble  position  and 
working  his  way  steadily  upward  to  the  vice  presidency.  October,  1919,  com- 
pleted a  total  service  of  fltty-six  years  with  the  institution  and  as  he  has  been 
advanced  from  one  position  to  another  of  greater  responsibility  he  has  contributed 
much  to  the  success  and  growth  of  the  bank. 

On  the  31st  of  October,  1868,  Mr.  Hunicke  was  married  to  Miss  Helen  Preysel 
and  they  became  the  parents  of  six  children,  of  whom  five  are  deceased,  the  sur- 
viving daughter  being  Tillie,  now  the  wife  of  E.  W.  Hughes,  of  St.  Louis.  The 
wife  and  mother  passed  away  in  1878.  There  are  now  four  grandchildren,  three 
grandsons    and    a    granddaughter,    Edwin,    Hariy,    JIartin    and    Helen    Louisa. 

Politically  Mr.  Hunicke  is  a  republican,  and  he  is  a  member  of  Blair  Post,  G.  A.  R. 
During  the  World  war  he  was  activp  in  the  sale  of  bonds.  Throughout  the  long 
period  of  his  residence  in  America  he  has  been  as  true  and  loyal  to  his  adopted 
country  as  when  he  followed  the  nation's  starry  banner  on  the  battlefields  of  the 
south. 


CYRUS  EDGAR  BURFORD.   M.  D. 

Dr.  Cyrus  Edgar  Burtord,  a  surgeon  ot  St.  Louis,  was  lx)rn  in  Girard,  Illinois, 
August  20,  1876,  a  son  ot  Giles  M.  Burtord.  who  is  a  native  of  Missouri  and  a 
descendant  of  one  ot  the  old  families  ot  Virginia  and  Tennessee  ot  English  lineage. 
The  family  was  founded  in  America  in  the  year  1700.  The  American  progenitor 
settled  in  New  York  and  later  representatives  of  the  name  lived  in  Virginia  and  in 
Tennessee.  The  father,  Giles  M.  Burtord,  was  for  a  number  of  years  a  well  known 
clergyman  of  Illinois  but  is  now  retired.  He  married  Elizabeth  Hamilton,  who  was 
born  at  Marshfield,  Missouri,  and  belongs  to  one  of  the  old  families  of  Kentucky  and 
Missouri,  also  of  English  descent.  Her  father,  Abraham  Freeman  Hamilton,  was 
a  Civil  war  veteran,  serving  under  General  Price's  command  in  General  Marmaduke's 
division.  Mrs.  Burtord  is  still  living  and  now  makes  her  home  in  Girard,  Illinois. 
By  her  marriage  she  became  the  mother  of  tour  children,  two  of  whom  have  passed 
away,  while  those  living  are:  Cyrus  E.,  ot  this  review;  and  Mrs.  George  W.  Scal- 
ing, whose  home  is  in  Fort  Worth,  Texas.  She  married  into  the  Scaling  family, 
prominent    at    Kirkwood,    Missouri. 

Dr.  Burtord  obtained  a  public  and  high  school  education  at  Rushville,  Illinois, 
and  afterward  entered  Central  College  at  Fayette,  Missouri,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  with  the  Bachelor  ot  Philosophy  degree  in  1899.  This,  however,  constituted 
only   an   initial   step   to   his   preparation   tor   other   professional    activity    and    he    com- 


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pleted  a  course  in  the  St.  Louis  University  in  1902,  winning  the  M.  D.  degree.  He 
afterward  served  for  a  year  as  interne  in  the  St.  Louis  City  Hospital  and  then 
engaged  in  private  practice  for  a  short  time,  after  which  he  took  up  post-gi-aduate 
work  in  Berlin,  Vienna,  Paris  and  London,  making  a  specialty  of  the  study  of  genito- 
urinary surgery.  He  has  since  specialized  in  the  treatment  of  diseases  of  that  char- 
acter, the  profession  as  well  as  the  public  recognizing  his  ability  in  his  especial  field. 
He  is  a  well  known  member  of  the  medical  fraternity,  is  president  of  the  St.  Louis 
Medical  Society  for  the  year  1920  and  formerly  served  as  its  secretary,  is  a  member 
of  the  Missouri  State  Medical  Society  and  the  American  Medical  Association.  He 
likewise  has  membership  with  the  American  Urological  Society  and  is  a  fellow  of 
the  American  College  of  Surgeons.  His  membership  relations  also  extend  to  Sigma 
Alpha  Epsilon. 

On  the  15th  of  June,  1899,  Dr.  Burford  was  married  in  Payette,  Missouri,  to 
Miss  Katherine  Lloyd  Humber,  a  native  of  Albany,  Missouri,  and  a  daughter  of  Am- 
brose W.  and  Molly  (Williams)  Humber.  The  father  of  Mrs.  Molly  (Williams) 
Humber  was  a  prominent  physician  in  the  northern  part  of  the  state  and  represented 
one  of  the  early  families  of  Missouri.  The  Humber  family  was  also  established 
in  Missouri  during  the  pioneer  epoch  in  its  development,  migrating  from  Kentucky. 
Dr.  Burford  and  his  wife  have  become  parents  of  two  children:  Ada  Margaret, 
born  in  St.  Louis,  August  20,  1906;  and  Edgar  Humber,  born  January  20,  1909.  The 
family   residence  is  at  No.   345  Westgate   avenue   in   University  City. 

During  the  war  period  Dr.  Burford  served  as  a  major  of  the  Medical  Corps, 
being  with  the  base  hospital  at  Camp  Dodge.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
Tuscan  Lodge,  No.  360,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  also  has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree  of 
Scottish  Rite  Masonry  and  is  a  member  of  Moolah  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 
He  belongs  to  the  University  Club,  to  the  City  Club  and  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Sunset  Hill  Country  Club  and  the  Triple  A  Club.  His  religious  faith  is  evi- 
denced in  his  connection  with  the  University  Methodist  church  and  he  is  now  serving 
as  president  of  its  board  of  stewards.  His  interest  centers  in  all  those  activ- 
ities and  forces  which  make  for  the  uplift  of  the  individual  and  the  benefit  of  man- 
kind and  his  cooperation  can  at  all  times  be  counted  upon  to  further  plans  and 
measures  for  the  public  good.  Those  who  know  him,  and  he  has  a  wide  acquaintance, 
speak  of  him  in  terms  of  high  regard  and  the  profession  bears  testimony  to  the 
eminent  position  which  he  has  attained  as  a  surgeon. 


ALBERT  MONROE  FOURT. 


Albert  ilonroe  Fourt,  who  has  made  for  himself  a  creditable  position  in  the 
educational  circles  of  Missouri,  being  now  supevintendent  of  schools  of  Vandalia. 
was  born  at  Houston.  Missouri,  January  19,  1879,  his  parents  being  Louis  A.  and 
Laura  E.  Fourt,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Texas  county,  Missouri,  and  rep- 
resentatives of  old  pioneer  families  of  the  state.  His  great-grandfather  in  the 
paternal  line,  Andrew  Fourt,  came  to  Missouri  from  the  Green  river  section  of 
Kentucky  in  1811,  bringing  with  him  his  son,  John  T.  Fourt,  who  was  then  but 
a  year  and  a  half  old.  The  former  was  in  the  early  days  captain  of  a  steamboat 
that  plied  on  the  Mississippi  and  Missouri  rivers.  John  T.  Fourt,  after  reaching 
adult  age,  settled  on  a  farm  in  the  Missouri  river  bottoms  above  St.  Louis  and 
there  carried  on  agricultural  pursuits  until  1834,  when  he  removed  to  Texas  county. 
In  183  6  he  was  one  of  three  commissioners  who  laid  out  the  present  town  of 
Houston,  Missouri,  and  with  its  further  development  and  progress  he  was  closely 
and  prominently  associated.  In  1861  he  became  a  member  of  the  Missouri  legis- 
lature and  was  also  a  member  of  the  convention  which  voted  to  keep  Missouri  in 
the  Union  at  the  time  of  the  Civil  war.  In  the  maternal  line  Albert  M.  Fourt 
traces  his  ancestry  back  through  four  generations  to  Joseph  Jadwin,  of  North 
Carolina,  who  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolutionary  war  and  fought  with  distinction 
in  the  battle  of  Cowpens.  Joseph  Jadwin,  Jr.,  the  maternal  great-grandfather  of 
Albert  M.  Fourt,  removed  to  Tennessee,  while  the  grandfather,  Alexander  Jadwin, 
came  from  Tennessee  to  Texas  county,  Missouri,  in  the  '3  0s.  He  was  the  father 
of  three  sons,  one  of  whom  was  killed  while  serving  in  the  Confederate  army  dur- 

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ing  the  Civil  war,  and  of  five  daughters.  One  of  the  latter,  Laura  Elizabeth,  be- 
came the  wife  of  Louis  A.  Fourt  in  1874. 

Their  son,  Albert  Monroe  Fourt,  after  attending  the  public  school  of  Houston, 
Missouri,  and  the  Houston  high  school,  became  a  student  in  Drury  Academy  and 
later  in  Drury  College  at  Springtield,  Missouri,  where  he  won  the  Bachelor  of  Arts 
degree  in  1905.  He  has  since  taken  post-graduate  work  in  the  University  of 
Missouri  in  1914  and  in  the  University  of  Chicago  in  1919.  He  worked  his  way 
through  college  and  four  times  was  an  intercollegiate  debater.  His  entire  life 
has  been  devoted  to  educational  interests  and  he  has  made  steady  progress  in  his 
chosen  field  of  labor,  gaining  distinction  among  the  ablest  instructors  of  central 
Missouri.  He  was  principal  of  the  Dadeville  (Mo.)  Academy,  also  of  the  high 
schools  of  Houston  and  Aurora,  Missouri,  and  later  became  superintendent  of 
the  public  schools  of  Lebanon,  from  which  position  he  was  called  to  Vandalia  to 
accept  the  superintendency  of  its  schools  and  is  now  occupying  that  position. 

On  the  21st  of  October,  1908,  at  Edwardsville,  Illinois,  Mr.  Fourt  was  married 
to  Miss  Kate  Newton  Lyman,  daughter  of  C.  D.  and  F.  M.  Lyman.  Her  father  was 
a  graduate  of  Beloit  College  of  Beloit,  Wisconsin,  of  the  class  of  1873  and  for 
twenty-seven  years  was  editor  of  the  Bolivar  (Mo.)  Herald.  Mrs.  Fourt  was  grad- 
uated from  Drury  College  with  the  B.  S.  degree  in  1905  and  she  is  eligible  to 
membership  with  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution  from  the  fact  that 
she  is  a  descendant  of  Shadrach  Newton,  of  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  who  was  a 
soldier  in  the  war  for  independence.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fourt  have  two  children  Lyman 
Edwin  and  Louis  A.  The  religious  faith  of  the  family  is  that  of  the  Presbyter- 
ian church  and  their  influence  is  always  on  the  side  of  those  things  which  make 
for  intellectual  and  moral  uplift  and  the  adoption  of  higher  civic  ideals. 


WILLIAM    HAYDEN    DONAHUE. 

William  Hayden  Donahue,  vice  president  of  the  Security  National  Bank  of 
Kansas  City,  has  risen  so  rapidly  since  starting  out  in  business  that  he  seems  to 
have  reached  his  present  position  almost  by  leaps  and  bounds,  vet  an  investigation 
of  his  career  will  indicate  that  his  course  has  been  marked  by  steady  progression 
resulting  from  great  thoroughness  in  all  that  he  has  undertaken,  close  application 
and  untiring  industry.  He  was  born  in  Wellington,  Kansas,  March  10,  1886  and  is 
therefore  a  man  of  but  thirty-four  years.  His  father,  James  K.  Donahue,  wks  born 
in  Iowa  and  for  some  time  resided  in  Wyandotte  county,  Kansas,  where  he  followed 
merchandising  and  farming.  He  married  Cassandra  M.  Rosecrans,  a  native  of 
Indiana,  and  they  are  now  living  in  Wichita,  Kansas.  They  have  had  a  family  of 
five  children,  of  whom  four  survive. 

William  H.  Donahue,  the  third  in  order  of  birth,  was  largely  educated  in  the 
schools  of  Wellington,  Kansas,  where  he  pursued  his  high  school  course.  Follow- 
ing the  completion  of  this  course  in  19  04  he  worked  for  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad 
during  the  day  and  studied  shorthand  at  night.  He  then  secured  the  position  of 
chief  clerk  to  Superintendent  Starkweather  of  the  Santa  Fe  at  La  Junta,  Colorado, 
thus  initiating  a  successful  business  career.  His  economy  and  industry  at  length 
enabled  him  to  purchase  stock  in  the  bank  of  Longdale,  Oklahoma,  in  which  he 
assumed  the  duties  of  bookkeeper,  but  later  became  manager  of  the  institution. 
He  sold  this  in  1910  to  become  cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank  at  Selling.  Okla- 
homa, and  in  1911  was  made  manager  thereof.  In  December,  1915,  he  removed 
to  Chickasha,  Oklahoma,  as  cashier  of  the  Oklahoma  National  Bank  and  on  leaving 
that  institution  came  to  the  Security  National  Bank  of  Kansas  City,  of  which  he  is 
now  the  vice  president.  When  the  last  transfer  was  made  the  Bankers  Monthly 
wrote  of  Mr.  Donahue  as  follows: 

"At  the  age  of  twenty-two  a  railway  clerk,  at  the  age  of  thirty-four  active  vice 
president  and  manager  of  a  metropolitan  bank — that's  the  record  established 
by  William  H.  Donahue,  of  Chickasha,  Oklahoma,  who  resigned  his  position  as 
active  vice  president  and  manager  of  the  Oklahoma  National  Bank  of  Chickasha 
to  assume  a  similar  position  with  the  Security  National  Bank  of  Kansas  City,  on 
January  1. 

"From   the  time  Donahue  quit  doing  overtime   work   in  a  railroad   office   until 


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he  'arrived'  with  the  Security  National  he  has  filled  a  horde  of  minor  positions 
in  the  various  banks  with  which  he  has  been  connected.  In  every  instance  he 
has  had  the  active  management  ot  the  bank  before  he  passed  on  to  larger  institu- 
tions. 

"In  1908  he  quit  railroading  and  helped  organize  the  bank  at  Longdale,  Okla- 
homa, assuming  the  management  of  that  bank  in  1909.  In  the  fall  of  the  same 
year  he  sold  the  Longdale  Bank  and  accepted  the  cashiership  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Selling,  Oklahoma.  He  became  chief  executive  of  the  Selling  institution 
upon  the  removal  of  C.  W.  Fonda,  president,  to  California.  In  1915,  'Bill'  Donahue 
took  another  step  upward  selling  the  Selling  Bank  and  accepting  the  position  of 
cashier  of  the  Oklahoma  National  Bank  of  Chickasha,  moving  again  upward  to  the 
vice  presidency  and  management  of  that  bank  in  1916,  following  the  death  of  the 
vice  president,   M.   C.   Cannon. 

"His  next  move  was  January  1.  1920,  when  he  took  the  Kansas  City  position, 
having  purchased  with  R.  K.  Wootten,  an  officer  in  the  Oklahoma  National  and 
president  of  the  Chickasha  Cotton  Oil  Company,  a  big  block  of  stock  in  the  Security 
National  Bank  of  Kansas  City.  It  is  said  of  Mr.  Donahue  that  no  bank  he  has  ever 
managed  has  ever  missed  a  regular  dividend  or  failed  to  increase  its  surplus 
fund  at  regular  intervals.  Under  his  direction  deposits  have  jumped.  When  he 
went  to  Longdale  the  bank  had  less  than  twenty-one  thousand  dollars  on  deposit, 
while  when  he  left  over  fifty-six  thousand  dollars  was  the  amount  of  the  deposit. 
Other  deposit  hikes  are:  First  National  of  Selling  deposits  jumped  from  forty- 
two  thousand,  four  hundred  and  eighty  dollars  to  one  hundred  and  thirty-four  thou- 
sand, four  hundred  and  thirty-four  dollars;  Oklahoma  National  when  he  took 
charge  had  deposits  amounting  to  six  hundred  and  seventy-eight  thousand,  one 
hundred  and  ninety-two  dollars  and  thirty-four  cents,  and  on  December  2,  1919, 
the  deposits  totaled  two  million,  two  hundred  and  thirty-seven  thousand,  three 
hundred  and  eighty-three  dollars  and  forty-five  cents.  After  the  first  Liberty  loan 
the  federal  reserve  oflScers  began  looking  around  for  someone  to  handle  the  fifth 
Oklahoma  district,  comprising  eleven  counties  in  the  southwestern  part  of  the  state. 
'Bill'  Donahue  was  selected  and  under  his  direction  an  organization  was  formed  that 
put  over  the  fifth  district  in  the  second,  third,  fourth  and  fifth  Liberty  loans  in 
record  time  and  with  considerable  time  to  spare.  Donahue  will  retain  his  interest 
in  the  Oklahoma  National  in  Chickasha  and  in  addition  is  interested  in  a  number  of 
banks  in  the  southwestern  part  of  Oklahoma. 

"The  rapid  rise  of  William  H.  Donahue  in  the  banking  business  emphasizes 
again  the  elemental  fact  that  the  banker  who  can  'sell'  his  bank  to  the  public  and 
bring  in  new  business  is  almost  always  the  man  who  will  gain  quick  recognition 
when  it  comes  to  the  pay  envelope  and  the  less  material  consideration  of  an  official 
title.  It  is  not  always  the  man  who  has  a  finely  spun  knowledge  of  the  theory  of 
banking  that  wins  early  success.  Indeed,  there  are  men  in  nearly  every  bank  who 
have  a  masterful  knowledge  of  the  technique  of  banking  practice,  yet  they  seldom 
think  about  the  selling  side  of  the  institution  as  a  business  proposition.  They 
are  content  to  go  along  from  day  to  day  immersed  in  the  details  of  their  desk 
-work.  They  give  little  or  no  consideration  to  the  problem  of  extending  the  banks 
influence  in  the  community  by  going  out  and  meeting  the  people  and  proclaiming 
the  advantages  of  the  service  provided  by  their  particular  bank.  They  are  some- 
times inclined  to  leave  this  part  of  the  daily  task  to  the  fellow  with  the  selling 
instinct,  and  then  after  the  salesman  type  of  banker  passes  them  along  the  way 
they  wonder  why. 

"So  the  career  of  Mr.  Donahue  points  a  moral  to  every  young  banker.  It  is  all 
right  to  know  the  inside  of  the  bank,  to  possess  a  definite  knowledge  of  every  ten- 
dency in  every  department,  but  that  is  only  part  of  the  job  of  the  ambitious 
young  man.  He  should  make  it  a  point  to  give  his  best  to  the  development 
of  more  business  among  new  and  old  customers,  and  when  he  does  this  his  ultimate 
triumph  is  assured."     • 

In  1910  Mr.  Donahue  was  married  to  Miss  Mabel  Leslie,  of  Thomas,  Oklahoma, 
a  daughter  of  Frank  G.  Leslie,  and  they  now  have  one  child,  Eugena,  six  years  of 
age.  Mr.  Donahue  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Chickasha  lodge  No.  94,  A.  F.  &  A. 
M.  and  the  Scottish  Rite  at  Guthrie,  Oklahoma,  Lodge  of  Perfection  No.  1.  He 
resorts  to  golf  and  fishing  for  recreation  and  is  a  member  of  the  Blue  Hills  Country 
Club.      He    also    has    membership    with    the    Benevolent    Protective    Order    of    Elks 


580  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

at  Chickasha,  Oklahoma.  He  is  a  generous  supporter  of  activities  for  moral  progress 
and  of  well  organized  philanthropy.  In  a  word  he  meets  every  duty  and  obligation 
of  life  with  the  consciousness  that  comes  from  a  right  conception  of  things  and  an 
habitual  regard  for  what  is  best  in  the  exercise  of  human  activity. 


REDMOND    S.    COLNON. 


Redmond  S.  Colnon,  a  prominent  contractor  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Brown- 
ville,  New  York,  June  29,  1862,  a  son  of  John  W.  and  Harriett  (Perkins)  Colnon. 
In  the  acquirement  of  his  education  he  attended  the  public  schools  of  Potsdam, 
New  York,  and  afterward  entered  Cornell  University  at  Ithaca,  where  he  was  gradu- 
ated on  the  completion  of  a  course  in  civil  engineering  in  1887.  For  a  brief  period 
he  followed  the  profession  for  which  he  had  just  qualified  and  then  turned  his 
attention  to  contracting  along  engineering  lines,  in  which  branch  of  business  he 
has  continued  to  the  present  time  with  exceptional  success.  He  has  made  his 
home  in  St.  Louis  since  1889  and  throughout  the  intervening  period  has  gained 
that  success  in  business  which  is  tlie  direct  result  of  close  application,  indefatigable 
energy,  thorough  understanding  of  every  phase  of  the  work  and  the  utmost  faith- 
fulness in  meeting  the  terms  of  a  contract.  He  has  also  become  financially  inter- 
ested in  other  business  enterprises  and  is  now  a  director  in  the  Missouri  Portland 
Cement  Company,  in  the  St.  Louis  Prog  Switch  Company  and  in  the  Merchants  & 
Laclede  Bank. 

On  the  9th  of  January,  1895,  Mr.  Colnon  was  married  to  Miss  Katharine  Fruin. 
a  daughter  of  Jeremiah  Fruin,  of  St.  Louis.  The  religious  faith  of  Mr.  Colnon  is 
that  of  the  Catholic  church  and  his  political  endorsement  is  given  to  the  democratic 
party.  He  was  a  member  of  the  school  board  from  1903  to  1909.  His  name  is 
on  the  membership  rolls  of  the  St.  Louis,  Noonday,  Bellerive  Country  and  Sunset 
Hill  Country  Clubs  and  his  genial  qualities  and  his  dependability  are  salient  elements 
in  his  popularity  among  his  fellow  members. 


FRANK  KEMPER  WESTFALL,  M.  D. 

Dr.  Frank  Kemper  Westfall.  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine  at  St.  Joseph, 
was  born  in  Prairie  City,  Illinois,  January  21,  1880,  and  is  a  son  of  Dr.  Alonzo 
Madison  and  Mary  Ann  (Murray)  Westfall.  His  father  was  a  skillful  and  highly 
respected  physician  of  Prairie  City  from  1871  to  the  time  of  his  death  in  1914. 
He,  in  turn,  was  the  son  of  Dr.  Fielding  Lowry  Westfall,  who  was  one  of  the  earliest 
medical  practitioners  of  McDonough  county,  Illinois,  having  taken  up  his  abode 
there  in  1845. 

In  the  acquirement  of  his  education  Dr.  Westfall  completed  a  course  in  the 
high  school  at  Prairie  City  in  1898.  He  began  his  study  of  medicine  at  the  old 
Ensworth  Medical  College  in  1899  and  afterward  entered  Hahnemann  College  of 
Chicago,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1903,  winning  by  competi- 
tive examination  an  interneship  in  Hahnemann  Hospital.  Througli  his  hospital 
work  he  gained  the  broad  knowledge  and  practical  experience  that  can  be  ac- 
quired in  no  other  way  as  rapidly  as  through  hospital  work.  In  1903  he  located 
for  the  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery  in  Macomb.  Illinois,  having  charge  of  the 
chair  of  pediatrics  and  anaesthetics  at  the  Marietta  Phelps  Hospital.  He  was 
filling  the  position  of  president  of  the  McDonough  County  Medical  Society  when 
in  1909  he  removed  to  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  and  here  entered  upon  practice,  since 
which  time  he  has  given  his  attention  to  the  general  work  of  the  profession,  mani- 
festing the  same  conscientiousness  and  fidelity  to  duty  that  made  his  father  an 
able  physician  in  Illinois. 

In  Kansas  City,  on  the  10th  of  May,  1919,  Dr.  Westfall  was  married  to  Miss 
Kathryne  Walker,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  Walker.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Presbyterian  church,  of  the  Lotus  Club,  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  the 
Knights  &  Ladies  of  Security.  He  also  has  membership  with  the  Ustion,  a  medical 
fraternity.      His    political    allegiance    is   given    to    the    republican    party    and    at    the 


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time  of  the  World  war  he  became  a  member  of  the  United  States  Medical  Reserve 
Corps. 

Dr.  Westfall  is  largely  a  self-made  man.  He  early  began  providing  for  his 
own  support  by  clerking  in  grocery  and  clothing  stores  of  his  native  city.  His  prog- 
ress is  the  direct  outcome  of  his  close  application  and  ability.  He  has  always 
been  greatly  interested  in  athletics  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years  held  the  Mc- 
Donough  county  one-mile  bicycle  championship.  For  four  years  he  played  on  the 
Prairie  City  high  school  football  team,  for  one  year  was  a  member  of  the  Bnsworth 
Medical  College  team  and  was  a  member  of  the  Hahnemann  baseball  team  in  1902. 
He  is  a  believer  in  outdoor  exercise  as  a  means  to  health  and  practices  what  he 
preaches  in  this  connection.  While  seventeen  years  have  passed  since  his  gradua- 
tion he  has  always  kept  in  touch  with  the  trend  of  modern  professional  thought 
and  progress,  eager  to  embrace  any  new  ideas  that  will  render  his  professional 
efforts  more  effective  in  checking  the  ravages  of  disease. 


CHASE   MORSEY. 


Chase  Morsey,  lawyer  and  lecturer  on  bankruptcy  law  in  the  St.  Louis  Uni- 
versity, was  born  at  Warrenton,  Missouri,  February  23,  1883,  a  son  of  Colonel  William 
.Louis  and  Laura  A.  (Pulliam)  Morsey.  The  father  was  born  at  Smith  Creek,  Warreu 
county,  Missouri,  November  21,  1849,  and  spent  his  entire  life  in  that  county.  He 
began  work  as  station  agent  for  the  North  Missouri,  now  the  Wabash,  Railroad  and 
afterward  became  assistant  claim  agent  with  that  road,  his  father  being  chief  claim 
agent.  In  1872  he  entered  the  mail  service  as  route  agent  and  the  following  year 
returned  to  his  home  in  Warrenton.  where  he  entered  upon  the  practice  of  law  in 
partnership  with  his  father  under  the  style  of  Morsey  &  Son.  In  1874  he  was 
elected  prosecuting  attorney  of  his  county  on  the  republican  ticket  and  faithfully 
served  for  sixteen  years,  when  he  declined  again  to  accept  the  nomination.  In  1890 
he  was  made  chairman  of  the  republican  county  committee  and  was  a  most  earnest 
and  loyal  party  worker  because  of  his  firm  belief  in  republican  principles.  In  18  9  2  he 
ran  considerably  ahead  of  his  ticket  when  republican  nominee  for  congress  in  the 
ninth  district.  In  187  7  he  formed  a  law  partnership  with  Judge  Charles  E.  Peers 
that  was  maintained  until  the  latter's  death.  While  he  figured  for  a  considerable 
period  as  a  successful  lawyer,  he  remained  an  active  worker  in  political  circles, 
attending  every  state  convention  of  his  party  from  18  74  until  his  demise,  and  in 
1876  served  as  an  alternate  delegate  to  the  national  repulslican  convention.  In  18SS 
he  was  a  delegate  to  the  national  convention  and  in  all  matters  of  local  concern  he 
took  the  deepest  interest,  serving  for  many  years  as  mayor  of  the  city  of  Warren- 
ton, as  president  of  the  school  board  and  in  other  official  positions.  His  labors  in 
behalf  of  the  public  schools  were  far-reaching  and  valuably  resultant.  He  was  a 
man  of  most  generous  spirit  and  it  is  doubtful  if  anyone  in  real  need  ever  sought 
his  aid  in  vain.  He  was  particularly  interested  in  the  welfare  of  the  families  of 
Civil  war  veterans  and  many  such  received  financial  aid  from  him,  yet  of  his  bene- 
factions he  seldom  spoke.  In  189  8  he  became  assistant  United  States  attorney  of  his 
district  and  in  June,  1902,  was  appointed  United  States  marshal  for  the  eastern 
district  of  Missouri  by  President  Theodore  Roosevelt,  occupying  the  position  for 
eight  years.  He  then  returned  to  Warrenton,  where  his  remaining  days  were 
passed,  and  such  was  the  high  regard  entertained  for  him  that  when  he  departed 
this  life  on  the  19th  of  March,  1919,  all  of  the  business  houses  and  the  public  schools 
of  the  city  were  closed  in  respect  to  his  memory.  Of  him  Judge  John  C.  Pollock 
of  the  United  States  court  said:  "I  think  Colonel  Morsey  was  one  of  the  truest 
friends  a  man  ever  had,  and  there  never  came  an  occasion  when  he  ever  wavered 
or  faltered  in  his  devotion  to  his  beloved  ones  and  his  friends.  In  many  respects 
he  was  a  very  great  man.  Above  all,  his  kindness,  tenderness  and  loyalty  shone 
out  as  the  brightest  traits  in  his  character."  Judge  Dyer,  who  had  been  his  life- 
long friend,  said:  "I  saw  him  grow  from  boyhood  to  manhood  and  knew  him  most 
intimately  all  the  years  of  his  mature  life.  I  never  knew  him  to  do  a  mean,  unworthy 
or  cowardly  act,  and  never  knew  him  to  turn  his  back  on  a  friend.  He  was  the 
embodiment  of  honor,  and  his  word  was  as  good  as  a  bond  secured  by  the  purest 
gold.  He  was  true  and  faithful  in  all  the  relations  of  life,  from  the  beginning  te 
the  end;  true  and  loving  to  father  and  mother,  true  to  brothers  and  sister,  true  to 


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wife  and  children,  true  to  friends  and  to  friendships;  true  to  the  town  of  Warren- 
lon  where  he  was  born  and  raised,  lived  and  died,  and  true  to  his  county,  his  state 
and  nation.  He  was  a  patriot  and  in  every  fibre  of  his  heart  loved  the  country  and 
its  flag.  He  was  in  every  respect  an  ideal  citizen,  and  this  community  has  lost  in 
his  going  a  prop  and  stay  that  will  be  hard  to  replace.  His  neighbors  will  miss 
him,  miss  his  kindly  smile  and  greeting.  The  schools  will  miss  him,  and  the  chil- 
dren will  know  that  they  have  lost  a  friend.  If  everyone  to  whom  he  did  some 
loving  service  were  to  bring  a  blossom  to  his  grave,  he  would  sleep  tonight  beneath 
a  wilderness  of  flowers.  He  never  betrayed  a  trust,  nor  wronged  the  poor,  nor  did 
he  turn  a  deaf  ear  to  the  prayers  of  widows  and  orphans.  In  public  office  he  always 
acted  upon  the  theory  that  'the  officer  who  serves  his  county  and  his  country  best, 
serves  his  party  best.'  He  held  various  positions  of  public  trust.  *  *  *  -^q 
more  faithful  and  efficient  officer  than  he  ever  assumed  the  duties  of  a  public  trust. 
He  held  commissions,  as  I  have  said,  signed  by  the  greatest  of  presidents.  He  was 
proud  of  those  commissions,  proud  of  the  confidence  reposed  in  him  by  President 
Roosevelt,  and  was  loyal  to  his  chief  to  the  very  last.  Both  of  them  have  now- 
answered  the  final  summons.  The  recitals  I  have  made  are  some  of  the  legacies  left  to 
his  wife,  children  and  friends.  They  are  quite  enough  to  make  them  all  rich — 
rich  not  in  dollars  and  cents — but  in  that  which  is  far  more  valuable  and  lasting — 
riches  that  no  thief  can  steal,  nor  misfortune  dissipate — aye,  the  riches  of  a  good 
name,  the  value  of  which  is  beyond  computation." 

In  the  family  of  four  children  who  had  the  honor  of  calling  Colonel  William 
L.  Morsey  father.  Chase  Morsey  was  the  second  in  order  of  birth,  his  elder  brother 
being  Fred  Morsey  of  Hannibal,  Missouri,  and  the  younger  brothers  Clyde  of  Miami, 
Oklahoma,  and  William,  who  still  resides  in  Warrenton.  Chase  Morsey,  after  attend- 
ing the  public  schools  of  his  native  city,  continued  his  education  in  the  Central  Wes- 
leyan  College  at  Warrenton  where  he  won  his  Bachelor  of  Science  degree,  and  after- 
ward entered  the  Washington  University  of  St.  Louis,  in  which  he  won  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Laws.  Entering  upon  active  practice,  he  has  made  rapid  progress 
at  the  bar  and  is  today  a  lawyer  with  large  and  important  practice  and  is  also  well 
known  as  a  lecturer  on  bankruptcy  law  in  the  St.  Louis  University. 

On  the  13th  of  October,  1912,  in  St.  Louis.  Missouri,  Chase  Morsey  was  married 
to  Miss  Ruth  Callicott,  who  is  connected  with  the  prominent  Breckinridge  family 
of  Kentucky.  Mr.  Morsey  is  a  republican  in  his  political  views  and  for  fourteen 
years  has  filled  the  office  of  United  States  commissioner  for  St.  Louis.  He  is  well 
known  in  Masonic  circles,  is  a  past  master  of  Itasca  Lodge.  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  has 
attained  the  thirty-second  degree  of  the  Scottish  Rite  in  the  consistory,  while  with 
the  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  he  has  crossed  the  sands  of  the  desert.  He  possesses 
many  of  the  admirable  traits  of  his  honored  father,  chief  among  which  are  his 
patriotic  loyalty  to  his  country  and  his  devotion  to  every  cause  which  he  espouses. 
His  life  is  guided  by  high  principles  and  worthy  purposes  and  St.  Louis  numbers 
him  among  her  most  respected  members  of  the  bar. 


JOSEPH   GILMAN   MILLER. 


If  "Opportunity  knocks  but  once,"  as  some  aver,  Joseph  Gllman  Miller  made  ready 
response  to  that  call  at  his  door,  tor  an  active  business  career  has  brought  him  to  a 
creditable  and  prosperous  point  in  business  circles,  where  he  is  engaged  in  handling 
steel  rails  and  railroad  material.  St.  Louis  is  his  native  city.  His  father,  Joseph  G. 
Miller,  Sr.,  was  a  planter  of  Adams  county,  .Mississippi,  and  became  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Chappell  &  Miller  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  descended  from  English  planters  who 
settled  in  Georgia,  and  thus  through  many  generations  the  family  has  been  represented 
on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic.  In  the  maternal  line  Mr.  Miller  of  this  review  comes 
of  French-Swiss  ancestry,  the  progenitors  of  the  family  having  been  associated  with 
Lord  Selkirk  in  the  celebrated  Red  River  of  the  North  colony. 

At  the  usual  age  Joseph  G.  Miller  became  a  public  school  pupil  and  graduated  from 
the  St.  Louis  high  school.  He  at  once  started  out  in  business  and  was  connected  with 
various  railroad  and  manufacturing  interests  of  St.  Louis  until  1889.  His  developing 
powers  steadily  qualified  him  for  larger  responsibilities  and  laudable  ambition  led  him 
forward  until  in  the  year  mentioned  he  became  secretary  of  the  Madison  Car  Company, 
filling  that  i)Osltion  until  1893.  when   he  began   handling  steel  rails  and   railroad   mate- 


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rials.  Through  the  intervening  period  he  has  carried  on  this  business,  which  he  has 
developed  to  extensive  proportions,  his  trade  relations  covering  a  wide  territory  and 
bringing  to  him  a  most  gratifying  financial  return.  He  has  participated  in  the  con- 
struction of  railroads  in  the  southwest  and  Mexico  and  is  a  director  and  officer  of  many 
corporations  at  home  and  in  the  east. 

On  the  5th  of  November,  1899,  Mr.  Miller  was  married  to  Miss  Caroline  O'Fallon,  a 
daughter  of  John  J.  O'Fallon,  and  their  children  are  Caroline  O'Fallon  and  John  O'Fallon 
Miller.  His  military  record  covers  service  with  Battery  A  of  the  Missouri  National  Guard. 
He  is  appreciative  of  the  social  amenities  of  life  and  has  membership  in  the  St.  Louis. 
Noonday,  Racquet,  St.  Louis  Country,  Bellerive  Country,  Western  Rowing  and  Dar- 
denne  Hunting  Clubs  and  also  belongs  to  the  Masonic  order.  His  religious  faith  is 
evidenced  in  his  connection  with  the  Presbyterain  church.  He  is  a  man  of  sterling 
worth  who  has  always  held  to  high  ideals  and  throughout  his  entire  life  has  aided 
in  the  uplift  of  the  individual  and  the  benefit  of  the  community  at  large. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  chapters  in  the  life  record  of  Mr.  Miller  is  in  connec- 
tion with  his  service  in  the  World  war.  He  was  commissioned  a  captain  in  the  Reserves 
on  the  1st  of  February,  1917,  and  upon  America's  entrance  into  the  war  he  was  called 
to  the  colors  and  stationed  at  Fort  Roots,  Arkansas,  where  he  was  acting  as  brigade 
quartermaser  when  ordered  to  Russia  as  a  military  attache  at  Petrograd.  He  was  com- 
missioned colonel  on  the  personal  staff  of  Governor  Major  of  Missouri  in  1912  and 
served  until  1916,  and  he  was  also  on  the  staff  of  Governor  Gardner  from  1916  until  1920. 
This  and  his  foreign  service  brought  him  many  most  interesting  experiences.  He 
had  opportunity  to  study  the  Russian  question  at  close  range  and  saw  the  progress  of 
the  Bolshevik  movement  which  has  so  largely  engulfed  that  country  in  disaster,  staying 
its  progress  and  stability  in  a  manner  that  will  require  years  to  overcome.  Mr.  Miller 
has  also  spent  much  time  in  foreign  travel,  visiting  all  the  capitals  of  Europe,  and  in 
1903  he  was  special  commissioner  from  the  St.  Louis  World's  Fair  to  the  Mediterran- 
ean governments  and  spent  the  winter  in ,  Greece,  Turkey  and  Egypt.  There  iio 
sought  to  awaken  the  interest  and  secure  the  cooperation  of  the  Mediterranean 
countries  in  making  exhibits  at  the  exposition.  His  travel  and  foreign  residence 
have  brought  to  him  that  broad  knowledge  and  liberal  culture  which  only  travel 
brings   and   he   has   intimate   and   interesting   knowledge   of   many    foreign   lands. 


ALBERT  L.  REEVES. 


Albert  L.  Reeves  of  the  Kansas  City  bar,  is  practicing  as  a  partner  in  the  firm 
of  Humphrey,  Boxley  &  Reeves,  specializing  in  insurance  law.  He  has  also  become 
identified  with  several  corporations  in  an  official  capacity  and  is  widely  and  favorably 
known  in  the  professional  and  business  circles  of  the  city.  He  was  born  at  Steelville, 
Missouri,  December  21,  1873,  a  son  of  Benjamin  F.  Reeves  and  a  grandson  of  George 
Reeves.  The  latter  was  born  in  Kentucky,  while  the  former  was  born  in  Crawford 
county,  Missouri.  He  became  a  farmer  and  stock  raiser  and  is  still  actively  engaged 
along  that  line  near  Bourbon,  in  Crawford  county.  He  served  in  the  Civil  war  as  a 
member  of  the  Second  Arkansas  Cavalry  of  the  Union  army.  Fraternally  he  is  a 
Mason  and  has  always  been  a  faithful  follower  of  the  craft.  Although  seventy-four 
years  of  age  he  is  still  active  in  public  affairs,  keeps  in  touch  with  all  current  events 
and  abreast  with  the  progress  of  the  times.  He  married  Margaret  Isgrig,  also  a 
native  of  Missouri,  who  has  passed  away.  She  is  survived  by  five  of  their  seven 
children,  of  whom  Albert  L.  was  the  fifth  in  order  of  birth. 

Having  attended  the  district  schools  of  Crawford  county  to  the  age  of  sixteen 
years,  Albert  L.  Reeves  then  entered  Franklin  Institute  at  Sullivan.  Missouri,  where 
he  studied  for  two  years.  He  next  became  a  student  in  the  Steelville  Normal  & 
Business  Institute,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree 
as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1895.  For  three  years  thereafter  he  was  professor  of 
language  and  literature  in  the  Steelville  Normal,  but  regarded  teaching  merely  as 
an  initial  step  to  other  professional  activities.  He  took  up  the  study  of  law  under 
the  direction  of  Oscar  Meyersieck,  of  Union,  Missouri,  and  was  there  admitted  to  the 
bar  on  the  22d  of  December,  1899.  He  practiced  in  Steelville,  Missouri,  for  ten 
years,  winning  steady  advancement  as  a  representative  of  the  profession.  He  also 
took  active  part  in  political  affairs  there  and  was   chosen  a  member  of  the   forty- 


r,86  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

first  general  assembly  from  Crawford  county,  serving  during  the  legislative  period 
from  1901  until  1903  as  a  member  of  the  committee  on  jurisprudence  and  on  edu- 
cation. Remaining  in  Jefferson  City  for  four  years,  Mr.  Reeves  was  during  that 
period  connected  professionally  with  the  insurance  department  under  Governor 
Hadley.  In  1913  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  entered  upon  the  active  prac- 
tice of  law,  continuing  alone  until  February,  1916,  when  he  formed  a  partnership 
under  the  firm  style  of  Humphrey,  Boxley  &  Reeves,  an  association  that  has  since 
been  maintained.  He  makes  a  specialty  of  insurance  law  and  in  that  branch  of 
the  profession  is  most  thorough  and  capable.  He  is  also  very  conscientious  in  all 
of  his  professional  work  and  unusually  persistent  in  his  aims.  This,  combined  with 
unremitting  labor,  logical  reasoning  and  a  good  vocabulary,  has  constituted  an  im- 
portant feature  in  his  success.  Aside  from  his  practice  he  is  a  director  and  the 
general  counsel  for  the  Continental  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Kansas  City  and  a 
director  and  the  vice  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Steelville,  Missouri. 

In  September.  1900.  Mr.  Reeves  was  married  to  Miss  Mattie  Ferguson,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  William  H.  Ferguson,  of  Steelville.  Missouri.  They  had  five  children, 
three  of  whom  are  living,  namely:  Elizabeth,  Albert  L.,  Jr.,  and  Ruth,  aged  respec- 
tively seventeen,  thirteen  and  eleven  years.  The  wife  and  mother  passed  away  in 
1911.  In  1913  Mr.  Reeves  was  again  married,  his  second  union  being  with  Miss 
Blanche  Ferguson,  the  wedding  being  celebrated  in  Pasadena,  the  lady  being  a  dis- 
tant relative  of  his  first  wife. 

Mr.  Reeves  belongs  to  Lebanon  Lodge,  No.  77,  A.  F.  &  A.  M..  and  has  taken 
the  degrees  of  both  York  and  Scottish  Rites,  belonging  to  Oriental  Commandery. 
K.  T..  and  to  Ararat  Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.  He  is  likewise  a  member  of  the 
consistory  of  western  Missouri,  No.  2.  and  he  is  afliliated  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 
In  club  circles  he  is  well  known,  holding  membership  in  the  Kansas  City  Athletic, 
Midday,  Meadow  Lake  Country  and  Golf  Clubs.  His  political  allegiance  is  given 
to  the  republican  party  and  he  was  nominated  on  that  ticket  for  congress.  He  be- 
longs to  the  First  Baptist  church  and  is  teacher  of  the  largest  Bible  class  in  the  west, 
with  a  membership  ranging  from  five  hundred  to  a  thousand.  Thus  it  is  that  his 
life  has  never  been  given  solely  to  those  things  which  make  for  material  progress. 
He  has  ever  realized  the  duties  and  obligations  of  man  to  his  fellowmen  and  to  his 
creator  and  as  the  years  have  passed  he  has  attempted  to  bring  into  full  force  those 
high  principles  which  make  for  honorable  manhood  and  loyal  and  patriotic  citi- 
zenship. 


CHARLES    BOWLING    BARRON. 

Charles  Bowling  Barron  is  an  authority  on  grain  in  the  St.  Louis  markets. 
He  was  born  December  4,  1879,  at  Columbia.  Missouri,  the  son  of  Peter  John  and 
Susan  Rebecca  (Gooch)  Barron.  His  father,  born  in  St.  Louis  in  1850,  was  a 
grocer  who  later  moved  to  Coffeyville,  Kansas,  and  engaged  in  the  mercantile 
business  which  he  carried  on  still  later  in  Centralia,  Missouri.  Returning  to  St. 
Louis  he  was  employed  by  the  Missouri  State  Grain  Inspection  Department  until 
his  health  failed,  when  he  took  a  position  with  the  Merchants'  Exchange  which 
he  held  until  his  death.  Susan  Rebecca  (Gooch)  Barron  was  born  in  Shelbyville. 
Missouri,  in  1854,  the  daughter  of  a  prosperous  farmer  and  stock  raiser.  Their 
children  were  two  daughters  and  three  sons,  and  of  these  Charles  Bowling  Barron 
is  the  second  youngest  child. 

Educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Centralia,  Missouri,  Charles  Bowling  Barron 
came  to  St.  Louis  in  1897  to  take  a  position  with  the  Missouri  State  Grain  Inspection 
Department,  and  remained  in  their  employ  for  one  year.  At  the  end  of  this  time, 
with  C.  A.  Wilson  he  formed  the  Barron  &  Wilson  Grain  Sampling  Company.  In 
1916  he  left  this  firm  to  enter  the  employ  of  the  government  as  a  federal  grain 
supervisor  for  the  Department  of  Agriculture,  a  position  which  he  still  holds.  His 
territory  covers  parts  of  Missouri,  Arkansas,  Tennessee,  Illinois  and  Kentucky,  and 
he  is  concerned  with  the  adjustment  and  the  proper  grading  of  grains. 

During  the  war  Mr.  Barron  was  supervisor  of  food  supplies  for  the  Grain 
Corporation  in  Zone  11,  with  headquarters  in  St.  Louis.  In  addition  to  his  regular 
duties  he  is  a   director  in  the  Obear  Nester  Glass  Company. 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  587 

On  February  21,  1904,  Mr.  Barron  married  Stella  (Nester)  Barron,  the  daugh- 
ter o£  Joseph  Nester,  president  of  the  Obear  Nester  Company.  They  had  one 
daughter,  Helen.  Mrs.  Barron  died  in  1910,  and  in  1917  Mr.  Barron  remarried. 
His  second  wife  was  Mrs.  Guy  M.  Fisher,  whose  husband  was  a  former  jeweller 
of  St.  Louis. 

Mr.  Barron  is  an  independent  democrat  and  a  member  of  the  Christian  church. 
He  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  belongs  to  the  Order  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  and  to 
the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  ,       , 


EDGAR  R.  ROMBAUER. 


Edgar  R.  Rombauer,  stimulated  by  the  example  of  his  father,  an  eminent 
lawyer  and  jurist,  who  is  now  living  retired,  has  become  a  member  of  the  St. 
Louis  bar,  where  he  is  now  practicing.  He  has  been  in  active  and  continuous 
general  practice  since  1892.  He  was  born  in  Belleville,  Illinois,  July  3,  1868,  a 
son  of  the  Hon.  Roderick  E.  Rombauer,  who  was  born  in  Selesto,  Hungary,  May  9, 
1833,  his  parents  being  Theodore  and  Bertha  Rombauer.  There  is  traditionary 
evidence  that  a  representative  of  the  famil>*  went  from  Germany  to  Hungary  during 
the  latter  part  of  the  Arpad  dynasty,  which  ended  in  1301,  and  authentic  history 
of  the  family  dates  from  the  beginning  of  the  seventeenth  century,  records  being 
found  in  the  archives  of  the  city  of  Locse  in  the  form  of  a  written  report  by  a 
Rombauer,  member  of  congress,  to  his  constituency.  For  centuries  the  Rombauers 
were  recognized  as  belonging  to  the  nobility  of  their  district  and  the  father  of 
Roderick  E.  Rombauer  was  a  member  of  the  department  of  industry  and  chief  of 
a  division  during  the  Hungarian  revolution  of  1848-49  and  was  also  in  charge  of 
the  factory  of  arms  and  military  stores  during  the  revolutionary  period.  Because 
of  his  love  of  liberty  he  was  exiled  from  his  native  land  in  1849  and  in  1850 
arrived  in  the  United  States,  his  death  occurring  in  Davenport,  Iowa,  in  185.5. 
His  widow  died  in  Alameda,   California,   at  the  age  of  eighty-seven. 

Judge  Roderick  E.  Rombauer  received  liberal  educational  advantages  in  his 
native  land  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  accompanied  his  mother  to  America  to  join 
the  husband  and  father,  who  had  sought  refuge  in  this  land  of  liberty,  in  1851. 
After  two  years'  residence  in  Iowa  the  family  removed  to  St.  Louis  in  1853  and 
after  several  years  of  railroad  service  in  various  connections  Judge  Rombauer  took 
up  the  study  of  law  under  the  direction  of  Judge  Lawrence,  afterward  chief  justice 
of  Illinois.  He  later  entered  the  Dane  Law  School  of  Harvard  University  and  was 
graduated  in  1858.  He  had  been  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
December  15,  1857.  and  returning  to  St.  Louis,  was  admitted  to  the  Missouri  bar 
on  the  19th  of  May,  1858.  Following  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  his  love  of 
his  adopted  country  manifested  itself  in  his  enlistment  and  he  rose  to  the  rank  of 
captain  in  the  First  Regiment  of  the  United  States  Reserve  Corps  of  Missouri.  In 
November,  1863,  he  was  elected  judge  of  the  law  commissioner's  court  of  St.  Louis 
and  in  1867  was  appointed  judge  of  the  circuit  court,  to  which  office  he  was  elected 
the  following  year.  In  1871  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law  and  continued  a  dis- 
tinguished member  of  the  bar  for  many  years.  In  1884  he  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  court  of  appeals,  serving  on  its  bench  until  January,  1897,  or  for  twelve 
years,  passing  upon  many  of  the  most  important  cases  ever  heard  before  that  tribunal. 
He  has  long  enjoyed  the  distinction  of  being  one  of  the  eminent  jurists  of  Missouri. 
He  has  always  been  a  supporter  of  the  republican  party  but  never  allowed  partisan- 
ship in  any  way  to  interfere  with  the  unbiased  performance  of  his  duties  on  the 
bench. 

In  1865  Judge  Rombauer  was  married  to  Augusta  Koerner  of  Belleville,  Illinois, 
a  daughter  of  Lieutenant  Governor  Gustavus  Koerner  of  Illinois,  who  was  min- 
ister to  Spain  under  Lincoln  and  a  supreme  court  judge  of  Illinois  and  also  a 
member  of  the  staff  of  General  Fremont  during  the  Civil  war.  His  daughter,  Mrs. 
Rombauer,  passed  away  in  St.  Louis  in  March,  1918.  at  the  age  of  seventy-six 
years.  She  had  become  the  mother  of  three  sons  and  three  daughters:  Theodore, 
who  is  now  deceased;  Edgar  R.,  now  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar;  Alfred  B.. 
a  mining  engineer  in  Arizona;   Bertha  S.;    Sophie  M.;    and  Irma. 

Edgar   R.    Rombauer   attended    the    public    schools   of   St.    Louis   and   afterward 


588  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

entered  Washington  University,  in  wliicli  lie  pursued  a  law  course,  being  graduated 
in  1887  with  the  LL.  B.  degree.  Following  his  graduation  he  spent  two  years 
in  doing  preliminary  work  in  the  law  office  of  Smith  &  Pence  of  Chicago  and  then 
became  secretary  to  Judge  John  M.  Harlan  of  the  United  States  supreme  court, 
filling  that  position  in  1889,  1890  and  1891.  Returning  to  St.  Louis,  he  entered 
into  partnership  with  Theodore  G.  Rombauer  under  the  firm  style  of  Rombauer  & 
Rombauer  and  since  1892  has  been  in  active  and  continuous  general  practice. 

On  the  14th  of  October,  1899,  Mr.  Rombauer  was  married  at  St.  Louis  to 
Miss  Irma  Starkloff,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  H.  M.  and  Emma  (Kahlmann) 
Starkloff.  Three  children  have  been  born  of  this  marriage:  Roland,  now  de- 
ceased;   Marion  J.;    and  Edgar  R.,  Jr.     All  were  born  in   St.   Louis. 

During  the  period  of  the  World  war  Mr.  Rombauer  was  a  member  of  the 
advisory  board  of  the  thirteenth  ward.  He  has  been  active  in  politics,  but  has 
never  held  any  public  oflice  except  from  1909  to  1911  he  was  a  member  and  speaker 
of  the  house  of  delegates.  He  finds  his  chief  diversions  in  tennis,  shooting  and 
fishing. 


LOUIS  HUDSON. 


Louis  Hudson  is  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Hudson  &  Hudson,  one  of  the 
busiest  law  firms  of  St.  Louis,  with  a  large  clientele  in  the  general  practice  of  law. 
He  was  born  at  Carbondale,  Illinois,  February  19,  1885,  and  is  a  son  of  Alinzor  and 
Anna  M.  Hudson,  the  former  a  photographer.  During  his  youthful  days  Louis 
Hudson  attended  the  public  schools  of  Metropolis  and  of  Sorento,  Illinois,  com- 
pleting a  high  school  education  at  the  latter  place,  the  date  of  his  graduation  being 
May  5,  1903.  He  was  afterward  graduated  from  the  Metropolitan  College  of 
Law,  winning  the  LL.  B.  degree  on  the  5th  of  June,  1909.  From  the  age  of  eigh- 
teen years  he  had  been  employed  as  a  tobacco  worker,  but  imbued  by  a  laudable 
ambition  to  enter  upon  a  broader  field  of  labor,  he  prepared  for  his  professional 
career  and  since  1909  has  been  engaged  in  law  practice  in  St.  Louis.  Advance- 
ment at  the  bar  is  proverbially  slow  and  Mr.  Hudson  had  to  win  the  place  which 
he  now  occupies  and  the  reputation  which  he  enjoys  as  an  able  and  successful 
lawyer.  Step  by  step,  however,  he  advanced  and  his  ability  has  brought  him  promi- 
nently to  the  front,  so  that  he  now  has  a  large  clientele  that  connects  him  with 
much  important  litigation. 

On  the  7th  of  November.  1911,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Hudson  was  married  to  Miss 
Grace  Herr,  a  daughter  of  George  Herr.  Politically  he  was  formerly  a  socialist 
but  now  gives  his  allegiance  to  the  republican  party.  He  has  never  been  a  politi- 
cian in  the  sense  of  office  seeking,  however,  preferring  always  to  concentrate  his 
efforts  and  attention  upon  his  professional  interests,  and  it  is  by  reason  of  his 
close  application  and  his  thoroughness  that  he  has  reached  the  creditable  place  that 
he  now  occupies  as  a  lawyer  in  a  state  that  has  produced  many  distinguished  rep- 
resentatives of  the  legal  profession. 


JOHN  T.   BERGHOFF,   Jk. 


John  T.  Berghoff,  Jr.,  one  of  the  representative  business  men  of  St.  Joseph, 
where  he  is  conducting  a  drug  store,  was  born  March  1,  1889,  in  the  city  which  is 
now  his  home,  his  parents  being  John  T.  and  Maria  (Adams)  Berghoff,  well  known 
and  highly  respected  residents  of  this  place.  The  son  attended  the  public  schools 
and  also  spent  two  and  a  half  years  as  a  pupil  in  the  Central  high  school.  He 
started  out  upon  his  business  career  as  an  employe  in  the  drug  store  of  G.  W.  Jones 
and  there  remained  for  eight  and  a  half  years,  a  fact  indicative  of  his  valuable  serv- 
ice and  his  fidelity  to  the  interests  of  his  employers.  After  working  for  Mr.  Jones 
for  six  years  he  became  a  registered  pharmacist.  He  later  spent  six  months  at  Mus- 
kogee, Oklahoma,  being  employed  in  Mittong's  Pharmacy,  after  which  he  returned 
to  St.  Joseph  and  entered  the  employ  of  the  W.  S.  Kinnison  Drug  Company  at  Seventh 
and  Edward  streets,  where  he  remained  for  four  months. 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  591 

On  the  day  that  he  left  Mr.  Kinnison's  employ  Mr.  Berghoff  was  married  to 
Lulu  Payne,  daughter  of  George  A.  Dale,  of  Huntsville,  Missouri.  The  marriage, 
which  was  celebrated  October  14,  1913,  has  been  blessed  with  one  child,  Alice  Gret- 
chen,  who  was  born  December  10.  1914. 

Following  his  marriage  Mr.  Berghoff  left  St.  Joseph  for  Springfield,  Missouri, 
where  he  spent  two  years  in  the  C.  E.  Denton  Pharmacy.  He  then  returned  to  his 
native  city  and  entered  the  drug  store  of  J.  M.  Hepburn,  with  whom  he  continued 
for  two  years  as  an  employe.  He  then  acquired  a  half  interest  in  the  business  in 
January,  1917,  and  has  since  been  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  store.  His  entire 
business  life  has  been  devoted  to  the  drug  trade  and  his  thorough  training  and 
broad  experience  have  well  qualified  him  for  activity  in  this  field.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  National  Retail  Drug  Association  and  also  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Pharma- 
cists Association.  His  religious  faith  is  evidenced  in  his  membership  in  the  First 
Christian  church,  while  his  political  belief  is  that  of  the  republican  party.  He  stands 
as  a  stalwart  champion  for  all  those  interests  which  make  for  the  uplift  of  the  indi- 
vidual and  the  benefit  of  the  community,  his  aid  and  Influence  being  always  on  the 
side  of  right  and  progress. 


GUY   A.   THOMPSON. 


Guy  A.  Thompson  has  since  1898  been  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar.  It  has 
been  said  of  him  that  "for  native  ability,  acquired  knowledge  of  the  law,  personal 
integrity  and  energy  displayed  in  behalf  of  his  clients  there  is  no  lawyer  of  his 
age  superior  in  the  state."  Mr.  Thompson  was  born  near  Pattonville,  in  St.  Louis 
county,  Missouri,  September  29,  1875.  He  is  the  son  of  Frank  A.  Thompson  and 
Kate  (Edmonstone)   Thompson. 

His  father,  Frank  A.  Thompson,  is  also  a  native  of  St.  Louis  county  and  the 
son  of  Thomas  Jeffrey  and  Margaret  (Richardson)  Thompson.  The  family  is  of  Eng- 
lish origin  and  was  founded  in  America  prior  to  the  Revolutionary  war  by  William 
T.  Thompson,  who  settled  in  Virginia.  His  son,  Thomas  Jeffrey  Thompson  (grand- 
father of  Guy  A.)  was  born  in  Alexandria,  Virginia,  in  1818  and  died  in  St.  Louis 
county  in  1871.  He  was  reared  and  educated,  however,  at  Shelbyville,  Kentucky, 
and  about  1850  removed  to  St.  Louis  county,  where  his  remaining  days  were  spent. 
During  his  active  life  he  successfully  engaged  in  farming  and  was  a  large  slave 
holder.  His  first  wife,  Margaret  Richardson,  was  a  daughter  of  David  Richardson, 
a  native  of  St.  Louis  county,  and  himself  a  son  of  Major  James  C.  Richardson,  a 
Revolutionary  war  soldier,  who  was  born  in  South  Carolina  and  settled  in  St.  Louis 
county  soon  after  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  war.  Major  Richardson  was  of 
English  descent. 

During  his  active  life  Frank  A.  Thompson  (father  of  Guy  A.)  lived  in  his  native 
county  of  St.  Louis  and  followed  successfully  the  occupation  of  farming.  He  is  now 
living  retired  with  his  son,  Guy  A.  In  1874  he  married  Kate  Edmonstone,  who  was 
born  near  Bridgeton,  St.  Louis  county,  Missouri,  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Robert  Thomas 
and  Martha  Jane  (Field)  Edmonstone,  the  latter  being  a  member  of  the  Pope-Field 
family  of  Virginia  and  Kentucky.  Dr.  Robert  Thomas  Edmonstone  was  born  in 
Montgomery  county,  Maryland,  in  1813,  and  died  in  St.  Louis  county  in  1866.  His 
wife  was  born  in  Vandalia,  Illinois,  in  1823,  and  departed  this  life  in  1860.  Their 
daughter,  Kate  Edmonstone,  mother  of  Guy  A.,  and  wife  of  Frank  A.  Thompson, 
died  in  St.  Louis  county  in  July,  1899,  at  the  age  of  forty-four.  She  had  become  the 
mother  of  three  sons  and  three  daughters,  of  whom  two  sons  and  a  daughter  are 
yet  living:  Guy  A.,  of  this  review.  Judge  Frank  A.  Thompson  of  St.  Louis,  formerly 
a  judge  of  the  St.  Louis  court  of  appeals,  and  Clara  Field,  wife  of  George  M.  Hearne 
of  Poplar  Bluff,  Missouri. 

Guy  A.  Thompson  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  Boone 
counties  and  at  the  State  University,  at  Columbia,  Missouri.  He  received  his  LL.  B. 
degree  in  June,  1898.  The  following  September  he  entered  upon  the  practice  of 
the  law  in  St.  Louis  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Given  Campbell,  one  of  the  foremosFlaw- 
yers  of  the  state.  He  subsequently  became  a  partner  of  Mr.  Campbell  and  continued 
with  him  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  under  the  firm  name  of  Campbell  &  Thomp- 
son  until   Mr.   Campbell's   retirement   in   the   fall   of    1905.      He  has  since   continued 

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in  active  and  successful  practice,  exclusively  devoting  liis  attention  to  civil  law.  and 
those  who  retain  his  services  highly  esteem  him  as  a  lawyer.  While  a  student  at 
the  State  University  he  was  a  leader  in  all  activities,  both  social  and  literary.  He 
took  first  honors  in  collegiate  oratorical  contests,  was  winner  of  the  thesis  prize  in 
the  school  of  law,  and  was  graduated  magna  cum  laude.  He  possesses  a  keen  power 
of  analysis,  is  safe  and  conservative  in  counsel  and.  with  whole  hearted  loyalty  to 
his  client,  combines  untiring  industry  and  exceptional   forensic  ability. 

At  Lexington.  Missouri,  Mr.  Thompson  was  married  June  11,  1&03.  to  Miss  Susan 
Alexander,  a  native  of  the  state  of  Nevada,  and  the  daughter  of  Gustavus  R.  and 
Lucy  (Wilson)  Alexander,  the  former  a  native  of  Alexandria.  Virginia,  which  city 
was  named  in  honor  of  the  family.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thompson  have  five  children:  Kate 
Edmonstone;  Lucy  Monttort;  Alexander  Campbell;  Edmonstone  Field,  and  Eliza- 
beth Thompson,  all  born  in  St.  Louis. 

During  the  World  war  Mr.  Thompson  was  a  member  of  the  seventh  ward  legal 
advisory  board,  and  an  earnest  worker  in  support  of  various  war  activities.  In  his 
college  days  he  became  a  member  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  fraternity.  Professionally 
he  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis.  Missouri  State  and  American  Bar  Associations.  He 
is  a  democrat,  though  always  taking  an  active  part  in  politics,  has  never  consented 
to  be  a  candidate  for  public  office.  He  belongs  to  the  City  Club,  to  the  Noonday 
Club,  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  to  the  Mizpah  Presbyterian  church — associa- 
tions which  indicate  much  concerning  the  nature  of  his  interests.  He  is  a  man  of 
magnetic  personality  and  the  number  of  his  friends  increases  as  the  circle  of  his 
acquaintance  broadens. 


JOHN   CUTTER    GAGE. 


John  Cutter  Gage  was  an  octogenarian  when  death  called  him  on  the  20th  of 
February,  1915.  For  many  years  he  had  been  an  honored  member  of  the  Kansas  City 
bar,  his  entire  course  reflecting  credit  upon  the  profession,  for  he  always  maintained 
the  highest  standards  and  his  practice  was  at  all  times  in  accord  with  the  most  ethical 
professional  relations  and  ideals.  He  came  to  the  middle  west  from  New  England,  his 
birth  having  occurred  at  Pelham,  New  Hampshire,  April  20,  1835.  He  was  of  English 
lineage,  the  ancestral  line  being  traced  back  to  John  Gage,  who  in  1630  came  from  Eng- 
land to  the  new  world,  establishing  his  home  in  Boston.  His  father,  Frye  Gage,  was  a 
farmer  of  New  England  and  married  Kesiah  Cutter. 

The  youthful  experiences  of  John  Cutter  Gage  were  those  of  the  farm-bred  boy 
who  early  takes  up  the  tasks  incident  to  the  development  of  the  fields  and  who  also 
becomes  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools,  therein  mastering  the  elementary  branches  of 
learning.  Ambitious  to  promote  his  education  Mr.  Gage  later  attended  the  Phillips 
Academy,  in  which  he  pursued  a  preparatory  course  and  then  entered  Dartmouth  College 
in  1852.  He  pursued  the  work  of  the  freshman  and  sophomore  years  in  that  institution 
and  then  matriculated  in  Harvard  University  in  1855,  being  graduated  with  the  class 
of  1856.  In  the  meantime  he  had  mentally  reviewed  the  broad  field  of  business  with 
its  varied  opportunities  for  activity  and  advancement  along  industrial,  commercial, 
agricultural  and  professional  lines,  and  decided  that  he  would  devote  his  attention 
to  the  practice  of  law.  Accordingly  with  this  end  in  view  he  became  a  student  in  the 
office  of  S,  A.  Brown,  then  a  leading  attorney  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  and  in  1858 
was  admitted  at  Boston  to  practice  in  the  courts  of  Massachusetts, 

Believing  that  the  west  offered  better  opportunities,  Mr.  Gage  removed  to  Kansas 
City  in  March,  1859,  and  from  that  time  until  his  demise  remained  a  representative 
of  the  Missouri  bar,  becoming  one  of  its  oldest  and  most  honored  members.  In  1860 
he  entered  into  partnership  with  William  C.  Woodson  and  in  1866  formed  a  partnership 
with  William  Douglas,  which  association  was  maintained  until  1869.  The  following 
year  he  was  joined  by  Sanford  B.  Ladd  in  the  practice  of  law  and  in  1878  a  third 
partner,  Charles  E.  Small,  joined  them,  leading  to  the  adoption  of  the  firm  name  of  Gage, 
Ladd  &  Small.  For  a  period  of  more  than  thirty  years  the  firm  maintained  its  existence 
and  Mr.  Gage's  connection  with  Mr.  Ladd  covered  more  than  four  decades.  While  Mr. 
Gage  was  still  an  active  factor  in  the  world's  work  one  of  his  biographers  wrote  of  him: 
"In  his  practice  he  has  won  a  large  percentage  of  the  cases  that  have  been  entrusted 
to  him.    He  convinces  by  his  concise  statements  of  law  and  facts  rather  than  by  word 


JOHN    r.  GAGE 


ATIOKgi 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  595 

painting  and  so  high  is  the  respect  for  his  legal  ability  and  integrity  that  his  assertions 
in  court  are  seldom  questioned  seriously.  Judges  and  clients  also  respect  him  for  his 
careful  counsel.  He  is  a  man  of  most  courteous  manner  and  yet  firm  and  unyielding 
in  all  that  he  believes  to  be  right.  Whatever  he  does  is  for  the  best  interests  of  his 
clients  and  for  the  honor  of  his  profession  and  no  man  gives  to  either  a  more  unqualified 
allegiance  or  riper  ability.  His  standing  in  the  profession  is  indicated  by  the  fact 
that  he  was  honored  with  the  presidency  of  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association  upon  its 
formation  and  also  of  the  Law  Library  Association  while  his  position  in  the  profession 
in  the  state  was  attested  by  his  selection  for  the  presidency  of  the  State  Bar  Association 
in  1884.  No  man  is  more  familiar  with  the  personnel  nor  the  history  of  Judicial 
proceedings  of  the  state  than  Mr.  Gage,  who  has  written  many  historical  articles  upon 
the  bench  and  bar  of  Missouri." 

On  the  26th  of  April,  1886,  Mr.  Gage  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Ida  Bailey, 
a  daughter  of  Dr.  Elijah  Bailey,  of  Monroe  county,  Missouri,  and  they  have  two  children, 
John  Bailey  and  Marian  Mansur.  The  family  circle  was  broken  by  the  hand  of  death 
when  on  the  20th  of  February,  1915,  Mr.  Gage  passed  away,  being  then  in  the  eightieth 
year  of  his  age.  He  had  long  been  a  most  highly  esteemed  resident  of  Kansas  City, 
honored  and  respected  by  all  who  knew  him  and  most  of  all  by  those  who  had  known 
him  longest  and  best.  He  never  deviated  from  a  course  which  he  believed  to  be  right 
between  himself  and  his  fellowmen  and  was  guided  in  all  things  by  the  utmost  sense 
of  justice,  while  in  his  practice  of  law  he  held  to  the  most  advanced  standards  and 
ethics  of  the  profession. 


OMAR   E.   ROBINSON. 


Omar  E.  Robinson,  a  lawyer  engaged  in  general  practice  and  excelling  as  a  trial 
lawyer,  has  a  clientage  in  Kansas  City  unexcelled  and  scarcely  equalled  by  other 
representatives  of  the  profession  in  the  metropolis  of  western  Missouri.  He  was 
born  upon  a  farm  in  St.  Clair  county,  this  state,  December  16,  1868,  and  is  a  son 
of  George  W.  Robinson,  whose  birth  occurred  in  Virginia- and  who  came  to  this  state 
at  a  very  early  day.  For  many  years  he  was  a  successful  rancher  and  cattle  dealer 
of  St.  Clair  county  and  is  now  living  retired  in  Kansas  City.  His  wife  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Cornelia  Beckwith  and  was  born  in  Kentucky.  They  became  par- 
ents of  six  children,  one  of  whom  passed  away. 

The  eldest  of  the  family  is  Omar  E.  Robinson,  who  was  educated  in  the  district 
schools  of  his  native  county  and  in  the  University  of  Missouri,  in  which  he  pursued 
his  law  course,  winning  his  LL.  B.  degree  in  1892.  The  same  year  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  and  has  since  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law,  having  won  success  as  a  repre- 
sentative of  the  legal  profession  in  Kansas  City.  For  four  years  he  was  prosecuting 
attorney  of  St.  Clair  county  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City,  and  the  Missouri 
State  Bar  Associations. 

In  1898  Mr.  Robinson  was  married  to  Miss  Ida  Coche,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
Coche,  a  prominent  and  early  settler  of  St.  Clair  county.  Mr.  Robinson  is  a  member 
of  various  clubs,  including  the  Mission  Hills  Country  Club  and  the  Blue  Hills  Golf 
Club.  He  takes  an  active  interest  in  city,  county  and  state  politics,  giving  his  polit- 
ical allegiance  to  the  democratic  party  and  standing  at  all  times  tor  civic  and  social 
improvement.  He  possesses  a  splendid  literary  library,  with  the  contents  of  which 
he  is  largely  familiar.  He  belongs  to  the  Unitarian  church,  in  which  he  is  serving 
on  the  board  of  trustees.     He  is  also  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason. 


FRANK    W.    EDLIN. 


Frank  W.  Edlin,  the  progressive  head  of  the  Deere  Plow  Company  of  St.  Louis, 
having  immense  warehouses  filled  with  a  large  stock  under  his  control,  his  qualities 
as  a  salesman  and  as  an  organizer  of  business  being  the  salient  features  in  his  grow- 
ing success,  was  born  in  Jackson,  Minnesota,  August  23,  1880,  his  parents  being  G.  C. 
and  Josephine  Edlin.  The  father,  also  a  native  of  Minnesota,  has  devoted  his  life  to 
the  occupation  of  farming  and  is  now  living  retired  at  Eskridge,  Kansas. 


596  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

After  completing  a  high  school  course,  Frank  W.  Edlin  attended  the  College 
implement  business  at  Eskridge,  Kansas,  for  a  period  of  four  years  and  at  the 
of  Emporia,  Kansas,  and  then  entered  the  banking  business,  with  which  he  was 
connected  for  a  short  time.  He  was  afterward  connected  with  the  hardware  and 
end  of  that  time  went  to  Emporia,  Kansas,  where  he  became  connected  with  the 
jobbing  and  retail  implement  business,  a  concern  with  which  he  was  associated 
for  tour  years.  He  then  went  to  Omaha,  Nebraska,  as  representative  of  the  John 
Deere  Plow  Company,  remaining  in  that  city  for  three  years,  after  which  he  spent 
two  years  in  the  home  office  at  Moline,  Illinois.  Removing  to  St.  Louis  six  years 
ago.  he  became  secretary  and  manager  in  this  city  for  the  John  Deere  Plow  Com- 
pany. Extensive  warehouses  ai'e  maintained  in  St.  Louis,  a  large  stock  supply- 
ing the  trade  of  a  large  western  territory,  and  Mr.  Edlin  is  thoroughly  familiar 
with  every  phase  of  the  business,  with  which  he  has  now  been  identified  for  eleven 
years.      He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Mississippi  Valley  Trust   Company. 

In  1915  Mr.  Edlin  was  married  to  Miss  Lucille  Patten,  a  daughter  of  M.  M. 
Patten,  of  Waco,  Texas.  They  have  one  son,  Frank  William,  Jr..  who  is  three 
years  of  age.  Mr.  Edlin  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  governors  of  the  St.  Louis 
Club,  also  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association. 


HON.  NAT  M.   LACY. 


Hon.  Nat  M.  Lacy,  Macon's  efficient  mayor  and  prominent  attorney  at  lavv-, 
dates  his  residence  in  this  city  from  1901  and  through  the  intervening  period  has 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  which  he  began  in  1S99,  following  his 
graduation  from  the  Indiana  Law  School  of  Indianapolis.  He  was  born  in  Nineveh, 
Johnson  county,  Indiana,  August  6,  1874,  his  parents  being  James  D.  and  Tamar 
(Maris)  Lacy,  who  were  married  in  1873.  The  mother  passed  away  a  number  of 
years  ago,  but  the  father  still  makes  his  home  in  Johnson  county.  He  virtually 
retired  from  active  life  a  number  of  years  ago  and  now  lives  in  the  village  of 
Nineveh,  but  for  many  years  was  actively  engaged  in  farming  and  stock  growing 
in  that  locality  and  also  took  a  prominent  part  in  public  affairs  of  the  community. 
He  was  born  in  Coshocton,  Ohio,  March  6,  1846,  and  belongs  to  one  of  the  pioneer 
families  of  that  state.  There  he  was  reared  and  educated  and  took  up  the  busi- 
ness of  contracting  and  building,  which  he  continued  to  follow  after  his  removal 
to  Indiana,  but  later  turned  his  attention  to  farming  and  stock  raising,  becoming 
the  owner  of  valuable  land  in  Johnson  county.  With  its  work  and  management 
he  was  identified  until  about  1907,  when  he  retired  from  active  life,  but  still  owns 
the  farm  property,  from  which  he  derives  a  substantial  annual  income.  His  wife 
was  born  in  Brown  county,  Indiana,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  three  children: 
Nat  M.,  William  J.  and  Mary  E.  The  second  son  occupies  a  farm  near  Nineveh 
and  the  daughter  is  now  Mrs.  Floyd  Cutsinger  and  resides  in  Franklin,  Indiana. 
Politically  James  D.  Lacy  has  always  been  an  earnest  republican  and  has  been  called 
upon  to  fill  various  local  offices  of  honor  and  trust,  serving  at  one  time  as  a  member 
of  the  board  of  equalization  of  his  county.  He  belongs  to  the  Masonic  fraternity 
and  is  a  past  master  of  his  lodge. 

The  youthful  experiences  of  Nat  M.  Lacy  were  those  of  the  farm  bred  boy  who 
divides  his  time  between  the  acquirement  of  an  education,  the  pleasures  of  the 
playground  and  the  work  of  the  fields.  After  leaving  the  public  schools  he  studied 
for  four  years  in  Franklin  College  at  Franklin,  Indiana,  and  then  became  a  student 
in  the  Indiana  Law  School  of  Indianapolis,  from  which  ins-titution  he  was  graduated 
with  the  Bachelor  of  Laws  degree  in  1899.  Soon  afterward  he  was  admitted  to 
practice  at  the  Indiana  bar  and  opened  a  law  office  in  Franklin,  where  he  remained 
until  1901.  The  latter  year  witnessed  his  arrival  in  Missouri  and  through  the 
intervening  period  he  has  made  his  home  in  Macon,  where  he  has  gained  a  large 
clientage  that  has  connected  him  with  much  important  litigation  heard  in  the 
courts  of  the  district  and  state.  In  1904  he  became  assistant  prosecuting  attorney 
of  Macon  county  and  proved  most  capable  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  in  that 
connection,  so  serving  until  1906,  at  the  same  time  filling  the  office  of  city  attorney. 
Earnest  effort,  close  application  and  the  exercise  of  his  native  talents  have  won 
Mr.   Lacy  prestige  as  a  Missouri   lawyer,  a  fact  which   is  highly  complimentary,   for 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  597 

no  bar  has  numbered  more  eminent  and  prominent  men.  He  is  a  safe  counselor 
and  able  advocate,  readily  recognizing  the  salient  features  of  any  case  entrusted 
to  his  care,  while  his  judgment  upon  legal  matters  is  sound  and  discriminating. 
On  the  9th  of  September,  1900,  Mr.  Lacy  wedded  Miss  Daisy  L.  Strickler,  a 
native  of  Indiana  and  a  daughter  of  H.  C.  Strickler  of  Franklin,  that  state.  Politi- 
cally Mr.  Lacy  is  an  earnest  republican  whose  labors  in  behalf  of  the  party  have 
been  far-reaching  and  resultant,  and  he  is  now  serving  as  chairman  of  the  republi- 
can county  central  committee.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Censor  Lodge  No. 
172,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  the  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  the  Woodmen  of  the 
World  and  Phi  Delta  Theta,  a  college  fraternity,  while  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
Lodge  of  Macon  he  is  a  past  chancellor.  He  has  also  been  called  upon  for  im- 
portant political  service.  In  1916  he  was  elected  mayor  of  Macon  and  his  admin- 
istration during  his  first  term  of  two  years  was  so  able  that  he  was  twice  reelected 
and  is  now  the  Incumbent  in  that  office.  This  covered  a  very  important  period  in 
the  history  of  the  nation,  when  the  loyal  and  patriotic  men  of  every  community 
were  called  upon  to  render  important  service  to  the  country.  He  acted  as  county 
chairman  in  the  War  Savings  campaign  and  was  a  prominent  public  speaker  in 
behalf  of  the  Liberty  Loan  drives.  He  is  now  closely  studying  the  problems  of 
municipal  government  and  his  plans  for  his  city  have  wrought  effectively  for 
public  good.  He  has  ever  sought  to  maintain  the  legal  and  moral  status  of  the 
community,  to  promote  the  work  of  general  improvement  and  to  do  away  with 
all  those  difficulties  which  are  obstacles  to  civic  advancement  and  the  adoption 
of   the   highest   civic   standards. 


JONATHAN    RICE. 


For  many  years  Jonathan  Rice  exerted  a  marked  influence  over  the  commercial 
development  of  St.  Louis,  having  become  connected  with  the  mercantile  interests 
of  the  city  in  187  9  as  one  of  the  founders  of  the  dry  goods  house  of  Rice,  Stix  & 
Company.  As  the  years  passed  he  also  became  associated  with  other  corpoi-ate 
interests  of  a  different  character,  but  his  activities  were  ever  of  a  nature  that 
contributed  to  public  progress  and  prosperity  as  well  as  to  individual  success. 
So  closely  was  his  name  interwoven  with  the  business  interests  of  St.  Louis  that 
it  has  become  an  integral  part  of  the  history  of  the  city.  Jonathan  Rice  had  at- 
tained the  age  of  sixty  years  when  he  passed  away  in  St.  Louis,  November  23,  1903. 
His  birth  occurred  at  Bamberg,  Bavaria,  Germany,  July  15,  1843,  his  parents  being 
Seligman  and  Yetta  (Newman)  Rice.  When  a  young  man  the  former  removed  to 
Bamberg,  Bavaria,  and  there  passed  away  at  the  notable  age  of  ninety-seven  years, 
he  and  his  wife  living  to  celebrate  their  diamond  wedding,  on  which  occasion  a 
silver-bound  Bible  was  sent  to  them  by  the  prince  regent,  Luitpold,  of  Bavaria, 
this  gift  from  royalty  being  formally  presented  to  the  aged  couple  by  the  burgo- 
master and  the  city  council  of  Bamberg. 

Jonathan  Rice  was  reared  at  the  place  of  his  nativity,  enjoying  liberal  edu- 
cational opportunities  until  graduated  from  the  polytechnic  school.  He  entered 
upon  his  business  career  in  connection  with  a  banking  house,  but  was  induced  to 
come  to  the  new  world  by  an  older  brother  who  had  already  established  his  home 
on  American  soil.  In  1860  he  sailed  for  the  United  States  and  from  New  York 
journeyed  across  the  country  to  St.  Joseph,  Missouri.  Mr.  Rice  continued  in  St. 
Joseph  until  after  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war,  when  the  interests  of  his  brother, 
who  was  a  government  contractor,  required  his  services  amid  the  stirring  scenes 
of  military  life.  This  brought  him  in  contact  with  leading  military  men  of  that  period 
and  just  prior  to  the  battle  of  Shiloh  he  had  an  interview  with  Generals  Prentiss 
and  Grant,  the  latter  having  just  arrived  at  Pittsburg  Landing.  Just  after  the 
fall  of  Memphis  Jonathan  Rice  joined  his  brother,  together  with  William  Stix 
and  Benjamin  Eiseman,  in  organizing  the  firm  of  Rice,  Stix  &  Company,  and  for 
seventeen  years  they  were  prominently  connected  with  mercantile  interests  In 
Memphis.  In  1873  Mr.  Rice  remained  at  his  post  during  a  severe  yellow  fever 
epidemic  and  became  one  of  the  active  workers  for  the  relief  of  those  stricken. 
Another  yellow  fever  epidemic  occurred  in  1879  and  this  led  Mr.  Rice  and  his 
associates   to   transfer   their   commercial   interests   to   St.    Louis,    where    they   estab- 


.598  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

lished  business  under  the  same  name.  The  house  enjoyed  a  steady  growth,  owing 
in  no  small  measure  to  the  unfaltering  enterprise  and  splendid  qualities  of  man- 
agement displayed  by  Jonathan  Rice,  who  won  a  place  of  distinction  in  commercial 
circles  of  the  city.  He  was  also  a  director  and  one  of  the  vice  presidents  of  the 
St.  Louis  Exposition,  and  of  the  Mercantile  Trust  Company,  vice  president  of  the 
Interstate  Commercial  Club  and  a  director  of  the  Columbian  Club,  the  Merchants 
Transportation  Association  and  the  Business  Men's  League.  He  was  likewise  con- 
nected with  the  Covenant  Life  Insurance  Company  and  the  Merchants  Life  In- 
surance Association  and  he  was  a  prominent  figure  in  the  social  circles  of  the  city. 
A  contemporary  writer  has  said  of  him:  "While  controlling  extensive  and  pros- 
perous business  affairs  he  manifested,  too,  the  social  qualities  that  drew  around 
him  a  host  of  warm  friends.  He  belonged  to  many  of  the  leading  social  clubs  of 
the  city,  where  he  was  always  cordially  welcomed,  being  popular  in  those  organ- 
izations where  intelligence  is  a  necessary  attribute  to  agreeableness." 

It  was  in  1874  that  Jonathan  Rice  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Aurelia 
Stix,  a  daughter  of  Henry  Stix,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in  which  city  her  birth  occurred 
October  12,  1854.  Both  her  father  and  her  mother,  Henry  and  Pauline  (Thurnauer) 
Stix,  were  natives  of  Bavaria,  Germany,  and  her  ancestors  since  1680  have  been 
residents  of  Burgkunstadt,  near  Bamberg,  Germany.  She  is  a  grand-niece  of  Pro- 
fessor Wolfsohn,  who  was  an  eminent  mathematician  of  Berlin  University  and  was 
tutor  to  Giacomo  Meyerbeer,  the  celebrated  composer.  In  1840  Henry  Stix  came 
to  the  new  world  and  soon  afterward  began  merchandising  in  Cincinnati,  becoming 
one  of  the  leading  figures  in  philanthropic  as  well  as  in  commercial  circles  of  that 
city,  where  he  passed  away  in  1894.  Mrs.  Rice  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Cincinnati  and  left  the  high  school  there  to  become  a  student  in  the  convent  of 
Notre  Dame.  Jonathan  and  Aurelia  Rice  became  the  parents  of  tour  children: 
Harry  J.;  Erna;  Charles  M.  and  Pauline.  Charles  M.  is  the  only  one  now  living 
and  is  mentioned  elsewhere  in  this  work.  For  five  years  after  their  marriage  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Rice  resided  in  Memphis,  Tennessee,  and  then  came  to  St.  Louis,  where 
Mrs.  Rice  became  prominently  connected  with  the  philanthropic  and  benevolent 
projects  and  interests  of  the  city.  She  was  an  active  member  of  the  board  of 
directors  of  the  Martha  Parsons  Hospital  and  was  the  first  president  of  the  Sister- 
hood of  Personal  Service,  organized  in  189  2.  She  was  also  vice  president  of  the 
Associated  Jewish  Charities  of  St.  Louis  and  has  contributed  much  to  the  benevolent 
work  and  humanitarian  activities  of  the  city.  Mrs.  Rice  has  long  felt  great  delight 
in  the  study  of  the  best  in  literature  and  her  reading  has  covered  a  wide  range. 
Moreover,  she  is  herself  an  author  of  no  inconsiderable  note,  having  written  various 
short  stories  and  poems,  and  her  attractive  mentality  as  well  as  social  qualities 
render  her  a  favorite  wherever  she  is  known. 


HON.  HUGH  K.  WAGNER. 


Hon.  Hugh  K.  Wagner  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar  and  one  who  for  many 
years  has  exercised  a  widely  felt  and  beneficial  influence  over  public  thought  and 
action.  He  is  now  representing  the  third  district  of  St.  Louis  in  the  general 
assembly,  his  election  coming  as  a  surprise  to  many  because  the  district  normally 
has  a  large  democratic  majority.  But  this  is  a  later  chapter  in  his  life  record,  which 
now  covers  a  span  of  half  a  century,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  St.  Louis,  Mis- 
souri, on  the  29th  of  September,  1870.  The  first  school  which  he  attended  was  the 
Lyon  school  and  he  afterward  became  a  pupil  in  the  Central  high  school.  Having 
prepared  tor  the  law,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  has  engaged  continuously 
in  practice  since  1897.  The  passing  years  have  chronicled  his  steady  professional 
progress  and  he  has  long  enjoyed  an  important  practice.  He  is  a  member  of  the  St. 
Louis,  Missouri  and  American  Bar  Associations  and  is  a  member  of  the  bar  of  the 
supreme  court  of  the  United  States,  also  of  the  United  States  circuit  courts  of 
appeals,  the  court  of  appeals  of  the  District  of  Columbia  and  the  United  States 
district  courts  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  San  Francisco,  California,  Portland,  Oregon, 
Mobile,  Alabama,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  Chicago,  Illinois,  and 
other  places.     For  eleven  years  he  lectured  at  the   Benton  College   of  Law  on   the 


HUGH     K.    WAGNER 


THI  «IW  TORI 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  601 

law  of  domestic  relations,  equity  pleading,  legal  ethics,  argumentation,  and  com- 
mon law  and  code  pleading. 

While  a  most  prominent  representative  o£  the  bar  and  one  whose  devotion 
to  his  clients'  interests  is  proverbial  yet  who  never  forgets  that  he  owes  a  still 
higher  allegiance  to  the  majesty  of  the  law,  Mr.  Wagner  has  nevertheless  found 
time  for  activities  of  a  varied  nature.  He  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  governors 
of  the  Aero  Club  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  former  chairman  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  St.  Louis  Fire  Prevention  Club,  is  a  life  member  of  the  Society  of 
Authors,  Incorporated,  of  London,  England,  and  is  a  member  of  the  committee 
on  municipal  and  state  legislation  of  the  St.  Louis  Chamber  of  Commerce.  In 
January,  1914,  he  founded  and  became  the  first  president  of  the  Safety  First 
Society  of  St.  Louis,  initiating  that  movement  in  the  city.  He  is  now  in  his  third 
term  as  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Million  Population  Club  of 
St.  Louis,  which  organization  works  to  bring  industries  to  St.  Louis  and  to  the 
state  of  Missouri,  and  for  the  upbuilding  of  the  material,  moral  and  esthetic  welfare 
of  the  great  metropolis  of  this  state.  That  organization  is  seeking  to  obtain  from 
the  legislature  the  enactment  of  a  statute  that  will  permit  an  election  to  be  held  in  St. 
Louis  county  to  determine  whether  or  not  part  of  that  county  may  be  annexed  to  the  city 
of  St.  Louis  for  the  purpose  of  competing  with  cities  like  Cleveland,  Detroit,  Los  Angeles, 
Baltimore  and  Boston,  that  by  annexation  of  their  suburbs  have  so  increased  their  respec- 
tive populations  as  to  endanger  the  relative  rank  of  St.  Louis  in  the  United  States  census. 
According  to  the  1910  census  St.  Louis  ranks  fourth.  By  the  annexations  of  these 
other  cities,  her  rank  is  threatened.  It  will  be  an  injury  to  the  state  of  Missouri  if 
she  loses  this  rank. 

Mr.  Wagner  has  been  active  for  upward  of  twenty  years  in  a  large  variety 
of  civic  movements  for  the  public  good,  including  serving  as  one  of  a  committee 
of  three  of  the  Business  Men's  League  of  St.  Louis  which  initiated  the  movement 
that  succeeded  in  ending  the  deadlock  on  the  seJection  of  the  approach  to  the 
Municipal  Free  Bridge,  resulting  in  voting  the  bonds  for  its  completion.  In 
1915  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  republican  state  committee  and  served  as  a 
member  of  its  executive  committee  and  as  chairman  of  its  finance  committee, 
and  was  reelected  for  another  term.  In  1918  he  completed  the  revision  and  codifi- 
cation of  the  general  ordinances  of  the  city  of  St.  Louis  and  the  annotation  thereof, 
of  the  new  city  charter,  and  of  the  Missouri  constitution  and  state  laws  especially 
applicable  to  St.  Louis  by  reference  to  court  decisions  affecting  them.  In  the 
legislature  Mr.  Wagner  is  chairman  of  the  workmen's  compensation  committee 
of  the  house  and  is  one  of  the  most  active  members  of  the  judiciary  committee. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  house  committee  on  municipal  corporations.  Many 
people  say  that  the  workmen's  compensation  law  was  the  biggest  question  before 
the  legislature  at  its  last  session,  or  that  has  been  up  for  the  consideration  of  the 
legislature  for  many  years,  and  all  agree  in  conceding  credit  to  Mr.  Wagner  for 
hard  work,  ability  and  fairness  in  conducting  the  workmen's  compensation  act 
to  its  present  status.  Mr.  Wagner  is  a  close  and  earnest  student  of  the  grave 
political,  sociological  and  economic  questions  which  are  before  the  country.  Those 
things  which  are  matters  of  grave  national  importance  are  to  him  of  deep  con- 
cern and  to  the  solution  of  all  public  problems  he  brings  to  bear  a  keenly  analy- 
tical mind,  well  trained  through  his  experience  as  a  member  of  the  bar.  He  does 
not  regard  anything  as  foreign  to  himself  that  affects  the  welfare  of  his  fellow- 
men  and  he  is  spoken  of  as  a  prominent  lawyer  of  the  highest  type  and  character, 
while  his  public  activities  have  been  greatly  diversified  yet  are  all  of  vital  im- 
portance to  the  commonwealth. 


THE    CHOUTBAUS. 


1.  Sieur  Rene  Auguste  Chouteau,  a  shipowner,  left  France  in  1718  and  estab- 
lished himself  in  New  Orleans,  his  ships  trading  between  the  Americas  and  Europe. 
Among  his  numerous  enterprises  he  financed  and  was  the  silent  partner  of  Maxent, 
Laclede  &  Company  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  possessed  of  considerable 
means.  He  married  in  1739,  in  New  Orleans,  Marie  Therese  Bourgeois.  They 
have  five  children,  two  sons  and  three  daughters.   (1) 

2.  I.   Rene  Auguste   Chouteau    (2)    (7). 


ti()2  CEXTENNIAI.  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

3.  II.   Pierre   Chouteau    (3)     (7). 

III.  Victorie    Chouteau    (4)    married   Charles   Gratiot. 

IV.  Pelagie   Chouteau    (5)    married    Sylvestre    Labadie. 

V.   Marie  Louise  Chouteau    (6)    married  Joseph  Marie  Papin. 

2.  Rene  Auguste  Chouteau,  born  in  New  Orleans  in  1739,  founded,  with 
Pierre  Laclede,  Saint  Louis.  February  15,  1764,  he  landed  on  the  site  of  the 
present  city  and  erected  the  first  house  built. 

At  the  transfer  to  the  United  States  in  1804,  Auguste  Chouteau  was-the  chief 
citizen  of  Upper  Louisiana.  The  new  government  was  prompt  to  avail  itself  of  his 
services  and  he  was  appointed  United  States  Indian  commissioner  and  made  many 
treaties  with  the  various  nations  on  behalf  of  the  United  States.  He  was  also 
colonel  of  the  first  militia  regiment,  presiding  justice  of  the  Court  of  Oyer  and 
Terminer,  president  of  the  first  board  of  trustees  of  the  town  of  St.  Louis,  and 
president  of  the  first  banking  house.  He  married  Marie  Therese  Cerre,  and  at 
his  death  in  1829  left  seven  children. 

4.  I.  Auguste  A.   Chouteau. 

5.  II.   Henri   Chouteau. 

III.  Edward  Chouteau. 

IV.  Gabriel    S.   Chouteau. 

V.   Eulalie   Chouteau   married   Rene   Paul. 
VI.   Louise   Chouteau   married   Gabriel    Paul. 
VII.   Emilie   Chouteau   married   Thomas   Floyd   Smith. 

4.  Auguste   A.   Chouteau   married   Constance   Sanguinett. 

I.   Auguste   R.    Chouteau. 

6.  II.   Edward   Auguste   Chouteau. 

III.   Virginie  Chouteau  married  Joseph  C.   Barlow. 

6.  Edward  Auguste  Chouteau   married   Elizabeth  Christy. 

7.  I.   S.  Auguste  Chouteau. 
II.   Eugenia   Chouteau. 

III.   Marie  Isabel  Chouteau. 

7.  S.   Auguste  Chouteau   married  Ida   R.  Taylor. 

8.  I.   Auguste   Chouteau. 

8.  Auguste    Chouteau   married   Virginia   Wilson. 

I.   Auguste   Chouteau. 
II.   Walter   Cerre   Chouteau. 

5.  Henri    Chouteau,    born    in    Saint    Louis    in    1805,    killed   in   Gasconade 
disaster  November   1,   1855;    married  Clemence  G.   Coursault. 

I.   Aglae  Chouteau  married  Neree  Francis  Valle. 

9.  II.   Henri   A.   Chouteau. 

III.  Gilman  Chouteau. 

IV.  Norbert   Sylvester   Chouteau. 

V.   Corinne  Chouteau  married  John  N.   Dyer. 
VI.   Beatrice  Chouteau   married   John   O'Fallon   Clark. 
VII.   Lelia  C.   Chouteau  married  John  S.  Winthrop. 

9.  Henri  A.   Chouteau   married  Julia   Deaver. 
10.  I.   Azby  Auguste   Chouteau. 

II.   Bertha  Chouteau   married   Lucas  Turner. 

10.  Azby   Auguste  Chouteau   married   Cora   Baker. 

I.   Azby  Auguste  Chouteau. 
II.   Henri  A.  Chouteau. 

11.  Henri  A.   Chouteau   married  Jane   Bagnell. 

I.    Henri   Chouteau. 
II.   Jeanne  Chouteau. 

3.  Pierre  Chouteau,  born  in  New  Orleans  in  1758.  came  to  Saint  Louis  in  1764, 
married  twice,  first  Pelagie  Kiesereau,  secondly  Brigite  Saucier. 

12.  I.   Auguste  Pierre  Chouteau. 

13.  II.   Pierre  Chouteau. 

III.  Paul  L.   Chouteau. 

IV.  Pelagie    Chouteau    married    Bartholomew    Berthold. 

V.   Francois  Gesseau   Chouteau — founder  of  Kansas  City    (8). 
VI.   Cyprien  Chotiteau. 
VII.   Pharamond  Chouteau. 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  603 

VIII.   Charles   P.   Chouteau. 
IX.   Frederick  Chouteau. 

12.  Auguste   Pierre    Chouteau    married    Sophie    Labbadie. 

I.  Augustine  Chouteau. 

II.  Emilie  S.  Chouteau  married  Nicola  DeMenil. 

III.  Susanne    Chouteau    married    L.    R.    Cortonbert. 

IV.  Marie   A.   Chouteau   married   R.   S.   Watson. 

14.  V.   Pierre   Sylvestre    Chouteau. 

VI.   Virginie  Chouteau  married  John  G.  Priest. 

14.  Pierre  Sylvestre  Chouteau  married  Louisa  Alvarez. 

I.   Sophie    Chouteau   married   Charles   Lorlng. 
II.   William  G.   Chouteau. 
III.   Auguste   Chouteau,  M.   D. 

13.  Pierre  "Cadet"   Chouteau   married   Emilie  Gratiot. 

I.   Emilie  Chouteau  married  John  F.   A.  Santord. 
II.   Julie   Chouteau   married   William   Maffit. 
III.   Pierre   Chouteau. 

15.  IV.   Charles   P.    Chouteau. 

V.   Benjamin  Chouteau. 

15.  Charles  P.  Chouteau  married  Julie  Belln  Gratiot. 

I.   Emlle   Chouteau   married   John    Henshaw. 

16.  II.   Pierre  Chouteau. 

III.  Nannie  Chouteau   married   Lieut.   Johnson,   U.   S.   A. 

IV.  Henry  Chouteau. 

V.   Marie   Chouteau   married   Edward  V.   Papin. 

16.  Pierre  Chouteau  married  Lucile  U.  Chauvin. 

Luclle  Chouteau  married  J.  Lucas  Turner. 
Pierre    Chouteau. 

Foot  Note  (1)  Will  of  Marie  Therese  Chouteau  nee  Bourgeois,  dated  13  Jan- 
uary, 1813,  declares  that  she  was  legitimately  married  to  Sleur  Rene  Auguste 
Chouteau;  that  of  said  marriage  there  were  born  two  sons,  Rene  Auguste  Chouteau 
and  Pierre  Chouteau,  and  three  daughters,  Marie  Louise  Papln  nee  Chouteau, 
Vlctolre  Gratiot  n^e  Chouteau  and  Pelagie  Labbadie  n§e  Chouteau,  deceased.  Cer- 
tified Copy  in  Archives  Missouri  Historical  Society. 

Foot  Note  (2)  Rene,  legitimate  son  of  Rene  Chouteau  and  Dame  Marie  Bour- 
geois, his  wife,  baptized  7  September,  1749,  Parish  Church  of  St.  Louis  in  New 
Orleans.     Certified  Copy  of  Act  de  Bapteme  in  Archives  Missouri  Historical  Society. 

Foot  Note  (3)  Jean  Pierre,  born  on  the  10th  of  October,  1758,  of  the  legitimate 
marriage  of  Rene  Chouteau  and  Marie  Therese  Bourgeois,  his  wife,  baptized 
19  October,  1758,  Parish  Church  of  Saint  Louis  in  New  Orleans.  Certified  Copy 
of  Act  de  Bapteme  in  Archives  Missouri  Historical  Society. 

Foot  Note  (4)  Marriage  Contract — Vlctolre  Chouteau,  single,  daughter  of 
Senor  Auguste  Chouteau  and  Senoi-a  Marie  Therese  Bourgeois,  native  of  New 
Orleans,  with  Senor  Graciote.  Dated  25  June,  1801.  Original  in  Archives  of 
Missouri  Historical  Society. 

Foot  Note  (5)  Marriage  Contract — Pelagie  Chouteau,  single,  daughter  of  the 
late  Senor  Augustin  Chouteau  and  of  the  Senora  Marie  Therese  Bourgeois,  with 
Senor  Silvester  Labbadie,  27th  July,  1776.  Original  in  Archives  of  Missouri 
Historical  Society.  Marie  Pelagie  Chouteau,  born  6th  October,  1760,  of  the  legiti- 
mate marriage  of  Rene  Chouteau  and  Marie  Bourgeois,  baptized  15  October,  1760, 
in  Parish  Church  of  Saint  Louis  in  New  Orleans.  Certified  Copy  of  Act  de  Bapteme 
in  Archives   Missouri  Historical   Society. 

Foot  Note  (6)  Marriage  Record — Transcribed  and  translated  by  Walter  B. 
Douglas — Old  Cathedral  Register  of  Baptisms,  Marriages  and  Burials  1776-1781. 
Page  53. 

The  year  1779,  the  19th  of  January.  I,  Capucln,  missionary  apostolic  prle.st. 
cure  of  Saint  Louis,  after  having  published  two  bans,  having  dispensed  with  the 
third,  between  Joseph  Papin,  legitimate  son  of  Joseph  Alexandre  Papin  and  Mar- 
guerite La  force,  his  father  and  mother,  of  the  one  part,  and  Marie  Louise  Chouteau, 
legitimate  daughter  of  Augustus  Chouteau  and  Marie  Therese  Bourgeois,  her  father 
and  mother  of  the  other  part,  and  not  finding  any  Impediment  to  said  marriage, 
after  receiving  their  mutual  consent,  I  have  given  them  the  nuptial  benediction  in 


G04  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

presence  of  the  undersigned  witnesses,  that  is  to  say  Pierre  Sylvestre  Sarpy,  Antoine 
Reilhe,  Sylvestre  Labbadie,  Noel  Langlois — Signed  P.  Bernard,  Cure.  J.  M.  Papin, 
Ant.  Reilhe,  Noel  Langlois,  Stv.  Sarpy,  Marie  Louise  Chouteau,  S.  Labbady.  Ferd 
de  Leyba. 

Foot  Note  (7)  Power  of  Attorney,  Rene  Auguste  Chouteau  and  Jean  Pierre 
Chouteau,  brothers,  sons  of  the  deceased  Auguste  Chouteau,  their  father,  to  collect 
their  share  of  the  estate  of  their  deceased  father  to  Martin  Duralde,  attorney  in  fact, 
Dated   3    September,    1776. 

Power  of  Attorney  of  same  to  Pierre  Laclede  Liguest,  for  same  purpose,  Dated 
4  August,  1777.     Originals  in  Archives  of  Missouri  Historical  Society. 

Foot  Note  (8)  History  of  Kansas  City,  Page  23,  by  Carrie  Westlake  Whitney; 
History  of  Kansas  City,  Page  10,  by  W.  H.  Miller. 


HENRY   T.   LINDSAY. 


Henry  T.  Lindsay,  a  lawyer  of  splendid  attainments,  diligent,  industrious  and 
of  sober  habits,  is  meeting  with  substantial  success  at  the  St.  Louis  bar.  He  was 
born  in  Waupun.  Dodge  county.  Wisconsin.  May  5.  18  83,  his  parents  being  Thomas 
and  Margaret  (Smith)  Lindsay,  the  former  now  deceased  while  the  latter  is  still 
living.  The  father  was  a  native  of  Scotland,  and  arrived  in  America  during  the 
period  of  the  Civil  war.  settling  in  Milwaukee.  Wisconsin.  He  afterward  located  upon 
a  farm  and  his  occupation  was  that  of  a  construction  and  civil  engineer,  in  which  con- 
nection he  was  well  known  in  his  time.  In  his  honor,  the  Lindsay  road  was  named. 
His  death  occurred  in  1886.  His  wife  belonged  to  one  of  the  prominent  and  aristo- 
cratic pioneer  families  of  Wisconsin.  She  was  the  eldest  of  a  family  of  eleven  chil- 
dren, and  she  had  six  brothers,  who  were  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  in  Wiscon- 
sin, securing  their  lands  in  the  Indian  days,  and  in  the  course  of  time  became  very 
prosperous. 

Henry  T.  Lindsay  attended  the  public  schools  near  his  father's  home  and  also 
graduated  from  the  high  school  at  Fox  Lake,  Wisconsin,  after  which  he  entered 
the  University  of  Wisconsin,  and  later  spent  two  years  as  a  student  in  Dartmouth 
College.  He  won  his  law  degree  at  St.  Louis  in  1910  and  has  since  engaged  in  the 
general  practice  of  his  profession  in  which  he  has  made  steady  progress.  Advance- 
ment at  the  bar  is  proverbially  slow,  but  close  application,  earnest  effort  and  fidelity 
to  the  interests  of  his  clients  has  gained  for  him  a  most  enviable  position  as  a  lawyer. 

Mr.  Lindsay  is  a  member  of  the  Sigma  Chi  fraternity.  His  religious  faith  is 
that  of  the  Episcopal  church,  and  his  support  can  be  counted  upon  to  further  various 
measures  and  projects  for  the  public  good.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the 
democratic  party,  and  while  he  has  never  been  an'office  seeker,  he  served  on  the  legal 
advisory  board  of  the  fourteenth  district.  During  the  World  war  he  made  various 
attempts  to  enter  the  service  but  was  rejected  by  the  Marines  and  also  by  the  Tank 
corps  because  of  being  overweight.  While  he  is  a  man  of  large  proportions 
nevertheless,  he  is  exceptionally  active  and  he  was  captain  of  the  St.  Louis  football 
team  in  1909,  while  previously  he  had  served  as  member  of  the  Dartmouth  football 
team  in  1903,  being  connected  therewith  when  Dartmouth  defeated  Harvard  at  the 
dedication  of  the  Harvard  stadium.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  track  team  at 
Dartmouth  and  he  has  always  taken  a  deep  interest  in  athletic  and  outdoor  sports. 
He  holds  membership  in  Tower  Grove  Lodge  No.  631  F.  &  A.  M.  and  Alhambra 
Grotto.  His  is  a  well  rounded  character  and  at  all  times  he  maintains  an  even  balance 
between  those  interests  which  lead  to  the  physical,  mental  and  moral  development 
of  the  individual. 


JACQUE    G.    L.    HARVEY. 


Jacque  G.  L.  Harvey  is  one  of  the  most  successful  practitioners  at  the  Kansas 
City  bar.  A  native  son  of  Missouri,  he  was  born  in  Saline  county,  January  26.  1875, 
his  parents  being  Jacque  G.  L.  and  Virginia  Claiborne  (Harris)  Harvey.  The  father, 
now  deceased,  was  also  a  native  of  Missouri,  his  birth  occurring  within  a  halt  mile  of 


HENRY    T.   LINDSAY 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  607 

the  birthplace  of  his  son  and  namesake.  He  became  a  farmer  and  merchant  o£ 
Saline  county  and  at  the  time  of  the  Civil  war  joined  the  Confederate  army.  The 
Harvey  family  is  one  of  long  connection  with  Missouri.  In  pioneer  times  the  grand- 
father of  Mr.  Harvey  of  this  review  became  a  resident  of  the  state  and  his  position 
of  prominence  is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  in  1840  he  was  speaker  in  the  house  of 
representatives. 

After  attending  the  public  schools  of  Saline  county  Mr.  Harvey  spent  three 
years  as  a  student  in  the  Kansas  City  high  school,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
with  the  class  of  1893.  He  later  read  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  James  A.  Reed,  now 
United  States  senator.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1900,  after  three  years  o£ 
preliminary  study,  and  took  up  the  general  practice  of  law.  When  Mr.  Reed  was 
elected  mayor  of  Kansas  City  in  1900,  Mr.  Harvey  was  made  his  private  secretary 
and  upon  Mr.  Reed's  retirement  from  the  mayoralty  Mr.  Harvey  was  appointed  assis- 
tant city  counselor  and  remained  in  that  position  for  a  short  time.  He  then  entered 
upon  the  general  practice  of  his  profession  independently  but  in  the  fall  of  1907 
became  junior  member  of  the  firm  of  Reed,  Yates,  Mastin  &  Harvey,  later  Reed, 
Atwood,  Yates,  Mastin  &  Harvey,  an  association  that  was  maintained  uninterruptedly 
for  several  years. 

At  the  age  of  thirty-three  Mr.  Harvey  was  appointed  county  counselor  of  Jack- 
son county,  being  the  youngest  man  who  ever  held  that  office,  the  duties  of  which 
he  discharged  faithfully  and  capably  for  two  terms.  In  June,  1912,  the  present  firm 
of  Reed  &  Harvey  was  formed.  Thus  practically  throughout  his  professional  career 
Mr.  Harvey  has  been  associated  with  Senator  Reed,  first  as  a  law  student  and  long 
in  a  partnership  relation.  In  recent  years  the  official  duties  of  Senator  Reed  have 
been  so  exacting  that  only  occasionally  can  he  give  any  attention  to  private  affairs 
and  consequently  the  work  of  the  firm  falls  almost  entirely  upon  the  shoulders  of 
Mr.  Harvey. 

As  an  attorney  he  possesses  a  keen,  analytical  and  logical  mind  and  a  large 
fund  of  legal  information.  He  is  one  of  the  successful  lawyers  of  Kansas  City  and 
practices  before  state  and  federal  courts,  including  the  supreme  court  of  the  United 
States.  In  the  conduct  of  a  trial  of  a  case  he  is  unusually  considerate  and  fair;  in 
fact  his  frankness  and  his  fairness,  whether  before  court  or  jury  or  in  argument 
before  appellate  courts,  stamp  him  as  an  ethical  lawyer  with  broad  comprehension 
of  his  obligations  as  such.  He  possesses  oratorical  ability,  his  strength  as  such  being 
characterized  by  a  logical  and  orderly  presentation  of  any  subject  with  which  he  has 
to  deal.  He  is  an  easy,  fluent,  convincing  talker  and  a  most  dangerous  opponent  in 
any  discussion.  In  his  relations  with  his  fellowmen  Mr.  Harvey  is  democratic  and 
finds  his  friends  in  all  the  walks  of  life. 

Mr.  Harvey  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Club,  to  the  Mid-Day  Club  and  to  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  is  a  man  of  strong  personality,  of  excellent  judgment, 
true  and  faithful  to  the  interests  of  his  clients  and  also  most  loyal  to  his  friends,  who 
are  many.  In  a  word,  he  is  a  man  of  high  ideals,  to  which  he  displays  unfalter- 
ing allegiance. 


ANTON  BURVENICH. 


Anton  Burvenich  is  numbered  among  the  honored  pioneer  settlers  of  St.  Joseph, 
where  for  more  than  forty-three  years  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  drug  business  on 
his  own  account  and  previous  to  that  time  was  employed  along  the  same  line.  His 
career  has  been  characterized  by  enterprise  and  progress  at  every  point  and  he  has 
ever  commanded  and  enjoyed  the  respect  and  confidence  of  his  tollowmen.  He  was 
born  in  Germany,  March  7,  1852,  a  son  of  Andrew  and  Elizabeth  (Schaefer)  Bur- 
venich, who  came  to  the  United  States  in  1856  with  their  family,  settling  in  St. 
Joseph  when  their  son  Anton  was  but  six  years  of  age.  Here  they  spent  their 
remaining  days,  the  father  being  constantly  identified  with  the  carpenter's  trade 
and  building  operations  in  this  city.  He  passed  away  at  the  age  of  sixty-two  years, 
while  his  wife  reached  the  age  of  fifty-nine.  They  were  the  parents  of  nine  children: 
Maggie,  Anton,  John,  Andrew,  Jr.,  Mary,  Elizabeth,  Tillie,  Henry  and  Charles,  but 
only  six  of  the  number  are  now  living. 

Educated  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Joseph,  Anton  Burvenich  when  thirteen 
years  of  age  entered  the  employ  of  Captain  Joseph  Schmitz,  a  druggist,  with  whom 

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608  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

he  remained  for  three  years.  He  afterward  spent  four  years  in  the  employ  of  Her- 
man Garlich,  was  later  with  an  Omaha  drug  house  for  two  years  and  for  one  year 
was  employed  in  a  drug  store  at  Louisville,  Kentucky.  He  then  went  to  Council 
-  Bluffs,  Iowa,  where  he  spent  two  years  in  the  same  line  of  work,  and  in  1876  came 
to  St.  Joseph,  where  he  established  business  on  his  own  account  at  No.  1608  Fred- 
erick avenue.  Throughout  the  intervening  period  he  had  become  ambitious  to  be- 
come owner  of  a  store  and  had  carefully  saved  his  earnings  until  his  industry  and 
economy  had  brought  him  sufficient  capital  to  enable  him  to  carry  out  his  project. 
For  twenty  years  he  remained  at  his  original  location  and  then  removed  to  his  present 
place  of  business,  where  he  has  continued  for  about  twenty-three  years.  He  is  today 
one  of  the  pioneer  business  men  of  the  city  and  one  of  its  oldest  settlers,  St.  Joseph 
having  a  population  of  only  about  three  thousand  when  the  Burvenich  family  arrived. 
On  the  4th  of  October,  1881,  Mr.  Burvenich  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Julia  Dio  and  to  them  have  been  born  four  children,  and  the  family  circle 
still  remains  unbroken  by  the  hand  of  death.  There  are  three  daughters 
and  one  son:  Julia,  who  is  the  wife  of  George  Korando,  of  Omaha,  Nebraska; 
Augusta,  the  wife  of  Joseph  L.  Schiesl,  of  St.  Joseph;  Marie,  the  wife  of  R.  M. 
Dorsey,  of  St.  Joseph;  and  Oscar  A.,  who  assists  his  father  in  the  store. 

Mr.  Burvenich  was  at  one  time  a  member  of  Invincible  Lodge,  No.  470,  I.  O.  O.  F., 
of  St.  Joseph,  and  also  of  Arapahoe  Tribe  of  Red  Men  of  St.  Joseph,  of  which  he  was 
treasurer  for  about  twenty  years.  He  now  belongs  to  the  Royal  Order  of  Maccabees 
at  St.  Joseph  and  his  religious  faith  is  indicated  by  his  connection  with  St.  Joseph's 
cathedral.  In  politics  he  is  a  republican  but  has  never  sought  nor  desired  office, 
preferring  always  to  concentrate  his  efforts  and  attention  upon  his  business  affairs! 
which  have  been  most  carefully  and  wisely  directed  and  have  brought  to  him  a  sub- 
stantial measure  of  success.  He  has  long  been  numbered  among  the  prosperous 
business  men  and  leading  citizens  of  St.  Joseph,  where  he  took  up  his  abode  almost 
two-thirds  of  a  century  ago. 


JOSEPH   D.   GRANVILLE. 


Joseph  D.  Granville,  deceased,  was  prominently  known  in  business  circles 
of  St.  Louis  as  the  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Granville  Supply  Company. 
He  was  a  man  of  many  sterling  qualities,  enterprising  and  progressive  in  his 
business  affairs,  reliable  in  citizenship  and  faithful  to  all  the  ties  of  home  and 
friendship.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  May  23,  1874,  and  was  a  son  of  Thomas 
and  Mary  (Greenfield)  Granville.  The  father  held  a  government  position  in  Wash- 
ington for  a  number  of  years  and  passed  away  in  the  national  capital.  He  served 
as  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  war,  holding  the  rank  of  lieutenant  in  the  Union  army. 

Joseph  D.  Granville  was  educated  in  the  Catholic  parochial  schools  of  St. 
Louis  and  in  the  St.  Louis  University,  liberal  intellectual  training  thereby  well 
qualifying  him  for  life's  practical  and  responsible  duties.  His  first  position  after 
he  had  completed  his  college  course  was  of  a  clerical  nature  in  one  of  the  banking 
institutions  of  his  native  city.  Soon  thereafter,  however,  he  associated  himself 
with  the  American  Car  &  Foundry  Company,  with  which  he  remained  for  ten 
years,  and  within  that  period  he  advanced  step  by  step  until  he  had  'reached 
the  important  position  of  district  manager  with  the  corporation,  which  employs 
more  than  ten  thousand  men,  with  plants  in  St.  Louis,  St.  Charles,  Missouri, 
and  Madison,  Illinois,  being  one  of  the  leading  car-building  concerns  of  the 
United  States.  The  position  of  district  manager  was  therefore  one  of  large 
responsibility  and  Mr.  Granville  fully  measured  up  to  all  the  requirements.  In 
1908,  however,  he  tendered  his  resignation  to  his  employers  in  order  to  engage 
in  the  railway  supply  business  on  his  own  account  and  became  president  and 
general  manager  of  the  Granville  Supply  Company.  Through  the  organization 
and  incorporation  of  the  business  he  became  one  of  the  well  known  factors  in  the 
railway  supply  trade  of  St.  Louis.  In  business  affairs  he  was  found  thoroughly 
reliable  as  well  as  progressive  and  enterprising  and  he  carried  forward  to  success- 
ful  completion   whatever  he   undertook. 

In  1899  Mr.  Granville  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Jeannette  Gardner, 
daughter  of  Godfrey  and  Frederika   (Boedeker)   Gardner.     They  became  the  parents 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  611 

of  four  children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  Arthur  J.,  Joseph  H.,  Jeannette  M. 
and  Hazel  E.  ' 

The  fanjily  circle  was  broken  by  the  hand  of  death  when  on  the  18th  of 
September,  1919,  Mr.  Granville  passed  away,  his  death  being  the  occasion  of  deep 
regret  to  his  many  friends.  He  was  a  consistent  member  of  the  Catholic  church, 
loyal  to  its  teachings  and  to  the  faith.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Democratic  Club 
but  in  national  affairs  always  voted  the  republican  ticket,  supporting  the  candidate 
of  that  party  for  the  presidency.  He  belonged  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
thus  manifested  his  interest  in  the  welfare  and  upbuilding  of  St.  Louis  and  in  all 
those  questions  which  are  a  matter  of  civic  importance.  Along  social  lines  his  con- 
nection was  with  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association  and  with  the  Algonquin  Golf  Club. 
He  was  always  genial  and  courteous  and  the  sterling  worth  of  his  character  was  rec- 
ognized by  those  who  came  within  the  circle  of  his  friendship.  Mrs.  Granville  is 
residing  in  the  handsome  home  at  No.  6138  Kingsbury  boulevard  and  occupies  an 
enviable  social  position  in  St.  Louis. 


JUDGE  FRANK  BLAIR  FORNEY. 

There  is  perhaps  no  history  in  this  volume  which  indicates  more  clearly  the 
opportunities  that  are  before  young  men  and  the  possibilities  for  the  attainment 
of  success  than  does  that  of  Judge  Frank  Blair  Forney,  for  while  he  is  today  one 
of  the  most  prosperous  men  of  Moberly,  there  was  a  period  when  he  had  no  financial 
assets.  He  possessed,  however,  a  spirit  of  determination  and  energy,  coupled  with 
laudable  ambition,  that  has  brought  most  gratifying  results  and  the  story  of  his 
progress  is  simply  the  story  of  earnest  endeavor  and  close  application. 

Judge  Forney  was  born  in  Randolph  county,  Missouri,  about  two  miles  east 
of  Moberly,  on  the  22d  of  April,  1868,  and  is  a  son  of  Daniel  S.  and  Henrietta 
(Beatty)  Forney.  He  Is  descended  on  both  sides  from  Revolutionary  war  ancestry 
and  is  a  representative  of  old  colonial  families.  His  father  was  born  in  Virginia 
and  about  18  66  came  to  Missouri  as  a  tobacco  buyer.  After  devoting  several 
years  to  that  business  he  engaged  In  tobacco  manufacturing  in  Moberly  and 
eventually  turned  his  attention  to  the  dry  goods  trade,  while  later  he  became  a  fur- 
niture dealer.  He  made  for  himself  a  creditable  place  in  the  business  circles  of 
the  city  and  his  fellow  townsmen,  appreciative  of  his  worth  and  ability,  called 
him  to  public  office,  three  times  electing  him  mayor  of  Moberly.  It  was  under  his 
administration  that  the  sewer  system  was  built,  also  the  water  works  and  the 
electric  light  system  and  thus  several  of  the  most  valuable  public  utilities  were 
secured  under  his  direction.  He  passed  away  in  1912,  having  long  survived  his 
wife,  who  was  a  native  of  Wheeling,  West  Virginia,  and  who  departed  this  life 
in  1874. 

Judge  Frank  B.  Forney  whose  name  introduces  this  review  was  educated  in 
the  public  and  high  schools  of  Moberly  and  also  pursued  a  commercial  course  in 
Moon's  Business  College  of  the  same  city.  When  his  textbooks  were  put  aside 
he  began  working  in  his  father's  dry  goods  store  and  there  remained  for  six  years. 
In  fact  he  was  largely  reared  in  the  store,  assisting  from  early  boyhood  at  every 
opportunity  when  his  time  was  not  occupied  by  his  studies.  In  1889  he  established 
his  present  clothing  and  men's  outfitting  business,  with  which  he  has  now  been 
prominently  identified  for  the  past  thirty-one  years,  ranking  as  one  of  Moberly's 
foremost  business  men.  This  position,  however,  was  not  reached  by  leaps  and 
bounds,  but  was  attained  by  steady  progress  and  his  starting  point  was  a  most 
humble  one.  When  he  began  business  for  himself  he  borrowed  one  hundred  and 
twenty-five  dollars  from  the  bank  to  buy  his  railroad  ticket  and  meet  his  expenses 
in  Chicago  while  purchasing  his  stock.  This  he  bought  on  credit  without  a  dollar's 
capital.  He  had  previously  had  training  along  mercantile  lines,  however,  and, 
moreover,  he  was  determined  to  succeed.  During  the  first  year  his  sales  amounted 
to  more  than  fifty  thousand  dollars.  He  has  always  made  it  his  aim  to  carry  the 
latest  and  best  that  the  market  affords  and  his  house  has  always  maintained  the 
highest  standards  in  its  personnel,  in  the  line  of  goods  carried  and  in  the  treatment 
accorded  patrons,  so  that  a  most  liberal  patronage  has  been  enjoyed.  Mr.  Forney 
was  also  until  a  recent  date  a  director  of  the  Moberly  Trust  Company. 

On  the  1st  of  June,   1893,  Mr.  Moberly  was  married  in  Mexico,   Missouri,   to 


G12  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Miss  Myrtle  Tucker,  daughter  of  J.  D.  and  Julia  (Dobbins)  Tucker,  both  of  whom 
have  now  passed  away.  Her  father  was  for  many  years  a  well  known  real  estate 
man  of  Mexico,  Missouri.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Forney  have  four  children:  Prances  Clay- 
borne,  who  was  educated  at  Monticello  College  at  Monticello,  Illinois,  and  at 
Lindenwood  College  at  St.  Charles,  Missouri;  Daniel  Smyser,  a  high  school  pupil; 
and  Dorothy  and  Elizabeth  Eleanor,  who  are  still  in  the  grade  work  of  the  public 
schools. 

Judge  Forney  is  a  member  of  Moberly  Lodge,  No.  344,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Moberly 
Chapter,  No.  79,  R.  A.  M.;  Tancred  Commandery,  No.  79,  K.  T.;  and  Ararat 
Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.  He  also  holds  membership  in  Moberly  Lodge,  No.  936, 
B.  P.  O.  E.,  in  the  Moberly  Country  Club  and  the  Moberly  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
He  is  a  faithful  follower  of  the  teachings  of  the  craft,  an  enthusiastic  supporter 
of  the  interests  of  the  Country  Club  and  an  active  and  effective  worker  in  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  in  support  of  all  those  interests  which  are  looking  to  a 
greater  and  better  Moberly.  His  political  endorsement  has  always  been  given  to 
the  democratic  party  and  he  is  now  serving  as  a  member  of  tlie  staff  of  Governor 
Gardner.  He  was  recently  appointed  county  judge  of  Randolph  county  to  fill  out 
the  unexpired  term  of  Judge  J.  M.  Williams,  deceased,  so  tliat  he  is  now  serving 
on  the  bench.  This  appointment  came  in  recognition  of  his  unassailable  integrity 
and  his  high  sense  of  honor  in  every  relation  of  lite  and  no  one  doubts  but  that  the 
record  which  he  will  make  on  the  bench  will  measure  up  to  the  splendid  reputation 
which   he   has    won   in    other   connections. 


FRANK    W.    PHELAN. 


Long  connection  with  tlie  business  interests  of  St.  Louis  and  the  capability  with 
which  he  ever  managed  his  affairs  gained  Frank  W.  Phelan  a  prominent  position  in 
the  trade  circles  of  the  city,  and  he  was  widely  known  as  the  head  of  the  Phelan- 
Faust  Paint  Manufacturing  Company.  A  native  of  St.  Louis,  he  was  born  August 
29,  1854,  his  parents  being  William  and  Bridget  (Cooney)  Phelan,  who  were  na- 
tives of  the  green  isle  of  Erin.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  farming  people 
of  that  country  and  there  William  Phelan  was  reared  to  the  life  of  the  farm,  early 
becoming  familiar  with  the  methods  then  in  vogue  in  cultivating  the  land  and 
caring  for  the  crops.  A  belief  that  better  business  opportunities  might  be  secured 
on  the  other  side  of  the  Atlantic  led  him  to  leave  his  native  country  and  come  to 
the  United  States.  He  was  a  resident  of  New  York  for  several  years  and  from 
1834  until  1838  occupied  a  clerkship  in  the  establishment  of  T.  L.  Chester  & 
Company  at  No.  203  Broadway.  In  1843  he  became  a  resident  of  St.  Louis  and  in 
1845  was  made  receiving  clerk  in  the  house  of  Humphrey  &  Thatcher,  then  the 
largest  coffee  and  sugar  establishment  in  the  west.  He  remained  with  that  concern 
during  all  of  its  changes  until  Solan  Humphrey,  its  head,  returned  to  New  York 
to   become  a  member  of  the  iirm   of  E.  D.  Morgan   &   Company,   bankers. 

William  Phelan,  having  saved  a  large  share  of  his  earnings,  had  invested  his 
growing  capital  in  real  estate  in  various  parts  of  the  city  and  the  rapid  increase 
"In  property  values  placed  him  among  the  prosperous  residents  of  St.  Louis,  but 
with  the  bank  failures  of  1875  and  1876  he  lost  heavily.  He  was  at  one  tihie 
regarded  as  one  of  the  best  informed  men  concerning  realty  values  in  St.  Louis. 
In  18  79  he  was  made  a  member  of  the  revising  session  of  the  Missouri  legislature 
and  rendered  valuable  public  service  in  this  connection.  He  was  also  much  inter- 
ested in  local  affairs  and  gave  his  support  to  many  projects  and  measures  for  the 
public  good.  He  had  reached  the  age  of  eighty  years  when  he  passed  away,  having 
for  a  long  period  survived  his  wife,  who  died  in  1876,  at  the  age  of  fifty-four  yeats. 

The  grandparents  of  Frank  W.  Phelan  in  the  maternal  line  were  also  natives 
of  Ireland  who  in  1840  became  residents  of  St.  Louis  and  soon  afterward  purchased 
a  farm  in  Carondelet,  adjoining  the  old  St.  Louis  Seminary.  In  1840  there  were 
three  seminarians  in  that  institution  preparing  tor  the  priesthood  who  frequently 
partook  of  the  hospitality  of  the  Cooney  home  and  who  afterward  became  distin- 
guished representatives  of  the  Catholic  clergy,  these  being  Archbishop  Hennessy  of 
Dubuque,  Iowa,  Archbishop  Feehan  of  Chicago  and  the  late  Bishop  Dugan  of 
Chicago. 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  613 

Frank  W.  Phelan,  while  spending  his  youthful  days  under  the  parental  roof, 
attended  the  St.  Louis  University  and  afterward  continued  his  studies  in  Notre 
Dame  University  of  Indiana,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1873.  Starting  out 
in  the  business  world,  he  secured  a  position  in  the  house  of  P.  A.  Drew,  a  dealer 
in  glass,  and  was  afterward  employed  by  the  firm  of  Norton  &  Wieder.  Later 
he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Wieder  Paint  Company,  which  he  represented  upon 
the  road  for  a  number  of  years  and  also  became  financially  interested  in  the  busi- 
ness. He  was  ambitious,  however,  to  carry  on  business  independently  and  in  1892 
he  joined  John  Hazard  in  the  organization  of  the  Buehler-Phelan  Paint  Company, 
Mr.  Hazard  being  a  celebrated  chemist  and  color  maker  who  was  perhaps  without 
a  rival  in  the  west  as  a  scientific  paint  man.  Mr.  Phelan's  experience,  too,  was  ot 
an  extended  and  practical  character  and  the  new  firm  was  certainly  well  equipped 
to  carry  on  a  business  of  this  kind.  They  opened  a  factory  at  Eighth  and  Howard 
streets  and  had  soon  gained  a  business  of  extensive  proportions,  their  first  year's 
sales  amounting  to  but  thirty-two  thousand  dollars,  while  in  the  course  of  a 
few  years  their  business  had  reached  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  million.  At  length 
the  Buehler-Phelan  Paint  Company  sold  out  and  in  1902  the  Phelan-Faust  Paint 
Manufacturing  Company  was  organized,  leading  to  the  development  of  one  of  the 
largest  and  most  important  paint  enterprises  of  the  middle  west.  The  plant  was 
located  Just  across  the  river  in  East  St.  Louis,  in  a  building  erected  especially 
for  the  purpose  and  supplied  with  all  modern  equipments  and  accessories  known 
to  the  paint  manufacturing  business.  The  latest  improved  machinery  was  installed 
afnd  the  products  of  the  house  are  of  the  highest  grade.  The  business  soon  grew  to  be 
one  of  extensive  proportions,  its  trade  reaching  out  into  many  sections  of  the  country. 
Mr.  Phelan  became  the  president  of  the  corporation,  with  C.  H.  Smith,  Jr.,  as  vice 
president  and  Leo  P.  Paust  as  secretary. 

In  1878  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Prank  W.  Phelan  and  Miss  Mary  T. 
Walsh,  a  native  of  St.  Louis  and  a  daughter  of  P.  S.  Walsh,  who  was  for  many  years 
a  well  known  grocer  of  the  city.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Phelan  became  the  parents  ot  eleven 
children,  seven  of  whom  are  living:  William  J.,  Frank,  Georgiana,  Anna,  Leo,  David 
S.  and  Mrs.  Claude  H.  Smith.  The  death  of  Mr.  Phelan  occurred  on  the  18th  ot 
May,  1918.  His  worth  in  business  circles  was  widely  ackiiowledged  and  he  also 
gained  many  friends  through  social  relations,  so  that  his  demise  was  the  occasion 
of  deep  regret  to  many  who  knew  him. 


.WILLIAM  J.  PHELAN. 


William  J.  Phelan,  president  of  the  Phelan-Faust  Paint  Manufacturing  Company 
of  St.  Louis,  one  of  the  leading  enterprises  of  this  character  in  the  Mississippi  valley, 
has  always  been  identified  with  St.  Louis,  the  city  in  which  his  birth  occurred  on  the 
4th  of  August,  1887.  He  is  a  son  of  Frank  W.  Phelan,  of  whom  extended  mention 
is  made  elsewhere  in  this  work.  He  was  educated  in  the  parochial  schools  and  at 
the  St.  Louis  University  and  on  the  25th  ot  June,  1907,  when  twenty  years  of  age, 
he  entered  into  connection  with  his  father's  paint  business,  beginning  work  in  the 
mixing  room.  He  made  himself  familiar  with  every  phase  of  the  business  from 
the  manufacturing  ehd  to  that  of  the  sales.  After  two  or  three  years  spent  in  the 
mixing  room  he  was  advanced  to  the  position  of  factory  manager  and  in  1914  was 
elected  treasurer  of  the  company.  Following  the  death  of  his  father,  which  occurred 
on  the  18th  of  May,  1918,  the  son  was  elected  to  the  presidency  of  the  company. 
In  September,  1919,  he  purchased  the  interest  of  Leo  F.  Faust  in  the  business  and 
is  today  one  of  the  dominant  factors  in  connection  with  the  paint  manufacturing 
industry  of  the  Mississippi  valley.  His  position  in  trade  circles  is  indicated  in  the 
fact  that  he  is  now  vice  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Paint  &  Varnish  Club. 

On  the  14th  of  June,  1916,  Mr.  Phelan  was  married  to  Miss  Rebecca  Wick,  a 
daughter  of  Dr.  James  Warren  Wick,  D.  D.  S.,  who  for  many  years  was  one  of  the 
prominent  dentists  of  St.  Louis,  but  passed  away  in  1919.  His  widow  survives  and 
now  makes  her  home  with  her  children  in  St.  Louis.  Mr.  Phelan  was  called  upon 
to  mourn  the  loss  of  his  wife  March  9,  1919.  She  was  a  lady  of  marked  talent  in 
musical  circles  and  was  well  known  as  a  singer  at  St.  Peter's  church.  She  had  ac- 
quired a  liberal  education  in  music,  studying  both  vocal  and  piano,  and  her  talent 


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added  to  the  enjoyment  of  many  social  gatherings  as  well  as  to  the  beauty  and 
inspiration  of  the  church  services.  She  won  friends  wherever  she  went,  so  that  her 
death  was  greatly  deplored  by  those  who  knew  her  when  she  and  her  infant  child  fell 
victims  to  the  influenza  epidemic. 

Mr.  Phelan  belongs  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Club,  the  Glen  Echo  Country  Club, 
the  Sunset  Hill  Country  Club  and  to  the  St.  Louis  Council  of  the  Knights  of 
Columbus.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  his 
religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Catholic  church.  His  entire  life  has  been  passed  in 
St.  Louis,  where  his  activities  have  been  carefully  directed  in  connection  with  the 
business  established  by  his  father,  and  step  by  step,  as  the  result  of  his  thoroughness 
and  capability,  he  has  risen  to  the  presidency. 


JOSEPH  MONTGOMERY  BRYSON. 

Mr.  Bryson  came  to  Missouri  from  the  Keystone  state,  his  birth  having  occurred 
in  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  March  26,  1867,  his  parents  being  the  Rev.  John  Camp- 
bell and  Nancy  (Chambers)  Bryson,  who,  removing  to  the  west  during  the  early 
boyhood  of  their  son  Joseph,  settled  upon  a  farm  which  is  now  the  site  of  Leeton, 
Johnson  county,  Missouri.  He  was  a  lad  of  fourteen  when  the  family  home  was 
established  at  Warrensburg,  Missouri,  that  the  children  of  the  household  might 
enjoy  the  educational  advantages  there  offered.  Joseph  M.  Bryson,  who  had  hitherto 
attended  the  district  schools,  completed  a  high  school  course  at  Warrensburg  and 
afterwards  spent  four  years  as  a  student  in  the  State  Normal  School  there,  winning 
the  Doctor  of  Philosophy  degree  upon  his  graduation  with  the  class  of  1887.  He 
made  preparation  for  the  bar  as  a  law  student  in  the  office  of  Warner,  Dean  &  Hager- 
man,  prominent  attorneys  of  Kansas  City,  who  directed  his  reading  for  two  years, 
during  which  time  he  also  acted  as  law  clerk  for  the  firm.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1889  and  entered  at  once  upon  the  active  practice  of  a  profession  in  which 
advancement  depends  entirely  upon  individual  merit  and  ability.  Step  by  step  he 
has  progressed  in  his  chosen  field  of  labor,  confining  his  attention  to  civil  law  and 
specializing  more  and  more  in  corporation  law.  Practically  from  the  outset  of  his 
career  he  has  been  connected  with  the  legal  department  of  the  Missouri,  Kansas  & 
Texas  Railway  Company,  first,  as  law  clerk,  then  successively,  general  attorney,  gen- 
eral solicitor,  and  in  1912  was  elected  general  counsel,  which  position  he  has  ever 
since  retained.  In  1915,  upon  the  appointment  of  a  receiver  of  the  Missouri,  Kansas 
&  Texas  Railway,  he  was  appointed  general  counsel  for  the  receiver.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  St.   Louis,  the   Missouri   State,   and  the  American   Bar  Associations. 

On  the  17th  of  October,  1894,  Mr.  Bryson  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss 
Mazie  Barret  Finney,  a  daughter  of  James  Von  Swearingen  and  Mary  (Dalton) 
Finney.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bryson  have  a  son.  Chambers  Fulton,  born  November  6, 
1896,  and  two  daughters,  Mary  Finney,  whose  birth  occurred  on  the  22d  of  January, 
1898,  and  Alice  Dalton,  born  May  3,  1910. 

Mr.  Bryson  belongs  to  the  United  Presbyterian  church,  of  which  his  father  was 
a  minister,  and  his  appreciation  of  the  social  amenities  of  lite  is  indicated  in  his 
membership  in  the  St.  Louis  Club,  and  the  Bellerive  and  Sunset  Country  Clubs.  His 
political  allegiance  has  always  been  given  to  the  republican  party  and  he  is  thor- 
oughly conversant  with  the  vital  problems  and  issues  of  the  day,  hut  he  has  never 
sought  the  rewards  of  office  for  party  fealty.  His  professional  duties  have  made 
full  demand  upon  his  time  and  that  close  application,  earnest  study  and  high  purpose 
which  are  so  necessary  to  success  in  law  practice  have  always  been  manifest  in  his 
career. 


EDWARD  D.   SHEA. 


Among  the  young  lawyers  of  St.  Louis  who  put  aside  all  professional  and  per- 
sonal interests  at  the  time  of  the  World  war  to  aid  the  cause  of  the  country  in  the 
struggle  to  maintain  world  democracy  is  numbered  Edward  D.  Shea,  who  since  the 
close  of  hostilities  has  resumed  practice  and  is  rapidly  building  up  a  good  clientage  in 
St.  Louis,   the  city  of  his  birth.     His  natal   day  was  November   13,    1891,   and   his 


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parents  are  Michael  D.  and  Hannah  (Goggin)  Shea.  The  father  was  born  in  Ire- 
land and  in  1871  came  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  is  still  living.  He  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Edward  and  Mary  Goggin,  and  she,  too,  is  a  native  of  Ireland,  coming 
to  St.  Louis  about  the  same  time  as  her  future  husband.  They  met,  however,  and 
were  married  in  Hartford,  Connecticut. 

Their  son,  Edward  D.  Shea,  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools 
and  passed  through  consecutive  grades  to  the  McKinley  high  school.  He  afterward 
attended  St.  Mary's  College  in  Kansas  and  there  completed  his  literary  course  in 
1912  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  Although  his  studies  had  been  shaped 
toward  the  profession  of  law,  he  later  pursued  a  three  years'  course  in  the  St. 
Louis  University,  from  which  he  received  his  degree  of  LL.  B.  in  1915  but  in  the 
previous  year  had  been  admitted  to  the  bar,  successfully  passing  the  required  exami- 
nation. He  immediately  entered  upon  active  practice  and  because  of  his  large  circle 
of  friends,  who  recognized  his  ability  and  believed  in  his  future,  he  soon  gained  a 
good  start  in  his  chosen  profession.  Unlike  many  others,  no  dreary  novitiate  awaited 
him  and  he  had  made  excellent  progress  when  In  January,  1918,  he  put  aside  all  other 
interests  to  enlist  at  St.  Louis  in  the  aviation  branch  of  the  army.  He  was  sent  to 
Charleston,  South  Carolina,  where  he  remained  for  five  months  and  was  then  trans- 
ferred to  Pensacola,  Florida,  where  he  remained  until  the  end  of  the  war.  At  the 
time  the  armistice  was  signed  he  was  almost  ready  for  a  commission,  being  a  mem- 
ber of  the  officers'  training  camp  at  Pensacola.  He  received  his  discharge  January 
29,  1919. 

Edward  D.  Shea  at  once  returned  to  St.  Louis  and  entered  upon  active  practice, 
having  his  office  now  in  the  Federal  Reserve  Bank^uilding.  His  clientage  is  increas- 
ing in  a  most  gratifying  way  and  has  already  connected  him  with  much  important 
litigation. 

Mr.  Shea  is  independent  in  politics  and  works  for  his  friends  and  other  can- 
didates whom  he  regards  as  well,  qualified  for  office.  In  religious  faith  he  is  a 
Catholic,  being  a  communicant  of  the  parish^.of  thp  immaculate  Conception.  He 
finds  his  recreation  in  swimming,  tennis  and  golf  and  in  fact  enjoys  all  manly 
athletics  and  outdoor  sports.  He  is  a  member  of  St.  Louis  Post  No.  4  of  the 
American  Legion  and  he  joined  the  Sigma  Omicron  Phi,  a  Greek  letter  fraternity, 
while  a  student  in  St.  Louis  University. 


GEORGE   W.   HUMPHREY. 


George  W.  Humphrey  is  a  leading  lawyer  of  Missouri,  a  reputation  which  he 
won  ere  he  became  a  resident  of  Kansas  City  in  1915.  His  mental  alertness,  his  deep 
interest  in  the  science  of  the  profession  and  the  thoroughness  with  which  he  pre- 
pares his  cases  are  all  elements  in  his  continued  success.  A  native  of  Illinois,  Mr. 
Humphrey  was  but  five  months  old  when  brought  to  Missouri,  the  family  home  being 
established  in  Lewis  county.  He  was  born  August  21,  1865,  his  parents  being 
William  T.  and  Mary  S.  (Rodefer)  Humphrey.  The  father,  a  native  of  Kentucky, 
was  a  farmer  by  occupation.  He  served  as  a  soldier  of  the  Confederate  army  and 
was  one  of  ten  men  who  were  condemned  to^die  at  Palmyra,  but  in  the  last  moment 
before  execution  another  man,  Hiram  Smith,  was  substituted.  It  can  well  be 
understood  that  the  family  have  the  keenest  appreciation  of  the  fact  that  the  father's 
life  was  spared,  and  one  of  the  first  acts  of  George  W.  Humphrey  after  reaching 
manhood  was  to  erect  a  monument  over  the  grave  of  Hiram  Smith.  Both  parents 
have  passed  away,  the  mother  having  departed  this  life  in  1909  and  the  father 
in  1911.  They  were  of  the  Baptist  faith  and  William  T.  Humphrey  was  also  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity. 

George  W.  Humphrey  was  the  sixth  in  order  of  birth  in  a  family  of  twelve 
children,  ten  of  whom  are  yet  living.  The  district  school  system  of  Missouri 
afforded  him  his  early  educational  privileges  and  he  afterwards  continued  his  studies 
in  La  Grange  College.  A  review  of  the  broad  field  of  business  in  its  various  com- 
mercial, agricultural,  industrial  and  professional  connections  led  him  to  determine 
upon  the  practice  of  law  as  a  life  work  and  he  began  preparation  for  the  bar  as  a 
law  student  in  the  office  of  R.  P.  Giles,  a  distinguished  attorney  of  Shelbina,  Mis- 
souri, who  was  also  congressman  from  that  district.     In   1894   Mr.  Humphrey  was 


618  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

admitted  to  the  bar  and  soon  afterwards  became  a  partner  of  his  preceptor  in  the 
practice  of  law.  Later  he  was  associated  in  practice  with  Sam  Ellison  and  after- 
wards was  for  ten  years  a  partner  of  John  T.  Gose,  now  assistant  attorney  general 
of  the  state.  One  knowing  Mr.  Humphrey  would  recognize  the  fact  that  his  mental 
alertness  makes  him  ready  for  any  emergency  that  may  arise  in  connection  with  his 
work  in  the  courts.     He  is  a  clear  reasoner,  a  concise  speaker  and  logical  thinker. 

In  1894  Mr.  Humphrey  was  married  to  Miss  Gertrude  Rist,  of  Shelbina.  Missouri, 
and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  three  children:  Warren  W.,  twenty-four  years 
of  age,  who  is  engaged  in  the  sale  of  automobile  accessories;  George  Russell,  twenty 
years  of  age,  a  student  in  the  University  of  Missouri;  and  Pat  Rist,  a  lad  of  twelve, 
who  is  in  school. 

Mr.  Humphrey  and  his  family  are  members  of  the  First  Baptist  church,  in  the 
work  of  which  he  takes  an  active  and  helpful  interest,  serving  now  as  chairman 
of  the  board  of  deacons,  while  of  the  men's  Bible  class  of  the  Sunday  school  he  is 
the  vice  president.  He  has  long  been  active  in  politics  as  a  stalwart  supporter  of 
the  democratic  party.  He  served  for  eight  years  as  a  member  of  the  state  senate  from 
the  ninth  district  and  from  1909  to  1911  was  president  of  the  senate.  He  has  the 
distinction  of  being  the  only  man  in  the  state  of  Missouri  who  served  as  acting 
governor  while  president  of  the  senate.  He  has  frequently  been  spoken  of  in  connec- 
tion with  the  positions  of  governor  and  United  States  senator,  yet  he  is  not  particularly 
ambitious  along  political  lines.  He  has  filled  the  positions  of  city  attorney  and 
of  mayor  and  is  unfaltering  in  his  allegiance  to  the  principles  in  which  he  believes, 
but  feels  that  the  pursuits  of  private  life  are  in  themselves  abundantly  worthy  of  his 
best  efforts. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Humphrey  is  a  Mason,  a  Knight  of  Pythias,  an  Elk  and  a 
Modern  Woodman.  He  belongs  also  to  the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  Kansas  City  Athletic 
Club,  the  Hillcrest  Country  Club  and  the  Meadow  Lake  Club,  while  along  strictly 
professional  lines  he  has  connection  with  the  City  and  State  Bar  Associations.  That  he' 
has  been  an  influential  factor  in  the  public  life  of  the  state  is  a  widely  acknowledged 
fact  and  that  his  influence  has  been  a  dominant  element  for  progress  and  improve- 
ment is  also  widely  acknowledged. 


GEORGE  A.  HODGMAN. 


George  A.  Hodgman,  attorney  at  law,  who  is  now  district  claim  attorney  for  the 
Fidelity  &  Casualty  Company  of  New  York  at  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Sandusky,  Ohio, 
May  23,  1887.  His  father,  George  B.  Hodgman,  is  a  native  of  Maine  and  a  representa- 
tive of  one  of  the  old  New  England  families  of  English  descent.  For  a  number  of 
years  he  was  engaged  in  business  as  a  lumber  manufacturer  and  also  conducted  a 
cooperage  business  but  is  now  living  retired.  He  married  Belle  Dixon,  a  native  of 
Michigan,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  two  children,  the  younger  being  Mrs. 
A.  J.  Armstrong,  now  a  resident  of  Fort  Worth,  Texas. 

George  A.  Hodgman  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  and 
of  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  also  attended  the  Manual  Training  school  of  St.  Louis  and 
the  Central  high  school,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1907. 
He  prepared  for  the  bar  as  a  student  in  the  St.  Louis  University  Institute  of  Law 
and  won  his  LL.  B.  degree  upon  his  graduation  from  that  institution  with  the  class 
of  1910.  On  the  22d  of  January  of  that  year  he  was  admitted  to  practice  upon 
examination  before  the  supreme  court  of  Missouri  and  entered  upon  active  work 
as  a  representative  of  the  bar  in  the  office  of  Joseph  Lathrop  &  Company  of  St.  Louis, 
handling  collections  and  claims.  He  was  later  associated  with  the  late  Ozro  B. 
Givens,  a  prominent  lawyer  of  this  state.  In  1913  he  engaged  in  law  practice  for  a 
brief  period  at  Muskogee,  Oklahoma,  but  returned  to  St.  Louis  and  has  since 
been  district  claim  attorney  for  the  Fidelity  &  Casualty  Company  of  New  York, 
dealing  largely  with  the  law  relating  to  insurance,  suretyship,  claims  and  corpora- 
tions.    He  has  membership  with  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association. 

Mr.  Hodgman  was  married  in  St.  Louis,  May  24,  1919,  to  Miss  Rachel  Virginia 
Behm,  a  native  of  Missouri  and  a  daughter  of  Charles  Behm.  Politically  Mr.  Hodg- 
man is  a  republican.  During  the  World  war  he  was  an  associate  member  of  the  legal 
advisory  board  of  the  seventh  ward.     He  belongs  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association 


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and  he  is  well  known  in  the  city  not  only  by  reason  of  his  professional  ability  but 
also  owing  to  his  social  nature,  his  unfeigned  cordiality  winning  for  him  friends 
wherever  he  goes. 


J.  M.  AUSTIN,  D.  D.  S. 


For  fifty-three  years  Dr.  J.  M.  Austin  has  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of 
dentistry  in  St.  Joseph  and  throughout  this  period  has  been  numbered  among  the 
valued  and  representative  residents  of  the  city.  He  was  born  in  St.  Lawrence  county, 
New  York,  July  8,  1843,  and  is  a  son  of  Daniel  and  Amanda  (Hurlburt)  Austin, 
who  were  of  American  birth,  both  being  born  and  reared  on  the  Atlantic  seaboard. 
They  were  married  at  De  Peyster,  St.  Lawrence  county.  New  York,  and  in  that  county 
continued  to  reside  until  called  to  their  final  rest.  They  had  a  family  of  twelve 
children,  of  whom  three  sons  and  one  daughter  are  yet  living. 

In  his  youthful  days  Or.  Austin  of  this  review  assisted  his  father  upon  the 
home  farm,  which  comprised  three  hundred  acres  of  land.  He  bore  his  share  in  the 
work  of  the,  fields  until  he  reached  the  age  of  seventeen  years,  when  thinking  to 
find  other  pursuits  more  congenial,  he  engaged  in  carpentering  for  a  time.  His  early 
education  was  acquired  in  the  district  schools  of  St.  Lawrence  county,  the  "Little 
temple  of  learning"  being  a  log  building,  in  which  little  was  taught  beyond  the  rudi- 
ments of  education.  Later  he  was  for  a  short  time  a  pupil  in  a  select  school.  Through- 
out his  life,  however,  he  has  been  an  earnest  student  in  the  school  of  experience 
and  broad  reading  and  study  have  made  him  a  well  informed  man.  When  eighteen 
years  of  age  he  joined  the  Construction  Corps  of  the  Union  army  and  remained  in 
the  service  at  Alexandria,  Virginia,  for  two  years,  after  which  he  became  ill  and  was 
sent  home  that  he  might  regain  his  health.  At  that  time  he  was  twenty  years  of 
age.  When  the  period  of  convalescence  had  passed  he  went  to  Ogdensburg,  New 
York,  where  he  learned  dentistry,  under  the  direction  of  his  uncle.  He  afterward 
followed  the  profession  at  Ogdensburg  and  also  for  a  time  in  Canada,  and  in  the 
spring  of  1867  he  came  west  to  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  where  he  established  an  office 
near  the  corner  of  Third  and  Felix  streets,  his  first  patient  being  Mrs.  Robert 
Donald.  From  that  time  forward,  however,  his  business  has  steadily  grown  until 
long  since  he  has  enjoyed  an  extensive  patronage.  He  remained  at  his  original  loca- 
tion for  ten  years  and  then  removed  to  a  new  office  which  was  equipped  in  a  more 
modern  manner.  In  1876  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Dr.  C.  H.  Darby  under  the 
style  of  Austin  &  Darby,  an  association  that  was  maintained  for  twenty  years.  In 
1896  Dr.  Austin  suffered  a  severe  accident,  breaking  a  leg.  By  reason  of  this  the 
partnership  was  dissolved,  as  Dr.  Austin  was  unable  to  practice  for  some  time.  On 
regaining  his  health  he  opened  an  office  at  his  present  location  at  No.  1123  Frederick 
avenue  and  through  the  intervening  years  has  successfully  followed  his  profession,  at 
all  times  keeping  in  touch  with  the  trend  of  modern  thought  and  progress  in  the 
field  of  dental  surgery. 

In  March,  1875,  Dr.  Austin  was  married  to  Miss  Anna  Nash,  daughter  of  J.  M. 
Nash.  They  have  become  the  parents  of  three  sons  and  five  daughters  and  theirs 
is  a  notable  record  inasmuch  as  the  family  circle  yet  remains  unbroken  by  the  hand 
of  death.  The  sons  and  daughters  are:  Daniel  Milton,  who  is  practicing  dentistry 
in  St.  Joseph,  having  been  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  later  in  the  Kansas 
City  Dental  College,  where  he  completed  a  three  years'  course  and  then  returned  to 
his  native  city  to  engage  in  active  practice;  Mrs.  Ruby  Utterback;  John  H.;  Mrs.  Edine 
Edwards;  Orrin  W.  N.,  who  is  a  physician  and  surgeon  at  Mayetta,  Kansas;  Florence; 
Deedie  May;  and  Mrs.  Kate  Bradshaw.  The  oldest  son  has  practiced  dentistry  in 
St.  Joseph  for  twenty  years.  Upon  the  completion  of  his  college  course  he  joined 
his  father,  with  whom  he  remained  until  he  had  become  experienced,  and  then  opened 
an  office  independently  over  the  Park  Bank,  while  later  he  removed  his  office  to  the 
Bartlett  building,  where  he  has  since  been  located,  and  like  his  father  he  has  made 
the  name  of  Austin  an  honored  one  in  dental  circles  in  Buchanan  county.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  District,  City  and  State  Dental  Associations. 

Dr.  J.  M.  Austin  served  for  two  terms  of  two  years  each  as  a  member  of  the 
city  council  under  Mayors  Posegate  and  Hartwig  and  gave  stanch  support  to  all 
those  measures  which  he  believed  would  prove  of  municipal  benefit.     He  is  an  hon- 


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orary  member  of  the  District  Dental  Association,  also  of  the  City  Dental  Association 
and  has  membership  with  the  National  Dental  Association.  In  fraternal  circles 
he  is  connected  with  Charity  Lodge,  No.  331,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  St.  Joseph,  a  lodge 
which  he  assisted  in  organizing  in  1870.  He  likewise  belongs  to  Mitchell  Chapter, 
No.  14,  R.  A.  M.;  to  St.  Joseph  Council,  No.  9,  R.  &  S.  M.;  Hugh  de  Payens  Com- 
mandery.  No.  4,  K.  T.;  and  Moila  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  has  been 
treasurer  of  Charity  Lodge  since  1883  and  of  the  shrine  since  1894.  He  and  his 
family  are  members  of  the  First  Presbyterian  church  and  his  life  has  ever  been  actu- 
ated by  high  and  honorable  principles. 


H.  WORTHINGTON  EDDY. 


With  various  corporate  interests  of  St.  Louis  which  figure  among  the  most 
prominent  business  enterprises  of  the  city  H.  Worthington  Eddy  is  connected  as  a 
director  or  executive  head.  The  story  of  his  life  is  the  record  of  orderly  progression, 
directed  by  the  hand  of  one  who  is  master  of  himself,  who  correctly,  judges  his 
capacities  and  powers  and  those  interests  which  make  up  life's  contacts  and  experi- 
ences. Starting  out  independently  upon  his  business  career  when  but  seventeen 
years  of  age,  he  is  today  one  of  the  foremost  figures  in  the  commercial  and  financial 
circles  of  his  adopted  city. 

Mr.  Eddy  was  born  in  Newark,  Ohio,  November  20,  1877,  a  son  of  Bryce  Burt- 
rand  and  Anna  M.  (Snyder)  Eddy.  The  father,  a  native  of  Newark,  Ohio,  was  a 
manufacturer  and  well  known  business  man  of  that  city  and  passed  away  August 
31,  1906.  The  mother,  who  was  born  in  Chillicothe,  Ohio,  is  now  living  in  Colum- 
bus, that  state.  The  family  numbered  three  children:  Mrs.  Marie  D.  Clow,  now  of 
Boston,  Massachusetts;  Thomas  R.,  of  Chicago,  Illinois;  and  H.  Worthington  of  this 
review. 

The  last  named  was  largely  educated  in  the  schools  of  Columbus,  where  he 
resided  to  the  age  of  seventeen  years,  and  then  went  to  Chicago,  where  for  a  brief 
time  he  also  attended  the  public  schools.  However,  he  was  early  thrown  upon  his 
own  resources  and  began  to  earn  his  living  when  a  youth  of  seventeen  years.  He 
was  variously  employed  in  Chicago,  working  and  saving  and  constantly  winning 
promotions  to  positions  of  larger  and  larger  responsibility,  while  his  powers  developed 
with  each  advancement,  as  it  has  always  been  characteristic  of  him  that  he  has 
thoroughly  mastered  any  task  which  he  has  undertaken.  His  life  illustrates  the 
statement  that  activity  does  not  tire;  it  gives  resistance  and  strength  and  develops 
one's  latent  talents  and  powers. 

On  the  25th  of  August,  1912,  Mr.  Eddy  came  to  St.  Louis  and  has  gradually 
made  for  himself  a  most  enviable  position  as  a  leader  in  the  business  circles  of 
the  city,  being  now  the  executive  head  or  the  director  of  many  large  companies. 
He  is  the  president  of  the  Underwriters  Service  Company  and  is  also  of  the  Eddy 
Realty  &  Investment  Company;  is  attorney  for  the  Dl-uggists  Indemnity  Exchange; 
is  general  manager  of  the  Casualty  Indemnity  Exchange;  is  the  president  of  the 
Nevada-Arizona  Mines  Company  and  a  director  of  the  Judge  &  Dolph  Company, 
which  owns  an  extensive  chain  of  large  stores  and  controls  the  largest  retail  drug 
business  in  St.  Louis.  Mr.  Eddy  is  also  a  director  and  stockholder  in  many  chemi- 
cal companies  and  his  cooperation  is  eagerly  sought  in  all  these  connections  because 
of  the  recognized  soundness  of  his  business  judgment  and  the  indefatigable  nature 
of   his   enterprise. 

On  the  25th  of  November,  1915,  Mr.  Eddy  was  married  to  Miss  O.  Berenece 
Whittier,  a  descendant  of  the  same  ancestry  as  John  Greenleaf  Whittier,  the  loved 
New  England  poet.  Mrs.  Eddy  is  a  vocalist  of  note,  possessing  a  fine  voice  of  operatic 
quality,  and  Mr.  Eddy  is  also  greatly  interested  in  music  and  art  and  is  the  pos- 
sessor of  an  excellent  baritone  voice.  They  have  a  beautiful  home  at  No.  5414 
Delmar  boulevard,  a  handsome  residence,  which  is  one  of  the  most  attractively 
appointed  in  the  city,  its  furnishings  being  all  that  wealth  can  secure  and  refined 
taste  suggest. 

Mr.  Eddy  and  his  wife  are  members  of  St.  Peter's  Presbyterian  church  and 
he  is  connected  with  many  worth  while  clubs  of  St.  Louis,  Including  the  Racquet, 
the  Missouri  Athletic,  the  St.  Louis,  Automobile  and  Sunset  Clubs  and  the  Chamber 


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ot  Commerce.  He  has  been  a  most  active  and  earnest  supporter  of  the  Red  Cross 
and  of  various  philanthropic  projects.  At  a  performance  given  in  the  American 
theater  in  St.  Louis  for  the  benefit  of  the  Red  Cross,  and  for  which  an  all  star 
cast  consisting  of  fifteen  persons  gave  their  services,  an  auction  was  held  to  sell 
a  program  of  the  entertainment.  Mr.  Eddy  was  the  highest  bidder  for  this  pro- 
gram and  received  it  for  the  sum  of  sixteen  thousand,  eight  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars.  He  also  paid  three  hundred  and  twenty-five  dollars  for  a  single  doughnut 
and  then  gave  it  back  to  be  reauctioned  for  the  benefit  of  the  cause.  Mr.  Eddy  is  a 
man  of  fine  physique  and  magnetic  personality,  ot  whom  a  prominent  citizen  of 
St.  Louis  said:  "He  is  absolutely  loyal  to  his  friends,  a  hard  worker  and  player, 
a  lover  of  his  home  and  family."  His  activity  has  ever  spelled  honorable  suc- 
cess, and  recognizing  his  duties  and  obligations  to  his  fellowmen,  he  is  constantly 
extending   a  helping   hand  where   assistance   is   needed. 


AUGUST  HENRY   RELLER. 


The  vice  president  and  cashier  of  the  Bremen  Bank  of  St.  Louis,  August  Henry 
Reller,  is  well  known  in  financial  circles  of  that  city.  His  father,  August  F.  Reller, 
a  native  of  Germany  born  in  18  36,  came  to  St.  Louis  with  his  parents  when  he  was 
three  years  old.  His  entire  business  career  was  devoted  to  the  grocery  and  general 
merchandise  business.  His  mother,  Anna  M.  (Appel)  Reller  also  came  to  the 
United  States  at  an  early  age,  being  but  two  years  old  when  her  parents  emigrated 
from  Germany.  They  had  six  children,  three  boys  and  three  girls,  of  whom 
August  Henry  Reller  was  the  second  son. 

Educated  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  in  the  Jones  Commercial  Col- 
lege, Mr.  Reller  worked  first  as  a  clerk  with  the  Samuel  Cuppen  Woodenware 
Company.  Later  he  took  up  banking  in  the  employ  of  the  Bremen  Bank,  working 
his  way  up  to  the  position  of  vice  president  and  cashier  which  he  now  holds. 
He  is  also  a  director  of  the  American  Insurance  Company,  the  Independent  Brew- 
ing Company  and  the  O.  M.  Bilharz  Mining  Company,  and  he  is  a  member  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Mr.  Reller  attends  the  Lutheran  church.  He  is  a  republican  partisan.  During 
the  war  he  took  part  in  the  Liberty  Loan  drives  as  captain  of  the  First  Ward 
Club.  He  belongs  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  the  Riverview  Club,  the 
Missouri    Historical    Society    and    the    Washington    University    Society. 

Mr.  Reller's  first  wife  was  Miss  Hattie  Campen  to  whom  he  was  married  in 
1890  and  who  died  in  1893.  In  1895  he  married  Miss  Flora  Gast,  the  daughter 
of  Paulus  and  Emily  Gast  of  St.  Louis.  Her  father  was  a  wine  manufacturer  and 
brewer  conducting  business  on  a  large  scale.  Their  children  are  Oliver  A.,  twenty- 
eight  years  old;  Junietta,  twenty-three,  the  wife  of  Fred  Gezelschap  of  Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin,  and  Virginia,  aged  18. 


ARTHUR  RICHARD  DEACON. 

With  splendid  powers  ot  organization,  combined  with  initiative  and  enterprise, 
Arthur  Richard  Deacon  has  made  for  himself  an  enviable  place  in  the  business 
circles  of  St.  Louis,  where  he  is  identified  with  various  important  corporate  interests. 
He  has  figured  largely  in  the  formation  and  operation  of  the  Lambert  Pharmacal 
Company,  but  this  is  only  one  phase  of  the  many-sided  activities  which  have  brought 
him  to  the  front  as  a  dominant  figure  in  commercial  circles.  Mr.  Deacon  was  born 
in  Witham,  Essex,  England,  November  7,  1858,  and  early  turned  his  attention  to 
the  line  ot  activity  to  which  he  has  devoted  much  of  his  life. 

While  spending  his  youthful  days  in  the  home  of  'his  parents,  Arthur  and 
Mercy  Elizabeth  (Tuck)  Deacon,  Arthur  Richard  Deacon  pursued  his  education  in 
the  schools  of  Witham  and  then  entered  a  pharmaceutical  manufactory  of  his  native 
country,  thereby  gaining  the  initial  experience  that  has  constituted  the  foundation 
ot  his  later  success.  He  spent  several  years  in  this  way  and  then,  coming  to  the 
new  world,  was  tor  a  number  of  years  employed  in  the  drug  store  ot  Samuel  Dupont, 

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of  Detroit,  Micbigan,  while  in  1881  he  became  connected  with  the  firm  of  Lambert 
&  Company  of  St.  Louis.  Through  the  intervening  period  of  thirty-nine  years  he 
has  been  a  resident  of  this  city  and  in  1884  he  became  one  of  the  incorporators, 
together  with  Jordan  W.  Lambert  and  J.  R.  Peacock,  of  the  Lambert  Pharmacal 
Company,  of  which  Mr.  Deacon  has  since  been  a  director  and  the  secretary,  taking 
a  very  active  part  in  the  management  and  control  of  the  business,  which  has 
steadily  developed  until  it  is  one  of  the  important  concerns  of  the  kind  in  St.  Louis. 
Mr.  Deacon  has  also  become  connected  with  various  other  important  interests.  He 
is  the  vice  president  of  the  Allen  &  Hanbury  Company,  Ltd.,  manufacturing  phar- 
macists of  Toronto,  Canada,  and  Niagara  Falls,  New  York.  ,  He  is  a  representative 
of  the  directorate  of  the  Lambert-Deacon-Hull  Printing  Company,  treasurer  of  the 
St.  Louis  Surfacer  &  Paint  Company  and  is  the  vice  president  of  the  Webster  Groves 
Trust  Company  of  Webster  Groves,  St.  Louis  county,  where  he  resides. 

Mr.  Deacon  is  most  pleasantly  situated  in  his  home  life,  having  in  1897,  in 
Toronto,  Canada,  wedded  Miss  Edith  M.  Harris.  They  have  become  the  parents  of 
a  son  and  two  daughters:  Arthur  Philip,  who  on  the  1st  of  October,  1919,  married 
Miss  Nana  Martin,  of  East  Orange,  New  Jersey;  Edith  Victoria,  who  was  married 
on  the  19th  of  November,  1919,  to  Thomas  Stephen  Martin,  of  New  York;  and 
Virginia  Kettering,  who  is  a  junior  in  Smith  College,  Northampton,  Massachusetts. 

Mr.  Deacon  belongs  to  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  to  the  Algonquin  Club,  of 
which  he  was  founder  and  first  president.  He  also  has  membership  in  the  Missouri 
Athletic  Association  and  the  Horseshoe  Lake  Hunting  &  Fishing  Club.  He  is  a 
broad-minded  man  who  has  used  his  time  and  opportunities  wisely  and  well  and 
who  in  the  exercise  of  business  functions  has  never  been  neglectful  of  the  duties 
of  citizenship  nor  failed  to  remember  his  obligations  to  his  fellowmen.  All  who 
know  him,  and  he  has  a  wide  acquaintance,  speak  of  him  in  terms  of  the  highest 
regard,  for  he  has  made  for  himself  an  enviable  position  in  the  social  and  business 
circles  of  St.  Louis  and  Webster  Groves. 


CLARENCE    A.    BURNEY. 


Clarence  A.  Burney,  numbered  among  the  capable  circuit  court  judges  of 
Kansas  City,  was  born  in  Rantoul,  Kansas,  March  27,  1875,  his  parents  being- 
Alexander  A.  and  Almira  E.  (Long)  Burney.  The  father,  a  farmer  by  occupation, 
was  born  in  Alabama  and  removed  with  his  parents  to  Missouri,  where  he  spent 
his  early  life.  In  1857  he  became  a  resident  of  Kansas,  taking  up  his  abode  in  that 
state  before  it  was  admitted  to  the  Union  and  thus  becoming  actively  identified  with 
the  pioneer  development  and  progress  of  the  middle  west. 

Judge  Burney  mastered  the  branches  of  learning  taught  in  the  district  schools 
of  Franklin  county,  Kansas,  and  afterward  spent  two  years  as  a  student  in  the 
Ottawa  University  of  Kansas,  while  later  he  attended  the  University  of  Kansas  at 
Lawrence,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1895  on  the  completion  of  a  classical 
course,  winning  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree.  Two  years  later  he  was  graduated 
from  the  law  school  of  the  University  of  Kansas  and  the  LL.  B.  degree  was  then 
conferred  upon  him.  In  1897  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Kansas  and  entered 
upon  active  practice  in  Kansas  City,  Kansas,  in  the  office  of  Judge  Silas  Porter, 
who  is  now  on  the  supreme  bench  of  that  state.  In  1901  he  crossed  the  river 
to  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  and  became  associated  with  the  law  firm  of  Karnes,  New, 
Hall  &  Kauthoff,  with  whom  he  continued  for  two  years.  At  the  expiration  of  that 
period  he  began  practice  independently  and  in  1909  he  was  appointed  to  the  office 
of  assistant  city  counselor,  while  at  the  succeeding  election  in  1910  he  was  elected 
judge  of  the  municipal  court  of  district  No.  1.  So  excellent  a  record  did  he  make 
on  the  bench  in  that  connection  that  he  was  reelected  in  1912  and  at  the  August 
primaries  of  1914  he  was  nominated  on  the  democratic  ticket  for  judge  of  the  circuit 
court  of  division  No.  6.  The  following  November  chronicled  his  election  to  the  office 
and  he  has  since  sat  upon  the  bench,  making  a  most  creditable  .record  through  his 
devotion  to  duty,  characterized  by  fairness  and  impartiality  in  his  decisions  which 
are  based  upon  a  comprehensive  knowledge  of  the  law  and  ability  accurately  to  apply 
its  principles. 

Judge  Burney  is  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Loyal  Order  of  Moose.     He  has  always 


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given  his  political  endorsement  to  the  democratic  party,  which  has  ever  found  in  him 
a  stalwart  champion. '  He  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Club  and  to  the  Blue  Hills 
Golf  Club  and  is  very  fond  of  a  game  on  the  links.  His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the 
Presbyterian  church.  His  course  has  ever  been  characterized  by  high  standards 
of  personal  and  professional  duty  and  Judge  Burney  stands  today  among  the  hon- 
ored representatives  of  the  Missouri  bar. 


REV.    SAMUEL   BROWN   McPHEETERS. 

Samuel  Brown  McPheeters,  clergyman,  was  the  fifth  child  of  the  Rev.  William 
McPheeters,  D.  D.,  and  his  wife,  Margaret  Ann  Curry.  He  was  born  in  Raleigh, 
North  Carolina,  September  18,  1819.  His  ancestors  were  Scotch  and  Scotch-Irish, 
whose  descendants  settled,  first  in  Pennsylvania,  and  then  in  Virginia,  where  the 
father  was  born,  educated  and  spent  the  early  years  of  his  ministry.  From  1810 
until  the  close  of  his  life  he  resided  in  North  Carolina,  engaged  almost  continuously 
in  educational  work  in  connection  with  the  duties  of  the  pulpit. 

Samuel  Brown  McPheeters  was  so  named  in  compliment  to  the  Rev.  Samuel 
Brown,  of  New  Providence,  Virginia,  his  father's  preceptor  in  theology,  and  the 
husband  of  his  father's  cousin,  Mary  Moore,  whose  capture  by  Indians  and  restora- 
tion to  her  people  make  a  thrilling  story.  Her  father,  to  secure  better  living  for 
his  large  family,  had  taken  up  his  abode  in  a  remote  fertile  valley  among  the  moun- 
tains in  southwestern  Virginia.  The  move  proved  disastrous  in  the  extreme.  The 
oldest  son  was  taken  prisoner  by  two  Indians  and  canned  away  to  the  region  about 
the  northern  lakes,  where  he  fortunately  fell  into  the  hands  of  a  French  family, 
by  whom  he  was  kindly  treated.  Two  or  three  years  later  the  Indians  made  another 
raid  on  the  Mooi-e  home,  killed  the  father,  a  daughter  and  two  sons;  plundered  and 
burned  the  house,  and  took  captive  the  mother,  a  son,  three  daughters,  and  a  young 
girl  residing  in  the  family.  A  few  miles  on  the  journey  to  the  Indian  country, 
the  son,  John  Moore,  was  killed  with  a  tomahawk,  and  little  Margaret,  a  babe  of 
fifteen  months,  was  snatched  from  the  mother's  arms  and  dashed  against  a  tree. 
And  after  their  arrival  at  their  destination  the  mother  and  one  daughter  were  given 
up  to  a  disaffected  Indian  and  cruelly  put  to  death.  Thus,  only  one  daughter,  Mary, 
and  her  young  friend.  Miss  Evans,  were  left  alive  of  that  household  of  ten  persons. 
Providentially  these  two  girls  were  located  not  far  from  each  other  and  from  the 
oldest  brother,  who  was  the  first  to  be  captured;  and  after  some  years  the  brother 
of  Miss  Evans,  setting  out  in  search  of  his  sister,  found  and  rescued  all  three.  In 
process  of  time  Mary  Moore,  the  Indian  captive,  married  the  Rev.  Samuel  Brown, 
a  distinguished  Presbyterian  minister,  and  became  the  mother  of  numerous  children, 
among  them  five  sons  who  were  eminent  preachers  of  the  gospel. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  graduated  from  the  University  of  North  Carolina, 
in  June,  1841.  A  fellow-student  says  of  him:  "He  was  nervous  in  temperament, 
brilliant,  witty,  tender  of  heart,  and  'of  a  spirit  great  as  Caesar's.'  "  The  late 
Hon.  F.  P.  Blair,  Jr.,  who  was  his  classmate  and  roommate,  bears  this  testimony: 
"He  had  a  charm  of  manner  and  a  sweetness  of  expression  which  won  the  hearts 
of  all  who  approached  him;  but  to  the  outward  graces  were  added  the  sterling 
qualities  of  head  and  heart  which  formed  the  solid  foundations,  distinguished  for 
vigorous  intellect,  purity  and  devotion  to  principle,  and  which  commanded  the 
respect  and  admiration  of  all  who  were  associated  with  him  through  life." 

The  young  alumnus  read  law  for  a  year  or  more,  when  having  become  a 
Christian,  he  abandoned  it  for  the  ministry  of  the  gospel,  to  prepare  for  which  he 
spent  three  years  in  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Princeton,  New  Jersey.  His  first 
service  after  the  completion  of  his  studies  in  that  institution,  in  1846,  was  as  a 
missionary  among  the  negroes  in  Virginia,  to  whose  spiritual  interests  he  gave 
himself  indefatigably  and  with  most  cheering  results.  Five  years  later  he  was  called 
to  this  city  as  a  pastor  of  the  Westminster  Presbyterian  church,  which,  by  con- 
solidation with  a  neighboring  congregation,  became  the  Pine  street  church,  and  this, 
by  change  of  location,  has,  since  his  day,  become  the  Grand  Avenue  church. 

As  the  pastor  of  the  Pine  Street  church  his  career  became  historic.  God  used 
him  to  illustrate  and  emphasize  the  total  separation  of  church  and  state  under  our 
republican  form  of  government,  and  honored  him  to  suffer  greatly  in  defense  of 
the  independence  of  the  church   and  the  kingly   rights  of  her  Lord.     This  service 


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was  rendered  during  the  war  between  the  states.  In  the  summer  of  1860,  for 
reasons  of  health,  he  betook  himself  and  family  to  Fort  Union,  New  Mexico,  with 
the  commission  of  a  chaplain  in  the  United  States  Army.  While  here,  preaching 
to  the  soldiers  and  teaching  the  children  of  the  officers,  news  came  of  the  outbreak 
of  hostilities.  "The  war  tidings  produced  a  profound  and  depressing  effect  upon 
the  mind  of  Dr.  McPheeters,  for  he  was  no  secessionist,  but  clung  to  the  union  of 
the  States  with  honest  pride  and  unaffected  devotion.  And  when  there  were  rumors 
of  an  intended  attempt  on  the  part  of  the  Confederates  to  capture  the  fort,  although 
a  Southerner  by  birth  and  in  all  his  personal  sympathies,  he  declared:  'Though  the 
United  States  government  did  not  commission  me  to  fight,  but  to  preach  the  gospel, 
yet  should  this  fort  be  attacked,  I  shall  be  one  of  its  defenders."  He  also  exerted 
decisive  influence  on  the  officers  who,  under  the  strong  temptation  of  sectional  sym- 
pathy appeared  to  waver  in  their  fealty.  'As  a  citizen,'  he  said,  'I  hold  it  to  be  my 
duty  to  God  to  obey  the  law,  to  submit  to  the  authorities,  to  pray  for  them,  to  render 
them  the  honor  due  their  several  stations,  and  to  promote  peace  and  quietness. 
These  things,  I  solemnly  declare,  I  have  habitually  aimed  to  do.'  " 

His  thoughts  and  heart  were  with  his  Pine  Street  flock,  from  whom  he  was 
temporarily  separated.  Apprehensive  that  in  those  times  of  high  excitement, 
intense  feeling  on  political,  questions  might  engender  strife  in  the  church,  he  ad- 
dressed to  them  a  pastoral  letter,  expressive  of  his  affectionate  solicitude  that  there 
should  be  no  divisions  among  them,  but  that  they  should  preserve  "the  unity  of 
the. spirit  in  the  bonds  of  peace."  Said  he:  "Of  the  purely  civil  and  political  ques- 
tions which  now  shake  the  country  to  its  center,  I  do  not  feel  called  upon,  either 
as  your  pastor  or  as  a  minister  of  Christ,  to  speak.  I  am  rejoiced  that  my  duty 
as  well  as  my  inclination  leads  me  into  a  higher,  purer  and  better  sphere  than 
this.  No,  dear  brethren,  I  wish  to  address  you  not  as  a  friend  or  advocate  of 
any  party  or  section,  but  as  an  ambassador  of  one  whose  kingdom  is  not  this 
world — I  wish  to  say  something  about  your  duties  to  Christ  and  His  kingdom — ■ 
something  about  your  obligations  and  dangers  as  Christians  in  the  circumstances 
which  now  surround  you." 

As  soon  as  practicable,  after  the  despatch  of  this  pastoral  letter.  Dr.  Mc- 
Pheeters returned  to  St.  Louis,  and  was  most  warmly  welcomed  by  his  congregation. 
All  was  harmony  among  his  people,  but  fully  realizing  how  quickly  that  harmony 
might  be  marred  by  reason  of  the  diversity  of  political  thought  which  divided  the 
community,  he  was  confirmed  in  his  determination,  on  the  one  hand,  to  set  an 
example  of  loyalty  by  scrupulous  discharge  of  the  obligations  of  the  oath  of  alle- 
giance which  he  had  taken  as  a  chaplain  in  the  army,  and,  on  the  other  hand,  as 
a  minister  and  pastor  "not  to  know  anything  save  Jesus  Christ  and  Him  crucified." 
Nevertheless  he  was  to  be  made  a  victim  of  the  unreasoning,  fierce  passions  of  the 
times. 

As  a  commissioner  to  the  general  assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  1862, 
he  felt  in  conscience  bound  to  oppose  the  adoption  of  a  paper  on  "The  State  of  the 
Country,"  on  the  ground  that  the  constitution  of  the  church  prohibits  its  courts 
"to  handle  or  conclude  anything  save  that  which  is  ecclesiastical,  or  to  meddle  with 
civil  affairs  which  concern  the  commonwealth."  For  this  opposition  the  author  of 
the  paper,  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  Robert  J.  Breckinridge,  having  exhausted  invective  on 
the  Christian  people  of  the  southern  states,  "turns  to  the  gentle  pastor  of  the  Pine 
Street  church  and  proclaims  him  a  traitor."  To  this  cruel  accusation  Dr.  McPheeters 
replied:  "Sir,  the  church,  as  such,  owes  its  allegiance  only  to  Jesus  Christ.  His 
kingdom  is  the  only  kingdom  she  is  bound  to  uphold.  His  word  is  the  only  con- 
stitution that  she  recognizes  as  authoritative  or  is  at  liberty  to  interpret." 

It  soon  became  apparent  that  there  were  a  few  in  the  Pine  Street  church  whose 
views  and  spirit  were  in  accord  with  Dr.  Breckinridge's  paper  and  temper,  and  who, 
discrediting  or  not  appreciating  their  pastor's  alleged  reasons  for  his  dissent,  were 
determined  to  put  him  and  the  church  in  a  partisan  attitude  or  to  drive  him  from 
their  pulpit.  The  limits  to  which  this  sketch  must  be  confined,  and  the  character 
of  the  present  work,  do  not  permit  a  record  of  the  details  of  the  profoundly  im- 
portant conflict  which  was  now  begun.  For  such  particulars  the  reader  is  referred 
to  the  "Memoir  of  S.  B.  McPheeters,  D.  D.,"  by  Rev.  John  S.  Grasty.  Suffice  it  to 
say  that  the  factionists,  under  pretense  of  desiring  to  have  it  in  their  power  to  con- 
tradict the  "very  current  report  that  he  sympathized  with  the  rebellion,"  and  "to 
correct  the   very   general   opinion    of   his   disloyalty   at   heart,"   addressed   to   him   a 


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communication  "inquiring  whether  he  was  a  friend  of  the  government  and  desired 
its  authority  reestablished,  or  a  friend  of  the  rebellion  and  desired  its  success." 
Replying,  Dr.  McPheeters  reminded  his  interrogators  that  he  occupied  the  twofold 
relation  of  minister  and  citizen,  and  that  it  is  of  the  utmost  importance  that  "the 
duties,  obligations  and  responsibilities  which  grow  out  of  this  twofold  relation 
should  not  be  confounded.  It  is  not  a  distinction  without  a  difference,  unless  the 
distinction  between  the  church  and  state  is  a  distinction  without  a  difference."  He 
goes  on  to  say  that,  as  a  minister,  he  is  bound  by  the  word  of  God  and  his  respon- 
sibility is  to  Christ,  and,  under  Him,  to  the  Presbytery;  and  as  a  citizen,  he  is 
bound  by  the  laws  of  the  land  and  is  responsible  to  the  civil  authority;  "but,  since 
my  civil  duties  are,  at  the  same  time,  religious  duties,  my  Presbytery  may  also 
inquire  into  my  neglect  of  any  of  my  civil  duties."  He  mentions  these  very  plain 
truths,  in  order  to  show  that  those  who  had  questioned  him  could  not  "demand, 
as  a  matter  of  right,  an  answer  to  such  a  paper  as  that  which  had  been  presented." 
Said  he:  "It  is  perfectly  manifest  that  no  such  right  exists,  and  if  it  were  distinctly 
and  formally  claimed,  I  would  be  compelled  to  resist  it.  It  is,  moreover,  with  me 
a  question  of  very  grave  doubt  whether  I  should  permit  feelings  of  courtesy  and 
personal  regard  to  lead  me  even  to  appear  to  lend  the  iniluence  of  my  example  to 
a  practice  which,  if  it  should  become  common,  would,  I  am  persuaded,  destroy  the 
harmony  and  mar  the  peace  of  all  our  churches.  For,  brethren,  if  you  may  ask 
of  me,  as  your  pastor,  a  written  answer  to  a  paper  going  over  the  whole  field  of  a 
great  national  convulsion,  involving  not  simply  questions  of  moral  right  and  wrong, 
but  also  questions  of  constitutional  law  and  most  intricate  questions  of  State  policy, 
then  what  questions  may  you  not  ask  and  demand  of  me  my  answer?  It  a  pastor 
begins  such  a  course,  upon  what  principle  can  he  ever  stop?  If  one  portion  of  his 
congregation  may  rightfully  and  wisely  call  upon  him  to  define  his  position  on 
public  affairs,  may  not  another  portion  do  the  same?  Do  not  the  principle,  it  once 
admitted,  and  the  practice,  it  once  established,  throw  every  pastor  helpless  into 
the  hands  of  any  party  or  faction  that  may  arise  at  any  time  in  his  congregation? 
But,  while  I  feel  constrained  to  call  your  attention  to  the  very  dangerous  principle 
which  such  a  course  involves,  and  while  I  must  and  do  solemnly  declare  that  I  will 
not  admit  this  to  be  a  precedent  by  which  I  will  be  governed  in  the  future,  yet, 
such  is  my  disposition  to  treat  you  personally  with  courtesy,  and  your  wishes  with 
respect,  I  shall  proceed  to  make  such  statements  as  in  my  judgment  should  be 
satisfactory." 

<  Continuing  his   reply,   he   called   them   to  bear  witness   that   during   his   nearly 

twelve  years  as  their  pastor,  he  had  "never  on  any  occasion,  or  under  any  pretext, 
introduced  into  the  pulpit  any  matter  of  a  political  kind,"  and  that  "over  and 
often,  and  long  before  the  present  troubles  began,"  he  had  explained  to  them  his 
views  of  the  relation  of  the  church  and  the  state;  "how  both  are  ordained  of  God, 
but  ordained  for  different  purposes;  that  they  move  in  different  orbits,  have  different 
ends  to  accomplish,  and  are  independent  the  one  of  the  other."  On  these  points 
his  convictions  were  not  changed,  but  confirmed;  they  were  religious  convictions, 
and,  therefore,  it  was  not  possible  to  turn  him  from  them.  He  proceeded  to  say 
that,  as  always,  since  he  became  a  minister,  he  offered  public  prayer  for  the  presi- 
dent of  the  United  States,  though  seldom  using  that  precise  form,  but  rather  the 
more  scriptural  one  and  the  one  more  generally  employed  in  Presbyterian  pulpits: 
"For  kings,  and  all  who  are  in  authority,  especially  for  those  who  are  in  authority 
over  us."  As  to  his  purposes  as  a  citizen,  the  word  of  God  is  his  authoritative  guide. 
Whatever  it  enjoins,  he  endeavors  to  perform.  Before  coming  to  Missouri,  he 
"did  on  two  occasions  take  an  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States.  To  me  that  oath  has  not  grown  old.  The  God  by  whose  name  I  swore  is 
the  'living  God.'  When  the  convention  of  the  State  of  Missouri,  at  its  last  session, 
enacted  a  law  requiring  an  oath  from  those  who  solemnize  the  civil  part  of  the 
marriage  contract,  I  felt  it  to  be  my  duty  to  take  it.     I  have  taken  it." 

The  foregoing  clearly  sets  forth  Dr.  McPheeters'  position  and  the  principle  for 
which  he  contended;  a  principle  on  which  his  questioners  put  no  value,  and  a 
position,  from  which,  or  from  his  church,  they  were  determined  to  drive  him.  They 
"unanimously  resolved  that  his  answer  was  not  satisfactory,  for  the  reason  that  it 
entirely  omitted  to  inform  us  whether  Dr.  McPheeters  was  a  friend  or  an  enemy  of 
the  government  of  the  United  States."  In  his  rejoinder  to  this  second  communica- 
tion.  Dr.    McPheeters  reiterates:      "The   true   and    only   point   at   issue   between   us 


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this:  You  claim  tlie  right,  in  virtue  of  the  relation  which  exists  between  us  as 
pastor  and  people,  to  ask  and  receive  my  written  opinion  and  personal  position  upon 
civil  and  political  questions  no  way  connected  with  my  office  and  duty  as  a  minister 
of  the  gospel.  I  must  tell  you  plainly  that  this  claim  I  utterly  deny,  and  feel 
compelled  to  resist.  And  this  position  I  take,  not  from  any  disposition  to  stand 
out  captiously  upon  an  abstract  question  of  right,  nor  from  any  disposition  im- 
properly to  conceal  my  views  on  political  questions,  but  from  a  conscientious  con- 
viction that  I  cannot  yield  the  thing  you  claim,  without,  to  the  full  extent  of  my 
example,  compromising  the  rights  of  every  minister  and  endangering  the  peace  of 
all  our  churches.  The  pastoral  relation  is  in  no  sense  and  to  no  degree  a  civil  and 
political  relation.  It  has  no  concernment  with  men,  viewed  in  any  other  light  than 
as  citizens  of  'a  kingdom  not  of  this  world.'  By  resisting  what  you  claim,  I  testify 
against  the  whole  system  of  church  secularization,  which  I  solemnly  believe  is  a 
sign  of  the  times,  and  which,  if  carried  out,  will  end  in  degrading  ministers  of 
the  gospel  into  politicians,  and  the  church  itself  into  a  thing  of  state." 

The  handful  of  factionists,  on  their  evil  scheme  intent,  privately  and  in  the 
public  prints  made  most  shameless  and  false  assaults  upon  his  character  as  a 
citizen  and  minister,  and  capped  the  climax  by  persuading  the  military  authorities 
of  the  department  to  order  Dr.  McPheeters  to  cease  immediately  to  exercise  the 
functions  of  his  office  within  this  state,  and  with  his  wife,  to  leave  Missouri  in  ten 
days  for  exile  in  a  northern  state,  and  remain  there  during  the  war.  President 
Lincoln  countermanded  the  order.  His  behest  was  obeyed  by  his  under-officers  at 
St.  Louis  to  the  extent  of  permitting  Dr.  McPheeters  to  remain  in  the  state,  but  not 
removing  the  prohibition  to  preach  or  perform  other  ministerial  duty.  Learning 
this  fact,  Mr.  Lincoln  issued  his  famous  order,  declaring  that  the  government  could 
not  attempt  to  run  the  churches.  Under  this  order  Dr.  McPheeters  was  free  to 
resume  his  pastoral  work;  but  his  persecutors  resorted  to  other  tactics.  They  pre- 
vailed upon  the  Presbytery  (which,  at  their  instance,  was  composed  only  of  those 
whom  the  provost-marshal  permitted  to  be  present),  to  oust  him  from  his  position 
as  pastor  of  the  Pme  Street  church.  Against  this  high-handed  outrage,  complaint 
was  made  to  the  general  assembly,  May,  1864,  but  in  the  excitement  of  the  times 
was  not  sustained  by  that  highest  court  of  the  church.  This  ended  the  conflict  in 
favor  of  the  factionists.  "But,"  said  one  of  the  most  loyal  and  most  distinguished 
members  of  that  assembly,  "mark  these  words,  moderator:  when  the  history  of  the 
struggles  for  religious  liberty  and  the  rights  of  conscience  in  this  land  is  fairly 
written,  this  suffering  man  will  occupy  a  position  on  the  roll  of  Its  honored  cham- 
pions which  the  best  of  us  may  envy." 

Another  eminent  minister,  revered  and  beloved  by  the  whole  church,  the  late 
Dr.  H.  A.  Boardman,  of  Philadelphia,  wrote  Dr.  McPheeters:  "I  can  not  refrain 
from  expressing  to  you  my  sense  of  the  injustice  with  which  you  have  been  treated. 
Unwittingly,  as  I  believe,  our  assembly  has  succumbed  to  the  passions  of  the  hour, 
and  rendered  to  Caesar  the  things  which  are  God's.  The  wrong  done  you  is  very 
great,  but  is  small  in  comparison  with  the  injury  inflicted  upon  the  church.  My 
own  convictions  as  to  the  essential  wickedness  of  the  rebellion,  and  the  duty  of 
suppressing  it,  are,  as  they  have  always  been,  very  strong.  But  the  spiritual  in- 
dependence of  the  church  of  Christ,  of  the  church  as  a  whole,  and  of  each  of  every 
branch  of  it,  must  be  maintained  at  all  hazards  and  at  whatever  sacrifice.  The 
intolerance  of  the  day.  in  striking  at  you,  has  aimed  a  deadly  blow  at  this  vital 
principle  *  *  *  You  may  assure  yourself  of  the  true  sympathy  of  very  many 
who  love   both   our  church   and   country.  " 

Having  been,  by  the  assembly's  decision,  torn  from  his  devoted  Pine  Street 
people.  Dr.  McPheeters  accepted  a  call  to  the  Mulberry  church,  Kentucky.  Here 
his  health,  never  robust,  and  most  severely  taxed  by  his  contention  against  un- 
reasonable and  perverse  men,  gave  way  rapidly,  until,  unable  to  sit  or  stand,  he 
was  confined  to  a  couch,  on  which  he  was  borne  to  the  house  of  worship,  and,  in 
a  recumbent  position,  conducted  the  services  of  the  sanctuary.  About  this  time, 
the  war  being  ended  and  military  rule  abolished,  and  the  factionists  having  there- 
fore become  impotent,  the  Pine  Street  church  made  the  first  use  of  their  restored 
liberty  by  recalling  him  to  be  their  pastor.  In  response,  he  came  on  his  couch  to 
look  once  more  in  the  faces  of  those  with  whom  and  for  whom  he  had  suffered,  and 
to  say  that  his  enfeebled  physical  condition  compelled  him  to  decline  their  invitation. 

Returning  to  Kentucky,  his  disease  made  quick  progress,   and   "on   the   9th  of 


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March,  1870,  Samuel  Brown  McPheeters  fell  asleep  in  Jesus,  and  another  spirit 
joined  the  noble  army  of  martyrs  and  confessors  in  the  paradise  of  God."  He  left 
a  widow,  who  was  Miss  Eliza  C.  Shanks,  of  Virginia,  and  two  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters. One  daughter  and  the  sons — Mr.  Thomas  S.  McPheeters.  of  this  city,  and 
Professor  W.  M.  McPheeters,  D.  D.,  of  the  Theological  Seminary.  Columbia,  South 
Carolina, — survive  their  parents. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  the  first  person  on  whom  Westminster  College, 
at  Fulton,  Missouri,  conferred  the  degree  of  doctor  of  divinity,  and  he  was  the 
worthy  recipient  of  the  honor  in   18  59. 

The  late  General  F.  P.  Blair,  his  intimate  friend  at  college  and  in  mature 
life,  wrote  of  him:  "It  has  never  been  my  fortune  to  know  a  better  or  purer  man, 
or  one  more  upright  and  conscientious  in  the  discharge  of  the  duties  of  the  most 
difficult  and  highest  calling  among  men,  and  I  feel  it  presumptuous  in  me,  even 
at  the  request  of  friends,  to  attempt  the  delineation  of  a  character  which  excites 
my  highest  admiration,  but  which  I  have  shown  so  little  capacity  to  imitate." 


THOMAS   S.    MePHEETERS. 

It  is  a  rare  thing,  in  these  utilitarian  days,  to  find  a  man  who,  with  ability  of  a 
high  order  in  commercial  pursuits,  yet  gives  his  keenest  interest  and  attention  to 
religious,  charitable  and  civic  activities.     Such  a  man  was  Thomas  S.  McPheeters. 

He  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  May  5,  1852,  of  an  honorable  and  distinguished  ances- 
try, his  parents  being  the  Reverend  Doctor  Samuel  Brown  and  Eliza  Shanks 
McPheeters.  The  father  was  born  in  Raleigh,  North  Carolina  in  1819,  a  son  of 
the  Reverend  William  McPheeters,  D.  D.,  and  Margaret  Ann  McPheeters.  The  pro- 
genitors of  the  family  were  Scotch,  who  settled  first  in  Pennsylvania  about  the  year 
1680,  and  later  removed  to  Virginia.  Dr.  Samuel  B.  McPheeters  was  graduated  from 
the  University  of  North  Carolina,  in  1841,  and  then  read  law  for  a  year,  but  relin- 
quished his  intention  to  become  a  member  of  the  bar,  in  order  to  devote  his  life  to 
the  ministry.  In  accordance  with  this  purpose,  he  entered  the  Princeton  University 
Theological  Seminary,  and  was  graduated  in  1846.  After  several  years  of  pastoral 
work  in  Virginia,'  he  was  called  to  the  Westminster,  now  the  Grand  Avenue  Presby- 
terian church  of  St.  Louis. 

In  1862,  as  a  commissioner  to  the  general  assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  church, 
he  opposed  the  taking  of  any  position  by  the  church  on  the  Issues  then  being  fought 
out  by  the  north  and  south.  This  aroused  heated  opposition  on  the  part  of  some  of 
his  congregation,  resulting  in  an  attempt  to  banish  him  from  the  state  by  the  Union 
military  authorities.  Dr.  McPheeters  appealed  to  President  Lincoln,  who  then  issued 
his  famous  order,  declaring  that  the  government  could  not  attempt  to  run  the 
churches.  This  controversy,  was  the  direct  cause  of  the  separation  of  the  Presbyterian 
church  into  the  northern  and  southern  branches.  Dr.  McPheeters  did  not  long 
survive  the  successful  outcome  of  the  issue  which  he  had  raised  and  died  in  1870 
In  Kentucky,  to  which  state  he  had  removed  a  short  time  before. 

Reared  in  a  cultured  home,  where  character  and  education  were  regarded  as 
the  highest  aims,  Thomas  S.  McPheeters  there  received  the  training  and  education 
which  were  the  foundation  of  his  after  success  and  which  brought  him  into  a 
position  of  leadership  in  business  and  political  circles  and  caused  his  impression 
to  be  indelibly  stamped  upon  other  and  higher  planes  of  activity.  He  was  educated 
in  the  Wyman  school  in  St.  Louis,  which  he  attended  until  1865,  when  he  became 
a  pupil  in  the  country  schools  of  Shelbyville,  Kentucky,  which  he  attended  until 
1870.  He  then  matriculated  at  Washington  and  Lee  University  at  Lexington, 
Virginia,  and  continued  his  studies  there  for  three  years,  during  the  time  that 
Robert  E.  Lee  was  the  president  of  that  institution.  The  influence  of  the  life 
and  character  of  General  Lee  must  have  been  profound  upon  a  young  man  who  was 
able  to  appreciate  the  splendid  things  tor  which  General  Lee  stood.  Mr.  McPheeters 
left  the  university  In  187  3,  because  of  ill  health  and  returned  to  his  native  St.  Louis, 
where  he  immediately  became  identified  with  the  business  interests  of  the  city, 
which  was  then  making  great  strides  at  the  close  of  the  Civil  war.  Soon  after  his 
return  to  St.  Louis,  he  became  connected  with  the  warehouse  business,  and  from 
that  time  on   was   continuously   engaged   in   that  occupation.      In    1890    he   became 


632  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

the  president  of  the  McPheeters  Warehouse  Company,  one  o£  the  pioneers  in  the  field 
and  also  one  of  the  largest  warehouse  concerns  in  the  west.  He  continued  as  presi- 
dent of  the  company  until  his  death.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  conceive  the  idea 
of  cold  storage  and  refrigeration  and  was  one  of  the  organizers  in  1901,  of  the  St. 
Louis  Refrigerating  &  Cold  Storage  Company,  probably  the  best  equipped  and  one 
of  the  largest  cold  storage  wareliouses  in  the  United  States,  and  was  the  president 
of  that  company  from  the  time  of  its  organization.  He  was  also  president  of  the  Polk 
Estate  Company,  and  a  director  of  the  Hope  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company. 

In  spite  of  the  importance  and  extensiveness  of  the  business  affairs  of  Mr. 
McPheeters,  he  devoted  much  of  his  time  and  interest  to  activities  and  movements 
looking  toward  municipal  reform,  progress  and  improvement,  and  to  the  aid  and 
assistance  of  the  individual,  especially  the  young  men  of  the  community.  He,  gave 
his  best  thought  and  attention  to  the  work  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion, and  for  thirty  years  prior  to  his  death  he  was  a  member  of  the  state  executive 
committee,  while  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  he  was  the  president  of  the  central  branch 
of  St.  Louis  and  chairman  of  its  finance  committee.  For  twenty-five  years  he  was 
chairman  of  the  state  executive  committee,  and  for  many  years  prior  to  his  death 
was  a  member  of  the  international  board.  He  was  in  charge  of  the  campaign  in 
1898,  which  resulted  in  the  erection  of  the  large  and  well  equipped  building,  which 
is  now  the  home  of  the  association  in  St.  Louis,  and  devoted  his  entire  evenings  lor 
many  weeks  toward  raising  the  large  sums  necessary  for  the  erection  of  this  build- 
ing. He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Civic  League  of  St.  Louis,  and  for  many 
years  prior  to  his  death  had  served  on  its  executive  committee  and  done  very  active 
work  in  connection  therewith.  Like  all  the  men  of  southern  birth  and  family  who 
lived  in  St.  Louis,  he  was  a  democrat  and  stood  for  the  highest  ideals  of  that  party, 
and  never  tailed  to  give  his  time  and  efforts  to  securing  improvement  in  political 
conditions.  In  1903,  he  was  elected  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  West- 
minster College  at  Fulton,  Missouri,  which  in  19  05  conferred  upon  him  the  degree 
of  LL.  D.  He  continued  as  president  of  this  board  to  the  date  of  his  death,  and  was 
the  chie^  adviser  and  friend  of  that  college  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis.  None  was  fonder 
than  he  of  the  social  pleasures  of  life,  and  he  was  an  active  member  for  years  of 
the  Noonday  and  University  Clubs.  He  was  chairman  of  a  group  of  influential 
and  prominent  men  who  had  a  private  room  at  the  Noonday  Club,  and  who  there  each 
day  discussed  public  matters,  and  from  this  little  coterie  emanated  some  of  the 
strongest  movements  tor  the  improvement  of  municipal  and  political  conditions  of 
this  city.  His  religious  interest,  which  was  at  the  foundation  of  his  lifework,  took  its 
most  active  form  in  his  membership  in  the  Grand  Avenue  Presbyterian  church,  of 
which  he  served  for  twenty  years  as  an  elder. 

A  man  of  domestic  taste,  Mr.  McPheeters  found  his  greatest  pleasure  in  min- 
istering to  the  welfare  and  happiness  of  the  family  circle.  On  the  28th  of  October, 
1880,  in  St.  Louis,  he  married  Elizabeth  Polk,  a  daughter  of  Trusten  Polk,  at  one 
time  United  States  senator  and  governor  of  Missouri.  Trusten  Polk  was  a  direct 
descendant  of  Robert  Polk,  who  was  also  the  ancestor  of  President  James  K.  Polk 
and  General  Thomas  Polk,  of  Mecklenburg  fame,  and  Bishop  Leonidas  Polk.  .Trusten 
Polk  was  born  in  Delaware,  and  after  graduating  from  Yale,  he  prepared  for  the  bar, 
and  entered  upon  the  practice  of  that  profession  in  St.  Louis,  in  1835.  He  becamfe 
one  of  the  great  leaders  of  the  bar  of  this  state  at  the  time  when  Edward  Bates, 
Hamilton  Gamble  and  Henry  S.  Geyer  were  the  leaders  of  the  profession  in  St.  Louis. 
In  1856,  he  was  the  democratic  candidate  for  governor  and  was  elected  as  chief 
executive  of  the  state.  Ten  days  later,  he  was  elected  to  the  United  States  senate, 
defeating  Thomas  H.  Benton  and  Hamilton  Gamble,  and  shortly  after  resigned  the 
executive  chair,  to  represent  Missouri  in  the  national  legislative  halls.  He  followed 
the  course  of  the  southern  democrats  and  upheld  secession  measures,  and  in  1861, 
he  resigned  from  the  United  States  senate  to  enter  the  southern  army,  and  subse- 
quently became  judge  advocate  general  of  the  Confederate  army,  under  General  Ster- 
ling Price,  with  the  rank  of  colonel.  Following  the  cessation  of  hostilities  he  returned 
to  St.  Louis  and  resumed  the  practice  of  law,  and  remained  until  his  death,  an 
honorable  and  respected  citizen  of  this  city,  as  well  as  a  prominent  statesman  of  the 
commonwealth.  In  1837,  in  St.  Louis,  Governor  Polk  had  married  Elizabeth  N. 
Skinner,  a  daughter  of  Curtis  and  Anne  Skinner,  and  it  was  one  of  their  daughters, 
Elizabeth,  who  became  the  wife  of  Mr.  McPheeters.  By  this  marriage  there  was 
born  one  child,  a  son,  Thomas  S.,  Jr.,  now  practicing  law  in  St.  Louis. 


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The  family  circle  was  broken  by  the  hand  of  death,  when  on  the  5th  of  Octo- 
ber, 1909,  Mr.  McPheeters  passed  away,  at  the  age  of  fifty-seven  years.  His  life 
was  far  reaching  in  its  activities  and  its  accomplishments.  Its  keynote  was  his  love 
for  his  Creator  and  his  fellowmen,  especially  the  young  men  of  St.  Louis,  and  he 
reached  and  touched  hundreds  of  young  men  by  his  wholesome,  whole-souled  Chris- 
tianity and  by  his  spirit  of  youthfulness,  which  he  never  lost.  He  never  swerved 
from  the  path  of  duty,  nor  deviated  from  the  course  which  his  judgment  told  him 
to  be  the  true  one.  Few  men  in  any  community  have  done  more  or  better  work 
for  their  fellowmen,  than  did  Thomas  S.  McPheeters. 


THOMAS  s.  McPheeters,  je. 

Thomas  S.  McPheeters,  Jr.,  member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar  and  president  of  the 
McPheeters  Warehouse  Company,  while  with  other  commercial  and  business  interests 
he  Is  also  associated,  was  born  August  27,  1881,  in  the  city  in  which  he  still  resides,  his 
parents  being  Thomas  S.  and  Elizabeth  (Polk)  McPheeters.  The  father  was  a  son  of 
the  Rev.  Samuel  B.  McPheeters,  a  noted  divine.  Thomas  S.  McPheeters,  Sr.,  was 
the  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Refrigerator  &  Cold  Storage  Company  and  also  of  the 
McPheeters  Storage  &  Warehouse  Company.  He  passed  away  in  1909,  but  the  mother 
is  still  living.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Governor  Polk  and  yet  makes  her  home  in  St. 
Louis. 

In  the  acquirement  of  his  education  Thomas  S.  McPheeters,  Jr.,  attended  the 
Smith  Academy  of  St.  Louis  and  then  went  east  to  become  a  student  in  the  Law- 
renceville  (N.  J.)  school,  after  which  he  entered  Princeton  University  and  won  his 
Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  in  1903.  Having  determined  to  make  the  practice  of  law 
his  life  work,  he  then  matriculated  in  the  Washington  University  Law  School  and 
gained  his  LL.  B.  degree  upon  graduation  with  the  class  of  1905.  In  the  same 
year  he  was  admitted  to  the  Missouri  bar  and  entered  at  once  upon  active  prac- 
tice. No  dreary  novitiate  awaited  him.  His  thorough  preparation  soon  became 
recognized  and  his  fidelity  to  the  interests  of  his  clients  has  always  been  proverbial. 
His  practice  grew  steadily  and  in  1911  he  entered  into  partnership  with  Benjamin 
A.  Wood  under  the  firm  style  of  McPheeters  &  Wood,  an  association  that  has 
been  maintained  since  the  1st  of  April,  1911.  Ability  has  brought  him  promi- 
nently to  the  front  as  one  of  the  leading  lawyers  of  St.  Louis  and  he  has  also  become 
well  known  as  the  president  of  the  Polk  Estate  Company  and  formerly  was  a 
director  of  the  McPheeters  Warehouse  Company  but  following  his  father's  death 
succeeded  to   the   presidency. 

On  the  1st  of  September,  1910,  Mr.  McPheeters  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Madeline  Tausig  and  they  have  one  child,  Thomas  S.  (III).  The  religious 
faith  of  the  parents  is  that  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  in  political  belief 
Mr.  McPheeters  is  a  democrat  whose  activity  has  greatly  furthered  the  interests 
of  his  party.  In  club  circles  he  is  well  known  and  is  now  a  member  and  secretary 
of  the  St.  Louis  Country  Club,  the  vice  president  of  the  University  Club  and  a 
member  of  the  Cottage  Club  of  Princeton  University.  He  turns  for  recreation,  to 
golf  and  sailing.  The  nature  of  his  interests  is  further  indicated  in  his  member- 
ship in  the  Civic  League.  He  belongs  also  to  Phi  Delta  Phi,  a  legal  fraternity,  and 
to  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association  and  while  liberal  educational  training  qualified 
him  for  his  professional  career,  he  chose  as  a  life  work  a  calling  in  which  advance- 
ment must  depend  entirely  upon  individual  merit  and  ability  and  by  reason  of  his 
constantly  developing  powers  in  the  practice  of  law  he  has  reached  a  place  in  the 
front  rank  among  the  members  of  the  St.  Louis  bar. 


JAMES    STEPHENS   SUMMERS. 

James  Stephens  Summers,  a  clear,  concise  speaker  and  a  logical  reasoner,  with 
a  comprehensive  knowledge  of  the  principles  of  jurisprudence,  has  made  for  him- 
self a  creditable  place  at  the  Kansas  City  bar  and  now  has  a  large  clientage  of 
distinctively   representative   character.      Born   in   Monmouthshire,   England,   Septem- 


G34  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

ber  26,  1881,  he  is  a  son  of  Stephen  and  Mary  Ann  (Phillips)  Summers,  who  were 
also  natives  of  that  country.  Coming  to  America  with  his  family,  the  father  settled 
at  Sharon,  Pennsylvania,  and  was  there  associated  with  the  National  Malleable 
Castings  Company.  His  interest  in  the  moral  progress  of  his  community  was  mani- 
fest in  his  active  work  as  a  member  and  deacon  of  the  First  Baptist  church.  To  him 
and  his  wife  were  born  five  children.     '' 

James  S.  Summers,  the  eldest  of  the  family,  pursued  his  education  in  the  schools 
of  Sharon,  Pennsylvania,  in  which  he  passed  through  consecutive  grades  to  his 
graduation  from  the  high  school  with  the  class  of  1899.  He  afterward  spent  six 
years  with  the  Stewart  Iron  Company  of  that  place,  but  desirous  of  entering  upon 
a  professional  career,  matriculated  in  the  University  of  Missouri  in  1904  and  won 
the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  upon  graduation  with  the  class  of  1908,  after  which 
he  entered  for  further  study  in  the  legal  department,  gaining  his  LL.B.  degree  in 
1910.  Through  the  intervening  period  he  has  continued  in  the  practice  of  law. 
He  tries  all  kinds  of  cases  and  tries  them  well.  He  has  the  qualities,  essential  to 
success  at  the  bar — a  keen,  rapid,  logical  mind  plus  the  business  sense,  combined 
with  integrity  and  industry  and  a  thorough  understanding  of  the  principles  of 
jurisprudence. 

In  1912  Mr.  Summers  was  married  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Reed  Ferris,  who  was 
born  in  Moberly,  Missouri,  a  daughter  of  Forrest  G.  Ferris,  and  they  have  one  son, 
Ferris  Rothwell,  and  one  daughter,  Bessie  Mary.  Mr.  Summers  is  a  member  of 
the  State  and  Kansas  City  Bar  Associations.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the 
republican  party  and  he  has  served  as  secretary  of  the  county  and  congressional 
committees.  He  has  taken  active  part  in  campaign  work  and  is  a  convincing  speaker, 
earnest  and  clear  in  his  reasoning  and  concise  in  his  statement  of  facts.  Fraternally 
he  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Ivanhoe  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  has  also  taken  the 
Scottish  Rite  degrees  and  is  a  member  of  Ararat  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  His 
independence  of  character  enables  him  to  form  unbiased  opinions  and  he  holds  to 
high  ideals  professional  and  otherwise.  A  Baptist  in  religious  faith,  he  is  an  active 
worker  in  church  and  Sunday  school  and  his  endorsement  is  always  given  to  those 
forces  which  make  tor  the  uplift  of  the  individual  and  the  betterment  of  the  com- 
munity at  large. 


WILLIAM    HOLMES    THOMSON. 

William  Holmes  Thomson,  one  of  the  most  respected  and  honored  men  in 
social  and  banking  circles  in  St.  Louis,  was  for  more  than  sixty-three  years  con- 
nected with  the  Boatmen's  Bank,  of  which  he  was  cashier  for  thirty-eight  yearg 
and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  a  director  and  vice  president.  Throughout  this 
entti'e  period  there  has  not  been  a  single  esoteric  phase  in  his  career,  which  on 
the  contrary   has   been   as  an   open   book   inviting  closest  scrutiny. 

His  life  record  began  April  16,  1837,  on  the  noted  Hawthorne  farm  in  Fred- 
erick county,  Maryland.  He  was  of  English,  Scotch  and  Irish  lineage,  although 
both  his  paternal  and  maternal  ancestors  became  residents  of  Maryland  during 
the  colonial  epoch  in  its  history.  His  parents  were  William  James  and  Margaretta 
Ann  (Davis)  *Thomson.  His  great-great-grandfather  in  the  maternal  line  was 
John  Lackland,  who  came  from  Scotland  and  settled  in  Maryland  when  it  was 
still  numbered  among  the  colonial  possessions  of  Great  Britain.  His  son,  James 
Lackland,  became  an  officer  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  was  afterward  a  stanch 
advocate  of  Jeffersonian  principles  and  was  a  gradual  emancipationist  more  than 
a  half  century  before  Lincoln's  proclamation  freed  the  colored  people  of  the  south. 
In  1812  he  made  a  will  that  his  negroes  and  their  descendants  should  be  set  free 
as  they  reached  certain  specified  ages.  Thereafter,  whenever  he  sold  a  slave,  he 
inserted  in  the  bill  of  sale  the  same  provision — that  on  reaching  a  certain  age 
the  slave  should  become  free.  No  persuasion  or  consideration  could  induce  him 
to  act  otherwise.  In  the  year  1775  James  Lackland,  than  nineteen  years  of  age, 
joined  an  exploring  party  which  went  from  Maryland  on  a  trip  through  the  wil- 
derness of  Kentucky  on  horseback.  He  entered  a  large  tract  of  land  in  the  Blue 
Grass  state  when  it  was  still  one  of  the  counties  of  Virginia  and  so  aided  in  plant- 
ing  the   seeds   of   civilization   which   have   since   resulted   in    producing   one   of   the 


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leading  commonwealths  of  the  country.  He  was  twenty  years  of  age  when,  on 
the  14tli  of  May,  1776,  he  was  commissioned  by  the  council  of  safety  as  second 
lieutenant  of  the  company  formed  in  the  lower  district  of  Frederick  county,  Mary- 
land, for  service  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  This  company  became  part  of  the 
Twenty-ninth  Battalion,  and  with  it  he  did  active  duty  for  American  independ- 
ence. He  wedded  Catherine,  a  daughter  of  David  Lynn,  who  came  from  Dublin, 
Ireland,  and  settled  in  Maryland  about  1717,  becoming  afterward  a  judge  of  the 
Frederick  county  court  and  holding  a  commission  under  King  George  as  justice 
of  the  peace.  He  was  also  one  of  three  commissioners  appointed  by  the  general 
assembly  of  Maryland  in  1751  to  lay  out  Georgetown,  now  in  the  District  of 
Columbia.  He  had  three  sons,  who  espoused  the  cause  of  liberty  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary war,  one  serving  as  lieutenant,  another  as  captain  and  the  other  as  sur- 
geon. One  of  the  daughters  of  James  and  Catherine  (Lynn)  Lackland  was  the 
maternal  grandmother  of  William  H.  Thomson.  She  became  the  wife  of  Ignatius 
Davis,  of  "Mount  Hope,"  Frederick  county,  Maryland,  and  their  children  include 
Margaretta  Ann  Davis,  who  in  early  womanhood  became  the  wife  of  William 
James  Thomson  and  later  the  mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  William 
James  Thomson  was  also  born  in  Frederick  county,  Maryland,  and  was  a  son  of 
John  Popham  Thomson  and  Margaret  (Holmes)  Thomson,  the  former  of  English 
lineage,  while  the  latter  was  a  native  of  Carlisle,  Pennsylvania.  The  birth  of 
William  James  Thomson  occurred  in  Frederick  county,  June  26,  1808.  He  attended 
Dickinson  College  at  Carlisle,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  was  graduated  with  the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  in  1828.  He  studied  law  but  soon  gave  his  attention 
to  farming,  and  his  place,  "Hawthorne,"  became  ttne  of  the  noted  plantations  of 
that   locality.     Thereon    he   resided   until    his   death,   June    21,    1841. 

William  Holmes  Thomson  was  but  four  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his 
father's  demise.  He  was  reared  in  Frederick  county,  attended  the  public  schools 
near  his  boyhood's  home,  was  afterward  a  student  in  the  city  schools  of  Fred- 
erick and  later  attended  a  boarding  school  in  Pennsylvania.  After  putting  aside 
his  textbooks  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years  he  spent  some  time  in  the  service  of  a 
commission  house  in  Baltimore.  He  next  was  employed  for  a  year  with  a  civil 
engineering  corps,  during  which  time  he  assisted  in  laying  out  the  Metropolitan 
Railroad,  which  extended  from  Washington  to  Point  of  Rocks,  where  it  joined 
the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Railroad.  In  the  meantime  he  was  studying  business 
conditions  in  the  east  and  in  the  west,  and  a  comparison  of  the  opportunities  offered 
led  him  to  the  belief  that  young  men  could  more  rapidly  secure  advancement  in 
the  Mississippi  valley  than  they  could  upon  the  coast. 

Therefore,  in  April,  185  7,  he  made  his  way  to  St.  Louis  and  on  his  twentieth 
birthday  (April  16)  entered  the  employ  of  the  banking  house  where  he  continued 
to  the  time  of  his  death,  covering  a  period  of  more  than  sixty-three  years.  The 
Boatmen's  Savings  Institution  had  been  organized  ten  years  before  his  connection 
with  it  by  a  few  leading  and  philanthropic  citizens  who  wished  to  promote  thrift 
and  economy  among  the  steamboatmen,  who  at  that  time  constituted  the  larger 
part  of  the  laboring  class  in  St.  Louis.  Success  attended  the  venture  from  the 
beginning  and  a  second  charter  was  taken  out  in  18  56  under  the  name  of  the 
Boatmen's  Saving  Bank.  Mr.  Thomson's  early  connection  with  the  institution 
was  in  a  clerical  capacity,  but  gradually  he  worked  his  way  upward,  his  duties 
and  responsibilities  increasing  as  his  faithfulness  and  efficiency  were  recognized. 
In  1869  he  was  appointed  assistant  cashier,  and  the  following  year  saw  him  in 
the  position  of  cashier,  becoming  thus  the  chief  executive  officer  of  an  institution 
which  in  its  reliability  is  second  to  none  in  the  west.  In  1913  he  was  advanced 
to  the  position  of  vice  president  of  the  bank,  which  office  as  well  as  that  of  a 
director  he  held  until  his  death  on  June  23,  1920.  The  success  of  the  bank  is 
attributable  in  large  measure  to  the  efforts,  enterprise  and  sound  business  judgment 
and  conservative  methods  of  Mr.  Thomson,  and  the  growth  of  the  bank  is  indicated 
in  part  by  the  fact  that  the  capital  stock  during  his  incumbency  was  increased  to 
two  million  dollars  as  a  result  of  accumulated  profits  after  paying  the  stockholders 
in  dividends  more  than  six  millions  of  dollars.  Since  the  capital  stock  has  been 
increased  to  two  million  dollars  the  bank  has  regularly  paid  to  its  stockholders 
semi-annual  dividends  of  from  three  to  six  per  cent  and  has  accumulated,  in  addi- 
tion, a  surplus  of  one  million  dollars,  and  an  undivided  profit  account  of  more 
than   six   hundred   thousand   dollars. 

Mr.  Thomson  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  astute,  clear-sighted  and  able 


638  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

financiers  of  the  country,  and  there  was  no  point  connected  with  banking  with 
which  he  was  not  perfectly  familiar,  while  his  word  was  commonly  accepted  as 
authority  on  all  banking  questions  in  St.  Louis  and  the  middle  west.  He  was  not 
unknown  in  other  business  lines,  for  he  had  coopQi'ated  financially  and  officially 
with  various  manufacturing  establishments  in  St.  Louis  and  had  largely  promoted 
business  interests  as  a  member  of  the  Merchants  Exchange  and  the  Cotton  Ex- 
change. For  several  terms  he  served  as  chairman  of  the  committee  of  manage- 
ment of  the  St.  Louis  Clearing  House  Association  and  was  always  an  active  and 
prominent   member   of   that   committee. 

In  1862  Mr.  Thomson  was  married  to  Miss  Margaret  Foote  Larkin,  the  eldest 
daughter  of  Thomas  H.  and  Susan  (Ross)  Larkin,  of  St.  Louis.  Mrs.  Thomson 
died  in  1863.  The  only  child  born  to  this  marriage  died  in  1864.  In  1872  Mr. 
Thomson  married  Annie  Lou,  the  eldest  daughter  of  William  A.  Hargadine,  of 
the  Hargadine-McKittrick  Dry  Goods  Company.  They  became  the  parents  of  seven 
daughters  and  one  son  and,  with  the  exception  of  a  daughter  who  died  in  child- 
hood, all  are  yet  living,  namely:  Julia  Hargadine,  who  married  C.  C.  Collins, 
an  attorney  of  St.  Louis;  William  Hargadine,  who  married  Miss  Elizabeth  John- 
son, of  Corsicana,  Texas;  Virginia  McCullough,  the  wife  of  George  W.  Tracy,  a 
dry  goods  merchants  of  St.  Louis;  Susan  Larkin,  tlie  wife  of  Colonel  A.  B.  Coxe, 
of  the  general  staff  of  the  United  States  army;  Holmes  Lackland,  wlio  married 
Eugene    M.    Funsten;    Annie   Lou,    and   Mary   McCreery. 

Mr.  Thomson  had  always  given  his  political  allegiance  to  the  democracy, 
but  when  the  party  swerved  from  its  old  standard  in  1900  in  accepting  the  Bryan 
platform  of  that  year  he  espoused  the  gold  standard  as  embodied  in  the  Indian- 
apolis platform.  Although  reared  in  the  faith  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  he 
helped  to  organize  the  Trinity  Episcopal  church  of  St.  Louis  in  1859  and  has  since 
been  connected  with  that  parish,  active  in  promoting  its  charities  and  prominently 
identified  with  other  benevolent  movements.  He  had  been  for  many  years  and 
was  up  to  the  time  of  his  demise  a  vestryman  of  Trinity  church  and  for  some 
years  its  senior  warden.  He  had  been  for  some  time  the  only  survivor  of  the 
group  of  men  who  in  1865  founded  St.  Luke's  Hospital  and  was  president  of  its 
board  of  trustees  from  1889  until  1918,  when  he  retired  from  active  business  be- 
cause of  failing  eyesight.  After  that  time  he  had  been  president  emeritus  and 
he  was  intensely  interested  in  the  welfare  of  the  hospital.  He  was  never  impelled 
by  a  sense  of  stern  duty  in  his  benefactions,  but  gave  generously  of  his  means 
in  response  to  the  promptings  of  a  kindly  spirit  which  recognized  fully  the  obliga- 
tions and  responsibilities  of  wealth.  He  figured  in  movements  for  the  substantial 
development  of  St.  Louis  through  his  membership  in  the  Merchants  Exchange,  the 
Business  Men's  League  and  the  Creditmen's  Association,  while  his  social  nature 
found  expression  in  his  membership  in  the  Missouri  Atliletic,  the  Noonday  and 
St.  Louis  Clubs.  With  advancing  years  his  activities  increased  rather  than  dimin- 
ished and  his  interests  broadened  until  he  became  recognized  as  a  most  influential 
citizen  of  St.  Louis  whose  word  and  work  have  featured  in  the  development  of  the 
city  in  material,  moral  and  benevolent  lines.  Two  or  three  years  ago  he  was 
obliged  to  retire  from  active  business  by  a  serious  failure  of  eyesight  but  was 
not  by  any  means  an  invalid.  He  frequently  attended  the  directors'  meetings 
of  the  bank  and  enjoyed  excellent  general  health  until  within  about  a  month  of 
his  death.  With  his  devoted  life  companion  he  resided  until  the  end  in  a  real 
and  cultured  liome  at  .3805  Lindell  boulevard  in  St.  Louis,  where  he  was  always 
at  home  to  Ills  many  friends.  His  visitors  carried  away  the  impression  of  a  man 
mentally  vigorous  and  physically  strong,  one  who  could  look  back  over  the  years 
and   feel  that   he   was  in  every  respect   a  winner  in   the   game   of  life. 


ERNEST  RICHARD  KROEGER. 

Ernest  Richard  Kroeger,  teacher,  interpreter  and  composer  of  music,  has  been 
termed  "one  of  the  truly  great  living  musicians,"  and  therefore  without  invidious 
distinction  he  may  well  be  termed  the  foremost  exponent  of  music  in  St.  Louis,  his 
native  city.  He  was  born  August  10,  1862,  and  undoubtedly  inherited  his  musical 
talent  from  his  father,  Adolph  Ernst  Kroeger,  who  was  born  December  28,  1837,  at 
Schwabstadt,  Schleswig,  which  at  that  time  was  a  Danish  province.     His  father  was 


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CENTENNIAL  mSTORY  OF  MISSOURI  641 

the  Rev.  Jacob  Kroeger,  a  German  Lutheran  clergyman,  who  in  1848  brought  his 
family  to  America  during  the  political  troubles  of  that  period  to  escape  from  the 
autocratic  rule  of  Germany.  He  went  to  Davenport,  Iowa,  and  afterward  accepted 
a  pastorate  at  Wheeling,  West  Virginia,  where  his  last  days  were  spent.  His  son, 
Adolph  Ernst  Kroeger,  remained  at  Davenport  and  entered  the  employ  of  a  banking 
house.  Subsequently  he  removed  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  wedded  Miss  Eliza  Curren, 
a  young  lady  of  English  birth,  and  he  remained  continuously  a  resident  of  St.  Louis 
until  his  death  March  8,  1882.  He  was  a  connoisseur  in  music,  as  indicated  in  his 
essays  on  musical  topics.  Much  of  his  time  was  given  to  literary  work,  however, 
and  he  specialized  in  the  translation  of  German  philosophical  works  into  English. 
His  translations  of  Fichte's  "Science  of  Rights"  and  "Science  of  Knowledge"  are  the 
accepted  authorities.  He  also  published  "The  Minnesingers  of  Germnay,"  containing 
translations  of  many  of  the  poems  of  those  remarkable  minstrels  of  the  middle  ages. 
His  literary  work  brought  him  into  active  connection  with  many  prominent  news- 
papers and  leading  periodicals  throughout  the  country  and  his  writings  on  social 
and  political  topics  attracted  wide  attention.  He  was  associated  with  William  T.  Har- 
ris in  organizing  a  club  for  the  discussion  of  philosophical  subjects  in  St.  Louis,  which 
afterward  grew  to  be  the  celebrated  Concord  School  of  Philosophy  and  to  which 
some  of  the  most  eminent  philosophers  of  the  United  States  belonged. 

Ernest  Richard  Kroeger  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city,  where  he 
also  began  his  musical  studies  at  the  age  of  five  years,  for  his  talent  in  this  direction 
was  early  manifest  and  recognized  by  his  parents.  He  studied  under  his  father,  also 
with  Egmont  Froehlich,  Waldemar  Malmene  and  Charles  Kunkel,  instructors  in 
piano,  while  his  studies  in  harmony,  counterpoint  and  composition  were  directed 
by  W.  Malmene,  W.  Goldner  and  P.  G.  Anton,  in  violin  by  E.  Spiering  and  in  instru- 
mentation by  L.  Mayer.  His  career  as.a  ;piusician  niay  be  said  to  date  from  the 
time  when  he  was  twenty-three  years  of  age  and  in  the  intervening  period  he  has 
become  widely  known  as  a  teacher  and  composer  of  music,  as  a  pianist  and  organist 
and  as  editor,  lecturer  and  writer  upon  various  musical  topics.  His  compositions 
include  orchestral  works,  chamber,  piano  and  organ  pieces,  songs  and  church 
music.  His  educational  work  has  been  done  as  director  of  the  department  of 
music  of  Forest  Park  College  and  also  of  the  Kroeger  School  of  Music,  both  of 
St.  Louis.  He  is  nationally  known  as  a  concert  ^jianist  and  organist  and  has  been 
organist  of  the  Church  of  the  Messiah  in  St.  Louis  for  twenty-six  years,  in  which 
connection  the  pastor  said  that  he  has  ever  been  "devoted  and  sympathetic,  always 
cordially  cooperating  with  the  members  of  the  choir,  the  congregation  and  the 
minister  to  make  the  music  a  part  of  religious  worship  and  of  invariable  excellence." 

Many  honors  have  been  accorded  Mr.  Kroeger,  who  was  elected  to  the  presidency 
of  the  Music  Teachers'  National  Association  in  189  7,  filling  the  position  for  a  two 
years'  term,  and  who  has  also  been  president  of  the  Missouri  Music  Teachers' 
Association.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  American  Guild  of  Organists  and 
In  19  04  was  chosen  Master  of  Programs  of  the  Bureau  of  Music  tor  the  Louisiana 
Purchase  Exposition  in  St.  Louis,  his  work  there  winning  him  election  as  an  officer 
of  the  French  Academy.  He  has  also  been  elected  a  member  of  the  National  Institute 
of  Arts  and  Letters.  He  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  examiners  of  the  Progressive 
Series,  published  by  the  Art  Publication  Society  of  St.  Louis.  In  1906  he  was  chosen 
adjudicator  of  the  Welsh  Eisteddfod  at  Canton,  Ohio,  and  chairman  of  the  judges  at 
the  Eisteddfod  which  was  held  at  San  F'rancisco  in  1915.  In  the  same  year  he  con- 
ducted the  instrumental  course  in  music  at  the  summer  session  of  the  University 
of  California  and  from  1916  to  1919  had  charge  of  a  similar  course  at  Cornell  Univer- 
sity. Throughout  all  these  years  he  has  figured  most  prominently  in  musical 
circles  in  St.  Louis,  having  for  more  than  a  decade  acted  as  conductor  of  the 
ladies'  organization  known  as  the  Morning  Choral  Club,  and  also  as  conductor  of 
a  male  chorus  known  as  the  Amphion  Club.  A  contemporary  biographer  has  said: 
"Mr.  Kroeger's  compositions  have  been  extensively  published  in  the  United  States 
and  Europe,  and  have  been  considered  typical  of  some  of  the  best  work  done  by 
American  composers,  and  are  frequently  found  on  programs.  For  many  years 
his  piano  recitals  have  been,  prominent  among  the  season's  musical  attractions, 
and  at  these  recitals  he  has  played  over  eight  hundred  compositions  from  memory." 

Mr.  Kroeger  is  equally  pleasantly  situated  in  his  home  life  for  the  graces  of  his 
wife  and  daughters  add  much  to  the  social  standing  of  the  family.  On  the  10th  of 
October,  1891,  Mr.  Kroeger  was  married  to  Miss  Laura  A.  Clark,  of  Lebanon.  Mis- 


642  .    CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

souri.  and  they  have  become  parents  of  four  children:  Mary  Louise.  Richard  Clark. 
Eleanor  Alice  and  Beatrice.  The  son  enlisted  June  1.  1918,  for  service  in  the  World 
war  and  was  commissioned  color  sergeant  of  the  three  hundred  and  fifty-third  infan- 
try of  the  eighty-ninth  division,  which  saw  much  active  service,  being  in  the  front 
line  trenches  many  times.  With  his  command  he  participated  in  the  battle  of  Chateau 
Thierry,  which  constituted  the  turning  point  of  the  war,  and  in  the  Argonne  drive, 
the  most  hotly  contested  battle  in  which  the  American  troops  were  engaged.  He  was 
with  his  division  in  all  of  its  active  service  and  the  record  which  he  made  is  one 
of  which  parents  have  every  reason  to  be  proud.  There  are  important  military 
records  in  connection  with  the  ancestral  history  of  the  family,  for  Mrs.  Kroeger 
is  a  direct  descendant  of  General  Clark  and  of  Colonel  William  Whitley,  the  former 
the  builder  of  Fort  Snelling  at  St.  Paul  and  the  latter  a  noted  Indian  fighter. 

.  Mr.  Kroeger  is  very  fond  of  golf  and  fishing,  to  which  he  turns  for  recreation. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church,  and.  more  than  that,  is  a  devout  sharer 
in  the  worship  of  any  church  with  which  he  affiliates  as  organist.  He  belongs  to  the 
Town  and  Gown  Club,  the  Artists'  Guild,  the  Contemporary  Club  and  the  St.  Louis 
Art  League.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  National  Arts  Club  of  New  York  and  the 
Fine  Arts  Society  of  Detroit.  His  life  activities  and  interests  have  centered  in  music 
and  as  an  artist  and  composer  his  rank  is  with  the   foremost   in  America  today. 


WILLIAM  LEONARD  DAMERON. 

William  Leonard  Dameron.  cashier  of  the  J.  M.  Hammett  Banking  Company 
of  Huntsville,  was  born  August  24,  1878,  in  the  city  which  is  yet  his  home,  his  parents 
being  Joseph  G.  and  Mary  (Dunn)  Dameron.  After  attending  the  Huntsville  public 
schools,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1895.  he  became  a  student 
of  a  business  college  at  Sedalia,  Missouri,   which  he  attended  in   1896-7. 

In  1899  Mr.  Dameron  became  a  resident  of  Marceline.  Missouri,  where  he  engaged 
in  the  hotel  business  for  about  a  year,  and  then  in  1901  entered  the  lumber  business 
at  Clifton  Hill,  Missouri,  where  he  resided  until  1905.  In  the  latter  year  he 
returned  to  Huntsville  and  entered  the  employ  of  the  J.  M.  Hammett  Banking 
Company.  He  was  made  assistant  cashier  of  this  institution  in  1909  and  in  1918 
was  promoted  to  the  position  of  cashier,  in  which  capacity  he  has  since  served,  prov- 
ing an  obliging,  courteous  and  popular  as  well  as  efficient  official  of  the  company. 
He  is  still  connected  with  retail  lumber  interests  at  Clifton  Hill.  Missouri,  and 
Cairo,  Missouri,  and  he  has  become  one  of  the  stockholders  and  directors  of  the 
bank. 

On  the  18th  of  February.  1900.  in  Marceline.  Missouri.  Mr.  Dameron  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Pearl  Buchanan,  daughter  of  Perry  Buchanan,  and  they  have  two  chil- 
dren, C.  Harold  and  Dorothy.  The  parents  are  members  of  the  Christian  church, 
in  which  Mr.  Dameron  is  serving  as  a  deacon.  His  fraternal  relations  are  with  the 
Masonic  Lodge  at  Huntsville:  Moberly  Chapter,  No.  79,  R.  A.  M.;  and  Centralia 
Council.  R.  &  S.  M.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America  and 
to  the  Hoo-Hoos.  an  organization  of  lumbermen.  His  political  endorsement  is  given 
to  the  democratic  party,  and  while  he  has  never  been  an  office  seeker,  he  has  served 
as  a  member  of  the  board  of  education  at  Huntsville  since  1909. 


CHARLES    E.    STORER. 


Charles  E.  Storer,  sales  manager  for  the  Baldwin  Piano  Company  of  St.  Louis, 
was  born  in  Olney,  Illinois,  January  10,  1874.  His  parents  being  Amos  and  Ellen 
(Baldwin)  Storer,  who  resided  for  many  years  in  Decatur,  Illinois,  where  the  father 
carried  on  business  as  a  contractor. 

Charles  E.  Storer  attended  the  schools  of  Richland  county,  Illinois,  to  the  age 
of  fifteen  years,  and  then  took  up  farm  work  in  the  same  county,  thus  providing 
for  his  own  support  from  early  youth.  He  continued  to  devote  his  attention  to 
the  work  of  tilling  the  soil  until  1891,  when  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  he  left  the 
farm  and  engaged  in  the  sale  of  pianos  and  organs  in  Jasper  county,  for  a  piano 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  643 

house  at  Newton,  Illinois.  He  was  thus  employed  until  1894  when  he  became 
connected  with  the  Adams  Express  Company.  In  1895  he  entered  upon  newspaper 
work  in  connection  with  the  publication  of  country  newspapers  in  that  county,  and 
in  1896  established  the  De  Land  Argus,  o£  De  Land,  Illinois,  an  independent  daily. 
He  was  thus  engaged  in  newspaper  publication  until  1897  when  he  disposed  of  his 
paper  and  went  to  Chicago  to  become  a  wholesale  grocery  salesman,  selling  to 
the  city  trade  and  also  upon  the  road.  Thus  his  time  was  passed  until  1900  when 
he  returned  to  the  piano  business  in  Decatur,  Illinois,  and  took  charge  of  the  store 
there  for  the  W.  W.  Kimball  Piano  Company.  He  continued  in  Decatur  until  Jan- 
uary, 1903,  when  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Baldwin  Piano  Company  in  St.  Louis, 
as  a  salesman,  and  soon  afterward  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  sales  manager. 
He  has  always  been  a  lover  of  music  and  found  this  line  of  business  most  congenial. 
His  love  of  the  piano  was  so  great  that  when  a  boy  he  walked  four  and  a  halt  miles 
in  order  to  take  his  piano  lesson. 

On  the  10th  of  June,  1908,  in  Chicago,  Mr.  Storer  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Mrs.  Estella  A.  Grinstead  Anderson,  and  they  now  reside  at  No.  5817  Waterman 
avenue,  St.  Louis.  Mr.  Storer  votes  with  the  republican  party  and  is  thoroughly 
informed  concerning  the  vital  questions  and  issues  of  the  day.  He  belongs  to  the 
City  Club,  the  Sunset  Hill  Country  Club,  the  Advertising  Club,  and  to  the  Knights 
of  Pythias.     He  is  a  lover  of  country  life. 


JOHN    NAPOLEON    HAMILTON. 

John  Napoleon  Hamilton,  lawyer,  journalist  and  banker,  whose  far-reacning 
activity  has  been  a  tremendous  force  for  progress  and  development  not  oniy  at 
Huntsville,  but  in  the  state  at  large,  was  born  upon  a  farm  in  Prairie  township, 
Randolph  county,  Missouri,  April  22,  1854,  his  parents  being  Dr.  Thomas  Lawrence 
and  Cynthia  Ann  (Christian)  Hamilton,  the  latter  a  daughter  of  Napoleon  B. 
Christian,  who  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Randolph  county.  The  father  was 
for  many  years  a  practicing  physician  of  that  county  and  was  a  son  of  Dr.  John 
B.  Hamilton,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  who  cast  in  his  lot  with  the  pioneer  residents 
of  Randolph  county  when  the  work  of  development  and  improvement  was  Just  begun 
-there.  Dr.  Thomas  L.  Hamilton  resided  for  many  years  in  and  near  Renlck, 
Missouri,  and  through  three  generations  the  representatives  of  the  family  have 
taken  active  and  helpful  part  in  promoting  the  welfare  and  the  work  of  puullc 
improvement  in   the  state. 

John  Napoleon  Hamilton,  after  acquiring  a  public  school  education  In  nis 
native  county,  attended  Mount  Pleasant  College  at  Huntsville,  where  he  studied 
under  the  direction  of  President  James  W.  Terrill.  Determining  upon  the  practice 
of  law  as  a  life  work,  he  then  entered  the  office  of  Judge  W.  A.  Martin  o£  Renick 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1875:  His  activities,  however,  have  covered  a  very 
wide  scope  during  a  most  active  and  useful  career.  For  seven  years  he  was  engaged 
in  merchandising  at  Renick  and  in  1885  removed  to  Huntsville,  where  he  accepted 
a  position  as  deputy  circuit  clerk  and  recorder  of  the  county  under  Joseph  C.  Samuel. 
In  1890  he  was  elected  recorder  of  deeds  and  filled  that  position  for  two  terms 
of  four  years  each.  Since  then  he  has  been  actively  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law 
and  has  been  accorded  a  large  and  distinctively  representative  clientage.  For 
several  terms  he  filled  the  office  of  city  attorney  at  Huntsville  and  has  been  special 
judge  and  referee  of  the  circuit  court  at  various  times.  While  thus  a  most  promi- 
nent and  active  member  of  the  bar,  he  has  also  figured  in  journalistic  circles  as  the 
editor  and  manager  of  the  Huntsville  Herald,  the  oldest  and  leading  newspaper  of 
Randolph  county,  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  State  Editors  Association  and  also 
of  the  State  Abstracters  Association,  the  latter  connection  indicating  still  another 
line  of  Mr.  Hamilton's  activity.  Moreover,  he  organized,  incorporated  and  became 
the  first  president  of  the  Farmers  &  Merchants  Bank  of  Huntsville,  Missouri,  and 
became  one  of  the  charter  members  and  a  director  of  the  Moberly  Trust  Company. 
He  is  now  president  and  manager  of  three  corporations,  one  having  a  capital  stock 
of  fifty  thousand  dollars,  while  the  other  two  are  capitalized  for  ten  thousand 
dollars  each. 

On  the  6th  of  December,   1887,  at  Renick,  Missouri,  Mr.  Hamilton  was  united 


Mi  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

in  marriage  to  Miss  Susan  Catherine  Maupin,  a  daughter  of  Lilburn  Dabney  and 
Sarah  Elizabeth  (Moore)  Maupin,  the  former  a  native  of  Albemarle  county,  Vir- 
ginia, and  the  latter  of  Monroe  county,  Missouri.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hamilton  hold 
membership  in  the  Christian  and  Methodist  churches  respectively.  His  political 
allegiance  has  always  been  given  to  the  democratic  party,  but  he  has  never  filled 
office  save  that  of  recorder  of  deeds.  He  is  a  charter  member  of  May  Lodge, 
No.  187,  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  of  Huntsville,  and  he  also  belongs  to  the  Hunts- 
ville  Commercial  Club,  the  Country  Club,  the  Public  Library  and  the  Chautauqua 
Association — connections  which  indicate  much  of  the  nature  of  his  interests  aside 
from  the  important  business  and  professional  activities  previously  mentioned.  His 
aid  is  ever  on  the  side  of  improvement  and  progress  and  his  life  has  at  all  times 
been  characterized  by  the  strictest  principles  of  integrity  and  honor. 


JOHN   M.   GRANT,   M.   D. 


There  are  few  men  in  the  medical  circles  of  St.  Louis  or  in  the  country  at 
large  who  stood  higher  in  the  profession  than  did  Dr.  John  M.  Grant,  who  at  all 
times  enjoyed  an  extensive  practice.  He  was  ever  most  conscientious  and  faithful 
in  the  discharge  of  his  professional  duties,  while  his  wide  learning  and  extensive 
research  constantly  promoted  his  efficiency.  Dr.  Grant  was  born  in  Callaway 
county,  Missouri,  January  11,  1864,  and  in  the  paternal  line  came  of  Scotch  an- 
cestry. His  father,  Samuel  Grant,  was  born  in  Missoui'i  in  18  24  and  was  a  son 
of  Captain  William  Grant.  The  family  was  early  represented  in  Virginia,  whence 
representatives  of  the  name  removed  to  Kentucky,  and  in  1818  Captain  William 
Grant  left  the  latter  state  for  Missouri.  He  filed  on  government  land  and  then 
returned  to  Kentucky  for  his  family.  The  fourth  generation  of  the  family  in 
Missouri  is  now  living  on  this  land  in  Callaway  county.  It  has  never  passed  out 
of  the  possession  of  the  family  and  is  now  the  property  of  Mrs.  Samuel  Grant, 
who  in  her  maidenhood  was  Miss  Martha  V.  Yates.  She.  too,  belonged  to  one 
of  the  old  Virginian  families  that,  like  the  Grants,  lived  for  a  time  in  Kentucky 
before  coming   to   Missouri. 

John  M.  Grant  spent  the  days  of  his  boyhood  and  youth  upon  the  old  home- 
stead farm  and  after  mastering  the  branche.s  of  learning  taught  in  the  public 
schools  of  the  neighborhood,  continued  his  education  in  Westminster  College  at 
Fulton,  Missouri,  where  he  completed  his  course  as  an  alumnus  of  the  class  of 
1886,  the  Bachelor  of  Science  degree  being  at  that  tiiue  conferred  upon  him. 
With  liberal  general  education  to  serve  as  a  foundation  upon  which  to  rear  the 
superstructure  of  his  professional'  knowledge,  he  took  up  the  study  of  medicine, 
reading  under  the  direction  of  Dr.  Martin  Yates,  of  Fulton,  Missouri,  while  in 
the  fall  of  1886  he  matriculated  in  the  Missouri  Medical  College  at  St.  Louis, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1889,  ranking  with  the  four 
liighest  members  of  the  class  and  receiving  honorable  mention.  After  taking 
the  hospital  examination  he  acted  as  junior  interne  at  the  City  Hospital  for  a 
year  and  for  a  similar  period  as  senior  interne,  thus  gaining  that  broad  and  valu- 
able practical  experience  which  can  be  acquired  in  no  other  way  as  rapidly  as 
in  hospital  practice.  In  1891  he  began  practicing  independently  and  within  a 
very  brief  period  had  won  recognition  as  a  most  able  and  skilled  physician.  As 
the  years  passed  his  practice  steadily  increased  and  was  concentrated  more  and 
more  largely  upon  surgical  work  because  of  his  widely  developed  powers  in  that 
direction.  A  contemporary  writer  said  of  him:  "He  possessed  a  clear  head, 
a  steady  hand,  a  delicacy  of  touch  and^  moreover,  a  sympathy  of  spirit,  all  of 
which  are  essential  elements  in  success  in  surgery."  His  steady  progress  brought 
him  at  length  to  the  front  rank  of  the  medical  profession  in  St.  Louis,  while  his 
acknowledged  skill  and  power  as  a  physician  and  surgeon  won  him  the  recogni- 
tion of  the  most  eminent  men  of  the  profession  throughout  the  country.  He  be- 
longed to  the  American  Medical  Association,  the  Missouri  State  Medical  Society, 
the  St.  Louis  Medical  Society,  the  St.  Louis  Surgical  Club,  the  City  Hospital 
Medical    Society    and    to    the   Washington    University    Alumni   Association. 

In  1893  Dr.  Grant  was  united  in  marriage  to  Mrs.  R.  Streiff,  who  bore  the 
maiden   name    of    Ida    Becker.      She   is   a    daughter    of    August    Becker,    one   of    the 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  647 

noted  artists  of  his  day.  who  painted  the  panels  in  the  old  St.  Louis  courthouse 
and  renewed  the  panels  in  the  Merchants  Exchange  which  were  originally  painted 
by  his  halt-brother,  Carl  Wimar.  whose  paintings  of  American  Indians  and  buffaloes 
made  him  famous.  He  spent  much  time  in  the  home  of  the  Indian  and  amid  the 
haunts  of  the  buffaloes,  studying  the  native  American  as  well  as  the  animal 
life  in  its  native  haunts  and  reproducing  both  with  such  fidelity  that  his  canvases 
are  today  almost  priceless.  The  paintings  of  August  Becker  also  hang  in  the 
homes  of  many  art  lovers  and  in  fine  art  galleries  not  only  in  St.  Louis  but  through- 
out the  country  as  well.  Dr.  Grant  became  the  father  of  six  children:  Emily 
S.,  who  is  a  graduate  of  Mary  Institute;  Walter  S.,  a  partner  in  the  St.  Louis 
Tin  &  Sheet  Metal  Company;  Ida  V..  the  wife  of  William  H.  Bell,  of  Cleveland, 
Ohio;  Samuel  B.,  who  was  graduated  from  the  Washington  University  Medical 
College  and  is  now  engaged  in  practice;  John  M.,  Jr.,  who  is  attending  Wash- 
ington University;  and  Edward  W.,  who  is  employed  in  the  office  of  the  St.  Louis 
Tin  &  Sheet  Metal  Company.  The  two  daughters,  Emily  and  Ida,  were  very  active 
in   war   vvork. 

Dr.  Grant  was  a  member  of  Beta  Theta  Pi.  a  college  fraternity.  He  also  had 
membership  with  the  Masons,  belonging  to  lodge,  chapter  and  commandery.  His 
religious  faith  was  that  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  in  politics  he  was  a  liberal 
democrat.  He  passed  away  January  29,  1920,  and  was  at  the  time  a  member 
of  the  board  of  education,  in  which  connection  he  did  much  to  eliminate  the  evil 
of  political  control  over  the  schools  and  worked  diligently  for  a  better  educa- 
tional system.  At  the  time  of  his  funeral  all.  school  work  ceased  in  the  city 
schools  for  five  minutes  at  two  P.  M.  on  the  day  following  his  death  as  a  mark 
of  respect  and  the  school  flag  hung  at  half  mast  for  a  week.  Dr.  Grant  was  a 
most  liberal  and  charitable  man  and  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  had  ample 
opportunity  to  do  good  work  along  those  lines.  He  was  continually  extending 
his  professional  aid  when  he  knew  no  compe'hsation  could  be  expected,  his  broad 
humanitarianism  prompting  him  to  assist  his  fellowmen  wherever  he  knew  aid 
was  deserved.  He  stood  as  a  leader  in  all  civic  movements  for  the  advancement 
of  his  home  city  and  in  every  relation  of  life  he  measured  up  to  the  highest  stand- 
ards of  manhood  and  citizenship.  The  world  is  better  for  his  having  lived  and 
his  good  deeds  caused  his  memory  to  be  cherished  by  all  who  came  within  the 
circle    of    his    acquaintance. 


JESSE    C.    FITTS. 


Jesse  C.  Fitts,  who  enjoys  an  enviable  reputation  as  an  efficient,  successful  and 
trustworthy  merchant,  is  now  president  of  the  Fitts-Smith  Dry  Goods  Company  of 
Kansas  City.  He  was  born  March  30,  1868,  in  Washington,  New  Jersey,  a  son  of 
John  and  Lydia  (Carhart)  Pitts,  the  former  a  farmer  by  occupation.  The  son 
acquired  only  a  graded  school  education  and  started  out  in  the  business  world  as 
a  clerk  in  a  store  when  still  in  his  boyhood  days.  He  came  west  at  the  age  of 
fifteen  years,  making  his  way  to  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  and  soon  afterward  engaged 
with  his  brother  in  the  conduct  of  a  small  retail  store  at  Oregon,  Missouri.  As  the 
years  passed  this  was  developed  into  a  large  business  and  Mr.  Fitts  gradually  made 
his  way  to  the  front  in  commercial  circles.  He  afterward  became  associated  with 
the  Maxwell-McClure  Notion  Company  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  wholesale  dealers 
in  notions,  and  since  that  time  has  made  steady  progress  in  the  business  world. 
His  identification  with  the  business  dates  from  19  04.  The  house  was  reorganized 
under  the  name  of  the  Maxwell-McClure-Fitts  Dry  Goods  Company  in  1906,  for  the 
conduct  of  a  wholesale  dry  goods  business.  In  1916  Messrs.  Maxwell  and  McClure 
retired  and  the  firm  name  was  then  changed  to  the  Fitts-Smith  Dry  Goods  Company, 
with  Mr.  Fitts  as  president  of  the  company.  They  conduct  a  general  wholesale  dry 
goods  business,  covering  Missouri,  Kansas,  Colorado,  New  Mexico,  Arizona  and 
Oklahoma.  Under  the  able  management  of  Mr.  Pitts  the  business  has  grown  to 
large  proportions,  being  recognized  as  one  of  the  foremost  and  progressive  mercan- 
tile establishments  in  the  southwest.  During  his  administration  the  business  has 
been  managed  very  successfully  and  the  growth  of  the  undertaking  is  attributable 
in  large  measure  to  the  efforts  and  sound  judgment  of  him  who  stands  at  the  head 


r.4S  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

of  the  company.  His  plans  have  been  carefully  formulated  and  promptly  executed 
and  he  has  conducted  his  business  along  the  most  progressive  commercial  lines  and 
with  the  keenest  sense  of  commercial  integrity  and  honor. 

In  1888  Mr.  Fitts  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Cora  Russel  and  they  have 
become  parents  of  three  sons,  Maurice,  Dwight  and  Russel,  all  of  whom  are  asso- 
ciated with  their  father  in  the  dry  goods  business.  Mr.  Fitts  is  keenly  interested 
in  civic  affairs  and  cooperates  heartily  in  many  projects  and  measures  for  the  public 
good  and  tor  the  advancement  of  civic  honor  and  improvement.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Of  the  Blue  Hills  Country  Club,  the  Automobile  Club, 
the  Knife  &  Fork  Club  and  has  other  connections  that  indicate  his  appreciation  of 
the  social  amenities  of  life. 


WILLIAM   ALOYSIUS   GIRALDIN. 

William  Aloysius  Giraldin,  than  whom  few  men  are  better  informed  concerning 
the  real  estate  market  and  property  values,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  November  26, 
1864,  a  son  of  Charles  A.  and  Ellen  (Higgins)  Giraldin.  The  father  became  a  resi- 
dent of  St.  Louis  in  his  childhood  days  and  for  many  years  was  connected  with  the 
business  circles  of  the  city  as  a  wholesale  grocer,  passing  away  in  1874.  His  wife, 
a  native  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  is  still  living. 

William  A.  Giraldin,  the  youngest  of  their  family  of  four  children,  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  in  the  Bryant  &  Stratton  Business  College. 
Throughout  practically  his  entire  life  he  has  been  connected  with  the  real  estate 
business.  He  began  working  with  one  of  the  old  real  estate  companies  of  this  city 
when  a  lad  of  but  ten  years  and  was  employed  along  that  line  by  various  firms  until 
1889,  when  he  organized  the  firm  of  Giraldin  Brothers  &  Cates.  Mr.  Cates  retired 
shortly  afterward  and  the  firm  is  now  Giraldin  Brothers,  Inc.  They  are  conducting 
business  as  real  estate  and  financial  agents  and  William  A.  Giraldin  is  also  a  director 
of  the  American  Trust  Company  and  of  the  Title  Guaranty  Company.  He  has  always 
given  close  attention  to  every  detail  of  his  biisiness  and  is  splendidly  informed  con- 
cerning real  estate  values  and  the  condition  of  property  upon  the  market.  In  his 
untiring  effort  and  persistency  of  purpose  is  found  the  secret  of  his  success. 

On  the  13th  of  November,  1889,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Giraldin  was  married  to 
Miss  Alice  Mersman,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  J.  Mersman.  now  deceased,  who  at  one 
time  was  president  of  the  Fourth  National  Bank.  They  have  become  the  parents 
of  three  children:  William  A.,  Jr.,  who  is  associated  with  his  father  in  business: 
C.  Earl,  twenty-five  years  of  age,  who  is  also  connected  with  his  father  and  was  a 
lieutenant  of  the  Forty-ninth  Infantry  during  two  years  of  the  World  war,  being 
on  duty  at  Camp  Merritt:   and  Alice  L.,  aged  twenty,  who  is  at  home. 

In  the  public  life  of  the  community  Mr.  Giraldin  has  ever  been  keenly  interested 
and  has  been  a  stalwart  supporter  of  many  plans  and  measures  looking  to  the  benefit 
and  upbuilding  of  the  city.  During  the  period  of  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition 
he  was  the  president  of  the  Real  Estate  Exchange.  He  has  also  been  president  of 
the  Rotary  Club  and  was  formerly  president  of  the  Union  Club.  He  belongs  as  well 
to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association  and  to  the  King's  Lake  Club.  He  has  served 
as  police  commissioner  and  as  vice  president  of  the  police  board.  His  political 
endorsement  has  always  been  given  to  the  democratic  party  and  his  religious  faith 
is  indicated  by  his  membership  in  the  cathedral  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church.  In 
addition  to  his  St.  Louis  home  he  owns  a  big  country  estate  at  Alexander,  Minnesota. 
He  is  a  stanch  friend,  his  loyalty  in  this  particular  being  one  of  his  marked  char- 
acteristics. 


FRANK    X.    HARTIGAN,    M.    D, 

Dr.  Frank  X.  Hartigan,  an  able  physician  and  surgeon  of  St.  Joseph,  who  bears 
the  rank  of  first  lieutenant  by  reason  of  his  overseas'  service  during  the  World  war, 
was  born  at  Horton,  Kansas,  August  15,  1888.  and  is  a  son  of  David  E.  and  Mary 
(Leonard)    Hartigan,    who    were    married    at    Jackson,    Michigan,    on    the    12th    of 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  649 

December,  1878.  The  father  with  his  family,  numbering  four  sons,  came  to  St. 
Josepii  in  1895.  He  engaged  in  railroad  engineering  practically  throughout  his 
life,  having  served  for  forty-flve  years  as  engineer  on  the  Rock  Island.  He  was 
well  advanced  in  years  at  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  in  a  railroad  acci- 
dent on  the  20th  of  December,  1919,  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight  years.  His  widow 
is  enjoying  excellent  health  at  the  age  of  sixty-three,  being  six  years  younger  than 
her  husband. 

Dr.  Hartigan  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Joseph 
and  is  a  graduate  of  the  Christian,  Brothers  College  of  this  city,  completing  the 
course  in  two  years  and  being  graduated  in  the  fall  of  1906.  He  then  entered  the 
Ensworth  Medical  College,  in  which  he  pursued  the  regular  four  year  course,  being 
graduated  in  1910.  Immediately  afterward  he  received  the  appointment  of  house 
physician  at  St.  Alexis'  Hospital  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  there  served  until  June, 
1911,  when  he  was  appointed  house  physician  in  St.  Anne's  Maternity  Hospital  & 
Infant  Asylum  at  Cleveland.  Since  his  return  from  that  city  about  September,  1911, 
he  has  continuously  practiced  medicine  and  surgery  in  St.  Joseph  and  now  has  a 
practice  that  makes  constant  demands  upon  his  time  and  energies.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Buchanan  County,  the  Missouri  State  and  the  American  Medical  Associations 
and  through  the  proceedings  of  these  bodies  keeps  in  close  touch  with  the  onward 
march  of  the  medical  profession,  being  thoroughly  conversant  with  the  latest  dis- 
coveries and  researches  in  medical  science. 

On  the  27th  of  April,  1918,  Dr.  Hartigan  was  married  to  Miss  Agnes  A.  Murphy, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  Margaret  Murphy,  whose  acquaintance  he  had  formed  in  1911 
while  she  was  visiting  her  sister,  Mrs.  Barney  Reilly.  Already  at  that  time  Dr. 
Hartigan  was  connected  with  the  United  States  army  and  their  marriage  was 
celebrated  at  Arcadia,  Florida.  The  Doctor  enlisted  in  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps, 
June  5,  1917,  and  was  called  to  the  colors  on  the  27th  of  August.  He  reported 
at  Port  Riley,  Kansas,  there  remaining  for  three  months,  and  was  then  transferred 
to  the  aviation  field  at  Arcadia,  Florida,  where  he  served  as  post  surgeon  from 
November,  1917,  until  June,  1918,  when  he  received  overseas'  orders  and  on  the 
8th  of  July  sailed  for  France  as  a  casual  officer,  with  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant. 
He  was  attached  to  the  Fourth  Division  in  France  and  saw  service  with  that  division 
in  both  Prance  and  Germany.  At  length  he  received  orders  to  return  to  the  United 
States,  which  he  did  with  the  Eighty-first  Division,  arriving  at  Newport  News, 
Virginia,  on  the  20th  of  June,  1919.  He  immediately  afterward  proceeded  to  Camp 
Zachary  Taylor,  Kentucky,  where  he  received  his  honorable  discharge  on  the  23d 
of  June. 

When  the  country  no  longer  needed  his  aid  Dr.  Hartigan  returned  to  St.  Joseph, 
where  he  has  since  practiced  his  profession,  and  he  is  well  established  as  an  able 
physician  and  surgeon  whose  professional  activities  are  in  constant  demand.  Dr. 
Hartigan  and  his  wife  and  also  his  mother  are  members  of  St.  Patrick's  parish  of 
the  Catholic  church  of  St.  Joseph  and  the  Doctor  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of 
Columbus  Council,  No.  576,  and  he  and  his  brothers  are  members  of  the  Elks  Lodge, 
No.  40.  The  brothers  are:  "William  Henry,  who  is  a  government  chemist  at  Kansas 
City,  Missouri;  David  Edward,  who  is  engaged  in  the  wholesale  and  retail  tobacco 
trade  at  St.  Joseph;  and  Leonard  Michael,  who  is  in  business  with  his  brother 
David.  In  addition  to  his  connection  with  the  above  mentioned  orders  Dr.  Hartigan 
is  identified  with  the  Commerce  Club  of  St.  Joseph  and  is  a  most  progressive  and 
valued  citizen. 


CHARLES   A.    SMITH. 


Charles  A.  Smith,  attorney  at  law.  with  oflSces  in  the  Wainwright  building  in 
St.  Louis,  is  a  native  of  Jersey  county,  Illinois,  and  a  son  of  R.  M.  and  Sarah  Smith. 
His  father  was  a  Presbyterian  minister  who  in  the  early  days  was  a  circuit  rider 
and  during  those  days  became  a  personal  friend  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  from  whom 
he  received  several  gifts,  among  them  a  cane,  which  is  still  in  the  possession  of  the 
family.     The  father  died  in   1911. 

The  son  obtained  a  common  school  education  in  his  native  county  and  after- 
ward continued  his  studies  in  Lincoln  University  at  Lincoln,  Illinois,  while  eventu- 


650  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

ally  he  was  graduated  from  Washington  University  of  St.  Louis,  in  which  he  pui-sued 
his  law  course,  winning  his  LL.  B.  degree.  He  has  since  given  his  attention  to  the 
practice  of  law  and  has  made  steady  progress  in  a  profession  where  advancement 
depends  entirely  upon  individual  merit  and  ability,  success  being  dependent  upon 
comprehensive  understanding  of  the  principles  of  jurisprudence,  with  power  to 
apply  accurately  these  principles  to  the  points  in  litigation.  He  possesses  an 
analytical  mind  and  his  clear  and  cogent  reasoning  are  important  factors  in  his 
growing  success. 

Mr.  Smith  was  married  in  1889  to  Mamie  B.  Spangle  and  they  have  one  daugh- 
ter, Cleta  M.,  who  was  graduated  from  Washington  University  in  the  law  depart- 
ment. In  1919  she  was  appointed  by  Mayor  Kiel  as  attorney  for  the  Free  Legal 
Aid  Bureau  of  St.   Louis. 

Mr.  Smith  is  known  not  only  as  a  lawyer  but  also  as  a  lawmaker.  He  Is  a 
stalwart  republican,  active  as  a  political  leader  in  the  thirteenth  ward  of  St.  Louis. 
He  was  twice  the  state  representative  from  the  first  district  and  was  also  elected 
state  senator  from  the  twenty-ninUi  senatorial  district,  giving  the  most  thoughtful 
and  earnest  consideration,  while  a  member  of  both  the  upper  and  lower  houses,  to 
the  vital  questions  which  came  up  for  settlement.  In  tact  he  was  the  author  of 
various  bills  of  importance  and  he  left  the  impress  of  his  individuality  and  patriotic 
spirit  upon  the  legislative  history  of  the  state. 


B.  HAYWOOD  HAGERMAN. 

B.  Haywood  Hagerman,  active  in  the  real  estate  circles  of  Kansas  City,  where 
he  was  born  November  24,  1888.  is  a  son  of  Frank  Hagerman.  who  enjoys  the  reputa- 
tion of  being  one  of  the  most  able  and  prominent  lawyers  of  the  state.  The  son  pur- 
sued his  education  as  a  pupil  in  the  Westport  high  school  and  afterward  went  east 
to  enter  the  Hill  School  at  Pottstown.  Pennsylvania.  He  next  became  a  student 
in  Brown  University  at  Providence.  Rhode  Island,  and  then  spent  a  part  of  two  years 
in  Mexico.  Returning  to  his  native  city,  he  took  up  abstract  work  and  was  active 
in  that  field  of  labor  from  1909  until  1911.  On  the  expiration  of  the  latter  period 
he  turned  his  attention  to  the  real  estate  business  and  afterward  became  associated 
with  the  James  B.  Welsh  Realty  &  Loan  Company  as  vice  president.  He  still  retains 
this  office  and  has  been  a  contributing  factor  to  the  substantial  success  which  the 
firm  has  enjoyed  throughout  all  the  intervening  years.  He  has  thoroughly  acquainted 
himself  with  the  conditions  of  the  realty  market  and  with  property  values  and  his 
ability  is  manifest  in  the  many  important  negotiations  which  he  has  conducted  for 
the   transfer   of   valuable   city   property. 

In  19  09  Mr.  Hagerman  was  married  to  Miss  Helen  Eaton,  of  Kansas  City,  daugh- 
ter of  Nicholas  Eaton.  Their  children  are  Ann  Staunton.  Helen  and  Carol.  Mr. 
Hagerman  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Country  Club,  also  of  the  Mission  Hills 
Country  Club,  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club,  the  Mid-day  Club  and  the  Auto  Club. 
He  belongs  likewise  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  to  the  Real  Estate  Board 
and  is  deeply  interested  in  all  that  has  to  do  with  the  development  and  upbuilding 
of  the  city,  the  extension  of  its  trade  relations  and  the  maintenance  of  its  civie 
standards.  He  turns  to  golf  and  duck  shooting  for  recreation  and  finds  in  these 
needed  diversion  from  the  strenuous  duties  of  an  active  business  career.  Aside 
from  his  connection  with  the  Welsh  Realty  &  Loan  Company  he  is  the  president  of 
the  Kansas,  Oklahoma  &  Gulf  Railway  Company  and  since  his  school  days  were  over 
he  has  been  imbued  with  the  laudable  ambition  to  attain  success,  which  desire  has- 
been  manifest  in  intense  and  intelligently  directed  activity. 


JOHN  O'DAY. 


The  rapidly  expanding  powers  and  the  constantly  developing  ability  of  John 
O'Day  brought  him  steadily  forward  to  a  point  of  leadership  in  connection  with 
many  interests  which  have  left  their  impress  upon  the  history  of  Missouri.  He 
made   for   himself  a   creditable  position   in   the   legal   circles   of   the  state   and   then 


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entered  upon  active  connection  with  railway  interests,  soon  becoming  a  dominant 
factor  in  tliat  field.  For  a  long  period,  too,  he  exerted  a  most  marked  influence  over 
the  political  history  of  the  state,  nor  were  his  opinions  unheeded  in  the  democratic 
councils  of  the  nation. 

Mr.  O'Day  was  born  in  County  Tipperary,  Ireland,  November  18,  1843,  and 
was  a  son  of  John  and  Anastasia  (Kineally)  O'Day,  who  came  to  the  United  States 
in  1847,  so  that  their  son  John  was  a  little  lad  of  only  about  four  years  when  he 
left  the  Emerald  isle.  The  family  home  was  established  in  Lima,  Livingston 
county,  New  York,  where  he  was  reared  and  educated,  attending  the  Methodist 
Academy.  His  parents  were  of  the  Catholic  faith,  but  his  own  views  of  religious 
questions  were  liberal  and  he  left  the  Catholic  church  on  reaching  young  manhood. 
His  entire  life,  however,  was  actuated  by  high  principles  and  at  all  times  he 
recognized  man's  obligations  to  his  fellowmen. 

Within  a  comparatively  brief  period  Mr.  O'Day  saved  enough  money  to  enable 
him  to  attend  law  school  and  previously  he  had  read  for  a  time  in  the  office  of 
Judge  Winslow  of  Rochester,  New  York.  He  continued  his  studies  in  the  law  school 
at  Albany,  New  York,  where  he  won  his  Bachelor  of  Laws  degree  in  1862.  He 
entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Juneau,  Wisconsin,  where  the  family 
had  moved,  but  he  did  not  like  the  climate  of  that  state  and  in  the  spring  of  1866 
he  came  to  Missouri,  opening  a  law  office  in  Springfield.  Advancement  at  the  bar 
is  proverbially  slow  and  yet  Mr.  O'Day  did  not  have  to  wait  long  for  recognition 
of  his  legal  powers.  His  devotion  to  his  clients'  interests  was  proverbial  and  he  pre- 
pared his  cases  with  great  thoroughness  and  care.  In  1869  he  was  made  attorney 
for  the  St.  Louis  &  San  Francisco  Railroad  and  gradually  he  withdrew  from  the 
active  practice  of  law  and  concentrated  his  energies  upon  railroad  interests.  His 
legal  acumen  had  won  him  the  attention  of  Judge  James  Baker,  then  a  leading 
jurist  of  Missouri,  who  was  also  at  the  head  of  what  are  now  the  Missouri  Pacific 
and  the  St.  Louis  &  San  Francisco  railroad  systems.  Judge  Baker  made  Mr.  O'Day 
one  of  the  attorneys  for  the  road  and  from  that  year,  1870,  dates  his  continuous 
advance  as  a  factor  in  railway  circles.  In  1886  he  became  vice  president  of  the 
road  and  through  his  instrumentality  the  line  was  extended  to  Paris,  Texas.  He  con- 
tinued as  an  active  factor  in  railway  circles,  associated  with  such  men  as  Governor 
Marmaduke,  Governor  Phelps,  Judge  James  Baker,  Judge  John  Brice,  C.  B.  McAfee 
and  Judge  John  S.  Waddle  until  his  health  forced  him  to  resign  his  various  official 
positions  in  connection  with  railway  interests.  He  then  gave  his  attention  only 
to  the  management  of  his  private  afl'airs  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  for  through 
the  intervening  years  he  had  made  extensive  investments  in  property  and  com- 
mercial paper  and  had  become  one  of  the  wealthy  men  of  Missouri.  A  contemporary 
biographer  speaks  of  him  as  "at  one  time  recognized  as  the  railroad  king  of  Mis- 
souri. There  were  few,  if  any,  more  conspicuous  figures  in  the  railroad  world 
than  Colonel  O'Day  in  the  height  of  his  career." 

While  residing  at  Juneau,  Wisconsin,  Colonel  O'Day  was  married,  but  the 
only  survivor  of  the  four  children  born  of  this  union  is  John  O'Day,  a  real  estate 
dealer  of  Springfield,  Missouri.  In  1898  he  was  married  at  Towson,  Baltimore, 
to  Miss  Susan  Isabelle  Baldwin,  of  that  place,  and  to  them  were  born  two  sons: 
John  Baldwin,  who  was  educated  at  Princeton,  with  a  banking  and  finance 
course  at  Babson  Institute  of  Boston,  Massachusetts;  and  Neil,  who  is  a  stock 
broker  of  St.  Louis.  Mrs.  O'Day  and  her  sons  are  members  of  St.  Philip's 
Episcopal  church  and  have  long  been  prominent  in  the  social  life  of  Springfield. 

Colonel  O'Day  was  never  a  politician  in  the  sense  of  office  seeking,  yet  there 
are  few  men  who  have  exerted  such  widely  felt  influence  over  the  political  history 
of  Missouri.  He  was  for  many  years  chairman  of  the  democratic  state  central 
committee.  Entering  Missouri  politics  in  1874,  for  a  score  of  years  he  was  a 
dominant  factor  in  shaping  political  thought  and  action.  In  1876  he  was  elected 
chairman  of  the  democratic  state  central  committee  and  gave  almost  his  undivided 
time  to  his  party,  the  sweeping  democratic  victory  of  1882  being  accredited  to 
him.  He  was  three  times  elected  a  delegate  at  large  to  the  national  democratic 
convention.  While  he  never  hesitated  to  attack  an  enemy,  he  always  fought  in 
the  open  and  even  his  opponents  respected  him  for  his  honesty  and  his  unfaltering 
allegiance  to  his  convictions.  In  1880  he  was  prominently  mentioned  as  the 
democratic  nominee  for  governor,  but  he  had  satisfied  his  political  ambition  and  he 


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felt  that  he  could  be  more  of  a  power  tor  the  benefit  of  the  state  outside  of  office 
than  in  it. 

Colonel  O'Day's  military  title  was  an  honorary  one,  although  he  had  served 
his  country  in  the  Union  army  as  a  member  of  the  Forty-seventh  New  York  In- 
fantry. He  belonged  to  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  attained  the  thirty-second 
degree  of  the  Scottish  Rite.  He  passed  away  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  July  29, 
1901.  He  had  traveled  extensively  in  the  hope  of  benefiting  his  health  and  had 
spent  some  weeks  in  the  east  prior  to  his  demise.  With  but  limited  advantages 
at  the  outset  of  his  career,  he  had  carved  out  opportunities  that  had  enabled  him 
to  reach  a  place  of  distinction  and  prominence  in  connection  with  the  vital 
questions  ■  and  important  activities  of  his  day.  None  came  within  his  presence 
but  felt  the  force  of  his  character  and  recognized  in  him  a  man  whose  word  was 
always  dependable.  In  his  professional  and  his  business  career  he  made  notable 
advance,  passing  many  on  the  highroad  to  success  who  started  out  upon  the 
journey  with  better  equipment  than  he.  The  wise  use  which  he  made  of  the  talents 
with  which  nature  endowed  him  brought  him  to  a  commanding  position  in  the 
public  life  of  the  state,  particularly  in  connection  with  its  railway  activities  and 
its  political  history,  and  he  became,  too,  the  friend  and  counselor  o£  many  men 
eminent  in  national  affairs. 


HERBERT    DOUGLAS    CONDIE. 

Herbert  Douglas  Condie,  controlling  one  of  the  important  commercial  inter- 
ests of  St.  Louis  as  the  president  of  the  Condie-Bray  Glass  &  Paint  Company,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  June  17,  1873,  and  is  a  son  of  Thomas  Douglas 
and  Mary  Clara  (Husted)  Condie.  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Philadelphia  and 
representatives  of  old  families  of  that  city.  There  the  father  conducted  business 
as  a  chemist  and  retained  his  residence  until  1887,  when  business  interests  brought 
him  and  his  family  to  St.  Louis,  where  the  mother  passed  away  soon  afterward. 

It  is  always  interesting  to  know  something  of  the  ancestry  in  analyzing  the 
character  of  an  individual,  and  in  preparing  the  history  of  Herbert  Douglas  Condie 
it  is  found  that  he  is  of  Scotch  descent  in  the  paternal  line  and  of  English  lineage 
on  the  distaff  side.  For  generations  the  family  lived  at  Kirkcaldy,  Scotland,  and 
the  old  churchyard  there  was  the  burying  place  of  representatives  of  the  name 
through  a  long  period.  Among  the  cherished  possessions  of  Herbert  D.  Condie 
is  a  genealogical  booklet  of  the  family,  dating  back  to  1600  and  brought  from  Scot- 
land in  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century.  The  Condie  family  intermarried 
with  the  Douglas  family.  A  granduncle  of  H.  D.  Condie  was  the  first  boy  editor 
in  the  United  States,  publishing  a  paper  at  Philadelphia  from  1808  until  1812. 
Dr.  David  Francis  Condie,  his  grandfather,  became  an  eminent  representative  of 
the  medical  profession  in  Philadelphia  and  made  valuable  contribution  to  the  medi- 
cal literature  of  his  day,  including  a  number  of  works  on  diseases  of  children 
which  were  used  as  textbooks  in  the  leading  medical  colleges  of  America  and 
Europe  for  more  than  a  half  century.  Through  the  maternal  line  H.  D.  Condie 
is  connected  with  the  Hallowell  and  other  distinguished  colonial  families  of  Phila- 
delphia. 

Before  the  removal  to  St.  Louis,  Herbert  D.  Condie  had  attended  the.  Park 
grammar  school  of  Philadelphia,  after  which  he  continued  his  studies  in  the  Central 
high  school  o£  St.  Louis  and  in  the  Missouri  Medical  College,  now  Washington 
University  Medical  School,  completing  a  special  private  course  in  chemistry  under 
Dr.  Curtman  and  graduating  with  the  class  of  1891.  He  then  entered  the  employ 
of  the  F.  A.  Drew  Glass  Company  of  St.  Louis  in  October,  1891,  and  his  efficient 
service  and  fidelity  won  him  various  promotions  with  that  house  until  its  business 
was  sold  to  the  Pittsburgh  Plate  Glass  Company,  which  Mr.  Condie  afterward 
represented  as  assistant  manager  at  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin.  Later  he  went  to  the 
city  of  Pittsburgh  when  the  company  opened  a  branch  house  there  and  was  manager 
of  its  glass  department  for  two  years  or  until  February,  1903,  when  he  became 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Condie-Neale  Glass  Company  of  St.  Louis,  which  in 
1915  was  reorganized  as  the  Condie-Bray  Glass  &  Paint  Company.  From  the  be- 
ginning Mr.   Condie   has  been   its  president   and   his   training   in   chemistry   and   his 


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experience  in  connection  with  the  concerns  previously  mentioned  well  qualified 
him  for  the  conduct  of  the  business  interests  which  he  assumed.  His  early  train- 
ing made  for  deliberation  and  reflection,  while  following  his  removal  to  the  west 
he  became  imbued  with  the  progressive  spirit  that  has  led  to  the  rapid  and  sub- 
stantial development  of  the  Mississippi  valley.  These  qualities  have  made  for  an 
even  balance  in  his  business  career,  enabling  him  to  avoid  unwarranted  risks  or 
failures  into  which  unrestricted  progressiveness  is  so  frequently  led.  He  has  been 
eminently  successful  and  is  highly  regarded  by  all  who  have  had  relations  with 
him.  His  ability  to  analyze  correctly  a  subject  and  separate  its  important  from 
its  incidental  and  accidental  circumstances  has  been  one  of  the  strong  features 
in  his  advancement.  Aside  from  his  connection  with  the  glass  company  he  has 
become  vice  president  of  the  Overland  Automobile  Company,  and  a  director  of 
the   Mississippi   Valley   Trust   Company. 

On  the  3rd  of  November,  1897,  Herbert  D.  Condie  married  Miss  Sallie  Case 
King,  of  Chicago,  a  representative  of  the  Jones  family,  whicli  was  one  of  the  first 
to  settle  in  that  city.  Three  sons  and  two  daughters  have  been  born  of  this  mar- 
riage: Douglas  King,  Bertha  .Botsford,  Margaret  Hallo  well,  Herbert  Douglas,  Jr., 
and   Churchill    Clarke. 

Mr.  Condie  is  well  known  among  amateur  golf  enthusiasts,  is  a  devotee  of 
bridge  and  is  ,also  considered  an  unusually  good  chess  player.  At  his  home  he 
maintains  a  chemical  laboratory,  as  completely  equipped  as  is  to  be  found  in  most 
universities,  where  he  finds  a  pleasant  avocation,  during  his  spare  hours  in  con- 
tinuing the  study  of  analytical  chemistry.  He  is  fond  of  travel  and  the  study  of 
history,  is  one  of  the  supporting  members  of  the  St.  Louis  Museum  of  Fine  Arts 
and  also  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  belongs  to  Ferguson  Lodge, 
A.  P.  &  A.  M.,  and  in  Missouri  Consistory  has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree 
of  the  Scottish  Rite,  and  also  belongs  to  Moolah  Temple,  Order  of  the  Shrine.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Noonday,  St.  Louis,  Racquet,  City,  Sunset  Hill  and  Bellerive 
Country  Clubs.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Barnard  Skin  and  Cancer  Hospital.  While 
he  has  never  sought  to  figure  prominently  in  politics,  he  was  city  treasurer  of 
Ferguson  in  19  00  and  was  a  candidate  on  the  citizens  ticket  for  the  ofl^ce  of  mayor 
in  1905.  He  is  an  Episcopalian  in  religious  belief,  has  been  a  member  of  the 
vestry  of  St.  Stephen's  church  at  Ferguson  for  the  last  twenty-three  years  and  is 
now  senior  warden.  He  is  often  called  upon  to  discuss  public  questions  and  to 
act  as  toastmaster,  having  won  a  reputation  as  a  ready  and  entertaining  speaker. 
He  has  taken  an  active  part  in  raising  money  for  various  worthy  causes  and  with 
America's  entrance  into  the  World  war  he  was  found  strongly  arrayed  with  those 
business  men  who  were  ready  to  sacrifice  private  interests  to  uphold  the  welfare 
of  the  country  and  promote  that  of  the  boys  in  camp  and  field.  He  had  formerly 
been  a  member  of  Battery  A  of  the  Missouri  National  Guard  and  he  became  captain 
of  Company  K  of  the  First  Regiment  of  Missouri  Home  Guards.  He  acted  as 
chairman  for  St.  Louis  County  in  the  Red  Cross  campaign  and  was  prominent  in 
promoting  various  other  war  activities;  and  thus  along  constantly  broadening  lines 
of   usefulness   he  has   reached   out   for   the   benefit   of   mankind. 


FREDERICK   A.   BOXLEY. 


Frederick  A.  Boxley,  a  close  student  of  the  law,  holding  to  high  standards 
in  the  ideals  and  ethics  of  practice,  is  widely  known  as  a  representative  of  the 
Kansas  City  bar.  He  was  born  in  Butler,  Missouri,  December  12,  1877,  and  is 
a  son  of  Calvin  F.  Boxley.  The  father's  birth  was  in  Boxleytown,  Indiana,  and  when 
a  young  man  of  twenty  years  he  came  to  Missouri,  settling  in  Butler.  He,  too,  was 
a  member  of  the  bar  and  for  two  terms  served  as  prosecuting  attorney  and  for  an 
equal  period  as  probate  judge.  His  fraternal  relations  were  with  the  Masonic  order 
and  his  political  allegiance  was  given  to  the  democratic  party.  During  the  Civil 
war  period  he  served  with  the  Union  army  and  at  all  times  was  most  loyal  in 
his  devotion  to  his  country.  He  died  in  1910,  having  for  a  decade  survived  his  wife, 
who  was  born  in'Indiana  and  passed  away  in  1900.  Their  family  numbered  seven 
children,  of  whom  four  are  yet  living. 

Frederick  A.  Boxley,  after  attending  the  public  schools,  entered  Butler 
Academy,  a  Presbyterian  institution,   from  which   he  was  graduated  with   the  class 


658  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

of  1897.  The  following  year  he  entered  the  United  States  army  as  a  private 
of  Company  B,  Second  Missouri  Infantry,  for  service  in  the  Spanish-American  war 
and  became  division  sergeant  major.  He  afterwards  spent  a  year  in  the  Missouri' 
State  University,  pursuing  an  academic  course,  and  in  1903  he  was  graduated 
from  the  Kansas  City  Law  School  with  the  LL.  B.  degree,  being  admitted  to  the 
bar  upon  examination  before  Judge  W.  W.  Graves  of  Bates  county,  Missouri. 
Through  the  intervening  years  he  has  practiced  in  Kansas  City  and  while  he 
remains  in  the  general  practice  of  law,  he  has  made  a  specialty  of  insurance 
and  corporation  work.  One  thoroughly  familiar  with  his  career  as  a  representative 
of  the  bar  said  of  him:  "He  is  a  close  student  of  the  law,  with  high  standards  in 
the  ideals  and  ethics  of  practice.  He  has  a  fine  logical  mind,  prepares  his  cases 
well,  fights  for  his  points  doggedly  and  tries  a  case  cleanly  and  courteously."  He 
is  a  member  of  the  prominent  law  firm  of  Humphrey,  Boxley  &  Reeves,  with  offices 
in  the  Commerce  building,  and  he  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City,  Missouri  State  and 
American   Bar   Associations. 

In  1903  Mr.  Boxley  was  married  to  Miss  Olive  Swarens  and  they  have  a 
daughter,  Lucile,  fourteen  years  of  age,  now  in  school.  Mr.  Boxley  is  a  member 
of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  belongs  also  to  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club,  the 
Mission  Hills  Country  Club,  the'  City  Club  and  the  Old  Colony  Club.  In  recreation 
hours  his  associates  find  him  a  good  comrade  who  in  playtime  is  a  boy  still,  who  ' 
enjoys  billiards  and  pool  and  is  a  clever  golfer.  While  his  reading  has  largely 
been  confined  to  the  line  of  his  profession,  he  is  nevertheless  well  read  in  the  classics 
of  literature  and  keeps  in  touch  with  current  events.  He  is  sympathetic  to  a  degree 
and  generous  in  his  giving  to  those  in  need.  Throughout  his  life  he  has  been  keenly 
Interested  in  military  affairs.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  Battery  B  of  the 
National  Guard  and  was  its  first  lieutenant  for  four  years.  Many  of  the  officers 
of  the  famous  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-ninth  Artillery  were  taken  from  this 
battery,  which  Mr.  Boxley  organized.  He  made  application  for  a  commission  In 
the  army  during  the  World  war,  which  was  accepted  the  week  the  armistice  was 
signed,  and  Mr.  Boxley  did  not  accept  the  commission  as  the  war  was  then  over. 
He  acted  as  government  appeal  agent  for  the  tenth  district  of  Missouri  and  took 
a  most  helpful  part  in  promoting  the  Red  Cross  and  Liberty  Loan  drives.  He  writes 
occasionally  for  the  press  on  current  topics,  always  giving  evidence  of  having 
studied  his  subject  from  an  original  standpoint.  He  possesses,  too,  excellent 
oratorical  ability,  not  of  the  florid,  but  of  the  persuasive  and  convincing  type.  He 
is  logical,  simple  in  manner  and  with  an  excellent  command  of  language  and  there 
Is  a  scholarly  finish  to  even  his  political  speeches,  his  support  being  given  to  the 
democratic  party.  Notwithstanding  his  many  interests  and  activities,  however,  he  is 
preeminently  a  lawyer  and  one  who  has  been  most  successful  at  the  bar,  attributable 
to  his  perseverance,  his  logical  mind,  his  patient  industry  and  persistent  application. 
He  has  an  intimate  sense  of  justice  and  equity  that  steers  him  in  the  right  course 
and  above  all  he   is  extremely   thorough. 


CHARLES  W.  STEINER. 


Charles  W.  Steiner,  president  and  treasurer  of  the  Steiner  Engraving  &  Badge 
Company,  of  St.  Louis,  was  here  born  October  5,  1860,  the  son  of  Otto  and  Mrs.  Katherine 
(Oehler)  Steiner.  who  came  from  Germany  to  the  new  world  in  early  childhood.  They 
were  married  in  St.  Louis.  The  father  long  followed  the  cooper  trade  but  lived  retired 
in  the  latter  part  of  his  life  and  passed  away  June  21,  1896,  at  the  age  of  seventy  years. 
His  widow  survives  and  resides  at  No.  1507  Destraham  street,  having  for  sixty-three 
years  made  her  home  in  St.  Louis.  In  their  family  were  four  sons  and  three  daughters. 
Bertha  is  the  wife  of  Albert  H.  Haeseler,  president  of  the  A.  H.  Haeseler  Building  & 
Contracting  Co.Tipany;  Minnie  C.  is  a  teacher  in  the  public  schools;  Carrie  is  manager  of 
the  Steiner  Jewelry  Company;  Fred  L.  is  secretary  of  the  St.  Louis  Clock  &  Silverware 
Company;  Otto  G.  is  president  of  the  Schoenlau-Steiner  Trunk  Top  &  Veneer  Company; 
Albert  S.  is  an  oculist  and  aurist.  practicing  in  St.  Louis,  where  all  the  other  members 
of  the  family  also  reside. 

Charles  W.  Steiner  attended  the  public  schools  and  also  pursued  an  art  course  in  the 
Washington  University,  attending  a  night  class.     In  1875  he  took  up  engraving  and  in 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  659 

1881  he  entered  the  employ  o£  J.  J.  Linck  &  Company,  engravers,  of  St.  Louis.  In  1885 
he  purchased  the  interest  of  Mr.  Linck  in  the  business,  and  the  Arm  name  of  Trebus 
&  Steiner  was  then  assumed.  Under  this  caption  tlie  business  was  continued  until  1899 
when  it  was  incorporated  as  the  Steiner  Engraving  &  Badge  Company,  Mr.  Trebus  re- 
tiring from  the  firm  at  that  time.  The  business  was  first  located  at  No.  210  Chestnut 
street,  there  it  was  carried  on  from  1879  until  1896,  using  one  thousand  square  feet. 
A  removal  was  then  made  to  No.  11  North  Eighth  street,  where  two  floors  gave  to  them 
two  thousand  five  hundred  square  feet.  In  1907  another  removal  was  made,  the  factory 
being  established  at  Twentieth  and  Mullanphy  streets,  where  enlarged  facilities  gave  them 
seven  thousand  square  feet,  while  the  sales  and  show  rooms  were  opened  at  820  Pine 
street.  In  1912  the  sales  and  display  rooms  were  removed  to  804  Pine  street,  where  they 
have  their  pleasant  quarters  on  the  second  floor.  They  do  everything  in  badge  work, 
stamping  and  engraving,  and  the  business   is   one  of  large   and   gratifying  proportions. 

On  the  14th  of  August,  1894,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Steiner  was  married  to  Miss  Selina 
Surkamp,  a  daughter  of  Christopher  and  Christina  Surkamp,  the  former  a  lumber 
merchant,  who  in  his  later  years  lived  retired,  and  passed  away  in  St.  Louis  in  1910. 
His  widow  survived  him  for  several  years,  her  death  occurring  in  1917.  Unto  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Steiner  have  been  born  two  daughters.  Flora  C,  who  was  a  successful  teacher  in 
the  public  .schools  of  St.  Louis,  was  married  in  December,  1918,  to  Herbert  G.  Mesloh, 
who  is  with  the  A.  H.  Haeseler  Building  &  Contracting  Company;  the  other  daughter, 
Mildred  K.,  is  still  a  teacher  in  the  public  schools. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Steiner  has  always  been  a  republican,  and  during  the 
administration  of  Mayor  P.  H.  Kreismann,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Public  Recreation 
Commission.  He  is  now  secretary  of  the  Municipal  Athletic  Association  and  is  a  member 
of  several  fraternal  orders  and  clubs  in  the  city.  He  is  likewise  very  active  in  athletics, 
in  which  he  has  been  keenly  interested  from  early  youth.  Through  athletics  and  outdoor 
sports  he  has  maintained  a  well  balanced  nature,  these  interests  giving  him  the  needed 
exercise  that  keeps  him  in  trim  for  the  arduous  demands  that  are  made  upon  him  as 
the  president  and  treasurer  of  the  Steiner  Engraving  &  Badge  Company.  In  this  con- 
nection he  has  built  up  a  business  of  substantial  proportions  as  the  result  of  his  spirit 
of  enterprise,  his  quick  intelligence,  and  his  forceful  character.  His  plans  are  carefully 
formulated  and  promptly  executed  and  the  excellence  of  the  work  which  his  house  turns 
out   insures   a   continued   and   liberal   patronage. 


WILLIAM  HENRY  SCHE-WE. 

One  of  the  most  important  productive  industries  of  central  Missouri  is  that  of  the 
Walsh  Fire  Clay  Products  Company  of  Vandalia,  owning  the  largest  and  best  equipped 
plant  of  the  kind  in  the  United  States.  Of  this  William  Henry  Schewe  is  the  superin- 
tendent and  his  position  is  indicative  of  his  thorough  and  comprehensive  understanding 
of  the  business  and  his  efficiency  in  management.  Mr.  Schewe  has  been  a  lifelong 
resident  of  Missouri,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  St.  Louis,  June  30,  1878.  His  parents 
are  Henry  and  Catherine  (Bruning)  Schewe,  natives  of  Germany,  who  came  to  the 
United  States,  however,  in  young  manhood  and  young  womanhood,  arriving  in  the 
new  world  about  1854.  The  father  manifested  his  loyalty  to  his  adopted  land  by 
serving  in  the  Civil  war  as  a  member  of  the  Federal  army,  becoming  a  sergeant  of 
the  Fourth  Missouri  Cavalry.  Immediately  after  the  close  of  hostilities  he  engaged 
in  the  shoe  business  in  St.  Louis  and  for  fifty-five  years  has  remained  an  active  factor 
in  the  trade  circles  of  that  city.  He  is  still  a  well  known  figure  in  the  business  life  of 
St.  Louis,  although  now  eighty-two  years  of  age. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  William  Henry  Schewe  pursued  his  early 
education  and  afterward  attended  Washington  University,  from  which  he  was  grad- 
uated in  the  class  of  1906  on  the  completion  of  a  course  in  civil  engineering.  He 
early  displayed  the  elemental  strength  of  his  character  by  paying  his  own  way  through 
college,  earning  the  money  by  working  in  the  postoffice  at  night.  After  his  graduation 
he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Laclede-Christy  Clay  Products  Company  of  St.  Louis  as 
industrial  and  construction  engineer  and  remained  in  that  important  position  for 
eleven  years.  In  1917  he  was  offered  and  accepted  the  position  of  superintendent  of 
the  Walsh  Fire  Clay  Products  Company  at  Vandalia  and  took  charge  of  the  plant 
■when   it  began   operation.     At   this  plant  are   now   employed   between   three  and   four 


060  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

hundred  men  and  it  is  said  to  be  the  best  and  most  modernly  equipped  plant  in 
the  United  States,  while  the  excellence  o£  its  products  is  indicated  in  the  tact  that 
its  shipments  go  to  all  parts  of  the  world.  While  with  the  Laclede-Christy  Clay  Products 
Company,  Mr.  Schewe  served  as  construction  engineer  in  the  building  o£  brick  plants, 
gas  plants  and  glass  plants  and  erected  many  of  these  kinds  throughout  the  world. 

In  St.  Louis,  in  1916,  Mr.  Schewe  was  married  to  Miss  Ella  May  Langhauser,  a 
daughter  of  Louis  and  Caroline  (Dornberg)  Langhauser,  the  latter  now  deceased,  while 
the  father  is  still  living.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Schewe  have  become  parents  of  a  son,  William 
John,  whose  birth  occurred  February  24,  1919. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Schewe  is  connected  with  George  Washington  Lodge,  No.  9.  A.  F. 
&  A.  M.;  Bellefontaine  Chapter,  No.  25,  R.  A.  M. ;  Ascalon  Commandery,  No.  16,  K.  T.; 
and  Moolah  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  His  political  faith  is  that  of  the  republicui 
party  and  along  professional  lines  he  has  connection  with  the  Engineers  Club  of  St. 
Louis.  His  thorough  collegiate  training  well  qualified  him  for  an  important  professional 
career  and  he  occupies  an  enviable  position  in  engineering  circles  in  Missouri. 


HON.  MATTHEW  GIVENS  REYNOLDS. 

Hon.  Matthew  Givens  Reynolds,  member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar,  practicing  as  senior 
partner  in  the  firm  of  Reynolds  &  Harlan,  is  not  only  one  of  the  distinguished 
attorneys  of  this  city  but  has  also  figured  prominently  in  various  other  connections. 
He  has  long  been  a  recognized  leader  of  the  republican  party  in  Missouri  and  in 
1891  was  appointed,  by  President  Harrison,  United  States  attorney  for  the  court 
of  private  land  claims,  a  special  court  organized  under  act  of  congress  for  the 
settlement  of  titles  of  land  acquired  from  Mexico  through  the  Guadaloupe  and  Gadsden 
purchase.  His  public  activities  have  been  of  a  most  important  and  valuable  character 
and  for  many  years  he  has  exerted  a  notable  influence  over  public  thought  and 
action. 

Mr.  Reynolds  is  a  native  son  of  Missouri,  his  birth  having  occurred  at  Bowling 
Green,  in  Pike  county,  November  19,  1854,  his  parents  lieing  Dr.  Stephen  J.  and 
Sophronia  (Givens)  Reynolds.  The  former  was  born  in  Paris,  Kentucky,  of  Irish 
parentage,  the  family  having  been  founded  in  America  by  his  father.  Dr.  Michael 
Reynolds,  who  was  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Dublin  and  came  to  the  new 
world  as  assistant  surgeon  to  General  Packingham  at  the  time  of  the  War  of  1812, 
He  was  present  at  the  battle  of  New  Orleans  in  1813  and  was  there  captured  and  re- 
moved to  Kentucky.  While  in  that  state  he  was  married  and  in  1832  he  established 
his  home  at  Bowling  Green,  Pike  county.  Missouri,  where  he  resided  until  his  death. 
His  family  soon  afterward  returned  to  Kentucky,  establishing  their  home  near  Win- 
chester. His  son,  Dr.  Stephen  J.  Reynolds,  was  educated  in  Kentucky  and  was 
graduated  from  Columbia  University  on  the  completion  of  a  course  in  medicine,  there 
winning  his  professional  degree.  He  afterward  returned  to  Bowling  Green,  where 
he  engaged  in  practice  for  a  half  century,  passing  away  there  in  1902.  He  was  a 
prominent  supporter  of  the  Union  cause  during  the  Civil  war  and  served  as  examining 
surgeon  for  the  United  States  army  for  northeastern  Missouri.  His  wife,  a  native 
of  Pike  county,  Missouri,  is  a  daughter  of  Matthew  Givens,  one  of  the  pioneer 
settlers  of  that  county,  who  was  born  in  Kentucky  and  was  of  Scotch  and  English 
lineage.  Mrs.  Reynolds  survives  at  the  age  of  eighty-three  years,  her  birth 
having  occurred  on  the  22d  of  August,  1836,  and  she  yet  occupies  the  old  homestead 
In  Bowling  Green,  Missouri.  By  her  marriage  she  became  the  mother  of  three  chil- 
dren, two  of  whom  are  yet  living,  the  daughter  being  Mrs.  R.  L.  Pollard,  of 
Bowling  Green. 

Matthew  Givens  Reynolds,  the  eldest  of  the  three  children,  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  city  and  afterward  enterd  the  United  States  Naval  Acad- 
emy, from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1874,  receiving  his  appointment  at  the  age  of 
fifteen  years  through  Hon.  D.  P.  Dyer.  Upon  completing  his  studies  he  was  ordered 
to  the  U.  S.  S.  Plymouth  and  during  that  winter  went  to  Key  West,  Florida,  while 
in  the  following  April  he  joined  the  flagship  Tennessee  on  a  cruise  to  China  with 
the  late  Admiral  William  Reynolds.  In  1877  the  ship  sailed  for  home  and  in  the  fall 
of  the  same  year  Matthew  G.  Reynolds  resigned  from  the  service  and  came  to  St. 
Louis.      Here  he  entered   the  St.  Louis  Law  School   and  was   admitted   to   practice 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  663 

at  the  Pike  county  bar  in  May,  1878.  He  at  once  entered  upon  tlie  active  work 
of  liis  profession  and  not  only  made  progress  in  that  connection  but  also  became 
recognized  as  one  of  the  prominent  young  political  leaders  of  his  section  of  the  state, 
being  elected  in  1880  to  represent  his  district  in  the  general  assembly  on  a  straight 
republican  ticket.  In  1884  he  was  made  a  delegate  to  the  national  republican  con- 
vention and  was  the  republican  nominee  for  congress  but  was  defeated  for  the  latter 
office  by  Colonel  Hutton,  of  Mexico,  Missouri. 

In  1886  Mr.  Reynolds  removed  to  St.  Louis  and  entered  the  office  of  John 
B.  Henderson,  a  well  known  attorney,  and  soon  afterward  formed  a  partnership  with 
James  M.  Lewis.  In  1888  he  was  elected  president  of  the  Republican  League  of 
Missouri.  In  1891  he  was  appointed  by  President  Harrison  to  the  position  of  United 
States  attorney  for  the  court  of  private  land  claims  that  had  been  created  by  act  of 
congress  for  the  settlement  of  titles  to  lands  acquired  from  Mexico  under  the 
Guadaloupe  and  Gadsden  purchase.  He  became  special  assistant  attorney  general  in 
all  matters  having  to  do  with  the  adjudication  of  these  claims  and  occupied  that 
position  for  thirteen  years.  Upon  the  conclusion  of  this  work,  which  was  performed 
in  a  most  impartial  and  satisfactory  manner,  he  resumed  the  private  practice  of 
law,   entering   into   partnership   relations  with   Thomas  B.   Harlan. 

Throughout  the  intervening  period  so  far  as  it  did  not  conflict  with  his  public 
duties  Mr.  Reynolds  remained  an  active  worker  in  the  ranks  of  the  republican 
party  and  in  1888  had  been  elected  president  of  the  Republican  League  of  Missouri. 
In  1904  he  was  elected  on  the  republican  ticket  to  the  office  of  circuit  judge  of 
St.  Louis  and  served  upon  the  bench  for  four  and  a  half  years,  after  frhich  he  resigned 
to  resume  the  private  practice  of  law  with  his  present  associate,  Thomas  B.  Harlan. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Missouri  State  Bar  Association  and  also  of  the  American 
Bar  Association.  ^  " 

Mr.  Reynolds  was  married  in  Louisiana,  Missouri,  November  11,  1880,  to  Miss 
Mamie  Fagg,  a  native  of  that  place  and  a  daughter  of  Judge  T.  J.  C.  Fagg,  a  promi- 
nent jurist  and  lawyer  of  Louisiana,  Missouri,  and  Medora  (Block)  Fagg.  Nine 
children  were  born  to  Judge  and  Mrs.  Reynolds.  ^  The  wife  and  mother  passed 
away  in  1910  in  St.  Louis,  when  fifty-two  years  of  age.  On  the  1st  of  December, 
1911,  in  New  York  city.  Judge  Reynolds  was  married  to  Mrs.  Minnie  D.  Griffith, 
daughter  of  W.  C.  Downing: 

Judge  Reynolds'  military  record  covers  connection  with  the  Louisiana  National 
Guard,  in  which  he  rose  to  the  rank  of  captain  and  later  was  chosen  lieutenant 
colonel.  During  the  period  of  the  World  war  he  served  on  the  legal  advisory  board 
of  the  twenty-fifth  ward  of  St.  Louis.  Fraternally  he  is  a  Mason  and  has  attained 
the  Knights  Templars  degree.  He  is  identified  with  a  number  of  the  leading 
social  organizations  of  the  city,  including  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  the  Nor- 
mandie  Golf  Club,  the  Bellerive  Country  Club,  and  the  Century  Boat  Club,  while 
his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Episcopal  church.  Throughout  his  life  a  close 
student  of  the  vital  questions  and  problems  affecting  the  welfare  of  community,  com- 
monwealth and  country  and  fitted  by  nature  for  leadership,  he  has  been  an  influenc- 
ing factor  in  shaping  public  thought  and  action,  seeking  ever  the  adoption  of  the 
high  ideals  which  he  has  cherished  in  relation  to  civic  interests.  In  his  professional 
career  he  has  been  most  careful  to  conform  his  practice  to  the  highest  standards 
and  professional  ethics,  while  as  a  man  in  his  relation  to  his  fellowmen  it  is  necessary 
only  to  say  that  all  who  know  Matthew  Givens  Reynolds  are  proud  to  call  him 
friend. 


ARTHUR    CLIFTON    GARRISON. 

Arthur  Clifton  Garrison,  of  St.  Louis,  general  manager  of  the  Columbia  Lamp 
Division  of  the  General  Electric  Company,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  July  20, 
1868,  a  son  of  Daniel  E.  and  Harriett  (Beardslee)  Garrison,  who  are  mentioned  at 
length  on  another  page  of  this  work.  His  father  was  the  founder  and  promoter  of 
the  Columbia  Incandescent  Lamp  Company  of  St.  Louis,  which  after  some  years  of 
successful  operation  was  merged  into  the  General  Electric  Company,  becoming  one  of 
its  departments  in  1903. 

Arthur   C.   Garrison   was   educated    in   the   public   schools   and    in   Smith   Academy 


Ii(i4  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

of  St.  Louis  and  in  January,  1887.  started  upon  his  business  career  as  a  clerk  in  the 
St.  Louis  branch  office  of  the  American  Surety  Company  of  New  York,  there  continuing 
until  January,  1891,  when  he  became  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Columbia  Incan- 
descent Lamp  Company.  He  was  elected  vice  president  and  treasurer  in  January, 
1899,  and  since  January,  1904,  has  been  general  manager  of  the  business.  In  May,  1902, 
he  was  made  second  vice  president  of  the  Whitaker  &  Weber  Manufacturing  Company, 
so  continuing  until  December,  1903,  when  the  company  was  sold  out  to  the  National 
Enameling  &  Stamping  Company.  He  likewise  became  a  director  of  the  Corrugated 
Bar  Company  of  St.  Louis  and  of  Buffalo,  New  York.  His  business  interests  were 
closely  associated  with  those  of  his  father  for  a  number  of  years.  He  still  remains 
general  manager  of  the  Columbia  Lamp  Division,  devoting  much  of  his  time  to  this 
business,  and  also  is  president  of  Garrison  Realty  Company.  Thoroughly  enterprising 
and  progressive,  he  has  the  faculty  of  putting  his  business  ideas  and  ideils  into  prac- 
tical form  and  in  all  that  he  undertakes  is  guided  by  the  soundest  commercial  principles. 

In  St.  Louis,  on  the  9th  of  November,  1898,  Mr.  Garrison  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Frances  Billingsley,  daughter  of  the  late  RoUa  L.  and  Fannie  (Lansing)  Bill- 
ingsley.  They  have  one  daughter,  Frances  Lucille,  a  most  charming  and  interesting 
young  lady,  whose  social  prominence  is  indicated  in  the  tact  that  she  was  chosen  as 
second  maid  to  the  queen  of  the  Veiled  Prophet  in  1919. 

Mr.  Garrison  greatly  enjoys  a  game  on  the  links.  The  family  hold  membership  in 
St.  Peter's  Episcopal  church  and  Mr.  Garrison  is  a  member  of  the  vestry.  He  is  well 
known  as  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Country,  Racquet  and  Noonday  Clubs.  He  like- 
wise belongs  to  the  Electrical  Board  of  Trade  and  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  both 
of  St.  Louis.  He  is  a  man  of  democratic  spirit,  thoroughly  approachable,  an  excellent 
organizer,  and  stands  as  a  mall  among  men,  true  to  his  purposes  and  his  principles  and 
guiding  his  career  by  standards  that  no  one  questions. 


JOSEPH  A.  BURNSIDE. 


Joseph  A.  Burnside,  superintendent  of  the  schools  of  Huntsville,  was  born  on  a 
farm  seven  miles  northeast  of  Miami,  in  Saline  county,  Missouri,  July  7,  1881.  His 
father,  William  Ale.xander  Burnside,  was  a  native  of  Virginia,  born  in  1834,  and  in 
1841,  when  a  lad  of  seven  years,  he  came  to  Missouri.  He  was  a  self-educated  man 
but  made  steady  progress  along  intellectual  lines  and  for  eighteen  or  twenty  years 
taught  school.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1917,  he  was  living  on  a 
large  farm  in  the  northern  part  of  Saline  county,  where  he  had  made  his  home  for 
forty  years,  having  throughout  that  period  been  recognized  as  one  of  the  representative 
and  progressive  agriculturists  of  his  section  of  the  state.  He  wedded  Missouri  A.  Quick, 
who  was  borh  in  Saline  county,  near  Miami,  their  wedding  being  celebrated  in  1852, 
and  she  is  now  living  in  De  Witt.  Missouri. 

J.  A.  Burnside  attended  the  rural  schools  of  Saline  county  and  also  the  Miami 
high  school,  in  which  he  was  a  student  from  1899  until  1902.  He  attended  the  Kirksville 
State  Normal  School  through  the  summer  seasons  from  1904  until  1911  and  in  1912  he 
was  graduated  from  the  Kirksville  State  Teachers  College  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Pedagogy.  In  1918  he  completed  another  course  at  the  State  University,  having  attended 
through  the  summer  sessions,  and  thereby  he  won  the  Bachelor  of  Science  degree. 
He  became  a  summer  student  at  the  University  of  Missouri  in  1919,  doing  special  work 
in  agriculture.  He  was  reared  to  farm  life  and  continued  to  engage  in  agricultural 
pursuits  until  1904  although  in  the  meantime  he  had  entered  upon  the  profession  of 
teaching  and  was  employed  in  the  rural  schools  from  1902  until  1906.  In  1907  he  was 
chosen  superintendent  of  the  school  of  De  Witt,  Missouri,  and  remained  in  that  position 
through  1910.  In  1911  he  was  made  superintendent  of  the  schools  of  Bosworth,  Missouri, 
where  he  continued  for  four  years,  and  in  1916  he  was  called  to  the  superintendency  of 
the  Huntsville  schools,  of  which  he  has  since  had  charge.  He  worked  his  way  through 
the  last  two  years  of  high  school  and  he  also  paid  his  own  way  through  the  kirksville 
Normal  and  the  university.  He  is  a  man  of  determined  purpose  and  marked  strength 
of  character  who  never  stops  short  of  the  accomplishment  of  his  goal,  and  he  has 
utilized  every  opportunity  to  advance  his  knowledge  and  promote  his  efficiency  as  one 
of  Missouri's  educators. 

Mr.  Burnside  is  well  known  in   Masonic  circles,  belonging  to  De  Witt  Lodge,  No. 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  665 

198,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  serving  as  worshipful  master  in  1909.  In  1914  he  became  a  member 
of  the  Royal  Arch  Chapter  at  CarroUton,  Missouri,  and  in  the  same  year  of  the  Knights 
Templars  Commandery  there.  In  1903  he  was  made  a  member  of  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows  at  Miami.  Missouri,  and  in  1917  he  Joined  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
at  Huntsville.  In  politics  he  has  always  been  a  republican  but  has  never  sought  or 
desired  office.  At  one  time  he  was  a  member  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  church 
but  now  holds  membership  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  South,  at  Huntsville. 
During  the  war  period  he  was  one  of  the  Four  Minute  speakers  and  co-operated  in 
every  way  possible  in  promoting  the  war  activities.  Advancement  has  been  the  key- 
note of  his  career.  He  has  never  been  content  to  remain  at  a  point  already  attained, 
but  has  always  pushed  forward  towards  higher  things  and  through  his  professional 
activities  has  inspired  teachers  and  pupils  under  him  with  much  of  his  own  zeal  and 
interest  in  the  work. 


GEORGE  EWALT  BLACK. 


George  Ewalt  Black,  who  at  all  times  manifests  an  active  and  intelligent  sup- 
port of  all  progressive  civic  and  other  public  matters,  is  widely  known  in  business 
circles  as  general  agent  for  the  Mutual  Benefit  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Newark, 
New  Jersey.  He  has  maintained  his  office  in  this  connection  in  St.  Louis  since 
1907  and  has  steadily  progressed  in  his  chosen  field  of  labor.  He  was  born  in 
Schellburg,  Bedford  county,  Pennsylvania,  October  29,  1867,  his  parents  being 
Jeremiah  Ewalt  and  Mary  Lelia  (Deal)  Black.  The  father  was  a  native  of  the 
Keystone  state  and  a  representative  of  one  of  its  old  families  of  Scotch  lineage. 
He  became  a  dry  goods  merchant  of  Schellburg,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  resided 
until  1870  and  then  removed  to  Nemaha  county,  Kansas,  where  he  continued  to 
make  his  home  until  his  death.  His  wife  also  belonged  to  one  of  the  old  Penn- 
sylvania families  of  Scotch  and  Dutch  origin  and  her  death  occurred  in  1914,  when 
she  had  reached  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-tour  years. 

Their  only  son,  George  Ewalt  Black,  although  born  in  the  east  early  became 
a  resident  of  the  west  and  his  entire  career  has  been  actuated  by  the  spirit  of 
western  enterprise  and  progress.  He  started  out  in  business  in  a  clerical  position 
in  a'  bank  in  northern  Kansas  and  wlien  eighteen  years  of  age  was  made  assistant 
cashier,  while  at  twenty-one  years  of  age  he  was  filling  the  office  of  cashier,  the 
bank  at  that  time  being  converted  into  a  national  bank.  He  assisted  in  organizing 
three  different  banks  in  northern  Kansas  and  western  Missouri  and  made  sub- 
stantial and  gratifying  progress  in  financial  circles,  but  on  account  of  the  close 
confinement  he  was  obliged  to  dispose  of  his  banking  interests  in  1896  and  turned 
his  attention  in  other  directions.  It  was  at  this  time  that  he  entered  the  insur- 
ance field  and  became  solicitor  for  the  Travelers  Insurance  Company  at  Kansas 
City,  Missouri.  Later  he  was  called  to  the  home  office  at  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
as  special  agent  and  subsequently  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  superintendent 
of  agencies.  He  continued  to  act  in  that  capacity  until  January  1,  1907,  when 
lie  resigned  and  removed  from  Hartford  to  St.  Louis,  here  becoming  junior  partner 
in  the  firm  of  Darby  &  Black,  general  agents  for  the  Mutual  Benefit  Life  Insurance 
Company  of  Newark,  New  Jersey.  On  the  1st  of  April,  1911,  he  succeeded  to  the 
business  of  the  firm,  owing  to  the  retirement  of  C.  W.  Darby,  who  had  served  the 
Mutual  Benefit  Lite  in  St.  Louis  for  forty-three  years.  He  has  ever  been  recog- 
nized as  a  man  of  strict  integrity,  extremely  energetic  and  progressive,  his  friends 
speaking  of  him  as  "high  grade  in  every  respect."  He  has  built  up  a  large  and 
successful  insurance  business  by  close  and  intelligent  application  and  his  pleasing 
personality  has  also  been  a  factor  in  his  growing  success. 

Mr.  Black  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Martha  Walker  Porter  and  they  be- 
came the  parents  of  a  son,  William  Mallory.  The  wife  and  mother  passed  away 
in  St.  Louis,  August  2.5,  1919,  her  death  being  the  occasion  of  deep  regret  to  many 
friends  as  well  as  to  her  immediate  family. 

During  the  World  war  Mr.  Black  served  on  various  important  committees 
to  further  the  war  work.  He  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  heartily  supports  all  of  its  projects  for  the  benefit  of  the  city  and  the  up- 
building   of    its    trade    relations.     His    religious    support    is    given       to    the    Baptist 


666  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

church  and  in  his  political  belief  he  is  a  republican.  He  is  also  connected  with 
the  Business  Men's  League  and  with  the  Civic  League  and  in  club  circles  is  well 
known  as  a  representative  of  the  St.  Louis  Noonday,  and  City  Clubs. 


SILAS  BEVERLY   JONES. 


Silas  Beverly  Jones  was  an  attorney  at  law  of  St.  Louis,  who  throughout  the 
entire  period  of  his  connection  with  the  bar  maintained  the  highest  sense  of  per- 
sonal and  professional  honor.  It  is  said  that  he  would  never  accept  a  case  unless 
he  was  convinced  of  the  righteousness  of  his  client's  cause,  after  which  he  put 
forth  every  possible  effort  to  win  a  favorable  verdict,  conforming  his  practice  at 
all   times  to  the   highest   professional   ethics   and   standards. 

Mr.  Jones  was  born  in  Huntingdon,  Tennessee,  on  the  26th  of  July,  1851, 
and  was  a  son  of  Le  Grand  Michaux  and  Cassandra  (Woods)  Jones.  The  father 
was  born  in  Halifax  county,  Virginia,  September  26,  1817,  and  became  a  dis- 
tinguished member  of  the  bar  of  western  Tennessee.  He  also  made  a  most  credit- 
able military  record  throu.?h  his  service  as  sergeant  major  under  Colonel  William 
T.  Haskell  in  the  Mexican  war.  The  mother  was  a  great-granddaughter  of  James 
Dinwiddie,  the  latter  a  nephew  of  Governor  Robert  Dinwiddle  of  Virginia.  In 
the  paternal  line  the  ancestry  was  Welsh  and  French,  while  the  Le  Grands  and 
Michaux  were  of  French  Huguenot  stock,  driven  to  this  country  at  the  time  of 
the  fierce  persecution  of  the  people  of  their  faith  during  the  reign  of  Louis  XIV. 
The  maternal  ancestors  were  Scotch  and  Irish  and  among  those  families  from 
whom  Silas  Beverly  Jones  was  descended  were  several  who  served  as  American 
soldiers  in  the  war  for  independence- 
Liberal  educational  opportunities  were  accorded  Silas  B.  Jones,  who  was  grad- 
uated from  the  Andrew  College  of  Tennessee  and  soon  afterward  took  up  the 
study  of  law,  which  was  followed  by  his  admission  to  the  bar  of  Missouri.  He 
continued  in  practice  in  St.  Louis  from  that  time  until  his  life's  labors  were  ended 
in  death.  His  devotion  to  his  clients'  interests  was  proverbial,  yet  he  never  forgot 
that  he  owed  a  still  higher  allegiance  to  the  majesty  of  the  law,  and  he  remained 
ever  a  most  honorable  and  honored  minister  in  the  temple  of  justice.  Of  him  it 
has  been  written:  "Endowed  by  nature  with  high  intellectual  qualities,  to  which 
were  added  the  discipline  and  embellishment  of  culture,  his  was  a  most  attractive 
personality.  Well  versed  in  the  learning  of  his  profession  and  with  a  deep  knowl- 
edge of  human  nature  and  the  springs  of  human  conduct,  with  great  sagacity  and 
extraordinary  tact,  he  was  in  the  courts  an  advocate  of  power  and  influence.  Both 
judges  and  jurists  always  heard  him  w^ith  attention  and  deep  interest.  He  had 
many  warm  friends  among  the  judges  and  lawyers  of  the  St.  Louis  bar  and  was 
a  valued  member  of  the  Bar  Association.  His  preference  was  for  commercial  law 
and  in  his  practice  he  specialized  in  that  direction.  He  also  served  as  a  member 
of  the  examining  board   of  the  law  school  of  this   city." 

Tbe  home  life  of  Mr.  Jones  was  largely  ideal  and  he  counted  no  personal 
effort  or  sacrifice  on  his  part  too  great  if  it  would  promote  the  happiness  and 
welfare  of  his  wife  and  children.  On  the  8th  of  December,  1875,  in  St.  Louis,  he 
wedded  Miss  Harriet  Senter,  daughter  of  William  M.  Senter,  who  removed  from 
Trenton,  Tennessee,  to  St.  Louis  in  1864  and  here  engaged  in  the  commission 
business.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jones  were  born  six  sons  and  a  daughter,  the  latter, 
Jennie  June,  being  the  eldest.  She  became  the  wife  of  Dr.  J.  L.  Crook,  of  Jack- 
son, Tennessee,  and  passed  away  in  that  city  a  few  years  ago,  leaving  two  children, 
Senter  C.  and  Jere  Lawrence.  The  eldest  son,  Le  Grand  Jones,  is  now  a  promi- 
nent real  estate  dealer  of  St.  Louis.  Senter  Marshall  is  the  vice  president  of 
the  Century  Electric  Company  and  treasurer  of  the  Missouri  Baptist  Sanitarium 
and  also  of  the  Baptist  church,  in  which  he  holds  membership.  Beverly  is  depart- 
ment manager  for  the  International  Shoe  Company,  shoe  manufacturers  of  St. 
Louis.  Wilkins  is  a  graduate  of  Harvard  and  of  the  Washington  University  Law 
School.  He  was  in  the  training  camp  at  Camp  Funston  and  was  commissioned 
captain  during  the  period  of  the  World  war.  He  is  now  manager  of  the  St.  Louis 
office  of  the  Nash  Motor  &  Truck  Company.  Asa  Charles  is  department  manager 
of    the    Thompson-Smith    Shoe    Company,    wholesale    shoe    merchants    of    St.    Paul, 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  669 

Minnesota.  Alanson  B.  served  with  the  United  States  army  on  the  Mexican  border 
and  in  the  late  war  served  for  seventeen  months  abroad.  He  participated  in  the 
battle  of  Argonne  Forest  and  others.  He  volunteered  as  a  private  but  was  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  sergeant.  He  is  now  general  agent  of  the  St.  Louis  district 
for  the  Chevrolet  Truck  &  Motor  Company.  The  sons  have  in  large  measure  in- 
herited their  father's  keenness  of  intellect,  his  strict  code  of  honor  and  his  spirit 
of  business  enterprise,   and  are   proving   a  credit   to  the  family  name. 

Mr.  Jones  was  a  devoted  member  of  the  Third  Baptist  church,  in  which  he 
served  as  deacon,  while  in  the  work  of  the  church  he  was  most  active,  doing  every- 
thing in  his  power  to  promote  the  growth  and  extend  the  influence  of  the  organ- 
ization. He  was  recognized  as  a  man  of  irreproachable  character  and  of  un- 
assailable integrity.  He  enjoyed  to  the  highest  degree  the  respect  and  confidence 
of  his  colleagues  and  contemporaries  at  the  bar  and  there  are  few  men  who  have 
displayed  such  a  high  sense  of  professional  honor  as  he  did.  This  led  him  to 
refuse  to  accept  any  case  in  which  he  could  not  believe  in  the  justice  and  right 
of  his  client's  cause,  nor  would  he  take  up  at  any  time  any  questionable  claim. 
He  was  a  broad-minded  man  of  scholarly  attainments,  familiar  with  Greek  and 
Latin,  and  his  entire  life  was  actuated  by  the  highest  principles,  which  found  ex- 
pression in  his  charitable  and  church  work,  making  him  at  all  times  a  consistent 
Christian. 


DANIEL  EDMUND  GARRISON. 

Daniel  Edmund  Garrison,  who  passed  away  July  4,  1916.  belonged  to  that 
class  of  representative  residents  of  St.  Louis  who  were  identified  with  the  growth 
and  progress  of  the  city  through  many  years  and  aided  in  laying  broad  and  deep 
the  foundation  upon  which  has  been  built  the  present  advancement  and  prosperity 
of  St.  Louis.  Pennsylvania  claimed  him  as  a  native  son,  for  his  birth  occurred 
at  Sharpsburg,  a  surburb  of  Pittsburg,  on  the  27th  of  October,  1839,  but  in  the 
same  year  his  parents,  Oliver  and  J^ouisa  C.  (Hale)  Garrison,  came  west  to  St. 
Louis.  The  father  was  a  native  of  West  Point,  New  York,  born  June  1,  1811, 
and  the  mother's  birth  occurred  in  Goderich,  Canada,  September  21,  1816.  Oliver 
Garrison  was  about  twenty-eight  years  of  age  when  he  removed  with  his  family 
to  St.  Louis  and  from  1839  until  1852  he  was  proprietor  of  the  Eagle  foundry, 
conducting  a  profitable  and  rapidly  growing  business.  He  then  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  banking  interests  in  1861  and  was  a  well  known  figure  in  financial  circles 
until  1876,  when  he  retired  from  business,  spending  his  remaining  days  in  the 
enjoyment  of  well  earned  rest,  his  former  successes  supplying  him  with  all  of  the 
comforts  and  many  of  the  luxuries  of  life.  Death  called  him  on  the  28th  of 
October,  1889,  while  his  wife  survived  until  June  19,  1893.  In  tracing  back  the 
ancestral  line  it  is  found  that  Captain  Oliver  Garrison,  the  grandfather  of  Daniel 
E.  Garrison,  resided  at  West  Point,  New  York,  and  was  the  owner  of  a  fleet  of 
schooners  carrying  the  United  States  mail  from  Garrison's  Landing,  opposite  West 
Point,  to  New  York  city  before  the  days  when  steamships  were  seen  upon  the 
Hudson.  The  family  was  founded  in  America  in  1686  by  ancestors  who  came 
from  England,  while  in  the  maternal  line  Daniel  E.  Garrison  was  descended  from 
French  ancestors  who  were  among  the  earliest  settlers  of  Canada. 

Reared  in  St.  Louis,  Daniel  E.  Garrison  pursued  his  more  specifically  literary 
course  in  Wyman's  Institute,  one  of  the  best  of  the  early  educational  establish- 
ments of  the  city.  He  also  attended  the  Jones  Commercial  College,  where  he 
completed  the  regular  course  and  also  a  course  in  commercial  law,  being  graduated 
in  1857,  when  eighteen  years  of  age.  He  then  accepted  a  position  as  bookkeeper 
with  an  insurance  compauy  and  about  the  same  time  became  half  owner  in  a 
hemp  storage  warehouse.  As  the  years  passed  this  firm  extended  its  business 
connections,  beginning  operations  in  the  general  commission  business  in  1861,  but 
in  1862  Mr.  Garrison  was  obliged  to  withdraw  on  account  of  ill  health  and  sought 
a  change  of  climate,  hoping  to  be  benefited  thereby.  He  removed  to  New  York 
city,  where  he  conducted  a  cotton,  hemp  and  tobacco  commission  business  for 
about  seven  years,  returning  to  St.  Louis  in  18  69. 

Later    Daniel    E.    Garrison    was    chosen    the    secretary    of    the    Kingsland    Iron 


670  .      CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Company,  owners  of  a  blast  furnace,  which  was  afterward  absorbed  by  the  Vulcan 
Iron  Works  and  later  by  the  Vulcan  Steel  Company,  Mr.  Garrison  remaining 
through  the  various  changes  in  the  personnel  of  the  firm  and  filling  the  offices 
of  vice  president  and  general  manager.  This  company  made  the  first  iron  and  later 
the  first  steel  rails  manufactured  west  of  the  Mississippi  river.  In  1877  he  severed 
his  connection  with  the  Vulcan  Steel  Company  to  engage  in  the  steel  rail  and 
railway  supply  business  and  eventually  acquired  the  controlling  interest  in  the 
St.  Louis  Radiator  Manufacturing  Company  and  the  St.  Louis  Expanded  Metal  Com- 
pany, becoming  president  of  both  corporations.  His  read.v  resource  enabled  him 
to  manage  successfully  many  lines  of  trade  and  he  purchased  a  controlling  interest 
in  the  Columbia  Incandescent  Lamp  Company,  one  of  the  largest  lamp  manufactories 
of  the  country.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  promote  the  use  of  reinforced  concrete 
and  in  his  business  career  he  kept  continually  abreast  with  the  constantly  e.xpand- 
Ing  ideas  of  trade  and  commerce  and  in  fact  was  many  times  a  leader  in  the 
onward  march.  He  practically  retired  from  active  business  in  1895  but  still  held 
important  financial  connection  with  various  concerns.  He  made  large  investment 
in  St.  Louis  property  as  well  as  in  commercial  and  industrial  interests  and  had 
become  one  of  the  wealthy  men  of  the  city  when  called  to  the  home  beyond. 

Mr.  Garrison  was  married  on  the  20th  of  February,  1861,  to  Miss  Harriett 
Beardslee,  of  Millstone,  Somerset  county.  New  Jersey.  They  had  a  family  of 
four  children:  William  Oliver,  now  deceased,  who  married  Florence  E.  Crookes 
and  after  her  death  wedded  Edith  Hendel;  Cornelius  KIngsland,  who  wedded  Mary 
Branch  and  is  now  deceased;  Daniel  Edmund,  Jr.,  who  married  Elizabeth  Samuel, 
both  now  deceased;  and  Arthur  Clifton,  who  is  mentioned  at  length  on  another 
page  of  this  wijrk.     The  mother,  too,  has  passed  away. 

Daniel  E.  Garrison  remained  a  resident  of  St.  Louis  for  many  years  and  lived 
to  see  remarkable  changes  as  the  city  developed  from  a  place  of  fifteen  thousand 
and  took  its  position  as  the  fourth  city  of  the  Union.  Throughout  the  Intervening 
years  he  figured  conspicuously  in  many  important  public  movements.  He  was 
a  charter  member  of  the  old  Missouri  Governor's  Guard,  which  vras  organized  in 
1858  and  was  commanded  by  Captain  George  W.  West.  He  was  also  connected 
with  the  southwest  expedition  sent  by  the  governor  to  repel  the  invasion  of  Lane, 
Jennison  and  others,  who  were  radical  abolitionists  and  were  constantly  raiding 
the  border  counties,  stealing  negroes  and  giving  them  their  freedom  in  Kansas. 
In  politics  Mr.  Garrison  maintained  an  independent  attitude  nor  was  he  ever  am- 
bitious to  hold  public  office.  He  was  a  member  of  St.  George's  Episcopal  church 
and  for  several  decades  served  as  one  of  its  officials,  filling  the  office  of  vestryman 
and  also  that  of  junior  and  of  senior  warden,  remaining  one  of  the  active  members 
of  the  church  until  failing  health  caused  him  to  put  aside  duties  of  that  character. 
None  familiar  with  the  history  of  St.  Louis  but  recognize  the  important  part  which 
he. played  in  its  commercial  progress  and  he  belonged  to  that  class  of  men  who 
wielded  a  power  which  was  all  the  more  potent  from  the  fact  that  it  was  moral 
rather  than  political  and  was  exercised  for  the  public  weal  rather  than  for  per- 
sonal ends.  There  was  probably  not  a  man  of  large  private  interests  in  St.  Louis 
that  felt  a  more  hearty  concern  for  the  public  welfare  or  was  more  helpful  in 
bringing  about  those  purifying  and  wholesome  reforms  which  have  been  gradually 
growing  up  in  the  political,  municipal  and  social  life  of  the  city.  Regarded  as  a 
citizen  and  in  his  social  relations,  he  belonged  to  that  public-spirited,  useful  and 
helpful  type  of  men  whose  ambitions  and  desires  are  centered  and  directed  in  those 
channels  through  which  flow  the  greatest  and  most  permanent  good  to  the  greatest 
number. 


FRANKLIN  DUBOIS  CRABBS. 

Franklin  Dubois  Crabbs,  founder  and  promoter  of  the  Union  Bank  Note 
Company,  has  through  the  intervening  period  of  thirty-three  years  developed  the 
enterprise  from  a  humble  one  of  limited  proportions  until  it  is  today  one  of  the 
chief  productive  industries  of  the  middle  west.  He  has  at  all  times  been  actuated 
by  high  ideals  in  business,  has  displayed  initiative  and  understanding  and  has  ever 
been  guided  by  a  progressive  spirit  that  soon  placed  him  in  a  position  of  leader- 
ship among  the  business  men   whose  labors  have  constituted  the  source  of  Kansas 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  673 

City's  commercial  and  industrial  greatness.  With  many  phases  of  her  progress 
he  has  been  closely  associated,  his  activities  being  of  a  character  that  have  con- 
tributed to  the  public  welfare  as  well  as  to  individual  advancement. 

It  was  upn  the  old  homestead  farm  of  the  Crabbs  family  near  Dayton,  Ohio, 
that  Franklin  D.  Crabbs  was  born  on  the  30th  of  January,  1857.  He  is  descended 
from  English  ancestry,  the  line  being  traced  back  to  Sir  John  Somerset  and  Lady 
Mary  Arundull  of  the  Cornwall  borough  of  England.  The  American  branch  of 
the  family  was  founded  in  the  new  world  in  1716,  when  settlement  was  made  in 
Prince  George  county,  Maryland,  and  there  the  grandfather  of  Franklin  D.  Crabbs 
was  born  and  reared.  The  family  were  of  the  Quaker  faith  and  were  loyalists.  In 
1814  the  grandparents  traveled  by  wagon  from  Maryland  to  Ohio  and  settled  near 
the  present  city  of  Dayton  upon  a  farm  on  which  Benjamin  Franklin  Crabbs,  father 
of  Franklin  D.  Crabbs,  was  born,  married,  lived  and  died.  The  old  homestead 
is  still  in  possession  of  the  family,  never  having  been  transferred  since  it  was 
obtained  from  the  government.  Thus  amid  rural  surroundings  which  had  con- 
stituted the  environment  of  his  father  and  his  grandfather  Franklin  D.  Crabbs 
was  reared.  His  mother  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Louisa  Folkerth  and  was  of 
Holland  lineage,  her  ancestors  having  come  to  the  United  States  in  1733,  at  which 
time  they  settled  in  New  Jersey. 

Franklin  D.  Crabbs  pursued  his  education  in  the  academic  and  high  schools 
of  Dayton,  Ohio,  from  which  he  was  graduated,  and  in  1880,  attracted  by  the  oppor- 
tunities of  the  growing  west,  he  made  his  way  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  started 
out  in  business  in  a  modest  manner.  Opportunity,  however,  has  always  been  to 
him  a  call  to  action  and  one  to  which  he  has  made  ready  response.  Diligence, 
determination  and  initiative  were  early  manifest  as  salient  factors  in  his  career 
and  through  the  exercise  of  those  qualities  he  steadily  won  advancement  along 
the  highroad  to  success  and  for  many  years  has  been  a  prominent  figure  in  promot- 
ing the  commercial  and  industrial  progress  of  Kansas  City.  In  1887  he  organized 
the  Union  Bank  Note  Company,  and  by  reason  of  unfaltering  diligence,  wisely 
directed,  he  has  developed  a  business  of  mammoth  proportions,  of  which  he  has 
been  the  president  for  a  third  of  a  century  and  which  he  has  made  one  of  the 
leading  lithographing,  printing  and  engraving  establishments  of  the  middle  west. 
It  is  said  that  no  man  in  this  section  of  the  country  has  contributed  more  toward 
improving  the  quality  of  printing  nor  does  more  to  advance  development  in  his 
chosen  field  than  Mr.  Crabbs.  At  all  times  he  has  kept  abreast  with  the  trend 
of  modern  thought  and  progress  in  his  chosen  field  of  labor.  No  detail  has  escaped 
him  and  at  the  same  time  he  has  given  due  attention  to  the  more  important  phases 
of  the  business.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Commerce  Trust  Company  and  the 
National  Bank  of  Commerce. 

The  attainment  of  wealth  has  never  been  the  sole  end  and  aim  of  his  life. 
The  subjective  and  objective  forces  of  life  are  in  him  well  balanced,  and  while  he 
has  promoted  and  developed  an  important  business  enterprise,  he  has  also  found 
time  to  aid  in  promoting  the  welfare  of  his  adopted  city.  He  was  president  of 
the  Kansas  City  Commission  which  built  and  maintained  the  Casino  at  the  St. 
Louis  World's  fair,  conceded  to  be  the  best  advertisement  achieved  for  Kansas  City 
up  to  that  time.  For  one  year  he  was  president  of  the  Manufacturers'  Association 
and  was  unanimously  elected  for  a  second  term  but  declined  to  serve.  He  was  an 
active  director  of  the  old  Priests  of  Pallas  Association  and  was  the  first  member 
of  the  Commercial  Club  to  recognize  the  value  of  music  as  a  commercial  commodity, 
and  when  vice  president  of  the  club  thoroughly  advocated  the  encouragement  of 
music  here,  resulting  in  winning  fame  for  Kansas  City  as  a  musical  center.  He  has 
ever  been  closely  identified  with  the  art  development  of  Kansas  City  and  was 
president  of  the  Kansas  City  Grand  Opera  Society;  was  one  of  the  promoters  and 
an  officer  of  the  Kansas  City  Conservatory  of  Music;  a  director  of  the  Kansas 
City  Orchestral  Association;  and  a  director  of  the  Kansas  City  Fine  Arts  Institute, 
while  his  labors  were  a  most  potent  force  in  establishing  the  Sunday  afternoon 
Popular  Concert  in  Convention  Hall.  In  1917  he  was  elected  the  president  of  the 
Kansas  City  Chamber  of  Commerce,  which  he  reorganized,  and  built  up  its  mem- 
bership from*  fifteen  hundred  to  four  thousand  members.  He  served  as  a  member 
of  the  Freeholders  Commission  which  drafted  the  present  city  charter  of  Kansas 
City  and  he  was  honored  by  being  made  one  of  the  mayor's  citizens  bond  commit- 
tee, which  supervised  the  expenditure  of  the  four  and  one-half  million  dollars  of 
bonds  recently  voted  by  the  people. 


674  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

In  Masonic  circles  Mr.  Crabbs  has  long  occupied  an  enviable  position  and  has 
conferred  the  thirty-second  degree  of  Scottish  Rite  Masonry  on  more  candidates 
than  any  other  representative  of  the  order  in  this  jurisdiction.  He  has  been 
especially  honored  by  being  crowned  a  thirty-third  degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason 
and  he  is  a  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  His  high  position  in  business  circles 
Is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  has  several  times  been  chosen  to  the  presidency  of 
the  Kansas  City  Typothetae.  He  belongs  to  the  Blue  Hills  Country  Club,  the 
Mid-Day  Club,  of  which  he  was  president  for  a  year,  the  Kansas  City  Club  and 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  he  finds  his  recreation  and  diversion  in  the  great 
out-of-doors,  especially  enjoying  a  game  of  golf  or  a  motor  trip  through  the  country. 
When  America  was  at  war  with  Germany  he  offered  his  services  to  the  government 
and  was  selected  as  one  of  the  dollar-a-year  men,  being  appointed  by  the  war  in- 
dustries board  to  represent  it  in  the  tenth  federal  reserve  district  as  regional 
advisor.  In  this  capacity  he  mobilized  the  industries  of  the  district  and  set  them 
to  work  manufacturing  war  essentials,  while  he  acted  in  an  advisory  capacity 
for  the  war  industrial  board  during  the  period  of  hostilities  and  was  frequently 
called  to  Washington  in  consultation.  He  is  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Liberty 
Memorial  Association  that  was  organized  for  the  purpose  of  building  a  memorial 
to  the  boys  who  fought  for  the  democracy  and  freedom  of  the  world. 

Mr.  Crabbs  was  married  in  early  manhood  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Theodosia  Barr, 
a  daughter  of  Colonel  and  Mrs.  A.  J.  Barr,  of  Richmond,  Missouri.  Mr.  Crabbs 
attributes  not  a  little  of  his  success  and  advancement  to  the  guiding  influence  of 
his  wife,  a  lady  of  liberal  culture  and  sound  judgment,  who  has  ever  given  him 
great  courage  and  assistance  in  the  performance  of  the  duties  which  one  assumes 
In  taking  up  the  responsibilities  of  civic  life  and  in  meeting  the  ordinary  cares  of 
business.  They  have  one  son,  Leo  Barr  Crabbs,  who  is  in  business  with  his  father. 
He  volunteered  for  service  during  the  World  war  and  was  stationed  at  Camp 
Zachary  Taylor  at  Louisville,  Kentucky.  There  he  was  commissioned  a  first 
lieutenant  of  Field  Artillery  and  was  so  serving  at  the  time  the  armistice  was  signed. 

While  extensive  and  important  are  the  activities  which  claim  the  attention 
and  energies  of  Mr.  Crabbs,  his  interest  nevertheless  centers  in  his  home,  where 
he  is  not  only  an  ideal  husband  and  father,  but  also  a  most  genial  and  entertaining 
host.  His  mind  Is  enriched  by  his  broad  reading,  which  covers  many  departments 
of  good  literature,  his  excellent  library  being  an  indication  of  his  taste  in  this 
direction.  A  most  capable  manufacturer,  a  prominent  banker,  a  leader  in  public 
activities,  a  patron  of  the  arts  and  a  faithful  friend,  those  who  know  Mr.  Crabbs 
— and  he  has  a  wide  acquaintance — say  that  no  word  picture  will  give  an  ade- 
quate account  of  his  many  admirable  qualities. 


SPENCER   F.    HARRIS. 


Spencer  F.  Harris,  an  attorney  practicing  at  Kansas  City,  was  born  in  West- 
port,  Jackson  county,  Missouri,  August  1,  1877.  His  father,  W.  W.  Harris,  a 
native  of  Virginia,  has  devoted  his  active  life  to  the  practice  of  medicine  and 
surgery.  In  1853  he  removed  to  the  west  and  at  the  time  of  the  Civil  war  he 
joined  the  Confederate  army,  serving  with  the  rank  of  major.  After  the  close 
of  hostilities  he  took  up  his  abode  in  Kansas  City  and  for  a  long  period  continued 
as  an  active  physician  here  but  is  now  living  retired,  enjoying  a  well  earned  rest. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church  and  his  life  has  always  been  guided 
by  the  highest  principles.  He  married  Eleanor  M.  McCoy,  who  was  born  in  West- 
port,  Missouri,  and  is  a  daughter  of  John  C.  McCoy,  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Jackson 
county,  her  father  having  come  to  Missouri  in  1828.  He  was  thoroughly  familiar 
with  the  development  and  progress  of  the  state  and  was  the  author  of  many  historic 
sketches,  which  were  published  in  the  Kansas  City  Journal.  His  daughter,  Mrs. 
Harris,  seems  to  have  inherited  his  literary  talent  and  has  written  extensively. 

Spencer  F.  Harris  was  educated  in  the  public  and  high  schools  Si  Rich  Hill, 
Missouri,  and  in  the  State  University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1899  upon 
the  completion  of  a  course  in  law,  winning  the  LL.  B.  degree  at  that  time.  In 
August  of  the  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  has  since  engaged  in 
practice,  covering  a  period  of  twenty-one  years.     His  early  professional  connection 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  675 

was  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Harding,  Brown  &  Murphy,  and  with  a  change 
in  the  personnel  the  style  of  Harding,  Murphy  &  Harris  was  assumed.  He  is  now 
practicing  as  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Pew  &  Harris,  which  occupies  a  very  promi- 
nent position  at  the  Kansas  City  bar.  Mr.  Harris  is  specializing  in  real  estate 
and  corporation  law  and  is  largely  regarded  as  an  authority  upon  those  branches 
of  jurisprudence.  He  has  a  keen  sense  of  Justice  and  fairness,  is  thorough  in  all 
that  he  undertakes,  possesses  a  logical  mind  and  patient  industry,  with  an  innate 
conception  of  the  right.  His  practice  is  now  very  extensive  and  his  ability  is 
attested  by  the  members  of  the  bar  and  the  laity  as  well. 

On  the  19th  of  January,  1916,  Mr.  Harris  was  married  to  Miss  Anne  A. 
Allen,  daughter  of  James  P.  Allen,  a  pioneer  of  Windsor,  Missouri,  where  Mrs. 
Harris  was  born.  She  has  become  the  mother  of  a  daughter,  Mildred,  now  in 
her  second  year.  Mr.  Harris  was  deeply  interested  in  athletics  during  his  college 
days.  He  belongs  to  Sigma  Nu,  a  national  fraternity,  and  he  has  membership 
with  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association,  with  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  with 
the  Blue  Hills  Country  Club.  His  political  endorsement  is  given  to  the  democratic 
party  and  upon  all  questions  of  vital  importance  to  city,  state  or  nation  he  keeps 
well  informed,  standing  abreast  with  the  best  thinking  men  of  the  age  on  all  mat- 
ters that  have  to  do  with  the  public  welfare. 


HON.   STERLING   PRICE  BOND. 

Hon.  Sterling  Price  Bond,  lawyer  and  law  maker,  who  is  keenly  interested 
in  the  vital  problems  and  issues  of  the  day,  his  influence  always  being  on  the  side 
of  reform  and  improvement  in  connection  with  political  interests,  was  born  in 
Carlyle,  Illinois,  July  27,  1862,  his  parents  being  Thomas  and  Jane  (Allen)  Bond. 
The  father  was  a  representative  of  one  of  the  old  pioneer  families  of  Indiana  of 
English  descent,  but  through  many  generations  representatives  of  the  name  have 
resided  on  American  soil.  The  family  was  founded  in  the  new  world  in  1632  by 
three  brothers  who  came  from  England  and  settled  first  in  Maryland,  making  the 
trip  to  America  with  Lord  Baltimore.  Thomas  Bond,  father  of  Sterling  Price 
Bond,  was  born  in  Indiana  and  at  the  time  of  the  Mexican  war  served  his  country 
as  a  captain,  while  in  days  of  peace  he  devoted  his  life  to  agricultural  pursuits. 
He  passed  away  in  18  75,  while  the  death  of  his  wife  occurred  in  Carlyle,  Illinois, 
July  8,  1909,  when  she  was  eighty-six  years  of  age.  She  was  born  in  Illinois 
and  was  a  representative  of  one  of  the  old  families  of  Tennessee.  By  her  marriage 
she  became  the  mother  of  six  children,   three  sons  and  three   daughters. 

Sterling  P.  Bond,  who  was  the  fifth  in  order  of  birth,  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  county  and  in  the  Illinois  College  of  Jacksonville, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1885,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  His 
early  life  to  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  was  spent  upon  the  home  farm  and  he 
soon  became  familiar  with  the  duties  and  labors  that  fall  to  the  lot  of  the  agri- 
culturist, but  wishing  to  give  his  attention  to  other  pursuits  than  the  cultivation 
of  the  fields,  he  determined  upon  a  professional  career  and  became  a  law  student 
in  the  office  of  Murray  &  Andrews,  leading  attorneys  of  Carlyle,  Illinois,  who 
directed  his  reading  until  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  the  fall  of  1887  at  Spring- 
field, Illinois.  He  was  licensed  to  practice  in  all  of  the  state  courts  and  entered 
upon  the  active  work  of  the  profession  in  Carlyle.  After  six  months,  however, 
he  sought  a  broader  field  of  labor  and  removed  to  St.  Louis  on  the  8th  of  July, 
1888,  since  which  time  he  has  been  actively  engaged  in  practice  in  this  city.  He 
is  a  lawyer  of  widely  recognized  ability  and  integrity,  a  vigorous  and  forceful 
speaker  whose  advancement  is  attributable  to  hard  work,  loyalty  to  his  clients  and 
colleagues  of  the  law. 

At  St.  Louis,  on  the  5th  of  October,  1901,  Mr.  Bond  was  married  to  Miss 
Ida  J.  Alvord,  a  native  of  Connecticut  and  a  daughter  of  Edwin  D.  Alvord.  Mr. 
Bond  is  keenly  interested  in  the  leading  questions  of  the  day  and  has  long  been 
a  stalwart  advocate  of  the  democratic  party.  In  1893  he  was  elected  on  its  ticket 
as  state  representative  and  gave  most  thoughtful  and  earnest  consideration  to 
the  questions  which  came  up  for  settlement  before  the  general  assembly.  He  is 
prominently  known  in  connection  with  reform  politics  and  efforts  for  good  govern- 


676  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

ment  and  his  activities  along  these  lines  have  been  far-reaching,  effective  and 
resultant.  His  professional  connections  are  with  the  St.  Louis,  the  Missouri  State 
and  the  American  Bar  Associations  and  he  enjoys  in  large  measure  the  confidence 
and  goodwill  of  his  colleagues  and  contemporaries  in  the  practice  of  law. 


RICHARD  N.  BOWDEN. 


The  history  of  commercial  development  in  Brookfield  would  be  Incomplete  and 
unsatisfactory  were  there  failure  to  make  prominent  reference  to  the  Bowden  family. 
Richard  N.  Bowden  of  this  review  Is  now  at  the  head  of  the  business  conducted  under 
the  firm  name  of  Bowden  &  Son,  which  was  established  by  his  father,  of  whom  he 
became  the  successor  in  the  conduct  of  the  enterprise.  Throughout  all  these  years 
the  name  of  Bowden  has  been  a  synonym  of  progressiveness  and  reliability  in  business. 
Richard  N.  Bowden  was  born  In  Canada.  August  12,  1860,  and  is  a  son  of  Lorenzo 
S.  Bowden,  whose  birth  occurred  in  Bradford,  Yorkshire,  England,  in  1838,  his  par- 
ents being  John  and  Elizabeth  Bowden,  who  were  also  natives  of  that  country. 
Reared  to  manhood  in  Yorkshire,  Lorenzo  S.  Bowden  obtained  his  education  in  the 
schools  of  Bradford  and  afterward  learned  the  trade  of  stair  building,  serving  an 
apprenticeship  of  five  years  and  becoming  an  expert  workman  in  that  line.  In  1859 
he  crossed  the  Atlantic  to  Canada  and  took  up  his  abode  in  Montreal,  remaining 
a  resident  there  until  1865,  when  he  crossed  the  border  into  the  United  States  to 
enjoy  the  opportunities  afforded  by  its  wider  advantages  and  greater  competition. 
Making  his  way  to  Missouri,  he  settled  at  Brookfield,  where  for  three  years  he  engaged 
in  general  carpenter  work  and  then  opened  a  furniture  and  cabinet-making  estab- 
lishment, continuing  actively  in  the  business  until  1892,  when  he  sold  to  his  son, 
Richard  N..  and  retired  from  active  life.  In  the  meantime  he  had  built  up  a  trade 
of  gratifying  proportions,  his  reliable  dealing,  his  fine  stock  and  his  earnest  efforts  to 
please  his  customers  bringing  to  him  an  extensive  patronage.  He  was  also  a  stock- 
holder in  the  Linn  County  Bank  and  was  interested  in  other  business  enterprises 
of  importance  in  the  community.  He  was  likewise  active  in  public  affairs,  serving 
as  alderman  of  Brookfield  and  at  times  acting  as  mayor.  His  political  allegiance 
was  given  to  the  republican  party  and  he  was  always  a  stalwart  advocate  of  its  prin- 
ciples but  never  ambitious  to  hold  office.  For  many  years  he  was  an  exemplary 
representative  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  an  equally  faithful  member  of  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  while  the  Congregational  church  numbered 
him  among  its  devoted  adherents.  The  sterling  worth  of  his  character  is  exemplified 
in  his  industry  and  enterprise  in  business,  in  his  progressiveness  in  citizenship  and  his 
loyalty  to  all  the  ties  of  home  and  friendship  won  him  the  warm  regard  of  all  who 
knew  him. 

Richard  N.  Bowden,  son  of  Lorenzo  S.  Bowden.  came  to  Brookfield  with  his 
parents  when  a  lad.  Here  he  was  reared  to  young  manhood,  acquired  his  education 
in  the  public  schools,  and  then  started  out  in  the  business  world.  He  has  since 
lived  a  life  of  Intense  and  intelligently  directed  activity.  In  189  2  he  was  able  to 
purchase  his  father's  furniture  establishment  and  has  since  been  at  the  head  of 
the  business,  which  he  has  still  further  developed  until  it  is  now  of  very  substantial 
proportions.  He  has  ever  maintained  the  same  honorable  methods  in  connection 
with  the  trade  and  he  always  carries  an  attractive  line  of  goods,  thus  meeting  the 
varied  tastes  of  his  patrons. 

In  1889  Mr.  Bowden  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Vina  B.  Ives,  daughter 
of  Homer  D.  and  Mary  (Eastman)  Ives,  the  former  a  native  of  New  Haven,  Con- 
necticut, and  the  latter  of  Elyria.  New  York.  Her  father  was  a  Yale  alumnus  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar.  He  removed  westward  to  Bddyville,  Iowa,  where  he  practiced 
law  for  many  years.  He  belonged  to  one  of  the  old  New  England  families,  his  father 
and  grandfather  having  been  born  in  the  same  house  in  New  Haven.  Connecticut, 
in  which  his  birth  occurred.  Mr.  Ives'  wife  was  a  graduate  of  Oberlin  College  of 
Oberlin,  Ohio,  and  they  were  married  in  1850,  one  of  their  children  being  Mrs. 
Richard  N.  Bowden.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bowden  have  been  born  three  children. 
The  eldest,  Lorenzo  Ives  Bowden,  enlisted  in  the  aviation  service  in  the  World  war 
and  was  transferred  to  the  infantry  as  a  member  of  the  Ninetieth  Division,  serving 
for    fourteen    months    in    France.      Homer    Ives    Bowden    was    graduated    from    the 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  679 

Missouri    University    witli    the    class    of    1916.      Mary    Elizabeth    Bowden,    the    only 
daughter,  is  a  junior  in  the  Brookfield  high  school. 

Mr.  Bowden  has  long  figured  as  a  prominent  factor  in  the  public  life  of  Brook- 
field,  where  in  1898  he  was  elected  to  the  office  of  niayor  and  filled  that  position 
for  four  years.  During  his  second  term  he  was  largely  instrumental  in  instituting 
the  work  of  paving  the  city  streets  and  he  gave  to  Brookfield  a  most  businesslike 
and  progressive  administration,  characterized  by  various  reforms  and  improvements. 
He  is  well  known  in  fraternal  circles  as  a  Mason,  Odd  Fellow  and  Elk  and  is  most 
loyal  to  the  teachings  of  these  organizations.  His  wife,  too,  has  been  active  in  the 
affairs  of  Brookfield  and  of  the  state  at  large.  She  has  been  president  of  the 
State  Chapter  of  the  P.  E.  O.  Sisterhood  for  two  years,  was  also  state  secretary  of 
the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution  for  two  years  and  for  the  past  two  terms 
has  been  supreme  treasurer  of  the  P.  E.  O.  Sisterhood.  She  entered  most  actively 
Into  war  work  and  was  chairman  in  her  ward  for  the  Liberty  Loan  and  Red  Cross 
drives.  She  is  a  graduate  of  Grinnell  College  at  Grinnell,  Iowa,  of  the  class  of 
1887  and  she  was  a  teacher  of  music  prior  to  her  marriage.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bowden 
and  their  family  have  long  been  leading  factors  in  the  social  circles  of  Brookfield 
and  their  aid  and  influence  are  ever  given  in  support  of  all  those  measures  which 
make  for  the  intellectual,  material,  social  and  moral  progress  of  the  community. 


CHRISTIAN  RUDOLPH  MAFFRY. 

Christian  Rudolph  Maffry,  cashier  of  the  State  Exchange  Bank  at  Macon,  was 
horn  March  10,  1884,  in  the  city  which  is  yet  his  home,  and  is  a  son  of  Christian 
Rudolph  and  Lisette  (Rutger)  Maffry,  both  of  whom  ai-e  natives  of  Germany.  The 
mother  came  to  America  when  but  two  years  of  age  with  her  parents  and  the  father 
made  the  voyage  alone  to  the  new  world  when  a  youth  of  fourteen  years.  Both 
became  residents  of  Warren  county,  Missouri,  and  are  now  living  in  Macon  at  the 
ages  of  seventy-five  and  seventy-six  years  respectively.  They  were  married  in 
Warren  county  and  there  for  a  number  of  years  the  father  followed  the  occupation 
of  farming  but  in  1866  removed  to  Macon,  where  he  turned  his  attention  to  mer- 
chandising and  continued  an  active  factor  in  the  mercantile  circles  of  the  city  until 
his  retirement  from  business  a  few  years  ago.  His  loyalty  to  his  adopted  land  is 
indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  served  his  country  as  a  soldier  of  the  Union  army 
during  the  Civil  war  and  that  he  has  done  effective  service  for  public  progress  as 
mayor  of  Macon  and  as  member  of  the  city  council  through  a  number  of  terms. 
In  a  word  he  has  labored  untiringly  and  effectively  for  the  general  good  and  Macon 
has  long  numbered  him  among  her  valued  residents.  To  him  and  his  wife  were 
born  five  children,  of  whom  one  died  in  infancy,  while  those  who  survive  are 
August,   Annetta,    Edward   and   Christian. 

The  last  named  was  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  of  Macon  and  afterward  at- 
tended the  Blees  Military  Academy  of  this  city,  while  subsequently  he  became  a 
student  in  the  Gem  City  Business  College  of  Quincy,  Illinois.  On  the  completion 
of  his  course  there  he  accepted  the  position  of  bookkeeper  with  the  Bevier  Coal 
Mining  Company  of  Bevier,  Macon  county,  and  thus  continued  for  two  years.  In 
1905  he  entered  upon  his  career  as  a  banker,  becoming  assistant  bookkeeper  in 
the  State  Exchange  Bank  of  Macon  and  occupying  that  place  until  1907,  when 
he  was  made  assistant  cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank.  There  he  remained 
for  a  brief  period  and  upon  the  consolidation  of  the  State  Exchange  Bank 
and  the  First  National  Bank  he  was  appointed  assistant  cashier  of  the  new 
State  Exchange  Bank,  so  remaining  until  1911,  when  he  was  advanced  to  the  posi- 
tion of  cashier  as  the  successor  of  Charles  Wardell,  who  resigned  that  office  to 
become  president  of  the  Rubey  Trust  Company  of  Macon.  Mr.  Maffry  is  also  a 
member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  bank.  He  has  closely  applied  himself 
to  the  mastery  of  all  duties  which  have  devolved  upon  him  at  the  bank  and  thus 
his  efficiency   has  been  constantly  promoted. 

On  the  27th  of  November,  1908,  Mr.  Maffry  was  married  to  Miss  Icy  Wood, 
daughter  of  Cyrus  E.  and  Adelaide  Wood,  of  La  Plata,  Missouri.  Mrs.  Maffry 
was  born-  an-d  reared  in  La  Plata  and  has  become  the  mother  of  one  son,  Richard 
Wood  Maffry,  whose  birth  occurred  November  28,  1917. 


680  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Mr.  Maffry  is  well  known  in  financial  circles  in  Missouri.  He  was  made  sec- 
retary of  Group  No.  1  of  the  Missouri  Banlters  Association  in  May,  1918,  and  was 
made  chairman  and  member  of  the  council  administration  in  May,  1919.  He  was 
very  active  in  all  Liberty  Loan  drives  during  the  World  war  and  served  on  the 
various  committees  having  charge  of  the  drives  in  Macon  county.  He  and  his 
family  are  members  of  the  Episcopal  church  of  Macon  and  fraternally  he  is  con- 
nected with  Censor  Lodge,  No.  172,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  also  with  the  Elks  lodge 
of  Macon.  He  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  city's  most  substantial  men — one  whose 
activities  have  contributed  to  public  progress  as  well  as  to  individual  advancement. 
What  he  has  already  accomplished  argues  well  for  a  successful  future  and  his 
subsequent  career  will  undoubtedly  be  well  worth  watching. 


WALTER  SCOTT   McLUCAS. 

Kansas  City  is  the  home  of  many  men  of  state  and  national  reputation — men  who 
take  front  rank  as  statesmen,  lawyers,  physicians,  ministers  of  the  gospel  and  finan- 
ciers, and  among  the  latter  none  stands  higher  in  the  estimation  ot  the  people  than 
Walter  Scott  McLucas,  who,  though  not  an  "old-timer"  and  yet  in  the  prime  ot  life, 
has  succeeded  in  forging  to  the  front  and  taken  an  enviable  place  among  those 
whose  life  work  has  been  devoted  to  the  public  good,  and  whose  career  is,  and  should 
be,  an  incentive  to  the  young  men  of  the  land. 

Walter  Scott  McLucas  was  born  on  a  farm  near  Newcastle,  Indiana,  July  28, 
1875,  and  is  the  son  of  John  C.  and  Louisa  (Cooper)  McLucas,  who  were  also  natives 
of  Indiana,  the  former  being  of  Scotch  and  Irish  ancestry,  while  the  latter  came 
of  an  old  Virginia  family.  John  C.  McLucas  was  by  occupation  a  farmer,  but  tor 
some  years  engaged  in  the  live  stock  business.  Soon  after  the  birth  of  Walter  S. 
the  family  removed  to  Fairbury,  Nebraska,  the  father  becoming  quite  active  in  pub- 
lic affairs,  particularly  in  church  and  educational  interests.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Christian  church  and  devoted  much  of  his  time  to  the  building  up  of  the  cause. 

Walter  S.  McLucas  obtained  his  primary  education  in  the  schools  ot  Fairbury, 
Nebraska,  and  later  entered  the  State  University  at  Lincoln  in  the  class  of  1897. 
After  leaving  the  university  he  went  to  Omaha,  where  he  engaged  in  the  live  stock 
commission  business,  continuing  in  the  same  for  eighteen  months.  He  was  after- 
ward official  court  reporter  with  Judge  Charles  B.  Letton  in  the  first  judicial  dis- 
trict of  Nebraska  tor  three  and  a  half  years,  when  he  resigned  to  go  to  St.  Joseph 
to  establish  a  branch  oflSce  for  the  concern  with  which  he  had  been  connected  in 
Omaha  in  the  live  stock  commission  business.  The  following  year  he  also  estab- 
lished a  branch  office  for  the  same  company  at  Kansas  City,  organizing  a  Missouri 
corporation  to  handle  the  business  of  these  two  offices,  of  which  he  was  part  owner 
and  secretary  and  treasurer.  In  19  08  he  disposed  of  his  interests  in  that  company 
and  purchased  a  controlling  interest  in  the  Merchants  Bank  of  St.  Joseph,  becoming 
cashier  thereof.  In  October,  1912,  the  Merchants  Bank  was  consolidated  with  the 
First  National  Bank  of  St.  Joseph  and  of  the  new  institution  Mr.  McLucas  became  the 
first  vice  president.  In  October,  1915,  he  was  elected  to  the  vice  presidency  ot  the 
Commerce  Trust  Company  of  Kansas  City,  succeeding  J.  Z.  Miller,  Jr.,  who  resigned 
to  become  governor  of  the  Federal  Reserve  Bank  of  Kansas  City,  and  in  January, 
1917,  was  elected  its  president,  succeeding  W.  T.  Kemper.  His  interests  and  in- 
vestments are  extensive  for  a  young  man.  He  is  a  member  of  the  directorate  of  the 
National  Bank  of  Commerce  of  Kansas  City,  the  Stock  Yards  National  Bank,  the 
Merchants  Bank,  the  Centropolis  Bank  and  the  Home  Trust  Company,  all  of  Kan- 
sas City;  also  of  the  Citizens  State  Bank  of  Frankfort,  Kansas;  the  Interstate  Securi- 
ties Company  of  Kansas  City,  the  Stewart  Sand  Company  and  the  Kansas  City  Laun- 
dry Service  Company  of  Kansas  City.  He  is  likewise  a  member  of  the  board  ot  direc- 
tors of  the  Quincy,  Oklahoma  &  Kansas  City  Railroad  Company;  of  the  Kansas  City, 
Mexico  &  Orient  Railroad  ot  Texas,  of  which  he  is  also  the  secretary:  of  the 
Roberts  Cone  Manufacturing  Company  of  St.  Joseph,  Missouri;  of  the  Missouri  State 
Life  Insurance  Company  of  St.  Louis;  ot  the  Commerce  Power  Company  and  the 
Commerce  Building  Company  of  Kansas  City;  of  the  Murray  Elevator  Company  of 
Kansas  City,  of  the  Stephens  Rubber  Company  and  of  the  Commerce  Farm  Credit 
Company  of  Dallas,  Texas.     He  is  also  a  director  and  the  treasurer  of  the  Wyandotte 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  681 

County  Gas  Company  of  Kansas  City  and  is  likewise  treasurer  and  director  of  the 
Kansas  City  Gas  Company.  His  business  interests  are  thus  broad  and  varied,  his 
cooperation  being  sought  along  many  lines  because  of  his  recognized  sound  judg- 
ment, keen  discrimination  and  unfaltering  energy.  In  May,  1920,  he  was  offered 
the  vice  presidency  of  the  Guaranty  Trust  Company  of  New  York  City,  the  largest 
company  of  its  kind  in  the  United  States,  but  declined  the  offer  because  he  pre- 
ferred to  remain  among  his  friends  in  Kansas  City. 

Mr.  McLucas  was  married  in  Beatrice,  Nebraska,  October  12,  1898,  to  Miss  Grace 
Nichols,  a  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  V.  Nichols,  who  are  living  at  Beatrice.  Her 
father  was  born  in  the  state  of  New  York  and  is  now  (in  1920)  eighty-six  years 
of  age,  while  her  mother  is  a  native  of  Rochester,  Minnesota,  and  is  seventy-six  years 
of  age. 

Mr.  McLucas  is  widely  known  in  various  connections  outside  of  his  business 
relations.  He  is  a  Knight  Templar,  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  member  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine.  He  is  the  state  treasurer  of  the  Roosevelt  Memorial  Association;  is  treas- 
urer and  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Young  Women's  Christian  Associa- 
tion; is  treasurer  of  the  Kansas  City  Community  Chorus  and  of  the  Do  You  Know 
Campaign.  He  was  also  cashier  of  the  Red  Cross  war  drive.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Kansas  City,  of  which  he  is. president,  and  a  director 
in  the  United  States  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  is  likewise  a  director  of  the  Mis- 
souri Christian  College  at  Camden  Point,  Missouri,  and  is  serving  as  a  director  of  the 
Mission  Hills  Country  Club.  He  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  Kansas  City 
Athletic  Club,  the  City  Club,  the  Mid-Day  Club,  the  Kansas  City  Country  Club,  the 
Automobile  Club,  the  Knife  and  Fork  Club  and  to  St.  Andrews  Society.  He  also 
has  membership  with  the  Elks,  with  the  Kansas  City  Association  of  Credit  Men,  with 
the  Fine  Arts  Institute  and  with  the  Bankers  Club  of  America,  in  New  York  city.  He 
Is  connected  with  Beta  Theta  Pi,  a  college  fraternity,  and  he  is  interested  in  all  those 
concerns  which  make  for  public  progress  and  improvement.  The  characteristics  of 
his  Scotch-Irish  ancestry  are  manifest  in  his  career.  He  has  the  quick  wit  that  comes 
through  the  Irish  strain,  combined  with  the  caution  of  the  Scotch.  He  is  a  man  of 
wonderful  business  capacity  and  remarkable  power  of  concentration.  He  possesses, 
too,  a  notably  strong  memory  and  these  qualities  enable  him  to  handle  an  enormous 
amount  of  business,  whether  for  the  benefit  of  his  individual  interests  or  for  the 
upbuilding  of  organizations  of  a  public  character  with  which  he  is  connected. 

One  who  has  known  Mr.  McLucas  since  childhood  had  this  to  say  of  him:  "I 
attribute  the  success  of  Mr.  McLucas  to  his  assiduous  and  painstaking  industry, 
natural  ability,  legal  knowledge  gained  in  the  courts  when  a  young  man,  integrity, 
knowledge  of  human  motives  and  keen  perception,  enabling  him  to  acquire  facts 
and  knowledge  from  those  whom  he  meets,  having  the  peculiar  faculty  of  obtaining 
such  knowledge  without  them  knowing  that  they  are  giving  it.  Even  before  he 
became  engaged  in  the  realm  of  finance,  he  always  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  larger 
movements  of  business,  the  conditions  of  the  markets,  crops,  coal,  and  other  im- 
portant factors  affecting  business  conditions.  He  has  a  keen,  almost  intuitive  per- 
ception of  human  nature,  the  springs  which  govern  men's  actions.  When  he  finally 
became  a  banker  he  had  a  phenomenal  career  for  a  young  man.  From  childhood  he 
has  been  a  consistent  and  devoted  member  of  the  Christian  church,  and  has  brought 
up  his  family  with  the  end  in  view  that  they  also  may  be  imbued  with  religious 
spirit." 

Such  in  brief  is  the  story  of  one  of  Kansas  City's  best  known  and  most  reliable 
business  men. 


J.  BRAYTON  CAHILL. 


J.  Brayton  Cahill,  an  osteopathic  practitioner  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Painesville, 
Ohio,'  August  1,  1891,  his  parents  being  Lawrence  and  Margaret  (Chambers)  Cahill. 
The  father  was  also  born  in  Painesville  and  passed  his  life  there  as  a  general  merchant. 
His  people  were  of  Irish  extraction  and  had  lived  in  Canada  long  before  settling  in 
Ohio.  The  mother  was  a  daughter  of  John  and  Anne  Chambers,  of  Painesville,  and 
passed  away  in  1894.  Her  mother,  Mrs.  Anne  Chambers,  was  born  near  Dublin,  Ireland, 
came  to  this  country  when  thirteen  years  of  age  and  is  now  living  at  Painesville. 


682  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

J.  Brayton  Cahill  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city,  completing 
a  high  school  course  with  the  class  of  1911.  He  then  went  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  where 
he  secured  employment  with  the  wholesale  hardware  firm  of  Lockwood,  Leutkemeyer 
&  Henry,  continuing  with  them  for  a  yeir.  He  next  entered  the  employ  of  J.  V.  N. 
Yates,  a  wholesale  dealer  in  coal  and  coke,  and  at  the  end  of  a  year  and  a  half  he 
became  connected  with  the  Cleveland  Electrical  Illuminating  Company,  with  which 
he  was  associated  for  nearly  two  years.  During  the  period  which  he  passed  in  these 
different  positions  he  was  at  all  times  cherishing  the  desire  of  some  day  becoming 
an  osteopathic  practitioner,  as  he  had  deep  convictions  concerning  the  benefits  to  be 
derived  from  treatment  of  that  character.  Eventually,  therefore,  he  became  a  student 
in  the  American  School  of  Osteopathy  at  Kirksville,  Missouri,  from  which  he  was  grad- 
uated upon  the  completion  of  a  thorough  three  years'  course  in  1918  with  the  D.  O. 
degi-ee.  He  at  once  opened  an  office  in  St.  Louis  in  the  Century  building,  where  he 
continued  until  September  1,  1920,  when  he  moved  to  513  Victoria  building,  and  through 
the  intervening  period  has  won  a  most  gratifying  measure  of  success.  The  number  of 
his  patients  are  constantly  increasing  and  his  reputation  as  a  skilled  osteopath  is 
continually  broadening. 

On  the  25th  of  January,  1916,  Dr.  Cahill  was  married  to  Miss  Evelyn  Ryan,  a 
daughter  of  William  and  Anne  Ryan,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  the  latter  descended  from  the 
Crowley  family  of  Irish  lineage.  Dr.  Cahill  belongs  to  the  Catholic  church  and  is  a 
communicant  of  the  Cathedral  parish  of  St.  Louis.  He  has  membership  in  De  Andreis 
Council  No.  800  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  also  belongs  to  the  Kiwanis  Club. 
He  finds  his  recreation  in  hunting,  fishing  and  golf,  to  which  he  turns  when  leisure 
permits.  His  record  indicates  the  truth  of  the  old  adage— "Where  there's  a  will,  there's 
a  way,"  for  cherishing  at  all  times  the  ambition  to  enter  upon  a  professional  career, 
he  bent  every  effort  toward  that  end  and  has  made  steady  progress  as  a  successful 
practitioner,  his  success  resulting  from  his  comprehensive  knowledge  of  anatomy  and 
the  component  parts  of  the  human  body.  He  is  thoroughly  skilled  in  the  manipulation 
which  brings  about  the  normal  adjustment  of  parts,  thus  eliminating  disease,  and  his 
professional  service  has  been  most  satisfactory  to  a  large  number  of  patients. 


JOHN    IGNATIUS    HAYNES. 


Many  of  the  structures  which  add  to  the  substantial  character  and  beauty  of 
St.  Louis  stand  as  monuments  to  the  efforts,  business  ability  and  skill  of  John 
Ignatius  Haynes,  who  occupies  a  leading  position  among  the  architects  of  the  city 
■as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Barnett,  Haynes  &  Barnett.  He  is  a  native  son  of 
St.  Louis,  his  birth  having  here  occurred  March  1.  1861,  his  parents  being  Thomas 
and  Ellen  (Farrell)  Haynes.  After  attending  the  public  schools  h§  followed  his 
natural  bent  and  became  a  draftsman  with  the  firm  of  Barnett  &  Tavlor,  architects, 
with  whom  he  was  connected  from  1878  until  1888.  He  thoroughly  mastered 
every  task  assigned  him  in  this  connection  and  gained  a  most  comprehensive  knowl- 
edge of  the  practical  phases  of  the  business  and  of  the  scientific  principles  under- 
lying construction.  He  resigned  his  position  to  accept  that  of  deputy  commis- 
sioner in  the  building  department  of  the  city  of  St.  Louis,  with  which  he  was 
connected  until  1891,  when  he  resigned  to  form  a  partnership  with  George  D. 
Barnett.  under  the  firm  style  of  Barnett  &  Haynes.  In  1895  they  were  joined 
by  Thomas  P.  Barnett  and  the  present  firm  of  Barnett,  Haynes  &  Bartnett  was 
thus    organized.      In    1912    George    D.    Barnett,    Jr.,    succeeded   Thomas    P.    Barnett. 

The  firm  of  Barnett.  Haynes  &  Barnett  has  long  since  been  accorded  a  posi- 
tion of  leadership  among  the  architects  of  St.  Louis  and  the  Mississippi  valley. 
Their  high  standing  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  they  were  appointed  members 
of  the  commission  board  for  the  Louisiana  Purchase,  Exposition,  consisting  of  nine 
architects,  five  of  whom  were  selected  from  St.  Louis,  in  which  connection  they 
made  valuable  contribution  to  the  beauty  of  an  exposition  which  has  rivalled  any 
in  architectural  arrangement  and  adornment  that  has  been  held  not  only  in  this 
country  but  in  foreign  lands  as  well.  Many  of  the  notable  structures  of  St.  Louis 
have  been  built  after  plans  that  have  been  initiated  and  perfected  in  the  office 
of  this  firm,  including  the  Marquette  and  Hamilton  Hotels,  the  Hotel  Jefferson, 
the   Star  Newspaper  building,   the   Post   Dispatch   building,   the   St.    Louis   cathedral 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  685 

and  many  churches,  institutions  and  fine  residences.  They  were,  moreover,  archi- 
tects of  the  Illinois  Athletic  Club  building  o£  Chicago,  the  Busch  building  and 
Adolphus  Hotel  of  Dallas,  Texas,  the  Brockman  building  of  Los  Angeles,  Cali- 
fornia, the  Mark  Twain  Hotel  of  Hannibal,  the  Connor  Hotel  of  Joplin,  Missouri, 
and  various  others   in   different  parts  of  the  state. 

Mr.  Haynes  was  married  on  the  17th  of  March,  1894,  to  Miss  Harriet  L.  Helery, 
daughter  of  Henry  and  Zelline  (Hugunin)  Helery.  The  religious  faith  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Haynes  is  that  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church  and  his  political  endorse- 
ment is  given  to  the  democratic  party.  During  the  period  of  the  World  war  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Home  Guard  and  was  active  in  promoting  the  sale  of  Liberty 
Bonds  in  all  the  various  drives.  His  patriotic  spirit  caused  him  to  make  other 
interests  subservient  to  his  country's  demand  at  this  critical  period,  tor  with  him 
the  call  of  duty  was  paramount  to  all  else  and  he  counted  no  personal  sacrifice 
on  his  part  too  great  if  it  would  uphold  and  promote  American  interests  in  the 
great  World  war. 


REV.  CHARLES  FRANCIS  BUDDY. 

Rev.  Charles  Francis  Buddy,  ordained  to  the  Catholic  priesthood  in  Rome  and 
laboring  since  his  return  to  America  in  connection  with  the  cathedral  of  St.  Joseph, 
was  born  October  4,  1887,  in  the  city  where  he  still  resides,  his  parents  being  Charles 
A.  and  Annie  (Farrell)  Buddy,  who  are  mentioned  at  length  on  another  page  of 
this  work. 

The  son  was  six  years  of  age  when  he  entered  the  primary  grade  of  the  old 
parochial  school  at  Twelfth  and  Messanie  streets,  then  known  as  "The  Little  Con- 
vent." When  he  was  ten  years  of  age  he  became  a  pupil  in  the  Christian  Brothers 
College  at  St.  Joseph,  pursuing  a  commercial  course.  In  the  fall  of  1902  he  entered 
upon  the  academic  course  at  St.  Benedict's  College  in  Atchison,  Kansas,  and  in  the 
fall  of  1904  he  matriculated  in  St.  Mary's  College  at  St.  Marys,  Kansas,  where  for 
five  yeai;^  he  remained,  there  completing  his  classical  studies.  In  the  meantime  he 
had  determined  to  enter  the  priesthood  and  in  the  fall  of  1909  he  sailed  for  Italy 
and  began  preparation  for  holy  orders  as  a  priest  in  the  North  American  College  at 
Rome.  He  also  attended  the  famous  lectures  at  the  University  of  the  Propaganda. 
On  the  4th  of  July,  1911,  he  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  and  on  the 
25th  of  June,  1914,  the  degree  of  Licentiate  of  Theology.  On  the  19th  of  September, 
1914,  he  was  ordained  to  the  sacred  priesthood  in  the  Basilica  of  St.  John  Lateran 
in  Rome  and  in  July,  1915,  took  passage  for  America. 

Arriving  at  St.  Joseph,  he  was  appointed  by  the  bishop  as  assistant  at  St.  Joseph's 
cathedral  and  in  October,  1917,  was  appointed  by  the  bishop  of  St.  Joseph  as  secre- 
tary and  chancellor  of  the  diocese,  but  on  account  of  ill  health  following  an  attack 
of  influenza  he  was  obliged  to  resign  his  position  on  the  Ist  of  January,  1919.  Ho 
Is  a  most  scholarly  and  cultured  representative  of  the  priesthood  In  Missouri. 
He  speaks  Italian  and  Spanish  as  well  as  English  and  his  high  cultural  standards 
as  well  as  his  religious  zeal  have  been  a  potent  force  among  the  people  of  the  Catho- 
lic faith  with  whom  he  has  labored.  He  is  a  past  chaplain  of  the  Knights  of  Colum- 
bus and  a  fourth  degree  member  of  that  order.  He  belongs  to  one  of  the  oldest  and 
most  prominent  of  the  Catholic  families  of  St.  Joseph  and  has  a  very  wide  acquaint- 
ance in  this  section  of  the  state. 


THOMAS  J.  DOOLEY. 


Thomas  J.  Dooley,  conducting  a  general  insurance  agency  in  St.  Louis,  where  he 
was  born  August  7,  1864,  is  a  son  of  William  Dooley,  a  native  of  Callan,  Ireland, 
whence  he  came  to  America  In  1849.  From  1855  until  the  time  of  his  death  in  1910 
he  resided  in  St.  Louis  and  had  reached  the  age  of  seventy-nine  years  when  called 
to  the  home  beyond.  Through  the  greater  part  of  this  period  he  was  extensively 
and  successfully  engaged  in  the  wholesale  grocery  business.  He  belonged  to  the 
Roman  Catholic  church,  loyally  adhering  to  its  teachings,  and  was  keenly  interested 


686  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

in  civic  as  well  as  religious  matters.  He  married  Elizabeth  Martin,  who  was  born 
in  Kilkenny,  Ireland,  and  came  to  America  in  1850.  It  was  on  this  side  o£  the 
Atlantic  that  she  met  William  Dooley  and  their  marriage  was  celebrated  in  the  old 
Jesuit  church  in  St.  Louis  in  November,  1863.  They  had  but  two  children,  the 
daughter,  Mary  Elizabeth,  being  now  deceased.  The  mother  passed  away  in  1881 
at  the  age  of  fifty  years. 

Thomas  J.  Dooley  was  educated  in  the  parochial  schools  of  his  native  city  and 
in  the  St.  Louis  University.  When  twenty  years  of  age  he  started  out  to  provide 
for  his  own  support  and  was  associated  with  his  father  from  1884  until  1897,  when 
he  entered  the  general  insurance  business,  in  which  he  has  continuously  engaged, 
his  close  application  and  unremitting  energy  and  his  thorough  study  of  every  phase 
of  the  business  constituting  tBe  salient  elements  in  his  growing  success. 

On  the  21st  of  June,  1892,  Mr.  Dooley  was  married  in  St.  Vincent  de  Paul's 
Roman  Catholic  church  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss  Mary  A.  Doyle,  a  native  of  this  city 
and  a  daughter  of  Michael  Doyle,  a  well  known  and  prominent  builder  and  con- 
tractor of  St.  Louis,  and  Ellen  (McCauIift)  Doyle.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dooley  have  be- 
come the  parents  of  three  children:  Elizabeth  E.,  now  the  wife  of  Charles  C.  O'Neal, 
of  St.  Louis;  and  Joseph  N.  and  William  T.,  twins.  The  former  marriedf  Edmer 
Anheuser  and  William  wedded  Miss  Cornelia  Howe. 

The  religious  faith  of  the  family  has  always  been  that  of  the  Catholic  church 
and  Mr.  Dooley  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  having  previously  served 
as  the  first  secretary  of  the  state  organization.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Alumni 
Association  of  St.  Louis  University.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  demo- 
cratic party.  During  the  war  he  was  active  in  the  sale  of  Liberty  Bonds  and  in  pro- 
moting the  Red  Cross  and  other  drives  which  featured  in  connection  with  the  prose- 
cution of  the  war.  He  has  always  made  his  home  in  St.  Louis  and  has  many  warm 
friends  in  the  city,  who  have  known  him  from  his  boyhood  to  the  present  time. 


OLIVER  J.   CHAPMAN. 


Oliver  J.  Chapman,  attorney  at  law  of  Kansas  City,  was  born  in  Rappahannock 
county,  Virginia,  October  10,  1856.  His  father,  John  Chapman,  was  also  a  native 
of  the  Old  Dominion  and  in  1858  removed  to  Missouri.  The  mother  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Miranda  Nolan  and  was  likewise  a  native  of  Virginia.  Both  have 
now  passed  away. 

Oliver  J.  Chapman  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Livingston  county, 
Missouri,  and  in  the  State  Normal  School  at  Kirksville,  Missouri,  of  which  many 
years  later  he  was  made  president  of  the  board  of  curators.  Following  his  gradu- 
ation he  took  up  the  profession  of  teaching,  in  fact  he  became  a  teacher  at  the  age 
of  sixteen  years,  in  Chillicothe,  Missouri,  and  devoted  four  years  to  that  profession. 
It  was  his  desire,  however,  to  become  a  member  of  the  bar  and  he  regarded  his 
teaching  activities  merely  as  an  initial  step  to  other  professional  labor.  Taking 
up  the  study  of  law,  he  was  admitted  to  practice  at  Chillicothe  in  1875,  before 
he  had  attained  his  majority.  He  entered  upon  the  active  work  of  the  profession 
in  connection  with  the  firm  of  Broaddus  &  Pollard,  of  Chillicothe,  Missouri,  and 
for  twenty-five  years  he  was  actively  engaged  in  practice  in  four  counties  of  this 
state.  In  1907  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  since  remained,  doing 
important  professional  work,  with  offices  in  the  Scarritt  building.  He  is  well 
educated,  a  sound  lawyer,  a  wise  counselor,  aggressive  and  has  always  stood  in 
the  front  rank  of  the  profession.  He  has  always  continued  in  the  general  practice 
of  law  and  has  become  widely  known  as  a  most  excellent  trial  lawyer.  All  familiar 
with  his  professional  career  bear  testimony  to  his  good  qualities  and  his  ability  and 
speak  in  equally  high  terms  of  Mr.  Chapman  as  a  citizen  and  as  a  business  man. 

In  1879  Mr.  Chapman  was  married  to  Miss  Carrie  Russel  and  they  have  one 
daughter,  Elizabeth,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  R.  R.  Hanger  of  Kansas  City,  and  the 
mother  of  two  children:  Oliver,  seventeen  years  of  age,  a  student  in  the  West- 
port  high  school;   and  Helen  Virginia,  thirteen  years  of  age,  also  attending  school. 

Mr.  Chapman  is  an  active  supporter  of  the  democratic  party  and  was  a  dele- 
gate to  the  national  convention  which  nominated  Grover  Cleveland,  leading  to 
his  election  in  1884.  He  has  always  done  everything  in  his  power  to  advance  the 
success  of  the  party  because  of  his  firm  belief  in  its  principles.     He  is  a  Mason, 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  689 

belonging  to  Ivanhoe  Lodge,  No.  446,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Kansas  City  Chapter,  No.  28, 
R.  A.  M.;  to  Oriental  Commandery,  K.  T.,  and  in  all  these  bodies  he  has  filled  all 
the  different  chairs.  He  belongs  to  the  City  Club  and  along  strictly  professional 
lines  is  connected  with  the  Kansas  City  and  with  the  Missouri  Ban  Associations. 
He  is  a  lover  o£  good  literature  and  is  especially  well  kpown  as  a  Shakespearean 
scholar.  He  is  a  man  of  positive  nature,  firm  in  his  convictions,  unfaltering  in  a 
course  which  he  believes  to  be  right,  and  he  will  ever  be  classed  as  one  of  Mis- 
souri's most  distinguished  citizens  and  ablest  lawyers. 


WILLIAM   BRANDON   CURRY. 

William  Brandon  Curry,  a  Kansas  City  real  estate  dealer,  senior  partner  in  the 
firm  of  Curry  &  Powell,  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  November 
9,  1871,  and  is  a  son  of  John  James  and  Martha  E.  (Brandon)  Curry,  who  were  also 
natives  of  the  same  county.  The  father  passed  away  in  1872  and  the  mother  still 
survives,  now  residing  in  Kansas  City  with  her  son  William.  The  family  numbered 
three  children. 

William  B.  Curry  was  educated  in  the  Callaway  county  schools,  and  afterward 
attended  the  State  Normal  School,  at  Kirksville,  Missouri,  while  subsequently  he 
entered  the  William  Jewell  College  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1900.  He  afterward 
took  up  the  study  of  osteopathy  and  was  graduated  in  1905  from  the  American  School 
of  Osteopathy  at  Kirksville,  Missouri,  but  practiced  tor  only  a  very  short  time.  He 
then  turned  his  attention  to  general  merchandising,  conducting  a  store  at  Kirksville 
and  afterward  at  Mexico,  Missouri.  He  won  success  in  that  venture  and  it  constituted 
his  initial  step  toward  activity  in  other  fields.  Turning  to  real  estate,  he  has  since 
been  active  along  that  line.  For  a  time  he  conducted  a  real  estate  office  in  Kirksville 
and  in  1914  removed  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  since  carried  on  business,  being 
now  senior  partner  in  a  very  prominent  real  estate  firm — that  of  Curry  &  Powell. 
They  have  negotiated  many  important  property  transfers  and  are  most  accurate  val- 
uators of  city  property.  Their  business  has  assumed  extensive  proportions  and  among 
their  clients  are  numbered  many  of  the  leading  residents  of  Kansas  City. 

In  1896  Mr.  Curry  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Etna  Kelso,  of  Kirksville,  Mis- 
souri, who  was  born  in  Callaway  county,  this  state.  They  have  become  the  parents 
of  three  children:  Marian  E.,  who  was  born  in  January,  1902;  William  Brandon,  Feb- 
ruary 21,  1903;  and  Harold  Kelso,  January  9,  1910.  Mrs.  Curry  is  a  graduate  of  the 
American  School  of  Osteopathy  and  practices  to  some  extent.  Mr.  Curry  is  well  known 
in  Masonic  circles,  belonging  to  Adair  Lodge  No.  366,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Kirksville; 
Caldwell  Chapter  No.  53,  R.  A.  M.;  Ely  Commandery  No.  22,  K.  T.,  of  Kirksville;  and 
Ararat  Temple,  A:  A.  0.  N.  M  S.  He  takes  active  and  helpful  interest  in  the  work  of 
the  First  Baptist  church,  in  which  he  holds  membership  and  is  a  class  leader  of  the 
Business  Men's  Bible  Class.  His  life  has  ever  been  actuated  by  high  and  honorable 
principles  and  worthy  motives,  and  the  thoroughness  and  enterprise  which  he  has 
displayed  in  his  business  affairs  have  brought  him  prominently  to  the  front  along  the 
line  of  his  chosen  life  work. 


DORSEY  ALBERT  JAMISON. 

For  forty-five  years  Dorsey  Albert  Jamison  has  been  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis 
bar,  where  his  consecutive  progress  has  brought  him  to  a  point  of  leadership  in  the 
ranks  of  the  legal  profession.  He  has  throughout  the  entire  period  specialized  in  civil 
law,  practicing  in  various  states  and  also  in  the  United  States  courts.  Born  in 
Rutherford  county,  Tennessee,  on  the  22d  of  November,  1853,  he  is  a  son  of  Henry 
Downs  and  Sarah  (Thomas)  Jamison.  He  is  a  descendant  of  the  Downs  family  of 
Revolutionary  times.  His  literary  education  was  acquired  in  the  country  schools  of 
Rutherford  county,  Tennessee,  and  in  Union  University  at  Murfreesboro,  that  state, 
while  he  prepared  for  the  bar  in  the  St.  Louis  Law  School,  the  law  department  of 
Washington  University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  June,  1875,  the  degree  of 
LL.  B.  being  at   that   time   conferred   upon   him.     Immediately   afterward   he   entered 


690  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

upon  the  practice  of  law  in  St.  Louis,  and  while  advancement  at  the  bar  is  proverb- 
ially slow,  no  dreary  novitiate  awaited  him.  He  early  recognized  the  fact  that  in- 
dustry is  just  as  essential  in  law  practice  as  it  is  in  any  held  of  labor  and  from 
the  beginning  it  has  been  his  custom  to  prepare  his  cases  with  the  greatest  thorough- 
ness and  care,  studying  e'siery  phase  or  question  that  has  bearing  upon  the  points  at 
issue.  His  close  application,  his  indefatigable  energy  and  his  familiarity  with  prin- 
ciple and  precedent  have  been  potent  elements  in  his  steady  advancement.  Before 
admitted  to  the  bar  he  had  spent  two  years  as  a  law  student  in  the  office  of  Cline, 
Jamison  &  Day,  well  known  attorneys,  and  his  experience  there  was  of  great  value  to 
him  when  he  entered  upon  active  professional  duties.  Following  his  admission  to 
the  bar  he  continued  to  have  his  office  with  the  above  mentioned  firm  until  1881,  when 
he  became  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Collins  &  Jamison,  which  connection  was  maintained 
until  May,  1902.  Since  that  date  he  has  been  the  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Jamison 
&  Thomas  that  for  eighteen  years  has  maintained  a  most  creditable  position  at  the 
St.  Louis  bar,  their  clientage  being  extensive  and  of  an  important  character. 

Mr.  Jamison  was  married  at  Franklin,  Tennessee,  January  6,  1892,  to  Miss  Stella 
A.  Sikes,  a  daughter  of  Ambrose  and  Elizabeth  M.  Sikes.  Her  father  served  with  the 
Confederate  troops  in  the  Civil  war  and  died  soon  after  the  close  of  hostilities.  Her 
mother  afterward  became  the  wife  of  the  Hon.  Altha  Thomas,  of  Franklin,  Tennessee, 
who  for  two  terms  was  state  treasurer.  The  only  child  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jamison, 
Sarah  Elizabeth,  was  married  on  the  14th  of  April,  1917,  to  Charles  Douglas  Smiley,  Jr., 
of  St.  Louis,  member  of  the  firm  of  Smiley  &  Van  Dyke. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jamison  are  active  members  of  the  Second  Baptist  church  of  St. 
Louis,  of  which  he  is  serving  as  a  trustee.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the 
democratic  party  and  while  never  an  aspirant  for  office  he  has  always  kept  well 
informed  on  the  leading  questions  and  issues  of  the  day.  Along  professional  lines 
he  has  membership  with  the  St.  Louis,  Missouri  State  and  American  Bar  Associations 
and  the  Law  Library  Association.  He  was  formerly  identified  with  the  Mercantile  Club 
and  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association  and  he  is  now  a  member  of  the  Algonquin  Golf 
Club  at  Webster  Groves.  He  likewise  belongs  to  the  Tennessee  Society  of  St.  Louis,  of 
which  he  was  president  in  1904-.5.  He  is  a  prominent  representative  of  Masonic  interests 
in  Missouri  and  has  taken  the  degrees  of  both  the  York  and  Scottish  Rites.  He  was 
grand  master  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Masons  in  Missouri  in  1896  and  1897  and  in  1905 
the  honorary  thirty-third  degree  of  Scottish  Rite  Masonry  was  conferred  upon  him. 
He  has  been  a  director  and  general  counsel  for  the  Masonic  Home  of  Missouri  for 
about  twenty  years  and  in  1917,  when  the  Masonic  Temple  Association  of  St.  Louis 
was  incorporated  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  a  million  dollar  York  Rite  Masonic 
Temple  on  Lindell  boulevard  west  of  Grand  avenue,  he  was  elected  the  first  president 
of  the  association  and  by  reelection  has  since  been  continued  in  the  office.  He  has 
actively  engaged  in  raising  funds  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  the  temple  and  up  to 
the  present  time  eight  hundred  thousand  dollars  has  been  subscribed  and  the  work  of 
building  will  be  begun  at  an  early  day.  The  military  history  of  Mr.  Jamison  covers 
service  in  the  State  Militia  from  1876  until  1878  and  in  1877  he  was  on  active  duty 
during  the  strikes.  His  chief  activity  aside  from  his  profession  has  been  along 
Masonic  lines  and  he  is  indeed  a  most  exemplary  representative  of  the  craft  and  its 
high  principles  and   purposes. 


ARTHUR  BERGER  CHAMIER. 

Arthur  Berger  Chamier,  a  well  known  member  of  the  Missouri  bar  practicing 
at  Moberly  and  specializing  in  railroad  and  corporation  law,  was  bom  July  19,  1875, 
in  the  city  which  is  still  his  home,  his  parents  being  Leo  A.  and  Mary  (Berger) 
Chamier.  After  his  graduation  from  the  Moberly  high  school  with  the  class  of 
1892  he  attended  the  William  Jewell  College  at  Liberty,  Missouri,  and  won  his 
Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  from  that  institution  in  1895.  In  preparation  for  the  legal 
profession  he  attended  Washington  University  at  St.  Louis  and  was  graduated  In 
1902  with  the  LL.  B.  degree.  In  the  meantime  he  had  taken  up  the  profession  of 
teaching  and  was  an  instructor  in  Wayne  Academy  at  Piedmont,  Missouri,  in  1895-6. 
He  was  also  teacher  of  history  and  civics  in  the  Moberly  high  school  from  1897  until 
1900  and  filled  the  office  of  United  States  customs  inspector  of  the  Louisiana  Pur- 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  691 

chase  Exposition  at  St.  Louis.  In  1903-4  he  was  a  reporter  for  R.  G.  Dun  &  Com- 
pany at  St.  Louis  and  afterwards  became  private  secretary  to  the  Hon.  Amos  M. 
Thayer,  United  States  Judge  of  the  circuit  of  appeals  in  the  eighth  circuit.  He  served 
as  court  reporter  under  Judge  Waller  of  the  ninth  Judicial  circuit  of  Missouri  from 
1905  until  1911. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  practice  of  law  by  Judge  Hockaday  in  the  circuit  court 
of  Randolph  county,  Missouri,  at  Moberly  in  1901  and  received  his  initial  professional 
training  in  the  law  office  of  Peters  &  Powell,  of  Seattle,  Washington,  in  1902-3.  In 
the  succeeding  year  he  was  in  the  law  office  of  Paul  F.  Coste,  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
and  afterwards  became  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Hunter  &  Chamier,  being  a  part- 
ner in  this  connection  since  1911,  with  offices  in  the  Moberly  Trust  building.  They 
are  attorneys  for  the  Northern  Central  Coal  Company,  the  Powhatan  Coal  Company, 
the  Burlington  Railroad  Company,  the  P.  M.  Stamper  Company,  the  Aetna  Casualty 
Company,  the  Maryland  Casualty  Company,  the  Travelers  Insurance  Company,  the 
Metropolitan  Life  Insurance  Company,  the  Moberly  Wholesale  Grocery  Company,  the 
C.  J.  Harris  Lumber  Company,  the  Medical  Protective  Company,  the  Liberty  Coal 
Company,  the  United  Mine  Workers  of  America  (District  No.  25)  and  the  Moberly 
Trust  Company.  They  are  thus  largely  confining  their  attention  to  corporation  law 
and  in  this  branch  of  the  profession  both  partners  are  well  equipped.  The  prelim- 
inary training  of  Mr.  Chamier  was  broad  and  varied,  giving  him  wide  knowledge 
of  business  conditions,  of  men  and  of  motives.  He  displays  the  utmost  care  in  the 
analysis  of  a  case  and  is  seldom  if  ever  at  fault  in  the  application  of  a  legal  prin- 
ciple. In  1911  he  was  called  to  the  office  of  city  attorney  and  counselor  of  Moberly 
and  so  continued  until  1915. 

On  the  15th  of  September,  1906,  Mr.  Chamier  was  married  in  Moberly  to  Miss 
Lulu  M.  Jeffries  and  they  have  two  children,  Richard  J.  and  Mary  Lou.  Mr.  Chamier 
is  well  known  in  Masonic  circles.  He  is  a  past  master  of  Moberly  Lodge,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.;  a  past  high  priest  of  Moberly  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.;  a  member  of  Centralia  Coun- 
cil, R.  &  S.  M.;  also  of  Tancred  Commandery,  K.  T.,  of  Moberly;  and  of  Moolah 
Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.,  of  St.  Louis.  He  belongs  also  to  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows,  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America,  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Elks 
lodge,  all  of  Moberly,  and  he  has  membership  connections  with  Sigma  Nu,  a  college 
fraternity,  the  Moberly  Commercial  Club  and  the  Moberly  Country  Club,  while  along 
strictly  professional  lines  he  belongs  to  the  Randolph  County  and  the  Missouri  State 
Bar  Associations.  His  religious  faith  is  indicated  in  his  membership  in  the  First 
Baptist  church  of  Moberly.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  democratic  party 
and  aside  from  filling  the  office  of  city  attorney  he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Moberly  school  board  since  1915.  During  the  war  period  he  was  chairman  of  the 
Four  Minute  men  for  Randolph  county,  was  director  of  speakers  in  the  Liberty  Loan 
campaigns,  the  Red  Cross  and  the  United  War  Work  campaigns.  In  a  word  he  did 
everything  within  his  power  to  promote  the  interests  of  the  government  during  its 
critical  period  in  history,  counting  no  personal  sacrifice  on  his  part  too  great  if  It 
would  aid  in  the  support  of  the  soldiers  in  camp  and  field. 


FRANKLIN   ROBERT  JACKES. 

Franklin  Robert  Jackes  is  the  president  of  the  Jackes-Evans  Manufacturing 
Company,  which  he  organized  in  1889,  soon  after  his  arrival  in  St.  Louis.  Through 
the  intervening  period  of  more  than  three  decades  he  has  figured  prominently  in  the 
commercial  circles  of  the  city.  He  was  born  in  Toronto,  Canada,  February  8,  1859. 
His  father,  William  Jackes,  was  also  a  native  of  that  city  and  for  many  years  engaged 
in  farming  but  later  lived  retired  until  his  death.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden 
name  of  Henrietta  Jones,  was  also  born  near  Toronto  and  is  now  a  resident  of  that 
City.  Their  family  numbered  three  sons  and  five  daughters,  of  whom  Franklin 
Robert  is  the  eldest. 

After  mastering  the  preliminary  branches  of  learning  in  the  public  schools 
Franklin  Robert  Jackes  passed  on  to  the  high  school  of  Toronto  and  later  attended 
Day's  Commercial  College  of  that  city.  He  started  out  in  the  business  world  as  a 
clerk  in  the  wholesale  grocery  house  of  Robert  Jordan  &  Company  in  his  native 
city,  remaining  there  for  three  years.     In  1882  lie  made  his  way  westward  to  Winni- 


692  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI      ' 

peg,  Manitoba,  where  he  was  engaged  in  business  in  connection  with  a  hardware 
enterprise,  and  in  1884  he  became  proprietor  thereof  under  the  firm  name  of  P.  R. 
Jackes  &  Company.  In  1885,  however,  he  joined  General  Middleton  on  an  expedi- 
tion in  connection  with  the  Riel  rebellion  against  the  Indians  in  the  Northwest  Terri- 
tory of  Canada  along  the  Saskatchewan  river.  He  served  as  sergeant  of  Company  I 
of  the  Ninetieth  Battalion  of  Winnipeg  Rifles  and  was  wounded  in  one  o£  the  engage- 
ments. 

In  the  same  year  Mr.  Jackes  disposed  of  his  hardware  business  in  Winnipeg  and 
removed  to  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  where  he  organized  the  Acme  Elbow  Company 
for  the  manufacture  of  stovepipe  elbows.  There  he  remained  until  1889,  when 
he  came  to  St.  Louis  and  established  the  Jackes-Evans  Manufacturing  Company  in 
the  same  line  of  business.  From  the  beginning  he  has  been  the  president  of  the 
firm,  which  has  developed  a  large  trade  as  the  years  have  gone  by  and  now  controls 
one  of  the  important  productive  industries  of  the  city.  As  the  years  have  passed 
Mr.  Jackes  has  also  extended  his  activities  into  other  fields  and  is  now  the  president 
of  the  Broadway  Savings  Trust  Company,  president  of  the  Creotina  Chemical  Com- 
pany and  treasurer  of  the  Baldwin-Pope  Marketing  Company. 

In  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  in  1890,  Mr.  Jackes  was  married  to  Miss  Margaret 
Campbell,  who  was  born  in  London,  England.  She  came  to  the  United  States  with 
her  parents  when  quite  small,  the  family  home  being  established  in  Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jackes  have  been  born  the  following  named:  Henrietta 
Lillian,  now  the  wife  of  Alexander  Cornwell,  of  St.  Louis;  Florence  Julia,  the  wife 
of  Arthur  Robertson,  of  St.  Louis;  Margaret  E.,  and  Campbell,  deceased;  Dorothy; 
Stanley  F. ;   Raymond,  who  has  passed  away;  and  Franklin  R.,  Jr. 

Mr.  Jackes  votes  with  the  republican  party  and  feels  deep  concern  as  to  its  suc- 
cess because  of  his  firm  belief  in  its  principles.  He  took  active  part  in  the  sale  of 
the  Liberty  Bonds  during  the  war  with  Germany,  also  in  the  Red  Cross  and  other 
drives.  He  belongs  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association  and  his  personal  qualities 
make  for  popularity  wherever  he  is  known.  He  is  an  elder  of  the  West  Presbyterian 
church  of  St.  Louis  and  his  interest  largely  centers  in  the  activities  being  put  forth 
by  that  organization  for  the  uplift  and  benefit  of  mankind. 


PETER    A.    O'NEIL. 


The  life  record  of  Peter  A.  O'Neil  contains  many  valuable  lessons  which  may 
be  most  carefully  considered  and  pondered.  While  he  started  out  in  the  business 
world  empty-handed  as  a  lad  of  twelve  years,  he  became  in  the  course  of  his  active 
career  a  prominent  figure  in  real  estate  and  financial  circles  in  St.  Louis;  nor  was 
there  a  single  esoteric  phase  in  his  career.  He  builded  his  succes  upon  the  sure 
and  stable  foundation  of  industry,  determination  and  laudable  ambition  and  he 
never  failed  to  take  a  forward  step  when  favoring  opportunity  pointed  out  the 
way.  When  determination,  perseverance  and  talent  are  arrayed  against  draw- 
backs, poverty  and  trials,  the  result  is  almost  absolutely  certain;  the  former  are 
invincible — they  know  no   defeat. 

Peter  A.  O'Neil  was  born  in  St.  Louis  about  1840,  his  parents  being  James 
and  Ellen  (Long)  O'Neil,  the  father  a  successful  business  man  in  the  field  of 
contracting.  In  his  youthful  days  the  son  became  a  student  in  the  Jesuit  College 
of  St.  Louis,  in  whicli  he  pursued  his  studies  to  the  age  of  twelve  years  and  then 
started  out  to  provide  for  his  own  support.  He  truly  won  the  proud  American 
title  of  a  self-man  man.  His  first  position  was  that  of  messenger  boy  in  the  Benoist 
Bank  and  the  first  business  in  which  he  engaged  as  an  independent  venture  was 
in  pork  packing  with  his  brother  Hugh.  He  was  afterward  associated  with  the 
firm  of  Fletcher  Brothers  in  the  same  line  of  business  and  gradually  advanced 
step  by  step,  each  forward  step  bringing  him  a  broader  outlook  and  wider  oppor- 
tunities. In  1875  he  transferred  his  activity  to  what  he  believed  would  prove 
a  more  profitable  field — the  restaurant  business,  taking  charge  of  the  Union  Depot 
restaurant  and  also  securing  the  dining-car  rights  on  all  trains  leaving  the  city. 
Success  attended  the  new  venture  from  the  beginning  and  he  had  materially  added 
to  his  financial  resources  when  he  withdrew  from  that  field  of  labor.  His  next 
venture  was  into  the  real  estate  business,  where  his  keen  discrimination  and  sound 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  701 

Judgment  found  ample  scope,  and  he  was  seldom  if  ever  at  error,  even  in  the 
slightest  degree,  in  his  valuation  of  property  or  in  his  judgment  concerning  its 
possible  rise  or  diminution  in  price.  He  negotiated  many  important  realty  trans- 
fers and  at  different  times  owned  and  sold  considerable  property,  realizing  a 
gratifying  profit  on  his  investments.  He  became  known  in  financial  circles  as 
a  director  of  the  Mercantile  Trust  Company  and  was  recognized  as  a  forceful 
factor  in  the  business  life  of  the  city,  possessing  sound  judgment  and  rare  sagacity. 

In  1875  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Peter  A.  O'Neil  and  Miss  Mary  A. 
Florez,  daughter  of  Bernardino  Florez,  who  was  born  in  Spain,  of  Spanish  descent. 
He  left  Spain  at  an  early  age,  first  making  ample  provision  for  his  mother  whom 
he  left  behind  him  there.  It  was  his  desire  to  see  the  world,  and  he  went  first  to 
France  and  there  served  as  a  soldier  under  Napoleon  III.  After  this  he  took 
service  on  a  British  sailing  vessel  and  had  the  experiences  of  most  sailors  in  the 
early  days,  serving  under  hard  and  brutal  masters.  This  life  was  so  intolerable 
that  on  reaching  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  he  and  another  sailor,  an  Irishman, 
left  the  vessel.  The  captain  tried  to  locate  them,  but  they  contrived  to  elude 
him.  It  was  then  that  Mr.  Florez's  business  career  was  begun.  Circumstances 
eventually  brought  him  to  St.  Louis,  and  he  here  engaged  in  different  merchandis- 
ing ventures  until  his  life's  labors  were  ended.  He  often  told  his  two  daughters 
of  his  early  trials  and  hard  life  at  sea.  He  also  made  large  investment  in  prop- 
erty and  became  recognized  as  a  leading  and  forceful  business  man.  He  married 
Eleanor  Rhyoum,  who  was  born  and  reared  in  St.  Louis,  where  her  people  settled 
at  an  early  day.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  O'Neil  were  born  three  children:  Eleanor, 
now  the  wife  of  Fred  Nolker,  of  St.  Louis;  Ellen,  the  wife  of  William  Vest  Logan, 
a  resident  of  New  York  city;    and  James,  also  of  St.  Louis. 

The  family  residence  on  Lindell  boulevard  was  erected  by  Mr.  O'Neil,  who 
found  his  greatest  happiness  in  providing  for  the  welfare  of  his  wife  and  children 
and  counted  no  personal  effort  or  sacrifice  on  his  part  too  great  it  it  would  promote 
their  best  interests.  His  religious  faith  was  that  of  the  Catholic  church.  He  was 
keenly  and  deeply  interested  in  civic  affairs  and  gave  his  support  to  many  projects 
for  the  public  benefit.  He  was  one  of  the  directors  of  the  World's  Fair  grounds, 
also  a  member  of  the  building  committee  and  took  a  very  active  interest  in  the 
success  of  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition,  while  at  all  times  he  labored  un- 
tiringly to  promote  the  best  interests  of  St.  Louis  along  those  lines  leading  to 
permanent  development  and  improvement.  His  breadth  of  view  not  only  saw 
possibilities  for  his  own  advancement  but  for  the  city's  development  as  well,  and 
his  lofty  patriotism  prompted  him  to  utilize  the  latter  as  quickly  and  as  effectively 
as   the  former. 


HON.  ARTHUR  G.  HILDRETH,  D.  O. 

Dr.  Arthur  G.  Hildreth,  president  of  the  Osteopathic  Sanitarium  Company  of 
Macon  and  one  of  the  leading  exponents  of  his  school  of  practice  in  this  state,  was 
born  upon  a  farm  near  Kirksvllle,  Missouri,  June  13,  1863,  his  parents  being  Harvey 
G.  and  Jane  E.  (Crosby)  Hildreth.  The  father  was  a  native  of  the  state  of  New  York 
and  both  he  and  his  wife  were  representatives  of  old  American  families.  On  leaving 
the  Empire  state  they  removed  to  southern  Wisconsin  with  their  respective  parents, 
settling  near  Jefferson,  that  state,  in  1837.  There  Harvey  G.  Hildreth  and  Jane  E. 
Crosby  were  married  and  began  their  domestic  life,  continuing  in  Wisconsin  until 
1857,  when  they  took  up  their  abode  near  Kirksville,  in  Adair  county,  Missouri, 
where  they  remained  until  called  to  their  final  rest,  the  father  passing  away  in 
1886  and  the  mother  in  1903.  Their  family  numbered  three  sons  and  a  daugh- 
ter, of  whom  two  are  living:  Dr.  Hildreth,  of  this  review;  and  Mrs.  Delia  Notes- 
tine,  -who  makes  her  home  with  her  brother.  The  father  was  a  farmer  by 
occupation  and  devoted  his  entire  life  to  agricultural  pursuits,  winning  a  sub- 
stantial  competence   through   his  Industry   and   capability. 

Dr.  Hildreth  began  his  education  In  the  common  schools  of  his  native  county 
and  afterward  spent  two  winters  In  the  Kirksville  State  Normal  School.  His  atten- 
tion being  attracted  by  the  profession  of  osteopathy,  he  matriculated  In  the  Amer- 
ican School  of  Osteopathy  at  Kirksville,  the  first  Institution  of  Its  kind,  the  school 


702  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

building  being  at  that  time  a  little  room  fourteen  by  twenty-eight  feet.  He  was 
graduated  in  1894  with  the  first  class  that  completed  the  course — a  class  number- 
ing seventeen  members.  For  ten  years  he  was  connected  in  one  capacity  or  an- 
other with  the  American  School  of  Osteopathy,  ranging  all  the  way  from  student, 
member  of  the  staff,  instructor  and  even  at  one  time  was  dean  of  the  college.  While 
still  a  resident  of  Adair  county  he  was  elected  in  19  00  its  representative  to  the 
state  legislature  and  made  so  excellent  a  record  during  his  first  term  in  the  general 
assembly  that  he  was  reelected  in  1902.  He  took  active  and  helpful  part  in  pro- 
moting many  valuable  legislative  measures  and  was  instrumental  in  securing  the 
enactment  of  the  present  osteopathic  law  of  Missouri. 

On  the  23d  of  November,  18-83,  Dr.  Hildreth  was  married  to  Miss  Luclnda  M. 
Corbin,  daughter  of  Early  and  Elizabeth  (Owenby)  Corbin,  who  were  among  the 
earliest  pioneers  of  Adair  county.  They  became  the  parents  of  two  children:  Har- 
vey Earl,  who  was  born  April  19,  1889,  and  died  in  infancy;  and  Ina  M.,  whose  birth 
occurred  May  23,  1891.  The  wife  and  mother  passed  away  on  the  1st  of  August 
1913. 

Dr.  Hildreth  came,  to  Macon.  February  26,  1914,  and  has  resided  in  the  city 
to  the  present  time.  He  belongs  to  Censor  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Macon;  Kirks- 
vllle  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.;  Ely  Commandery,  K.  T.,  of  Kirksville;  and  Ararat  Temple 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine  at  Kansas  City. 

Dr.  Hildreth  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  exponents  of  the  science  of  osteop- 
athy in  the  Mississippi  valley.  Perhaps  no  man  in  the  profession  was  more  closely 
or  more  intimately  associated  with  Dr.  A.  T.  Still  than  Dr.  Hildreth.  In  fact  the 
relationship  was  more  that  of  a  father  and  son  than  of  mere  acquaintanceship.  The 
history  of  Dr.  Hildreth's  efforts  for  legislative  recognition  of  osteopathy  is  worthy  of 
more  than  passing  notice.  The  first  bill  passed  in  the  United  States  by  any  legislative 
body  was  passed  by  the  house  and  senate  of  Missouri  in  1895.  This  bill  was  vetoed 
by  the  then  acting  Governor  Stone,  late  United  States  senator.  In  1897  the  same 
bill  was  passed  by  both  branches  of  the  Missouri  legislature  and  signed  by  Governor 
Stephens,  March  4,  1897.  Missouri  was  not  the  first  state  in  the  union,  however, 
to  place  on  its  statute  books  recognition  of  osteopaths,  the  first  bill  which  became 
a  law  being  passed  by  the  state  of  Vermont  during  the  month  of  November,  1896; 
the  second  state  was  South  Dakota,  which  enacted  a  law  in  February,  1897.  Then 
followed  Missouri  as  the  third,  and  from  that  time  on  one  state  after  another  has 
enacted  some  form  of  law  recognizing  the  osteopathic  profession  until  today  forty- 
seven  out  of  the  forty-eight  states  recognize  this  system  of  practice.  Dr.  Hildreth 
presented  this  measure  before  twenty-seven  different  legislative  bodies  during  the 
active  time  of  securing  recognition. 

After  leaving  the  legislature  Dr.  Hildreth  located  in  St.  Louis  and  was  there 
for  eleven  years  in  general  office  practice.  While  there,  on  the  1st  of  August,  1913, 
his  wife  died.  The  National  American  Osteopathic  Association  met  in  Kirksville  in 
August  of  the  same  year  and  during  the  convention  Dr.  H.  M.  Still  and  Dr.  C.  E. 
Still  told'Dr.  Hildreth  of  the  Macon  proposition,  as  it  was  then  called,  and  the  three 
osteopathic  physicians  met  Clyde  L.  Martin,  Otho  F.  Matthews.  R.  M.  Miller  and 
Frank  Keisacker,  these  gentlemen,  who  had  acquired  the  Blees  Military  Academy 
property  at  Macon,  being  active  in  trying  to  interest  the  Doctors  Still  in  converting 
the  old  academy  into  a  sanitarium.  They  replied  that  they  were  willing  to  under- 
take it  provided  they  could  interest  Dr.  Hildreth,  also  if  they  would  be  allowed  to  • 
treat  mental  diseases  and  if  the  right  kind  of  financial  arrangements  could  be  made. 
From  that  day  on  the  work  of  solving  these  three  problems  and  carrying  out  plans 
progressed  until  March  1,  1914.  when  the  institution  was  opened  for  patients.  The 
Still-Hildreth  Sanatorium  is  the  first  of  its  kind — that  is,  the  first  institution  where 
mental  diseases  can  be  treated  osteopathically.  Dr.  A.  T.  Sill,  who  is  mentioned  else- 
where in  this  work,  had  claimed  tor  years  that  when  the  time  came  when  we  could 
have  the  right  kind  of  buildings  with  proper  surroundings  and  environment,  there 
was  a  large  per  cent  of  insanity  that  could  be  cured  osteopathically.  Now,  after  six 
years'  experience  in  the  institution,  the  records  show  they  have  been  able  to  cure 
fifty-five  per  cent  of  the  general  run  of  curable  patients,  many  of  them  having 
been  pronounced  incurable.  Dr.  H.  M.  Still,  who  is  a  son  of  the  discoverer  of  the 
science  of  osteopathy,  and  Dr.  C.  E.  Still  were  the  men  to  whom  the  business  men 
of  Macon  first  appealed  with  the  proposition  to  start  the  institution.  Both  were  well 
known,  especially  in  the  osteopathic  profession.  Dr.  Harry  Still  having  had  extended 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  703 

experience  in  general  practice  in  Chicago  and  New  York  city  as  well  as  with  the 
home  school  for  a  number  of  years.  Dr.  C.  E.  Still  devoted  almost  his  entire  time 
from  the  beginning  of  osteopathy  until  the  death  of  Dr.  A.  T.  Still  to  the  original 
school.  During  the  last  eight  or  ten  years  of  the  life  of  Dr.  A.  T.  Still,  Dr.  C.  E.  Still 
■was  really  the  acting  head  of  the  school  and  in  fact  guided  the  affairs  of  the  Amer- 
ican School  of  Osteopathy  for  years  before  his  father's  death.  Dr.  A.  T.  Still  him- 
self was  very  much  interested  in  the  new  institution  at  Macon.  While  his  health 
was  such  that  he  was  never  able  to  visit  the  institution  after  its  doors  were  opened, 
he  manifested  the  keenest  concern  and  his  advice,  notwithstanding  his  remarkable 
age,  was  most  helpful  to  the  sanatorium.  When  the  Osteopathic  Sanatorium  Com- 
pany was  organized  at  Macon,  Dr.  Hildreth  was  elected  president  of  the  corporation 
and  president  and  superintendent  of  the  institution  and  has  so  continued  to  the 
present  time.  The  sanatorium  opened  its  doors  for  the  reception  of  patients  on  the 
1st  of  March,  1914.  On  the  4th  of  the  same  month  the  first  patient  arrived  and  the 
institution  has  since  grown  rapidly  until  at  the  present  time  there  are  over  one  hun- 
dred and  thirty  patients  within  its  walls.  In  1919  it  was  necessary  to  remodel  the 
gymnasium  building,  giving  to  the  institution  capacity  for  sixty  or  seventy  more 
people.  Already  the  work  accomplished  entitles  Dr.  Hildreth  and  his  associates  to 
the  gratitude  of  many  patients  and  of  the  public  at  large.  There  is  no  school  of  heal- 
ing that  gives  such  close  attention  to  the  study  of  anatomy  and  the  component  parts 
of  the  human  body  as  does  the  osteopathic  school  and  with  every  phase  of  the  science 
Dr.  Hildreth  is  thoroughly  familiar.  His  experiments  and  his  labors  have  been 
based  upon  sound  reason  and  logical  deductions  from  known  principles,  and  the  city 
of  Macon  has  reason  to  be  proud  of  the  splendid  record  made  by  this  institution 
which  has  been  established  within  its  midst. 


LLOYD  QUINCY  SLOCUMB. 

Lloyd  Quincy  Slocumb,  member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar  and  a  native  of  the  city, 
was  born  in  St.  Louis  November  16,  1888.  His  ancestry  can  be  traced  back  to  one 
of  three  brothers  who  came  from  England  when  this  country  was  still  numbered 
among  the  colonial  possessions  of  Great  Britain.  The  family  was  founded  in  Vir- 
ginia and  ancestors  of  Lloyd  Q.  Slocumb  participated  in  the  Revolutionary  war. 
The  name  was  originally  spelled  Slocombe.  The  father,  Quincy  L.  Slocumb,  is  a 
native  of  Illinois,  the  family  having  been  established  in  that  state  in  pioneer  times. 
He  became  connected  with  the  Missouri  Portland  Cement  Company,  of  which  he 
still  acts  as  superintendent.  He  married  Eudora  HoUinshead,  a  native  of  Illinois, 
and  she,  too,  belongs  to  one  of  the  old  families  of  that  state,  who  settled  there 
in  1830  coming  from  Canada.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Quincy  L.  Slocumb  are  the  parents 
of  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 

Lloyd  Quincy  Slocumb  was  the  second  in  order  of  birth.  The  public  schools 
of  St.  Louis  accorded  him  his  early  educational  privileges  and  in  1913  he  was 
graduated  from  the  Washington  University,  having  pursued  a  course  of  law  there. 
He  then  entered  upon  the  general  practice  of  his  profession,  with  which  he  has 
since  been  connected. 

Mr.  Slocumb  during  the  World  war  was  a  sergeant  of  the  Engineer  Corps. 
Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Ferguson  Lodge,  No.  542,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  is 
a  loyal  supporter  of  the  teachings  and  purposes  of  the  craft.  His  political  alle- 
giance is  given  to  the  republican  party. 


ALBERT   E.   MOSIER. 


Albert  E.  Mosier,  Kansas  City  representative  of  the  great  machinery  house 
of  the  Allis-Chalmers  Company  of  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Buffalo, 
New  York,  a  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Mullet)  Mosier,  both  of  whom  were  natives 
of  Switzerland  and  settled  in  Buffalo  in  the  '40s,  spending  their  remaining  days 
in  that  city. 

Their  son  attended  the  public  schools  of  Buffalo  but  put  aside  his  textbooks 
when  a  youth  of  fourteen  years  and  has  since  been  dependent  upon  his  own  re- 
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704  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

sources.  He  served  a  four  years'  apprenticeship  at  the  millwright's  trade,  work- 
ing for  four  dollars  per  month  and  board.  He  afterwards  worked  at  the  bench 
and  eventually  became  superintendent,  while  later  he  was  sent  upon  the  road  in 
connection  with  the  work  of  installing  machinery  in  big  flour  mills.  He  visited 
thirty-five  states  in  that  connection,  constantly  developing  his  skill  and  efficiency 
to  a  high  degree.  He  was  for  a  time  with  E.  P.  Allison  &  Company  and  in  1889 
he  made  his  way  westward  to  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  where  he  erected  and  equipped 
large  flour  mills.  He  next  went  to  New  York  City,  where  he  remained  for  a  few 
months  and  then  returned  to  Kansas  City  as  representative  tor  the  Allis-Chalmers 
Company.  With  the  development  of  his  business  interests  and  connections  he  has 
become  an  otRcer  or  director  in  twenty  different  financial  or  commercial  concerns. 
He  is  now  a  director  of  the  Security  National  Bank,  vice  president  of  the  Lucky 
Strike  Mining  Company,  also  of  the  City  Ice  &  Storage  Company  and  an  officer 
in  many  other  important  corporations.  He  has  a  genius  for  organization,  combin- 
ing marked  enterprise  with  strong  executive  force,  and  thoroughly  reliable  in  all 
dealings,  he  expects  the  same  from  others. 

In  1894  Mr.  Mosier  was  married  to  Mary  A.  Hunter,  a  sister  of  Judge  Hunter, 
a  Kansas  senator.  Mr.  Mosier  is  very  prominent  in  Masonic  circles,  having  taken 
the  degrees  of  lodge,  chapter  and  commandery  at  Topeka,  Kansas.  He  belongs 
to  the  Meadow  Lake  Country  Club  but  has  little  time  for  the  diversions  which 
clubs  offer.  He  belongs  to  the  Christian  Science  church  and  is  widely  known  as  a 
successful  business  man  of  enterprise  and  ability,  genial  in  manner  and  loyal  in 
his  friendships.  His  high  sense  of  business  integrity,  his  undaunted  enterprise 
and  splendid  personality  have  brought  him  to  the  point  of  commercial  leadership 
which   he  now  occupies. 


THOMAS  BARTLETT  HARLAN. 

Thomas  Bartlett  Harlan,  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Reynolds  &  Harlan  of 
St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  April  15,  1868.  His  father,  Thomas 
Jefferson  Harlan,  now  deceased,  was  a  native  of  Virginia.  The  family  is  of  Scotch 
origin  and  was  founded  in  America  by  two  brothers  who  came  to  the  new  world 
prior  to  the  Revolutinary  war.  One  of  the  brothers  settled  in  Pennsylvania  and 
the  other  became  a  resident  of  Virginia,  thus  founding  the  branch  of  the  family 
to  which  Thomas  B.  Harlan  belongs.  His  father  was  a  mining  engineer  and  during 
the  later  years  of  his  life  resided  in  New  Mexico.  He  was  active  in  mining  in  that 
state  and  in  Nevada  from  1869  to  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  at  Silver 
City,  New  Mexico,  in  1893,  when  he  was  sixty-seven  years  of  age.  He  had  married 
Zelphia  Bartlett,  who  was  born  in  Augusta,  Maine,  and  was  of  English  lineage. 
She  died  at  Eureka,  Nevada,  in  1872,  leaving  two  children,  Thomas  B.  and  Ella  B., 
the  latter  now  a  resident  of  Michigan. 

Thomas  B.  Harlan  was  but  four  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  mother's 
death  and  was  reared  by  an  aunt,  Emma  Flye,  at  Louisiana,  Pike  county,  Missouri, 
where  he  pursued  his  education  in  the  grammar  school  to  the  age  of  eighteen  years, 
when  he  entered  the  University  of  Missouri  at  Columbia,  there  pursuing  an  under- 
graduate course  for  two  years.  On  the  1st  of  March,  1888,  he  removed  to  St. 
Louis  and  was  first  employed  in  an  insurance  office  but  later  took  up  the  study 
of  law,  matriculating  in  the  St.  Louis  Law  School,  in  which  he  pursued  a  three 
years'  course  and  was  graduated  with  the  LL.  B.  degree  in  1893.  However,  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  the  October  term  of  court  in  1892.  Soon  after  his 
graduation  he  entered  into  partnership  with  Judge  Reynolds,  who  is  mentioned 
elsewhere  in  this  work.  The  firm  of  Reynolds  &  Harlan  has  long  occupied  a 
prominent  position  at  the  St.  Louis  bar  and  is  accorded  a  large  and  distinctively 
representative  clientage.  Mr.  Harlan  displays  great  thoroughness  in  the  preparation 
of  his  cases  and  acquaints  himself  with  every  detail  that  bears  upon  his  cause, 
while  at  the  same  time  he  never  loses  sight  of  the  important  point  upon  which  the 
decision  of  every  case  finally  turns.  He  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis,  Missouri 
State  and  American  Bar  Associations. 

In  St.  Louis  Mr.  Harlan  was  married  to  Miss  Lena  Carroll,  a  native  of  Pike 
county,  Missouri,  and  a  daughter  of  Edward  Byers  Carroll,  son  of  one  of  the  pioneer 


THOMAS    B.    HAELAN 


THI  Ni'W  TO^I 
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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  AIISSOURI  707 

settlers  of  Pike  county.  He  died  at  the  notable  old  age  of  ninety-one  years.  His 
wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Ann  Alexandria,  was  a  representative  of  one 
of  the  old  and  prominent  families  of  Pike  county.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harlan  have  be- 
come parents  of  two  children:  Carroll,  born  in  Oklahoma;  and  Irene,  born  in  St. 
Louis,  Missouri. 

Mr.  Harlan  gives  his  political  allegiance  to  the  republican  party  and  his 
religious  faith  is  evidenced  in  his  membership  in  St.  John's  Methodist  church. 
During  the  war  he  was  active  in  coal  production  and  also  in  furthering  farm  pro- 
duction, doing  important  work  along  both  lines.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  St.  Louis,  Rocky  Mountain  &  Pacific  Company,  which  is  extensively  engaged 
in  coal  operations  in  New  Mexico,  having  some  of  the  largest  coal  properties  in 
the  west.  Mr.  Harlan  owns  and  is  conducting  a  ranch  of  four  thousand  acres  in 
Valencia  county.  New  Mexico,  where  under  his  personal  supervision  many  thou- 
sands of  bushels  of  grain  and  other  food  products  were  raised  for  the  army  and 
for  the  general  public.  Mr.  Harlan  recognized  his  public  duty  in  this  connection 
and  put  forth  every  effort  to  aid  production  and  thus  meet  the  public  demand.  At 
one  period  during  the  World  war  Mr.  Harlan  practically  spent  his  entire  time  in 
connection  with  high  government  representatives  in  developing  a  process,  for 
manufacturing  gasoline.  He  was  the  counsel  for  Charles  J.  Greenstreet,  the  in- 
ventor of  the  Greenstreet  process  for  making  gasoline  out  of  kerosene  and  gas  oil 
distillations.  His  labors  were  effective  in  the  effort  to  provide  a  satisfactory  means 
of  preventing  a  shortage  of  gasoline  should  that  situation  have  become,  acute 
to  the  point  of  danger,  as  at  one  time  seemed  possible.  Had  this  occurred,  he 
and  his  associates  would  have  been  ready  to  solve  the  problem  of  making  better 
and  cheaper  gasoline.  They  spent  a  very  large  amount  of  money  of  their  own 
in  producing  this  result  and  are  now  about  ready  to  place  upon  the  market  the 
products  of  their  labors,  which  eventually  will  revolutionize  the  gasoline  business. 
Mr.  Harlan  never  hesitated  to  give  most  freely  of  his  time  and  effort  and  deserves 
much  credit  for  the  part  which  he  played  in  thus  furthering  the  interests  of  the 
country.  Patriotism  has  ever  been  one  of  his  marked  characteristics,  manifest 
effectively  in  many  quiet  ways  with  never  any  desire  for  office  or  other  rewards 
for  his  devotion  to  duty.  He  looks  at  life  from  the  standpoint  of  a  broad-minded 
man  who  is  accustomed  to  analyze  important  problems  and  as  the  years  have 
passed  he  has  aided  largely  in  supporting  those  interests  which  contribute  to  the 
material,  intellectual,  social  and  moral  progress  of  the  country.  At  the  same  time 
he  has  made  steady  advancement  in  his  profession  and  is  today  regarded  as  one 
of  the  prominent  representatives  of  the  St.  Louis  bar. 


SILAS  OAK  HUNTER. 


While  continuing  in  the  general  practice  of  law  since  his  admission  to  the  bar 
In  1901,  Silas  Oak  Hunter  is  now  largely  concentrating  his  efforts  and  attention  upon 
corporation  law  and  is  a  representative  of  some  of  the  leading  business  interests 
operating  in  Missouri.  His  life  record  is  the  story  of  steady  progression,  the  result 
of  firm  purpose  and  indefatigable  energy. 

Mr.  Hunter  was  born  at  Middle  Grove,  Monroe  county,  Missouri,  January  24,  1877, 
and  is  a  son  of  Silas  Oak  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Ownby)  Hunter.  He  obtained  his  edu- 
cation in  the  Moberly  high  school,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1897,  and  in  the 
Missouri  University  at  Columbia,  which  he  attended  from  1897  until  1900.  The  follow- 
ing year  was  spent  as  a  salesman  for  Swift  &  Company  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  and 
in  the  meantime  he  was  pursuing  his  law  studies  as  opportunity  offered  with  the 
intention  of  becoming  an  active  member  of  the  bar.  He  was  admitted  to  practice  by 
Judge  Hockaday  in  the  circuit  court  of  Randolph  county  at  Huntsville  in  1901  and 
initiated  his  professional  experience  in  the  law  office  of  Martin  &  Terrill,  of  Moberly, 
with  whom  he  remained  until  1905.  During  this  period  he  was  called  to  the  office 
of  city  attorney  of  Moberly  in  1903  and  filled  the  position  for  two  terms,  or  until  1907. 
In  1911  he  entered  upon  his  present  partnership  relations  as  senior  member  of  the 
firm  of  Hunter  &  Chamier,  with  offices  in  the  Moberly  Trust  building.  They  are  attor- 
neys tor  many  important  corporate  interests,  including  the  Northern  Central  Coal 
Company,   the   Powhatan    Coal   Company,    the    Chicago,    Burlington    &    Quincy    Railroad 


708  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Company,  the  F.  M.  Stamper  Company,  the  Aetna  Casualty  Company,  the  Maryland 
Casualty  Company,  the  Metropolitan  Life  Insurance  Company,  the  Moberly  Wholesale 
Company,  the  C.  J.  Harris  Lumber  Company,  the  Medical  Protective  Company,  the  Lib- 
erty Coal  Company,  the  United  Mine  Workers  o£  America  (District  No.  25)  and  the 
Moberly  Trust  Company.  Mr.  Hunter  is  constantly  broadening  his  knowledge  by 
further  study  and  research  and  is  familiar  with  precedent  and  principle,  while  his 
able  handling  of  cases  and  his  capability  as  a  counselor  have  won  for  him  a  large 
clientele. 

At  Moberly,  Missouri,  on  the  9th  ot  December,  1908,  Mr.  Hunter  was  married  to 
Miss  Mary  M.  Lowell,  who  passed  away  February  15,  1910,  leaving  one  child,  Marjorie 
Lowell  Hunter.  On  the  12th  ot  May,  1915,  Mr.  Hunter  wedded  Miss  Charlotte  M.  Haworth, 
of  Moberly.  They  are  members  ot  the  Christian  church  and  are  prominent  in  the 
social  circles  of  the  city. 

Mr.  Hunter's  fraternal  relations  are  with  Moberly  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Moberly 
Chapter,  R.  A.  M.;  Tancred  Commandery,  K.  T.,  of  Moberly,  and  also  with  the  Elks 
lodge,  in  which  he  has  filled  the  office  of  exalted  ruler.  He  likewise  belongs  to  the 
Sigma  Nu  fraternity  of  Columbia,  Missouri.  He  cooperates  with  the  plans  and  purposes 
to  upbuild  the  city,  e.xtend  its  business  connections  and  promote  its  civic  standards 
through  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  likewise  belongs  to  the  Moberly  Country  Club, 
while  along  strictly  professional  lines  his  connection  is  with  the  Randolph  County 
and  Missouri  Bar  Associations. 

Mr.  Hunter  has  always  voted  with  the  democratic  party  and  has  many  times  been 
called  upon  to  serve  in  public  office.  Aside  from  acting  as  city  attorney  and  counselor, 
as  previously  stated,  he  was  made  assistant  prosecuting  attorney  of  Randolph  county 
In  1905.  In  1907  he  was  elected  to  the  position  of  circuit  clerk  of  Randolph  county 
for  a  term  of  two  years  and  in  1918  Was  elected  to  represent  his  county  in  the  state 
legislature  for  a  two  years'  term.  He  acted  as  chairman  of  the  legal  advisory  board 
of  Randolph  county  during  the  war  period  and  at  all  times  he  has  manifested  the 
utmost  loyalty  to  the  interests  and  welfare  of  county  and  state  and  as  a  member  of 
the  general  assembly  hss  given  thoughtful  and  earnest  consideration  to  all  those  vital 
problems  which   affect   the  progress  and   upbuilding  of   the   commonwealth. 


CHARLES  B.  BOWLING. 


Charles  B.  Bowling,  president  of  the  Exchange  National  Bank  of  Columbia  and 
one  of  the  foremost  financiers  of  central  Missouri,  was  born  January  7,  1S60,  in  the 
city  which  is  still  his  place  of  residence,  his  parents  being  James  D.  and  Mattie  T. 
(McAlester)  Bowling,  the  former  a  native  of  Lynchburg,  Virginia.  The  mother  is  a 
sister  of  Dr.  A.  W.  McAlester,  of  whom  extended  mention  is  made  elsewhere  in  this 
work.  James  D.  Bowling  was  but  five  years  of  age  when  brought  to  Missouri  by  his 
parents  who  settled  in  Boone  county,  ten  miles  east  of  Columbia.  There  after  reaching 
manhood  he  became  identified  with  merchandising  and  later  turned  his  attention  to 
the  lumber  business. 

Charles  B.  Bowling  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  and  in 
the  Missouri  State  University.  After  he  had  reached  adult  age  he  became  identihed 
with  his  father  and  his  grandfather,  Brightberry  McAlester,  in  the  lumber  business 
and  has  throughout  the  intervening  period  been  an  active  factor  in  the  lumber  trade, 
although  at  a  recent  date  he  turned  over  the  management  of  his  lumber  holdings  to 
his  two  sons.  He  entered  the  field  of  banking  in  1898,  when  he  was  made  cashier  of 
the  Exchange  National  Bank  to  succeed  R.  L.  Todd,  deceased.  He  had  previously 
been  identified  with  the  bank  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  for  ten  years 
but  had  occupied  no  position  of  executive  control.  In  1908  he  was  made  president  ot 
the  institution,  the  deposits  of  which  now  total  one  million,  two  hundred  thousand 
dollars.  This  is  one  of  the  leading  financial  institutions  of  central  Missouri,  a  most 
sate  and  conservative  business  policy  being  followed  and  one  that  has  carefully 
guarded  the  interests  of  depositors  at  all  times.  In  addition  to  his  banking  interests 
Mr.  Bowling  is  vice  president  of  the  Boone  County  Mill  &  Elevator  Company,  con- 
trolling one  of  the  largest  milling  enterprises  in  central  Missouri,  and  is  the  president 
ot  the  Exchange  Realty  Company  and  of  the   McAlester  Lumber  Company. 

In  Springfield,  Missouri,  in  1882,  Mr.  Bowling  was  married  to  Miss  Laura  Campbell, 
who  passed  away  in  1899.     In   1901  he  was  married   in   Paris,  Texas,  to  Miss  Margaret 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  709 

O  Berry  and  both  wives  were  granddaughters  of  D.  D.  Berry,  the  founder  of  the  city  of 
sijringfleld  Of  the  first  marriage  there  were  born  three  children:  Charles  C.  and 
William  C  who  are  now  the  owners  of  the  business  conducted  under  the  name  of 
the  Bowling  Lumber  Company,  in  which  they  succeeded  to  their  father's  interests;  and 
Laura  Juliette.     The  religious  faith  of  the  family  is  that  of  the   Methodist  Episcopal 

church.  ,  , 

In  politics  Mr.  Bowling  is  a  democrat  and  for  several  terms  has  served  as  a 
member  of  the  town  council.  In  tact  he  has  always  been  a  recognized  leader  in  activities 
for  the  public  welfare  and  his  labors  along  that  line  have  been  far-reachmg  and  resultant. 
Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Acacia  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Columbia  Chapter,  No. 
17  R  A  M  •  and  St.  Graal  Commandery,  No.  12,  K.  T.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Com- 
mercial Club  of  Columbia.  His  support  of  any  measure  always  secures  to  it  a 
large  following,  such  is  the  conlidence  which  the  people  have  in  his  judgment  and 
his  patriotism.  During  the  recent  World  war  he  was  chairman  of  the  first  Liberty 
Loan  drive  in  Boone  county  and  served  on  the  board  in  connection  with  the  other  tour 
drives.  In  all  war  activities  he  took  a  helpful  part,  doing  everything  in  his  power  to 
further  the  interests  of  the  government  and  promote  the  welfare  of  the  soldiers  in 
camp  and  field. 


FRANKLIN  YOUNG  GLADNEY. 

Franklin  Young  Gladney,  lawyer  and  author,  who  since  1903  has  engaged 
In  practice  in  St.  Louis,  was  born  at  Auburn,  Lincoln  county,  Missouri,  April  6, 
1877  his  parents  being  John  Matthew  and  Annie  (Wilson)  Gladney,  who  were 
also  natives  of  Lincoln  county,  where  the  father  followed  the  occupation  of  farm- 
ing as  a  life  work.  He  passed  away  in  1893,  in  the  faith  of  the  Presbyterian 
church,  of  which  he  had  long  been  a  devoted  member.  His  widow  survives  and 
eight  of  their  ten  children  are  also  living. 

Franklin  Y  Gladney  attended  the  district  schools  of  Auburn  and  later  con- 
tinued his  education  in  the  University  of  Missouri,  in  which  he  was  a  student  from 
1895  until  1899  He  next  matriculated  in  Columbia  College  of  New  York  and 
added  to  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree,  won  in  the  University  of  Missouri,  that  of 
LL  B  accorded  him  on  the  completion  of  his  law  course  in  19  02.  He  was  then 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York  and  in  19  03  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  St.  Louis. 
Through  the  intervening  period  he  has  practiced  alone  and  has  won  for  himself 
through  individual  effort,  a  most  creditable  place  as  a  representative  of  the  legal 
profession  in  St.  Louis.  He  belongs  to  both  the  St.  Louis  and  Missouri  State  Bar 
Associations  and  he  is  widely  known  as  the  author  of  a  volume  entitled  Re- 
straints of  Trade  in  Patented  Articles,"  which  was  published  in  1910. 

In  1906  Mr  Gladney  was  married  to  Miss  Katherine  Graves,  of  Montgomery 
City  Missouri,  a  daughter  of  Dr.  James  F.  Graves.  They  have  four  children: 
Graves,  twelve  years  of  age;  John  Franklin,  aged  nine;  Lucianna,  four  years  of 
age;    and  Katherine  Emma.  ,  . 

Mr  Gladney  turns  to  hunting  for  recreation  and  diversion.  He  is  a  repub- 
lican in  his  political  views.  He  belongs  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association  is 
a  member  of  Westgate  Lodge  No.  445,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  of  the  Central  Presby- 
terian church,  of  which  he  is  serving  as  deacon. 


JOHN  LAWRENCE  JOHNSTON. 

John  Lawrence  Johnston,  president  of  the  Liberty  Bank  of  St.  Louis  and  a 
director  of  the  Missouri  State  Life  Insurance  Company  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  in 
fomsville  Kentucky  April  23,  1887,  a  son  of  John  T.  M.  and  Florence  (Brooks) 
JohTsIon  He  was  graduated  from  the  Blees  Military  Academy  with  the  class  of  1903 
and  attended  Washington  University  of  St.  Louis  through  the  two  succeeding  years. 
Throughout  hir  entire  business  career  he  has  been  connected  with  financial  interests^ 
In  the  summer  of  1905  he  became  cashier  of  the  Bass-Johnston  Banking  Company  of 
Ashland,  Missouri,  and  upon  leaving  that  place  removed  to  Muskogee,  Oklahoma,  where 


710  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

he  became  vice  president  of  the  First  National  Bank.  His  next  position  was  that  of 
cashier  in  the  National  Reserve  Bank  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  and  on  the  17th  day 
of  February,  1915,  he  was  elected  first  vice  president  and  a  director  of  the  Liberty 
Bank  of  St.  Louis.  After  serving  in  that  position  for  about  a  year  and  a  half  he  was 
elected  to  the  presidency  on  the  28th  of  October,  1916,  and  has  since  been  the  executive 
head  of  this  strong  financial  institution.  He  likewise  figures  in  the  business  circles 
of  the  state  as  a  director  of  the  Missouri  State  Life  Insurance  Company. 

On  Ihe  9th  of  September,  1908,  at  Watertown,  New  York,  Mr.  Johnston  was  married 
to  Miss  Ethel  Brown,  a  daughter  of  Hon.  Elon  R.  Brown,  of  Watertown,  and  they  have 
two  children,  John  Lawrence,  Jr.,  and  Jane  Brooks.  The  religious  faith  of  the  family 
is  that  of  the  Baptist  church  and  Mr.  Johnston  is  well  known  in  club  circles,  having 
membership  in  the  Country  Club,  Racquet  and  Sunset  Hill  Country  Clubs  of  St.  Louis 
and  in  the  Racquet  Club  of  New  York  city.  He  likewise  belongs  to  the  Beta  Theta  Pi, 
a  college  fraternity.  His  political  allegiance  has  always  been  given  to  the  democratic 
party  and  he  is  keenly  interested  in  all  matters  of  progressive  citizenship.  During  the 
period  of  the  World  war  he  took  a  most  helpful  interest  in  war  activities,  serving  as 
chairman  during  all  the  Red  Cross  drives  for  the  southwestern  division,  comprising 
the  five  states  of  Oklahoma,  Kansas,  Texas,  Arkansas  and  Missouri.  He  was  likewise 
connected  with  the  raising  of  funds  for  other  war  activities  and  was  the  organizer  of 
the  fourth  Liberty  Loan  at  St.  Louis,  acting  as  chairman  of  the  committee  which  had 
in  charge  the  work  of  raising  the  loan.  He  has  made  steady  progress  in  his  business 
career,  his  inherent  talents  and  his  developing  ability  bringing  him  to  a  prominent 
position  in  financial  circles  of  the  Mississippi  valley. 


JUDGE    RICHARD    S.    MATTHEWS. 

Judge  Richard  S.  Matthews,  who  for  twelve  years  served  as  judge  of  the 
probate  court  of  Macon  county  and  who  from  1873  until  his  death  in  1919  was 
an  honored  and  prominent  member  of  the  Missouri  bar,  was  born  on  a  farm  in 
Randolph  county,  this  state,  July  14,  1847,  his  parents  being  Richard  Newman 
and  Minerva  Grundy  (Phelps)  Matthews.  The  father  was  born  and  reared  on 
a  farm  in  Fauquier  county,  Virginia,  the  battle  of  Bull  Run  being  fought  upon 
a  part  of  this  farm.  The  mother's  birth  occurred  in  Oldham  county,  Kentucky. 
They  were  married,  however,  in  Randolph  county.  Missouri,  where  they  continued 
to  reside  throughout  their  remaining  days.  Richard  N.  Matthews  was  born  October 
12,  1812,  and  passed  away  July  19,  1894,  at  the  venerable  age  of  eighty-two  years. 
He  had  devoted  his  life  to  agricultural  pursuits  and  to  merchandising  and  was  a 
prominent  and  influential  resident  of  his  section  of  the  state.  His  political  alle- 
giance was  given  to  the  whig  party  until  its  dissolution,  after  which  he  became  a 
follower  of  democratic  principles  but  never  sought  nor  desired  public  oflSce.  The 
Masonic  fraternity  found  in  him  an  exemplary  member.  His  wife,  who  was  born 
September  22,  1822,  passed  away  on  the  16th  of  August,  1887.  They  were  par- 
ents of  two  sons,  the  elder,  Robert  H..  becoming  a  resident  of  Cairo,  Randolph 
county,    Missouri,    where    he    followed    merchandising. 

Richard  S.  Matthews  obtained  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  county  and  afterward  attended  McGee  College  at  College  Mound.  Mis- 
souri, where  he  remained  as  a  student  for  four  years.  Following  his  graduation 
he  took  up  the  profession  of  teaching  in  that  college,  continuing  in  the  work  for 
three  years.  In  the  meantime  his  summer  vacation  periods  were  devoted  to  the 
study  of  law  under  the  direction  of  Judge  John  W.  Henry  and  Colonel  John  F. 
Williams,  of  Macon.  Missouri,  and  in  August.  1873.  before  Judge  George  H.  Burk- 
hart.  of  Randolph  county,  he  successfully  passed  the  required  examination  for 
admission  to  the  Missouri  bar.  On  the  1st  of  September  he  opened  an  office  in 
Macon  and  through  the  intervening  period  to  the  time  of  his  death  was  a  repre- 
sentative of  the  legal  profession  of  that  city,  covering  a  period  of  more  than  forty- 
five  years.  From  the  beginning  his  practice  was  unusually  prosperous  in  every 
respect.  Integrity,  ability  and  industry  were  qualities  which  counted  for  success 
and  made  him  one  of  the  distinguished  members  of  the  Missouri  bar.  He  pos- 
sessed an  excellent  command  of  language  and  persuasive  eloquence,  while  his 
arguments  were  based  upon  the  facts  in  the  case  and  the  law  applicable  to  them 
and   displayed   a   profound   knowledge   of   the   principles   of   jurisprudence.      He   was 


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the  owner  of  a  considerable  amount  of  productive  land  in  Macon  and  Randolph 
counties  and  gave  general  supervision  to  his  farming  interests.  He  was  largely 
interested  in  horticulture  and  gave  it  considerable  attention.  He  was  at  one  time 
president  of  the  Citizens  Bank  of  Macon  and  also  the  Macon  County  Abstract 
Company.  His  material  accumulations  represented  the  tangible  results  of  his 
own  well  directed  endeavors,  and  his  success  was  achieved  through  worthy  means, 
so  that  he  was  never  denied  the  fullest  measure  of  popular  confidence  and  esteem 
in  the  community  which  so  long  represented  his  home  and  to  whose  progress  he 
had  contributed   his   due   quota. 

On  the  21st  ot  August.  1872,  Judge  Matthews  was  married  to  Miss  Martha 
Armada  Gilstrap,  who  was  born  and  reared  in  Macon  county,  a  daughter  of  Colonel 
Abner  Lee  Gilstrap  and  Julia  Ann  (Cook)  Gilstrap,  who  remained  residents  of 
Macon  until  called  by  death,  her  father  being  a  prominent  lawyer  of  the  state 
and  a  public  official  on  various  occasions.  Mrs.  Matthews  is  also  a  graduate  of 
McGee  College  at  College  Mound.  Missouri.  By  her  marriage  she  became  the 
mother  of  four  children.  Orlow  Bertrand,  the  eldest,  a  graduate  of  Cumberland 
University  ot  Tennessee  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
Missouri  but  died  of  typhoid  fever  on  the  7th  of  October,  1897,  when  but  twenty- 
fotir  years  of  age.  Otho  F.  is  represented  elsewhere  in  this  work.  Richard  Lee 
is  connected  with  the  Security  Title  &  Abstract  Company  of  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin. 
He  attended  the  Missouri  Valley  College  and  the  State  University  at  Columbia, 
Missouri.  Corinne,  who  is  at  home  with  her  mother,  was  graduated  from  the 
high  school  in  Macon  and  completed  her  education  in  Monticetlo  Seminary  at 
Godfrey,  Illinois.  The  family  circle  was  again  broken  by  the  hand  of  death  when 
on  the  19th  of  June,  1919,  Judge  Matthews  passed  away,  survived  by  his  widow 
and  three  of  their  children.  A  life  of  great  usefulness  and  activity  was  thus 
terminated.  He  had  for  many  years  been  a  recognized  leader  in  democratic 
circles  in  his  section  of  the  state  and  in  1878  was  elected  judge  of  probate,  which 
office  he  filled  for  three  consecutive  terms  or  for  a  period  of  twelve  years.  He 
handled  the  affairs  of  the  office  with  great  ability  and  discrimination  and  his 
record  redounded  to  his  credit  and  was  highly  satisfactory  to  the  public.  He 
also  served  tor  twelve  years  as  school  director  of  Macon  and  the  cause  of  educa- 
tion ever  found  in  him  a  stalwart  champion.  In  fact  he  was  keenly  interested 
in  everything  that  touched  the  welfare  of  the  home,  the  city  and  the  common- 
wealth. Judge  Matthews  never  connected  himself  with  any  secret  order  or  society. 
He  belonged  to  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  church,  and  was  an  elder  for  many 
years  in  this  church  with  which  his  wife  still  has  membership.  He  was  very  active 
in  the  different  departments  of  church  work  and  was,  moreover,  a  man  of  generous 
and  benevolent  spirit  who  gave  liberally  to  charity  and  various  worthy  objects. 
He  never  deviated  from  the  high  standards  which  he  set  up,  was  most  carefu' 
to  conform  his  practice  to  the  highest  professional  ethics  and  throughout  his  lite 
was  gtiided  by  the  most  honorable  and  manly  principles,  so  that  he  left  to  his 
family  an  untarnished  name  and  a  record  well  worthy  of  emulation. 


CHARLES   A.   BUDDY. 


No  history  of  the  business  development  and  substantial  progress  of  St.  Joseph 
would  be  complete  without  extended  reference  to  Charles  Allen  Buddy,  a  most  alert 
and  energetic  man,  whose  forcefulness  and  resourcefulness  have  not  only  been  a  source 
of  most  substantial  success  but  also  an  element  in  the  advancement  of  the  city  in  which 
he  has  long  resided. 

Mr.  Buddy  was  born  in  Adams  county,  Pennsylvania,  near  the  Maryland  line  and 
about  five  miles  from  the  famous  battlefield  ot  Gettysburg,  on  the  1st  of  November, 
1856,  and  when  but  a  boy  he  visited  the  battlefield  three  days  after  the  engagement. 
His  parents  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Philip  Buddy,  the  former  one  of  the  pioneer  general 
contractors  ot  northwestern  Missouri.  He  built  the  old  Kansas  City  shops  and  the  old 
Buell  Woolen  Mills  and  contributed  in  large  measure  to  the  material  development  of 
the  district  in  which  he  operated.  Born  in  the  United  States,  he  is  of  English,  French 
and    German    descent. 

Charles  A.  Buddy  was  but  a  boy  when  his  parents  removed  to  Frederick  City, 
Maryland,   where   he   attended    St.    John's   Jesuit    College.      In    the   spring   of    1867    the 


714  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

family  removed  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  they  remained  for  a  year.  In  1868  they 
took  passage  on  the  river  boat.  City  of  Virginia,  and  thus  made  the  trip  from  Cincinnati 
to  St.  Joseph,  Missouri.  Here  Charles  A.  Buddy  entered  the  Christian  Brothers  College 
and  pursued  the  English-scientific-commercial  course  through  a  period  of  live  years. 
His  excellent  training  was  broad  in  its  scope  and  thorough  and  gave  him  a  sound, 
comprehensive  and  liberal  education.  In  1873  Mr.  Buddy  was  graduated  with  the 
first  class  after  the  college  had  been  empowered  to  confer  degrees  and  he  was  awarded 
a  gold  medal  for  his  proficiency  in  higher  mathematics.  His  education,  however,  did 
not  stop  with  the  college  course,  but  has  continued  with  every  day  of  a  busy  career, 
in  which  he  has  always  found  time  after  business  hours  to  read  and  study  and  inform 
himself  on  the  great  questions  of  the  day  and  become  acquainted  with  the  great 
masterpieces  of  literature. 

After  two  years'  spent  as  chief  clerk  with  the  old  St.  Louis,  Kansas  City  &  Northern 
Railroad  Company,  he  engaged  in  the  retail  grocery  business  and  in  1881  established 
a  wholesale  fruit  and  produce  business  at  No.  108  North  Second  street,  where  for  years 
success  marked  its  growth  and  progress  with  each  succeeding  month.  His  activities 
in  this  connection  alone  would  entitle  him  to  representation  with  the  most  prominent 
and  progressive  business  men  of  St.  Joseph,  but  at  different  times  he  has  been  identified 
with  various  other  concerns.  He  was  at  one  time  the  president  of  the  Malvern  Fruit 
Company  of  Malvern,  Iowa,  and  also  of  the  St.  Joseph  Fruit  Company  of  St.  Joseph, 
Missouri.  For  several  years  he  was  the  president  and  general  manager  of  the  St. 
Joseph  Cooperage  Company  and  the  president  of  the  Altoona-Portland  Cement  Company, 
with  general  offices  at  Kansas  City,  Missouri.  At  the  present  time  he  is  a  stockholder 
in  the  Muscatine-Burlington  Railroad  Company.  In  all  things  he  has  displayed  sound 
judgment  and  keen  sagacity  and  has  readily  discriminated  between  the  essential  and 
the  non-essential   in  all   business   interests. 

On  the  4th  of  November,  1879.  in  St.  Joseph's  cathedral,  Mr.  Buddy  was  married  to 
Miss  Annie  Elizabeth  Farrell,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  Farrell,  Sr.  She  is 
a  graduate  ot  the  Sacred  Heart  convent  at  Twelfth  and  Messanie  streets  in  St.  Joseph 
and  is  the  possessor  of  marked  musical  and  literary  talent.  Her  father  and  mother 
were  natives  of  County  Cavan,  Ireland,  and  emigrated  to  this  country,  casting  in  their 
lot  with  the  pioneer  settlers  of  St.  Joseph,  where  Mr.  Farrell  and  his  son  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  carriages  and  buggies.  It  was  in  this  city  that  Mrs.  Buddy  was 
born.  By  her  marriage  she  has  become  the  mother  of  seven  children:  Marie  Josephine, 
Edward  Phillip,  Helen  Margaret,  Cecile  Agnes,  Lillian  Ethel,  Charles  Francis  and 
Eileen  Claudia.  The  eldest  daughter,  Marie,  was  educated  at  the  Sacred  Heart  convent 
at  St.  Joseph  and  in  St.  Mary's  College  and  Academy  at  Notre  Dame,  Indiana.  Five 
years  after  her  graduation  she  entered  as  a  religious  of  the  Congregation  of  the  Holy 
Cross  at  Notre  Dame  and  received  the  name  in  religion  of  Sister  Mary  Loretto  on  the 
6th  of  May,  1904.  The  oldest  son,  Edward  Phillip,  attended  the  Christian  Brothers 
College  at  St.  Joseph  and  St.  Benedict's  College  at  Atchison,  Kansas,  at  which  insti- 
tution he  received  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree.  He  first  engaged  in  the  banking 
business  as  receiving  feller  and  later  as  assistant  cashier  of  the  Burnes  National  Bank 
of  St.  Joseph.  In  September,  1906,  he  entered  the  St.  Louis  University  and  took  a  course 
in  medicine.  After  being  graduated  from  that  institution  he  entered  upon  the  practice 
of  his  profession  in  St.  Louis  and  has  been  most  successful  in  his  chosen  career, 
winning  distinction,  especially  in  the  field  of  diagnosis  and  internal  medicine.  Another 
daughter,  Cecile  Agnes,  was  a  pupil  in  the  Sacred  Heart  convent  at  St.  Joseph  and 
later  completed  the  college  course  in  St.  Mary's  College  at  Notre  Dame,  Indiana.  On 
the  4th  of  October,  1910,  she  was  united  in  marriage  to  Dr.  Louis  Joseph  Dandurant, 
F.  A.  C.  S.,  a  prominent  and  successful  surgeon  of  St.  Joseph.  The  second  eldest  son, 
Rev.  Charles  F.  Buddy.  Ph.  D.,  S.  T.  L.,  is  mentioned  at  length  on  another  page  of 
this  work.  Another  daughter,  Lillian  Ethel,  was  educated  at  the  Sacred  Heart  convent 
at  St.  Joseph  and  at  St.  Mary's  College  at  Notre  Dame.  In  September,  1917.  she 
entered  the  Congregation  of  the  Holy  Cross  at  Notre  Dame,  Indiana,  and  is  known  in 
religion  as  Sister  Mary  Magdalen.  The  other  two  children,  Helen  and  Eileen,  were  like 
their  sisters,  educated  at  the  Sacred  Heart  convent  at  St.  Joseph  and  completed  their 
studies  at  St.  Mary's  College  at  Notre  Dame,  Indiana.  At  present  they  live  at  the  family 
home  with  their  parents.  The  great  interest  of  Mr.  Buddy's  life  has  been  the  education 
of  his  children  and  he  has  given  to  them  splendid  advantages,  believing  that  this  was 
the  highest  legacy  that  he  could  bequeath  to  them. 

Born  of  Catholic  parentage,  Charles  A.  Buddy  first  became  associated  with  the  St. 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  715 

Joseph  cathedral  and  later  with  the  Immaculate  Conception  parish,  of  which  he  is  still 
a  member.  He  is  a  fourth  degree  member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  a  charter 
member  of  St.  Joseph's  Council,  No.  571.  He  has  always  taken  an  active  interest  and 
has  held  various  local  and  state  offices  in  that  organization.  He  is  a  charter  member 
and  was  the  first  chief  ranger  of  the  Catholic  Order  of  Foresters  of  the  Immaculate 
Conception  parish.  He  likewise  belongs  to  the  Commerce  Club  of  St.  Joseph  and  in 
politics  is  a  democrat  who  has  always  taken  an  active  interest  in  the  success  of  the 
party  but  has  never  aspired  to  nor  allowed  his  name  to  be  used  for  any  political  office. 
Throughout  his  career  he  has  turned  his  advantages  to  excellent  account.  The  wisdom, 
energy  and  success  with  which  he  has  pushed  his  way  along  is  a  study  for  the 
American  youth.  He  belongs  to  the  little  group  of  distinctively  representative  business 
men  who  have  been  the  pioneers  in  inaugurating  and  building  up  the  chief  industries 
of  this  section  of  the  state  and  he  has  garnered  in  the  fullness  of  time  a  generous 
harvest  which  is  the  just  recompense  of  indomitable  industry,  unswerving  integrity  and 
marvelous  enterprise. 


JESSE    C.    HARGUS. 


Jesse  C.  Hargus,  of  Kansas  City,  an  able  attorney,  careful,  thorough  and  con- 
servative, was  born  near  Johnstown,  in  Bates  county,  Missouri,  May  23,  1873.  His 
father,  George  W.  Hargus,  was  a  native  of  Kentucky  but  when  seven  years  of  age 
was  brought  to  Missouri,  the  family  settling  in  Lincoln  county  in  the  early  '50s. 
Later  a  removal  was  made  to  Pettis  county  and  afterward  to  Bates  county,  while 
later  he  removed  to  St.  Clair  county,  Missouri,  and  there  George  W.  Hargus  passed 
away  December  3,  1884.  His  wife,  who  was  born  in  Osage  county,  Missouri,  bore 
the  maiden  name  of  Elizabeth  Ann  Doggett  and  was  a  representative  of  one  of 
the  pioneer  families  of  the  state.  She  departed  this  life  June  2,  1917.  The  father 
had  followed  the  occupation  of  farming  and  stock  raising  as  a  life  work.  He  was 
also  active  in  political  circles  and  was  a  stanch  supporter  of  democratic  principles. 
During  the  Civil  war  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  Confederate  army. 

Jesse  C.  Hargus  attended  the  public  schools  of  St.  Clair  county,  also  the 
Eldorado  Normal  School  and  business  college  at  Eldorado  Springs,  Missouri,  but 
the  death  of  his  father  left  him  dependent  upon  his  own  resources,  so  that  he 
early  began  to  earn  his  living.  In  young  manhood  he  taught  school  in  St.  Clair 
county  and  by  his  unremitting  labor  and  economy  saved  a  sum  sufficient  to  enable 
him  to  pursue  his  law  course.  He  then  entered  the  law  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Missouri  but  did  not  complete  his  work  there,  continuing  his  reading 
in  a  law  office  at  Osceola,  Missouri,  after  which  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
March,  1899,  by  Circuit  Judge  Graves,  who  was  then  holding  his  first  term  of 
court  as  circuit  judge  and  who  is  now  a  judge  of  the  state  supreme  court.  Mr. 
Hargus  entered  upon  the  active  practice  of  his  profession  In  Osceola  and  in  1915 
removed  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  since  continued  to  follow  his  profession. 
Upon  his  removal  to  Kansas  City  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Ralph  P.  Johnson 
under  the  firm  name  of  Hargus-Johnson  of  Osceola,  where  he  has  an  office,  con- 
tinuing his  legal  practice  there.  He  continues  in  the  general  practice  of  law  and 
is  recognized  as  an  excellent  trial  lawyer.  One  who  has  long  been  familiar  with 
his  legal  career  said  of  him:  "Regardless  of  what  difficulties  he  meets  in  the 
trial  of  a  case,  he  'always  lights  on  his  feet'  and  is  ready  to  proceed.  His  success 
has  been  due  to  natural  ability  and  hard  work."  He  has  always  been  a  close 
student  and  much  of  his  success  is  due  to  his  thorough  preparation  of  cases.  While 
in  Osceola  he  was  very  prominent  and  active  in  public  affairs  and  in  1909  was  a 
candidate  for  congress.  While  he  has  won  a  large  law  practice,  Mr.  Hargus  has 
also  acquired  extensive  land  holdings  near  Osceola,  in  Colorado  and  in  South 
Dakota,  and  he  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Farmers  &  Merchants  Bank,  now 
the  Citizens  Bank  of  Osceola.  He  was  appointed  special  commissioner  by  the 
supreme  court  in  the  hearing  of  the  case  of  the  mayor,  attorney  general,  et  al., 
vs.  Wood,  in  which  was  rendered  a  decision  that  has  made  this  regarded  as  a  ruling 
case  in  matters  of  procedure  and  law  concerning  municipal  corporations.  The  case 
involved  the  corporation  of  the  city  of  Wellston,  Missouri,  and  was  tried  in  the 
supreme  court  of  Missouri.     Mr.  Hargus  is  widely  known  in  legal  circles  through- 


716  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  iMISSOURI 

out  the  state  and  enjoys  a  prominent  position  as  a  member  of  the  bar.  In  his 
Osceola  practice  at  the  present  time  he  is  associated  with  Ralph  P.  Johnson,  the 
son  of  Dr.  Thomas  W.  Johnson,  the  sage  of  the  Osage,  a  very  prominent  and  in- 
fluential man.  He  is  now  practicing  alone  in  Kansas  City  and  is  a  lawyer  who 
by  close  application  and  hard  work  has  attained  a  position  of  professional  promi- 
nence. 

Mr.  Hargus  was  married  to  Miss  Edna  Winona  Burnett,  a  native  of  Indiana  and  a 
daughter  of  Isaac  Burnett,  of  St.  Clair  county,  where  he  follows  the  occupation 
of  farming.  While  he  is  of  retiring  disposition  he  is  always  on  the  right  side  of 
all  public  questions.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hargus  have  been  born  four  children: 
Alice  Elizabeth,  Lolita  Grace,  Will  Hamilton  and  Evelyn  Lucille. 

A  democrat  in  politics,  Mr.  Hargus  served  as  chairman  of  the  county  central 
committee  of  the  democratic  party  in  St.  Clair  county.  He  has  exercised  consid- 
erable influence  in  political  circles  and  has  always  taken  a  keen  interest  in  civic 
matters  of  his  town,  county  and  state.  He  stands  for  good  government  and  clean 
politics  and  for  all  that  is  best  in  philanthropic  and  religious  activities.  He  is 
a  lover  of  literature  and  enjoys  the  best  current  and  standard  writings.  He  pos- 
esses  considerable  oratorical  ability,  manifest  both  at  the  bar  and  in  the  discussion 
of  questions  from  the  public  platform.  He  is  a  known  champion  of  good  schools 
and  of  good  roads.  He  can  never  content  himself  with  the  second  best  and  his 
own  contagious  interest  in  that  which  is  most  worth  while  has  been  an  inspiration 
to  the  efforts  and  labors  of  others. 


THOMAS  N.  DYSART. 


As  vice  president  of  the  William  R.  Comptoa  Company,  investment  bankers 
of  St.  Louis,  Thomas  N.  Dysart's  ability,  energy  and  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
municipal  bond  business  have  been  one  of  the  important  factors  in  the  great  success 
of  the  corporation  which  he  represents.  He  is  an  executive  of  high  order  whose 
plans  are  carefully  formulated  and  are  carried  forward  to  successful  completion. 
He  thoroughly  studies  every  phase  of  the  business  with  much  he  is  associated  and 
from  the  outset  of  his  career  has  made  steady  progress.  He  was  born  in  Randolph 
county,  Missouri,  September  2,  1880,  a  son  of  Dr.  W.  P.  and  Mary  S.  Dysart.  In 
the  acquirement  of  his  education  he  attended  the  high  school  of  Moberly,  Missouri, 
and  was  afterward  a  student  in  the  academic  department  of  the  State  University 
from  1899  until  1901.  Subsequently  he  entered  the  Washington  University  Law 
School,  which  he  attended  from  1901  until  1903  and  in  the  latter  year  was  grad- 
uated with  the  LL.  B.  degree.  He  then  entered  upon  the  practice  of  law  as  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Dysart  and  Mitchell  at  Macon,  Missouri,  and  in  April,  1903,  he  became 
one  of  the  officers  and  stockholders  in  the  William  R.  Compton  Company,  which 
was  organized  at  that  date.  This  company  has  engaged  in  the  investment  banking 
business  and  today  Mr.  Dysart  is  vice  president  and  director  of  the  company  which 
as  investment  bankers  is  well  known  throughout  the  entire  country,  and  maintains 
offices  in  St.  Louis,  Chicago,  New  York,  Cincinnati  and  New  Orleans.  At  a  recent 
date  this  company  purchased  a  large  block  of  the  stock  representing  the  controlling 
interest  in  the  American  Trust  Company  of  which  Mr.  Dysart  is  also  vice  president 
and  director.  The  William  R.  Compton  Company  and  the  American  Trust  Com- 
pany have  furnished  the  stage  for  his  activities,  bringing  him  to  a  prominent  posi- 
tion in  the  financial  circles  of  the  city. 

On  the  24th  day  of  May,  1905,  Mr.  Dysart  was  married  to  Miss  Jessie  M. 
Patton  at  Macon,  Missouri,  her  parents  being  Joseph  M.  and  Emily  M.  Patten. 
They  are  of  the  Episcopal  faith  and  attend  services  at  the  Cathedral.  Mr.  Dysart 
belongs  to  the  Masonic  fraternity,  having  membership  in  the  Blue  Lodge,  Chapter 
and  Commandery  at  Macon,  Missouri.  He  also  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  Country 
Club,  the  Bellerive  Country  Club,  the  Sunset  Hill  Country  Club,  the  Noonday  Club 
and  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association.  He  has  never  been  active  in  politics  but 
has  ever  endeavored  to  vote  for  the  man  and  not  the  party.  He  is  identified  with 
all  good  civic  movements  and  his  cooperation  can  at  all  times  be  counted  upon  to 
further  plans  and  projects  making  for  the  upbuilding  and  benefit  of  city  and  state. 
During  the  war  period  Mr.  Dysart  was  director  of  organization  in  the  Liberty  Loan 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  719 

Organization  of  the  eiglith  federal  reserve  district.  He  is  fond  of  reading  and 
study  and  spends  much  of  his  time  in  those  ways.  His  creed  is  service  to  others 
and  his  good  deeds  have  always  been  characterized  by  an  unostentation  that  has 
prevented  them  from  being  Ivnown  to  the  world  at  large.  Nevertheless  more  than 
one  boy  owes  his  start  in  life  to  the  education  gained  because  of  Mr.  Dysart's 
generosity  and  more  than  one  family  has  received  the  necessities  of  life  In  times 
of  stress  through  his  goodness. 


GUY   STUDY. 


Guy  Study,  an  eminent  St.  Louis  architect,  practicing  as  senior  partner  of  the 
firm  of  Study  &  Parrar,  was  born  in  Richmond,  Indiana,  November  29,  1880,  and 
is  a  son  of  Abel  Lomax  and  Mary  Alice  (Kittle)  Study.  The  ancestral  line  is 
traced  back  in  England  to  1732.  The  parents  are  still  living  in  Richmond,  Indiana, 
and  the  father  is  there  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law.  He  served  as  a  soldier 
tor  a  short  time  in  the  Union  army  in  the  Civil  war.  In  the  family  are  two  sons, 
the  brother  of  Guy  Study  being  R.  L.   Study,  an  attorney  of  Richmond,  Indiana. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  Guy  Study  began  his  education  and 
after  attending  the  high  school  entered  the  Phillips  Exeter  Academy  at  Exeter, 
New  Hampshire,  from  which  institution  he  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1903. 
For  five  years  he  was  a  student  of  architecture  in.  Washington  University  of  St. 
Louis  and  then  went  abroad,  continuing  his  studies  in  the  Atelier  Laxoux  I'Ecole 
des  Beaux  Arts  and  Academy  Julian  in  Paris,  France.  For  three  years  he  traveled 
abroad,  visiting  England,  France  and  Italy  in  the  study  of  architecture  and  ac- 
quainting himself  with  the  best  that  has  been  produced  through  all  the  centuries. 
On  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  returned  to  his  native  land  and  opened  an 
office  in  St.  Louis,  where  he  has  since  successfully  followed  his  profession,  being 
recognized  as  one  of  the  most  capable  architects  of  the  city.  He  designed  the 
private  art  gallery  for  Breckenridge  Long,  also  the  Compton  Hill  reservoir,  the  New 
Intake  levee  and  the  Church  of  Our  Lady  of  Lourdes,  in  which  he  sought  a  struc- 
tural reproduction  of  a  certain  type  of  European  churches,  desiring  also  to  bestow 
the  atmosphere  and  spirit  of  the  continental  church.  This  is  one  of  the  finest 
ecclesiastical  structures  of  St.  Louis,  the  walls  being  of  solid  stone  from  two  to 
three  feet  in  thickness. 

On  the  14th  of  April,  1909,  Mr.  Study  was  married  in  Paris,  France,  to 
Miss  Georgette  Avelin  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  one  child,  Lomax,  five 
years  of  age.  Mr.  Study  belongs  to  the  Monday  Club,  also  to  the  City  Club  and 
is  a  member  of  St.  Michael's  Episcopal  church.  He  also  has  membership  with 
Phi  Delta  Theta.  He  is  a  patron  of  the  Atelier  St.  Louis,  is  a  member  of  the 
Society  Beaux  Arts  Architects  of  Amei-ica  and  the  St.  Louis  chapter  of  the  Ameri- 
can Institute  of  Architects.  He  has  made  several  most  interesting  contributions 
to  the  literature  of  the  profession.  He  contributed  articles  on  "The  Renaissance 
of  Gothic  Architecture"  and  "The  St.  Louis  Public  Library"  to  the  American  Archi- 
tect and  articles  upon  "The  Reredos  of  Christ  Church  Cathedral,  St.  Louis"  and 
"Washington  University,  St.  Louis"  to  the  Architectural  Record.  His  love  for  his 
profession,  as  well  as  his  wide  study,  has  resulted  in  the  development  of  notable 
skill  and  proficiency  in  that  field  and  his  work  has  been  a  valuable  asset  to  the 
architectural  beauty  of  St.  Louis. 


JOHN  C.   SALTER,   M.   D. 


Dr.  John  C.  Salter,  a  physician  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  August  7,  1873,  at 
Waverly,  Illinois,  and  comes  of  English  ancestry,  the  family  having  been  founded 
in  America  by  his  great-grandfather,  who  settled  in  Connecticut.  His  father,  the 
late  John  C.  Salter,  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  and  took  up  the  occupa- 
tion of  farming  and  stock  raising.     He  was  but  a  young  boy  when  he  accompanied 

his  parents,   Cleveland   J.   and  (Cotton)    Salter,   on   their  removal   from 

the   east   to   Waverly,   Illinois,    of   which   city   his    father   was    one   of   the   founders. 

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720  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Prior  to  his  removal  to  the  west  Cleveland  J.  Salter  had  been  engaged  in  mercantile 
pursuits  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut.  The  family  contributed  largely  to  the  early 
development  and  progress  of  Waverly,  Illinois,  and  the  surrounding  district  and 
there,  after  reaching  years  of  maturity,  and  graduating  from  Yale  Universitv,  John 
C.  Salter  took  up  farming  and  stock  raising.  He  spent  his  last  days  at  Carbondale 
niinois,  where  he  passed  away  in  1889,  at  the  age  of  fifty-seven.  His  wife,  who 
bore  the  maiden  name  of  Margaret  McKee,  was  born  in  St.  Louis  and  died  in' 1890 
at  the  age  of  fift.v-seven  years.  She  was  the  mother  of  four  children,  three  daugh- 
ters and  John  C,  who  is  an  only  son. 

The  love  of  the  father  tor  New  England  and  his  appreciation  of  the  excellent 
educational  advantages  there  offered  caused  John  C.  Salter  to  be  sent  as  a  student 
to  the  Phillips  Academy  at  Andover,  Massachusetts.  He  afterward  continued  his 
education  at  Yale,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree 
in  1897.  He  next  entered  the  Johns  Hopkins  University  at  Baltimore,  Maryland, 
and  gained  his  M.  D.  degree  in  1901.  Following  his  graduation  he  spent  five 
months  in  study  in  the  university  of  Berlin,  Germany,  where  he  did  post-graduate 
work,  and  tor  three  years  was  connected  with  New  York  hospitals.  He  entered 
upon  active  practice  in  St.  Louis  in  December,  1904,  and  through  the  intervening 
period  has  here  remained,  winning  substantial  success  in  general  practice,  special- 
izing in  internal  medicine.  He  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Medical  Society,  the 
Missouri  State  Medical  Society  and  the  American  Medical  Association.  During  the 
World  war  he  was  a  member  of  Hospital  Unit  No.  14  but  saw  no  active  service  and 
in  July,   1918,  was  commissioned  lieutenant-commander. 

At  Denver,  Colorado,  on  the  5th  of  August,  1918,  Dr.  Salter  was  married  to 
Miss  Nellie  Willis,  of  Bowling  Green,  Kentucky,  of  which  city  her  father  was  a 
banker.  Politically  Dr.  Salter  is  a  republican.  He  belongs  to  the  University  Club 
and  is  recognized  -as  a  man  of  broad  and  liberal  culture,  interested  in  all  the 
vital  questions  and  issues  of  the  day  but  giving  the  major  part  of  his  time  to  his 
professional  duties  and  activities.  Aside  from  an  extensive  private  practice  he 
served  as  visiting  physician  to  the  City  Hospital  for  six  years  and  he  was  a  teacher 
and  lecturer  in  the  Washington  University  upon  the  subjects  of  chemical  chemistry 
and  miscroscopy  for  eight  years.  He  is  a  man  of  broad  scientific  attainments, 
steadily  keeping  in  touch  with  the  trend  of  modern  professional  thought  and  in- 
vestigation, and  his  ability  has  placed  him  among  the  eminent  representatives  of 
the  profession  in  St.  Louis. 


ANDREW  TAYLOR   STILL,   D.   0. 

There  are  certain  epoch  making  periods  in  the  history  of  the  healing  art  with 
which  the  name  of  some  individual  is  prominently  associated  and  because  he  has 
delved  deeper  into  the  realms  of  nature  and  of  science  and  has  unearthed  a  principle 
hitherto  unknown  to  mankind  his  name  will  be  handed  down  through  the  generations 
as  one  who  has  contributed  in  notable  measure  to  the  world's  progress.  Such  a  place 
did  Andrew  Taylor  Still  win  for  himself,  but  it  was  with  no  thought  of  personal  fame 
that  his  labors  were  put  forth.  He  believed  that  there  were  truths  yet  unknown  to 
medical  science  and  so  earnestly  and  deeply  did  he  pursue  his  studies  and  investigations 
that  he  gave  to  the  world  new  principles  of  healing,  the  value  of  which  time  has 
demonstrated.  Now  the  practitioners  of  osteopathy  are  numbered  by  the  thousands  and 
their  clientele  by  hundreds  of  thousands  throughout  America  and  other  lands.  At  the 
head  of  this  great  school  of  practice,  as  its  originator  and  promoter,  stood  Dr.  Andrew 
Taylor  Still,  who  became  the  founder  of  the  American  School  of  Osteopathy  at  Kirks- 
ville,  Missouri,  vv'hich  was  started  by  the  state  in  1894. 

A  native  of  Virginia,  Dr.  Still  was  born  in  Lee  county,  August  6,  1828,  his  father 
being  the  Rev.  Abram  Still,  a  Methodist  minister  and  doctor  of  medicine,  who  in  1834 
removed  with  his  family  to  New  Market,  Tennessee.  There  Dr.  Still  of  this  review 
became  a  pupil  in  Holston  College,  thus  supplementing  his  early  educational  training, 
which  had  been  received  in  one  of  the  little  log  schoolhouses  of  his  native  state.  In 
1837  the  conference  to  which  his  father  belonged  sent  Rev.  Still  as  a  missionary  to 
Missouri  and  thus  the  family  became  residents  of  this  state,  making  the  journey 
across  the  country  with  teams  and  reaching  their  destination  after  seven  weeks  of 
travel,   becoming   pioneer   settlers   of   Macon   county.     Rev.    Still   traveled    all    over   the 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  721 

country,  new  and  trackless  as  it  was,  preaching  the  gospel  to  the  people  in  his  minis- 
terial capacity  and  rendering  them  aid  as  a  physician,  accomplishing  great  good  in 
both  lines.  He  founded  seven  churches  in  this  then  new  territory  and  acted  as  pastor 
of  them  all.  He  also  entered  a  large  tract  of  land  near  Barnesville,  in  Independence 
township,  and  a  few  years  later  erected  thereon  a  large  two-story  house  of  hewed  logs, 
which  was  one  of  the  most  commodious  and  imposing  in  all  this  region  at  the  time 
and  was  so  well  built  that  although  it  has  now  stood  for  more  than  seventy  years, 
it  scarcely  shows  any  signs  of  age  or  wear. 

The  children  of  the  family  attended  the  subscription  schools  of  the  period  and  in 
these  the  future  discoverer  of  the  science  of  osteopathy  completed  his  academic  education 
and  qualified  for  the  profession  of  teaching.  For  some  time  he  taught  in  a  primitive 
log  building  about  a  mile  west  of  Barnesville  and  proved  most  capable  in  that  line  of 
professional  activity.  In  early  manhood  he  established  a  home  of  his  own  through  his 
marriage  in  1849  to  Miss  Mary  Vaughn.  She  passed  away  September  29,  1859,  leaving 
a  daughter,  who  is  Mrs.  John  Cowgill  and  resides  in  Ottawa,  Kansas.  In  1852,  three 
years  after  his  marriage.  Dr.  Still  removed  with  his  family  to  Kansas  and  there 
practiced  medicine  in  company  with  his  father,  having  prepared  for  the  profession  while 
teaching  school  and  after  giving  up  that  line  of  work.  During  his  residence  in  Kansas 
he  also  engaged  in  farming  and  manifested  a  deep  and  helpful  concern  in  all  matters 
of  importance  to  the  community.  His  practice  was  mainly  among  the  Shawnee  Indians, 
with  whom  he  was  on  very  friendly  terms.  While  residing  in  Kansas,  Dr.  Still  was 
again  married.  Miss  Mary  E.  Turner  becoming  his  wife  on  the  24th  of  November,  1860. 
Four  children  of  this  union  are  still  living  and  all  are  residents  of  Kirksville,  Missouri. 

Dr.  Still  always  had  a  deep  and  abiding  interest  in  the  Welfare  of  the  country  and 
when  the  Civil  war  broke  out  he  promptly  followed  his  political  convictions  to  the 
battlefield  and  fought  for  them  as  valiantly  as  any  soldier  in  the  service.  After  the 
war  he  renewed  his  activity  as  a  physician  and  farmer  and  also  operated  a  sawmill  for 
some  time,  continuing  to  grow  in  prominence  among  the  people.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  committee  appointed  to  locate  the  University  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church 
at  Baldwin,  Kansas,  and  being  skilled  as  a  carpenter  and  builder,  he  aided  in  sawing 
the  lumber  and  in  constructing  the  buildings  of  this  institution.  He  also  served  as  a 
member  of  the  Kansas  legislature  in  1857-58. 

For  a  number  of  years  before  making  any  announcement  concerning  his  theory  of 
healing  disease  without  medicine,  to  which  he  gave  the  name  of  osteopathy,  he  was 
a  diligent  student  of  it  in  all  of  its  bearings.  At  length  he  began  to  discuss  publicly 
his  opinions  concerning  this  method  of  practice  and  soon  to  teach  it.  He  then  traveled 
from  place  to  place  in  Missouri,  practicing  his  theory  and  making  many  remarkable  cures. 
Some  of  these  appeared  so  remarkable  to  the  people  that  they  attributed  supernatural 
power  to  him  and  became  afraid  to  say  aught  against  him  lest  he  do  them  some  harm. 
However,  he  persevered  in  his  efforts  and  in  time  overcame  all  opposition  and  gained 
a  large  number  of  followers.  Like  other  men  who  broached  a  new  theory  in  science. 
Dr.  Still  was  obliged  to  win  his  way  to  success  and  popular  approval  through  tribu- 
lations and  opposition  that  sometimes  amounted  almost  to  persecution.  But  he  felt 
that  he  had  conceived  something  of  great  value  to  mankind,  and  he  persevered  in  his 
efforts  to  make  it  known  and  established  its  worth  in  spite  of  all  opposing  forces,  and 
he  is  now  firmly  fixed  in  popular  esteem  as  the  discoverer  of  a  new  system  and  was 
one  of  its  most  accomplished  and  capable  practitioners  to  be  found  in  the  whole  country. 

Dr.  Still  established  a  school  in  Kirksville  and  students  came  to  him  from  all  parts 
of  the  country.  His  school  finally  expanded  into  the  present  American  School  of 
Osteopathy,  which  has  now  sent  forth  zealous  practitioners  into  every  state  of  the 
Union  and  into  almost  every  county  in  the  United  States.  The  main  building  of  the 
institution  is  a  large  and  well  arranged  structure  which  cost  more  than  eighty  thousand 
dollars  and  is  well  adapted  to  the  uses  for  which  it  was  erected.  There  is  also  a 
thoroughly  modern  hospital,  which  was  built  at  a  cost  of  more  than  seventy-five  thou- 
sand dollars.  The  school  is  flourishing  and  the  man  who  founded  it  lived  in  comfort 
after  so  many  trials  until  death  called  him  on  ihe  12th  of  December,  1917,  enjoying 
the  high  esteem  which  he  so  fully  merited.  His  last  home,  which  was  a  handsome 
residence  and  in  contrast  to  the  log  cabin  which  he  helped  to  build  and  which  he 
occupied  in  early  life,  was  indicative  of  the  advancement  which  he  had  made  in  a 
professional  way.  His  life  record  is  the  old  story  of  opposition  to  truth  which  has 
not  been  long  established,  persecution  of  the  faith  which  the  world  has  not  tested, 
misrepresentation  and  abuse  for  doing  good  in  a  manner  that  is  new  to  the  public. 
Its  later  chapters  are,  however,  different  from  those  in  the  lives  of  many  martyrs,  for 


722  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

they  record  triumphant  success  and  complete  vindication  of  all  that  was  ever  said  in 
the  earlier  period  and  the  general  acceptance  of  views  which  scarcely  anybody  would 
tolerate  when  they  were  made  known  by  the  practical  genius  who  thought  them  out. 


CALVIN  M.  Christy: 


Calvin  M.  Christy  belonged  to  that  class  of  representative  business  men  who 
recognize  opportunities  and  whose  initiative  enables  them  to  form  new  plans  where- 
by the  advantages  of  a  situation  may  be  utilized  in  the  attainment  of  a  legiti- 
mate profit  in  the  great  world  of  business.  One  of  the  important  productive  in- 
dustries of  St.  Louis  came  into  existence  through  the  efforts,  enterprise,  keen 
judgment  and  wide  vision  of  Calvin  M.  Christy,  who  thus  in  large  measure  left 
the  impress  of  his  individuality  upon  the  commercial  development  of  his  adopted 
city.  It  would  be  to  give  but  a  one-sided  view  of  his  career,  however,  if  one  spoke 
of  him  merely  as  a  business  man.  The  underlying  principles  of  his  life  had  their 
root  in  a  Christian  faith  which  permeated  his  every  act.  Throughout  his  entire 
career  he  was  never  content  to  choose  the  second  best  but  standardized  his  record 
by  exalted   teachings   and   purposes. 

Mr.  Christy  was  a  native  of  Tennessee,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Murfrees- 
boro  in  1836.  The  years  of  his  boyhood  and  youth  were  there  passed  and  in 
young  manhood  he  came  to  St.  Louis  with  his  father,  William  T.  Christy.  His 
education  was  completed  by  a  course  in  Princeton  University  of  New  Jersey  and 
thus  well  equipped  by  liberal  intellectual  training  and  culture  tor  the  practical 
and  responsible  duties  of  life,  he  crossed  the  threshold  of  the  business  world  and 
made  for  himself  an  enviable  name  in  the  commercial  and  industrial  circles  of 
Missouri's  metropolis.  In  ante-bellum  days  he  was  employed  by  the  Woods-Christy 
Dry  Goods  Company^  of  which  his  father  was  a  partner,  and  for  a  considerable 
period  he  was  also  connected  with  the  James  C.  Moore  Dry  Goods  Company.  Thus 
as  the  years  passed  his  experience  broadened  and  he  continuously  added  to  his 
knowledge  by  availing  himself  of  every  opportunity  to  master  the  rules  of  busi- 
ness life  and  utilized  every  advantage  that  meant  progression.  In  1881  he  entered 
a  new  field  by  organizing  the  Christy  Fire  Clay  Company  and  in  that  direction 
developed  an  extensive  and  profitable  business  of  which  he  was  the  president 
when  in  May,  1907,  it  was  merged  with  the  Laclede  Fire  Brick  Manufacturing 
Company  under  the  style  of  the  Laclede-Christy  Clay  Products  Company.  At  that 
time  Mr.  Christ.v  became  the  chairman  of  the  executive  board  and  so  continued 
until  his  demise  and  through  the  intervening  years  the  business  developed  until 
it  became  one  of  the  largest  in  the  country  in  the  manufacture  of  clay  products. 
Mr.  Christy  was  one  of  the  heavy  stockholders  and  not  only  was  he  prominently 
identified  with  the  concern  through  financial  investments  but  his  sound  judgment 
and  keen  discrimination  constituted  a  strong  element  in  the  successful  manage- 
ment of  the  enterprise.  His  integrity  in  business  affairs  was  one  of  the  salient 
forces  in  his  character  and  gained  for  him  the  honor  and  respect  of  his  fellow- 
men. 

The  home  life  of  Mr.  Christy  was  most  attractive.  He  wedded  Miss  Mary 
A.  Le  Beau  and  they  became  the  parents  of  six  children:  Ellen  C,  now  the  wife 
of  Edward  W.  Uhri,  an  oil  promoter  of  Fort  Worth,  Texas:  Mary  Belle,  the  wife 
of  Clem  T.  Strauss,  a  lumberman  of  St.  Louis;  Virginia  L.,  the  wife  of  Kenneth  M. 
Davis,  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  in  St.  Louis:  William  T. ;  and  John  L. 
and  Calvin   M.,   who   are   with   the   Laclede-Christy   Clay   Products   Company. 

The  family  circle  was  broken  by  the  hand  of  death  in  December,  1907,  when 
Mr.  Christy  passed  away  at  Daytona,  Florida,  where  he  had  gone  with  his  family 
to  spend  the  winter.  Of  him  a  contemporary  biographer  has  written:  "He  was 
a  liberal  man  in  charitable  and  church  work,  giving  generously  to  benevolent 
societies  and  even  more  liberally  in  private  contributions  where  none  knew  his 
kindness  save  himself  and  the  recipient  of  his  bounty.  He  was  never  ostentatious 
in  his  giving,  nor  did  he  believe  in  that  indiscriminate  charity  which  fosters  vag- 
rancy and  idleness,  but  wherever  he  felt  there  was  real  need  he  was  quick  to  lend 
assistance.  Few  men  have  realized  so  fully  the  obligations  of  wealth,  and  broad 
humanitarianism  was  a  strong  feature  in  his  lite.  He  was  a  consistent  Christian, 
holding    membership    in    the    Methodist    Episcopal    church,    and    was    practically   the 


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builder  of  the  Christy  Memorial  church  on  Morgan  Ford  road  and  Neosho  street. 
Capable  o(  taking  a  calm  survey  of  life,  he  pondered  much  over  its  purposes  and 
for  long  years  did  not  weigh  his  acts  on  the  scale  of  public  policy  but  on  the  scale 
of  public  justice  and  righteousness.  Guided  by  high  and  noble  purposes,  his  life 
demonstrated  the  fact  that  there  need  be  no  division  line  between  business  and 
religion.  Mrs.  Christy  is  prominent  in  the  social  affairs  of  the  city  and  since 
the  death  of  her  husband  makes  her  home  in  the  Bellevue  apartments  on  Kings 
highway. 


THOMAS   SKINKER   MAPFITT. 

Thomas  Skinker  MafBtt,  vice  president  of  the  Mississippi  Valley  Iron  Company, 
president  of  the  Maffitt  Realty  Company,  vice  president  of  the  State  National  Bank 
of  St.  Louis,  and  identified  with  other  important  corporate  interests  whereby  he  has 
become  a  well  known  figure  in  real  estate  and  financial  circles  was  born  in  St.  Louis, 
March  6,  1876,  a  son  of  Pierre  Chouteau  and  Mary  1.  (Skinker)  Maffitt  and  a  repre- 
sentative of  one  of  the  old  American  families  founded  in  this  country  in  1700.  The 
Maffitts  were  Scotch-Irish  and  the  first  of  the  name  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic  settled 
in  Maryland.  The  great-great-grandfather  in  the  Maffitt  line  was  an  oSicer  of  the 
Revolutionary  war.  His  son,  William  Maffitt,  married  a  Miss  Carter,  of  Virginia, 
and  they  were  the  parents  of  Dr.  William  Maffitt,  who  was  born  in  Chantilly,  Fair- 
fax county,  Virginia,  November  17,  1811.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Columbia  Univer- 
sity, in  the  District  of  Columbia,  there  completing  a  medical  course  in  1831,  at  which 
time  he  was  granted  his  professional  degree.  The  following  year  he  became  a  surgeon 
of  the  United  States  army  and  so  continued  until  1844,  when  he  resigned,  becoming 
a  resident  of  St.  Louis,  which  city  he  had  previously  visited  in  the  performance  of 
his  oflScial  duties.  While  with  the  army  he  had  taken  part  in  the  Seminole  war  in 
Florida  and  during  that  period  had  contracted  malarial  trouble,  which  undermined 
his  health  so  seriously  that  his  death  followed  on  the  17th  of  October,  1864.  While 
he  practiced  his  profession  in  St.  Louis  to  some  extent,  he  led  a  very  quiet  and  re- 
tiring life  during  his  residence  in  this  city.  He  married  Julia  Chouteau,  who  was 
born  in  St.  Louis,  February  28,  1816,  and  passed  away  July  2,  1897.  She  belonged 
to  the  Chouteau  family,  whose  name  figures  most  prominently  upon  the  pages  of 
St.  Louis'  history,  and  whose  representatives  are  mentioned  elsewhere  in  this  work. 
Thomas  S.  Maffitt  attended  Taft's  School  at  Watertown,  Connecticut,  and  after- 
ward entered  Yale  University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1899  on  the  comple- 
tion of  an  academic  course,  winning  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree.  While  at  Yale  he 
became  a  member  of  the  Delta  Kappa  Bpsilon  and  also  of  the  Skull  and  Bones.  Fol- 
lowing the  completion  of  his  education  he  accepted  a  position  in  the  local  freight 
office  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad,  there  remaining  for  about  three 
months,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  became  associated  with  the  Maffitt  Realty  Com- 
pany. A  year  later  he  joined  Whitaker  &  Company,  with  whom  he  continued  for 
about  two  years,  and  in  1903  returned  to  the  Maffitt  Realty  Company,  with  whtch 
he  has  since  been  associated.  He  has  filled  several  official  positions  and  is  now 
president  of  this  company,  which  is  capitalized  for  three  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 
dollars.  In  1906  he  assisted  in  organizing  the  Missouri  Iron  Company  for  the  pur- 
pose of  handling  an  iron  mine  which  was  subsequently  sold  to  the  Mississippi  Valley 
Iron  Company,  of  which  Mr.  Maffitt  is  the  vice  president.  This  is  a  five  million 
dollar  corporation,  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  pig  iron.  Mr.  Maffitt  is  likewise 
the  vice  president  of  the  State  National  Bank  of  St.  Louis  and  he  is  the  president 
of  the  Julia  Building  Association,  a  tour  hundred  thousand  dollar  corporation. 

In  St.  Louis,  In  1901,  Mr.  Maffitt  was  married  to  Miss  Sadie  J.  Pierce,  of  St.  Louis, 
a  daughter  of  Edward  Pierce,  who  was  treasurer  of  the  Samuel  Cupples  Company, 
holding  that  position  for  many  years  prior  to  his  death.  The  children  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Maffitt  are  Thomas  S.,  Jr.,  and  Edward  Pierce,  aged  respectively  sixteen  and 
thirteen  years,  and  both  are  attending  Taft's  School  at  Watertown,  Connecticut, 
which  their  father  attended  in  his  boyhood  days. 

Mr.  Maffitt  served  from  May,  1918,  until  October  31,  1919,  as  a  captain  on  the 
general  staff  of  the  Military  Intelligence  Division  of  St.  Louis.  He  is  a  well  known 
member  of  the  leading  clubs  of  this  city,  including  the  St.  Louis,  Racquet,  Noonday 


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and  St.  Louis  Country  Clubs,  and  lie  also  has  membership  with  the  Yale  Club  of  New 
York  and  the  University  Club  ot  Chicago.  That  he  is  keenly  interested  in  the  wel- 
fare and  progress  of  his  native  city  is  indicated  by  his  connection  with  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce.  He  is  a  man  of  very  progressive  spirit  and  strong  personality  but 
modest  and  unassuming  withal,  carrying  forward  with  success  and  high  purpose  the 
business  interests  which  have  come  to  him  as  president  of  the  Maffitt  Realty  Com- 
pany. In  politics  he  is  a  democrat  and  has  taken  a  helpful  part  in  advancing  polit- 
ical and  civic  matters  in  his  native  city. 


COLONEL  ARTHUR  JENIFER  ELLIOTT. 

Colonel  Arthur  Jenifer  Elliott,  manager  of  the  Farm  and  Home  Savings  & 
Loan  Association  of  Missouri,  with  offices  in  Kansas  City,  was  born  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  January  24,  1882,  his  parents  being  Arthur  and  Adaline  (Jenifer)  Elliott. 
The  father  was  a  railroad  official  in  Ohio,  connected  with  the  Ohio  &  Mississippi 
line,  now  a  part  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  System.  With  his  removal  to  the  middle 
west  he  became  general  freight  agent  for  the  Missouri  Pacific  and  is  now  connected 
with  the  legal  department  of  the  Kansas  City  Southern  Railroad  at  Kansas  City, 
his  entire  life  having  been  devoted  to  railway  interests,  in  which  connection  he 
has  done  much  to  further  and  improve  transportation  facilities. 

Colonel  Elliott,  spending  his  youthful  days  under  the  parental  roof,  became  a 
public  school  pupil  but  when  sixteen  years  of  age  put  aside  all  interests  except 
those  of  a  military  nature,  for  his  patriotic  spirit  was  aroused  and  he  enlisted  in 
the  Third  Missouri  Volunteers  as  a  private  and  served  through  the  Spanish- 
American  war.  Fortunately  the  conflict  was  of  brief  duration  and  after  receiving 
his  discharge  he  returned  home  and  resumed  his  interrupted  education.  For  a 
time  he  was  a  student  in  the  Wentworth  Military  ^Academy  at  Lexington,  Missouri, 
working  his  way  through  that  school.  He  started  out  in  the  business  world  as  a 
railroad  clerk  and  switchman  with  the  old  Kansas  City,  Fort  Scott  &  Memphis 
Railroad,  now  a  part  of  the  Frisco  System.  In  1903,  however,  he  took  up  the 
work  of  selling  securities  and  in  handling  savings  bank  securities  tor  the  Mississippi 
Valley  Trust  Company  of  St.  Louis.  While  with  that  corporation  he  also  secured 
the  right  of  way  for  the  Denver,  Enid  &  Gulf  Railroad  Company.  In  1905  he 
became  associated  with  the  H.  P.  Wright  Investment  Company  of  Kansas  City 
as  a  salesman,  occupying  the  position  until  1907,  when  he  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Safety  Savings  &  Loan  Association.  In  1908  he  came  to  the  Farm  and  Home 
Savings  &  Loan  Association  as  assistant  manager  and  while  thus  engaged  con- 
tributed various  articles  to  the  Field  Artillery  Journal.  Realizing  the  value  of  a 
comprehensive  knowledge  of  mathematics  as  a  factor  in  business  success,  he  studied 
along  that  line  and  reached  a  point  of  considerable  proficiency  as  a  mathematician. 
The  World  war,  however,  changed  his  plans  and  his  views  of  life,  as  it  did  for 
thousands  of  other  representatives  of  young  American  manhood.  He  went  to 
France  with  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-ninth  Field  Artillery  of  the  Thirty-fifth 
Division  and  saw  active  service  in  the  St.  Mihiel  offensive,  at  the  Vosges,  in  the 
Argonne  and  at  Verdun.  His  regiment  went  to  the  support  of  the  Eighty-first 
Division  and  its  last  active  fighting  was  done  in  the  Meuse  Argonne  drive.  Fol- 
lowing the  signing  of  the  armistice  on  the  11th  ot  November,  1918,  he  went  with 
the  army  of  occupation  as  a  member  of  the  Sixth  Division  into  Germany,  In  the 
meantime  his  valor  and  his  ability  in  military  matters  won  him  merited  promotion 
through  intermediate  ranks  to  a  full  colonelcy.  He  had  the  love  and  confidence 
of  his  men,  for  while  necessarily  a  strict  disciplinarian,  he  was  always  watchful 
of  the  interests  and  welfare  of  his  troops,  never  needlessly  exposing  them  and 
never  hesitating  to  advance  when  he  gave  to  them  the  order  to  proceed  against 
the  enemy.  When  United  States  Congressman  W.  P.  Borland  died  abroad.  Colonel 
Elliott  was  sent  to  Rotterdam.  Holland,  to  escort  the  body  home.  He  sailed  on 
General  Dickman's  boat,  the  Prussian,  to  which  the  body  was  transferred  in  mid- 
stream of  the  river  Rhine  and  then  was  taken  onto  the  U.  S.  S.  Eastern  Light,  no 
neutrality  complications  thus  being  encountered.  Colonel  Elliot  joined  his  regi- 
ment in  New  York  and  is  now  a  colonel  in  the  Field  Artillery  Reserve  Corps  of 
the  United  States  army,   being  the  only   full   colonel   in   the  territory   which   com- 


COLONEL    AETHUE    J.    ELLIOTT 


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prises  Missouri,   Kansas,   Colorado,   Nebraslca,   North   and   Soutli   Dakota   and   Olcla- 
homa,  tliis  territory  being  in  the  jurisdiction  ot  the  Seventh  Army  Corps. 

Colonel  Elliott  is  now  commander  of  William  P.  Borland  Post  of  the  American 
Legion,  which  he  aided  in  organizing,  and  is  chairman  of  the  Kansas  City  national 
convention  committee.  He  was  a  delegate  in  1920  to  the  national  convention  held 
in  Cleveland  and  in  the  same  year  was  made  a  member  of  the  state  executive  com- 
mittee for  the  fifth  Missouri  district.  He  is  a  very  active  Legion  member,  putting 
forth  every  effort  in  his  power  to  upbuild  the  organization  and  to  promote  the  high 
principles  for  which  it  stands.  Colonel  Elliott's  connection  with  military  affairs 
covers  an  extended  period,  for  in  1899,  upon  the  reorganization  of  the  Missouri 
National  Guard,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  and  worked  his  way  upward  through  the 
ranks  of  sergeant  and  captain  to  that  of  major.  On  the  formation  of  an  artillery 
regiment  he  became  first  sergeant  of  Battery  B  and  was  steadily  advanced  to  the 
captaincy  of  the  battery.  He  was  on  active  duty  on  the  Mexican  border  in  1917 
as  captain,  and  when  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-ninth  Field  Artillery  was 
organized,  ot  which  the  Second  Missouri  Artillery  was  the  nucleus,  he  became  the 
lieutenant  colonel  on  the  12th  of  July,  1917,  He  worked  hard  to  become  proficient 
in  artillery  service.  In  1915  he  had  attended  the  Artillery  School  of  Fire  at  Fort 
Sill  and  was  again  a  student  there  in  1918.  His  training  and  his  knowledge  stood 
the  acid  test  of  actual  service  on  the  battle  fronts  of  France  and  his  ability  gained 
him  further  promotion  to  a  colonelcy  and  the  commendation  of  his  superior  officers. 

Colonel  Elliott  married  Miss  Isabella  Burwick,  a  native  ot  Kansas  City  and 
a  daughter  of  Morris  G.  Burwick,  a  wholesale  leaf  tobacco  merchant.  They  have 
two  children,  George  W.  and  Bonnie  Betty.  Colonel  Elliott  belongs  to  the  Kansas 
City  Club  and  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  His  interests  and  activities 
have  indeed  been  broad  and  varied  and  in  the  pursuits  of  civil  life  he  has  shown 
himself  a  forceful  factor,  possessed  of  initiative,  enterprise  and  ability.  Since  1915 
he  has  been  the  manager  of  the  Kansas  City  oflice  of  the  Farm  and  Home  Savings  & 
Loan  Association  of  Missouri  and  is  thus  directing  important  financial  interests. 
He  was  also  a  stockholder  ot  the  Security  National  Bank  and  has  gained  for  himself  a 
most  creditable  name  and  place  in  financial  circles  in  the  state.  His  political  alle- 
giance is  given  to  the  democratic  party,  while  his  religious  faith  is  indicated  by  his 
membership  in  St.  George's  Episcopal  church.  He  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason 
and  a  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 


JAMES  WINTER  WIGHT. 


James  Winter  Wight,  a  prominent  attorney  of  northeastern  Missouri  and  a 
resident  of  Moberly,  is  a  representative  of  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  honored 
pioneer  families  of  this  section  of  the  state.  The  ancestry  back  of  him  is  an  hon- 
orable and  distinguished  one  and  he  is  fortunate  in  that  his  lines  of  life  have 
been  cast  in  harmony  therewith.  He  is  a  direct  descendant  of  James  Wight, 
who  was  born  at  Ormiston,  near  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  February  24,  1789.  He  was 
but  five  years  of  age  when,  in  179  4,  he  was  brought  to  America  by  his  parents, 
James  and  Jane  (McConachee)  Wight,  who  established  their  home  near  Richmond, 
Virginia.  Some  years  afterward  James  Wight  became  a  resident  of  Fleming  county, 
Kentucky,  and  subsequently  removed  to  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  where  on  the  15th 
of  November,  1815,  he  wedded  Sarah  Ratcliff,  who  was  born  in  Richmond,  Virginia, 
May  10,  1790,  a  daughter  of  Francis  and  Rebecca  (Bridges)  Ratcliff,  the  former 
born  in  Chesterfield  county,  Virginia,  in  1755  and  the  latter  in  1758.  Francis 
Ratcliff  served  as  a  corporal  in  Captain  William  Pierce's  company  in  the  First 
Artillery  Regiment  of  Continental  Troops,  commanded  by  Colonel  Charles  Harrison, 
during  the  Revolutionary  war,  the  regiment  being  on  duty  in  the  state  ot  Virginia. 
The  records  of  the  land  office  at  Richmond,  Virginia,  show  that  Francis  Ratcliff 
was  allowed  the  portion  of  land  allotted  the  corporal  of  the  Continental  line  for 
three  years'  service.  His  daughter  Sarah  received  her  education  in  the  public 
schools  and,  as  stated,  became  the  wife  of  James  Wight. '  To  them  were  born 
eight  children.  While  residing  in  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  James  Wight  engaged 
in  cabinetmaking  and  in  contracting  and  was  the  builder  of  the  capitol  of  Lex- 
ington.    In   1836   he  removed  with  his   family  to   Shelby  county,   Kentucky,   where 


730  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

he  afterward  followed  agricultural  pursuits  until  he  passed  away  at  the  home  of 
one  of  his  daughters  in  Normal.  Illinois,  April  22,  1871.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the 
War  of  1812.  Both  he  and  his  wife  were  members  of  the  Southern  Methodist 
church  and  took  great  interest  in  its  work,  giving  liberally  to  its  support  and  doing 
everything  in   their  power  to  advance  its  cause. 

Among  the  eight  children  of  James  and  Sarah  (Ratcliff)  Wight  was  James 
Francis  Ratcliff  Wight,  who  was  born  in  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  May  26,  18l9,  and 
whose  life  record  covered  the  intervening  years  to  the  26th  of  October,  1905, 
when  he  was  called  to  his  final  rest.  On  the  6th  of  June,  1839,  in  Oldham  county, 
Kentucky,  he  married  Frances  Ann  Burton,  who  passed  away  September  3,  1843, 
leaving  one  son,  James  William  Wight,  the  father  of  James  Winter  Wight  of  this 
review.  The  second  wife  of  James  Francis  Ratcliff  Wight  bore  the  maiden  name 
of  Harriet  Amanda  Head.  Their  marriage  was  celebrated  December  8,  1846.  The 
first  wife  was  born  in  Oldham  county,  Kentucky,  January  21,  1820,  and  was  the 
daughter  of  William  and  Ann  Burton.  James  F.  R.  Wight  was  a  farmer  and  stock 
raiser  who  specialized  in  handling  fine  horses  and  cattle  and  did  much  to  promote 
the  agricultural  fairs  held  in  his  section.  In  the  fall  of  1840  he  came  with  his 
wife  and  her  widowed  mother  to  Missouri,  making  the  trip  across  the  country  from 
Shelby  county,  Kentucky,  in  wagons.  There  were  eight  white  people  and  thirty 
negro  slaves  in  the  company  and  as  they  passed  through  Illinois  a  negro  girl  was 
kidnapped  by  abolitionists,  which  detained  them  several  days.  The  mother  of  this 
girl  was  frantic  with  grief  because  of  the  kidnapping  and  wild  with  joy  at  the 
rescue.  Reaching  Missouri,  the  Wight  home  was  established  in  Randolph  county, 
where  Mr.  Wight  secured  about  one  thousand  acres  of  land,  thereon  making  his 
home  for  more  than  sixty  years.  Throughout  the  entire  period  he  figured  as  one 
of  the  most  prominent  and  influential  residents  of  northeastern  Missouri.  He  was 
a  Methodist  in  his  religious  faith,  a  whig  in  his  political  views  and  by  that  party 
he  was  elected  in  1854  to  the  general  assembly  of  Missouri  from  Randolph  county, 
where  the  whig  and  democratic  parties  were  almost  equally  divided  as  to  numbers, 
therefore  rendering  the  election  very  close.  Following  the  dissolution  of  the  whig 
party  he  joined  the  democratic  party  and  was  again  chosen  to  represent  his  district 
in  the  state  legislature  in  1876.  During  the  Civil  war  he  was  a  strong  southern 
sympathizer,  and  while  he  did  not  enlist  as  a  soldier,  he  rendered  the  cause  much 
assistance  by  his  counsel  and  means. 

A  contemporary  biographer  has  given  some  most  interesting  details  of  James 
F.  R.  Wight's  experiences  at  the  time  of  the  Civil  war  which  read  as  follows:  "One 
bleak  cold  day  during  the  late  Civil  war,  a  wagon  accompanied  by  two  strangers 
was  observed  making  its  way  slowly  along  the  muddy  highway  known  as  the  state 
road,  leading  from  Huntsville  to  Hannibal,  and  as  it  came  near  the  little  village 
of  Milton,  in  the  eastern  part  of  Randolph  county,  and  near  where  Mr.  Wight  lived, 
the  wagon  broke  down.  As  it  contained  only  a  few  trunks  and  other  light  articles 
and  seemed  to  be  lightly  loaded,  the  event  started  some  comment  as  to  what  the 
trunks  contained  that  they  should  cause  the  wagon  to  break  down.  Upon  inquiry, 
it  was  found  that  they  contained  gold  and  silver  coin.  One  of  the  men,  who  rode 
in  a  buggy  in  front  of  the  wagon,  acting  as  pilot,  was  Adam  Hendrix  of  Fayette, 
Howard  county,  the  father  of  E.  R.  Hendrix,  who  was  afterwards  and  is  now  a 
bishop  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  South.  Mr.  Hendrix  stated  that  the 
money  belonged  to  various  persons  who  had  deposited  it  in  the  bank  at  Fayette, 
and  as  times  were  very  squally  by  reason  of  the  war  and  marauding  bands  all  over 
the  country,  the  directors  of  the  bank  felt  that  it  was  not  sate  in  the  vaults.  There- 
tore  Mr.  Hendrix,  as  president,  was  aiming  to  get  the  deposits  into  Illinois,  for  safe 
keeping.  Colonel  Poindexter,  a  southern  chieftain,  who  lived  in  the  neighborhood 
before  the  war,  and  who  at  this  time  was  in  the  vicinity  recruiting  for  the  southern 
army,  was  notified  of  the  discovery,  and  he  seized  the  money,  thinking  it  might 
be  contraband  of  war,  belonging  to  the  United  States  government.  Mr.  Hendrix 
knew  Mr.  Wight  and  asked  if  he  did  not  live  near,  and  so  going  to  his  home  sought 
his  aid  in  the  premises,  relating  to  him  the  facts  as  above  stated.  Mr.  Wight  be- 
lieved the  story,  knowing  Mr.  Hendrix  to  be  a  man  of  honor  and  integrity.  He 
went  to  Colonel  Poindexter  and  asked  that  the  money  be  returned  to  Mr.  Hendrix, 
at  the  same  time  saying  that  while  he  was  a  southern  man  in  principle  and  sym- 
pathy, he  thought  it  would  harm  the  cause  very  much  it  he  did  not.  Colonel 
Poindexter  at  the  instance  of  Mr.  Wight  returned  the  money,  and  the  parties  went 
on,   reaching  their  destination   in  safety.     In  addition  Mr.  Wight  furnished  a  con- 


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veyance  to  help  them  on  their  journey.  For  this  kindness  Mr.  Hendrix  was  so 
grateful  that  he  said  to  Mr.  Wight,  it"  at  any  time  he  or  any  of  the  directors  of 
the  bank  could  serve  him  in  any  way  to  command  them.     Well,  the  time  came  later. 

"The  war  continued  with  rigor  and  bloodshed,  the  southern  soldiers  being 
crowded  out  and  moving  further  south.  The  state  was  overrun  with  federal  soldiers 
from  other  states.  Among  them  was  one  Colonel  Merrill  of  Merrill's  Horse,  from 
Iowa.  He  was  stationed  for  a  time  at  Huntsville,  the  county  seat  of  Randolph 
county.  During  his  stay  he  became  acquainted  with  Mr.  Wight  and  learned  some- 
thing of  his  southern  proclivities,  and  although  Mr.  Wight  remained  in  the  peace- 
ful pursuit  of  his  vocation,  that  of  a  farmer  at  his  home,  the  colonel  longed  for  an 
opportunity  to  lay  his  hands  upon  him,  but  was  unable  to  do  so.  After  a  stay 
of  some  months,  he  and  his  command  were  moved  to  Columbia  in  Boone  county. 
Not  long  after  this  Mr.  Wight  received  a  communication  from  Colonel  Merrill  to 
report  to  him,  stating  the  time,  about  a  week  off,  and  further  saying  'if  he  had  any 
business  affairs  to  arrange  to  do  so,  as  it  might  be  necessary  to  protract  his  stay  in 
Columbia.'  Mr.  Wight  construed  that  to  mean  that  he  was  to  be  thrown  into 
prison  or  maybe  his  life  forfeited,  for  he  knew  how  lightly  the  lives  of  men  were 
held  in 'those  trying  days. 

"At  this  juncture  Mr.  Wight  bethought  himself  as  to  what  he  had  best  do  to 
thwart  the  plans  of  the  officious  Colonel  Merrill.  So  he  determined  to  appeal 
his  case  to  his  friend  of  other  years,  Colonel  James  O.  Broadhead  of  St.  Louis, 
who  was  a  loyal  man  and  at  that  time  was  provost  marshal  general,  and  as  such 
was  in  charge  of  the  military  forces  of  the  state.  However,  before  going  to  St. 
Louis,  he  determined  to  call  for  aid  from  some  of  the  bank  officials  of  Fayette,  to 
whom  he  had  given  such  efficient  help  in  the  earlier  years  of  the  war.  So  he  went 
to  Fayette,  secured  the  friendly  services  of  Robert  Prewett,  a  lawyer,  director  in 
the  bank  and  a  stanch  Union  man  to  vouch  for  him,  in  that  while  he  was  a  south- 
ern sympathizer,  he  had  remained  at  home  and  had  never  taken  up  arms  ag'ainst 
the  government.  Thus  armed  and  panoplied,  he  laid  his  case  before  Colonel  Broad- 
head,  who  unhesitatingly  gave  him  immunity  from  the  designs  and  machinations 
of  Colonel  Merrill.  In  addition  to.this,  at  the  request  of  Mr.  Wight,  he  gave  him 
written  authority  to  bear  side-arms  for  his  own  personal  safety,  thus  demonstrat- 
ing his  confidence  in  the  integrity  and  honor  of  Mr.  Wight.  However,  he  told  him 
to  report  at  the  time  ordered  by  Colonel  Merrill,  and  that  he  would  notify  him  not 
in  any  way  to  detain,  harass  or  molest  him.  On  his  arrival  in  Columbia,  he  re- 
ported to  Colonel  Merrill  at  headquarters,  who  seemed  much  put  out  and  told 
Mr.  Wight  'that  by  reason  of  a  combination  of  circumstances  over  which  he  had 
no  control,  he  had  no  further  use  for  him.'  Thus  he  slipped  through  his  clutches 
and  escaped  from  what  seemed  at  first,  and  really  was,  a  very  serious  matter  to 
Mr.  Wight.  Thus  we  see  exemplified  again  how  dependent  we  are  upon  our  friends 
and  how  closely  we  are  linked  together  and  how  we  may  be  of  mutual  benefit 
as  we  journey  to  our  home  beyond. 

"Here  we  turn  again  to  Colonel  Poindexter,  of  whom  we  spoke  a  moment  ago. 
After  his  release  of  the  money  belonging  to  the  Fayette  bank  he  turned  his  steps 
southward,  and  after  a  time  of  the  varied  and  changing  fortunes  of  war,  or  rather, 
may  we  not  say,  misfortunes  to  him,  he  was  captured,  put  into  military  prison 
at  Macon  City,  where  he  was  court-martialed  and  condemned  to  be  shot.  He  de- 
termined at  all  hazards  to  make  his  escape,  if  possible.  His  wife  was  permitted 
to  see  him  occasionally  while  in  prison,  and  while  on  one  of  her  visits  seci-etly 
conveyed  to  him  a  quantity  of  cayenne  pepper  which  served  him  most  effectually 
later.  He  was  very  closely  watched,  and  every  avenue  of  escape  seemed  closed. 
However,  the  evening  of  the  day  before  he  was  to  be  executed,  he  prevailed  upon 
his  guard  to  take  him  out  for  a  walk  that  he  might  once  more  behold  the  blue 
sky  and  have  his  brow  fanned  by  the  breezes  of  heaven  before  he  should  die.  He 
was  taken  out  about  sunset,  walking  between  two  guards.  He  simultaneously 
with  each  hand  dashed  the  pepper  into  the  eyes  of  his  guards  and  made  a  run  for 
liberty.  Thus  he  made  his  escape.  The  alarm  was  given,  and  soon  the  whole 
post  turned  out  to  hunt  for  him.  Here  heaven  seemed  to  favor  him,  for  the  sky 
was  almost  immediately  overcast  with  clouds,  it  began  to  i-ain,  and  darkness  settled 
over  the  face  of  nature.  He  made  his  way  to  a  clump  of  timber  as  a  hiding  place, 
crouching  under  bushes  or  whatever  could  afford  him  shelter  from  his  pursuers, 
who  scoured  the  thickets  with  torches  and  lanterns;  at  one  time  some  of  them 
were  so  near  him  he  could  have  touched  them  from  under  the  bush  where  he  was 


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hiding.  His  pursuers  caught  a  glimpse  of  him,  revealed  to  them  by  a  flash  of 
lightning,  and  he  received  a  gunshot  wound  in  his  thigh.  After  a  fruitless  en- 
deavor his  would-be  captors  gave   up  the  chase  for  the  time  being. 

"Notwithstanding  his  wound,  he  made  his  way  to  friendlier  surroundings  about 
twenty  miles  away  and  took  shelter  in  a  heavily  timbered  region  known  as  the 
Rock  House  Hills,  where  for  a  time  he  was  ministered  to  by  friendly  hands,  in 
secret,  of  course,  tor  the  whole  country  around  about  was  occupied  by  Federal 
soldiers.  After  a  short  stay  here  he  sent  tor  Mr.  Wight  to  advise  with  him  as  to 
what  he  ought  to  do.  Mr.  Wight,  after  some  difficulty,  located  him.  and  seeing 
his  condition,  wounded  as  he  was,  and  knowing  the  proximity  of  the  soldiers  from 
Macon  City,  felt  that  he  would  surely  be  captured  before  he  could  get  off  south, 
hence  he  advised  him  to  surrender  to  Colonel  Denny,  who  was  in  command  of  the 
military  post  at  Huntsville.  This  he  was  very  loath  to  do,  for  he  was  afraid  his 
life  would  pay  the  forfeit.  However,  after  a  time  he  consented  for  Mr.  Wight 
to  go  to  Huntsville  and  see  what  terms  he  could  make;  then  to  report  to  him.  Mr. 
Wight  rode  to  Huntsville.  some  fifteen  miles  distant,  and  made  his  mission  known. 
After  a  long  parley  Colonel  Denny  gave  his  word  that  if  he  would  surrender,  his 
life  should  be  spared;  and  he  should  never  be  turned  over  to  the  military  authorities 
at  Macon  City,  of  whom  he  was  much  afraid. 

"Mr.  Wight  returned  to  Poindexter.  told  him  the  result  of  his  conference  with 
Colonel  Denny,  and  Poindexter  agreed  to  make  the  venture.  After  some  time  con- 
sumed in  trying  to  get  a  horse,  such  was  the  state  of  affairs  that  southern  men 
were  afraid  to  do  anything  that  might  be  construed  as  disloyal,  Mr.  Wight  found 
a  friend,  Israel  White,  who  would  lend  him  a  horse,  but  not  Poindexter,  so  he 
mounted  the  colonel  on  his  own  horse,  which  he  had  ridden  since  very  early  in 
the  morning.  They  started,  and  while  it  would  be  out  of  the  way,  Mr.  Wight  thought 
best  to  go  b.v  his  home  and  secure  a  fresh  horse.  While  this  arrangement  for 
the  surrender  of  Poindexter  was  being  made,  a  detachment  of  soldiers  from  the 
post  here  at  Macon  City,  under  the  command  of  Colonel  Gilstrap,  came  down  in  the 
vicinity  of  Colonel  Poindexter's  old  home  looking  for  him;  and.  as  was  the  custom 
in  those  days,  the  citizens  in  the  neighborhood  ^'here  they  stopped  were  compelled 
to  feed  them  and  their  horses.  Some  of  these  soldiers  had  taken  supper  at  the 
home  of  Mr.  Wight  and  his  wife  had  told  them  that  her  husband  was  from  home 
and  she  was  looking  for  him  that  night  and  if  he  should  encounter  them  she  hoped 
they  would  let  him  through  their  lines.  While  Mr.  Wight,  with  his  charge,  was 
hurrying  along  in  the  night,  which  was  was  clear  but  with  no  moon,  there  sud- 
denly rung  out  a  peremptory  command  to  halt!  At  the  same  moment  was  heard 
the  click,  click  of  the  hammer  of  a  musket;  and  a  challenge  came  immediately 
'Who  goes  there?'  To  which  Mr.  Wight  responded,  'Friends.'  The  guard  said, 
'If  friends,  advance  and  give  the  countersign,'  to  which  Mr.  Wight  replied,  'I  can 
advance,  but  I  cannot  give  the  countersign.'  He  then  said.  'Advance  one  at  a 
time.'  Mr.  Wight  rode  up,  leaving  the  colonel  in  the  rear.  He  told  the  guard 
who  he  was  and  that  he  lived  at  the  next  farm  house  and  was  trying  to  get  home. 
'Who  is  this  with  you?'  asked  the  guard.  'A  friend.'  was  the  reply.  The  corporal 
of  the  guard  was  called  and  it  so  happened  that  one  or  both  of  them  had  taken 
supper  at  the  home  of  Mr.  Wight  that  evening,  and  the  tale  that  he  told  so  cor- 
roborated what  his  wife  had  told  them  at  supper  that  the  two  men  after  parleying 
a  little  while  allowed  them  to  pass  on.  Poindexter.  as  you  may  imagine,  was  very 
nervous,  for  he  was  the  very  object  of  their  quest.  After  passing  the  guards, 
wounded  as  he  was,  he  took  to  the  woods  that  skirted  the  road  on  either  side 
to  wait  until  Mr.  Wight  could  reconnoiter,  not  knowing  but  that  there  might  be 
soldiers  at  his  home,  so  it  was  understood  that  if  the  coast  was  clear  he  would  signal 
Poindexter  to  come  in.  Mr.  Wight  went  home,  but  before  going  into  the  house 
he  took  the  precaution  to  turn  out  both  of  the  horses,  that  in  case  soldiers  should 
be  there  and  seeing  two  horses  and  only  one  man  it  would  arouse  suspicion.  Upon 
investigation  no  soldiers  were  found.  The  signal  was  given  and  Poindexter  came 
up.  It  was  necessary  to  catch  the  horses,  which  was  done  by  Mr.  Wight  without 
help  from  anyone,  the  colonel  being  disabled  by  his  wound.  The  task  was  ac- 
complished and  hurriedly  they  again  started  on  their  journey.  Mr.  Wight  told 
his  wife  he  intended  to  make  a  wide  detour,  so  as  to  avoid  any  possible  trouble 
from  the  soldiers,  and  that  he  would  go  through  farms,  not  taking  time  to  put 
up  fences  he  would  open,  and  for  her  to  send  someone  the  next  day  to  put  them 
up.      He  reached  Huntsville  before  the  dawn,  delivered  his  charge  to  Colonel  Denny, 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  733 

who  kept  him  a  while  and  then  he  was  sent  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  was  kept  in 
Gratiot  Street  prison  until  the  close  ot  the  war.  He  was  then  liberated,  returning 
to  his  old  neighborhood,  where  he  lived  for  a  few  years  and  died.  His  body  rests 
in  the  country  churchyard  nearby. 

"We  come  to  the  closing  scene.  The  war  was  over  and  the  people  were  return- 
ing to  their  peaceful  pursuits.  Mr.  Wight  had  occasion  to  go  to  Quincy,  Illinois, 
and  in  doing  so  must  pass  through  Macon  City.  W^ile  waiting  for  his  train,  which 
was  to  carry  him  to  his  destination,  whom  should  he  meet  but  Colonel  Gilstrap.  The 
colonel  seemed  glad  to  see  Mr.  Wight  and  was  quite  cordial.  After  passing  the  civili- 
ties of  the  day  they  stepped  into  a  business  house  and  after  again  renewing  pledges 
of  friendship  Mr.  Wight  made  ready  to  go  to  his  train.  As  he  stood  in  the  threshold 
of  the  door  opening  into  the  street  he  received  a  blow  from  behind  and  on  turning 
around  saw  Colonel  Gilstrap  with  clinched  fist,  who  made  at  him,  saying,  'You  are 
G.  D.  old  rebel  that  took  Poindexter  through  my  lines.'  He  was  accompanied  by 
several  men  who  seemed  ready  to  do  his  bidding.  In  the  scuffle  that  followed  they 
both  fell  to  the  ground.  While  peace  had  been  declared  there  still  remained  some 
soldiers  on  duty  in  the  town.  One  of  these,  carrying  a  musket,  placed  Mr.  Wight 
under  arrest,  marched  him  off  out  of  sight,  and  then  said  to  him,  'You  can  go.  I 
only  took  this  method  to  get  you  out  of  their  clutches,  and  my  advice  is  for  you 
to  get  out  of  town,  for  a  man  by  the  name  of  Brown  was  killed  here  yesterday  under 
like  circumstances.'  Mr.  Wight  was  so  outraged  by  such  an  attack  that  he  said, 
'No,  I  have  done  nothing  to  warrant  such  treatment.  I  was  simply  doing  what  the 
whole  Federal  army  was  trying  to  do,  to  bring  these  offenders  to  terms.'  And  so  he 
waited  for  his  train  and  then  went  on  to  Quincy.  Thus  ended  one  of  the  many  in- 
cidents with  which  Mr.  Wight  was  connected  during  the  Civil  war." 

At  the  time  of  his  death  it  was  said  of  him:  "The  late  Mr.  Wight  was  a  man 
of  strict  integrity,  a  close  observer  of  men  and  affairs,  a  good  judge  of  human  nature, 
wise  in  council,  and  his  advice  was  often  sought  in  matters  financial  and  judicial. 
He  was  very  charitable,  having  reared  six  orphan  children." 

The  second  generation  of  the  Wight  family  in  Randolph  county  is  represented 
by  James  William  Wight,  whose  birth  here  occurred  June  13,  1842.  The  greater 
part  of  his  life  was  passed  within  the  boundaries  of  his  native  county  and  he  fully 
sustained  the  reputation  of  the  family  for  integrity,  honor,  progressiveness  and  devo- 
tion to  duty.  After  mastering  the  branches  of  learning  taught  in  the  public  schools 
he  became  a  pupil  in  Mount  Pleasant  College  of  Randolph  county  and  was  graduated 
with  the  highest  honors  of  his  class  and  was  chosen  by  the  president  of  the  school  to 
deliver  the  valedictory  address.  About  two  years  later  he  was  again  chosen  by  the 
college  to  deliver  an  address  and  at  that  time  the  Master  of  Arts  degree  was  con- 
ferred upon  him.  His  business  interests  were  largely  concentrated  upon  the  beauti- 
ful old  country  estate  ot  Wightland  in  Randolph  county,  an  estate  which  at  one  time 
embraced  a  thousand  acres  of  the  rich  land  in  this  section  of  Missouri.  He  displayed 
keen  business  ability  in  the  conduct  of  the  place  and  introduced  all  modern  methods 
in  the  work  of  further  development  and  improvement. 

Like  his  father  before  him,  Mr.  Wight  was  an  influential  democrat  and  he  was 
elected  clerk  of  the  court  of  Randolph  county,  reelection  continuing  him  in  the  posi- 
tion for  eight  years.  The  only  fraternal  organization  with  which  he  became  con- 
nected was  the  Order  of  Good  Templars,  an  association  that  indicated  his  firm  posi- 
tion concerning  the  temperance  question.  He  was  one  of  the  leading  members  of 
the  Southern  Methodist  church  of  the  county,  serving  as  recording  steward,  church 
treasurer,  steward,  district  steward,  Sunday  school  superintendent,  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees  and  chairman  of  that  board  in  the  church  at  Moberly,  filling  the 
last  named  position  for  many  years.  His  deep  religious  convictions  guided  him  in 
every  relation  of  life,  making  him  a  man  whom  to  know  was  to  esteem  and  honor. 

On  the  12th  of  May,  1868,  in  Shelby  county,  Kentucky,  was  celebrated  the  mar- 
riage of  James  William  Wight  and  Miss  Aurelia  Tevis  Fullihwider,  who  was  born 
in  that  state  and  educated  at  Science  Hill  in  Shelbyville.  Her  parents  were  Henry 
Winter  and  Jane  Amanda  (Shipman)  Fullinwider,  the  former  a  son  of  Jacob  Fullin- 
wider,  whose  birth  occurred  at  Hagerstown,  Maryland,  in  1767  a,nd  who  in  1783 
went  with  his  father  to  Kentucky,  which  was  still  a  frontier  state.  He  there  became 
a  noted  Indian  fighter  and  subsequently  participated  in  the  last  campaign  of  "Mad" 
Anthony  Wayne  against  the  Indians  of  the  northwest.  Jacob  Fullinwider  was  the 
eon  of  the  Rev.  Peter  Fullinwider,  who  in  1752   became  a  resident  of  Hagerstown, 


734  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Maryland.  He  was  a  minister  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  church  and  it  was  his 
most  earnest  desire  to  preach  the  gospel  to  the  Indians,  to  which  end  he  removed 
to  the  border  country  in  the  year  that  brought  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  war, 
and  only  a  short  time  after  George  Rogers  Clarke  and  his  Virginia  soldiers  had  con- 
quered the  Ohio  valley  and  made  it  a  permanent  part  of  the  new  republic.  Rev. 
Peter  Fullinwider  ever  displayed  the  greatest  zeal  and  consecration  to  the  cause  of 
religion  and  was  one  of  the  most  distinguished  pioneer  ministers  of  the  western 
country.  He  passed  away  in  179  9,  in  Shelby  county,  and  his  grave  was  made  under 
the  house  as  a  protection  from  the  Indian  scalp  hunters.  A  prized  family  heirloom 
is  the  old  bible  which  he  brought  from  Switzerland  in  1752  and  which  is  now  in 
possession  of  one  of  his  great-granddaughters.  Wrapped  in  a  buckskin,  he  carried 
the  precious  volume  throughout  all  of  his  picturesque  wanderings  in  the  west.  It 
weighs  thirty  pounds,  but  notwithstanding  this  he  took  it  on  horseback  with  him 
all  over  the  country  and  read  from  its  pages  to  the  little  congregations  of  white  people 
at  Rice's  fort  and  in  many  other  frontier  settlements.  There  were  also  many  Indians 
who  listened  to  his  translations  from  this  book,  for  as  far  as  possible  he  studied  their 
language  in  order  to  instruct  them  in  the  Christian  religion.  In  the  evening  of  hia 
days  he  would  sit  at  his  table  for  long  hours,  reading  from  this  cherished  volume, 
his  white  hair  falling  over  his  shoulders  as  he  perused  the  immortal  pages  opened 
before  him.  One  morning  when  his  little  grandsons  and  their  sisters  and  cousins 
were  playing  about  the  room,  the  venerable  grandfather  was  found  to  have  passed 
on  with  his  face  in  the  old  bible. 

Two  children  were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  William  Wight,  the  daughter 
being  Frances  Amanda  Wight,  whose  birth  occurred  on  the  old  homestead  of  Wight- 
land  in  Randolph  county,  October  7,  1876.  She  attended  the  Central  Female  Col- 
lege at  Lexington,  Kentucky,  and  on  the  14th  of  October,  1896,  became  the  wife 
of  John  B.  Jennings,  who  following  his  graduation  from  the  high  school  entered  the 
Mechanics  Savings  Bank  at  Moberly,  Missouri,  of  which  he  is  now  half  owner,  while 
his  official  position  is  that  of  vice  president.  He  has  also  been  the  vice  president 
of  the  State  Bankers  Association  of  Missouri  and  is  a  leading  figure  in  financial 
circles  of  the  state.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jennings  have  been  born  two  children,  How- 
ard Wight  and  Frances  Aurelia. 

The  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  William  Wight  is  James  Winter  Wight,  whose 
name  introduces  this  record.  Accorded  liberal  educational  opportunities,  he  at- 
tended Central  College  in  Fayette  and  also  the  Washington  University  of  St.  Louis, 
and  then  entering  upon  the  study  of  law,  completed  his  course  by  graduation  from 
the  University  of  Missouri  at  Columbia,  where  he  was  awarded  the  Inter-Society 
medal  and  also  the  Stephens  medal  for  oratory.  He  has  since  been  an  active  repre- 
sentative of  the  Missouri  bar,  where  he  has  won  distinction  by  reason  of  his  ability 
to  solve  intricate  and  involved  legal  problems.  He  prepares  his  cases  with  great 
thoroughness  and  care,  is  clear  in  his  reasoning  and  logical  in  his  deductions  and 
is  seldom,  if  ever,  at  fault  in  the  application  of  a  legal  principle.  For  three  terms 
he  has  filled  the  office  of  city  attorney  at  Moberly  and  he  was  appointed  by  Governor 
Folk  to  fill  out  an  unexpired  term  as  county  attorney.  Following  this  he  was  twice 
elected  to  the  office  by  the  vote  of  his  fellow  townsmen  and  In  1916  was  elected  a 
third  time,  having  held  this  office  for  a  longer  period  than  any  other  incumbent.  He 
has  made  a  most  splendid  record  in  the  prompt,  capable  and  faithful  discharge  of 
his  duties.  Aside  from  his  law  practice  he  gives  supervision  to  his  splendid  farm- 
ing interests,  embracing  five  hundred  acres  of  the  estate  called  Wightland,  which 
has  now  been  in  possession  of  the  family  through  three  generations. 

On  the  1st  of  December,  1892,  Mr.  Wight  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Elma 
Smith,  daughter  of  John  A.  and  Ellen  (Gardner)  Smith,  of  Palmyra,  Missouri.  They 
are  parents  of  three  children:  Florence  Loraine,  now  the  wife  of  Paul  Stevenson 
of  the  firm  of  Stevenson  &  Son,  proprietors  of  marble  works  at  Moberly;  James 
Augustine;  and  Frances  Mildred. 

In  the  midst  of  an  active  professional  career  Mr.  Wight  has  found  time  for 
the  social  amenities  of  life  and  is  a  popular  representative  of  the  Moberly  Lodge 
of  Elks,  also  belongs  to  Sigma  Nu.  a  college  fraternity.  Phi  Delta  Phi,  a  law  fra- 
ternity, and  to  the  Moberly  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  has  always  displayed  a 
ready  adaptability  and  resourcefulness  which  have  made  the  Wight  family  one  of 
the  most  potent  forces  in  the  development  and  progress  of  the  state  and  one  that 
has  wielded  wide  influence  in  shaping  the  history  of  Missouri.      In  a  profession  where 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  735 

advancement  depends  entirely  upon  individual  merit  he  has  continuously  progressed 
and  the  consensus  of  public  opinion  places  him  with  the  foremost  lawyers  of  north- 
eastern Missouri. 


JAMES   E.   PRICE. 


James  E.  Price,  of  St.  Louis,  who  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  specializes  in 
commercial  and  business  law  and  who  is  now  manager  of  the  Wilber  Mercantile 
Agency,  was  born  in  Garbuttsville,  New  York,  May  14,  1876.  His  father,  Ezra  A. 
Price,  was  also  a  native  of  the  Empire  state,  where  the  family  has  long  been  repre- 
sented. The  ancestral  line  is  traced  back  to  1804,  when  representatives  of  the  name 
went  to  New  York,  and  prior  to  that  the  line  is  found  in  Maryland.  The  progenitor 
of  the  American  branch  of  the  family  was  Philip  Price,  who  came  to  the  new  world 
in  1720  from  Alsace-Lorraine,  and  his  son,  Peter,  served  in  the  artillery  forces  of 
Washington's  army  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  Ezra  A.  Price,  removing  to  the  middle 
west,  followed  merchandising  in  Iowa,  where  he  took  up  his  abode  in  1882.  He  was 
a  resident  of  Allerton  at  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1903,  when  he  was 
fifty-three  years  of  age.  He  had  married  Carrie  Malloch,  a  native  of  the  state  of 
New  York  and  of  Scotch  descent.  She  was  a  representative  of  a  family  that  fur- 
nished many  ministers  to  the  Congregational  and  Presbyterian  churches.  Her  death 
occurred  in  1911,  when  she  was  sixty-one  years  of  age.  She  had  nine  children,  seven 
sons  and  two  daughters,  of  whom  James  E.  is  the  eldest.  All  are  now  deceased  with 
the  exception  of  the  subject  of  this  review  and  K.  A.  Price,  who  is  a  resident  of 
Rochester.  New  York-. 

James  E.  Price  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Fairfield,  Iowa, 
in  Parsons  College  of  the  same  city  and  in  Drake  University  of  Des  Moines.  It  was 
in  the  latter  institution  that  he  took  up  the  study  of  law  and  was  graduated  with 
the  LL.  B.  degree  in  1898.  He  was  but  seventeen  years  of  age  when  he  started  out 
to  earn  his  own  livelihood,  his  first  position  being  that  of  a  salesman  in  a  grocery 
store.  Upon  completing  his  law  work  in  1898  he  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his 
profession  at  Trenton,  Missouri,  where  he  continued  for  a  year.  He  also  practiced 
in  Chicago  and  New  York  and  for  eight  years  was  a  member  of  the  bar  at  Council 
Bluffs,  Iowa.  In  1908  he  came  to  St.  Louis  and  since  that  time,  with  the  exception  of 
three  years  spent  in  New  York  city,  he  has  been  in  continuous  and  successful  practice 
here.  He  has  always  made  a  specialty  of  commercial  law,  showing  particular  aptitude 
in  that  class  of  work,  and  in  addition  to  his  comprehensive  knowledge  of  the  purely 
technical  points  of  the  law,  he  has  keen  discernment,  combined  with  the  ability  to 
judge  of  the  basic  good  or  bad  character  of  the  parties  involved  and  the  ability  to 
understand  and  form  correct  conclusions  about  any  particular  business  situation 
with  the  chances  of  its  development  or  failure.  He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  Bar 
Association  and  he  is  the  manager  of  the  Wilber  Mercantile  Agency. 

In  Chicago,  January  30,  1907,  Mr.  Price  was  married  to  Miss  Ella  M.  Downey, 
a  native  of  Nebraska  and  a  daughter  of  John  Downey,  a  pioneer  resident  of  Custer 
county.  Nebraska.  The  religious  faith  of  Mr.  Price  is  that  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
church.  He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  Chamber  of  Commerec  and  also  to  the  Kiwanis 
Club. 


CHARLES  HAMILTON. 


Charles  Hamilton,  manager  of  the  Bank  of  Commerce  building  and  the  Federal 
Reserve  Bank  building  in  St.  Louis,  his  native  city,  has  through  well  directed  activity 
and  laudable  ambition  won  a  creditable  place  in  business  circles.  He  was  born  in  St. 
Louis,  November  13,  1866,  a  son  of  William  Hamilton  and  Susan  (Sexton)  Hamilton, 
the  former  a  native  of  Scotland  and  the  latter  of  England.  The  father  came  to  America 
with  his  grandparents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Robert  Hamilton,  in  1855  and  the  family 
home  was  established  in  St.  Louis,  where  he  was  reared  and  educated  and  made  his 
home  to  the  time  of  his  demise.  For  many  years  he  was  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits 
and  during  the  Civil  war  period  he  served  with  the  Missouri  Home  Guard.     He  died 

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in  1916  at  the  age  of  seventy-five  years,  having  long  survived  his  wife,  who  passed  away 
in  1875  at  the  age  of  thirty.  In  their  family  were  but  two  sons,  the  younger  being 
William  Hamilton,  who  is  secretary  of  the  Belletontaine  Ceq|ptery  Association. 

The  elder  son,  Charles  Hamilton,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis 
and  on  the  eighteenth  anniversary  of  his  birth  he  took  his  first  position  in  the  business 
■world,  entering  the  employ  of  F.  S.  Boswell,  a  commission  broker,  whom  he  served  in 
a  clerical  capacity.  In  1904  he  became  connected  with  the  Lincoln  Trust  Company,  of 
which  he  afterward  was  made  secretary,  filling  that  position  until  the  merger  of  the 
Missouri  Trust  Company  and  the  Lincoln  Trust  Company,  when  he  became  treasurer 
and  vice  president,  there  remaining  until  the  company  passed  out  of  existence.  In 
1908  Mr.  Hamilton  was  made  manager  of  the  Bank  of  Commerce  building  and  of  the 
Federal  Reserve  Bank  building  and  is  now  serving  in  that  connection. 

In  Washington,  Franklin  county,  Missouri,  Mr.  Hamilton  was  married  to  Miss 
Mattie  Kiskaddon,  a  daughter  of  Hon.  J.  C.  and  Annie  (Atkinson)  Kiskaddon.  The 
mother  is  deceased  and  the  father  is  a  prominent  judge,  widely  known  in  St.  Louis 
county.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hamilton  have  been  born  three  sons  and  a  daughter  who  are 
yet  living,  Jean  Louise,  Charles  Malcolm,  Caldwell  K.  and  Hugh  Atkinson,  who  are  with 
their  parents  in  a  pleasant  home  at  No.  230  West  Washington  street,  in  Kirkwood. 

While  America  was  actively  engaged  in  war  with  Germany  Mr.  Hamilton  was  a 
member  of  the  Kirkwood  Home  Guard  and  he  participated  in  promoting  the  Liberty 
Loan  drives  and  other  war  work.  He  is  a  man  of  persevering  spirit  and  his  determination 
and  energy  have  constituted  the  foundation  upon  which  he  has  built  his  present-day 
success,  for  he  now  occupies  a  creditable  place  in  the  business  circles  of  St.  Louis.  In 
politics  Mr.  Hamilton  is  a  republican  and  in  St.  Louis  county  politics  he  has  always 
taken  an  active  part,  serving  as  mayor  of  Kirkwood  from  1910  until  1912,  and  he  was 
also  a  member  of  the  school  board.  He  belongs  to  Occidental  Lodge,  No.  153,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  and  in  religious  faith  is  a  Presbyterian,  holding  membership  in  the  church  at 
Kirkwood,  in  which  he  is  serving  as  clerk  of  sessions  and  as  an  elder. 


JOHN  BLASDEL  SHAPLEIGH,  M.   D. 

Dr.  John  Blasdel  Shapleigh,  one  of  the  leading  aurists  of  St.  Louis  and  pro- 
fessor of  clinical  otology  in  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College,  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  Washington  University,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  October  31,  1857,  and 
traces  his  descent  back  through  a  line  of  New  England  ancestors  to  Alexander 
Shapleigh,  who  was  born  in  England  in  1585  and  became  a  merchant  and  ship 
owner  o£  Devonshire.  Coming  to  America,  he  settled  at  Kittery  Point,  Maine, 
about  1635  rnd  there  passed  away  in  1650.  The  ancestry  is  represented  in  suc- 
ceeding generations  by  Alexander  Shapleigh  (II)  and  his  wife,  Mary;  Captain 
John  and  Sarah  (Withers)  Shapleigh;  Major  Nicholas  and  Martha  (Langdon) 
Shapleigh;  Nicholas  and  Elizabeth  (Plaisted)  Shapleigh;  Captain  Elisha  and  Eliza- 
beth (Waldron)  Shapleigh;  Captain  Richard  and  Dorothy  Blasdell  Shapleigh;  and 
Augustus  Frederick  and  Elizabeth  Anne  (Umstead)  Shapleigh,  the  last  named  be- 
ing the  parents  of  Dr.  Shapleigh  of  this  review. 

The  father  was  a  native  of  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  and  the  mother  o£ 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  Augustus  F.  Shapleigh  became  a  prominent  hard- 
ware merchant  of  St.  Louis  and  in  1843  was  the  founder  of  the  business  which, 
under  the  name  of  the  Shapleigh  Hardware  Company,  now  ranks  among  the  largest 
in  the  central  west.  Two  brothers  of  the  Doctor,  A.  L.  and  R.  W.  Shapleigh, 
respectively  chairman  of  the  board  and  president  of  the  corporation,  maintain 
the  family  connection  with  the  business  at  the  present  time  and  are  counted 
among  the  most  progressive  and  public-spirited  citizens  of  St.  Louis. 

John  B.  Shapleigh,  however,  chose  the  practice  of  medicine  as  his  life  work. 
His  preliminary  and  college  education  was  obtained  in  Washington  University  at 
St.  Louis.  He  received  his  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  from  the  university  in  1878, 
graduating  with  honor  and  becoming  a  member  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society. 
In  1881  he  was  granted  the  degree  of  M.  D.  by  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College, 
now  the  Washington  University  Medical  School,  in  which  he  pursued  a  three  years' 
course.  In  1881-2  he  was  interne  in  the  City  Hospital  of  St.  Louis  and  in  1882-3 
was    interne    in    the    Female    Hospital,    while    during    the    succeeding    year    he    was 


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assistant  physician  at  tlie  City  Dispensary.  Deciding  to  limit  his  practice  to  dis- 
eases of  the  ear,  he  prepared  for  this  special  work  in  the  clinics  of  Vienna,  Austria, 
remaining  abroad  through  1884-5.  Returning  to  St.  Louis  in  the  latter  year,  he 
entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  specialty,  in  which  he  has  won  success,  being 
recognized  as  one  of  the  leading   aurists  of  his  native  city. 

Dr.  Shapleigh  has  at  various  times  held  positions  on  the  medical  staff  of  several 
hospitals  in  St.  Louis,  has  been  connected  with  the  staff  of  St.  Luke's  from  1899 
and  is  a  member  of  the  staff  of  Barnes  Hospital.  He  is  also  consulting  aural 
surgeon  to  the  Barnard  Free  Skin  and  Cancer  Hospital  and  was  formerly  iden- 
tified with  the  St.  Louis  Protestant  Hospital,  the  Deaconess'  Hospital  and  the  Mis- 
souri Baptist  Sanitarium,  as  a  staff  officer.  He  is  also  otologist  in  chief  to  the 
Barnes  and  St.  Louis  Children's  Hospitals.  While  he  has  come  prominently  before 
the  public  through  his  private  practice  and  hospital  work,  he  has  also  become 
equally  well  known  through  his  activities  in  the  educational  field  of  his  profes- 
sion. In  1886  he  became  a  lecturer  on  diseases  of  the  ear  in  the  St.  Louis  Medical 
College,  which  since  1891  has  been  the  Washington  University  Medical  School. 
He  continued  to  act  in  that  capacity  until  1890.  when  he  was  made  clinical  pro- 
fessor of  diseases  of  the  ear,  so  continuing  until  1895.  Through  the  succeed- 
ing seven  years  he  was  professor  of  otology  and  since  1912  has  been  clinical 
professor  of  otology.  He  was  dean  of  the  medical  faculty  in  19  01-2  and  since 
1890  has  been  lecturer  on  diseases  of  the  ear  in  St.  Luke's  Training  School  for 
Nurses.  In  1910  he  was  made  a  member  of  the  hospital  board  of  the  city  of 
St.   Louis. 

Dr.  Shapleigh  is  a  member  of  various  medical  societies,  including  the  St. 
Louis  Medical  Society,  the  Medical  Society  of  the  City  Hospital  Alumni,  the  Mis- 
souri State  Medical  Association,  the  American  Medical  Association,  the  American 
Otological  Society,  and  the  Academy  of  Science  of  St.  Louis.  He  is  also  a  fellow 
of  the  American  College  of   Surgeons. 

In  188  6  Dr.  Shapleigh  was  married  to  Miss  Anna  T.  Merritt,  daughter  of 
.lacob  Merritt,  of  St.  Louis,  and  they  have  two  children,  a  son,  Blasdel,  and  a 
daughter,  Margaret.  Dr.  Shapleigh,  appreciative  of  the  social  amenities  of  lite, 
holds  membership  in  the  Bellerive  Country  Club,  St.  Louis  Country  Club  and 
the  University  Club.  He  is  also  connected  with  the  St.  Louis  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. His  career  has  been  one  of  quiet,  unostentatious  success  and  he  com- 
mands the  confidence  and  respect  of  his  colleagues  and  of  the  community.  He 
keeps  in  close  touch  with  all  modern  research  and  investigation  which  bears  upon 
the  line  of  his  specialty,  his  entire  professional  career  being  characterized  by  a 
progress  that  has  brought  him  to  a  position  of  leadership  among  the  aurists  not 
only  of  St.   Louis  but  of  the   Mississippi  valley   as  well. 


CHARLES  WALTER  HUGHES. 

Charles  Walter  Hughes  is  the  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Hoyt  Metal  Com- 
pany of  St.  Louis,  a  position  of  responsibility  to  which  he  has  arisen  through  In- 
dividual effort.  A  native  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  he  is  a  son  of  the  late  Joshua  Wells 
Hughes,  a  native  of  Virginia  and  a  representative  of  old  Pennsylvania  and  Virginia 
families  of  Welsh  origin.  The  Hughes  family  was  founded  in  America  by  Abram 
Hughes,  who  came  from  Wales  prior  to  the  Revolutionary  war,  first  settling  in 
Pennsylvania,  and  after  the  colonies  had  won  their  independence  he  removed  to 
Virginia.  His  son,  Richard  Hughes,  the  great-grandfather  of  Charles  W.  Hughes, 
served  with  the  Continental  forces  in  the  war  for  independence.  The  grandfather, 
leaving  Virginia,  removed  to  Ohio,  becoming  a  pioneer  of  Allen  county,  that  state. 
His  son,  Joshua  Wells  Hughes,  was  a  successful  wholesale  dry  goods  merchant  of 
Cincinnati,  conducting  business  for  many  years  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hughes- 
Adams  &  Company.  He  passed  away  in  1915  at  the  notable  age  of  ninety-two 
years.  His  wife  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Almira  Louisa  Martin  and  was  a  repre- 
sentative of  an  old  Kentucky  family. 

Charles  W.  Hughes,  the  second  in  order  of  birth  in  a  family  of  five  sons  and 
one  daughter,  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  entered  the  employ 
of  the  R.  G.  Dun  Commercial  Agency  on  starting  out  on  his  business  career.  He 
was    afterward    with    the    E.    C.    Meachams    Arms    Company    until    the    firm    retired 


740  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

trom  business  and  through  the  succeeding  three  years  he  was  with  the  Mermod- 
Jaccard  Jewelry  Company,  while  on  the  5t,h  of  February,  19  00,  he  entered  the 
employ  o£  the  Hoyt  Metal  Company  in  a  minor  capacity.  Recognition  of  his  ability 
and  fidelity  to  duty  won  him  promotion  and  since  1903  he  has  been  the  treasurer 
of  the  concern  and  since  1912  its  secretary  and  acts  as  credit  manager  of  the 
house.  He  is  likewise  the  treasurer  of  the  St.  Clair  Lead  Company.  He  is  a  man 
of  the  highest  business  standing  in  every  respect.  His  success  has  been  won 
througli  his  great  care  and  attention  to  all  the  details  of  the  business,  his  safe 
and  correct  estimate  of  men's  character  and  credit  and  his  extreme  courtesy  in  all 
of  his  dealings. 

Mr.  Hughes  has  been  married  twice.  In  1891,  in  St.  Louis,  he  wedded  Miss 
Nettie  A.  Wick,  a  native  of  West  Sunbury,  Pennsylvania,  and  a  daughter  of  Jerry 
and  Rebecca  Wick.  Having  lost  his  first  wife,  Mr.  Hughes  was  married  October 
4,  1912,  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss  Nelle  English,  a  native  of  Indiana  and  a  daughter 
of  John  J.  and  Mary   (Boslough)   English. 

In  early  manhood  Mr.  Hughes  was  a  member  of  Company  K  of  the  Police 
Reserves  and  later  joined  the  Treadway  Rifles,  with  which  he  served  for  ten  years, 
this  covering  his  active  military  training  and  experience.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
English  Lutheran  church,  belongs  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association  and  to  the 
Credit  Men's  Association,  having  served  at  one  time  as  vice  president  of  the  latter. 
He  is  the  secretary  of  the  St.  Louis  chapter  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion and  he  is  the  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Apollo  Club,  one  of  the  best 
musical  organizations  of  the  United  States.  He  is  a  banjoist  and  possesses  a  tine 
bass  voice.  His  activity  has  aided  the  club  in  attaining  its  present  high  standing. 
He  is  an  untiring  worker  for  its  benefit  and  is  a  man  who  is  absolutely  just,  show- 
ing no  favoritism  under  any  conditions  or  any  circumstances,  while  in  his  char- 
acter the  strictest  integrity  is  combined  with  unfailing  courtesy. 


DANIEL   E.    BIRD. 


Daniel  E.  Bird,  judge  of  division  No.  8  of  the  circuit  court  of  Jackson  county 
and  a  widely  known  resident  of  Kansas  City,  was  born  March  6,  187  3,  on  a  farm 
in  Nodaway  county,  Missouri,  his  parents  being  John  L.  and  Rosanna  (Murphy) 
Bird.  The  father,  who  has  passed  away,  was  a  farmer  and  merchant  in  the  town 
of  Quitman,  Missouri,  for  many  years  and  took  a  most  active  and  helpful  part  In 
public  affairs,  especially  in  relation  to  the  schools,  yet  never  held  nor  desired 
political  office  although  solicited  many  times  to  accept  preferment  of  that  charac- 
ter. He  was  a  native  of  Kentucky,  as  were  many  of  his  ancestors.  His  wife's 
people  were  natives  of  Ireland  and  she  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
where  her  father  located  when  he  crossed  the  Atlantic  from  the  Emerald  Isle 
to  the  new  world.  He  was  a  marble  cutter  of  marked  ability,  displaying  expert 
skill  in  that  field  of  labor. 

Judge  Bird  of  this  review  after  attending  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
county,  continued  his  education  in  the  Maryville  Seminary,  now  the  State  Normal 
School.  Determining  upon  the  practice  of  law  as  a  life  work,  he  became  a  law 
student  in  the  University  of  Missouri  at  Columbia,  where  he  remained  for  a  year, 
and  then  matriculated  in  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  with  the  LL.  B.  degree  in  1903.  He  at  once  took  up  the  active  work 
of  his  profession,  in  which  he  continued  with  success  until  1913,  when  by  reason 
of  the  splendid  qualities  he  had  displayed  he  received  appointment  from  Governor 
Major  to  the  Kansas  City  bench  and  in  1914  was  elected  to  the  oflice.  He  has 
since  served  as  one  of  the  able  jurists  of  the  circuit  court  of  Jackson  county,  now 
having  charge  of  division  No.  8.  His  decisions  are  strictly  fair  and  impartial, 
being  based  upon  the  law  and  the  equity  in  the  case,  andj  seems  never  to  lose 
sight  of  any  point  that  has  bearing  upon  the  cause  that  has  been   presented. 

In  December,  1917,  Judge  Bird  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mabel  Kincart, 
of  Kansas  City.  Judge  and  Mrs.  Bird  are  members  of  the  Linwood  Boulevard 
Christian  church  and  he  is  identified  with  the  Rotary  Club,  of  which  he  is  a  charter 
member,  and  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  He  has  been  grand 
master  of  the  latter  order,  which  indicates  that  he  has  filled  all  of  the  intermediate 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  743 

offices.  As  a  past  grand  master  he  is  now  a  member  of  the  Sovereign  Grand  Lodge 
of  Odd  Fellows  of  the  world,  which  gives  him  a  life  membership  without  dues.  He 
stands  as  a  splendid  example  of  ^American  manhood  and  chivalry  and  in  a  profes- 
sion where  advancement  depends  entirely  upon  individual  merit  and  ability  he  has 
steadily  worked  his  way  upward. 


WALDO   EDWARDS. 


Not  only  is  Waldo  Edwards  numbered  among  the  leading  young  men  of  his 
native  city  of  Bevier,  where  he  is  president  of  the  People's  Bank,  but  is  also  one  of 
the  representative  younger  members  of  the  bar  of  Macon  county,  and  after  having 
previously  served  as  city  attorney  of  Bevier,  he  is  now  filling  the  position  of  prose- 
cuting attorney  of  Macon  county,  with  oiiice  in  the  city  of  Macon.  His  birth  occurred 
at  Bevier,  June  24,  1883,  and  he  is  a  son  of  Thomas  Edwards,  of  that  place.  In'  his 
youth  he  duly  availed  himself  of  the  advantages  of  the  excellent  public  schools  of 
his  native  city  and  afterward  matriculated  in  the  law  department  of  the  University 
of  Missouri,  from  which  institution  he  was  graduated  as  a  member  of  the  class  of 
1906,  winning  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws.  Almost  immediately  afterward  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  initiated  the  active  practice  of  his  profession  at  Bevier. 
His  labors  and  his  record  at  the  bar  proved  him  well  equipped  for  practice  and  the 
public  today  knows  him  as  an  effective  trial  lawyer  and  wise  counselor,  well  quali- 
fied to  take  care  of  the  legal  interests  entrusted  to  him.  In  1900.  prior  to  enter- 
ing the  law  school,  he  had  filled  a  clerical  position  in  the  State  Bank  of  Bevier  and 
was  promoted  to  the  position  of  assistant  cashier.  His  identification  with  the  bank 
continued  for  a  period  of  two  and  a  half  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  resigned 
in  order  to  take  up  his  work  in  the  University  of  Missouri.  In  1907,  upon  the  organi- 
zation and  incorporation  of  the  People's  Bank  of  Bevier,  he  was  chosen  its  cashier 
and  later  was  elected  to  the  presidency.  In  this  executive  office  he  has  displayed 
much  ability  and  keen  discrimination.  He  has  ever  recognized  the  fact  that  the 
bank  which  most  carefully  safeguards  the  interests  of  depositors  is  the  one  most 
worthy  of  support,  and  in  the  management  of  the  Bevier  institution  he  has  always 
tempered  progressiveness  by  a  wise  conservatism.  He  is  not  only  president  and 
director  of  the  bank  but  is  also  manager  of  the  Bevier  Telephone  Company,  the  equip- 
ment and  service  of  which  are  of  the  most  approved  order. 

Mr.  Edwards  was  married  in  1910  to  Miss  Ruth  Hughes. 

Politically  Mr.  Edwards  is  a  republican,  giving  stalwart  allegiance  to  the  party 
and  taking  an  active  interest  in  its  work  from  the  age  of  seventeen  years.  In  1906 
he  was  a  member  of  the  republican  central  committee  of  Macon  county.  He  is  con- 
nected with  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  also  with  the  Order  of  the  Eastern  Star. 
He  likewise  belongs  to  the  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and  to  the  Knights 
of  F*ythias,  and  something  of  the  nature  of  his  recreation  is  indicated  in  his  member- 
ship in  the  Bevier  Fishing  &  Boat  Association.  He  is  a  very  popular  citizen,  enjoy- 
ing the  high  esteem  and  warm  friendship  of  many  of  his  fellow  citizens  in  Macon 
county.  This  is  due  not  only  to  the  creditable  place  which  he  has  made  for  him- 
self in  business  circles  but  also  to  the  fact  that  he  has  contributed  in  marked  measure 
to  the  civic  advancement  of  his  section  of  the  state.  No  plan  or  project  for  the  pub- 
lic good  seeks  his  aid  in  vain  and  his  labors  have  been  an  essential  force  in  the  ad- 
vancement of  public  welfare. 


HORACE  LEARNED  BRADY. 

Horace  Learned  Brady,  a  St.  Louis  wholesale  shoe  merchant  now  living  retired, 
was  for  many  years  connected  with  the  Hamilton-Brown  Shoe  Company  and  rose 
from  a  minor  position  with  that  house  until  he  became  secretary  and  a  director  of 
the  corporation.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  June  22,  1861,  was  a  son  of  Horace 
Decker  Brady  and  a  grandson  of  General  William  Brady,  who  was  born  in  Vir- 
ginia and  when  a  young  man  became  a  resident  of  Tennessee.  He  was  a  noted 
criminal   lawyer  of  the  latter  state  and   a   famous  orator.      The  town  of  Bradyville, 


744  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Tennessee,  was  named  in  his  honor  and  the  rock  upon  which  he  once  stood  while 
delivering  a  famous  oration  is  still  called  Brady's  rock  and  is  pointed  out  to  all 
visitors  to  the  town  as  the  story  is  told  of  his  wondertul  oratory,  which  swayed 
all  who  heard  him.  He  had  served  with  the  rank  of  general  in  the  American 
army  through  the  War  of  1812  and  he  was  elected  to  congress  on  the  day  that 
he  suddenly  passed  away.  He  was  a  warm  personal  friend  of  President  James  K. 
Polk  and  also  of  Andrew  Jackson  and  the  history  of  the  Pdlk  family  is  closely 
interwoven  with  that  of  the  ancestors  of  Horace  L.   Brady. 

Horage  Decker  Brady,  father  of  Horace  Learned  Brady,  was  born  in  Murfrees- 
boro,  Tennessee,  and  when  a  young  man  came  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  engaged  in 
the  cotton  and  grain  business  and  became  a  most  successful  merchant,  operating 
extensively  along  the  lines  indicated.  He  was  a  brother  of  Judge  William  Brady, 
of  St.  Louis,  who  served  upon  the  bench  and  also  represented  his  district  in  the 
state  legislature. 

Horace  Decker  Brady  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Susan  How  Learned, 
who  was  born  in  Baltimore,  and  was  a  daughter  of  General  Joseph  D.  Learned, 
who  won  distinction  in  the  practice  of  criminal  law  and  who  served  in  the  War 
of  1812  with  the  rank  of  general.  He  afterward  came  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  edited 
a  whig  paper  called  the  Native  American.  He  married  Lydia  Gates,  daughter  of 
General  Lemuel  Gates  of  Revolutionary  war  fame,  who  received  his  commission 
direct  from  the  hands  of  General  Washington  and  who  was  regarded  as  one  of  the 
brilliant  military  leaders  of  the  war  for  independence.  Mrs.  Brady's  uncle.  General 
William  Gates,  was  for  sixty-seven  years  in  the  military  service  of  his  country  and 
was  forty-nine  years  a  commanding  officer,  and  during  the  Florida  war  captured 
the  famous  Indian  chief  Osceola. 

The  foregoing  accounts  indicate  that  both  of  the  grandfathers  of  Horace  Learned 
Brady  were  widely  known  lawyers  and  each  held  the  rank  of  general  in  the  United 
States  army.  Most  of  the  male  members  of  the  Learned  family  were  either  con- 
nected with  the  army  or  navy.  Susan  How  (Learned)  Brady,  mother  of  Horace 
Learned  Brady  of  this  review,  was  a  beautiful  lady  of  broad  culture  and  inherent 
refinement.  She  belonged  to  the  Daughters  of  the  Confederacy  and  to  the  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution  and  was  an  active  worker  in  the  temperance  cause. 
Her  influence  was  a  most  beneficial  force  for  righteousness.  She  was  devoted  to 
her  home  and  children  and  beloved  by  all  who  knew  her.  She  possessed,  too,  talent 
of  superior  order  and  was  a  writer  of  ability.  A  short  time  before  her  death  she 
composed  the  beautiful  little  poem  called  The  Blue  and  the  Grey,  which  has  been 
widely  read  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific.  Her  alert  mentality  made  her  ready 
for  any  emergency.  On  one  occasion  her  friend,  Mrs.  Brooks,  of  Bolivar,  Tennessee, 
found  two  birds,  a  blue  jay  and  a  mocking  bird,  lying  dead  side  by  side  in  her 
garden  path.  The  sentiment  of  the  blue  and  the  grey  lying  there  together  in 
death  caused  her  to  bury  the  two  birds  in  one  grave  and  put  above  them  a  little 
bronze  tablet.  Years  afterward  while  visiting  Mrs.  Brady,  Mrs.  Brooks  asked 
her  to  write  an  inscription  for  the  little  tablet  and  without  previous  thought  she 
at  once  sat  down  and  penned  the  lines  that  follow: 

THE    BLUE   AND   THE    GREY. 
As  I  walked  in  my  garden  one  bright  summer  day 
Two   little   birds   lay   dead   in   my   way. 
One  was  Grey  and  the  other  Blue, 
And  I  said,  how  strange  and  yet  how  true! 
Side  by  side  lay  the  Grey  and  the  Blue. 
I  lifted  them  up  and  laid  them  away; 
Perhaps  they  were  brothers,  this  Blue  and  the  Grey — • 
Brothers   in    death   but    foes   while   in    life. 
Such  was  the  horror  of  that  awful  strife. 
As  I  live  with  my  dead  and  count  each  dear  face 
I  sigh  as  I  think  I'm  the  last  of  my  race — 
A  race  to  be  proud  of,  so  brave  and  so  true, 
Yet  some  wore  the  Grey  and  some  wore  the  Blue. 
But  what  will  it  matter  when  life's  battle  is  o'er 
Who   was   the   victor   on   this   storm-tossed   shore. 
We  will  meet  face   to   face  with  hands  clasped  anew 
And  forget  there  was  ever  the  Grey  and  the  Blue. 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  745 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horace  Decker  Brady  were  born  eight  children,  four  of  whom  are 
living,  namely:  William  Gates,  now  of  Indianapolis;  Robert  Lee,  living  in  Denver; 
and  Florence  Kibble  Brady,  of  St.  Louis.  The  other  member  of  the  family  Is 
Horace  Learned  Brady  of  this  review,  who  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  June  22,  1861. 
Horace  Decker  Brady  passed  away  in  St.  Louis,  August  12,  1873,  while  Mrs.  Brady 
survived  him  thirty-six  years,  her  death  occurring  in  St.  Louis,  October  27,  1909. 

Horace  Learned  Brady  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis 
until  1876,  when,  at  the  early  age  of  fifteen  years,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
wholesale  shoe  house  of  J.  M.  Hamilton  &  Company  as  office  boy.  With  the  changes 
in  the  firm  this  became  the  Hamilton-Brown  Shoe  Company  and  in  the  course  of 
years  Mr.  Brady  was  one  of  the  executive  officers  of  the  concern.  He  had  been 
with  the  house  only  a  year  when  he  was  made  shipping  clerk,  a  position  which  ha 
occupied  for  three  years.  He  was  then  promoted  to  the  position  of  house  sales- 
man, and  having  proved  his  capability  in  salesmanship  in  this  connection,  he  was 
sent  out  upon  the  road  in  1880,  his  territory  being  Missouri  and  Arkansas.  For 
eighteen  years  he  was  traveling  representative  of  the  house  and  built  up  an  extensive 
business  for  the  firm  in  the  territory  to  which  he  was  assigned.  In  fact  his  cap- 
ability led  to  his  election  to  the  directorate  in  January,  1898,  and  in  1900  he  was 
chosen  secretary  of  the  company,  occupying  that  position  until  1909,  when  he 
retired  from  business,  although  he  still  retains  a  large  portion  of  his  stock  in  the 
company.  At  the  time  of  his  retirement  A.  D.  Brown,  president  of  the  company, 
wrote  a  letter  to  each  of  the  directors  and  salesmen  containing  the  following:  "Mr. 
H.  L.  Brady  is  an  example  of  what  good  habits,  thrift,  industry  and  economy  will 
accomplish  and  his  record  is  an  example  to  every  young,  middle-aged  or  old  man 
living.  His  brain  was  clear  to  do  what  the  house  asked  of  him  and  he  always 
did  it  cheerfully  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  firm.  By  his  own  efforts  he  steadily 
worked  himself  up  to  the  position  he  occupied  when  he  retired,  that  of  director  and 
secretary  of  the  firm.  His  gentlemanly  and  courteous  bearing  towards  all  made 
him  hosts  of  friends  and  the  firm  regretted  to  lose  so  valuable  a  man." 

Mr.  Brady  has  always  given  his  allegiance  to  the  democratic  party.  He  was 
reared  in  the  faith  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  which  he  has  always  attended,  and 
he  is  a  member  of  the  Mercantile  Club,  the  Teiinessee  Society  and  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution.  Back  of  him  is  an  ancestry  honorable  and  distinguished 
and  while  the  activities  of  his  life  have  been  cast  along  other  lines,  his  record  has 
ever  been  in  harmony  with  that  of  his  forbears,  his  career  at  all  times  measuring 
up  to  the  highest  standards  of  American  chivalry  and  citizenship. 


JUDGE  JAMES  FAIRWEATHER. 

Judge  James  Fairweather,  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  bar,  especially  quali- 
fied by  experience  and  study  to  advise  his  clients  regarding  real  estate  titles,  has 
for  many  years  specialized  in  real  estate  law.  A  native  son  of  Missouri,  he  was 
born  in  Lexington,  February  2,  1862.  His  father,  George  Fairweather,  a  native 
of  Scotland,  came  to  the  United  States  in  his  boyhood,  arriving  in  1852.  He  settled 
first  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  and  afterward  removed  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  was 
employed  in  the  lead  works.  He  next  removed  to  Lexington,  Missouri,  and  sub- 
sequently took  up  his  abode  upon  a  farm,  where  he  engaged  in  raising  hemp.  His 
religious  faith  was  that  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  as  a  loyal  member  thereof 
he  passed  away  in  Kansas  City  in  1882.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name 
of  Christina  Grieka  was  born  in  Kiel,  Denmark,  and  died  about  twelve  years  ago 
at  the  age  of  seventy-six.  By  her  marriage  she  had  become  the  mother  of  five 
children,  all  of  whom  are  living. 

Judge  Fairweather,  who  is  the  second  in  order  of  birth,  came  to  Kansas 
City  when  seventeen  years  of  age  and  afterward  attended  Spalding's  night  school. 
His  desire  and  determination  to  secure  an  education  shadowed  forth  the  elemental 
strength  of  his  character  and  gave  indication  of  the  determination  which  has  carried 
him  steadily  forward  in  his  professional  career.  Determining  upon  the  practice 
of  law  as  a  life  work,  he  entered  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law  and  was  grad- 
uated with  the  LL.  B.  degree  in  1898.  The  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
For   seventeen  years   he   engaged   in   the   abstract   business   and   then   entered   upon 


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the  practice  of  law.  He  is  careful  and  accurate  in  liis  specialty — real  estate  law — 
and  his  honesty  is  proverbial,  while  selfishness  and  dishonesty  are  wholly  absent 
from  his  make-up.  His  success  is  attributable  to  patient,  honest  effort,  natural 
ability  and  an  ambition  to  be  of  use  in  the  world. 

In  1889  Judge  Fairweather  was  married  to  Miss  Matilda  Cunningham,  of  Phil- 
adelphia, Pennsylvania,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  a  daughter,  Maurine, 
who  is  now  connected  with  the  public  library.  Mrs.  Fairweather,  who  has  passed 
away,  was  a  valued  member  of  the  Athaeneum  and  was  most  active  in  charitable 
work.  She  also  belonged  to  the  International  Sunshine  Society  of  three  hundred 
thousand  members.  In  early  life  she  was  a  teacher  in  Philadelphia  and  was  at 
one  time  a  member  of  the  board  of  education  there. 

Fraternally  Judge  Fairweather  has  been  identified  with  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks,  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  the  Woodmen  of  the  World  and 
the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America.  His  political  endorsement  is  given  to  the  demo- 
cratic party  and  for  one  term  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  city  commission  and 
for  one  term  as  justice  of  the  peace.  He  is  a  lover  of  books,  flowers  and  birds 
and  this  appreciation  therefor  lifts  him  above  the  sordid  interests  of  life  into  an 
appreciation  for  all  that  nature  offers.  He  belongs  to  the  Central  Presbyterian 
church  and  was  formerly  an  elder  in  the  Fourth  Presbyterian  church.  Those  forces 
which  make  for  uplift  and  those  influences  which  promote  higher  ideals  and  broader 
humanitarianism  are  strong  features  in   his  career. 


FREDERICK    AUGUSTUS    JOHANN. 

There  is  much  in  the  life  record  of  Frederick  Augustus  Johann  that  renders 
it  imperative  that  his  history  be  presented  as  that  of  one  of  the  representative 
citizens  of  St.  Louis.  He  figured  prominently  in  the  business  and  in  the  club 
circles  of  the  city  and,  moreover,  he  was  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  war,  who,  in  early 
youth,  fired  by  the  spirit  of  patriotism,  joined  the  "boys  in  blue"  and  did  effective 
work  for  the  Union.  His  life  labors  were  ended  on  the  10th  of  February,  1920, 
at  which  time  he  had  almost  reached  the  seventy-fifth  milestone  on  life's  journey. 
He  was  born  in  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  June  29,  1845,  and  was  a  son  of 
George  Mathew  and  Marian  (Weigle)  Johann,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Ger- 
many, where  they  were  reared  and  married.  Some  years  later  they  came  to  the 
United  States,  settling  in  Philadelphia,  where  they  resided  for  several  years  and 
then  came  to  St.  Louis  in  1854,  the  son  Frederick  being  at  that  time  a  lad  of  nine 
years.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  prior  to  his  fif- 
teenth year  had  volunteered  three  times  for  service  in  the  Civil  war.  Because  of 
his  extreme  youth  his  father  twice  secured  his  release  but  on  the  third  occasion 
determined  to  let  the  boy  go.  His  objection  to  his  son's  enlistment  was  wholly 
on  account  of  his  youth  and  not  from  lack  of  patriotism,  as  the  father  himself, 
then  sixty-three  years  of  age,  enlisted  and  gave  his  lite  to  his  country,  for  the 
hardships  and  exposures  of  war  were  too  much  for  a  man  of  his  years  and  he  died 
in  the  service.  The  son  Frederick  was  with  the  army  from  1861  until  1864  as 
a  member  of  the  First  Missouri  Volunteer  Light  Artillery  and  at  the  time  of 
his  death  was  one  of  ten  surviving  members  of  his  regiment.  He  participated  in 
nineteen  important  engagements  and  was  with  his  command  in  every  battle  in 
which   his   comrades   took   part. 

After  the  close  of  hostilities  Mr.  Johann  was  associated  with  the  Pacific 
Railroad  of  Missouri,  now  the  Missouri  Pacific,  in  various  ofl^cial  positions,  con- 
tinuing with  the  corporation  from  1865  until  1886.  He  afterward  represented  vari- 
ous commercial  houses  of  St.  Louis  on  the  road,  continuing  as  a  traveling  salesman 
for  twelve  years,  and  in  1898  he  established  business  on  his  own  account  as  a 
dealer  in  railway  supplies,  in  which  undertaking  he  was  signally  successful.  He 
served  as  president  of  the  F.  A.  Johann  Railway  Supply  Company  until  1915,  when 
he  retired  from  the  presidency  of  the  company  on  account  of  failing  health.  He 
had  become  widely  and  familiarly  known  among  railroad  men  throughout  the  en- 
tire country  as  Colonel  Johann  and  he  at  all  times  commanded  the  respect,  con- 
fidence and  goodwill   of  those   with  whom  he  came  in  contact. 

On  the  1st  of  January.   1867.  Mr.  Johann  was  married  to  Miss  Virginia  Steger, 


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who  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  a  daugliter  of  Captain  John  S.  and  Ann  M.  (May)  Steger 
and  a  sister  of  Captain  James  H.  Steger,  who  served  as  staff  officer  in  the  Civil 
war  with  the  rank  of  adjutant  general.  Mr.  Johann  is  survived  by  his  widow,  three 
sons  and  two  daughters,  namely:  F.  A.  Johann,  Jr.,  who  is  living  in  Los  Angeles, 
California-  Alexander  H.  and  Eugene  M.,  of  St.  Louis;  Effie  May,  the  wife  of 
Dr.  T.  E.  Williams,  of  Shreveport,  Louisiana;  and  Mrs.  Maude  Virginia  Holt,  who 
is  now  a  widow,  making  her  home  with  her  mother.  The  latter  is  a  lady  of  rare 
innate  culture  and  refinement  whose  beautiful  character  has  left  its  impress  upon 
face  and   feature. 

Mr.  Johann,  while  never  an  office  seeker,  took  an  active  interest  in  all  civic 
matters  and  gave  stalwart  support  to  those  interests  which  were  promoted  for 
the  benefit  and  upbuilding  of  the  city.  He  was  a  democrat  in  his  party  affiliations 
and  served  as  deputy  state  and  county  tax  collector  and  also  as  dram  shop  col- 
lector in  St.  Louis  in  an  early  day.  He  was  the  founder  of  the  Bass  Isle  Fishing 
Club  and  was  said  to  be  at  one  time  the  most  expert  angler  of  St.  Louis.  He  was 
also  president  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  during  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Expo- 
sition and  was  marshal  of  the  day  on  Pennsylvania  day  of  the  fair.  He  was  like- 
wise a  member  x)f  the  St.  Louis  Legion  of  Honor  and  he  was  the  founder  and 
president  of  the  St.  Louis  Railway  Club,  remaining  as  its  chief  executive  officer  for 
many  years.  He  likewise  belonged  to  the  Royal  Arcanum  and  to  Ransom  Post, 
G.  A.  R.,  proudly  wearing  the  little  bronze  button  that  proclaimed  him  a  veteran 
of  the  Civil  war.  His  standards  of  manhood,  his  measure  of  patriotic  citizenship, 
his  devotion  to  higii  principles  and  his  sterling  personal  worth  in  every  relation  of 
life  commanded  for  him  the  unqualified  respect  and  confidence  of  all. 


JESSE  PROCTOR  CRUMP. 


Jesse  Proctor  Crump  is  the  vice  president  of  the  Kansas  City  Title  &  Trust  Company 
and  is  without  a  superior  in  the  matter  of  adjusting  complex  title  problems.  He  was 
born  at  Independence,  Missouri,  May  17,  1867,  and  is  a  son  of  Henry  Crump  and  a 
grandson  of  Thompson  S.  Crump.  Through  the  paternal  line  his  ancestry  is  traced 
back  to  Daniel  Boone,  the  celebrated  pioneer  hunter  of  Kentucky,  who  married  Rebeccah 
Bryan.  Their  daughter  Susannah  became  the  wife  of  William  Hays  and  to  this  marriage 
was  born  a  son,  Boone  Hays,  who  on  reaching  manhood  wedded  Lydia  Ann  Scholl.  They 
were  the  parents  of  Louisa  Hays,  who  became  the  wife  of  Thompson  S.  Crump,  the 
grandfather  of  Jesse  Proctor  Crump  of  this  review.  Henry  Crump,  the  father  of  Jesse 
P.  Crump,  was  a  wagon  maker  who  was  born  in  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  and  through- 
out his  life  remained  a  resident  of  this  state.  He  was  a  very  active  member  of  the 
Christian  church  and  fraternally  was  connected  with  the  Masons.  He  married  Celia 
Scholl,  who  was  born  in  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  and  through  her  the  ancestral 
line  is  also  traced  back  to  Daniel  and  Rebeccah  (Bryan)  Boone,  the  line  coming  down 
through  their  daughter  Levina,  who  became  the  wife  of  Joseph  Scholl.  It  was  their 
son,  Joseph  Scholl,  Jr.,  who  wedded  Eliza  A.  Broughton  and  to  them  was  born  a 
daughter,  Celia  Ann,  who  gave  her  hand  in  marriage  to  Henry  Crump.  Her  death 
occurred  February  28,  1911.  In  the  family  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Crump  were  seven 
children,  of  whom  four  are  yet  living. 

To  this  number  belongs  Jesse  Procter  Crump,  who  pursued  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  home  county  and  who  began  his  business  career  as  a  boy  in  the 
abstract  office  of  John  A.  Sea  at  Independence,  Missouri.  His  characteristic  industry 
and  ability  soon  won  him  recognition  as  the  best  abstracter  in  that  city.  He  has 
been  active  in  the  same  line  throughout  the  intervening  years  until  he  is  without 
doubt  one  of  the  best  title  men  in  Kansas  City.  In  1902  he  became  identified  with  the 
title  business  in  this  city  and  in  1915  assisted  in  the  organization  of  the  Kansas  City 
Title  &  Trust  Company,  which  was  formed  through  the  consolidation  of  five  abstract 
companies.  It  is  capitalized  for  seven  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  and  was 
incorporated  in  1915,  since  which  time  Mr.  Crump  has  been  the  vice  president.  He 
is  also  the  secretary  of  the  Fidelity  Savings  Trust  Company  of  Kansas  City  and  is 
connected  with  various  other  financial  and  commercial  interests  which  place  him  in  a 
prominent   position   in   business   circles.     Nature   endowed   him   with  keen   intellectual 

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752  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

force  and   he   has  used   his  talents  wisely  and  well,   his  faithfulness   and   industry  fea- 
turing prominently  in  the  attainment  of  success  in  his  chosen  line. 

In  1890  Mr.  Crump  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  C.  Gregg,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Maria  A.  (Bryant)  Gregg,  pioneers  of  Missouri.  They  have  one  daughter,  Mary  Louise, 
who  is  now  the  wife  of  Lewis  C.  Winkler,  cashier  of  the  Moffet  Brothers  National  Bank 
of  Larned,  Kansas,  and  who  served  for  eleven  months  in  France  as  sergeant  of  the 
One  Hundred  and  Twenty-ninth  Regiment  of  United  States  Artillery,  while  during  his 
absence  his  wife  was  actively  engaged  in  war  work  in  Washingrton,  D.  C.  She  is  likewise 
a  singer  of  considerable  note.  Mrs.  Crump  is  a  member  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution  and  is  very  active  in  charitable  and  social  service  work.  Mr.  Crump  turns 
to  fishing  for  recreation.  He  belongs  to  the  City  Club,  to  the  Real  Estate  Board  and 
is  a  member  of  Palestine  Commandery  No.  17,  K.  T.,  at  Independence,  Missouri,  where 
he  resides.  Both  he  and  his  wife  are  very  active  in  the  Christian  church,  doing  all  in 
their  power  to  promote  its  growth  and  extend  its  influence.  Mr.  Crump  is  a  musician 
of  much  natural  ability  who  possesses  a  fine  and  highly  cultivated  voice.  He  has  long 
been  a  choir  singer  and  is  much  sought  for  solo  work.  He  is  a  gentleman  of  broad 
and  liberal  culture,  well  descended  and  well  bred,  whose  high  character  is  indicated  by 
his  host  of  friends  among  the  leading  residents  of  Kansas  City. 


CLAUDE  KERLIN  ROWLAND. 

Claude  Kerlin  Rowland,  attorney  at  law  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  at  Broadlands, 
Illinois,  March  16,  1884,  a  son  of  Dr.  George  T.  and  Alice  (Steele)  Rowland,  the  former 
a  native  of  Kentucky  and  the  latter  of  Ross  county,  Ohio.  The  father  is  of  English 
descent  and  represents  one  of  the  old  families  of  Virginia.  Most  of  his  life  was  spent 
in  Illinois  and  for  many  years  he  was  a  prominent  physician  of  Martinsville,  where 
he  still  resides.  His  wife  was  a  daughter  of  Alexander  Steele,  a  native  of  Scotland, 
who  came  to  America  in  1815,  settling  in  Ross  county,  Ohio.  Long  prior  to  the  Civil 
war  he  removed  to  Saline  county,  Missouri,  settling  near  Marshall,  where  he  resided 
to  the  time  of  his  death  at  the  age  of  eighty-four  years.  He  was  a  very  successful 
farmer  and  stock  raiser.  Mrs.  George  T.  Rowland  is  still  living  and  by  her  marriage 
she  became  the  mother  of  four  sons  and  two  daughters. 

Claude  K.  Rowland,  the  fourth  child,  pursued  his  education  in  the  schools  of  Martins- 
ville until  he  had  completed  his  high  school  course  and  then  entered  the  State  Uni- 
versity of  Illinois,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1909  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree, 
after  which  he  continued  as  a  law  student  there  and  won  his  LL.B.  degree  in  1911.  Fol- 
lowing his  graduation  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Carter-Collins-Jones  &  Barker  of  St. 
Louis  and  in  1913  began  private  practice  in  which  he  continued  until  again  becoming 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Carter,  Collins  &  Jones,  at  its  re-organization,  January  1,  1919. 
He  gives  his  attention  to  general  civil  practice  and  has  won  a  gratifying  clientage.  He 
belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  and  also  to  the  Missouri  State  Bar  Associations. 

Mr.  Rowland  was  married  at  Unionville,  Missouri,  July  7,  1915,  to  Miss  James  Agnes 
McKinley,  a  native  of  Putnam  county,  Missouri,  and  a  daughter  of  James  and  Amelia 
(Wyckoft)  McKinley,  both  representatives  of  old  families  of  that  county.  Mr.  Rowland 
gives  his  political  allegiance  to  the  democratic  party  and  is  interested  in  all  that  pertains 
to  the  public  welfare.  During  the  World  war  he  served  on  the  legal  advisory  board  of 
the  twenty-fifth  ward  and  was  active  in  the  Liberty  bond  sales. 


ALLEN  PERCIVAL  GREEN. 


Allen  P.  Green,  who  is  at  the  head  of  the  A.  P.  Green  Fire  Brick  Company,  was  born 
in  Jefferson  City,  Missouri,  July  22,  1875.  His  parents  were  Joseph  H.  and  Eliza  H. 
(McHenry)  Green,  both  also  natives  of  Missouri  but  of  Virginia  ancestry.  The  father  was 
in  the  real  estate  business  in  Jefferson  City  and  in  Sedalia,  and  both  he  and  his  wife  have 
passed  away. 

After  attending  the  public  schools  of  Sedalia,  Allen  P.  Green  continued  his  education 
in  the  School  of  Mines  at  RoUa,  Missouri.  He  was  employed  in  professional  capacity  as 
engineer  by  different  mining  corporations  in  the  east  and  on  the  expiration  of  a  period 
of  five  years  he  identified  himself  with  the  fire  clay  industry.     For  a  time  he  was  asso- 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  753 

elated  with  interests  of  that  character  in  Pennsylvania  and  afterward  in  St,  Louis,  while 
in  1910  he  came  to  Mexico  and  organized  the  A.  P.  Green  Fire  Brick  Company.  Something 
of  the  extent  and  importance  of  the  enterprise  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  six  hundred 
men  are  now  employed  at  the  plant  and  the  product  is  shipped  to  all  parts  of  the  world. 
Mexico  Is  in  the  center  of  a  district  which  produces  a  splendid  quality  of  fire  clay  and  the 
business  has  been  thoroughly  systematized,  so  that  maximum  results  are  obtained  at  a 
minimum  expenditure  of  time,  labor  and  material. 

In  Sedalia,  Missouri,  in  1903,  Mr.  Green  was  married  to  Miss  Josephine  Brown,  a 
daughter  of  Dr.  J.  A.  C.  Brown,  now  deceased.  Five  children  have  been  born  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Green:  Elizabeth  C.  and  Martha  M.,  who  are  attending  Hardin  College;  and 
Josephine  P.,  Allen  P.  and  Robert  S.,  who  are  public  school  pupils. 

Mr.  Green  has  always  given  his  political  allegiance  to  the  democratic  party  but  has 
never  sought  or  desired  official  preferment.  He  belongs  to  Tuscan  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
and  to  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  is  connected  with  the  St.  Louis  Club  and  the  Missouri 
Athletic  Association. 


LEE   M.    SEDGWICK. 


Lee  M.  Sedgwick,  son  of  George  W.  Sedgwick,  was  born  in  the  town  of  Indiana. 
Indiana  county,  Pennsylvania,  April  9,  1860,  and  after  attending  the  public  schools 
of  Kansas  City  and  St.  Mary's  College  at  St.  Mary's,  Kansas,  from  which  he  was  gradu- 
ated with  the  class  of  18  77,  he  returned  to  Kansas  City  and  became  associated  with 
his  father  in  the  construction  of  the  Kansas  Pacific  Railroad.  He  largely  looked  after 
materials  which  were  being  forwarded  along  the  line.  One  of  the  great  needs  of  this 
new  country  was  railroad  forest  products  for  the  building  of  roads,  which  were  being 
constructed  ahead  of  the  settlers,  and  Lee  M.  Sedgwick  early  became  interested  with 
his  father  in  this  line  of  business.  Lee  M.  Sedgwick  concentrated  his  attention 
upon  the  matter  of  furnishing  railroad  cross  ties  as  the  line  was  extended  beyond 
the  timber  country.  The  nearest  source  of  production  was  along  the  Missouri  river 
and  its  tributaries,  and  the  company  which  was  organized  by  his  father  and  of 
which  he  became  a  part,  established  a  line  of  steamboats  plying  between  St.  Louis 
and  Kansas  City.  Their  boats  included  among  them  many  of  the  favorite  passenger 
steamers,  well  known  to  the  traveling  public,  such  as  the  steamer  "E.  H.  Durfee," 
the  "Fannie  Lewis,"  "Joe  Kinney"  and  others.  All  of  these  boats  carried  railroad 
crosstles  up  the  river  and  delivered  them  at  Wyandotte,  now  Kansas  City,  Kansas, 
to  the  Kansas  Pacific  Railroad.  Mr.  Sedgwick  was  made  purser  of  the  steamer 
Durfee,  on  which  he  remained  until  she  was  sunk  in  the  middle  of  the  river  while 
going  down  stream  by  hitting  a  snag  which  tore  out  her  bottom,  near  the  mouth 
of  the  Gasconade  river.  The  steamer  sank  In  a  few  minutes  above  the  cabin  deck 
and  the  passengers  and  crew  made  a  very  narrow  escape,  but  all  were  saved  together 
with  their  baggage  and  the  boat's  books.  Mr.  Sedgwick  was  then  given  charge  of 
the  output  of  crosstles  from  the  Osage  river.  These  were  rafted  from  points  above 
and  shipped  by  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad  to  Kansas  City,  where  they  w^ere 
delivered  to  railroads  which  were  extending  their  tracks  further  west.  Every  rail- 
road which  now  crosses  the  states  of  Oklahoma,  Kansas  and  Nebraska  was  furnished 
crosstles  and  other  forest  products  through  the  company  in  which  Mr.  Sedgwick 
was  interested  and  which  operated  under  the  name  of  Sedgwick  &  Phillips. 

During  this  period  Lee  M.  Sedgwick  met  many  of  the  settlers  and  frontiersmen 
who  now  live  in  memory  only  and  found  them  mostly  honorable  and  fair  dealing 
men,  although  none  were  labeled  with  a  college  degree.  The  pioneers  of  yesterday 
who  made  possible  the  safe  comforts  of  today  had  their  satisfaction  in  work  well 
done,  and  they  enjoyed  in  anticipation  the  future  achievements  they  saw  made 
possible  because  of  their  labors  in  the  building  of  the  railroads,  the  schools  and 
the  general  development  of  a  new  country. 

About  1883  the  Kansas  City,  Fort  Scott  &  Memphis  Railroad  was  being  built 
through  southern  Missouri  and  northeastern  Arkansas.  Lee  M.  Sedgwick  was  sent 
then  to  help  produce  forest  products  for  the  building  of  the  line  and  later  for 
shipment  commercially.  Upon  the  death  of  his  father  he  was  left  in  sole  control 
and  management  of  this  extended  production  of  forest  products,  covering  hundreds 
of   miles   of   railroads   and   rivers   and   Including   sawmills   at   various   points.      The 


754  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

products  along  the  line  of  the  railways  were  delivered  on  the  right  of  way;  on  the 
rivers  they  were  produced  to  the  bank  and  then  transported  by  raft  or  on  steam- 
boats, owned  and  operated  by  the  company,  to  the  railroads  for  shipment.  Being 
left  in  sole  control  and  management  at  the  death  of  his  father,  who  was  seventy-six 
years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  demise,  Lee  M.  Sedgwick  continued  at  the  head  of 
the  business  for  about  twelve  years.  He  then  retii'ed  and  has  since  devoted  his  time 
to  extensive  travel.  He  has  always  been  most  charitably  inclined  and  his  benefac- 
tions have  been  given  largely  in  direct  manner  to  those  in  need  rather  than  to 
organized  charity.  When  there  was  need  of  a  bell  for  a  schoolhouse  in  the  town 
of  Sedgwick,  Arkansas,  named  in  honor  of  his  father,  he  met  this  need  by  the 
generous  gift  of  a  bell  presenting  this  to  the  town.  He  has  met  every  requirement 
of  life  and  since  1877  has  contributed  in  large  measure  to  the  upbuilding  and 
development  of  the  west.  He  found  ready  solution  for  the  many  problems  which 
arose  in  connection  with  the  organization  and  conduct  of  an  extensive  business, 
and  when  at  length  he  put  aside  the  duties  of  the  presidency  of  the  Sedgwick  Tie 
Company  he  concentrated  his  attention  upon  the  management  of  the  real  estate  and 
other  invested  interests  which  had  been  made  by  the  family.  While  business 
activity  is  less  spectacular  than  that  in  the  political  or  military  field,  it  is  none  the 
less  essential  and  none  the  less  valuable,  and  thus  Lee  M.  Sedgwick,  through  the 
management  of  extensive  enterprises,  has  made  valuable  contribution  to  progress 
in  the  west,  as  his  forefathers  did  in  the  east  in  the  early  colonial  days  when  they 
aided  in  laying  broad  and  deep  the  foundation  upon  which  this  great  republic  rests. 


EDWARD  JOSEPH   McCULLEN. 

Edward  Joseph  McCulIen,  attorney  at  law,  was  born  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis 
September  13,  1876.  His  parents  were  John  Owen,  and  Mary  A.  (Burke)  McCullen. 
In  the  family  were  ten  children,  seven  of  whom  are  living.  The  father  was  born 
in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  on  March  25,  1852.  and  moved  with  his  parents  to  St.  Louis 
about  1856.  He  remained  a  resident  of  St.  Louis  until  his  death  in  1903.  The 
mother  was  born  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  on  July  4,  1855.  When  a  very  young 
child  she  was  taken  by  her  parents  to  St.  Louis  where  she  lived  until  her  death 
in  1905.  The  grandparents  on  both  sides  were  natives  of  Ireland  who  came  to 
the  United  States  between   1840  and   1850. 

Edward  J.  McCullen  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  took 
up  the  study  of  law  while  in  the  employ  of  Edward  C.  Crow,  one  of  the  foremost 
men  of  the  Missouri  bar.  Mr.  Crow,  a  few  years  before,  had  completed  eight 
years  of  service  as  Attorney  General  of  Missouri,  and  had  resumed  private  practice  in 
St.  Louis.  McCullen  received  great  encouragement  and  assistance  from  him  and  was 
also  greatly  aided  by  Vincent  McShane,  a  prominent  member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar. 
In  1909  he  took  the  examination  for  admission  to  the  bar,  was  successful  and  in 
January,  1910,  opened  an  office  in  the  Wainwright  building.  Having  been  active 
in  public  affairs  generally,  and  particularly  in  connection  with  the  movement  for  a 
free  bridge  across  the  Mississippi  River,  McCullen's  wide  acquaintance  was  the  means 
of  procuring  for  him  sufficient  law  business  to  keep  him  busy  almost  from  the  be- 
ginning. In  1913  he  was  appointed  assistant  circuit  attorney  of  St.  Louis  and 
filled  the  position  for  a  full  term  of  four  years,  during  which  time  he  personally, 
and  in  association  with  Thomas  B.  Harvey,  circuit  attorney,  successfully  conducted 
some  of  the  most  important  criminal  trials  of  that  period,  making  for  himself  a 
reputation  that  placed  him  among  the  able  trial  lawyers  of  the  city.  At  the 
conclusion  of  his  term  of  office,  he  was  appointed  first  assistant  circuit  attorney, 
by  Lawrence  McDaniel,  the  then  newly  elected  circuit  attorney  of  St.  Louis,  for 
another  four  year  term.  He  served  only  six  months  of  this  term  when  he  resigned 
to  resume  private  practice.  Since  that  time  his  practice  has  been  almost  exclusively 
in  the  civil  courts.  After  resigning  his  public  position,  Mr.  McCullen  opened  an 
office  in  the  Third  National  Bank  building,  and  in  1918  formed  a  partnership  with 
former  Circuit  Judge  O'Neil  Ryan,  former  Judge  of  the  St.  Louis  Court  of  Appeals 
Frank  A.  Thompson,  and  Guy  A.  Thompson.  The  partnership  was  dissolved  in 
1919,  the  partners  retaining  the  same  suite  of  offices  in  the  Third  National  Bank 
building,  but  each  practicing  independently. 


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CEXTENMAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  757 

Mr.  McCullen  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis,  Missouri  State,  and  American  Bar 
Associations,  and  also  a  member  of  the  Law  Library  Association  of  St.  Louis.  When 
America  was  at  war  with  Germany,  he  was  a  legal  advisor  of  district  No.  2  in  St. 
Louis  and  in  various  other  ways  did  his  part  in  support  of  the  government,  becom- 
ing an  active  worker  in  promoting  the  Liberty  Loan  drives  and  also  the  Red  Cross 
drives  and  other  agencies  whereby  the  prosecution  of  the  war  was  promoted.  He 
made  many  speeches  in  these  connections  and  his  logic  was  convincing,  his  reason- 
ing at  all  times  clear  and  cogent. 

On  the  21st  of  July,  1896,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  McCullen  was  married  to  Miss 
Amelia  Kopp,  a  granddaughter  of  August  Venn,  one  of  that  body  of  liberty-loving 
Germans  who  in  1848,  failing  in  the  revolution  to  establish  a  republic  in  Germany, 
came  to  the  new  world  that  they  might  enjoy  freedom  in  this  country.  August  Venn 
became  one  of  the  most  noted  physicians  and  surgeons  of  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania, 
and  others  of  the  family  gained  distinction  along  various  lines.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
McCullen  were  born  two  children.  Richard  E.,  born  July  26,  1897,  is  now  a  student 
in  the  Missouri  University  of  Law.  He  was  stationed  at  Camp  Bowie,  Texas,  as 
a  member  of  an  infantry  company  during  the  war.  Viola  N.,  born  November  16, 
1898,  is  now  a  student  in  the  Washington  University  of  St.  Louis.  Both  children 
attended  the  public  schools  and  are  graduates  of  Soldan  high  school.. 

Mr.  McCullen  has  always  taken  a  very  active  and  prominent  part  in  democratic 
politics.  He  belongs  to  the  City  Club,  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  to  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  of  which  he  is  a  past  chancellor.  He  is  very  fond  of  tennis, 
golf  and  baseball  and  along  those  lines  obtains  his  recreation.  He  also  finds  great 
pleasure  in  music  and  literature.  He  has  made  for  himself  a  most  creditable  pro- 
fessional position  and  the  sterling  worth  of  his  character  has  gained  for  him  the 
high  regard  of  those  with  whom  he  has  come  in  contact  through  social  and  public 
as  well  as  professional  connections. 


ROBERT  McKITTRICK  JONES. 

While  practically  living  retired,  Robert  McKittrick  Jones  yet  gives  a  general  over- 
sight to  the  business  of  which  he  was  largely  the  promoter — a  dry  goods  commission  busi- 
ness that  has  long  been  conducted  under  the  name  of  Robert  McKittrick  Jones  &  Company 
in  St.  Louis.  Progressive  methods  resulted  constantly  in  the  enlargement  of  the  interests 
of  this  house,  bringing  with  it  a  measure  of  success  commensurate  to  the  intense  energy 
and  keen  sagacity  infused  into  the  concern  by  Mr.  Jones  and  his  associates.  It  was  the 
business  conditions  and  the  opportunities  of  the  new  world  that  had  led  him  to  leave  his 
native  land  of  Ireland  and  cross  the  Atlantic.  He  was  born  in  County  Down  on  the  8th 
of  May,  1849,  spending  his  youthful  days  in  the  home  of  his  parents,  William  and  Mar- 
garet (McKittrick)  Jones.  His  college  course  was  pursued  in  the  Royal  Academical 
Institute  at  Belfast,  Ireland,  but  ill  health  obliged  him  to  abandon  his  studies  before 
completing  his  college  course.  He  served  a  five  years'  apprenticeship  at  the  trade  of  linen 
manufacturing  in  Banbridge,  Ireland,  and  then  came  to  America,  sailing  in  August,  1872, 
and  landing  at  New  York.  For  a  short  time  he  remained  in  the  eastern  metropolis  and 
then  made  his  way  to  Chicago  and  afterward  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  entered  the  employ 
of  Crow,  McCreery  &  Company,  thus  obtaining  his  initial  business  experience  in  the  new 
■world.  For  four  years  he  was  with  that  firm,  but  his  desire  to  engage  in  business  on 
his  own  account  continued  a  salient  force  in  his  life  during  this  period  and  in  1877  he 
purchased  a  half  interest  in  the  dry  goods  commission  house  of  Randall  &  Company. 
The  business  had  been  established  in  1862  by  James  S.  Gary  &  Son  of  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land, with  J.  B.  Noland  as  the  St.  Louis  manager.  A  change  in  the  personnel  of  the  firm 
led  to  the  adoption  of  the  style  of  Noland,  Jones  &  Company,  under  which  operations 
were  continued  from  1877  until  1883,  when  Mr.  Jones  acquired  the  interest  of  Mr.  Noland 
and  reorganized  the  business  under  the  firm  name  of  Robert  McKittrick  Jones  &  Com- 
pany. In  1886  William  V.  Jones  joined  the  firm  as  a  partner.  An  extensive  dry  goods 
commission  business  has  since  been  carried  on,  progressive  methods  and  unfaltering 
enterprise  producing  splendid  results  in  the  development  of  the  trade.  Mr.  Jones  was 
ever  watchful  of  indications  pointing  to  success  and  along  constructive  lines  built  up  the 
business,  keeping  abreast  with  the  constant  changes  that  are  being  made  in  commercial 
conditions  and  methods.    He  also  became  well  known  in  financial  circles,  being  for  twenty 


758  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

years  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Boatman's  Bank,  while  at  the  present  writing  he  is  a 
director  of  the  First  National  Bank  and  of  the  St.  Louis  Union  Trust  Company,  in  which 
he  Is  now  serving  as  a  member  of  the  executive  board.  He  was  the  syndicate  manager 
for  the  erection  of  the  Railway  Exchange  building,  the  largest  structure  in  St.  Louis. 
He  has  now  practically  retired  from  business,  yet  lends  ^n  overseeing  eye  to  the  affairs 
of  the  firm,  which  occupies  the  ninth  floor  of  the  Columbia  building  at  Eighth  and  Locust 
streets. 

In  1879,  in  St.  Louis,  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Robert  McKittrick  Jones 
and  Miss  Grace  Richards,  a  daughter  of  Eben  Richards,  of  St.  Louis.  They  have 
one  son.  Hugh  McKittrick  Jones,  who  is  a  graduate  of  Harvard  University  of  the 
class  of  1901  and  who  was  admitted  to  the  firm  of  Robert  McKittrick  Jones  &  Com- 
pany in  1903.  He  enlisted  in  the  United  States  army  during  the  World  war  and 
became  a  captain  in  the  Thirty-fifth  Division,  seeing  service  overseas.  He  married 
Carroll  West,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  H.  West,  of  St.  Louis,  and  they  have  five 
children:  Florence  Terry,  Robert  McKittrick,  Grace  R.,  Carroll  and  Hugh  McKittrick 
Jones,  Jr. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jones  are  prominently  and  widely  known  in  St.  Louis  and  their 
attractive  home  at  No.  6  Westmoreland  Place  is  the  abode  of  warm-hearted  hos- 
pitality and  the  scene  of  many  delightful  social  functions.  Mrs.  Jones  has  long 
been  keenly  interested  in  art  and  after  a  recent  visit  to  China  and  Japan  addressed 
two  hundred  women  of  the  Society  for  the  Promotion  of  Arts,  Crafts  and  Design  at 
the  Buckingham  Hotel,  where  she  exhibited  a  most  interesting  collection  of  oriental 
art  and  related  many  most  interesting  points  concerning  the  manners  and  customs 
of  the  people  and  their  ideals  and  purposes  in  art.  One  of  the  local  papers,  in  its 
comment  on  the  meeting  said:  "In  addition  to  a  large  collection  of  imperial  and 
priestly  robes,  altar  cloths  and  temple  drapes,  rosaries  of  Buddhism  and  Moham- 
medanism, snuff  bottles  of  crystal,  with  hand-painted  interiors,  all  bearing  designs 
symbolic  of  the  mystic  religious  cults,  and  many  of  them  several  centuries  old, 
Mrs.  Jones  brought  along  a  vast  collection  of  present-day  uniques.  She  exhibited 
a  pigeon  whistle — a  miniature  pipe  organ — which,  she  explained,  is  attached  to  the 
wings  of  a  pigeon  so  that  when  the  bird  is  in  flight  the  wind  produces  a  musical 
lilt.  The  whistles  are  in  various  pitches  and  when  a  flock  of  pigeons  is  on  the  wing 
the  harmony  of  sound  is  bewitching.  A  tiny  cricket  cage  interested  the  audience, 
and  Mrs.  Jones  told  how  the  young  bloods  of  the  orient  enjoy  the  thrilling  sport 
of  cricket  fights  in  highly  decorated  china  bowls  as  pits,  and  wager  large  sums  of 
money  on  the  outcome.  She  said  the  Japanese  take  their  canary  birds  to  the  parks. 
It  is  not  a  rare  sight  to  see  two  affluential  Japanese  stop  in  the  park,  hang  their 
bird  cages  on  a  tree  and  then  sit  in  silent  admiration  while  the  birds  indulge  in 
a  warbling  contest.  One  of  the  most  beautiful  sights  she  ever  witnessed  was  at 
a  restaurant  in  Korea  where  the  decoration  consisted  of  a  herd  of  fireflies  concealed 
beneath  a  bed  of  purple,  pink  and  white  iris  in  a  darkened  room.  The  illumination 
was  most  artistic."  Mrs.  Jones  has  for  twenty  years  been  president  of  the  St.  Louis 
Children's  Hospital,  which  was  largely  constructed  under  her  supervision.  It  is 
affiliated   with  Washington   University  Medical   School. 

Mr.  Jones  has  long  been  a  well  known  figure  in  the  leading  men's  clubs  of  the 
city,  including  the  St.  Louis,  Noonday,  Country,  Racquet  and  Commercial  Clubs 
and  the  Round  Table.  The  military  chapter  in  his  life  record  covers  experience 
through  the  riots  which  arose  in  connection  with  the  railroad  strike  of  1877,  at 
which  tjme  he  was  a  member  of  Company  A  of  the  First  Regiment  of  the  Missouri 
National  Guard.  His  political  views  have  ever  accorded  with  the  principles  of  the 
republican  party,  and  while  never  an  office  seeker,  his  aid  and  cooperation  have 
always  been  counted  upon  to  further  any  plan  or  measure  tor  the  public  good.  He 
is  a  trustee  of  the  Washington  University,  was  chairman  of  the  international  group 
jury  of  awards  in  the  manufactures  department  of  the  St.  Louis  Exposition  in  1904, 
is  a  trustee  of  the  Mercantile  Library,  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
Mission  Free  School,  president  of  the  advisory  board  of  the  St.  Louis  Children's 
Hospital,  chairman  of  the  Saturday  and  Sunday  Hospital  Association  and  was  for- 
merly president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Church  of  the  Messiah.  His  broad 
humanitarianism  has  found  expression  in  many  practical  ways.  A  contemporary 
writer  has  said  of  him:  "His  religion  is  that  of  deeds  rather  than  words  and  is 
practical  rather  than  theoretical.  Believing  fully  in  the  universal  brotherhood  of 
mankind,    he   has   sought  to   aid   those   who   are   weaker   or   less   fortunate,    and   his 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  759 

labors  have  been  far-reaching  and  beneficial.  While  he  has  been  abundantly  blessed 
in  his  successes,  his  wealth  has  been  so  honorably  won  and  so  worthily  used  that 
the  most  envious  cannot  grudge  him  his  prosperity." 


THOMAS   O.    PIERCE,   D.   O. 

Dr.  Thomas  O.  Pierce,  the  founder  and  president  of  the  osteopathic  Hospital 
of  St.  Joseph,  one  of  the  largest  hospitals  ot  this  character  in  the  middle  west,  and 
also  enjoying  an  extensive  private  practice,  was  born  September  2,  1890,  at  Craig, 
Missouri,  and  is  a  son  of  W.  T.  and  Dora  M.  (Redmond)  Pierce.  His  father  is  a 
native  of  North  Carolina  and  a  representative  of  a  prominent  southern  family.  The 
mother  was  born  in  Londonderry,  Ireland,  and  was  brought  to  the  new  world  in 
early  life. 

Dr.  Pierce  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city, 
passing  through  consecutive  grades  to  his  graduation  frorii  the  high  school  with 
the  class  of  1907.  Later  he  attended  the  Whitmore  Business  College  of  St.  Joseph, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  19  08.  He  then  spent  a  few  years  in  commercial 
work  in  this  city  and  in  1913  he  matriculated  in  the  College  of  Osteopathic  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons  in  Los  Angeles,  California,  and  was  there  graduated  in  1917. 
For  several  months  he  was  a  practitioner  at  the  Receiving  Hospital  of  Los  Angeles 
and  later  in  the  Los  Angeles  County  Hospital,  which  is  the  largest  hospital  in  the 
United  States.  Later  he  returned  to  Missouri  and  organized  the  Osteopathic  Hos- 
pital of  St.  Joseph,  of  which  he  is  the  president.  He  has  developed  an  institution 
of  large  proportions,  it  being  one  of  the  largest  osteopathic  hospitals  of  the  middle 
west.  It  is  mo.st  liberally  patronized  and  in  addition  to  his  work  in  that  connection 
Dr.  Pierce  enjoys  an  extensive  private  practice.  The  hospital  covers  one-half  of  a 
city  block  at  the  northwest  corner  of  Ninth  and  Faraon  streets  and  contains  all 
modern  equipment.  It  is  just  outside  the  business  section  and  it  is  patronized  by 
patients  from  all  over  the  middle  west.  The  success  of  the  institution  is  due  to  the 
untiring  efforts  of  Dr.  Pierce,  and  something  of  the  broad  humanitarian  spirit  that 
has  ever  prompted  him  in  his  professional  career  is  manifest  in  the  fact  that  one- 
fifth  of  all  the  beds  in  this  hospital  are  dedicated  to  charity.  Dr.  Pierce  is  also 
chairman  of  the  institution's  committee  of  the  Osteopathic  Service  League,  which 
is  a  national  league  for  the  advancement  of  public  health.  He  belongs  to  the 
National  Medical  Society  and  he  keeps  in  close  touch  with  everything  connected  with 
professional  interests  and  projects. 

In  St.  Joseph,  on  the  12th  of  January,  1912,  Dr.  Pierce  was  married  to  Ruth 
E.  Wilson,  daughter  of  Mrs.  F.  P.  Wilson  and  one  of  the  grandchildren  connected 
with  the  Gow  family  of  Clinton  county,  Missouri.  Dr.  Pierce  is  a  member  of  the 
Atlas  Club  and  also  of  the  Green  Hills  Golf  Club  and  he  has  membership  in  the 
Wyatt  Park  Christian  church,  in  which  he  is  serving  as  treasurer  of  the  finance 
board.  In  his  political  views  he  maintains  an  independent  course,  supporting  men 
and  measures  rather  than  party.  He  is  ever  actuated  by  high  purposes  and  manly 
principles  in  all  of  his  relations  with  his  fellowmen  and  wherever  he  is  known  he 
is  spoken  of  in  terms  of  the  highest  regard. 


CLAUDE    O.    PEARCY. 


Claude  O.  Pearcy,  member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar,  was  born  in  Thornfield,  Ozark 
county,  Missouri,  January  6,  1881,  a  son  of  George  W.  and  Josephine  M.  (Lyons) 
Pearcy.  The  father,  who  passed  away  in  1915,  was  born  in  Platte  county,  Missouri, 
while  the  mother's  birth  occurred  in  Douglas  county,  this  state.  She  is  still  living. 
On  the  paternal  side  the  family  is  of  Scotch-Irish  origin  and  was  represented  in 
Indiana  before  the  removal  to  Missouri.  In  the  maternal  line  the  ancestry  of 
Mr.  Pearcy  is  French  and  at  an  early  period  representatives  of  the  name  settled  in 
this  state.  George  W.  Pearcy  was  engaged  in  merchandising,  conducting  a  country 
store,  and  he  also  followed  the  occupation  of  farming.  To  him  and  his  wife  were 
born  two  sons,  the  elder,  Elmer  E.,  being  a  practicing  attorney  of  St.  Louis  as  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Smith  &  Pearcy. 


760  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

The  younger  son,  Claude  O.  Pearcy,  attended  the  district  schools  and  also  the 
Stanberry  Normal  School  of  Gentry  county,  Missouri.  When  a  youth  of  eleven  years 
he  became  a  student  in  the  schools  of  Mountain  Grove,  Missouri,  and  afterward 
attended  the  high  school  at  Thornfield,  this  state.  Thus  steadily  he  advanced  and 
eventually  became  a  student  in  the  Univejrsity  of  Missouri.  In  1903  he  entered 
upon  the  law  course  at  Columbia  and  was  there  graduated  in  1906  with  the  LL.  B. 
degree.  He  has  since  devoted  his  attention  to  the  practice  of  law  and  hi§  work  is 
in  both  the  state  and  federal  courts.  He  has  been  accorded  a  good  clientage  and 
displays  marked  devotion  to  the  interests  entrusted   to   his  care. 

On  the  17th  of  August,  1911,  Mr.  Pearcy  was  married  to  Miss  Isabelle  Frances 
Johnston,  a  native  of  St.  Louis,  and  their  children  are  George  Washington,  Johnston 
Lyons  and  Alice  Stafford. 

Mr.  Pearcy  was  a  volunteer  in  the  Spanish-American  war,  enlisting  in  April, 
1898.  and  receiving  his  discharge  in  the  following  November.  During  the  recent 
war  he  was  a  member  of  the  twelfth  ward  Red  Cross  organization  and  also  took 
a  most  active  part  in  promoting  the  bond  sales.  He  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis 
Bar  Association  and  fraternally  is  connected  with  Cache  Lodge  No.  416,  A.  P.  & 
A.  M.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  republican  party  and  he  was  formerly 
one  of  the  active  workers  in  its  ranks.  He  represented  the  first  district  of  St.  Louis 
in  the  state  legislature  in  1915  and  has  always  kept  well  informed  on  the  questions 
and  issues  of  the  day.  He  was  endorsed  for  the  nomination  as  judge  of  circuit 
court  by  the  republicans  of  the  St.  Louis  Bar  in  1920,  but  was  defeated  at  the 
primary  by  a  very  close  margin,  receiving  all  told  15,200  votes.  His  religious  faith 
is  that  of  the  Methodist  church  and  his  entire  life  has  been  guided  by  principles 
which  would  bear  the  closest  investigation  and  scrutiny,  the  sterling  worth  of  his 
character  being  recognized  by  all  who  know  him. 


WILLIAM    EDWARD    BYERS. 

William  Edward  Byers.  lawyer  and  banker  of  Kansas  City,  was  born  in 
Stewart,  Ohio.  September  6,  1883.  His  father,  Francis  Marion  Byers,  was  a  native 
of  Beaver  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  was  a  farmer  by  occupation.  In  early  life  he 
became  a  resident  of  Ohio  and  there  continued  to  reside  throughout  his  remaining 
days.  He  served  for  three  years  as  a  soldier  of  the  Union  army  in  the  Civil  war 
and  was  afterward  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  His  religious 
faith  was  that  of  the  Unitarian  church.  He  married  Julia  Elizabeth  Wharff,  a 
descendant  of  an  old  Virginia  family,  and  she  still  survives  her  husband,  yet  mak- 
ing her  home  in  Ohio.  They  were  the  parents  of  nine  children,  five  of  whom  are 
living,  William  E.  being  the  youngest  son. 

In  the  year  1904  William  E.  Byers  was  graduated  from  the  Marietta  Academy 
of  Marietta,  Ohio,  and  continuing  his  education  in  Marietta  College,  received 
his  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree.  Magna  Cum  Laude,  in  1908.  He  afterward  entered 
Columbia  University  of  New  York  city  for  the  study  of  law  and  was  awarded  the 
LL.  B.  degi-ee  in  1911.  He  was  admitted  to  practice  at  the  bar  of  New  York 
in  the  same  year  and  remained  a  member  of  the  profession  in  the  Empire  state, 
in  the  city  of  New  York,  until  1912.  On  the  31st  of  March  of  the  latter  year  he 
arrived  in  Kansas  City  and  became  associated  with  the  law  firm  of  Warren,  Dean, 
McLeod  and  Timmons.  This  firm  became  one  of  the  most  prominent  in  Kansas 
City  and  Mr.  Byers'  association  therewith  as  a  partner  continued  until  January 
2,  1920.  He  is  now  practicing  alone,  with  offices  in  the  Commerce  building.  He 
is  a  logical,  sound  adviser  who  thinks  matters  out  for  himself  and  has  marked 
business  ability  in  addition  to  his  knowledge  of  law.  However,  he  excels  as  an 
attorney  in  counselor  and  advisory  work  and  is  also  capable  in  the  trial  of  cases 
before  the  court.  In  addition  to  his  legal  interests  Mr.  Byers  was  for  years  chair- 
man of  the  board  of  the  Central  Exchange  National  Bank  but  has  recently  sold  his 
stock  in  that  institution.  He  is  now  chairman  of  the  board  of  the  Kansas  City 
Terminal  Trust  Company  and  is  interested  as  a  stockholder  or  director  in  many 
large  commercial  and  financial  concerns.  He  is  likewise  known  in  the  educational 
field  as  an  instructor  in  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law  and  was,  at  one  time,  on 
the  editorial   staff   of   the   Law   Review   of   the   Columbia   University   Law   School. 

Mr.  Byers  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association  and  he  is  identified  with 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  763 

many  organizations  whicli  have  to  do  with  the  social  activity  and  the  civic  progress 
of  Kansas  City.  He  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  is  interested  in  all 
that  has  to  do  with  the  welfare  and  upbuilding  of  the  community.  He  belongs  to 
the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club,  and  the  City  Club,  is  a  member  of  the  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  of  Marietta  College  and  also  of  the  Alpha  Sigma  Phi  fraternity.  His  religious 
belief  is  manifest  in  his  connection  with  the  First  Congregational  church,  of  which 
he  is  a  trustee.  His  political  support  is  given  to  the  republican  party.  Frater-' 
nally  he  is  connected  with  Westport  Lodge,  No.  340,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  also  with  the 
chapter  and  commandery. 

In  1914  Mr.  Byers  was  married  to  Miss  Anna  Blohm,  of  Marietta,  Ohio,  and 
they  have  a  daughter.  Frances  Elizabeth,  now  four  years  of  age.  The  family  have 
many  friends  and  their  home  is  a  hospitable  one.  Mr.  Byers  has  ever  held  friend- 
ship inviolable  and  has  ever  recognized  the  truth  of  the  Emersonian  philosophy 
that  the  way  to  win  a  friend  is  to  be  one.  He  is  active  in  church  work,  does  his 
part  in  philanthropic  projects  and  at  all  times  can  be  relied  upon  to  support  earn- 
estly and  loyally  any  organization  with  which  he  is  identified.  Consistent  applica- 
tion, combined  with  a  good  sound  logical  mind,  has  constituted  the  basis  of  his 
professional    success,     which    is  .  now    most    gratifying. 


E.  SANBORN  SMITH,  M.  D'. 


Dr.  E.  Sanborn  Smith,  successfully  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine  and 
surgery  at  Macon,  was  born  in  Salina,  Kansas,  April:  25,  1875,  and  is  a  son  of  Edward 
and  Eunice  (Webster)  Smith.  His  father  passed  away  at  Macon,  January  12.  1912, 
but  his  mother  is  still  living  and  now  resides  with  her  son  Sanborn.  The  father  had 
for  many  years  been  engaged  in  the  clothing  business  in  Macon,  to  which  place  he 
removed  with  the  family  during  the  boyhood  days  of  Dr.  Smith  of  this  review. 

In  the  acquirement  of  his  education  Dr.  Smith  attended  St.  James  Military 
Academy  at  Macon  for  six  years  and  thus  prepared  for  college.  In  1894  he 
matriculated  in  Johns  Hopkins  University  and  took  up  a  pre-medical  course  during 
his  regular  work  in  the  academic  department.  Afterwards  he  became  a  student  in 
the  medical  department  of  the  University  of  Maryland,  in  the  city  of  Baltimore,  and 
was  graduated  therefrom  with  the  M.  D.  degree  in  May,  1900.  During  that  year 
he  served  as  senior  interne  in  the  University  Hospital  at  the  quarantine  station  at 
the  port  of  Baltimore  and  in  this  connection  gained  valuable  clinical  experience 
to  add  to  the  scientific  knowledge  which  he  had  acquired  through  his  work  in 
industrial  chemistry. 

It  was  in  May.  1901,  that  Dr.  Smith  opened  his  office  in  Macon,  where  he  has 
since  engaged  in  professional  work.  He  is  associate  medical  director  of  the  Inter- 
national Life  Insurance  Company  of  St.  Louis,  is  a  member  of  the  Association  of 
Military  Surgeons  of  the  United  States,  a  major  of  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps 
in  the  United  States  army,  is  connected  with  other  societies  of  the  profession,  includ- 
ing the  Missouri  State  Medical  Society,  and  is  a  fellow  of  the  American  Medical 
Association.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps  previous  to  the 
World  war  and  on  July  10,  1917,  was  called  to  service,  reporting  at  Fort  Riley, 
Kansas,  where  he  was  made  a  captain.  At  first  he  acted  as  drill  instructor  at  the 
medical  officers'  training  camp,  thus  continuing  until  October  25,  1917.  when  he 
was  assigned  to  the  Eighty-ninth  Division  as  water  analyst  and  epidemiologist.  Later 
he  was  detached  from  that  division  and  on  the  25th  of  January,  1918.  was  ordered 
to  report  to  the  surgeon  general's  office  at  Washington.  There  he  was  detailed  to 
make  a  sanitary  survey  for  Camp  A.  A.  Humphreys,  near  Mount  Vernon,  after  which 
he  was  assigned  to  chemical  warfare  service,  doing  experimental  work  with  new 
gases,  and  so  continued  until  December  31,  1918,  when  he  was  ordered  to  Tybee 
island  on  the  coast  of  Georgia,  and  assigned  as  commanding  officer  of  a  hospital 
devoted  to  the  care  and  treatment  of  gassed  cases,  there  remaining  until  June, 
1919,  when  he  was  honorably  discharged.  Immediately  afterward  he  returned  to 
resume  the  private  practice  of  medicine  in  Macon.  His  experience  in  connection  with 
the  war  has  been  very  broad,  varied  and  valuable  and  he  is  justly  accounted  one 
of  the  prominent  physicians  of  his  section  of  the  state.     Aside  from  his  other  con- 


7(;4  CF.NTKXXIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

nections  with  medical  societies  lie  belongs  to  the  American  Railway  Surgeons  Associa- 
tion  and   to  the  American   Pul)lic   Health   Association. 

On  the  14th  of  October,  1903.  Dr.  Smith  was  married  to  Miss  Emily  Montague 
Frey,  who  was  born  and  reared  in  Washington,  D.  C,  a  daughter  of  Robert  E. 
Frey  and  a  lineal  descendant  of  Montague  Barron,  who  fought  under  General  La- 
fayette in  the  Revolutionary  war.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Smith  are  prominent  in  the  leading 
social  circles  of'Macon  and  their  home  is  recognized  as  a  center  of  gracious  and  gen- 
erous hospitality.  They  have  one  child,  a  daughter,  Emily  Montague,  born  May  21, 
1912.  The  parents  are  members  of  St.  James  Episcopal  church  and  in  political 
belief  Dr.  Smith  is  a  republican.  The  nature  of  his  interests  is  further  indicated 
in  the  fact  that  he  has  membership  with  the  American  Association  for  the  Advance- 
ment of  Science  and  in  the  National  Geographic  Society.  Fraternally  he  is  con- 
nected with  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and  is  a  charter  member 
of  Eta  Chapter  of  Phi  Sigma  Kappa. 


JOHN  T.   MANNING. 


John  T.  Manning,  who  is  very  successful  in  the  general  practice  of  law  in  St. 
Louis,  was  born  in  this  city,  April  26,  1892,  his  parents  being  Michael  and  Mary 
(Manning)  Manning,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Clarksville,  Tennessee.  The 
father  was  engaged  in  the  steamboat  construction  business  in  Clarksville  and  after- 
ward in  St.  Louis  and  was  regarded  as  an  expert  in  that  line,  having  charge  of  the 
building  of  many  of  the  river  boats.  He  continued  active  in  that  business  to  the 
time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  about  1895.  He  was  a  representative  of  one  of 
the  old  southern  families  and  his  father  served  throughout  the  Civil  war  as  a 
member  of  the  Confederate  army. 

John  T.  Manning  obtained  his  early  education  in  a  parochial  school,  attending 
St.  Columskill's  school  of  the  Christian  Brothers.  He  afterward  became  a  student 
in  the  St.  Louis  University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1916  with  the  LL.  B. 
degree.  He  took  up  the  practice  of  law  in  1913  and  through  the  intervening 
period  of  seven  years  has  devoted  his  attention  to  his  professional  duties,  which  have 
constantly  grown  in  volume  and  importance.  He  now  has  a  good  clientage  and 
his  ability  has  been  attested  in  various  important  cases  that  have  come  before 
the  courts. 

On  the  20th  of  July,  1916,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Manning  was  married  to  Miss 
Hildegarde  Reis  and  they  have  a  daughter,  Virginia.  Mr.  Manning  has  always  been 
a  supporter  of  republican  principles  and  was  a  candidate  tor  representative  from 
the  first  district  of  St.  Louis  on  the  republican  ticket  in  1918,  coming  within 
twenty  votes  of  election  in  a  very  strong  democratic  district.  A  fact  indicJitive 
of  his  personal  popularity  is  that  he  received  the  republican  nomination  from  his 
district  in  1920.  He  is  most  highly  esteemed  wherever  known.  He  was  associate 
legal  advisor  on  the  board  of  the  twelfth  ward  during  the  World  war  and  took  an 
active  part  in  all  the  drives  for  the  various  Liberty  loans,  making  speeches  and 
winning  a  fine  record  as  a  worker  for  the  cause.  His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the 
Catholic  church  and  he  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Columbus.  He  is  very  fond  of 
all  sports,  particularly  football  and  the  national  game  of  baseball. 


JAMES  F.  GREEN. 


James  F.  Green,  general  attorney  for  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad  Company, 
was  born  in  Hillsboro,  Missouri,  March  9,  1856,  his  parents  being  Abner  and  Mary 
(Chapman)  Green,  the  latter  a  member  of  one  of  the  old  and  prominent  families 
of  Missouri.  The  former  was  a  brother  of  James  S.  Green  who  was  United  States 
senator  from  Missouri  and  a  great  pro-slavery  champion.  He  rose  from  an  humble 
position  to  fame  and  was  recognized  as  one  of  the  distinguished  American  statesman. 
He  was  born  in  Fauquier  county,  Virginia,  February  28,  1817,  and  died  in  St.  Louis, 
January  19,  1870,  at  the  age  of  fifty-three  years.  He  was  a  recognized  factor  in 
national  and  international  politics,  both  prior  to  and   during  the  Civil  war  period. 


JOHN  T.  MANNING 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  767 

While  his  early  educational  opportunities  were  very  limited,  by  persistent  effort 
and  the  wise  use  of  every  spare  moment  he  gained  liberal  knowledge,  mastering  the 
classics  and  many  branches  of  learning.  In  1836,  when  nineteen  years  of  age,  he  went 
with  his  father,  James  Green,  and  the  family  to  Alabama,  and  a  year  later  to  Ralls 
county.  Missouri.  Soon  after  he  and  his  brother,  Martin  E.  Green,  purchased  and 
conducted  a  grist  and  saw-mill  on  Wyaconda  creek  but  the  venture  was  not  one  of 
pecuniary  success.  Early  in  life  James  S.  Green  manifested  a  love  of  study  and 
of  general  literature  and  it  was  always  his  desire  to  become  a  member  of  the  bar, 
but  the  financial  resources  of  the  family  rendered  it  impossible  for  him  to  enter  a 
law  school.  However  he  availed  himself  of  the  opportunity  of  borrowing  law  books 
in  Monticello  and  Canton  and  these  he  carefully  studied  while  operating  the  afore- 
mentioned sawmill.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1840  and  began  practice  in 
Monticello. 

In  1844  when  in  the  twenty-seventh  year  of  his  age,  James  S.  Green  received 
the  nomination  of  presidential  elector  on  the  Polk  and  Dallas  ticket  against  Clay 
and  Frelinghuysen,  and  he  came  at  once  into  fame  as  a  campaign  orator.  In  1845 
Lewis  county  chose  him  as  a  delegate  to  the  constitutional  convention  and  he  became 
a  prominent  member  of  the  committee  on  the  bill  of  rights.  He  was  soon  recognized 
as  one  of  the  most  forc.eful  debaters  and  expounders  of  constitutional  law  in  that 
body.  In  184  6  Mr.  Green  received  the  democratic  nomination  for  congress  in  his 
district  and  was  elected  over  his  whig  opponent  and  re-elected  in  1848.  In  1850 
and  again  in  1852  he  was  once  more  a  candidate  but  on  both  occasions  was  defeated. 
In  1853  he  was  appointed  by  President  Franklin  Pierce,  Charge  d'Affaires  at  Bogota, 
New  Grenada,  and  later  became  resident  minister  there,  but  climatic  conditions 
forced  him  to  resign  and  he  returned  to  the  practice  of  law  in  Monticello.  In  1856 
he  was  re-elected  to  congress,  but  before  taking  his  seat  the  Missouri  legislature 
elected  him  United  States  senator.  One  of  his  biographers  has  said,  "During  his 
comparatively  short  service  in  the  Senate  Mr.  Green  attained  great  distinction  as 
a  statesman  and  debater.  In  the  first  session  of  the  Thirty-fifth  Congress  he  was 
a  member  of  the  committees  on  the  judiciary  and  on  territories,  and  at  the  com- 
mencement of  the  second  session  of  that  Congress  was  chosen  chairman  of  the 
latter  committee.  This  position  alone  gave  him  great  prominence  and  influence 
because  of  the  exciting  territorial  and  slavery  complications  which  at  that  time 
confronted  Congress  and  the  country.  During  the  session  of  1858-59  a  bill  to  admit 
Kansas  into  the  Union,  with  the  Lecompton,  or  pro-slavery  constitution,  was  pend- 
ing. It  was  on  this  theater  and  amidst  the  personal  rivalries  and  intense  and  wide- 
spread excitements  of  the  discussion  that  supervened  that  he  met  the  acknowledged 
champions  of  free  soil  and  squatter  sovereignty,  and,  young  and  comparatively  un- 
known as  he  was,  demonstrated  his  ability,  readiness  and  self-poise  in  debate.  On 
the  political  hustings  nevertheless,  and  in  the  presence  of  the  deliberative  bodies 
of  the  state  and  nation,  he  was  an  organized  force  of  great  power — direct,  analytical, 
persuasive,  captivating,  instructive,  logical  and  often  irresistible.  Although  a  logi- 
cian of  remarkable  clearness  and  strength,  and  a  master  of  brilliant  diction,  he 
possessed  a  keen  sense  of  the  ludicrous,  and  when  he  chose  to  indulge  in  it  was 
capable  of  the  liveliest  humor  and  rasping  sarcasm.  The  distinction  achieved  and'the 
sterling  abilities  displayed  by  the  long  line  of  statesmen  and  orators  of  both  political 
parties  in  t:.e  Senate  and  House  of  the  American  Congress  just  previous  to  our  Civil 
war,  are  neither  underrated  nor  forgotten.  It.  nevertheless,  subtracts  nothing  from 
their  fame  to  declare  that  during  the  great  debate  in  the  Senate  in  1858-59  on  the 
admission  of  Kansas  into  the  Union,  wherein  Stephen  A.  Douglas  led  and  James 
S.  Green  opposed  the  forces  of  squatter  sovereignty  and  tree  soil.  Green  filled  more 
of  the  public  eye  in  America  and  the  world  than  any  statesman  of  his  age.  Mr. 
Blaine  said  of  him  that  'no  man  among  his  contemporaries  had  made  so  profound 
an  impression  in  so  short  a  time.'  He  was  a  very  strong  debater.  He  had  peers  but 
no  master,  in  the  Senate." 

Abner  Green,  brother  of  James  S.  Green  and  father  of  James  F.  Green  of  this 
review,  was  also  a  very  prominent  factor  in  Missouri  politics  and  a  distinguished 
lawyer  of  the  southern  part  of  the  state.  He. died  about  the  time  that  James  F.  Green 
would  have  entered  college,  and  as  a  result  of  his  father's  death  the  son  was  thrown 
upon  his  own  resources  forced  to  earn  his  own  livelihood  and  also  to  aid  in  the  sup- 
port of  the  family.  He  had  been  educated  under  private  tutorage  and  in  the  public 
schools.     It  became  his  determination  to  enter  upon  the  practice  of  law  and  after 

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768  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

preliminary  reading  he  was  admitted  to  the  Missouri  bar  in  1S78,  and  opened  an 
office  in  Hillsboro.  In  1880  he  was  elected  prosecuting  attorney  of  Jefferson  county 
and  was  re-elected  in  1882,  and  again  in  1884,  1886  and  1888,  serving  in  all  for 
ten  years.  He  was  appointed  by  Governor  D.  R.  Francis  to  the  position  of  circuit 
judge  in  1890  in  the  twenty-first  judicial  district  to  fill  the  unexpired  term  of  Judge 
John  L.  Thomas,  and  was  afterward  elected  to  the  full  term  of  six  years,  serving 
from  1892  until  1898.  He  was  then  appointed  attorney  of  the  St.  Louis,  Iron 
Mountain  and  Southern  Railroad  Company,  and  in  1899  was  made  assistant  general 
attorney  of  the  Missouri  Pacific  Company,  filling  that  position  of  responsibility  until 
1914  when  he  was  made  general  attorney  of  the  road  and  so  continued  to  the 
present  time.  Familiar  with  all  the  problems  of  corporation  law  and  with  compre- 
hensive knowledge  of  the  principles  which  bear  upon  practice  of  that  character, 
he  has  gained  distinction  and  prominence  as  a  representative  of  the  Missouri  bar. 

In  Hillsboro,  Missouri,  on  the  28th  of  March,  1883,  Mr.  Green  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Essie  Tetleyand  they  have  become  parents  of  four  sons:  Leslie 
C,  who  died  in  1918;  Ernest  A.,  who  is  an  attorney  of  St.  Louis,  and  was  formerly 
assistant  general  attorney  of  Missouri;  George  H.,  and  Arthur  W.  Leslie  Carlisle 
Green  was  born  August  8,  1889,  and  died  of  typhoid  fever  in  St.  Louis  October  22, 
1918.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Missouri  and  graduated  from  the 
law  department  of  the  University  of  Missouri  at  Columbia  in  the  class  of  1909. 
He  was  at  once  admitted  to  the  bar  and  qualified  by  the  supreme  court  of  Missouri. 
For  a  short  time  he  acted  as  claim  agent  for  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad  at  Little 
Rock.  Arkansas,  but  afterward  practiced  law  with  his  brother,  Ernest  A.,  at  Poplar 
Bluff,  Missouri.  In  1914  he  gave  up  his  law  practice  to  enter  into  business  with  his 
brother-in-law,  M.  J.  Dorsey,  under  the  firm  name  of  the  Dorsey  Land  &  Lumber 
Company,  becoming  treasurer  and  assistant  manager  of  its  plant  near  Texarkana, 
Arkansas.  He  was  married  October  24,  1913,  to  Miss  Clementina  Dorsey,  daughter 
of  George  B.  and  Maria  Dorsey  of  Columbia,  Missouri.  They  became  the  parents 
of  two  children:  James  Blair  and  Leslie  Carlisle,  Jr.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Elks  Lodge  of  Poplar  Bluff,  and  was  a  very  strong  character,  making  hosts  of 
friends. 

Mr.  Green  finds  his  recreation  in  hunting,  fishing,  baseball  and  the  theatre.  He 
has  always  been  a  stanch  democrat  in  politics,  was  a  delegate  from  the  thirteenth 
district  to  the  democratic  national  convention  held  in  Chicago  in  1896,  and  was 
president  of  the  Missouri  Conference  of  Judges  for  several  years.  Fraternally  he 
is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Tuscan  Lodge,  No.  360,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  of  St.  Louis,  to  the 
Royal  Lodge  Chapter  of  DeSoto  and  also  the  Knights  Templars  Commandery  there. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Pacific  Club,  and  his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the 
Presbyterian  church.  Along  strictly  professional  lines  his  membership  connection 
is  with  the  St.  Louis,  Missouri  State  and  American  Bar  Associations.  He  is  a  promi- 
nent representative  of  the  legal  profession  who  has  attained  high  honors  and  suc- 
cesses since  admitted  to  practice,  his  ability  enabling  him  to  find  ready  and  correct 
solutions  for  intricate  and  involved  legal  problems.  Those  who  know  him — and  he 
has  a  wide  circle  of  friends — recognize  in  him  a  worthy  representative  of  one  of  the 
honored  old  families  of  the  state. 


CHARLES  WILLIAM  GAUSS. 

For  twenty-three  years  Charles  William  Gauss  remained  an  outstanding  figure  in 
mercantile  circles  in  St.  Louis  and  for  many  years  prior  to  the  time  when  he  took  up 
his  abode  in  this  city  he  had  made  his  home  in  Missouri.  He  was  born  in  Goettingen.  in 
the  province  of  Hanover,  Germany,  and  was  a  son  of  Karl  Friedrich  Gauss,  an  eminent 
astronomer  and  mathematician,  who  in  1807  was  appointed  professor  of  mathematics  in 
the  University  of  Goettingen  and  who  became  the  author  of  numerous  mathematical  and 
astronomical  works. 

Charles  W.  Gauss  spent  his  boyhood  and  youth  in  the  city  of  his  nativity,  pursuing 
his  education  there,  and  in  1837  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Alletha  Pallenstein. 

Not  long  afterward  Mr.  Gauss  came  to  the  new  world,  taking  passage  on  a  sailing 
vessel  which  was  three  months  in  reaching  its  destined  American  port.  He  did  not 
remain  on  the  Atlantic  coast  but  started  at  once  for  the   interior  of  the  country  and 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  769 

became  identified  with  farming  interests  in  St.  Charles  county,  Missouri,  where  he  rented 
land.  He  won  a  substantial  measure  of  success  in  his  farming  operations  and  then  re- 
moved to  the  town  of  Glasgow,  Missouri,  where  he  opened  a  retail  dry  goods  store  in 
1842.  Again  his  activities  were  crowned  with  prosperity  and  in  1847  he  purchased  a 
stock  farm  in  Chariton  county,  Missouri,  after  which  he  concentrated  his  efforts  and 
attention  upon  agricultural  pursuits  and  stock  raising  for  a  period  of  about  nine  years. 
He  undertook  no  venture  in  which  he  did  not  meet  with  success  owing  to  the  fact  that 
he  was  determined,  resolute  and  industrious. 

In  1856  Mr.  Gauss  established  his  home  in  St.  Louis  and  became  active  in  its  com- 
mercial circles  as  a  wholesale  dealer  in  boots  and  shoes.  From  that  time  forward  he 
was  well  known  as  one  of  the  leading  representatives  of  mercantile  interests  in  St.  Louis 
and  his  carefully  conducted  business  affairs  brought  to  him  a  most  substantial  compe- 
tence. After  becoming  an  American  citizen  he  gave  his  political  allegiance  to  the  whig 
party  and  manifested  considerable  interest  in  politics.  Later,  when  the  whig  party 
passed  out  of  existence,  being  largely  superseded  by  the  know-nothing  party,  Mr.  Gauss 
joined  the  ranks  of  the  democratic  party.  He  was  ever  a  man  of  broad  and  liberal  views 
upon  all  vital  questions  and  was  well  known  for  his  benevolence  and  charity.  He  gave 
freely  to  aid  his  fellowmen  and  was  a  generous  supporter  of  many  religious  movements. 
He  never  regretted  his  determination  to  come  to  the  new  world,  tor  on  this  side  of 
the  Atlantic  he  found  the  opportunities  which  he  sought  and  their  utilization  brought 
him  notable  success  in  a  business  way,  while  the  sterling  worth  of  his  character  gained 
him  the  high  respect  and  confidence  of  all  with  whom  he  was  associated  in  other  relations 
of  life.  While  he  passed  away  in  1879,  he  is  yet  remembered  by  many  of  the  older 
residents  of  the  city  and  he  left  the  impress  of  his  individuality  for  good  upon  the  history 
of  commercial  development  in  the  middle  section  of  the  nineteenth  century. 


CHARLES  F.  GAUSS. 


Charles  F.  Gauss  had  passed  the  seventy-fifth  milestone  on  life's  journey  when  he 
was  called  to  the  home  beyond.  His  span  of  life  covered  a  record  of  intense  and  intelli- 
gently directed  activity  in  business,  whereby  he  reached  a  place  of  prominence  in  the 
commercial  circles  of  the  city  and  in  the  regard  of  his  fellow  townsmen.  He  was  born 
in  St.  Charles  county,  Missouri,  May  30,  1838,  a  son  of  Charles  William  Gauss,  mentioned 
elsewhere  in  this  work. 

In  his  boyhood  days  Charles  F.  Gauss  was  a  pupil  in  the  schools  of  Glasgow  and  of 
Brunswick,  Missouri,  and  later  he  attended  the  Jones  Commercial  College  of  St.  Louis, 
thus  qualifying  for  an  active  business  career.  The  earlier  period  of  his  youth  had 
been  spent  upon  his  father's  farm  and  he  received  thorough  industrial  training  in  that 
connection,  but  he  turned  from  agricultural  life  to  other  pursuits,  being  desirous  of  enter- 
ing the  commercial  field.  He  was  therefore  seventeen  years  of  age  when  his  father 
brought  him  to  St.  Louis  and  secured  for  him  a  situation  in  the  wholesale  dry  goods  house 
of  Crow,  McCreery  &  Company.  His  position  was  a  humble  one — that  of  stock  and  errand 
boy — but  his  faithfulness  and  loyalty  soon  won  the  attention  of  his  employers  and  he 
was  highly  commended  by  those  whom  he  served.  At  the  end  of  a  year,  however,  he 
entered  the  employ  of  his  father,  who  had  removed  to  St.  Louis  and  had  established 
a  wholesale  boot  and  shoe  business.  Mr.  Gauss  became  shipping  clerk  in  his  father's 
establishment,  in  which  he  spent  two  years,  and  then  became  a  traveling  salesman,  repre- 
senting the  house  of  Beardslee  Brothers.  For  a  year  he  remained  upon  the  road, 
gaining  valuable  experience  and  adding  to  his  knowledge  concerning  the  wholesale  trade. 
Ambitious  to  engage  in  business  on  his  own  account,  he  then  formed  a  partnership 
with  Herman  Krausse  and  H.  A.  Hunicke,  organizing  the  firm  of  Krausse,  Hunicke  & 
Gauss  for  the  conduct  of  a  wholesale  hat  and  cap  business,  for  which  his  father  furnished 
the  major  part  of  the  capital.  Mr.  Krausse  brought  to  the  new  undertaking  wide  experi- 
ence in  the  hat  trade,  while  the  two  partners  associated  with  him  possessed  a  splendid 
amount  of  zeal,  energy  and  enterprise.  From  the  beginning  the  new  company  prospered 
and  when  four  years  later  Mr.  Krausse's  health  failed,  his  interest  in  the  company  was 
purchased  by  Messrs.  Gauss  and  Hunicke  and  the  firm  style  of  Gauss,  Hunicke  &  Com- 
pany was  assumed.  Steadily  the  business  continued  to  grow  and  develop,  resulting  in 
a  reorganization  under  the  name  of  the  Gauss-Hunicke  Hat  Company.  When  failing 
health  compelled  Mr.  Hunicke  to  retire  the  Gauss-Shelton  Hat  Company  succeeded  to 
the  business  and  maintained  the  high  standard  of  commercial  integrity  and  enterprise 


770  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

that  had  dominated  the  concern  from  the  beginning.  Some  years  prior  to  the  death  of 
Mr.  Gauss  it  was  said  of  him:  "For  more  tlian  thirty-five  years  Mr.  Gauss  has  been  a 
St.  Louis  merchant,  and  tlie  history  of  his  business  career  is  a  record  of  steady  progres- 
sion, constantly  increasing  influence  in  commercial  and  financial  circles,  and  growing 
usefulness  as  a  citizen.  As  his  fortune  has  grown  he  has  become  interested  in  various 
enterprises  in  addition  to  merchandising  and  has  been  called  upon  to  fill  numerous 
positions  of  trust  and  consequence  as  a  corporation  official.  He  was  first  a  director  in 
the  old  Continental  Bank  and  later,  for  some  years,  vice  president  of  the  National  Bank 
of  the  Republic.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  also  and  second  vice  president  of  the 
Union  Trust  Company  prior  to  1894,  at  which  time  he  severed  his  connection  with  that 
corporation.  After  the  death  of  his  son-in-law,  Mr.  Charles  W.  Bullen,  who  had  been 
president  of  the  National  Bank  of  the  Republic,  Mr.  Gauss  was  elected  to  the  presidency 
of  that  institution,  accepting  it  with  the  understanding  that  the  bank  should  go  into 
liquidation,  and  that  he  would  only  retain  the  position  so  long  as  it  might  be  neces- 
sary to  wind  up  its  affairs.  An  arrangement  for  such  liquidation  having  been  made  with 
the  Laclede  National  Bank,  he  became  a  member  of  the  directorate  of  that  bank  and 
still  retains  the  position.  He  is  also  identified  with  the  American  Central  Insurance 
Company  as  a  member  of  its  board  of  directors."  This  is  indicative  of  the  line  of 
activity  which  claimed  the  attention  and  profited  by  the  energies  of  Charles  F.  Gauss 
to  the  time  of  his  demise.  His  judgment  was  always  sound,  his  discrimination  keen 
and  his  enterprise  unfaltering. 

In  1861  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Charles  F.  Gauss  and  Miss  Mary  Josephine 
Lamoureaux  and  to  them  were  born  five  daughters:  Adele,  the  widow  of  C.  W.  Bullen; 
Emma,  the  wife  of  Samuel  H.  Young;  Louisa,  who  bec:\me  Mrs.  L.  G.  K:es;  Mary,  the  wife 
of  J.  P.  Annan;  and  Sadie,  who  married  F.  M.  Schiffmacher.  The  mother  died  in 
1874  and  on  May  14,  1878,  Mr.  Gauss  married  Ada  H.  Smith,  a  daughter  of  Charles 
H.  and  Catherine  B.  Smith,  of  Bourbon  county,  Kentucky.  There  are  now  ten 
grandchildren  and  five  great-grandchildren.  On  December  2,  1913,  the  husband 
and  father  was  called  to  his  final  rest.  He  had  been  an  exemplary  member  of  the 
Masonic  fraternity  and  belonged  also  to  the  Mercantile  Club  and  to  the  St.  Louis 
Club.  He  gave  his  political  allegiance  to  the  democratic  party  from  the  time  age 
conferred  upon  him  the  right  of  franchise  until  1S93,  when  a  change  in  his  views 
led  him  to  endorse  the  principles  of  the  republican  party,  which  he  then  continued 
to  support  throughout  his  remaining  days.  His  purposes  were  high,  his  life  in  all 
respects  noble  and  the  sterling  traits  of  his  manhood  were  acknowledged  by  all 
with  whom  he  came  in  contact. 


HON.   AUGUST   H.   BOLTE. 


Hon.  August  H.  Bolte,  who  passed  away  on  the  24th  of  June,  1920,  was  a 
member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar  and  assistant  counselor  of  the  Southwestern  Bell 
Telephone  Company.  He  also  figured  prominently  in  the  political  history  of  the 
state  as  a  representative  of  the  democratic  party  and  tor  four  years  filled  the  office 
of  lieutenant  governor.  He  was  born  September  3,  1854,  in  Franklin  county, 
Missouri,  a  son  of  William  H.  Bolte,  a  native  of  Germany,  who  came  to  America 
in  1838  with  his  parents.  He  was  then  a  lad  of  twelve  years,  his  birth  having 
occurred  September  26,  1826.  The  family  home  was  established  in  Franklin 
county,  Missouri,  and  there  the  grandfather,  Caspar  H.  Bolte,  followed  the  occu- 
pation of  farming,  although  he  was  a  turner  by  trade.  He  was  numbered  among 
the  pioneer  settlers  of  Franklin  county  and  contributed  to  its  early  development. 
His  son,  William  H.  Bolte,  also  followed  farming  and  during  the  period  of  the 
Civil  war  he  was  captain  of  a  regiment  that  was  raised  in  Franklin  county,  remain- 
ing with  it  throughout  the  period  of  hostilities  for  hflme  protection.  He  also  served 
for  two  terms  as  public  administrator  of  that  county  and  there  passed  away  in 
August,  1890,  when  sixty-four  years  of  age.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name 
of  Wilhelmina  C.  Haase,  was  a  naMve  of  Hanover,  Germa'^y.  and  came  to  America 
when  a  little  maiden  of  six  summers  in  company  with  her  parents,  who  also 
cast  in  their  lot  among  the  pioneer  residents  of  Franklin  county,  where  her  father 
followed  farming.  The  death  of  Mrs.  Bolte  occurred  in  St.  Louis  in  February, 
1919,  when   she  had  reached   the   advanced   age   of  eighty-five  years   and   ten   days. 


HON.   AUGUST   H.   BOLTE 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  773 

She  was  the  mother  of  ten  children,  three  sons  and  seven  daughters,  ot  whom 
eight  are  living. 

August  H.  Bolte,  the  eldest  ot  the  family,  was  educated  in  private,  public 
and  parochial  schools  in  Franklin  county  and  tor  a  year  was  a  pupil  in  a  high 
school  of  St.  Louis.  He  also  spent  two  years  in  study  at  the  Northwestern  College 
at  Watertown,  Wisconsin,  and  in  preparation  for  a  professional  career  entered  the 
Missouri  State  University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  LL.  B.  degree 
in  April,  1875.  His  early  life  to  the  age  ot  sixteen  years  was  spent  upon  the  home 
farm  and  after  his  graduation  from  the  law  school  he  entered  upon  active  practice 
in  Union,  Franklin  county,  there  remaining  until  1907.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
state  bar  in  the  spring  of  1875  and  thus  for  forty-five  years  was  a  representative 
of  the  legal  profession  In  this  state.  He  belonged  to  the  American  Bar  Association 
and  to  the  Missouri  State  Bar  Association.  At  the  outset  of  his  career  he  recog- 
nized that  Industry  is  just  as  essential  in  law  practice  as  in  commercial  or  indus- 
trial pursuits  and  he  always  displayed  the  utmost  thoroughness  in  the  preparation 
of  his  cases,  while  his  analytical  mind  was  manifest  in  his  logical  deductions  and 
clear  reasoning. 

Mr.  Bolte  also  became  a  well  known  factor  in  democratic  circles  in  the  state 
and  did  much  to  further  the  interests  of  his  party.  In  November,  1880,  he  was 
elected  probate  judge  and  so  served  until  January,  1894.  He  was  prosecuting 
attorney  from  January,  1894,  until  1897  and  in  1896  was  elected  lieutenant  gov- 
ernor of  Missouri,  filling  the  office  for  four  years.  His  opinions  long  carried  weight 
in  the  councils  of  his  parly  and  contributed  to  shaping  the  policy  and  directing 
the  destiny  of  the  commonwealth. 

On  the  26th  of  December,  1881,  Mr.  Bolte  was  married  to  Miss  Christina  C. 
Arand,  a  native  of  Missouri  and  a  daughter  of  Christopher  Arand.  Mrs.  Bolte 
passed  away  in  St.  Louis,  September  13,  1909.  They  are  survived  by  two  daugh- 
ters, Adele  M.   and  Clara  I. 

During  the  war  period  Mr.  Bolte  served  Qn  the  legal  advisory  board  of  the 
thirteenth  ward  and  otherwise  maintained  a  most  helpful  attitude  in  regard  to 
war  activities.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Evangelical  Lutheran  church  and  at  the 
time  of  his  demise  was  serving  as  president  of  the  board  of  the  Church  of  the 
Messiah.  From  early  manhood  he  has  been  a  deep  student  of  vital  public  ques- 
tions and  had  manifested  the  keenest  interest  in  all  those  problems  which  affect 
the  welfare  of  community,  commonwealth  and  country.  His  standards  were  high 
and  he  ever  kept  abreast  with  the  best  thinking  men  of  the  age  regarding  the 
great    sociological,    economic    and    political    problems    before    the    country. 


DAVIS  MOREHEAD  PINKERTON, 

For  twenty  years  Davis  Morehead  Pinkerton  has  been  an  outstanding  figure  in  the 
banking  circles  of  Kansas  City,  being  now  vice  president  of  the  Gate  City  National 
Bank.  Consecutive  advancement  along  the  line  of  orderly  progression,  with  a  thorough 
mastery  of  each  task  and  of  the  problems  presented,  has  brought  him  to  his  present 
position;  yet  it  would  be  but  to  give  an  impartial  and  one-sided  view  of  him  if  he  were 
mentioned  solely  as  a  successful  banker.  With  broad  vision  as  to  the  possibilities  and 
values  of  life,  he  is  continually  laboring  to  promote  intellectual  and  moral  progress  and 
has  done  most  effective  work  in  those  fields. 

Mr.  Pinkerton  was  born  in  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  August  29.  1866.  His  father.  Collin 
M.  Pinkerton,  was  a  native  of  Norfolk,  Virginia,  and  in  childhood  accompanied  his  parents 
to  Kentucky,  the  family  home  being  established  in  a  pioneer  district.  As  the  years 
passed  he  took  up  merchandising  and  following  his  removal  to  Missouri  engaged  in 
farming.  He  was  a  most  active  member  ot  the  Christian  church  and  an  equally  exemplary 
representative  of  the  Masonic  fraternity.  He  married  Louisa  P.  Davis,  who  was  born 
at  Midway,  Kentucky,  at  which  place  their  marriage  was  celebrated.  The  death  of 
Collin  M.  Pinkerton  occurred  in  1911  and  thus  passed  away  one  whose  influence  had 
been  a  potent  element  for  good  in  the  community  in  which  he  lived. 

Davis  M.  Pinkerton  is  one  of  a  family  of  four  children,  two  of  whom  are  living. 
He  attended  the  district  schools  of  Saline  county,  Missouri,  to  the  age  of  sixteen  years 
and  then  became  a  student  in  the  University  of  Missouri.     He   initiated  his  business 


774  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

career  in  connection  with  the  e-rai7i  trario    n^^t  ;„  *i, 

engaged  in  the  business  on  h  s  owTa  coun\  for  two  ve'arT' A^t  °'  °"f "'  "'^"'^  ''''"  ^^ 
tion  to  banking,  he  became  one  of  the  organizers  Ld  the  ."    t         ,      ,  "^  ""'"  ''"'°" 

Missouri,  and  then  seeking  the  stillbtlTr  field  offeec  TnZ\t:  IT  ''  '?'''."'"™' 
City  in  1900  and  for  five  years  was  connected   with  th.  «f  .     ,?    ^,'  ^  '^^"^  '°  ^^"^^^ 

cashier.     Feeling  that  his 'experience  Just  fid  hlengrgingfn  bu^inefs  f  "b''  ""'''  '' 
count,  he  organized  the  Gate  ritv  R=,nv    ^,i,-  .,       ''"^^''^'"g  ^   business  on  his  own  ac- 

he  is  the  vice  pres  den'     He  has  bee™t  aeliJeTrs^'^^^'r"  '"  ''''  '''"'  "^  ^'^''^'^ 

-?'s:x':;,srr=.s^  £Ei■i^EHSr?^"-■»- 
seven   years  of  age,  who  was  with  the  TInitPri   <it.t^         marriage.      Hugh   M.,   twenty- 

Mr.  Pinkerton  is  a  member  of  the  Commercial  Club  of  Kansas  Pitv   anH    •     , 

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JAMES    M.    BLOODWORTH. 


Mutulru  e^ns^  an  r  ■  '"""^"'^  °'  ''"  "'■  ^°"'^  department  of  the  Fidelity 
30  18^1  a  i  .  ?r  ^""^P^^y  "'  Philadelphia,  was  boru  in  Griffin,  Georgia  April 
30    1871,  a  son  of  the  late  James  M.  Bloodworth,  who  was  a  native  of  Georgia  and 

couor:rchfnra°nd^iraT""'"^^  ^^"-"^  °^  ^"^"^^^  "''^--  «^  --  aT:c":ssTu' 

coiion   merchant   and   was   also  a   prominent   figure   in   connection  with   civic  affairs 

T    H    T?,„i,„   J  ,■    .  •       •    ^-    ^aynor,    of   Macon,    Georgia-    Mrs 

J.  H.  Richardson,  living  at  Norwood,  Ohio;   and  James  M 

Atlanta.  He  then  sold  his  business  and  became  traveling  representative  for  th^ 
^^iirms^ntTl^o'""^"'  Of  Cincinnati,  representing  that  horrrporthTro^a': 
r.!!t,..\   rl     T  "°^   '•'*'   succeeding   ten   years   he    was   with   the   Union 

Central  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Cincinnati  and  on  the  expiration  of  that  ni  ^^ 
removed  to  St.  Louis  to  assume  the  management  at  tlLToint'of  t  rFide  ity  Mi  tTa' 
Life  Insurance  Company  of  Philadelphia.  He  has  since  been  at  the  head  o  the 
St.  Louis  office  and  has  developed  a  splendid   department   here.     He   has  a  compre! 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  775 

hensive  knowledge  of  life  insurance  and  is  a  most  enthusiastic,  industrious  and 
capable  business  man,  possessing  the  highest  ideals  of  justice  and  fair  play. 

On  the  27th  of  June,  1894,  Mr.  Bloodworth  was  married  in  Atlanta  to  Miss 
Annie  Laurie  Brown,  a  native  of  Georgia  and  a  daughter  of  E.  V.  and  Virginia 
Brown.  The  children  of  this  marriage  are:  B.  Carlton,  who  was  born  in  Atlanta, 
Georgia,  December  8,  1895;  Annie  Laurie,  born  at  Atlanta,  June  6,  1898;  and 
James  M.,  horn  in  Norwood,  Ohio,  November  3,   1904. 

During  the  World  war  Mr.  Bloodworth  served  as  one  of  the  Four  Minute 
speakers  and  was  also  a  team  captain  in  connection  with  the  sale  of  Liberty  bonds 
in  each  drive.  His  political  allegiance  has  always  been  given  to  the  democratic 
party  and  while  residing  in  Norwood,  Ohio,  he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  sink- 
ing fund  trustees.  He  is  a  member  and  president  of  the  Salesmanship  Club  of 
St.  Louis,  is  a  member  and  a  director  of  the  Optimists  Club  and  belongs  to  the 
Advertisers  Club,  the  Ridgedale  Country  Club  and  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  while 
his  religious  faith  is  manifest  in  his  connection  with  the  Immanuel  Baptist  church. 
He  has  taken  an  active  and  helpful  part  in  church  and  club  work  and  has  been 
particularly  earnest  in  his  support  of  organizations  and  plans  tor  the  upbuilding 
of  his  city.  His  philanthropic  and  religious  activities  are  of  a  rare  type  and  of  a 
most  conscientious  nature  and  at  all  times  his  efforts  have  been  successful  as  to 
results.  He  reads  widely,  thinks  deeply  and  possesses  an  excellent  memory  and 
while  not  an  orator,  he  speaks  clearly,  concisely  and  forcefully  upon  any  subject 
in  which  he  is  keenly  interested.  There  is  no  doubt  as  to  his  standing  and  position 
concerning  any  question  of  vital  importance  to  the  welfare  and  progress  of  the 
community. 


JOSEPH    SCOTT    BROOKS. 


Admitted  to  the  bar  in  1878,  Joseph  Scott  Brooks  has  engaged  continuously 
In  the  practice  of  law  since  1879  and  on  the  15th  of  April,  1880,  became  a  repre- 
sentative of  the  legal  profession  in  Kansas  City.  He  was  born  at  Paris,  Kentucky, 
August  16,  1856.  His  father,  Samuel  Brooks,  was  also  a  native  of  Kentucky  and  was 
a  son  of  Abijah  Brooks,  who  was  born  in  Massachusetts  but  removed  to  Kentucky  in 
early  life,  becoming  one  of  the  pioneer  residents  of  that  state.  Samuel  Brooks  devoted 
his  life  to  the  occupation  of  farming  and  always  remained  a  resident  of  Kentucky. 
He  was  a  consistent  member  of  the'  Christian  church  and  passed  away  in  that  faith 
August  4,  1875.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Elvira  Scott,  departed 
this  life  in  December,  1889.  Their  family  numbered  three  children,  of  whom  two 
are  living,  the  sister  being  Mrs.  Benjamin  Woodford,  v/ho  is  a  resident  of  Paris, 
Kentucky. 

It  was  in  private  schools  of  his  native  city  that  Joseph  S.  Brooks  began  his 
education,  which  he  later  continued  in  the  University  of  Kentucky  at  Lexington. 
At  length  he  determined  upon  the  practice  of  law  as  a  life  work  and  with  that 
end  in  view  he  entered  Washington  and  Lee  University,  where  he  prepared  for 
the  bar,  being  graduated  in  1879  with  the  LL.  B.  degree.  On  the  14th  of  December, 
1878,  however,  he  was  admitted  to  practice  upon  examination  before  the  court  of 
appeals.  Opening  an  office  in  his  native  city,  he  followed  his  profession  there  for 
a  year  and  then  on  the  15th  of  April,  1880,  removed  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has 
since  practiced  alone.  While  he  has  successfully  tried  some  criminal  cases,  he  has 
continued  in  the  general  practice  of  law  and  for  the  past  twenty  years  his  practice 
has  been  mostly  in  appellate  courts  and  largely  in  connection  with  very  important 
civil  litigation,  which  he  has  handled  most  capably.  He  is  an  astute  lawyer  of  wide 
reading,  possessing  comprehensive  knowledge  of  legal  principles,  and  the  nature 
of  the  law  cases  entrusted  to  his  care  ranks  him  with  the  able  members  of  the 
profession  practicing  at  the  Kansas  City  bar.  In  1884  he  served  as  assistant 
prosecuting  attorney.  Throughout  the  years  of  his  connection  with  the  Kansas 
City  bar  he  has  been  accorded  a  large  clientage  that  has  connected  him  with  much 
important  litigation  and  the  court  records  bear  testimony  to  his  ability  and  success 
In  the  many  favorable  verdicts  which  he  has  won  for  his  clients.  He  belongs  to  the 
Kansas  City,  the  Missouri  and  the  American  Bar  Associations. 

In  1911  Mr.  Brooks  was  married  to  Mrs.  Sarah  Gerish,  nee  Sarah  Stearns,  of 


776  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Buffalo,  New  York.  He  has  always  been  a  lover  of  literature  and  a  reader  of  the 
best  books.  He  belongs  to  the  City  Club.  He  is  widely  recognized  as  a  good  lawyer, 
an  accomplished  gentleman  and  in  every  way  trustworthy,  the  innate  refinement  of 
his  nature  being  at  all  times  manifest. 


LON   O.   HOCKER. 


Stimulated  by  his  awakened  interest  in  the  law  while  serving  as  a  stenog- 
rapher in  a  law  office,  Lon  O.  Hocker  entered  upon  preparation  for  the  profession 
and  since  1894,  or  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century,  has  been  a  well  known 
representative  of  the  bar,  displaying  special  professional  skill  in  the  work  of  the 
courts.  He  was  born  in  Harrisonville,  Cass  county,  Missouri,  November  21,  1873, 
and  is  a  son  of  James  E.  Hocker,  a  native  of  Kentucky  and  a  representative  of  an 
old  Kentucky  family  of  Dutch  descent.  The  founder  of  this  branch  of  the  family 
came  to  America  at  the  time  of  William  Penn  and  settled  in  Pennsylvania.  Dur- 
ing the  greater  part  of  his  lite  James  E.  Hocker  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits 
and  through  the  Civil  war  he  served  in  the  Confederate  army  under  General  Morgan. 
He  married  Katherine  S.  Railey,  a  native  of  Louisiana  and  a  representative  of  an 
old  Kentucky  family  of  English  lineage,  first  founded  on  American  soil  in  Virginia. 
The  great-grandmother  in  that  line  was  a  Mayo,  likewise  connected  with  an  old 
historic  family  of  the  south.  It  was  during  the  Civil  war  period  that  Mrs.  James 
E.  Hocker,  then  a  young  girl,  came  to  Missouri,  becoming  a  resident  of  Cass  county, 
where  she  was  reared,  educated  and  married.  Five  children  were  born  of  this 
union,  of  whom  four  died  in  infancy,  leaving  Lon  O.  as  the  only  survivor.  The 
parents  are  now  residents  of  Sweet  Springs,  Saline  county.   Missouri. 

It  was  there  that  Lon  O.  Hocker  was  reared  and  in  the  public  schools  re- 
ceived his  education  to  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  when  he  went  to  Kansas  City, 
Missouri,  and  obtained  a  position  as  a  stenographer.  While  thus  employed  he  studied 
law  in  the  office  of  R.  O.  Boggess.  a  well  known  and  prominent  attorney  of  Kansas 
City,  who  was  his  uncle.  He  remained  there  for  a  year,  after  which  he  returned 
to  Harrisonville,  Missouri,  and  entered  the  law  office  of  the  Hon.  Robert  T.  Railey, 
now  one  of  the  supreme  court  commissioners  of  Missouri  at  Jefferson  City.  In 
1894  Mr.  Hocker  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Harrisonville,  being  licensed  to  prac- 
tice before  the  state  supreme  court,  and  on  the  28th  of  November,  1910,  he  was 
licensed  to  practice  before  the  United  States  supreme  court.  He  entered  upon 
the  active  work  of  the  profession  at  Harrisonville  as  an  assistant  to  his  uncle  and 
in  the  fall  of  1895  came  to  St.  Louis  where  he  entered  the  office  of  Bogle,  Priest  & 
Lehmann,  there  remaining  until  the  fall  of  1902,  when  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  the  late  William  C.  Jones  and  James  C.  Jones  under  the  firm  style  of  Jones, 
Jones  &  Hocker.  He  is  now  associated  with  James  C.  Jones,  with  whom  the  partner- 
ship has  been  maintained  since  the  death  of  the  latter's  father.  In  his  law  practice 
Mr.  Hocker  has  always  specialized  in  the  work  of  the  courts  and  he  possesses  a 
keen,  rapid,  logical  mind,  plus  the  business  sense,  and  a  ready  capacity  for  hard 
work.  Moreover,  he  brought  to  the  starting  point  of  his  legal  career  certain  rare 
gifts,  "eloquence  of  language  and  a  strong  personality."  An  earnest,  dignified 
manner,  marked  strength  of  character  and  a  thorough  grasp  of  the  law,  with  ability 
to  apply  its  principles  accurately   are   factors   in    his    effectiveness   as   an   advocate. 

On  the  15th  of  June,  1914,  Mr.  Hocker  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Norris 
Berry,  a  native  of  Kansas  and  a  daughter  of  Edward  A.  Berry.  They  have  become 
the  parents  of  three  sons:  Edward  Berry,  Lon  and  Marion  Blackwell,  the  last  men- 
tioned bearing  the  name  of  the  maternal  grandmother.  Mrs.  Hocker  is  keenly 
interested  in  child  welfare  work  in  St.  Louis  and  has  done  most  effective  service 
in  this  connection.  When  the  city  was  awakened  to  the  need  of  protecting  and 
developing  the  child,  John  Schmol,  director  of  public  welfare  in  St.  Louis,  recogniz- 
ing that  eight  baby  clinics  should  be  established  at  a  cost  of  a  thousand  dollars  each 
but  recognizing  also  that  the  city  did  not  have  the  funds  to  meet  this,  went  to  the 
welfare  committee  of  the  mayor's  reconstruction  committee  and  asked  the  chairman, 
Mrs.  L.  O.  Hocker.  if  she  could  not  find  big  and  public-spirited  men  and  women 
to  donate  the  money  for  the  purpose.  Mrs.  Hocker  consented  to  make  the  effort, 
with   the    result    that    she   soon    returned   with    the   needed   eight    thousand    dollars, 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  779 

and  when  the  clinics  were  established  and  the  donors  turned  over  the  keys  of  the 
new  clinics  to  the  city  council  Mrs.  Hocker  said:  "There  Is  one  strong  conviction 
in  me  and  I  am  sure  that  this  same  conviction  is  also  in  you.  My  conviction  is 
that  the  meaning  of  our  democracy  is  that  every  boy  and  every  girl  should  have 
an  equal  chance  for  education,  no  matter  whether  they  were  born  rich  or  poor. 
Every  little  girl  and  every  little  boy  has  a  right  to  be  physically  perfect,  and  the 
child  born  In  the  slums  has  just  as  good  a  right  to  a  healthy  manhood  or  a  healthy 
womanhood  as  the  child  born  in  luxurious  surroundings.  If,  at  the  end  -of  my 
life,  I  shall  know  that  the  city  of  St.  Louis  has  taken  steps  to  give  every  child  a 
chance  to  play,  to  grow  up  and  make  an  honest  and  good  living,  I  shall  be  glad 
and  satisfied."  In  other  splendid  charitable  and  civic  work  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hocker 
are  keenly  and  helpfully  Interested. 

Politically  Mr.  Hocker  Is  a  republican  but  has  never  been  an  aspirant  for  office. 
He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association,  the  Missouri  State  Bar  Association 
and  the  American  Bar  Association  and  that  he  is  appreciative  of  the  social  amenities 
of  life  is  indicated  in  his  connection  with  the  Noonday,  Sunset  Hill  Country  and 
Normandle  Clubs.  During  the  war  period  he  served  on  the  legal  advisory  board  of 
the  twenty-eighth  ward.  A  review  of  his  life  indicates  the  fact  that  it  has  been 
personal  effort,  laudable  ambition  and  indefatigable  energy  that  have  brought  him 
to  his  present  position  in  the  front  rank  of  the  able  lawyers  of  St.  Louis,  where 
for  a  quarter  of  a  century  he  has  successfully  practiced. 


THOMAS  WILLIAM  WttlTE. 

Thomas  William  White,  of  St.  Louis,  prominent  member  of  the  bar,  who  spe- 
cializes in  the  practice  of  corporation  and  commercial  law,  was  born  August  2, 
1883,  in  the  city  which  is  yet  his  home,  and  comes  of  English,  Scotch  and  Welsh 
ancestry,  tracing  his  lineage  back  to  William  White,  who,  emigrating  from  England 
about  the  time  of  the  establishment  of  the  American  republic,  took  up  his  abode  in 
Georgia.  He  afterward  became  a  pioneer  of  Hernando,  Mississippi,  and  his  son. 
Colonel  Thomas  W.  White,  was  commander  of  the  Ninth  Mississippi  Regiment  during 
the  Civil  war.  A  graduate  of  the  University  of  Georgia,  he  afterward  pursued  a  law 
course  at  Harvard  with  the  class  of  1846  under  Simon  Greenleaf  and  the  years  of 
his  practice  established  him  as  one  of  the  eminent  members  of  the  bar  in  the 
south.  He  was  a  personal  friend  of  Jefferson  Davis,  J.  Q.  C.  Lamar,  Grover  Cleve- 
land, Senator  J.  Z.  George  and  others  who  have  figured  prominently  in  connection 
with  national  history.  He  married  Miss  Barbara  Meriwether,  a  native  of  Georgia 
and  a  direct  descendant  of  the  Meriwether  family  of  Virginia  which  is  of  Welsh 
extraction.     The  death  of  Colonel  White  occurred  at  Hernando,  Mississippi,  in  1889. 

His  son  and  namesake,  Thomas  W.  White,  father  of  Thomas  W.  White  of 
St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Hernando,  Mississippi,  and  took  up  the  business  of  brick 
manufacturing.  He  was  graduated  from  the  University  of  Georgia  and  became  a 
man  of  prominence  and  Influence  in  the  community  in  which  he  resided.  His  last 
years  were  spent  in  Memphis,  Tennessee.  He  passed  away  January  14,  1901,  at 
Hernando,  Mississippi,  while  visiting  his  old  home.  His  wife,  who  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Marlon  C.  Carpenter,  was  born  in  St.  Louis  in  1859  and  was  a 
daughter  of  James  M.  and  Caroline  (Clarkson)  Carpenter,  the  former  a  native  of 
Kentucky  and  the  latter  of  Virginia,  Mrs.  Carpenter  being  the  granddaughter  of 
General  Payne,  who  served  on  Washington's  staff  in  the  Revolutionary  war. 
James  M.  Carpenter  was  a  real  estate  operator  of  considerable  prominence  in  St. 
Louis. 

Well  deserved  fame  and  success  have  come  to  Thomas  William  White,  of 
St.  Louis,  in  the  practice  of  law,  for  which  he  early  qualified  after  completing  his 
elementary  studies  in  public  and  private  schools  of  Memphis,  Tennessee,  his  aca- 
demic work  in  a  collegiate  preparatory  school  and  his  college  course  in  the 
University  of  Mississippi,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1903  with  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  The  same  year  he  returned  to  St.  Louis,  his  native  city,  and 
matriculated  in  the  St.  Louis  Law  School,  a  department  of  Washington  University, 
where  he  completed  his  course  in  1905,  winning  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws. 
He  has  since  pursued  a  special  course  in  the  Harvard  law  school,  where  he  remained 


780  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

for  a  year.  In  July,  1906,  he  entered  upon  the  active  practice  of  his  chosen  pro- 
fession in  the  office  of  S.  W.  Fordyce.  Jr.,  and  on  the  2d  of  January,  1908,  the 
present  firm  of  Fordyce,  Holliday  &  White  was  organized.  They  engage  in  general 
civil  law  practice  but  specialize  in  commercial  and  corporation  law  and  their  clien- 
tage Is  of  a  most  extensive  and  important  character.  Mr.  White  possesses  a  keen, 
analytical  mind  and  prepares  his  cases  with  great  thoroughness  and  care.  One 
who  has  watched  his  professional  career  from  the  beginning  speaks  of  him  as  "a 
stickler  for  facts,  which  restricts  oratorical  imagination  to  a  great  extent."  His 
clear  presentation  of  his  cause  and  his  correct  application  of  the  points  at  issue 
are  strong  factors  in  his  growing  success. 

On  the  2d  of  June,  1910,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  White  was  married  to  Miss  Mary 
Humphreys  Weisiger,  a  grand-daughter  of  Judge  Humphreys,  of  Clarksville,  Ten- 
nessee, and  they  have  one  child,  Thomas  William  White,  Jr.,  born  June  13,  1918. 

Mr.  White  is  of  the  Presbyterian  faith  and  has  been  closely  connected  with 
various  activities  of  the  church.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  democratic 
party  and  he  is  identified  with  several  of  the  leading  social  organizations  of  St. 
Louis,  including  the  Noonday  Club,  the  St.  Louis  Country  Club  and  the  Harvard 
Club.  He  is  also  connected  with  Sigma  Chi,  a  college  fraternity,  and  Phi  Delta 
Phi,  a  college  law  fraternity.  He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association,  to  the 
Missouri  Bar  Association  and  the  American  Bar  Association.  Somewhat  conserva- 
tive, he  is  a  man  of  indomitable  will  power,  of  ceaseless  energy  and  strong  con- 
victions, with  wide  knowledge  of  affairs  in  general,  giving  his  spare  time  to 
Biblical  investigation  and  study  of  the  sciences,  history  and  the  classics. 


WILLIAM  ALBERT   STICKNEY. 

A  forceful  figure  in  the  business  world  was  William  Albert  Stickney,  who 
became  one  of  the  most  widely  known  wholesale  cigar  dealers  of  the  United  States, 
developing  in  St.  Louis  a  business  of  very  substantial  proportions.  He  came  of 
New  England  ancestry  and  was  a  representative  oi  the  eighth  generation  of  the 
Stickney  family  in  the  new  world.  The  ancestral  line  is  traced  back  to  William 
Stickney,  who  came  from  England  prior  to  1650  and  first  settled  in  Boston,  while 
subsequently  he  removed  to  Rowley,  Massachusetts.  Abraham  Stickney,  of  the 
third  generation  in  direct  line  of  descent,  served  in  the  colonial  wars  as  an  ensign 
in  the  regiment  commanded  by  Colonel  Eleazer  Tyng  in  1757.  His  son  Abraham 
was  a  lieutenant  under  three  commands  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  from  1776  until 
1778,  and  it  was  by  reason  of  this  that  William  Albert  Stickney  held  membership 
with  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  and  with  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution.  His 
parents  were  Dr.   Augustus  G.   and  Louise    (Wilson)    Stickney. 

William  Albert  Stickney  was  born  at  West  Townsend,  Massachusetts,  August 
5,  1844,  and  in  that  locality  was  reared  and  educated.  In  1862,  when  eighteen 
years  of  age,  he  secured  a  clerkship  in  a  mercantile  establishment  of  Boston,  where 
he  was  employed  for  two  years.  About  that  time  the  last  call  for  troops  for  service 
in  the  Civil  war  was  made  and  he  enlisted  in  the  Sixth  Massachusetts  Volunteer 
_  Infantry,  serving  with  that  command  until  after  the  close  of  the  war.  Following 
his  discharge  he  went  to  New  York  city,  where  he  became  identified  with  the  line 
of  business  in  which  he  was  so  signally  successful.  He  familiarized  himself  with 
every  detail  of  cigar  manufacturing  and  in  1872  he  came  west  to  establish  a  whole- 
sale cigar  house  in  the  Mississippi  valley.  .St.  Louis  was  chosen  as  a  suitable 
location,  and  with  somewhat  limited  capital  but  with  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
tobacco  trade  and  especially  that  branch  which  includes  the  importation,  manufac- 
ture and  sale  of  cigars,  he  established  business  and  as  the  years  passed  developed 
his  interests  untH  he  was  at  the  head  of  a  most  extensive  enterprise,  conducted 
under  the  name  of  the  William  A.  Stickney  Cigar  Company.  His  trade  radius  was 
much  broader  than  that  covered  by  many  other  lines  centering  in  St.  Louis  and  at 
length  he  found  himself  at  the  head  of  the  largest  jobbing  house  in  the  cigar 
trade  in  the  United  States,  while  at  the  same  time  he  enjoyed  an  unassailable 
reputation  for  the  high  character  of  his  business  methods  and  his  thorough  relia- 
bility in  all  transactions.  A  branch  house  was  opened  and  maintained  in  Kansas 
City,  also  at  Denver  and  Salt  Lake  City,  the  trade  being  controlled  directly  from 
the   St.   Louis   house,   while  through   the   branch   houses   the  business   was   extended 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  783 

throughout  all  the  southern  and  Gulf  states,  westward  to  the  Pacific  coast  and 
northward  to  the  Canadian  line.  Many  of  the  hrands  of  cigars,  like  the  Chan- 
cellor, Security  and  Preferencia,  have  become  known  as  standard  throughout  the 
entire  country,  while  the  house  o'ertopped  all  others  in  the  large  importation  of 
fine  cigars   in  the  United   States. 

Mr.  Stickney  was  a  man  of  unfeigned  cordiality,  social  by  nature  and  excee**- 
ingly  popular  wherever  he  was  known.  He  was  especially  welcomed  in  the  circles 
of  the  Mercantile,  University  and  other  clubs  in  which  he  held  membership  and 
he    was    also    prominently    known    in    the    leading    fraternal    orders. 

In  1873  Mr.  Stickney  was  married  to  Miss  Millicent  M.  Taylor,  of  Covington, 
Kentucky,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  four  children:  Albert  Taylor,  now  of 
the  Stickney-Holscher  Cigar  Company  of  St.  Louis;  Stewart  Grosvenor,  who  is  with 
A.  G.  Edwards  &  Sons,  bond  brokers  of  St.  Louis;  William  Arthur,  also  with  A. 
G.  Edwards  &  Sons;   and  Mildred,  the  wife  of  Orion  J.  Willis,  of  St.  Louis. 

Mrs.  Stickney  was  one  of  the  most  active  women  in  war  work  in  St.  Louis.  She 
was  chosen  chairman  of  the  Comforts  Committee  of  the  Navy  League  and  for 
twenty-three  months  devoted  her  entire  time  to  the  work.  She  sold  her  handsome 
home  on  Westmoreland  Place  to  be  free  from  household  responsibilities  and  took 
an  apartment  in  the  St.  Regis  Apartments  that  she  might  give  undivided  attention 
to  the  needs  and  comforts  of  the  boys  in  the  navy.  The  work  was  most  thor- 
oughly systematized  under  her  direction  and  through  the  organization  in  twenty- 
three  months  were  sent  out  almost  twenty-eight  thousand  knitted  garments,  more 
than  ten  thousand  three  hundred  comfort  kits,  nine  thousand  three  hundred  and 
fifty-two  housewives  and  nine  thousand  four  hundred  and  thirty-six  miscellaneous 
articles.  The  total  receipts  of  the  organization  in  cash  were  forty-three  thou- 
sand nine  hundred  and  seventy-four  dollars  and  when  the  work  closed  there  was 
a  balance  of  four  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  in  the  treasury.  In  the  management 
of  all  this  Mrs.  Stickney  displayed  marked  executive  and  administrative  ability. 
In  the  days  when  the  country  is  not  facing  such  a  crisis  as  it  did  in  the  World  war, 
Mrs.  Stickney  is  particularly  a  home  woman,  her.  devotion  to  her  family  being 
her  first  interest — a  devotion  which  was  thoroughly  shared  by  Mr.  Stickney,  who 
found  the  keenest  happiness  in  providing  for  the  members  of  his  own  household. 
At  the  same  time  he  was.  recognized  as  a  leader  in  the  leading  clubs  of  the  city 
and  as  a  dynamic  force  in  business  circles — one  in  whose  career  there  was  not  a 
single  esoteric  phase  and  whose  example  may  well  serve  as  a  source  of  inspiration 
and  encouragement  to   others.      His   demise   occurred  on   the    4th   of   July,    1913. 


LAWRENCE   EUSTACE   LEAVER. 

Lawrence  Eustace  Leaver,  who  since  May,  1918,  has  been  superintendent  of 
the  schools  of  Laddonia,  Missouri,  was  born  on  a  farm  five  miles  north  of  Cuba, 
this  state,  on  the  4th  of  January,  1894,  and  is  a  son  of  Joseph  O.  and  Clara  C. 
Leaver.  The  Leaver  family  came  to  Missouri  from  New  York  at  a  very  early 
period  In  the  development  of  this  state  and  was  identified  with  the  pioneer  progress 
of  Missouri. 

Lawrence  E.  Leaver,  after  attending  the  high  school  at  Steelville,  Missouri, 
became  a  student  in  the  State  Teachers  College  at  Springfield  and  still  later  matricu- 
lated In  the  University  of  Missouri,  thus  being  qualified  by  liberal  educational 
training  for  the  profession  which  he  has  made  his  life  work.  He  taught  his  first 
school  at  Jake  Prairie,  Missouri,  this  being  a  rural  school  which  brought  him  a 
salary  of  thirty-seven  dollars  and  a  half  per  month.  For  four  years  he  continued 
teaching  in  the  rural  schools  and  for  five  years  has  been  superintendent  of  town 
schools,  being  called  to  his  present  position  in  May,  1918.  According  to  public  opinion 
he  has  done  excellent  work  as  superintendent  of  the  schools  of  Laddonia,  having 
introduced  various  progressive  measures,  while  his  own  zeal  and  interest  in  the 
work  is  an  inspiration  to  pupils  and  teachers. 

On  the  20th  of  June,  1914,  at  Steelville.  Missouri,  Mr.  Leaver  was  married  to 
Miss  Florence  B.  England,  daughter  of  W.  U.  England,  whose  ancestors  were  early 
settlers  of  Kentucky.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leaver  now  have  an  interesting  little  daughter, 
Alma  Florence. 

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784  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Mr.  Leaver's  political  belief  is  that  of  the  republican  party.  He  belongs  to  both 
the  Congregational  and  Presbyterian  churches  and  his  wife  is  a  member  of  the 
Congregational  church.  They  are  much  interested  in  the  moral  progress  of  the 
community  and  Mr.  Leaver  is  a  supporter  of  all  those  forces  which  make  for  the 
uplift  of  the  individual  and  the  advancement  of  the  best  interests  of  the  district  in 
*hich  he  resides. 


JOHN  LAWRENCE  MAURAN. 

The  positions  to  which  John  Lawrence  Mauran  has  been  called  in  connection 
with  his  profession  gave  him  classification  with  the  eminent  architects  of  America. 
Since  1893  he  has  made  his  home  in  St.  Louis  but  through  the  intervening  period  has 
done  much  important  professional  work  in  other  cities  of  the  country.  Born  in 
Providence.  Rhode  Island,  on  the  19th  of  November,  1866,  he  is  a  son  of  Frank  and 
Mary  Louise  (Nichols)  Mauran.  He  supplemented  his  early  education,  acquired 
in  the  public  schools,  by  study  in  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  hav- 
ing early  given  evidence  of  the  trend  of  his  tastes  and  talents.  He  was  for  four 
years  a  student  in  Boston  and  then  went  abroad  for  further  study  and  travel  in 
Europe,  where  he  spent  the  years  1889  and  1890,  gaining  much  valuable  knowledge 
concerning  the  finest  types  of  architecture  in  the  old  world. 

Following  his  return  to  the  United  States,  Mr.  Mauran  spent  two  years  in  the 
office  of  Shepley,  Rutan  &  Coolidge  of  Boston  and  was  then  sent  by  them  to 
Chicago,  where  he  worked  on  the  plans  of  the  Chicago  Public  Library  and  the 
Chicago  Art  Institute,  two  of  the  finest  buildings  in  that  city.  He  then  became  a 
representative  of  Shepley,  Rutan  &  Coolidge  at  St.  Louis  in  1893  and  was  afterward 
admitted  to  a  partnership  in  their  St.  Louis  business.  In  1900,  however,  he  with- 
drew from  that  connection  and  was  joined  by  Ernest  John  Russell  and  Edward 
Garden  in  organizing  the  firm  of  Mauran,  Russell  &  Garden,  which  in  1911,  through 
a  change  in  the  personnel,  became  Mauran,  Russell  &  Crowell.  The  high  standing 
of  the  firm  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  they  have  been  the  architects  of  the  St. 
Louis  Union  Trust  Company  building,  the  new  Bank  of  Commerce,  the  Butler 
Brothers  buildings  at  St.  Louis  and  Dallas,  the  Railway  Exchange,  the  St.  Louis 
Country  Club,  the  St.  Louis  Skin  and  Cancer  and  the  Children's  Hospitals  of  St. 
Louis  and  others  of  the  finest  structures  of  the  city.  They  were  also  architects  for 
the  Galvez  Hotel  at  Galveston,  Texas,  and  the  Rice  Hotel  at  Houston,  Texas.  Mr. 
Mauran  most  carefully  prepared  for  his  profession,  of  which  he  has  ever  remained 
a  discriminating  student,  and  his  close  application  and  tireless  energy  have  been 
the  basic  elements  in  his  growing  success — a  success  that  has  made  his  name  known 
in  professional  connections  throughout  the  country. 

In  1899  Mr.  Mauran  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Isabel  Chapman,  a  daugh- 
ter of  J.  G.  Chapman,  of  St.  Louis.  While  his  profession  has  made  constant  demands 
upon  his  attention,  he  has  found  time  for  cooperation  in  those  interests  which  tend 
to  ameliorate  the  hard  conditions  of  life  for  the  unfortunate  and  in  those  interests 
which  have  cultural  value  and  constitute  a  strong  uplift  force  in  the  lives  of  men. 
He  was  tor  nine  years,  beginning  with  1909,  a  director  of  the  Skin  and  Cancer 
Hospital  of  St.  Louis,  has  been  a  member  of  the  advisory  board  of  the  Home  for 
the  Friendless  since  1912  and  has  been  connected  with  many  of  the  organizations 
which  feature  prominently  in  the  civic  life  of  St.  Louis.  He  served  from  1906  untiT 
1918  as  a  member  of  the  public  library  board,  has  been  a  director  of  the  Mercantile 
Library  since  1906  and  was  its  president  in  1908-9,  was  a  member  of  the  board 
of  control  of  the  St.  Louis  Museum  of  Fine  Arts  from  1906  until  1910,  was  appointed 
chairman  of  the  public  buildings  commission  in  1904  and  was  president  of  the 
St.  Louis  Grand  Opera  Company  from  1910  until  1912.  Three  years  later  he  served 
as  chairman  of  the  "Made  in  St.  Louis"  Carnival.  In  1908  he  was  appointed  by 
President  Roosevelt  a  member  of  the  Fine  Arts  Commission.  In  1904  he  had  served 
as  the  United  States  delegate  to  the  Sixth  International  Congress  of  Architects. 
He  is  a  fellow  of  the  American  Institute  of  Architects,  was  secretary  of  the  St.  Louis 
chapter  from  1900  until  1902,  and  afterward  its  president.  In  1913  he  was  elected 
treasurer  of  the  American  Institute  of  Architects  and  in  1916  he  became  president 
and  was  reelected  to  that  office  in  1917. 

Mr.  Mauran's  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  republican  party  and  in   1908 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  785 

he  was  a  presidential  elector.  His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Unitarian  Society 
and  he  has  been  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Church  of  the  Messiah 
since  1900.  He  is  likewise  a  member  of  the  Hospital  Saturday  and  Sunday  Associa- 
tion. The  breadth  of  his  interests  is  further  indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  is  a 
member  of  the  New  England  Society  of  St.  Louis,  of  which  he  was  elected  president 
in  1913;  is  a  member  of  the  Academy  of  Science;  the  Missouri  Historical  Society; 
the  American  Civic  Association;  the  American  Forestry  Association  and  of  the 
Alumni  Association  of  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  of  which  he  was 
vice  president  in  1916.  In  the  same  year  he  was  made  vice  president  of  the  Ameri- 
can Unitarian  Association  and  still  serves.  With  the  advent  of  America  into  the 
World  war  he  took  a  most  active  and  helpful  part  in  promoting  the  interests  of  the 
government,  and  is  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  St.  Louis  chapter 
of  the  American  Red  Cross  and  a  member  of  the  sub-committee  on  industrial  safety 
of  the  war  industries  board.  He  is  well  known  in  club  circles,  belonging  to  the 
Round  Table,  of  which  he  was  chairman  of  the  executive  committee  from  1906  until 
1911  and  again  in  1916;  to  the  St.  Louis  Club,  of  which  he  was  vice  president  in 
1917-18;  the  Racquet  Club;  the  University  Club,  of  which  he  was  secretary  in  1896 
and  vice  president  in  1912;  the  Noonday  Club,  of  which  he  was  president  in  1904; 
the  City  Club;  the  Country  Club,  of  which  he  was  a  director  from  1908  until  1912; 
the  Florissant  Valley  Club,  of  which  he  was  president  from  1907  until  1909;  the 
Architectural  Club;  the  Technology  Club,  of  which  he  has  been  president  since 
1913;  the  Commercial  Club  of  St.  Louis;  the  Tavern  Club  of  Boston;  the  St. 
Anthony  and  Technology  Clubs  of  New  York;  and  the  Cosmos  Club  of  Washington. 
While  he  has  attained  the  height  in  his  profession,  he  is  one  who  has  ever  been 
vitally  interested  in  life  and  in  the  great  political,  economic  and  sociological  prob- 
lems of  the  country,  by  reason  of  which  he  has  allied  himself  with  those  forces 
which  are  constantly  seeking  the  uplift  and  betterment  of  humanity  and  the  ad- 
vancement  of   the   world's   standards. 


HENRY   L.    ARNOLD. 


Henry  L.  Arnold,  who  has  continued  in  the  general  practice  of  law  as  a  success- 
ful attorney  of  Kansas  City  and  who  is  now  filling  the  office  of  United  States 
commissioner,  was  born  in  Laconia,  Harrison  county,  Indiana,  May  11,  1858,  his 
parents  being  John  and  Caroline  (Herndon)  Arnold,  the  former  a  native  of  Penn- 
sylvania, while  the  latter  was  born  in  Kentucky.  The  father  went  to  Indiana  when 
fourteen  years  of  age.  He  became  a  wagon-maker  with  the  firm  of  Huston  Brothers 
at  Rising  Sun,  Indiana,  and  subsequently  removed  to  Harrison  county,  Indiana. 
There  he  built  and  operated  the  first  steam  sawmill  in  the  county  and  he  afterward 
owned  and  conducted  a  large  wagon  shop  at  Valley  City,  Indiana.  He  was  very 
active  in  all  affairs  for  the  upbuilding  and  progress  of  his  community  and  he  gave 
his  political  support  first  to  the  whig  party  and  after  its  dissolution  to  the  republican 
party. 

Henry  L.  Arnold  attended  the  public  schools  and  the  township  high  school  in 
Harrison  county,  Indiana,  and  displayed  special  aptitude  in  his  studies,  so  that  at 
an  early  age  he  began  teaching  in  the  village  school  of  New  Amsterdam.  Later  he 
attended  the  normal  school  at  Ladoga,  Indiana,  and  was  afterward  a  student  in 
the  Central  Normal  College  at  Danville,  from  which  he  was  graduated.  In  the 
winter  he  taught  at  Carmi,  Illinois,  and  became  a  student  in  the  Southern  Illinois 
State  Normal  University,  where  he  was  a  student  teacher.  He  was  graduated  from 
that  institution  in  1880,  with  the  Bachelor  of  Science  degree,  and  later  taught 
school  at  Vienna,  Illinois,  until  1887,  when  he  entered  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Univer- 
sity at  Bloomington  for  the  study  of  law  and  won  his  LL.  B.  degree  in  1888.  He 
next  entered  the  government  service  through  appointment  of  President  Harrison, 
and  in  November,  1890,  after  special  examination,  was  sent  to  Minneapolis,  Min- 
nesota, representing  the  United  States  pension  bureau,  as  special  investigator  of 
criminal  acts. 

In  the  following  year  Secretary  of  the  Interior  Cornelius  M,  Bliss  made  him 
a  member  of  the  commission  of  inspectors  in  charge  of  criminal  operations  of  a 
pension   attorney  at  Lime  Springs,   Iowa,   the  investigation   resulting  in   the  finding 


786  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

6t  forgery  and  fraud  on  the  part  of  the  pension  attorney.  In  1895  Mr.  Arnold  was 
transferred  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  remained  until  November  1,  1911.  After 
twenty-one  years'  connection  with  the  department  he  resigned  and  opened  a  law 
office  in  Kansas  City  for  private  practice,  becoming  associated  with  the  firm  of 
Holmes,  Holmes  &  Page.  On  the  3d  of  November,  1919,  he  was  appointed  United 
States  commissioner  by  Federal  Judge  Arba  S.  Van  Valkenburgh,  and  is  now  filling 
that  position.  He  continues  in  the  general  practice  of  law,  with  offices  in  the  Rialto 
building.  He  has  never  specialized  in  any  particular  branch  of  the  profession,  but 
has  displayed  ability  along  various  lines  of  law  practice  and  enjoys  the  confidence 
and  esteem  of  clients  and  contemporaries  alike.  He  is  recognized  as  a  man  of  honor 
and  strict  integrity  and  to  these  qualities  he  adds  an  exceptionally  pleasing  person- 
ality. He  inspires  confidence,  deserves  and  gets  it.  In  his  law  practice  he  readily 
perceives  the  truth  and  recognizes  the  facts  and  the  law  applicable  thereto  and  in 
his  presentation  of  a  cause  is  direct  and  to  the  point,  being,  moreover,  a  logical  and 
convincing  speaker. 

Mr.  Arnold  is  a  republican  in  his  political  views  and  was  twice  nominated  for 
judge  of  one  of  the  divisions  of  the  circuit  court,  always  running  ahead  of  his 
ticket — a  fact  which  indicates  his  personal  popularity — although  he  has  failed  of 
election  because  of  the  large  normal  democratic  majority  in  this  district.  In  1920 
he  was  a  candidate  for  the  Kansas  City  court  of  appeals,  receiving  the  support  of 
his  party  at  the  primary  without  soliciting  a  single  vote  in  a  district  comprising 
forty-seven  counties.  Aside  from  his  professional  interests  he  is  a  stockholder  in 
the  Morris  Plan   Bank. 

In  1891  Mr.  Arnold  was  married  to  Miss  Annette  T.  Richards,  of  Leavenworth, 
Kansas,  a  daughter  of  B.  S.  Richards,  who  is  engaged  in  business  as  a  manufacturer 
and  wholesale  dealer  of  harness  and  numbered  as  a  very  prominent  citizen  of 
Leavenworth.  Mrs.  Arnold  passed  away  December  28,-1918.  She  was  devoted  to 
her  home  and  was  very  active  in  the  work  of  the  Episcopal  church. 

Mr.  Arnold  is  an  interested  and  active  member  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  church 
and  his  philanthropic  and  benevolent  projects  are  limited  only  by  his  financial 
ability.  He  is  a  lover  of  music  and  in  early  life  was  for  eight  years  a  member  of 
St.  Paul's  choir.  He  is  well  versed  in  the  works  of  Shakespeare  and  is  the  author 
of  several  productions  in  the  line  of  fiction.  He  belongs  to  the  University  Club, 
the  Kansas  City  Country  Club  and  is  an  active  member  of  the  Shawnee  Heights 
Golf  &  Country  Club.  In  Masonry  he  has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree  and 
is  a  Knights  Templar,  and  a  Shriner.  He  was  made  a  Mason  when  twenty-two  years 
of  age.  He  is  not  fond  of  society  in  the  usually  accepted  sense  of  the  term  but 
has  a  warm  place  in  his  affections  for  his  multitude  of  friends.  Whole-sbuled, 
possessing  a  genial  nature,  he  has  in  high  degree  that  quality  which  for  want  of  a 
better  term  has  been  called  personal  magnetism.  A  prominent  resident  of  Kansas 
City  said  of  him;     "To  know  Henry  L.  Arnold  is  to  know  a  real   man." 


ROY   B.   THOMSON. 


Roy  B.  Thomson,  a  partner  in  one  of  the  strongest  law  firms  of  Kansas  City, 
that  of  Warner,  Dean,  Langworthy,  Thomson  &  Williams,  was  born  in  Versailles, 
Kentucky,  November  17,  1881,  his  parents  being  Albert  W.  and  Inez  (Wilson) 
Thomson,  who  were  also  natives  of  Kentucky,  the  former  born  in  Clark  county  and 
the  latter  in  Versailles.  The  father  was  a  farmer  and  commission  merchant,  buy- 
ing and  handling  tobacco  on  commission.  His  political  allegiance  was  given  to 
the  democratic  party  and  both  he  and  his  wife  were  devoted  members  of  the  Christian 
church.  The  father  died  November  17,  1899, -end  the  mother  passed  away  February 
12,  1915.  Their  family  numbered  four  children,  of  whopi  one  died  in  infancy, 
while  a  sister,  Virginia,  has  also  passed  away.  The  brother  of  Mr.  Thomson, 
Harrison  Thomson,  is  a  resident  of  Minneapolis.  Minnesota,  where  he  is  at  the 
head  of  a  large  breakfast   food  manufacturing  company. 

Roy  B.  Thomson  pursued  his  course  in  a  preparatory  school  at  Versailles, 
Kentucky,  and  then  entered  Tulane  University  at  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  where  he 
won  his  Bachelor  of  Science  degree  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1903.  He  afterward 
attended  the  University   of  Virginia   and   gained  his   LL.   B.   degree   in    1905.     The 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  789 

following  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  since 
engaged  in  active  practice.  He  was  at  first  associated  with  the  firm  of  Porterfield 
&  Conrad,  up  to  the  time  of  Judge  Porterfield's  elevation  to  the  bench.  Subse- 
quently he  practiced  with  the  firm  of  Sebree,  Conrad  &  Wendorff  until  1912,  when 
he  was  admitted  to  a  partnership  in  that  firm,  and  later  was  a  partner  in  the  firm 
of  Dethridge,  Guthrie  &  Thomson,  so  continuing  until  July,  1917,  when  he  entered 
into  his  present  partnership  relations  with  a  firm  that  maintains  a  place  in  the 
foremost  rank  of  the  legal  profession  in  Kansas  City.  He  is  a  successful  lawyer, 
well  endowed  with  all  those  qualities  which  are  requisite  to  advancement  at  the 
bar — a  keen,  rapid,  logical  mind  plus  the  business  sense  and  a  capacity  for  earnest 
work  and  close  application,  combined  with  comprehensive  understanding  of  the 
principles  of  jurisprudence. 

On  the  15th  of  November,  1913,  Mr.  Thomson  was  married  to  Miss  Beulah 
Corbett,  who  wa%  born  in  Rochester,  New  York,  a  dauhgter  of  W.  M.  Corbett, 
president  of  the  Kansas  City  Terminal  Railway  Company.  They  have  two  sons: 
Albert  W.,  born  May  26,  1915;  and  William  C,  born  April  30,  1916. 

Mr.  Thomson  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  and  of  two  Greek  letter 
fraternities,  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  and  the  law  fraternity,  Phi  Delta  Phi.  He 
is  an  interested  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Kansas  City  and  he  is  now 
filling  the  office  of  United  States  commissioner  for  western  Missouri.  He  also 
holds  the  chair  of  international  law  in  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law.  His  broad 
humanitarianism  is  manifest  in  many  tangible  ways,  including  his  active  service 
as  a  director  of  the  Kansas  City  Association  for  the  Blind.  He  belongs  to  the 
Christian  church  and  is  constantly  bringing  its  principles  into  active  play  in  all 
of  his  relations  with  his  fellowmen.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  demo- 
cratic party.  He  Is  connected  with  the  Kansas  City  and  Missouri  State  Bar  Asso- 
ciations and  is  widely  recognized  as  a  successful  lawyer  and  popular  citizen. 


HENRY  MARTYN  BLOSSOM. 

Henry  Martyn  Blossom,  of  St.  Louis,  who  passed  away  August  1,  1917,  was  a  man 
whose  contribution  to  the  world's  work  was  of  very  tangible  and  definite  character. 
He  became  a  prominent  and  infiuential  figure  in  insurance  circles  and  did  much  to 
systematize  and  develop  the  business  as  a  whole.  At  the  same  time  he  was  keenly 
interested  in  all  those  forces  which  make  for  the  uplift  and  culture  of  the  individual 
and  of  the  community  and  there  are  many  lives  over  whom  his  example  and  his 
words  of  wisdom  have  had  marked  effect. 

A  native  of  New  York,  Mr.  Blossom  was  boi'n  in  Madison  in  1883,  his  parents 
being  Rufus  and  Tirza  (Farnsworth)  Blossom,  while  his  ancestral  history  was  one 
of  long  connection  with  New  England,  the  line  being  traced  back  to  colonial  days. 
Rufus  Blossom  was  born  in  eastern  Massachusetts  and  removed  from  New  England  to 
the  Empire  state,  while  in  later  life  he  established  his  home  in  the  middle  west,  pass- 
ing away  in  St.  Louis  at  an  advanced  age.  For  several  years  the  family  resided  in 
Indiana  before  coming  to  Missouri  and  it  was  in  that  state  that  Mrs.  Blossom  died. 

The  youthful  days  of  Henry  M.  Blossom  were  largely  devoted  to  the  acquire- 
ment of  a  public  school  education  in  New  York  and  before  coming  west  he  was 
offered  the  editorship  of  one  of  the  leading  papers  in  the  college  town  of  Hamilton, 
New  York.  However,  he  preferred  to  enter  the  river  transportation  business  with 
his  elder  brother,  Chalmers  Dwight  Blossom,  who  had  preceded  him  to  St.  Louis. 
That  was  before  the  era  of  railroad  building  to  any  great  extent  throughout  the 
middle  west  and  the  broad  rivers  constituted  the  highways  of  travel.  Steam- 
boats were  so  sumptuously  equipped  as  to  be  termed  "floating  palaces"  and  it  was 
with  this  kind  of  transportation  that  Mr.  Blossom  became  connected.  He  accepted 
a  position  in  1852  and  a  few  years  later  purchased  his  brother's  interest  in  a  boat, 
thus  becoming  part  owner  and  first  clerk  of  the  Polar  Star.  Later  he  was  similarly 
interested  in  the  Morning  Star  and  still  later  in  the  Hiawatha.  Just  prior  to  the 
Civil  war  he  gave  up  steamboating  to  turn  his  attention  to  the  insurance  business, 
■with  which  he  was  identified  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  first  officially 
connected  with  the  Globe  Mutual  Insurance  Company,  a  local  corporation,  as  its 
secretary,  and  so  remained  until  the  time  of  the  Chicago  fire.     He  afterward  acted 


790  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

as  agent  for  other  companies  and  began  the  development  of  his  business,  which 
by  careful  control  and  sound  judgment  grew  into  one  of  the  great  insurance  agencies 
of  the  west,  Mr.  Blossom  acting  as  representative  of  many  foreign  as  well  as 
domestic  companies.  He  had  formed  a  wide  acquaintance  during  his  connection  with 
steamboat  interests  and  his  unfailing  courtesy,  his  intelligence  and  geniality  had 
made  him  very  popular  and  gained  him  many  friends,  who  extended  their  patronage 
to  him  after  he  entered  the  field  of  insurance.  He  was  the  well  known  author  of 
many  of  the  fundamental  maxims  and  principles  now  incorporated  into  the  governing 
laws  of  fire  insurance  associations  throughout  the  country,  some  of  which  at  their 
first  proclamation  were  deemed  fairly  startling  in  their  scope  and  effect.  Hia 
trenchant  pen  has  given  to  the  literature  of  insurance  some  of  its  most  salient 
features  and  he  often  appeared  by  request  before  various  organized  bodies  of  insur- 
ance men  in  the  discussion  of  matters  affecting  their  business. 

Mr.  Blossom  returned  to  his  old  home  in  New  York  for  his  bride  after  having 
resided  in  the  west  for  but  a  brief  period.  He  wedded  Miss  Susan  Howe  Brigham, 
daughter  of  Salmon  Brigham,  a  well  known  leather  manufacturer  and  a  man  of 
prominence  in  the  east.  They  became  the  parents  of  three  sons  and  two  daughters. 
The  eldest,  Edmund  Dwight,  is  engaged  in  the  insurance  business  in  St.  Louis. 
The  second  son,  Russell,  died  six  months  after  his  mother's  death,  in  August,  1896. 
The  third  son,  Henry  M.  Blossom,  Jr.,  became  prominently  known  as  an  author, 
librettist  and  playwright.  He  sprang  into  fame  as  the  author  of  the  play  Checkers! 
which  was  dramatized  from  his  widely  read  story  of  that  title.  He  was  also 
the  author  of  the  Yankee  Consul,  in  which  Raymond  Hitchcock  starred;  Mile. 
Modiste  and  The  Prima  Donna,  written  for  Fritzi  Scheff;  the  Red  Mill,  written 
for  Montgomery  and  Stone,  comedians;  and  The  Only  Girl  and  many  other  operas. 
All  of  these  productions  met  with  phenomenal  success,  the  author  being  recognized 
as  a  young  man  of  exceptional  ability  and  talent,  with  a  clear  perception  of 
enlightened  public  taste  and  of  the  best  dramatic  and  operatic  forms.  His  death 
occurred  March  23,  1919.  The  daughters  are:  May,  who  is  the  wife  of  Thomas 
Chandler  Kimber,  of  St.  Louis;  and  Susan  Sumner,  residing  at  No.  5617  Cabanne 
avenue,  in  St.  Louis. 

Mr.  Blossom  had  been  a  resident  of  St.  Louis  for  only  a  brief  period  before 
he  had  become  recognized  as  a  leading  and  representative  business  man  and 
citizen.  He  cooperated  most  heartily,  actively  and  helpfully  in  various  phases  of 
public  improvement  and  progress  and  gave  his  allegiance  to  all  those  interests 
which  are  a  matter  of  civic  virtue  and  civic  pride.  He  was  a  member  of  the  St. 
Louis  and  Mercantile  Clubs  and  one  of  the  charter  members  of  the  Noonday  Club. 
His  greatest  activity  outside  of  business,  however,  was  perhaps  in  support  of  the 
Presbyterian  church.  He  manifested  a  most  helpful  interest  in  all  branches  of 
the  church  work  and  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  was  one  of  the  elders 
and  for  more  than  four  decades  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees.  His  musical 
talent  was  manifest,  too,  in  his  direction  of  the  choir.  He  was  keenly  interested  in 
art,  literature  and  all  those  forces  which  make  for  the  uplift  of  the  individual  and 
for  the  benefit  of  mankind.  He  was  a  man  who  united  the  intensely  practical  with 
high  ideality.  The  simplicity  and  beauty  of  his  daily  life,  as  seen  in  his  home  and 
family  relations,  constituted  an  even  balance  to  his  splendid  business  ability.  The 
high  ideals  which  he  cherished  found  embodiment  in  practical  effort  for  their  adop- 
tion and  because  of  the  innate  refinement  of  his  nature  he  rejected  everything 
opposed  to  good  taste. 


JOSEPH  ARCHIBOLD  SERENA. 

Among  those  who  have  given  high  standing  to  the  educational  institutions  of 
Missouri  is  Joseph  Archibold  Serena,  president  of  the  William  Woods  College  at  Ful- 
ton. He  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  March  18,  1874,  a  son  of  David  B.  and 
Amelia  E.  Serena.  His  early  education,  after  completing  the  preliminary  work  of 
the  public  schools,  was  obtained  in  Eureka  College  at  Eureka,  Illinois,  after  which 
he  entered  Harvard  University  at  Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  Both  institutions  con- 
ferred upon  him  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree. 

In  early  manhood  Professor  Serena  spent  ten  years  in  the  banking  business  at 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  791 

Covington,  Kentucky,  and  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  then  entering  upon  the  work 
of  the  ministry,  was  for  five  years  in  the  pulpit  of  the  Central  Church  of  Christ 
at  Syracuse,  New  York.  On  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  entered  the  educational 
field  as  president  of  Keuka  College  at  Keuka  Park,  New  York,  with  which  he 
remained  for  four  and  a  half  years.  In  September,  1915,  he  was  elected  to  the 
presidency  of  the  William  Woods  College  at  Fulton,  Missouri,  and  has  now  for  almost 
five  years  been  at  the  head  of  this  institution,  greatly  promoting  its  progress  and 
advancing  its  standards  while  acting  as  its  executive  officer. 

On  the  30th  of  September,  1915,  at  Catlettsburg,  Kentucky,  Mr.  Serena  was 
married  to  Miss  Virginia  Kirtley  Hearne,  daughter  of  William  C.  Hearne,  of  Lex- 
ington, Kentucky. 

Mr.  Serena  is  a  republican  in  his  political  views  and  is  an  exemplary  representa- 
tive of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  in  which  he  has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree  of 
the  Scottish  Rite.  His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Disciples  of  Christ,  commonly 
known  as  the  Christian  church,  and  he  is  now  the  chairman  of  the  Callaway  chap- 
ter of  the  Red  Cross  and  through  the  war  period  did  everything  in  his  power  to 
advance  activities  necessarily  connected  with  the  successful  prosecution  of  the  war. 
He  is  a  man  whom  to  know  is  to  esteem  and  honor  because  of  the  high  ideals  of 
life  which  he  has  ever  cherished  and  his  intense  and  zealous  efforts  to  secure  the 
adoption  of  those  principles  which  will  make  for  honorable  manhood  and  citizen- 
ship. 


ROBERT  BRECKENRIDGE  CALDWELL. 

Robert  Breckenridge  Caldwell,  one  of  the  most  successful  of  the  younger 
representatives  of  the  Kansas  City  bar,  practicing  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
McCune,  Caldwell  &  Downing,  was  born  in  Ralls  county,  Missouri,  January  5, 
1882.  His  father,  Samuel  K.  Caldwell,  is  also  a  native  of  that  county  and  is  a  son  of 
Robert  B.  Caldwell,  originally  of  Kentucky.  The  father,  however,  has  spent  the 
greater  part  of  his  life  in  Ralls  county,  devoting  his  attention  to  the  occupation 
of  farming.  He  is  now  living  retired  in  Vandalia,  Missouri.  He  has  long  been  an 
active  and  faithful  member  of  the  Baptist  church  and  a  most  highly  respected  man 
in  his  community.  He  wedded  Mary  Katharine  Plowerree,  who  was  born  in  Ralls 
county,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  five  children,  all  of  whom  are  living. 
Robert  B.  Caldwell,  the  second  in  order  of  birth,  was  educated  in  the  district 
schools  of  his  native  county  and  in  the  high  school  at  Vandalia  before  entering 
the  University  of  Missouri,  which  he  attended  for  seven  years.  He  was  graduated 
in  1903  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  and  completed  the  law  course  with  tbe 
class  of  1907,  at  which  time  the  LL.  B.  degree  was  conferred  upon  him.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Kappa  Sigma  fraternity,  which  has  the  largest  number  of  chapters 
of  any  college  fraternal  organization  in  the  country.  In  the  year  of  his  graduation 
Mr.  Caldwell  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  since  practiced 
his  profession,  being  for  a  time  associated  with  the  firm  of  McCune,  Harding,  Brown 
&  Murphy,  which  was  later  reorganized,  becoming  McCune,  Caldwell  &  Downing. 
He  is  businesslike  in  his  dealing  and  very  efficient  yet  sympathetic  and  capable  of 
seeing  the  viewpoint  of  others,  thus  securing  their  cooperation  to  a  marked  degree. 
Well  versed  in  the  principles  of  law,  he  is  seldom  if  ever  at  fault  in  the  application 
of  a  legal  principle,  and  the  thoroughness  with  which  he  prepares  his  cases  is  one 
of  the  strong  elements  of  his  success.  He  has  won  a  most  creditable  position  at  the 
Kansas  City  bar,  and  is  recognized  as  a  leader  among  the  younger  representatives 
of  the  profession.  He  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City,  the  Missouri  State  and  the 
American  Bar  Associations.  As  attorney  for  the  State  University  in  Jackson  and 
Buchanan  counties  for  several  years,  he  was  found  most  attentive  to  all  details, 
alert  to  perceive  complications  and  yet  transacting  business  so  as  to  make  friends 
for  the  institution; 

In  1908  Mr.  Caldwell  was  married  to  Miss  Eula  McCune,  daughter  of  J.  R.  S. 
McCune,  of  Bowling  Green,  Missouri,  one  of  the  old-time  residents  of  the  state. 
They  have  two  children:   Robert  B.,  born  April   17,   1911;   and  Catherine,  July   21, 

1916. 

Mr.  Caldwell  gives  his  political  allegiance  to  the  democratic  party.     He  belongs 


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to  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club  and  has  always  manifested  a  keen  interest  in 
athletics  from  his  college  days.  As  a  student  and  as  an  alumnus  of  the  State 
University  he  stood  for  success  in  athletics,  while  insisting  on  true  sportsmanship. 
He  belongs  to  the  University  Club  and  to  the  Mission  Hills  Country  Club  and  In 
his  personal  relations  manifests  the  utmost  loyalty  to  his  friends.  Moreover,  he 
is  public-spirited  and  his  sound  judgment  can  be  relied  upon  to  support  the  public 
good  at  all  times. 


JOSEPH  KNOCHE. 


Joseph  Knoche,  attorney  at  law,  was  born  in  Kansas  City,  where  he  still  resides, 
April  4,  1880.  His  father,  J.  Philipp  Knoche,  a  native  of  Germany,  came  to  the 
United  States  in  1837,  making  his  way  to  Baltimore,  Maryland,  where  he  engaged 
in  the  distillery  business,  and  in  the  year  of  his  arrival  he  took  out  his  first  citizen- 
ship papers.  In  1840  he  came  to  Kansas  City  and  settled  on  land  in  Jackson  county, 
where  he  followed  farming  and  stock  raising.  During  the  period  in  which  he  devoted 
his  attention  to  agricultural  pursuits  and  stock  raising  in  the  East  Bottoms,  near 
Kansas  City,  he  acquired  property  which  increased  in  value  as  the  years  passed  and 
made  him  a  man  of  wealth,  so  that  at  his  death,  which  occurred  August  28,  1888, 
he  left  a  large  estate.  His  life  was  actuated  by  deep  religious  principles  and  he  was 
numbered  among  the  honored  and  representative  pioneer  residents  of  Kansas  City. 
His  widow  afterward  became  the  wife  of  Louis  Tippe,  of  Kansas  City,  where  she  still 
makes  her  home. 

Joseph  Knoche  was  educated  in  the  district  schools  of  Jackson  county  and  in 
private  schools,  after  which  he  attended  the  Central  high  school.  He  prepared  tor 
the  bar  in  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1902 
with  the  LL.  B.  degree.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and 
has  since  engaged  in  practice  in  Kansas  City,  the  qualities  contributing  to  his  suc- 
cess being  industry,  energy,  honesty  and  affability  and  his  ability  to  win  the  con- 
fidence and  good  will  of  all  with  whom  he  comes  in  contact. 

On  the  24th  of  August,  1910,  Mr.  Knoche  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Ella 
A.  Baehr,  of  Kansas  City,  her  father  being  Joseph  Baehr,  a  well  known  pioneer 
there.     They  have  become  parents  of  a  son,  Joseph  T.,  who  is  now  five  years  of  age. 

Mr.  Knoche  belongs  to  the  City  Club,  to  Sicilian  Lodge  No.  39,  K.  P.,  to  the 
Elks  Lodge  No.  26,  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  Real  Estate  Board.  Along 
professional  lines  he  is  connected  with  the  Kansas  City  and  Missouri  State  Bar 
Associations  and  he  is  popular  among  his  contemporaries  and  colleagues  in  the 
profession.  He  is  recognized  as  a  good  conversationalist  who  presents  his  views 
in  a  clear,  concise  manner,  while  his  ready  wit  makes  his  talks  very  enjoyable. 


GEORGE  EDWARD   MUEHLEBACH. 

George  Edward  Muehlebach,  who  in  many  ways  has  demonstrated  public- 
spirited  devotion  to  Kansas  City  and  her  welfare,  was  born  in  Kansas  City,  Mis- 
souri, August  10,  1881,  and  is  a  representative  of  one  of  the  pioneer  families  of 
this  section  of  the  state.  His  father,  George  Muehlebach,  now  deceased,  was  one 
of  a  family  of  twelve  sons  and  one  daughter  and  four  sons  and  the  daughter  came 
to  America.  The  sons  all  established  homes  in  Kansas  City  but  the  daughter 
remained  at  Lafayette,  Indiana.  All  are  now  deceased.  The  family  became  asso- 
ciated with  some  of  the  pioneer  business  enterprises  of  Kansas  City.  George 
Muehlebach  was  born  in  Argau,  Switzerland,  April  24,  1833,  representing  an  old 
family  of  the  land  of  the  Alps.  He  came  to  America  in  1857,  a  young  man  of 
twenty-four  years,  and  after  two  years  spent  in  Lafayette,  Indiana,  removed  to 
Kansas  City,  where  he  worked  at  the  harness  trade  in  what  was  then  the  town 
of  Westport.  He  afterward  engaged  in  the  harness  business  on  his  own  account 
at  Quindaro  and  a  little  later  he  and  his  brother  John,  who  had  come  with  him 
to  the  new  world,  began  freighting  between  Kansas  City,  Denver,  Salt  Lake  City, 
Pueblo,  Silver  Bow,  Helena  and  Butte  with  ox  teams  and  continued  in  the  business 


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for  several  years  prior  to  the  building  of  the  railroads.  George  Muehlebach  after- 
ward engaged  in  mining  in  Colorado  until  187  0,  when  he  again  came  to  Kansas 
City  and  with  his  brother  John  purchased  the  Helmreich  brewery,  with  which 
he  was  connected  until  his  death  on  the  22d  of  December,  1905.  They  erected  a 
large  modern  plant  and  their  business  steadily  increased  as  the  years  passed  by. 
Mr.  Muehlebach  was  a  member  of  the  Swiss  American  Society  and  was  keenly  inter- 
ested in  everything  that  pertained  to  the  welfare  of  his  native  republic.  He  was 
equally  loyal  to  his  adopted  country  and  in  full  sympathy  with  its  free  institu- 
tions. His  religious  faith  was  that  of  the  Catholic  church  and  in  politics  he  main- 
tained an  independent  course.  In  1880  he  married  Margaret  M.  Bessenbacher,  a 
daughter  of  John  Bessenbacher,  of  Kansas  City,  who  was  of  American  birth  but  of 
Bavarian  lineage.  They  became  parents  of  two  sons  and  a  daughter,  of  whom 
George  Edward  is  the  eldest.  Sophronia  C.  is  the  wife  of  William  Buchholz,  attor- 
ney at  law  of  Kansas  City,  and  Carl  A.  is  associated  in  business  with  his  brother. 

George  Edward  Muehlebach  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  in  a  Ger- 
man Catholic  school  of  Kansas  City  and  also  attended  Spalding's  Business  College, 
in  which  he  completed  his  course  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years.  He  then  entered 
the  employ  of  his  father  as  solicitor  and  collector  and  after  serving  in  that  capacity 
for  two  years  was  made  superintendent  of  the  brewery  and  later  became  associated 
with  the  office  work.  In  19  04  he  was  admitted  to  a  partnership  and  was  made 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  company,  while  upon  his  father's  death  he  succeeded 
to  the  presidency,  having  taken  over  tlie  management  the  year  before.  The  plant 
is  now  devoted  to  the  manufacture  of  near  beer  and  all  kinds  of  soft  drinks  and 
its  output  is  very  extensive,  the  business  proving  a  profitable  one.  Mr.  Muehlebach, 
however,  has  not  confined  his  attention  to  one  line  but  has  extended  his  efforts 
in  other  directions  which  have  proven  beneficial  to  the  city's  development.  In 
December,  1913,  realizing  the  need  for  a  fine  hotel  that  Kansas  City  might  keep 
abreast  with  its  ^teady  progress  and  improvement  along  other  lines,  he  began  the 
erection  of  what  is  now  the  famous  Muehlebach  Hotel,  which  was  completed  on 
the  17th  of  May,  1915,  and  at  that  time  represented  an  investment  of  over  two 
million    dollars,    which   today   would   mean   more   than    double   that   amount. 

In  Kansas  City,  July  5,  1915,  Mr.  Muehlebach  was  married  to  Miss  Bessie 
McDonald,  who  was  born  in  Lexington,  Kentucky,  of  which  state  her  parents,  both 
now  deceased,  were  natives.     Mr.  and  Mrs.  Muehlebach  have  a  son,  George  Vincent. 

In  politics  Mr.  Muehlebach  maintains  a  somewhat  independent  course,  although 
usually  voting  with  the  democratic  party.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Catholic  church 
and  belongs  to  the  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  also  to  the  Kansas  City 
Club  and  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club.  He  has  always  been  very  fond  of  our 
national  game  of  baseball  and  is  president  and  treasurer  of  the  Kansas  City  team 
known  as  the  Blues  in  the  American  Association  League.  He  turns  to  hunting  and 
fishing  for  recreation  and  when  leisure  permits  enjoys  a  trip  for  the  purpose  of 
indulging  his  taste  in  that  direction.  However,  his  time  and  efforts  have  largely 
been  devoted  to  the  development  of  his  business  interests  and  to  the  support  of 
many  of  those  activities  which  have  featured  most  largely  in  the  upbuilding  and 
progress  of  Kansas  City. 


NATHANIEL   SMITH   BROWN. 

Nathaniel  Smith  Brown,  attorney  and  counselor  at  law,  who  is  now  vice 
president  and  general  solicitor  for  the  Wabash  railroad,  thus  occupying  a  position 
of  large  responsibility  and  one  of  professional  prominence,  was  born  in  Barry,  Pike 
county,  Illinois,  August  28,  1872.  His  father,  the  late  James  C.  Brown,  was  also 
a  native  of  Illinois  and  his  people  were  from  the  state  of  New  York.  He  became  a 
banker  of  Barry,  where  he  resided  until  1883,  when  he  took  up  his  abode  in  Audrain 
county,  Missouri,  where  he  engaged  in  farming  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He  passed 
away  in  188  6  at  the  age  of  forty-six  years.  He  was  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  war,  having 
served  with  an  infantry  regiment  from  Illinois.  He  wedded  Mary  Smith,  a 'native 
of  Pike  county,  Illinois,  who  passed  away  in  Oklahoma  in  1917  at  the  age  of  sev- 
enty-three years.  Their  family  numbered  four  sons  and  a  daughter,  of  whom  one 
son  is  now  deceased. 


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The  second  child  was  Nathaniel  S.  Brown  of  this  review,  who  after  attending 
the  public  schools  of  Audrain  county  matriculated  in  the  State  University  of  Missouri, 
in  which  he  pursued  his  law  course,  winning  his  LL.  B.  degree  in  1901.  His  early 
boyhood  had  been  passed  upon  the  home  farm  and  he  first  took  up  the  profession 
of  teaching,  which  he  followed  in  Grand  Island,  Nebraska,  being  one  of  the  teachers 
in  Grand  Island  College  and  also  in  Central  College  at  Danville,  Indiana,  for  a  period 
of  six  years.  He  regarded  this,  however,  merely  as  an  initial  step  to  other  profes- 
sional activity  and  following  his  admission  to  the  bar  upon  examination  before 
the  supreme  court  in  1901,  he  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession.  He 
was  made  assistant  counsel  of  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  in  1903  and 
served  from  that  time  until  1907,  when  he  became  a  representative  of  the  legal 
department  of  the  Wabash  railroad  as  assistant  attorney.  In  1912  he  was  advanced 
to  the  position  of  general  attorney,  while  in  1915  he  became  assistant  general  solicitor, 
in  1918  was  made  general  solicitor,  and  in  1919  was  made  vice  president  and  general 
solicitor.  He  possesses  a  good  knowledge  of  the  principles  of  law,  is  a  steady, 
persistent  worker  and  thoroughly  reliable,  devoting  his  attention  to  his  profession, 
with  little  outside  activity.  He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis,  Missouri  State  and  Ameri- 
can  Bar  Associations. 

On  the  7th  of  October,  1905,  in  Kansas  City,  Mr.  Brown  was  married  to  Mrs. 
Nora  Bailey  Gentry,  a  daughter  of  John  and  Martha  Bailey.  They  reside  at  No.  6224 
Washington.  In  his  political  views  Mr.  Brown  is  a  republican.  He  belongs  to  the 
Ridgedale  Country  Club  but  he  cannot  be  said  to  be  a  clubman  in  the  usually 
accepted  sense  of  the  term,  as  his  lite  is  largely  devoted  to  his  professional  duties 
and  his  home  interests. 


JOHN  MICHAEL  SURBECK. 


A  man  of  well  balanced  capacities  and  powers,  John  Michael  Surbeck  advanced 
from  a  humble  position  in  the  business  world  to  a  point  of  leadership  in  connection 
with  the  agricultural  and  financial  activities  of  Macon  county  and,  moreover,  in  all 
that  pertained  to  progressive  citizenship  he  stood  for  high  ideals  and  steady  ad- 
vancement. While  born  across  the  water,  the  greater  part  of  his  life  was  spent 
on  American  soil.  He  was  a  native  of  Switzerland,  the  date  of  his  birth  being 
October  12,  1844.  His  parents,  Jacob  and  Elizabeth  (Ochsnar)  Surbeck,  were 
also  natives  of  Switzerland,  where  his  ancesters  had  lived  through  many  genera- 
tions. Jacob  Surbeck  brought  his  family  to  the  new  world  in  1852  and  established 
his  home  in  Toledo.  Ohio.  In  the  vicinity  of  that  city  he  engaged  in  farming  and 
as  the  years  passed  overcame  the  handicap  of  poverty  and  hardship  and  worked 
his  way  upward  to  prosperity.  He  passed  away  in  1875  and  was  survived  for  eight 
years  by  his  widow,  who  died  in  1883,  She,  too,  was  most  highly  respected,  both 
enjoying  the  warm  regard  of  all  with  whom  they  came  in  contact.  They  had  a 
family  of  seven  children:  John  C,  Jacob,  Elizabeth,  John  Michael,  Barbara,  George 
and  Samuel. 

Of  this  family  John  Michael  Surbeck  was  but  eight  years  of  age  when  brought 
to  the  United  States  by  his  parents  and  the  period  of  his  minority  was  spent  at 
Toledo,  Ohio,  where  he  became  interested  in  farming,  cultivating  land  in  the 
vicinity  of  Toledo,  his  labors  bringing  to  him  substantial  profits.  In  1868  he 
came  to  Missouri,  where  the  ravages  of  the  Civil  war  were  still  visible,  although 
enterprising  men  and  women  were  attempting  to  bring  the  great  commonwealth 
back  to  its  former  state  of  progressiveness  and  further  development.  Mr.  Surbeck 
took  up  his  abode  'in  Macon  county,  buying  land  near  Elmer,  in  Walnut  Township. 
He  then  bent  his  energies  to  the  further  development  and  improvement  of  his 
farm  and  to  the  raising  of  stock.  He  made  judicious  investment  in  property, 
constantly  improved  the  grade  of  stock  raised  and  from  time  to  time  added  to  the 
improvements  upon  his  farm  until  his  agricultural  and  stock  raising  interests 
brought  him  substantial  financial  return.  As  the  years  passed  he  kept  adding 
to  his  holdings  until  his  possessions  aggregated  more  than  eighteen  hundred  acres 
of  good  land,  the  greater  part  of  which  was  brought  under  a  high  state  of  culti- 
vation. His  activities  produced  results  that  were  most  gratifying  and  his  labors 
were  largely  the  standard  of  activity  in  his  community.     He  was,  moreover,  keenly 


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interested  in  everything  that  had  to  do  with  the  progress  and  upbuilding  of  the 
community  and  liis  business  affairs  were  always  of  a  character  that  brought  sub- 
stantial returns  to  the  district  in  which  he  lived  as  well  as  to  himself.  He  be- 
came one  of  the  founders  of  the  Elmer  Exchange  Bank  and  served  as  its  president 
from  its  inception  until  his  demise.  The  policy  which  he  inaugurated  at  the 
beginning  has  led  to  the  steady  development  of  the  business,  his  course  being  such 
as  awakened  the  unfaltering  confidence  of  the  people  at  large.  He  recognized 
the  fact  that  the  bank  that  is  most  worthy  of  support  is  the  one  which  most 
carefully  safeguards  the  interests  of  depositors,  and  such  a  course  did  he  always 
follow.  He  also  put  forth  every  effort  to  aid  in  support  of  business  projects 
which  would  be  of  real  value  to  the  community  and  aid  in  its  growth,  yet  he  never 
for  a  moment  hazarded  the  stability  of  the  financial  institution  df  which  he  was 
the  head. 

In  June,  18  68,  Mr.  Surbeck  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Eva  Dorothy  Sorg. 
a  native  of  Ohio,  and  they  became  the  parents  ol  seven  children:  Elizabeth, 
Villa,  Frank  K.,  George  M.,  H.  Clay,  Tress  and  John  L.  The  children  have  been 
a  credit  to  the  fariiily  name,  for  they  have  followed  the  instructions  of  their  parents 
and  have  become  worthy  and  substantial  citizens  of  the  various  communities  in  which 
they  live. 

The'  death  of  Mr.  Surbeck  occurred  December  5,  1913.  He  had  traveled 
life's  journey  for  sixty-nine  years  and  not  only  did  he  win  success  but  also  that 
honored  name  which  is  rather  to  be  chosen  than  Tsreat  riches.  The  simplicity  and 
beauty  of  his  daily  life,  as  seen  in  his  home  and  family  relations,  constituted  an 
even  balance  to  his  splendid  business  ability.  His'  personal  characteristics  and 
social  qualities  were  pronounced  and  he  was  an  acceptable  companion  in  any  society 
in  which  intelligence  is  a  necessary  attribute  to  agreeableness. 


GEORGE  W.  SEDGWICK. 


The  record  of  the  deeds  of  a  noble  ancestry  constitutes  a  heritage  that  may  be 
carried  through  succeeding  generations  to  the  end  of  time.  George  W.  Sedgwick,  long  a 
prominent  business  man  and  distinguished  resident  of  Kansas  City,  was  a  descendant 
in  the  seventh  generation  of  Robert  Sedgwick,  who  fifteen  years  after  the  landing  of 
the  Pilgrims  from  the  Mayflower  on  Plymouth  Rock  settled  at  Charlestown,  Massachusetts. 
He  (Robert)  was  born  in  England  about  the  year  1590  and  was  therefore  forty-five  years 
of  age  when  he  came  to  the  new  world.  In  1638  he  assisted  in  organizing  the  Ancient 
and  Honorable  Artillery  Company  of  Boston,  having  previously  received  training  as  a 
member  of  an  artillery  company  of  London.  Two  years  later  he  became  captain  of  this 
military  organization,  which  is  still  in  existence.  He  rose  to  the  command  of  the  province 
in  1652.  Nine  years  before,  in  connection  with  John  Winthrop,  Jr.,  he  had  establistted 
the  first  iron  works  in  the  United  States.  Under  command  of  Oliver  Cromwell  he  cap- 
tured several  French  ports  in  the  Penobscot  territory  and  in  1655  assisted  in  the  capture 
of  Jamaica.  Cromwell  promoted  him  to  the  rank  of  major-general  and  made  him 
governor  of  Jamaica,  where  he  passed  away  May  24,  1656.  His  widow,  Mrs.  Johanna 
Sedgwick,  became  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Allen,  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church 
In  Norwich,  England.  The  children  of  General  Robert  Sedgwick  were  six  in  number, 
the  fifth  in  order  of  birth  being  William  Sedgwick,  who  was  born  in  1643  and  died  in 
1674,  probably  at  sea.  He  resided  in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  married  Elizabeth  Stone 
(or  Starr),  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Starr  (or  Stone),  an  early  minister  of  Hartford, 
Connecticut.  He  left  his  wife  at  Hartford  and  started  upon  a  trading  expedition  for  the 
West  Indies  and  probably  died  ^at  sea.  His  son,  Samuel  Sedgwick,  born  after  the  father 
sailed  on  his  last  voyage,  grew  to  be  a  highly  respected  citizen  of  Hartford.  From  his 
mother  he  received  some  property  and  settled  upon  a  farm.  He  wedded  Mary  Hopkins, 
daughter  of  Stephen  Hopkins,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  in  1689.  His  death  occurred  at 
West  Hartford,  March  24,  1735,  when  he  was  sixty-eight  years  of  age,  his  birth  having 
occurred  in  1667.  His  wife  survived  until  September  4,  1743,  and  was  seventy-three 
years  of  age  at  the  time  of  her  demise.  They  were  the  parents  of  a  large  family  of  twelve 
children. 

The  youngest  of  the  children  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Hopkins)  Sedgwick  was  Deacon 
Benjamin   Sedgwick,  who  was  born  at  West  Hartford,  November   7,   1716,  and  died   of 


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apoplexy  at  Cornwall,  Connecticut,  February  7,  1757.    On  his  tombstone  was  placed  the 
following  inscription: 

"In  an  instant  he  was  called  to 
Eternity  to  view; 
No  time  to  regulate  his  house 
Or  bid   his   friends   adieu." 

He  had  married  Ann  Thompson,  daughter  of  John  Thompson,  of  Wallingford,  Con- 
necticut, and  resided  in  Hartford  until  about  1748,  after  which  he  lived  in  Cornwall 
Hollow.  The  children  of  Deacon  Benjamin  Sedgwick  and  his  wife  were  six  in  number. 
The  fourth  of  these  was  Theodore  Sedgwick  who  was  born  in  May,  1746,  and  died  in 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  January  24,  1813. 

It  was  through  Benjamin  Sedgwick,  the  third  of  the  children  of  Deacon  Benjamin 
Sedgwick,  that  the  line  of  descent  comes  down  to  George  W.  Sedgwick,  whose  name  intro- 
duces this  review.  Benjamin  Sedgwick  was  born  March  11,  1744,  in  Cornwall,  Connecti- 
cut. He  settled  first  in  Goshen  and  afterward  lived  at  Canaan,  Connecticut,  upon  a  farm 
inherited  from  his  father.  In  Canaan  he  followed  mercantile  pursuits.  There  is  still 
extant  an  interesting  document  concerning  the  transfer  of  property  from  one  Lemuel 
Kingsbury  of  Canaan,  in  the  county  of  Litchfield  and  colony  of  Connecticut  in  New  Eng- 
land, to  Benjamin  Sedgwick:  "For  the  Consideration  of  One  hundred  and  nine  pounds 
lawful  money  already  Received  to  my  full  Satisfaction,  of  Benjamin  Sedgwick  of  Goshen 
in  the  County  aforesaid,  Do  give,  grant,  bargain,  sell  and  confirm  unto  the  said  Benja- 
min Sedgwick,  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever,  two  Certain  tracts  or  parcels  of  land  lying 
and  being  in  said  Town  of  Canaan."  This  interesting  document  bears  date  of  June  3, 
1769.  Benjamin  Sedgwick,  owner  of  this  property,  was  united  in  marriage  to  Mary 
Tuttle  and  they  became  the  parents  of  seven  children,  the  only  son  being  Theodore  Sedg- 
wick, the  eldest  of  the  family,  who  was  born  in  1768  and  died  in  1843. 

There  is  still  in  existence  a  document  written  by  George  Washington,  as  follows: 

GEORGE   WASHINGTON. 
PRESIDENT  of  the  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA. 

To  all  who  shall  see  these  Presents  Greeting: 

Know  Ye,  That  reposing  special  Trust  and  Confidence  in  the  Patriotism,  Valour, 
Fidelity  and  Abilities  of  Theodore  Sedgwick  I  have  nominated  and  by  and  with  the  Advice 
and  Consent  of  the  Senate,  do  appoint  him  a  Captain  in  the  Second  Sub  Legion  in  the 
Service  of  the  United  States  to  take  rank  from  the  twenty-ninth  day  of  December,  one 
thousand  seven  hundred  ninety-three.  He  is  therefore  carefully  and  diligently  to  dis- 
charge the  Duty  of  Captain  by  doing  and  performing  all  Manner  of  Things  thereunto 
belonging.  And  I  do  hereby  charge  and  require  all  Officers  and  Soldiers  under  his 
Command,  to  be  obedient  to  his  Orders  as  Captain.  And  he  is  to  observe  and  follow 
such  Orders  and  Directions  from  time  to  time,  as  he  shall  receive  from  me,  or  the 
future  President  of  the  United  States  of  America,  or  the  General  or  other  superior 
Officers  set  over  him,  according  to  the  Rules  and  Discipline  of  War.  This  Commission 
to  continue  in  force  during  the  Pleasure  of  the  President  of  the  United  States  for  the 
time  being. 

]  Given    under    my    Hand,    at    Philadelphia,    this    twenty- 

By  Command  of  the  Presi-  |  seventh   day   of   August    in   the   Yef.r   of   our   Lord    One 

dent  of  the  United   States  I  Thousand    Seven   Hundred    and    ninety-five   and    in    the 

of  America.  1         Twentieth  Year  of  the  Independence  of  the  United  States. 

(Signed)  !  (Signed)  G.  Washington, 

Timothy  Pickering,  Registered. 

Secretary  of  War.       i  (Signed)  F.  N.  Stagg, 

J  Chief  Clerk. 

Theodore  Sedgwick  married  Abigail  Couch,  of  Sandisfield.  Massachusetts,  March 
9,  1806,  and  her  death  occurred  March  12,  1872.  Theodore  and  Abigail  (Couch)  Sedgwick 
had  a  family  of  eight  children,  the  youngest  of  whom  was  George  AV.  Sedgwick,  who 
was  born  August  15,  1823,  at  Lee,  Massachusetts,  and  who  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
He  died  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  May  3,  1899,  and  his  remains  are  interred  in  Forest 
Hills  Cemetery. 

Many  distinguished  names  appear  in  connection  with  the  records  of  the  Sedgwick 
family.  One  line  connects  with  the  Edwards  family,  the  descendants  of  Jonathan 
Edwards,   one   of   the   most   eminent   of    the    early   educators   of   New    England.     This 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  801 

branch  claims  Charles  Sedgwick  Minot,  a  prominent  professor  and  scientist.  Another 
eminent  representative  of  the  family  was  Judge  Theodore  Sedgwick,  lawyer,  lawmaker 
and  jurist.  He  married  the  daughter  of  Brigadier  General  Dwight  and  settled  in  Stock- 
bridge,  Massachusetts,  where  he  built  in  1785  one  of  the  beautiful  old  colonial  homes 
for  which  New  England  is  famous  and  which  is  still  occupied  by  his  descendants. 
Judge  Sedgwick  was  a  delegate  to  the  Continental  Congress  from  1785  to  1788  and 
a  member  of  the  state  convention  which  ratified  the  United  States  constitution.  He 
served  in  the  Massachusetts  state  senate  from  1796  to  1799  and  was  chosen  president 
of  that  body.  He  was  also  elected  representative  to  the  sixth  congress  and  was  speaker 
of  the  national  house.  In  1802  he  was  made  judge  of  the  supreme  court  of  Massachu- 
setts. The  last  letter  which  Alexander  Hamilton  ever  wrote  was  to  Judge  Sedgwick 
and  this  interesting  paper  is  still  in  possession  of  one  of  his  descendants,  Alexander 
Sedgwick,  who  owns  and  occupies  the  beautiful  old  colonial  home  at  Stockbridge^ 
Judge  Sedgwick  had  several  children,  of  whom  Theodore,  the  eldest,  became  a  dis- 
tinguished lawyer  of  Albany  and  New  York  and  was  the  original  author  of  "Sedgwiclc 
on  Damages."  That  various  representatives  of  the  family  have  won  distinction  at 
the  bar  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  this  work  has  been  brought  down  to  date  by 
others  of  the  name,  the  present  editor  of  "Sedgwick  on  Damages"  being  Arthur  G. 
Sedgwick.  Most  interesting  and  valuable  documents  which  have  to  do  not  only  with 
the  history  of  the  family  but  with  the  history  of  the  country  as  well  have  recently 
been  turned  over  by  Lee  M.  Sedgwick  of  Kansas  City,  to  the  Lenox  library  of  Lenox,. 
Massachusetts. 

The  patriotic  spirit  of  the  family  has  been  as  marked  a  characteristic  as  the 
intellectual  attainments  of  its  members,  for  in  all  of  the  wars  in  which  the  country 
has  engaged  the  Sedgwicks  have  been  represented.  The  second  child  of  Deacon  Ben- 
jamin Sedgwick,  the  great-great-grandfather  of  Lee  M.  Sedgwick,  was  John  Sedgwick,  who- 
served  as  a  general  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  while  his  son  Benjamin  was  the  father 
of  Major-General  John  Sedgwick.  Again  the  name  of  General  John  Sedgwick  figures 
upon  the  pages  of  America's  military  history — this  time  in  connection  with  the  Civil 
war.  On  the  occasion  of  the  sixteenth  annual  meeting  of  the  Vermont  Oflncers'  Reunion 
Society,  held  at  Montpelier,  November  11,  1880,  Martin  T.  McMahon,  adjutant  general 
of  the  Sixth  Army  Corps,  delivered  an  address  which  was  a  most  fitting  memorial  to- 
the  life  and  deeds  of  General  John  Sedgwick,  who  commanded  the  Sixth  Corps  in  the 
Union  army.  From  Cornwall  Hollow  in  Connecticut  he  entered  the  military  academy 
in  1833  and  upon  graduating  was  appointed  second  lieutenant  in  the  Second  Artillery. 
He  served  on  the  plains  against  the  Indians  until  the  Mexican  war,  in  which  he  rendered 
valiant  aid  to  his  country.  At  Contreras  and  Cherebusco  he  commanded  his  company, 
was  complimented  in  orders  and  breveted  captain.  At  Molina  del  Key  he  was  again 
especially  commended  and  was  breveted  major  for  Chepultepec.  He  was  made  full 
captain  in  1849  and  in  1855  was  appointed  major  of  the  First  Cavalry.  This  appoint- 
ment, wholly  unsolicited  and  unexpected  by  him,  was  made  at  the  almost  unanimous 
request  and  desire  of  the  higher  officers  of  the  army.  In  March,  1861,  he  was  made 
a  lieutenant  colonel  of  the  Second  Cavalry  and  in  April  of  the  same  year  colonel  of 
the  Fourth  Cavalry.  In  August,  1861,  he  was  made  brigadier  general  of  volunteers  and 
the  following  year  received' full  rank  of  major-general.  When  the  Civil  war  began  he 
was  ordered  from  the  plains  of  the  west  and  as  brigadier-general  was  in  command  of 
a  brigade  organized  to  retrieve  the  disaster  of  Bull  Run.  When  there  was  a  vacancy 
in  the  command  of  the  division  upon  the  upper  Potomac  he  was  sent  to  that  command, 
then  described  as  a  corps  of  observation.  But  when  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  was 
organized,  his  division  became  a  part  of  the  Second  Army  Corps.  Prom  that  time  until 
his  death  he  was  on  active  duty  and  many  illustrations  could  be  given  of  his  thorough 
knowledge  of  military  tactics  and  his  skill  as  a  military  commander.  In  the  memorial 
address  referred  to  General  McMahon  said:  "At  Fair  Oaks,  on  the  30th  of  May,  when 
the  treacherous  river  rose  and  seemed  to  sweep  all  hope  of  succor  from  the  left  wing 
of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  on  which  the  whole  force  of  the  rebellion  was  suddenly 
hurled,  when  bridge  after  bridge  so  carefully  constructed  had  given  way,  and  there 
remained  but  one,  over  which  the  water  poured  in  a  mighty  torrent,  and  which  was 
held  in  place  by  ropes  attached  to  the  trees  on  either  bank,  Sedgwick's  great  will  and 
iron  nerve  rose  to  the  occasion  higher  than  the  waves,  stronger  than  the  mad  river, 
and  over  the  trembling  bridge,  through  the  surging  waters,  he  led  his  men,  dragged 
his  artillery,  and  accomplished  a  passage  marvelous  in  its  achievement,  magnificent  in 
its  results.  With  his  arrival  on  that  field  all  danger  to  the  army  and  the  cause  was 
removed.     The  enemy  was  repulsed  and  driven  back  at  every  point,  and  the  following 


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day  defeated  on  every  portion  of  the  field.  Tliis  affair  illustrated  one  peculiar  trait  in 
Sedgwick's  character  and  lite.  He  was  always  quietly  but  decidedly  at  the  right  spot 
at  the  right  time,  and  he  seemed  to  get  there  or  be  there  with  such  quiet  precision  that 
there  seemed  nothing  strange  in  it  until  you  critically  examined  the  obstacles  overcome. 
This  feature  fitted  him  peculiarly  for  the  command  of  the  Sixth  Corps,  which  he 
attained  somewhat  later,  for  throughout  the  history  of  that  corps  repeated  instances 
on  important  occasions  are  to  be  found  when  its  prompt  and  timely  arrival  accom- 
plished decisive  results." 

At  Antietam  General  Sedgwick  was  wounded,  but  he  never  left  his  forces  until 
he  could  go  no  farther.  Some  time  after  he  had  recovered  from  this  wound  he 
laughingly  said:  "If  I  am  ever  hit  again,  I  hope  it  will  settle  me  at  once.  I  want 
no  more  wounds."  After  the  first  battle  of  Fredericksburg  he  was  transferred  to 
the  command  of  the  Sixth  Corps.  At  Fredericksburg  he  won  fame  for  himself  and 
his  men.  He  knew  the  situation,  handled  his  troops  to  the  best  possible  advantage 
and  never  lost  a  flag  or  a  gun,  yet  held  his  position  at  heavy  odds  and  with  terrible 
losses.  Later  came  the  battle  of  Gettysburg.  The  Sixth  Corps  on  many  previous 
occasions  had  often  stood  the  brunt  of  battle  and  were  in  the  foremost  position  ol 
danger.  On  one  occasion  when  the  "Vermont  brigade,  returning  after  heavy  losses 
from  their  march  to  the  assistance  of  the  Second  Corps,  saw  General  Sedgwick  ride 
along  the  lines  as  they  were  coming  into  bivouac,  they  burst  forth  in  a  hearty, 
spontaneous  cheer  that  touched  him  to  the  very  heart;  and  when  the  cheers  subsided 
one  of  them  stepped  to  the  front  and  called  out  with  a  comic  and  yet  touching 
emphasis,  'Three  more  for  old  Uncle  John!'  The  General's  bronzed  face  flushed 
like  a  girl's,  and  as  the  staff  laughed  at  his  embarrassment,  it  spread  along  the 
lines  and  the  whole  brigade  laughed  and  cheered  as  if  they  were  just  returning 
from  a  summer's  picnic  and  not  from  a  bloody  fleld,  weary,  worn,  and  with  decimated 
ranks."  The  Sixth  Corps  bore  its  part  with  characteristic  bravery  in  the  Gettysburg 
campaign  and  then  came  a  winter  of  comparative  rest,  of  which  General  McMahon 
said:  "Through  all  this  winter  those  who  had  occasion  to  live  near  and  around 
John  Sedgwick  saw  the  sweeter  and  more  touching  traits  of  his  character.  Modest 
as  a  girl,  unassuming,  gentle,  just,  pure  in  heart  and  in  word,  he  endeared  himself 
to  the  men  who  followed  him  and  was  loved  by  all  with  a  love  surpassing  the  love 
of  woman.  No  picture  that  I  can  draw  can  give  to  you  who  knew  him  not  an  ade- 
quate conception  of  how  lovable  that  man  was."  Time  drew  on  and  the  battle  of 
Spottsylvania  sounded  its  opening  gun.  Of  this  General  McMahon  said:  "On  our 
line  of  battle  at  Spottsylvania  where  on  the  day  previous  we  had  made  an  unsuc- 
cessful attack  and  suffered  heavily,  near  a  section  of  artillery  at  a  fatal  angle  In 
our  works.  General  Sedgwick  stood  with  General  Whittier.  General  Tomkins  and 
myself,  directing  the  movement  of  our  men  then  occupying  the  rifle  pits.  It  was  in 
the  early  morning  and  a  certain  feeling  of  gloom  pervaded  the  army.  Sedgwick  had 
slept  the  previous  night  unsheltered  by  a  tent  or  blanket.  He  seemed  in  excellent 
spirits  although  a  little  discouraged  by  the  slow  progress  of  the  campaign,  which 
seemed  to  be  desperate  fighting  day  after  day  with  indecisive  results.  A  few  min- 
utes before  he  had  spoken  of  some  of  the  young  officers  of  his  staff  in  tender  and 
kindly  terms  of  affection.  He  said  a  few  jesting  words  to  some  of  the  men  who 
passed  before  him  as  they  moved  into  the  rifle  pits.  His  manner,  attitude  and  ges- 
ture as  he  stood  indicated  to  the  enemy  that  he  was  an  officer  of  rank  and  authority. 
He  wore  no  uniform,  not  even  a  sword.  From  across  the  little  valley  which  sep- 
arated us  from  the  enemy's  line,  from  one  of  their  sharp-shooters  concealed  in  the 
woods  in  front  of  us,  came  the  swift  messenger  of  death.  Slowly,  without  a  word, 
with  a  sad  smile  upon  his  lips.  John  Sedgwick  fell  and  his  great  heart  ceased  to 
beat.  His  life  blood  pouring  in  a  strong,  steady  stream  from  the  wound  spurted 
over  me.  I  made  an  effort  to  sustain  him  as  he  fell  and  in  doing  so  fell  with  him. 
He  uttered  no  word  and  made  no  sign.  It  seemed  to  me  if  I  could  but  make  him 
hear  me  and  call  his  attention  to  the  terrible  effect  his  fall  was  having  on  our  men 
he  would  by  force  of  his  great  will  rise  up  in  spite  of  death.  I  called  vainly  in  his 
ear — he  made  no  answer.  His  favorite  aid.  General  Charles  A.  Whittier,  bent  over 
him  with  streaming  eyes.  General  Tomkins,  the  chief  of  artillery,  and  his  surgeon, 
Dr.  Ohlenschlager,  raised  him  partly  from  the  ground  and  the  pale  and  anxious  faces 
of  the  men  in  the  long  line  of  rifle  pits  were  bent  eagerly  forward  toward  the  group, 
but  such  was  the  force  of  discipline  that  although  these  men's  hearts  were  filled  with  , 
a  great  sorrow,  although  they  knew  that  a  terrible  blow  had  fallen  upon  them,  none 


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left  the  ranks,  and  the  silence  which  follows  a  great  tragedy  fell  upon  the  summer 
woods  of  Spottsylvania  on  that  morning  of  saddest  memories."  On  the  12th  of  June, 
1913,  there  was  dedicated  at  Gettysburg  a  fine  equestrian  statue  of  General  Sedg- 
wick, erected  by  the  state  of  Connecticut  at  a  cost  of  twenty-five  thousand  dollars. 
It  stands  on  Sedgwick  avenue,  on  the  ground  occupied  by  General  Sedgwick  and  his 
staff  as  headquarters  of  the  Sixth  Corps  during  the  battle  of  Gettysburg  from  the 
1st  to  the  4th  of  July,  1863.  To  General  Sedgwick  had  been  proffered  the  office  of 
commander-in-chief  of  all  the  armies  in  the  field  by  President  Lincoln  previous  to  its 
acceptance  by  General  Grant. 

The  name  of  Sedgwick  is  not  unknown  in  literary  circles.  There  have  been 
various  ones  who  have  won  fame  through  their  writing,  but  perhaps  the  best  known 
is  Catharine  M.  Sedgwick,  the  daughter  of  Judge  Theodore  Sedgwick,  who  was  the 
author  of  "A  New  England  Tale,"  "Red  Wood,"  "Hope  Leslie,"  and  many  other 
novels  which  were  widely  read  in  England  as  well  as  in  America.  Some  of  theee 
she  wrote  at  the  Sedgwick  School  tor  Girls,  which  was  established  by  Mrs.  Charles 
Sedgwick,  her  sister-in-law,  in  Lenox,  Massachusetts,  while  others  were  written  at 
the  old  family  home  in  Stockbridge. 

In  returning  to  the  direct  line  of  the  ancestors  of  George  W.  Sedgwick,  the 
biographer  must  again  refer  to  the  military  record  of  the  family,  tor  his  father  was 
Captain  Theodore  Sedgwick,  who,  as  previously  stated,  was  the  only  soil  of  Benjamin 
and  Mary  (Tuttle)  Sedgwick  and  was  born  in  1768,  while  his  death  occurred  in 
1843.  His  life  history  again  calls  to  mind  the  close  connection  of  the  family  with 
the  military  records  of  the  country.  He  was  reared  in  Canaan,  Connecticut,  whence 
he  removed  to  Lee,  Massachusetts,  there  residing  during  the  early  part  of  the  nine- 
teenth century.  Following  America's  entrance  into  a  second  war  with  England  in 
1812,  he  joined  the  army,  becoming  an  artillery  captain  with  which  rank  he  served 
throughout  the  period  of  hostilities,  his  discharge  papers  being  now  in  possession 
of  the  Lenox  Library  of  Lenox,  Massachusetts.  When  the  war  was  over  he  again 
became  a  resident  of  Canaan,  Connecticut,  and  there  he  and  his  wife  spent  their 
remaining  days. 

George  W.  Sedgwick,  whose  record  indicates  that  success  and  an  honored  name 
may  be  won  simultaneously,  was  for  many  years  a  leading  business  man  of  Kansas 
City,  where  he  took  up  his  abode  in  18  67.  As  the  years  passed  he  became  an  active 
factor  in  the  tie  business,  furnishing  ties  under  contract  to  the  railroad  companies, 
and  he  was  also  identified  with  other  business  interests  which  contributed  to  public 
progress  and  prosperity  as  well  as  to  individual  success.  A  native  of  Massachusetts. 
Mr.  Sedgwick  was  born  in  Lee,  August  15,  1823.  He  was  quite  young  when  left  an 
orphan  by  the  death  of  his  parents  and  went  to  live  with  an  uncle  in  Harrisburg. 
Pennsylvania,  where  he  attended  the  public  schools  and  acquired  a  good  English 
education.  In  1844  he  went  to  work  tor  the  Indiana  Iron  Works  at  Indiana  Gap, 
Pennsylvania,  as  clerk  and  bookkeeper,  while  later  he  was  made  manager  of  the 
furnaces,  remaining  with  that  company  until  1854  in  which  year  he  went  to  work 
for  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company,  remaining  in  their  employ  for  fourteen  years, 
as  train  master,  train  dispatcher,  station  agent  and  in  other  positions.  In  1856  he 
was  made  station  agent  at  Indiana,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  resided  until  he  became 
a  resident  of  Kansas  City  in  February,  1867.  He  became  agent  for  the  Kansas 
Pacific  Railroad  Company,  now  a  part  of  the  Union  Pacific  System,  and  he  also  dis- 
charged to  some  extent  the  duties  of  the  superintendent,  who  at  that  time  was  not 
a  resident  of  Kansas  City.  The  Kansas  Pacific  was  just  being  builded  across  the 
plains,  the  track  having  been  laid  to  a  point  just  beyond  Lawrence,  Kansas,  and  the 
workmen  were  guarded  from  Indian  attacks  while  they  laid  the  rails.  When  the  track 
was  laid  through  the  "buffalo  country"  it  happened  many  times  that  trains  would 
have  to  wait  until  a  herd  of  buffaloes  crossed  from  one  side  of  the  track  to  the 
other.  Mr.  Sedgwick  continued  to  act  as  agent  and  superintendent  until  1880.  Soon 
after  his  arrival  in  Kansas  City  he  saw  the  imperativeness  of  the  large  demands  for 
railroad  ties,  as  the  railroads  were  then  building  east  and  west,  and  while  in  the 
employ  of  the  Kansas  Pacific,  he  engaged  in  the  railroad  tie  business,  furnishing  ties 
to  the  Union  Pacific,  Chicago,  Burlington  and  Quincy,  Burlington  &  Missouri  River, 
Kansas  Pacific,  Missouri  Pacific,  and  others.  In  1880  he  left  the  Kansas  Pacific  Rail- 
road service  and  entered  into  partnership  with  Edward  Phillips,  under  the  firm  style 
of  Sedgwick  &  Phillips,  for  the  purpose  of  'dealing  in  railroad  ties.  They  secured 
large  contracts  from  the  railroad  companies  and  to  meet  these  contracts  purchased 


804  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

ties  throughout  the  country.  The  business  was  developed  to  extensive  proportions 
and  became  one  of  the  profitable  enterprises  of  the  city.  Mr.  Sedgwick  also  suc- 
cessfully extended  his  efforts  into  the  real  estate  field.  Upon  his  removal  to  Kansas 
City  he  purchased  twenty  acres  of  land,  then  on  the  outskirts  of  the  town  but  now 
included  within  one  of  the  finest  residence  districts.  Later  he  subdivided  this  and 
sold  most  of  it  in  town  lots,  the  natural  rise  in  property  returning  to  him  a  splen- 
did income  upon  his  investment.  He  was  a  man  of  sound  business  judgment,  of 
unfaltering  industry,  of  marked  enterprise  and  keen  discernment. 

While  a  resident  of  the  east  Mr.  Sedgwick  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mar- 
garet Bell,  who  died  in  Indiana,  Pennsylvania.  Five  children  were  born  to  them, 
Catherine,  and  Mackay  who  died  in  infancy  in  Indiana  county.  Pennsylvania,  Georgia 
and  Frank  who  died  in  Kansas  City,  and  Lee  M.  who  is  the  sole  survivor  and  is  men- 
tioned elsewhere  in  this  work.  Following  the  death  of  his  first  wife,  Mr.  Sedgwick 
was  married  in  1869  to  Miss  Nannie  J.  Fyock. 

In  politics  Mr.  Sedgwick  was  a  stanch  republican,  giving  unfaltering  support 
to  the  party  and  its  principles  and  at  all  times  keeping  thoroughly  informed  con- 
cerning the  vital  questions  and  issues  of  the  day.  He  was  an  exemplary  represen- 
tative of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  an  equally  faithful  member  of  the  Second  Pres- 
byterian Church.  While  he  attained  wealth  the  most  envious  could  not  grudge  him 
his  success,  so  honorably  was  it  won  and  so  worthily  used,  and,  moreover,  his  activi- 
ties contributed  in  substantial  measure  to  the  development  and  progress  of  his 
adopted  city. 


HON.  NATHAN  FRANK. 


Hon.  Nathan  Frank,  lawyer  and  law  maker,  was  a  member  of  a  committee 
which  called  the  first  mass  meeting  in  St.  Louis  to  obtain  public  approval  of  the 
declaration  of  war  with  Germany,  a  meeting  that  largely  set  the  pace  for  the  great 
activities  of  St.  Louis  during  the  war  period.  In  this  he  was  associated  with  Mayor 
Kiel,  Hon.  Selden  P.  Spencer,  and  Dwight  Davis,  and  throughout  the  entire  period 
of  hostilities  with  Germany  he  was  most  earnest  in  promoting  the  interests  of  his 
native  land,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  his  parents.  Abraham  and  Branette 
Frank,  were  natives  of  Germany.  Reared  and  married  in  that  country,  they  crossed 
the  Atlantic  to  the  United  States  in  1849  to  become  residents  and  citizens  of 
America,  their  interest  centering  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic,  where  they  reared 
their  family,  earned  their  living  and  made  their  home.  After  residing  for  two 
years  in  Hopkinsville.  Kentucky,  they  removed  to  Peoria,  Illinois,  where  Nathan 
Frank  was  born  on  the  23d  of  February,   1852. 

After  reaching  school  age  Nathan  Frank  became  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools 
of  Peoria,  which  he  attended  until  1867,  and  then  accompanied  his  parents  on  their 
removal  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  became  a  high  school  student,  being  graduated  with 
the  class  of  1869.  He  next  entered  Washington  University,  In  which  he  pursued  a 
classical  course,  and  subsequently  became  a  law  student  at  Harvard,  winning  his 
professional  degree  in  1871.  Wishing,  however,  to  enter  upon  the  practice  of  law 
thoroughly  equipped  in  every  respect  for  the  work  of  the  profession,  he  continued 
his  studies  at  Harvard  for  still  another  year  and  upon  his  return  to  Missouri  In 
1872  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  this  state.  In  the  early  years  of  his  practice  he 
concentrated  his  attention  upon  commercial  and  bankruptcy  law,  becoming  a  rec- 
ognized authority  upon  those  branches  of  jurisprudence.  He  compiled  and  edited 
Frank's  Bankruptcy  Law,  which  was  published  in  1874  and  came  at  once  into  wide 
use.  Four  editions  were  placed  upon  the  market  and  were  followed  in  18  98  by  a 
compilation  of  the  bankrupt  act  of  that  year.  For  three  years  Mr.  Frank  was  asso- 
ciated with  John  M.  Krum,  at  one  time  mayor  of  St.  Louis  and  a  judge  of  the 
court  on  common  pleas.  He  afterward  became  junior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Patrick 
&  Frank,  following  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Patrick  from  the  office  of  United  States 
district  attorney,  and  later  he  became  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Frank,  Dawson 
&  Garvin,  which  was  succeeded  by  the  firm  of  Frank  &  Thompson.  A  contemporary 
biographer  has  written  of  Mr.  Frank:  "That  Mr.  Frank  attained  distinction  and 
won  success  in  his  profession  is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  political  honors  were 
conferred  upon  him.     Had  he  remained  in  obscurity  professionally,  he  would  never 


NATHAN  FRANK 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  807 

have  won  professional  distinction.  Becoming  a  worker  in  the  ranks  of  the  repub- 
lican party,  he  was  honored  by  election  to  the  fiftieth  congress  from  the  central 
district  of  St.  Louis  and  received  endorsement  of  his  first  term  in  reelection  to  the 
fifty-first  congress.  In  both  of  those  he  served  on  several  important  committees 
and  was  active  in  securing  the  passage  of  some  notable  legislation.  He  gave 
careful  consideration  to  each  question  which  came  up  for  settlement  and  stood 
fearlessly  by  the  course  which  he  believed  to  be  right  and  for  the  best  interests 
of  the  people  at  large.  In  this  way  he  took  his  stand  in  opposition  to  his  party 
in  seeking  to  enact  a  national  election  law,  and  to  pass  what  was  known  as  the 
anti-gerrymander  bill,  restricting  or  limiting  the  state  legislature  in  apportioning 
congressional  districts  in  the  several  states.  He  could  easily  have  won  further 
congressional  honors  had  he  so  desired,  but  since  his  retirement  at  the  close  of  his 
second  term  he  has  refused  a  nomination  and  has  also  declined  to  become  a 
candidate  for  any  other  public  office,  preferring  to  concentrate  his  time  and  ener- 
gies upon  his  professional  interests  and  the  supervision  of  the  affairs  of  the  St. 
Louis   Star,    which   he   founded   and   of   which   he   is   the   owner." 

Mr.  Prank  has  always  maintained  a  deep  interest  in  public  affairs  and  in 
1896  he  was  chairman  of  the  republican  state  executive  committee  during  the 
McKinley  campaign,  and  later  was  vice  president  and  member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  in  1904.  He  had  previously  served 
as  a  member  of  the  congressional  committee  of  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition, 
to  which  he  gave  much  attention  while  cooperating  with  the  leading  citizens  of 
St.  Louis  in  an  attempt  to  locate  the  fair  near  the  city.  In  recognition  of  the 
fact  that  he  was  one  of  the  earliest  movers  in  that  project,  Governor  Francis 
appointed  him  a  member  of  the  exposition  commission.  He  took  a  very  active 
part  in  the  preliminary  work  for  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition,  serving  on 
its  board  of  directors  from  the  beginning,  and  was  one  of  the  most  regular  attend- 
ants at  committee  meetings.  He  served  as  a  member  of  its  most  important  com- 
mittee— the  executive — and  also  of  the  press  and  publicity  committee,  doing  most 
effective  work  in  the  latter  connection  in  bringing  to  the  country  at  large  a  knowl- 
edge of  the  attractions  offered  at  the  St.  Louis  Exposition.  He  acted  as  chairman 
of  the  entertainment  committee  of  the  Business  Men's  League,  which  entertained 
many  distinguished  visitors,  and  as  such  presided  at  many  banquets  which  were 
held.  His  ready  tact,  his  geniality  and  his  adaptability  well  qualified  him  for 
social  duties  of  this  nature.  He  is  a  prominent  and  popular  figure  in  the  Univer- 
sity, Columbian,  Missouri  Athletic,  Westwood  Countr.v  and  Harvard  Clubs.  He  is 
a  broad-minded  man  who  keeps  in  touch  with  the  trend  of  modern  thought  and 
progress  along  all  those  lines  which  are  of  interest  or  of  vital  significance  to  man- 
kind. One  meeting  Nathan  Frank  comes  to  know  a  man  whose  depth  of  character 
cannot  be  sounded  in  short  acquaintance  and  whose  many-sided  abilities  can  be 
learned  only  through  long  association.  His  acquaintances  are  continually  surprised 
by  his  intimate  and  accurate  knowledge  of  many  questions  which  in  no  way  affect 
his  professional  activity  but  which  show  him  to  be  a  man  of  wide  reading  and 
eai-nest    thought,    with    whom    association    means    constant    enlightenment. 


WESLEY  WINANS   HORNER. 

Wesley  Winans  Horner,  Chief  Engineer  of  Sewers  and  Paving  of  the  Board 
of  Public  Service,  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Columbia,  Missouri,  September  22,  1883. 
His  father,  William  A.  Horner,  is  also  a  native  of  Missouri,  the  grandfather  having 
come  to  this  state  from  Virginia.  William  A.  Horner  was  in  mercantile  business 
in  Columbia,  Missouri,  for  many  years  and  is  now  an  accountant  connected  with 
the  Missouri  School  of  the  Blind.  He  married  Minnie  Du  Bose  Winans,  whose 
grandfather  was  one  of  the  early  circuit  riders  of  the  Methodist  ministry.  Unto 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horner  were  born  three  daughters,  while  Wesley  W.  the  only  son, 
is  the  oldest  of  the  family,  his  sisters  being  Mary  Lee,  Nell  C.  and  Alice. 

Wesley  Winans  Horner  obtained  a  grammar  school  education  at  Columbia, 
St.  Joe,  and  also  obtained  a  high  school  education  at  St.  Louis,  spending  two  and 
a  half  years  as  a  student  in  the  Central  high.  In  1901  he  entered  the  Washington 
University  and  was  graduated  in  1905  with  the  Bachelor  of  Science  degree.  He 
also  obtained  an  advance  degree  in  civil  engineering  and  immediately  entered  into 


808  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

the  city's  service  as  surveyor  in  the  water  department.  In  1906  he  was  given 
charge  of  construction  work  in  the  water  department,  and  in  the  following  year, 
1907,  was  made  assistant  in  the  designing  o£  the  reinforced  concrete  construction 
for  the  sewer  department.  He  had  charge  of  this  department  as  designer  from 
1909  until  1912  and  the  ensuing  two  years  had  charge  of  sewer  construction  as 
principal  assistant  engineer  of  the  sewer  department.  From  1914  until  1917  he 
had  charge  of  the  designing  of  sewers  and  paving  and  in  the  latter  year  was  made 
Chief  Engineer  of  Sewers  and  Paving  of  the  Board  of  Public  Service  and  so  con- 
tinued  to   the   present   time. 

To  his  technical  training  and  thorough  study  of  early  years  he  has  added  broad 
and  practical  experience  until  he  has  developed  expert  skill  and  power  in  this 
connection.  He  is  the  author  of  some  thirty  technical  articles  on  special  subjects, 
and  is  recognized  as   an   authority   on   drainage,   sanitation   and    pavements. 

He  is  identified  with  various  societies  and  organizations  having  to  do  with  the 
promotion  of  engineering  interests.  He  is  an  officer  in  the  Engineers'  Club  of 
St.  Louis,  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  and  of  the  American 
Association  of  Engineers  of  which  he  is  chairman  of  the  committee  on  Municipal 
Problems.  He  is  the  vice-president  and  chairman  of  the  committee  on  Sewerage 
in  the  American  Society  for  Municipal  Improvement.  He  is  also  a  member  and 
chairman  of  the  committee  on  Sewerage  of  the  American  Concrete  Institute.  He 
likewise  belongs  to  the  Sigma  Chi,  a  Greek  fraternity  and  to  the  Honorary  Scientific 
Society  of  Sigma  Xi.  He  is  recognized  as  a  man  of  high  professional  attainment 
and  his  constantly  developing  powers  have  placed  him  in  a  position  of  leadership 
among   the  engineers  of  St.   Louis. 

On  June  16,  1908,  Mr.  Horner  was  married  to  Miss  Elinor  Alice  Hall,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Frederic  A.  Hall,  Chancellor  of  Washington  University.  They  have  three 
sons:     Frederic  Winans;    John    Linscott;    and   Richard  William. 

Mr.  Horner  belongs  to  the  City  Club,  also  to  the  University  Club  and  is  a 
member  of  the  board  of  governors  of  the  Washington  University  Union.  He  is 
secretary  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  Washington  University.  He  was  an  active 
supporter  of  all  war  interests.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Pilgrim  Congregational 
church. 


MURAT  BOYLE. 


Murat  Boyle,  junior  partner  in  the  law  firm  of  Hogsett  &  Boyle  of  Kansas 
City,  is  a  native  son  of  Missouri,  his  birth  having  occurred  at  Agency,  Independ- 
ence county.  May  26,  1883.  He  was  one  of  the  two  children  of  Harvey  A.  and 
Alice  (Myers)  Boyle,  his  brother  being  R.  Virgil  Boyle,  who  is  a  representative  of 
the  Bobbs-Merrill  Publishing  Company  of  Indianapolis,  located  at  Oklahoma  City, 
Oklahoma.  His  father  is  a  native  of  West  Virginia  and  his  mother  of  Indiana.  The 
former  eame_  to  Missouri  just  after  the  Civil  war,  settling  at  Agency,  where  he  is 
now  in  the  office  of  the  county  assessor.  At  the  time  of  hostilities  between  the 
north  and  the  south  he  joined  the  Union  army  although  but  fourteen  years  of  age 
and  rendered  active  and  valued  service  to  his  country  in  defense  of  the  Stars  and 
Stripes.  He  is  now  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  and  throughout 
his  entire  life  has  manifested  the  same  loyalty  to  his  country  that  he  displayed 
when  he  followed  the  nation's  starry  banner  on  southern  battlefields.  The  mother 
passed  away  in   1919. 

Murat  Boyle  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Guthrie,  Oklahoma,  and 
prepared  for  the  bar  as  a  student  in  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  1905  with  the  LL.  B.  degree.  He  was  then  admitted  to  practice 
upon  examination  here  and  from  1905  until  1907  received  his  initial  professional 
experience  with  the  firm  of  Harkless,  Crysler  &  Histed.  In  the  latter  year  he  en- 
tered into  his  present  partnership  relation,  becoming  junior  member  of  the  firm  of 
Hogsett  &  Boyle,  which  has  maintained  a  continuous  existence  covering  thirteen 
years.  They  have  a  very  large  practice,  specializing  in  insurance  law,  upon  which 
Mr.  Boyle  is  a  recognized  authority.  He  is  a  man  of  strong  character,  loyal,  energetic 
and  forceful,  and  his  capability  enables  him  to  accomplish  much  in  little  time. 

In   1910  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Murat  Boyle  and  Miss  Claudine  Han- 


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cock,  a  daughter  of  James  Hancock,  of  Lynchburg,  Virginia.  They  have  two  children. 
James  Hancock  and  Murat  Jr.,  aged  respectively  eight  and  one  and  one-half  years. 
Mr.  Boyle  is  a  great  lover  of  outdoor  life  and  finds  much  enjoyment  in  fishing  and 
hunting.  He  belongs  to  the  Hillcrest  Country  Club,  a  golf  organization,  also  to 
the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club  and  the  Kansas  City  Club.  In  politics  he  is  a  democrat 
and  is  a  speaker  of  ability  whether  upon  political  or  other  questions  and  his  public 
utterances  always  display  a  careful  analysis  of  the  subjects  handled  as  well  as  a 
clear,  entertaining  and  convincing  presentation  of  his  cause.  Along  strictly  profes- 
sional lines  he  is  connected  with  the  Kansas  City,  Missouri  State  and  American 
Bar  Associations  and  his  success  as  a  lawyer  is  due  to  his  ability  to  work,  to  learn 
by  experience  and  to  make  the  most  of  his  opportunities.  He  does  with  all  of  his 
might  whatever  his  hand  finds  to  do  and  while  he  continues  in  the  general  practice  of 
law,  he  has  handled  much  litigation  for  insurance  companies  and  he  ranks  particu- 
larly high  as  a  trial  lawyer. 


WILLIAM   LUCIEN   GIST,    M.    D. 

Dr.  William  Lucien  Gist,  superintendent  of  the  Kansas  City  General  Hospital 
and  officer  of  the  World  war,  was  born  in  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  August  9,  1881, 
his  parents  being  Charles  and  Lucy  (Snell)  Gist.  The  father  was  born  near  Leaven- 
worth while  the  mother's  birth  occurred  in  Smithville,  Missouri.  The  paternal 
grandfather,  John  C.  Gist,  platted  the  town  of  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  and  took  a 
prominent  part  in  laying  out  the  town.  In  fact  he  was  a  very  prominent  and 
influential  pioneer  settler  whose  enterprising  and  progressive  spirit  left  an  im- 
pression upon  the  community  in  which  he  lived.  His  son,  Charles  Gist,  followed 
his  occupation   of  farming  near  Leavenworth.-   , 

While  spending  his  youthful  days  on  his  father's  farm,  William  Lucien  Gist 
attended  the  country  schools  and  through  vacation  periods  worked  in  the  fields. 
Determining  to  make  the  practice  of  medicine  his  life  work  he  entered  the  Uni- 
versity Medical  School  of  Kansas  City,  having  in  the  meantime  studied  in  the 
schools  of  Leavenworth.  His  professional  course  was  completed  in  19  06  and 
through  the  intervening  period  he  has  continued  actively  and  successfully  in  the 
practice  of  medicine,  save  when  engaged  in  military  service.  He  enlisted  as  a 
private  in  the  medical  corps  and  served  in  the  Spanish-American  war.  After  the 
close  of  hostilities  he  went  to  Kansas  City  and  continued  his  medical  education, 
subsequent  to  which  time  he  entered  upon  general  practice.  His  military  experi- 
ence was  continued  as  a  member  of  the  Missouri  National  Guard.  In  1911  he 
became  a  lieutenant  of  the  medical  department.  In  1912  he  was  given  command 
of  the  First  Missouri  Ambulance  Company.  He  was  on  the  border  with  the  artillery 
forces  from  the  16th  of  June,  1916,  until  January,  1917.  In  June  of  the  latter 
year  he  was  called  into  the  federal  service  and  went  to  Fort  Riley,  entering  the 
training  school  for  medical  officers.  He  assisted  in  organizing  the  medical  units 
of  the  thirty-fifth  division,  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  major  and  commanded 
the  ambulance  section  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Tenth  Sanitary  Train  of  the  Thirty- 
fifth  division  and  participated  in  all  engagements  in  which  the  division  took  part 
when  overseas.  He  is  now  senior  surgeon  of  the  Missouri  Medical  Corps  and  is 
serving  on  the  staff  of  the  commanding  general  as  major  of  the  medical  depart- 
ment. On  the  10th  of  July,  1920,  he  was  appointed  superintendent  of  the  Kansas 
City  General  Hospital.  He  is  recognized  as  an  able  member  of  the  profession  and 
is  constantly  promoting  his  knowledge  through  wide  study  and  investigation,  as 
well  as  through  experience.  He  is  serving  on  the  staff  of  the  St.  Joseph  Hospital 
and  he  belongs  to  the  Jackson  County,  Missouri  State  and  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciations. 

Dr.  Gist  was  married  to  Miss  Gertrude  C.  Aaron,  who  was  born  in  Leaven- 
worth, Kansas,  a  daughter  of  George  Aaron,  who  homesteaded  there  and  became 
a  prominent  farmer  of  that  locality.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Gist  have  one  son,  William 
Wilmot. 

Dr.  Gist  belongs  to  the  Military  Surgeons  Association  of  the  United  States. 
He  helped  organize  and  became  commander  of  the  Joe  Dillon  Post  of  the  American 
Legion  and  is  a  member  of  its  city  executive  committee.      He  also  has  membership 


812  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

with  the  Veterans  of  Foreign  Wars.  His  entire  lite  has  been  characterized-  by 
patriotic  duty  and  the  splendid  record  which  he  made  in  the  World  war,  as  well 
as  the  capability  which  he  displays  in  the  practice  of  medicine,  marks  him  well 
worthy  of  the  high  respect  and  esteem  which  are  uniformly  accorded  him. 


J.    S.    SCANLON. 


J.  S.  Scanlon  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  business  men  of  St.  Joseph  and  a 
representative  of  one  of  its  oldest  families.  He  is  a  nephew  of  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Scanlon,  who  was  the  first  Catholic  priest  to  hold  services  in  St.  Joseph.  At  the 
organization  of  the  church  there  were  about  twenty  families,  two  of  which  were 
Irish  and  the  others  Canadian  French.  His  first  service  was  held  in  a  frame 
building  belonging  to  Joseph  Robidoux,  on  Jule  street,  beyond  the  Blacksnake. 
Throughout  all  the  intervening  years  the  Scanlon  family  has  been  connected  with 
the  development  and  progress  of  St.  Joseph  along  the  lines  of  its  material  and 
moral  development. 

J:  S.  Scanlon  of  this  review  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Scanlon  &  Rudolph, 
proprietors  of  the  Robidoux  Pharmacy,  the  largest  retail  drug  store  in  the  city. 
Mr.  Scanlon  has  been  connected  with  this  business  for  more  than  six  years  and 
by  his  untiring  efforts  and  good  judgment  he  has  contributed  largely  to  the  success  of 
the  enterprise.  He  finds  ready  solution  for  all  intricate  and  complex  business  prob- 
lems and  his  energy  enables  him  to  overcome  all  difficulties  and  obstacles  in  his  path. 

Mr.  Scanlon  is  a  member  of  St.  Joseph's  Council  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus 
and  also  has  membership  in  the  Elks  Lodge,  No.  4  0,  being  a  loyal  supporter  o£ 
both  organizations. 


ALBERT   RANDOLPH    STROTHER. 

Albert  Randolph  Strother,  practicing  at  the  Kansas  City  bar  since  the  25th 
of  October,  1886,  as  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Smart  St  Strother,  was  born  in  Henry 
county,  Kentucky,  October  25,  1862,  and  is  one  of  a  family  of  eight  sons  and  two 
daughters  whose  parents  were  John  Pryor  and  Mildred  Elizabeth  (Lewis)  Strother. 
The  former  was  a  son  of  John  Fletcher  Strother,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  as  was 
John  Pryor  Strother.  The  latter  became  a  member  of  the  bar  and  in  1858  removed 
to  Saline  county,  Missouri,  where  he  resided  until  1894,  when  he  became  a  resident 
of  California,  there  spending  his  remaining  days.  He  ranked  as  a  very  prominent 
attorney  of  Marshall,  Missouri,  and  was  judge  of  the  sixth  judicial  circuit  from  1881 
until  1887,  while  in  1873  he  represented  his  district  in  the  state  senate.  He  was 
always  a  devoted  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  South,  his  father  and  his 
grandfather  having  both  been  ministers  of  that  faith.  John  Pryor  Strother  was 
also  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  his  life  was  ever  guided  by  the  highest 
and  most  honorable  principles.  He  passed  away  in  California,  May  22,  1907,  and 
his  widow  is  living  in  Fresno,  California.  She  was  born  in  Miami,  Saline  county, 
Missouri,  and  she  is  most  highly  esteemed  by  reason  of  her  many  splendid  qualities 
of  heart  and  mind. 

Albert  R.  Strother  attended  the  public  schools  of  Marshall,  Missouri,  and 
afterward  studied  under  Professor  Newton.  He  later  pursued  a  four  year  college 
course  in  Central  College  at  Fayette,  Missouri,  and  was  graduated  with  the  Bachelor 
of  Arts  degree  as  an  alumnus  of  1883.  When  his  college  days  were  over  he  began 
reading  law  under  the  direction  of  his  father  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at 
Marshall,  October  23,  1884.  There  he  continued  in  practice  until  January,  1885, 
when  he  removed  to  Lexington,  Missouri,  where  he  was  associated  with  John  S. 
Blackwell  until  October  of  1886.  On  the  25th  of  October,  1886,  he  arrived  in 
Kansas  City  and  has  since  been  an  active  representative  of  the  legal  profession 
here.  He  was  first  associated  in  partnership  with  his  father  and  afterward  with 
Henry  M.  Withers,  who  was  prosecuting  attorney  of  Jackson  county,  the  firm  of 
Withers  &  Strother  existing  from  1888  until  1890.  In  December,  1891,  Mr.  Strother 
entered  the  employ  of  the  firm  of  Warner,  Dean  &  Hagerman,  with  whom  he  was 
connected  until  January  1,  1894.  In  January,  1894,  he  became  a  partner  in  the 
firm  of  Yeager  &  Strother,  an  association  that  was  maintained  until  1902,  when  he 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  813 

joined  John  L.  Peak  under  the  firm  style  of  Peak  &  Strother,  his  partner  having 
been  formerly  minister  to  Switzerland  during  the  administration  of  President 
Cleveland.  On  the  1st  of  August,  1911,  he  joined  James  G.  Smart  in  organizing 
the  present  firm  of  Smart  &  Strother  and  through  the  intervening  years  they  have 
enjoyed  a  large  and  important  practice.  An  excellent  memory  and  close  application 
have  been  salient  features  in  the  successful  career  of  Mr.  Strother,  vfho  at  all 
times  is  scrupulously  honest  and  displays  unusual  power  of  quick  discernment, 
grasping  with  readiness  a  vital  point  in  a  case.  He  has  been  engaged  in  the 
general  practice  of  the  law  and  the  secret  of  his  success  might  be  termed  his  close 
application,   reinforced  by  a  strong  intellectual  grasp  of  a  given  legal   problem. 

On  the  10th  of  October,  1889,  Mr.  Strother  was  married  to  Miss  Ida  D.  Spencer, 
a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Berry  Hill  Spencer,  a  resident  of  Palmyra,  Missouri.  They 
have  two  children:  Mildred  Prances,  who  is  at  home  with  her  parents;  and  Albert 
Lester,  who  is  with  the  Union  Electric  Company  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  He  served 
in  the  Marine  Corps  during  the  World  war,  enlisting  May  31,  1918.  He  was  on 
active  duty  in  Cuba  in  1919,  being  sergeant  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-ninth 
Company  of  the  First  Regiment  of  the  Marine  Corps,  while  later  he  was  transferred 
to  the  Seventh  Regiment. 

Mr.  Strother  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Melrose  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  South,  and  he  is  teacher  of  a  class  in  its  Sunday  school.  He  belongs  to 
the  City  Club  and  to  the  Knife  &  Pork  Club  and  also  to  the  American  Bar  Asso- 
ciation. He  has  always  been  a  wide  reader  and  thorough  student  not  only  of  the 
principles  of  law  but  of  all  current  questions  and  issues.  While  a  lawyer  of  very 
high  standing  in  his  profession,  he  is  equally  well  known  through  other  connections 
and  has  a  host  of  warm  friends. 


CARL   M.   DUBINSKY. 


Carl  M.  Dubinsky,  successfully  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  law  in 
St.  Louis,  was  born  December  6,  1890,  in  the  city  which  is  yet  his  home,  a  son  of 
Isaac  Dubinsky,  a  native  of  Russia,  who  came  to  America  in  1879  and  made  his 
way  direct  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  has  since  resided.  He  has  now  retired  from 
business.  He  is  a  very  devout  Hebrew  of  the  orthodox  faith  and  active  in  pro- 
moting the  interests  of  his  church.  He  married  Rose  Goldwasser,  who  was  born 
in  Russia,  their  marriage  being  celebrated  in  that  country.  She  came  to  America 
in  1884,  joining  her  husband  in  the  new  world.  They  had  a  family  of  ten  children, 
four  sons  and  six  daughters,  of  whom  all  of  the  sons  and  four  of  the  daughters  are 
yet  living. 

Carl  M.  Dubinsky  was  the  eighth  in  order  of  birth.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  in  the  Benton  Law  School,  attending  its  night 
sessions.  He  was  graduated  therefrom  in  1916  with  the  LL.  B.  degree.  When  but 
seventeen  years  of  age  he  started  out  to  earn  his  own  livelihood  and  was  first 
employed  in  the  real  estate  office  of  the  St.  Louis  Title  Company,  there  spending 
eighteen  months.  He  afterward  entered  the  real  estate  business  on  his  own  account 
and  followed  it  successfully  to  the  time  of  his  graduation,  his  earnings  being  used 
in  paying  his  way  through  college.  He  was  admitted  to  practice  in  October,  1916, 
and  entered  at  once  upon  the  active  work  of  the  profession,  in  which  he  has  since 
continued.  He  does  not  specialize  in  any  particular  line  but  is  prepared  to  try 
any  kind  of  a  law  suit  and  tries  it  well.  He  is  one  of  the  most  forceful  and  incisive 
orators  among  the  younger  members  of  the  bar  andis  an  energetic,  vigorous  and 
well  educated  gentleman. 

On  the  6th  of  January,  1914,  Mr.  Dubinsky  was  married  to  Miss  Kate  Weisstein, 
a  native  of  London,  England,  and  a  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Tillie  Weisstein,  of 
St.  Louis.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dubinsky  have  one  son,  Edward  L.,  who  was  born  May  27, 
1917,  in  St.  Louis. 

Mr.  Dubinsky  gives  his  political  allegiance  to  the  republican  party.  He  belongs 
to  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  to  practically  all  of  the  Jewish  organizations  in  his 
community.  During  the  war  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  eighteenth  ward  legal 
advisory  board,  was  also  on  the  speakers'  bureau,  was  a  solicitor  in  connection  with 
the  Liberty  Bond  drives  and  the  Red  Cross.     In  fact  he  was  continuously  engaged 


814  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

in  some  patriotic  service  for  the  welfare  of  his  country  and  the  promotion  of  the 
interests  of  the  soldiers  in  camp  and  field.  He  is  deserving  of  great  credit  for 
what  he  has  accomplished,  for  he  started  out  in  the  business  world  empty-handed 
at  the  age  of  seventeen  years  and  provided  the  means  for  his  legal  education.  His 
forcefulness,  resourcefulness,  his  determination  and  strong  character  have  been  the 
salient   features   in   his   progress  and  success. 


HENRY   HUSTON   CRITTENDEN. 

Henry  Huston  Crittenden,  engaged  in  the  real  estate  and  investment  business 
in  Kansas  City,  was  born  in  Woodford  county.  Kentucky,  November  2  7,  185  9, 
and  is  the  eldest  son  of  Governor  Thomas  Crittenden,  who  is  mentioned  at  length 
on  another  page  of  this  work.  He  attended  the  public  schools  and  also  the  State 
Normal  School  at  Warrensburg,  Missouri.  He  afterward  became  a  student  in  the 
Missouri  State  University  at  Columbia,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1881  with  the 
Bachelor  of  Arts  degree.  In  the  summer  of  that  year  he  removed  to  St.  Louis, 
^/here  he  was  freight  solicitor  for  the  Wabash  railroad  and  continued  in  con- 
nection with  the  freight  department  there  for  about  three  years.  In  1884  he  was 
appointed  deputy  clerk  of  the  court  of  appeals  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  upon  the 
establishment  of  the  court  here,  and  occupied  that  position  for  about  three  years. 
He  was  also  interested  in  the  real  estate  and  investment  business  during  that 
period.  In  1892  he  returned  to  St>  Louis  and  was  connected  with  the  National 
Biscuit  Company  until  1900,  at  which  time  he  again  came  to  Kansas  City,  and 
through  the  intervening  period  has  devoted  his  attention  to  real  estate  and  invest- 
ments, in  which  business  he  is  now  engaged  under  the  name  of  the  Crittenden 
Investment  Company,   of  which   he  is   the  vice   president. 

In  October,  1888,  Mr.  Crittenden  was  married  to  Miss  Daisy  Dozier,  of  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,  a  niece  of  Lewis  D.  Dozier,  who  was  one  of  the  prominent  business  men 
of  St.  Louis,  engaged  in  cracker  manufacturing.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Crittenden  have  one 
son.  John  Dozier,  born  October  17.  1889.  He  enlisted  in  New  York  in  the  old 
Fighting  Sixty-ninth  New  York  Regiment,  which  became  the  One  Hundred  and 
Sixty-fifth  Regiment  of  the  Forty-second  or  Rainbow  Division.  He  went  to  France 
in  October.  1917,  and  was  on  duty  overseas  tor  two  years.  He  joined  the  army  as 
a  private  and  returned  with  the  rank  of  second  lieutenant.  While  in  France  he  was 
selected  from  his  company  because  of  his  superior  knowledge  of  military  matters 
and  was  sent  to  the  training  camp  at  Fougeres,  France. 

Mr.  Crittenden  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Country  Club  and  of  the  Knife 
and  Fork  Club.  He  is  very  fond  of  a  game  of  golf  and  goes  to  the  links  for  his 
recreation.  His  religious  faith  is  indicated  by  his  membership  in  the  Christian 
church.  In  politics  he  has  always  been  a  stalwart  democrat  and  by  appointment 
of  Governor  Gardner  he  is  now  serving  as  chairman  of  the  board  of  election  com- 
missioners of  Kansas  City  and  is  also  serving  as  colonel  on  the  Governor's  staff. 
His  own  record  has.added  lustre  to  an  honored  family  name.  He  is  a  forceful  man, 
aggressive,  enterprising,  determined,  is  a  good  mixer  and  has  those  qualities  which 
make  for  personal   popularity  wherever  he  is  known. 


J.    HUGH    POWERS. 


Individual  merit  and  business  ability  have  brought  J.  Hugh  Powers  to  an 
enviable  position  in  financial  circles  as  the  vice  president  of  the  Mercantile  Trust 
Company  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  born  September  15,  1880,  in  the  city  which  Is  now 
his  home,  his  parents  being  John  E.  and  Theresa  (Long)  Powers,  who  were  like- 
wise natives  of  St.  Louis.  His  grandparents  in  the  paternal  line  were  John  and 
Ann  Powers,  natives  of  Ireland,  whence  they  came  to  the  new  world,  establishing 
their  home  in  Missouri's  metropolis.  Their  son,  John  E.  Powers,  became  an  ac- 
countant and  died  in  1904  at  the  age  of  forty-six  years.  His  wife,  also,  of  Irish 
lineage,  is  a  daughter  of  Edward  and  Anna  (Sweeney)  Long  and  now  resides  in 
St.    Louis,   where   her  entire   life   has   been   passed.      By   her   marriage   she   became 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  817 

the  mother  o£  a  son  and  a  daughter,  the  latter  being  Georgia,  the  wife  of  F. 
Roessler,   of   St.   Louis. 

J.  Hugh  Powers  was  educated  in  the  public  and  Catholic  schools  of  St.  Louis 
and  in  the  Bryant  &  Stratton  Business  College  and  from  the  early  age  of  twelve 
years  has  been  dependent  upon  his  own  resources.  His  first  employment  was  that 
of  messenger  for  the  Wabash  Railroad,  with  which  corporation  he  continued  for 
seven  years,  and  from  messenger  worked  his  way  steadily  upward  to  the  position 
of  rate  clerk.  In  1900  he  became  connected  with  the  Mercantile  Trust  Company 
in  the  capacity  of  bookkeeper  and  has  steadily  been  promoted  through  various 
positions  and  departments  of  the  bank  to  his  present  place  as  a  leading  official. 
He  is  now  serving  as  vice  president,  occupying  the  position  for  the  past  four 
years,  and  during  this  time  he  has  contributed  much  toward  shaping  the  policy 
and  directing  the  destiny  of  the  bank.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Industrial 
Loan  Company  of  St.  Louis  and  of  the  Foreign  Bond  &  Share  Company  of  New 
York. 

On  the  2d  of  June,  19  06,  Mr.  Powers  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss  Mary 
Blong,  a  native  of  this  city  and  a  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Bridget  (Quinn) 
Blong.  They  have  become  the  parents  of  four  children:  Mary,  who  was  born  in 
St.  Louis;   Frances;   J.  Hugh,  Jr.;   and  Virginia,  all  natives  of  this  city. 

Politically  Mr.  Powers  is  a  stalwart  democrat.  During  the  war  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Liberty  Loan  organization,  in  charge  of  the  work  in  the  schools  of  the 
eighth  district,  and  he  was  also  one  of  the  Four  Minute  speakers.  During  1915 
and  1916  Mr.  Powers  lectured  in  the  St.  Louis  University  on  bonds  and  investment 
securities.  His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Catholic  church  and  he  is  a  member 
of  the  Knights  of  Columbus.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Noonday,  Normandy  Golf 
and  Bankers  Clubs  and  his  social  nature  and  genial  disposition  have  made  for 
popularity  in  these  organizations.  He  finds  his  recreation  in  music  and  golf  and 
has  attained  considerable  skill  on  the  violin.  His  reading  is  largely  confined  to 
history  and  questions  of  finance  and  the  thoroughness  with  which  he  has  mastered 
the  latter  subject  has  brought  him  to  a  place  of  prominence  in  the  financial  circles 
of  St.  Louis. 


ABRAHAM  L.   LEVI. 


Abraham  L.  Levi,  of  the  firm  of  Greensfelder  &  Levi,  attorneys  at  law  of  St. 
Louis,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1913  and  through  the  intervening  period  has 
steadily  engaged  in  practice.  He  was  born  in  this  city  September  15,  1892,  a  son 
of  Benjamin  Levi,  a  native  of  St.  Louis  and  a  grandson  of  Aaron  Levi,  who  was 
born  in  Germany  and  came  to  the  United  States  in  1842,  establishing  his  home 
in  St.  Louis,  where  he  resided  until  his  death.  He  was  successfully  engaged  in 
merchandising  for  many  years  and  passed  away  in  1910  at  the  advanced  age  of 
ninety-two  years.  The  mother  of  Abraham  L.  Levi  bore  the  maiden  name  o£  Esther 
Harris  and  was  born  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  a  daughter  of  Louis  and  Rosa  Harris,  who 
were  of  Swedish  descent.  Mrs.  Levi  is  still  living  in  St.  Louis  and  by  her  mar- 
riage she  has  become  the  mother  of  five  children,  four  sons  and  a  daughter,  all  of 
whom  survive. 

Abraham  L.  Levi,  the  eldest  of  the  family,  obtained  a  high  school  education 
and  afterward  attended  the  Washington  and  St.  Louis  Universities  and  also  the 
Benton  College  of  Law,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1912  with  the  LL.  B. 
degree.  He  continued  his  studies  through  the  following  year  in  the  St.  Louis  Uni- 
versity and  won  the  Master  of  Arts  degree  in  1913.  Prior  to  his  graduation  he 
had  been  associated  with  his  father  in  mercantile  pursuits  and  after  completing 
his  law  course  he  entered  upon  active  practice,  in  which  he  has  since  continuously 
and  successfully  engaged,  becoming  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Greensfelder  & 
Levi  in  August,  1917.  The  firm  has  been  retained  as  counsel  for  the  defense 
pr  prosecution  in  connection  with  much  important  litigation  and  their  work  has 
been  of  constantly  increasing  importance.  Mr.  Levi  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis 
and  Missouri   Bar  Associations. 

Connected  with  the  Masonic  fraternity,  Mr.  Levi  belongs  to  St.  Louis  Lodge, 
No.   2  0,  also  to  the  Chapter  and  the  Mystic  Shrine,  to  the  Grotto,  the  Council  and 


818  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

the  Eastern  Star,  and  in  the  Scottish  Rite  has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree. 
He  belongs  also  to  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and  the  Independent 
Order  ot  B'nai  B'rith.  He  has  membership  in  the  Columbian  Club  and  the  City 
Club  and  is  a  director  ot  the  United  Hebrew  church.  In  politics  he  is  a  democrat, 
but  with  him  political  activity  is  made  subservient  to  his  professional  interests. 
He  worked  his  way  through  college  and  his  own  -earnings  enabled  him  to  meet  the 
expenses  of  his  course.  The  determination  which  he  displayed  in  securing  an 
education  is  an  indication  of  his  character  and  argues  well  for  a  successful  future. 


WILLIAM   EUGENE   HAMMES. 

William  Eugene  Hammes  was  well  known  as  a  leading  business  man,  a  lover 
of  clean  sports,  a  supporter  of  all  those  interests  and  activities  which  make  for  up- 
right manhood  and  patriotic  citizenship  and  thus  his  many  sterling  qualities  endeared 
him  to  his  fellowmen.  who  felt  keen  regret  at  his  passing,  when  on  the  21st  of  April, 
1918,  he  was  called  to  the  Home  Beyond.  He  was  born  July  24,  1882,  at  St.  Louis, 
his  parents  being  William  F.  and  Ida  (Bernardin)  Hammes,  who  came  to  this  city 
from  Fort  Scott,  Kansas.  He  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  schools  and  after- 
ward attended  the  Marion  Simms  Medical  College  but  did  not  pursue  a  professional 
career.  After  completing  his  studies  he  entered  commercial  circles  as  a  traveling 
salesman,  representing  the  John  M.  Hayes  Mercantile  Company.  He  afterward  trav- 
eled for  Harrington  &  Goodman,  of  Philadelphia,  with  branch  offices  in  St.  Louis 
and  Minneapolis.  In  1904  he  joined  his  father,  who  was  engaged  in  the  importation 
of  tailors'  woolens,  and  became  an  equal  partner  in  the  firm  of  W.  F.  Hammes  & 
Company,  with  offices  in  the  Central  National  Bank  building.  With  this  business 
he  was  identified  until  his  death  and  his  close  application,  his  unremitting  energy 
and  sound  business  judgment  constituted  factors  in  the  continued  growth  of  the 
enterprise. 

On  the  12th  of  August,  1907,  Mr.  Hammes  was  married  to  Miss  Agnes  Blessing, 
daughter  of  John  H.  Blessing,  one  of  the  well  known  stock  and  bond  brokers  of  St. 
Louis,  and  of  Louise  (Hawkins)  Blessing,  who  was  a  granddaughter  in  the  maternal 
line  of  Luther  M.  Kennett.  who  was  three  times  mayor  of  St.  Louis  and  one  ot  the 
most  prominent  attorneys  of  the  city.  The  Hawkins  family  trace  their  ancestry 
back  in  direct  line  to  Sir  John  Hawkins  of  England,  who  first  brought  the  slave  to 
America.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hammes  was  born  a  daughter,  Francine  Blessing,  who 
is  at  home  with  her  mother. 

Mr.  Hammes  was  an  enthusiastic  lover  of  outdoor  sports,  was  an  ardent  golfer 
and  equally  interested  in  fishing  and  hunting.  He  belonged  to  the  Midland  Vallfey 
Country  Club,  also  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association  and  to  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, cooperating  heartily  in  the  plans  of  the  latter  organization  for  the  upbuilding 
of  the  city,  the  advancement  and  extension  of  its  trade  relations  and  the  development 
of  civic  pride.  He  held  membership  in  the  Episcopal  church,  with  which  Mrs. 
Hammes  is  also  identified,  and  she  is  likewise  a  most  active  worker  in  the  Young 
Women's  Christian  Association,  serving  as  a  member  of  its  board  ot  directors.  The 
salient  characteristics  of  Mr.  Hammes  were  such  as  gained  for  him  a  constantly  in- 
creasing circle  of  friends.  He  never  allowed  personal  interests  or  ambitions  to  dwarf 
his  public  spirit  or  activities  and  he  rejected  everything  opposed  to  good  taste  as  the 
result  of  the  innate  refinement  of  his  nature. 


HUGH   ROBERT   ENNIS. 


Hugh  Robert  Ennis,  an  active  factor  in  the  real  estate  development  of  Kansas 
City,  was  recently  elected  president  of  the  real  estate  board,  one  of  the  city's  most 
effective  organizations.  Gifted  by  nature  with  a  keen  intellect,  alert,  energetic  and 
determined,  he  never  stops  short  ot  the  successful  accomplishment  of  his  purpose, 
recognizing  the  fact  that  when  one  avenue  of  opportunity  seems  closed  he  can  carve 
out  other  paths  whereby  to  reach  the  desired  goal. 

Mr.   Ennis  is  a  native  of  Ireland,   his   birth   having  occurred   in   County   Down, 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  819 

November  1,  1870.  his  parents  being  Thomas  and  Annie  (Menown)  Ennis.  Edu- 
cated in  the  national  schools  of  Ireland,  he  was  seventeen  years  old  when  in  1887  he 
crossed  the  Atlantic  to  America.  Through  much  of  his  life  he  has  been  actively 
identified  with  the  real  estate  business,  in  which  he  now  figures  as  the  president 
of  the  H.  R.  Ennis  Real  Estate  &  Investment  Company.  He  is  well  informed  on 
real  estate  values  and  has  a  wide  acquaintance — qualities  and  conditions  which  have 
contributed  in  marked  measure  to  his  success.  One  who  has  known  him  for  several 
decades  characterizes  him  as  "gilt-edged  in  every  way."  He  has  ever  recognized  the 
value  of  courtesy  as  well  as  of  industry  and  his  genial  manner  as  well  as  his  untir- 
ing effort  and  progressiveness  have  featured  in  his  success.  He  has  gained  a  wide 
and  well  deserved  reputation  in  real  estate  circles,  was  formerly  secretary  of  the 
National  Association  of  Real  Estate  Boards,  while  recently  he  was  elected  president 
of  the  real  estate  board  of  Kansas  City  and  is  at  present  counselor  of  the  National 
Association  of  Real  Estate  Boards  to  the  United  States  Chamber  of  Commerce.  In 
politics  Mr.  Ennis  is  a  recognized  leader,  his  opinions  carrying  weight  in  the  coun- 
cils of  the  republican  party.  He  was  presidential  elector  from  the  fifth  congressional 
district  of  Missouri  in  1912;  was  aide-de-camp  and  member  of  the  staff  of  Governor 
Hadley  in  1912,  with  the  rank  of  colonel.  He  manifests  at  all  times  a  most  active 
and  helpful  interest  in  those  matters  of  a  political  and  civic  character  which  are 
advanced  for  the  welfare  and  upbuilding  of  the  city. 

Mr.  Ennis  is  well  known  in  club  circles,  being  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  of  which  he  was  a  director  and  vice  president  in  1913-14.  He  also  has 
membership  with  the  Kansas  City,  Midday  and  Knife  &  Fork  Clubs,  serving  as  presi- 
dent of  the  latter  organization  in  1912-13.  He  likewise  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City 
Athletic  Club  and  the  City  Club.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and 
is  actively  interested  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  religious  and  moral  develop- 
ment of  his  community.  He  has  taken  a  most  helpful  part  in  charitable  and  wel- 
fare work,  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Kansas  City  Provident 
Association  and  in  1910-11  served  as  its  president.  He  also  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Public  Welfare  of  Kansas  City,  1916-1918,  and  served  as  its  president. 
He  has  been  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Research 
Hospital.  He  has  never  allowed  success  to  dwarf  his  sensibilities  concerning  his 
obligations  to  his  fellowmen.  On  the  contrary,  as  he  has  prospered  in  his  under- 
takings he  has  more  and  more  largely  assisted  those  less  fortunate  than  himself  on 
the  journey  of  life  and  his  support  and  leadership  of  any  measure  have  drawn  to 
it  a  strong  following  because  of  his  influence  and  the  recognized  soundness  of  his 
judgment. 


LEX  McDANIEL. 


Lex  McDanlel,  vice  president  of  the  Kansas  City  Title  &  Trust  Company,  was 
born  in  Saline  county.  Missouri,  April  25,  1875,  and  is  the  fourth  in  order  of  birth 
in  a  family  of  six  children  whose  parents  are  Giles  R.  and  Laura  (Garnett)  McDaniel. 
The  father  was  born  in  Boonville,  Missouri,  while  his  father  was  a  native  of  Virginia 
and  came  to  this  state  in  1842,  settling  in  Saline  county.  Giles  R.  McDaniel  has 
devoted  his  life  to  farming,  stock  raising  and  mercantile  pursuits  but  is  now  living 
retired  in  Kansas  City.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  and  his  upright, 
honorable  life  has  won  for  him  the  respect  and  esteem  of  all  with  whom  he  has  been 
brought  in  contact.  His  wife  was  born  in  Virginia  and  was  but  seven  years  of  age 
when  brought  to  Missouri.  Their  marriage  was  celebrated  in  Saline  county  and  they 
became  the  parents  of  six  children,  all  of  whom  are  yet  living,  so  that  the  family 
circle  yet  remains  unbroken  by  the  hand  of  death. 

Lex  McDaniel  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Miami,  Missouri,  and  after 
completing  his  high  school  work  there  entered  the  William  Jewell  College  at  Liberty, 
Missouri,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1902.  Before  completing 
his  college  course  he  became  actively  connected  with  the  abstract  business.  In  1890 
he  removed  to  Kansas  City  and  was  identified  with  the  Kansas  City  Abstract  Com- 
pany and  afterward  with  the  firm  of  Schueler  &  Company,  abstractors.  For  some 
time  he  was  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Commerce  Title  Company,  which 
was  later  merged  with  a  number  of  other  companies  to  form  the  Kansas  City  Title 


820  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

&  Trust  Company,  of  which  Mr.  McDaniel  has  since  been  the  vice  president,  entering 
upon  the  duties  of  this  position  in  1915.  He  is  the  manager  of  the  abstract  depart- 
ment of  the  company,  having  entire  supervision  over  this  branch  of  the  business. 

In  1902  Mr.  McDaniel  was  married  to  Miss  Maude  Wheeler,  daughter  of  W.  H. 
Wheeler,  president  of  the  Miami  Savings  Bank  of  Miami,  Missouri,  and  one  of  the 
early  settlers  there.  The  children  of  this  marriage  are:  Kirk,  sixteen  years  of  age, 
now  attending  the  Westport  high  school;  and  Elizabeth,  ten  years  of  age.  Mrs. 
McDaniel  is  a  graduate  of  Stephens  College  and  is  a  musician  of  superior  attainments. 
She  is  also  active  in  church  work  and  in  social  circles. 

Mr.  McDaniel  belongs  to  the  Cooperative  Club  and  is  a  charter  member  of  the 
Meadow  Lake  Country  Club,  in  which  he  has  served  on  the  board  of  governors  and 
as  secretary.  He  is  likewise  connected  with  the  Knife  &  Fork  Club  and  during 
his  college  days  he  became  a  member  of  Phi  Gamma  Delta.  His  religious  faith  is 
manifest  in  his  connection  with  the  Westport  Baptist  church,  in  which  he  has  served 
as  deacon  and  trustee  and  in  the  work  of  which  he  takes  a  most  active  and  helpful 
interest.  He  has  been  superintendent  of  its  Sunday  school,  chairman  of  the  finance 
committee,  a  member  of  the  city  mission  board  and  a  member  and  treasurer  of  the 
state  board.  He  is  most  generous  in  his  support  of  the  church  and  allied  benevolent 
and  philanthropic  enterprises  and  never  withholds  his  aid  from  any  movement  which 
he  believes  will  make  for  the  uplift  of  the  individual  or  the  betterment  of  the  com- 
munity. Good  commonsense  and  close  application  have  constituted  the  salient  forces 
in  his  successful  business  career,  while  a  cordial  and  friendly  disposition  and  a  spirit 
of  fairness  and  frankness  have  brought  him  warm  friendship  throughout  the  period 
o£  his  residence  in  Kansas  City. 


WILLIAM   F.    EVANS. 


William  P.  Evans,  who  possesses  rare  business  judgment,  intimate  familiarity 
with  business  conditions,  extensive  knowledge  of  local  and  general  economic  matters, 
strict  honesty  and  integrity,  all  resulting  in  and  responsible  for  his  successful  busi- 
ness career,  is  general  solicitor  for  the  St.  Louis  &  San  Francisco  Railway,  with  which 
he  has  thus  been  connected  since  1904.  He  was  born  in  Monroe  county,  Iowa, 
November  17,  1859,  a  son  of  William  and  Margarett  J.  (Vestal)  Evans.  The  father 
was  a  merchant  and  banker  of  Centerville,  Iowa,*  and  for  more  than  ten  years  filled 
the  office  of  county  treasurer  of  Appanoose  county  and  was  otherwise  very  active 
in  public  affairs  for  the  general  improvement  of  the  community  and  the  best  interests 
of  the  people.  Both  he  and  his  wife  were  born  in  Putnam  county,  Indiana,  and 
came  of  Kentucky  ancestry. 

William  F.  Evans  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Centerville,  Iowa,  and 
when  his  textbooks  were  put  aside  began  working  in  banks  belonging  to  William 
Bradley,  who  was  the  owner  of  several  banking  institutions  in  Iowa  and  Missouri. 
While  thus  employed  he  took  up  the  study  of  law  and  about  1885  entered  the  law 
office  of  Vermilion  &  Vermilion  of  Centerville,  Iowa,  with  whom  he  continued  his 
reading  for  two  years  and  added  thereto  the  practical  experience  of  actual  training 
in  law  work.  He  was  then  admitted  to  the  bar  and  entered  upon  the  general  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  in  Centerville,  where  he  remained  for  about  a  year.  On  the 
1st  of  September,  1888,  he  became  attorney  for  the  Rock  Island  Railroad  Company  at 
Atchison,  Kansas,  in  which  connection  a  contemporary  biographer  wrote  of  him:  "In 
those  early  days,  which  meant  the  early  life  and  the  picturesque  days  of  the  middle 
west,  both  as  to  men  and  events,  who  figured  in,  and  which  went  to  make  up,  the 
wild  days  of  that  period  and  section  of  our  western  country,  he  played  an  active 
and  a  useful  part,  and  in  the  constant  and  varied  litigation  with  which  he  was 
associated,  and  over  which  he  had  control,  he  grew  into  and  became  a  strong  man 
in  the  competition  of  lite."  In  1892  he  was  advanced  to  the  position  of  assistant 
general  attorney  of  the  Rock  Island  railway,  having  removed  to  Topeka,  Kansas,  to 
become  identified  with  the  general  offices  of  the  road  in  that  city.  With  growing 
and  conspicuous  ability  he  handled  the  varied  interests  committed  to  his  care  until 
1902,  when  he  removed  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  to  take  charge  of  the  legal  depart- 
ment of  the  Rock  Island  railway  system  in  Missouri;  and  when  that  road  in  1904 
became  identified  with  the  St.  Louis  &  San  Francisco  Railway,  he  entered  the  serv- 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  823 

ice  of  the  latter  corporation  as  its  general  attorney  and  lias  since  remained  at  the 
head  of  its  legal  department  in  the  west.  In  May,  1913,  when  the  railroad  with  all 
of  its  vast  and  complicated  affairs,  crumbled  and  went  into  the  hands  of  a  receiver, 
it  fell  to  the  lot  of  Mr.  Evans  to  attend  to  the  legal  affairs  of  the  receivership. 

During  all  the  years  since  1884,  now  more  than  a  third  of  a  century,  Mr. 
Evans  has  grown,  and  never  ceased  to  grow,  in  strength,  power  and  influence,  until 
today  he  is  one  of  the  strong  men  of  the  country.  He  has  a  calm,  powerful  mind 
and  a  rare,  clear  and  correct  judgment  of  men  and  events,  united  to  an  executive 
ability  which  is  seldom  found  and  which  few  men  possess.  In  all  the  many  years 
of  his  crowded  experience,  with  a  multitude  of  accumulating  interests  of  vast  im- 
portance constantly  demanding  his  care  and  guidance,  he  has  been  a  faithful,  sure 
and  wise  counselor,  and  most  splendidly  has  he  shielded  and  cared  for  every  trust 
or  matter  which  has  been  committed  to  him,  proving  a  tower  of  strength  to  those 
who  have  looked  to  him  for  sate  guidance. 

Mr.  Evans  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis,  Racquet,  Noonday  and  Bellerive  Country 
Clubs.  He  is  a  quiet,  unassuming  man,  but  of  strong  personality.  He  is  well 
versed  in  current  literature,  particularly  relating  to  social,  economic,  financial 
and  political  matters,  and  he  is  also  a  reader  of  history  and  fiction.  In  speech 
he  is  forceful  and  direct  rather  than  oratorical.  A  prominent  citizen  of  St.  Louis, 
writing  of  Mr.  Evans,  said;  "He  has  a  singularly  handsome  presence,  great  industry, 
and  possesses  an  accurate  and  thoroughly  trained  mind,  and  is  a  fine  and  capable 
lawyer.  Amongst  a  wide  circle  of  friends,  drawn  from  all  classes  of  society,  he  is 
beloved,  and  many  hearts  are  grateful  for  the  material  help  which  he  has  lavishly 
bestowed  upon  them.  He  is  a  man  of  large  wealth,  all  of  which  he  has  accumu- 
lated by  his  industry  and  wise  thrift.  He  has  never  married  and  finds  his  simple 
pleasures  in  his  work,  and  amongst  a  wide  circle  of  friends,  who  love  and  admire 
him.  Pew  men  have  done  more  for  good  than  he  has  and  none  command  more  of 
confidence  than  he  does.  His  life  has  been  one  of  constant  activity  and  of  great 
good  and  usefulness.  His  work  has  been  constructive  and  good  and  will  continue 
to  live  after  he  shall  have  ended  his  laborious  and  brilliant  career." 


HARRY   E.   KEMP. 


Harry  E.  Kemp,  who  since  January,  1920,  has  been  income  tax  auditor  and  who 
is  also  a  well  known  attorney  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  September  5,  1881,  in  Tuscarawas 
county,  Ohio,  a  son  of  John  and  Katharine  (Sherer)  Kemp,  who  are  also  natives  of 
the  same  county.  The  latter  is  a  daughter  of  Jacob  Sherer,  who  was  born  in  Germany 
and  came  to  America  in  young  manhood.  Her  brother  was  a  soldier  of  the  Union 
army  in  the  Civil  war.  The  Kemp  family  is  of  Scotch  descent  and  was  founded  in 
America  by  the  gi-andfather  of  Harry  E.  Kemp,  who  settled  on  a  farm  in  Tuscarawas 
county,  Ohio.  John  Kemp,  reared  to  the  occupation  of  farming,  engaged  in  agricul- 
tural pursuits  throughout  his  active  life,  retiring  at  the  age  of  eighty  years. 

Harry  E.  Kemp  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  county  until  about  twenty- 
one  years  of  age,  and  later  became  a  student  in  the  Georgetown  University  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  He  was  graduated  from  Fremont  College  of  Nebraska,  with  the  Bachelor 
of  Arts  degree  in  1906;  from  the  Benton  College  of  Law,  of  St.  Louis,  with  the  LL.  B. 
degree  in  1914  and  Georgetown  University  conferred  upon  him  the  Master  of  Law 
degree  in  1919.  His  student  days  were  not  continuous,  for  at  different  periods  he 
engaged  in  teaching.  After  leaving  Fremont  College  he  taught  in  various  high  schools 
in '  several  different  states,  the  last  position  of  this  character  being  in  the  Yeatman 
high  school  in  St.  Louis.  He  proved  a  capable  educator,  and  gave -the  knowledge  he 
had  acquired  clearly  and  readily  to  others.  He  afterward  worked  as  auditor  in  the 
Income  Tax  Bureau  at  Washington,  D.  C,  for  two  years,  and  returned  to  St.  Louis 
as  an  attorney  and  income  tax  auditor  in  January,  1920.  He  specializes  in  income  tax 
matters  and  has  many  large  and  well  satisfied  clients  throughout  the  city  and  state. 

On  the  4th  of  May,  1913,  in  Chicago,  Mr.  Kemp  was  married  to  Miss  Florence  R. 
Lane,  a  daughter  of  Louis  Lane,  who  was  a  retired  farmer  of  Warrensburg,  Missouri. 
While  living  in  Tennessee  during  the  Civil  war  he  and  his  brother  were  captured  by 
the  Confederates,  but  on  their  way  to  the  southern  prison  the  boys  escaped. 

Mr.   Kemp   is   a   republican   in   his    political   views,   but   has   never   been   an   office 


824  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

seeker.  He  and  his  wife  are  members  o£  the  Union  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of 
St.  Louis,  and  while  teaching  at  Decatur,  Illinois,  he  became  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
Lodge,  No.  8,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Decatur  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.;  and  Beaumanoir  Commandery, 
K.  T.  He  belongs  to  both  the  St.  Louis  and  Missouri  State  Bar  Associations.  He  is 
yet  a  young  man  whose  continuous  progress  argues  well  for  a  successful  future,  and 
already  during  the  brief  period  of  his  residence  in  St.  Louis  he  has  built  up  a  clientage 
that  makes  his  business  an  important  and  gratifying  one. 


CHARLES  HENRY  BROWN. 

Charles  Henry  Brown,  who  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  vice  president  of 
the  Moon  Brothers  Carriage  Company  of  St.  Louis,  was  of  English  descent  and  was 
born  January  29,  1855,  in  Grand  Pre,  Nova  Scotia,  made  famous  as  the  opening 
scene  of  Longfellow's  beautiful  poem  "Evangeline."  He  was  a  first  cousin  and 
an  intimate  associate  .of  Sir  Frederick  Borden  of  the  English  army,  who  was 
present  by  royal  command  at  the  coronation  of  King  Edward  and  was  the  first 
officer  to  be  knighted  by  the  king  following  his  ascension  to  the  throne.  He  was 
also  a  first  cousin  of  Sir  Robert  Borden,  who  was  for  many  years  premier  of  Canada 
and  who  occupied  a  place  at  the  peace  table  after  the  armistice  was  signed  in 
the  World  war.  The  parents  of  Mr.  Brown  were  Charles  H.  and  Lila  (Piers) 
Brown,  also  of  Grand  Pre,  the  father  being  a  prominent  man  of  affairs  there. 
Charles  Henry  Brown  was  an  infant  of  but  three  days  when  his  parents  passed 
away,  both  dying  within  an  hour.  Two  days  later  his  uncle.  Dr.  Edward  Brown, 
drove  with  hin;  to  his  home — a  distance  of  eleven  miles — in  the  dead  of  winter. 
Later  he  was  taken  by  this  uncle  to  Kentville,  Canada,  where  he  was  reared 
and  educated.  Believing  that  he  would  have  greater  opportunities  across  the 
border,  he  left  his  uncle's  home  when  sixteen  years  of  age  and  finally  settled  at 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  where  he  took  up  the  carpenter's  and  joiner's  trade.  He 
displayed  such  marked  skill  and  ability  along  mechanical  lines  and  wielded  such 
an  influence  over  the  men  with  whom  he  worked  that  after  an  apprenticeship  of  - 
but  six  weeks  he  was  made  superintendent  of  construction  by  his  employers.  For 
four  years  he  remained  in  Boston  and  in  1875  went  to  Wolfville,  Canada,  where 
he  accepted  a  clerkship  with  his  uncle,  Fred  Brown,  who  was  engaged  in  the 
hardware  business.  Through  the  following  three  years,  by  frugality  and  close 
application  to  business,  he  had  acquired  sufficient  capital  to  enable  him  to  engage 
in  business  on  his  own  account  and  in  1878  he  established  a  hardware  store  in 
Wolfville,  which  he  conducted  until  1881.  At  that  time  he  sold  his  stock  and 
removed  to  the  west,  settling  in  St.  Louis  in  1882.  In  this  city  he  secured  a  posi- 
tion as  bookkeeper  for  the  Moon  Brothers  Carriage  Company,  in  which  capacity 
he  continued  for  about  a  year.  He  was  then  advanced  to  the  position  of  com- 
mercial salesman  by  the  house  and  it  was  in  this  capacity  that  he  demonstrated  his 
business  ability  in  winning  new  business  and  in  opening  up  larger  fields.  In  fact 
he  became  a  dominant  factor  in  the  development  and  expansion  of  the  trade,  and 
in  recognition  of  his  knowledge  of  the  business  and  the  excellent  results  attending 
his  efforts  he  was  taken  into  the  firm  and  elected  vice  president  of  the  company. 
In  subsequent  years  he  was  an  active  factor  in  the  control  of  the  business  and  the 
leading  element   in   the   remarkable   success   built   up   by   the   firm. 

On  the  29th  of  December,  1886,  Mr.  Brown  was  married  at  Perryville,  Mis- 
souri, to  Miss  Mattie  A.  Burgee,  daughter  of  James  and  Emily  C.  (Brown)  Burgee. 
To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brown  was  born  a  daughter,  Emily  A.,  who  is  a  graduate  of 
Bishop  Robertson's  Hall  and  who  married  Major  Bernard  A.  Purcell,  a  major 
of  the  Eighty-second  Regiment,  which  acquitted  itself  so  valiantly  in  the  World 
war.      They   have   two   children,   Bernice   and    Bernard    A.,    Jr. 

In  politics  Mr.  Brown  was  always  active  in  furthering  the  principles  of  good 
government  and  after  coming  to  the .  United  States  affiliated  himself  with  the 
republican  party.  In  religion  he  was  an  Episcopalian  and  when  but  twenty-one 
years  of  age  was  made  a  warden  in  the  church,  in  the  work  of  which  he  always 
took  an  active  and  helpful  part.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Legion  of  Honor  but 
was  never  a  club  man  and  found  his  greatest  pleasure  and  enjoyment  in  his  home 
life.  He  was  a  big  man  mentally  as  well  as  physically.  He  loved  mankind  and 
just  to  be  permitted  to  live  in  this  big,  active  world  was  a  delight  to  him.     He 


CHARLES    H.    BROWN 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  827 

looked  on  all  mankind  as  brothers  and  no  one  in  distress  ever  appealed  to  him 
in  vain  for  aid.  He  was  equally  mindful  of  the  needs  and  protection  of  animals. 
He  died  August  25,  189  9,  at  the  comparatively  early  age  of  forty-four  years.  His 
had  been  a  nature  that  shed  around  him  much  of  the  sunshine  of  lite.  "Not  the 
good  that  comes  to  us,  but  the  good  that  comes  to  the  world  through  us,  is  the 
measure  of  our  success,"  and  judged  by  this  standard  Mr.  Brown  was  a  most  suc- 
cessful man,  his  sterling  worth  of  character  and  his  many  good  deeds  winning  him 
the   respect,  confidence  and  goodwill  of  all   who  knew   him. 


JESSE   F.  ANDERSON. 


Jesse  F.  Anderson,  of  Kansas  City,  who  excels  as  an  attorney  in  an  advisory 
capacity  rather  than  as  a  trial  lawyer,  was  born  in  Maryville,  Missouri,  April  25,  1885, 
his  parents  being  Frank  and  Jennie  (Summers)  Anderson.  The  father's  birth  occurred 
in  Harrisonville,  Ohio,  while  the  mother  was  born  in  Holt  county,  Missouri.  The 
former  came  to  the  west  in  young  manhood  and  entered  into  active  connection  with 
the  Missouri  bar,  practicing  law  in  Maryville.  He  also  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits 
and  was  very  active  in  the  upbuilding  and  development  of  the  town  in  which  he  estab- 
lished his  home.  He  belonged  to  the  Masonic  fraternity,  to  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  was  very  active  in  lodge  work. 

Jesse  F.  Anderson,  spending  his  youthful  days  under  tke  parental  roof,  attended 
the  Maryville  high  school  and  afterward  matriculated  in  the  University  of  Nebraska, 
at  which  time  General  J.  J.  Pershing  was  commandant  of  the  military  organization  of 
the  state  university  there.  Mr.  Anderson  was  active  in  connection  with  track  work. 
He  afterward  pursued  his  law  course  at  Yalei  where  Ihe  LL.  B.  degree  was  conferred 
upon  him  in  1909.  He  then  entered  upon  active  practice  in  Kansas  City  and  in  1911 
and  1912  tilled  the  office  of  assistant  city  counselor.  Since  then  he  has  concentrated 
his  efforts  upon  general  law  practice  but  takes  no  criminal  cases.  He  is  a  modest, 
dignified  gentleman  of  splendid  qualities  who  has  won  success  at  the  bar  because 
of  his  diligence,  integrity  and  insight  and  his  consistent  work.  He  excels  as  a 
counselor  and  student  of  law,  his  work  being  characterized  by  clear  thinking  and 
logical  reasoning.  He  has  membership  with  the  Kansas  City,  Missouri  State  and 
American    Bar   Associations. 

In  1915  Mr.  Anderson  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Taylor  Keith,  a  daughter  of 
Richard  H.  Keith,  former  president  of  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Company  and  who 
was  one  of  the  prominent  residents  of  Kansas  City.  Mr.  Anderson  belongs  to  the  Phi 
Gamma  Delta,  also  to  the  Book  and  Gavel  Society  (Yale),  to  the  Phi  Alpha  Delta  and 
to  the  Theta  Nu  Epsilon.  He  is  also  connected  with  the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  and"  the  City  Club,  and  during  America's  connection  with  the  World 
war  took  a  very  active  and  helpful  part  in  all  war  work. 


OTTO    W.    HAMMER. 


Otto  W.  Hammer,  who  has  spent  his  entire  life  in  St.  Louis,  has  advanced  to 
an  enviable  position  in  the  ranks  of  the  legal  profession  and  at  the  same  time  has 
become  well  known  throughout  the  state  by  reason  of  his  activity  as  a  supporter  of 
the  democratic  party.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  October  16,  1880,  and  is  a  son  of 
Ludwig  F.  and  Julia  M.  (Path)  Hammer.  The  father  Is  a  widely  known  and  prominent 
business  man,  being  president  of  the  Hammer  Dry  Plate  Company  of  St.  Louis,  con- 
trolling extensive  interests  of  that  character. 

Otto  W.  Hammer,  pursuing  a  public  school  education,  passed  through  consecutive 
grades  to  the  high  school  and  following  his  graduation  therefrom  attended  the  Wash- 
ington University,  which  he  entered  in  1899,  therein  completing  a  law  course  in 
1901,  at  which  time  the  LL.  B.  degree  was  conferred  upon  him.  He  enjoys  the  high 
regard,  confidence  and  goodwill  of  his  professional  brethren,  with  whom  he  Is 
closely  associated  through  his  membership  in  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association,  the 
Missouri  Bar  Association  and  the  American  Bar  Association.  He  conducts  a  general 
practice,   specializing  to   some   extent   in   civil   and   corporation   law,   and   he   practices 


828  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

in  all  of  the  state  and  federal  courts.  His  clientage  from  the  beginning  has  been  of 
an  important  character  and  he  has  been  connected  with  much  litigation  that  has 
attracted  wide  attention.  His  comprehensive  knowledge  of  the  law,  his  thorough  study 
of  his  cases  and  his  correct  application  of  legal  principles  make  for  success  in  all  of 
his  professional  work. 

Mr.  Hammer  occupies  pleasant  apartments  at  No.  3252  South  Grand  avenue,  in 
one  of  the  most  attractive  residential  districts  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  married  in  1910 
and  has  one  child,  a  daughter.  He  finds  recreation  in  golf  and  belongs  to  the  Sunset 
Hill  Country  Club,  the  Century  Boat  Club  and  also  to  the  Royal  Arcanum.  His  religious 
faith  is  that  of  the  Lutheran  church.  In  politics  he  has  always  been  a  democrat 
and  is  a  recognized  leader  in  the  ranks  of  the  party  in  Missouri,  doing  active  work 
in  its  support  in  both  state  and  national  affairs.  He  was  appointed  by  Governor  Major 
in  1913  as  secretary  of  the  Missouri  School  for  the  Blind.  He  took  a  most  helpful 
interest  in  war  activities,  promoting  the  sale  of  Liberty  bonds  and  the  various  drives 
■which  contributed  to  the  success  of  the  American  army  and  its  allies. 


WALTER   B.   RICHARDS. 


Walter  B.  Richards,  the  vice  president  of  the  Richards  &  Conover  Hardware  Com- 
pany of  Kansas  City,  was  born  in  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  April  16,  1860,  and  is  a  son 
of  John  Francisco  Richards,  who  was  the  founder  of  the  great  hardware  business  of 
which  his  son  is  now  the  vice  president.  The  father  was  born  at  Warm  Springs,  Bath 
county,  Virginia,  October  23,  1834,  his  parents  being  Walter  and  Nancy  (Mayse)  Richards, 
both  of  whom  were  natives  of  the  Old  Dominion,  and  the  latter  was  a  daughter  of 
Joseph  Mayse,  who  served  in  the  Indian  wars  in  Virginia  and  was  a  lieutenant  of  a 
company  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 

John  F.  Richards  obtained  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis  and 
In  the  academy  at  Pleasant  Hill,  Missouri,  having  come  to  this  state  with  his  parents 
in  1836.  His  father  passed  away  the  following  year,  while  the  mother's  death 
occurred  in  St.  Louis  in  1848,  John  F.  Richards  being  at  that  time  a  lad  of  but  four- 
teen years.  Thus  thrown  upon  his  own  resources,  he  found  it  difficult  to  obtain  an 
education  and  meet  his  expenses,  but  nevertheless  he  persevered  and  early  recognized 
the  value  of  industry  and  determination  as  active  forces  in  the  attainment  of  success. 
For  three  years  he  engaged  in  clerking  at  Sibley,  Missouri,  and  in  1853  became  clerk 
to  an  Indian  agent  at  Fort  Laramie,  Wyoming.  His  eighteen  months'  clerkship  there 
was  followed  by  a  brief  period  as  clerk  on  a  Missouri  river  steamer  and  he  then 
became  identified  with  the  hardware  trade  in  St.  Louis  but  in  1857  removed  to  Leaven- 
worth, Kansas,  where  he  established  a  hardware  business  on  his  own  account.  For 
thirty  years  he  successfully  conducted  his  store  there  and  in  1887  came  to  Kansas 
City,  where  twelve  years  before  he  had  established  a  branch  house.  Through  the 
intervening  period  he  has  remained  a  resident  of  the  western  metropolis  of  Missouri 
and  his  name  has  figured  prominently  in  connection  with  its  commercial  development. 
Six  years  after  the  establishment  of  the  hardware  house  the  firm  name  of  J.  F. 
Richards  &  Company  was  adopted  and  the  business  conducted  along  both  wholesale 
and  retail  lines.  In  1882  it  was  incorporated  as  the  Richards  &  Conover  Hardware 
Company  and  it  remains  one  of  the  largest  enterprises  of  this  character  in  the  west. 
In  the  meantime  Mr.  Richards  disposed  of  his  interests  in  Leavenworth  and  bent  all 
of  his  energies  to  the  development  of  the  Kansas  City  house,  his  broad  experience, 
tireless  energy  and  keen  business  sagacity  resulting  in  the  upbuilding  of  an  estab- 
lishment which  is  now  classed  with  the  leading  commercial  interests  of  the  city.  He 
also  became  the  vice  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Kansas  City  and  long  served 
as  one  of  its  directors.  He  has  now  reached  the  age  of  eighty-six  years  and  remains 
an  honored  and  venerated  resident  of  Kansas  City,  who  has  reached  the  evening  of 
his  days  with  an  untarnished  name,  knowing  that  his  life  work  has  constituted  a 
valuable  contribution  to  the  community  in  which  he  lives.  During  the  Civil  war  he 
was  a  member  of  Company  C,  Nineteenth  Kansas  Militia,  and  participated  in  the 
battle  of  Westport,  October  23,  1864.  He  has  always  given  his  political  allegiance 
to  the  democratic  party  and  he  led  the  fight  that  secured  city  ownership  of  the 
water  works  and  has  been  equally  stalwart  in  his  championship  of  other  valuable 
progressive  public  measures.     In  Masonry  he  has  attained  the  Knight  Templar  degree. 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  829 

On  the  16th  o£  June,  1857,  Mr.  Richards  was  married  to  Miss  Martha  A.  Harrelson, 
daughter  of  Joseph  A.  Harrelson,  of  Sibley,  Missouri.  She  passed  away  in  1874,  leaving 
seven  children,  of  whom  four  are  yet  living.  On  the  1st  of  December,  1877,  Mr.  Richards 
was  married  to  Mrs.  L.  M.  Durfee,  of  Fairport,  New  York,  who  died  in  Kansas  City, 
December  19,  1906. 

Walter  B.  Richards,  after  attending  the  public  schools,  entered  Washington  Uni- 
versity of  St.  Louis  and  later  went  to  Ithaca,  New  York,  to  become  a  Cornell  student 
and  was  there  graduated  in  1883.  With  his  return  home  he  became  identified  with 
the  Richards  &  Conover  Hardware  Company,  with  which  he  has  since  been  closely 
associated.  As  he  mastered  the  various  phases  and  principles  of  the  business  he  was 
gradually  promoted  and  for  a  number  of  years  has  occupied  the  vice  presidency,  his 
father  still  retaining  the  presidency,  while  George  B.  Richards  is  also  a  vice  president, 
and  J.  A.  Conover  is  secretary.  From  the  beginning  the  house  has  maintained  an 
unassailable  reputation  for  integrity  and  an  enviable  reputation  for  enterprise  and 
progressiveness.  Walter  B.  Richards  also  figures  in  financial  circles,  having  been  a 
director  of  the  Fidelity  National  Bank  &  Trust  Company  since  its  Incorporation. 

In  1884  Mr.  Richards  was  married  to  Miss  Gertrude  Mersereau  of  Owego,  Tioga 
county.  New  York,  and  they  have  two  children:  Adelina,  who  is  the  wife  of  S.  W. 
Sawyer,  a  prominent  Kansas  City  attorney,  and  the  mother  of  one  daughter,  Martha 
Ann;  and  Martha,  the  wife  of  Frank  J.  Fletcher,  a  United  States  navy  officer  now 
located  In  Washington,  D.  C. 

Mr.  Richards  has  long  been  keenly  interested  in  agricultural  pursuits  and  owns  a 
valuable  farm  property  near  Kansas  City,  finding  great  pleasure  in  its  supervision 
and  further  development.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  CommeTce  and  cooperates 
heartily  in  all  of  the  plans  of  that  organization  for  the  city's  upbuilding  and  improve- 
ment. He  belongs  as  well  to  the  University  Club,  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City 
Club  and  his  religious  faith  is  manifest  in  his  connection  with  St.  Paul's  Episcopal 
church. 


OTHO  F.  MATTHEWS. 


For  twenty-three  years  Otho  F.  Matthews  has  been  a  representative  of  the 
Macon  bar.  He  entered  upon  the  practice  of  law  with  a  realization  of  the  fact 
that  industiy  and  close  application  are  just  as  essential  in  a  professional  career 
as  in  industrial  or  commercial  pursuits.  He  has  therefore  ever  displayed  great 
thoroughness  and  earnestness  in  the  preparation  as  well  as  in  the  presentation  of 
his  cases  and  has  made  gradual  advancement  in  a  calling  where  progress  depends 
entirely  upon  individual  merit  and  ability  until  he  stands  today  as  a  foremost 
representative  of  the  legal  profession  in  his  section  of  the  state.  Macon  is  proud 
to  number  him  among  her  native  sons.  He  was  born  May  21,  1875,  his  father 
being  Judge  R.  S.  Matthews,  now  deceased.  He  began  his  education  at  the  usual 
age  and  passed  through  consecutive  grades  in  the  public  schools  of  Macon  until 
graduated  from  the  high  school  with  the  class  of  1890.  He  then  had  the  oppor- 
tunity of  attending  the  University  of  Missouri  for  two  years,  after  which  he  ma- 
triculated in  the  Cumberland  University  at  Lebanon,  Tennessee,  where  he  was 
graduated  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1896.  He 
thus  laid  broad  and  deep  the  foundation  upon  which  to  build  professional  training. 
Having  determined  to  enter  upon  the  practice  of  law  as  a  life  work,  he  became  a 
student  in  the  office  of  his  father,  who  was  a  distinguished  attorney,  and  in  Sep- 
tember, 1897,  he  passed  the  required  examination  for  admission  to  the  bar.  Judge 
Andrew  Ellison  conducting  the  test.  Mr.  Matthews  at  once  entered  into  partner- 
ship with  his  father  under  the  firm  style  of  Matthews  &  Son  and  throughout  the 
intervening  period  has  been  continuously  engaged  In  law  practice.  His  compre- 
hensive knowledge  of  the  principles  of  jurisprudence,  with  ability  to  apply  accurate- 
ly such  principles,  has  been  a  dominant  factor  in  his  progress  and  for  a  long  period 
public  opinion  has  accorded  him  a  distinguished  place  in  the  ranks  of  the  legal 
fraternity  of  Macon  county.  His  clientage  has  long  been  extensive  and  of  an 
important  character  and  he  is  now  serving  as  counsel  for  the  Macon  County  Bank 
and  also  for  the  Still-Hildreth  Sanitarium,  of  which  he  has  also  been  a  member 
of  the  executive  board  since  the  Institution  was  established. 


830  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

On  the  25th  of  December,  1901,  Mr.  Matthews  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Alby 
Anderson,  a  granddaughter  of  Thomas  L.  Anderson,  who  for  many  years  repre- 
sented the  first  Missouri  district  in  congress  and  was  widely  known  as  a  distinguished 
lawyer  and  orator.  Her  father,  William  R.  Anderson,  was  also  one  of  the  promi- 
nent members  of  the  bar  of  Palmyra  and  a  brother  of  the  late  Rufus  Anderson 
of  Hannibal,  Missouri.  Mrs.  Matthews  seems  to  have  inherited  the  keen  intellect 
and  literary  talent  of  her  forebears.  She  has  long  been  known  as  a  contributor 
to  literature  and  is  the  author  of  a  novel,  "Love  vs.  Law,"  which  was  very  ex- 
tensively sold  throughout  the  country  and  received  many  favorable  notices  in  the 
newspapers  and  literary  reviews.  She  is  also  a  member  of  the  bar  and  prior  to 
her  marriage  served  with  ability  as  city  attorney  of  Palmyra,  Missouri.  She  be- 
longs to  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution  and  in  social  circles  in  Macon 
has  long  occupied  a  leading  position.  Her  broad  intelligence  and  kindliness  make 
her  a  most  gracious  and  charming  hostess  and  the  hospitality  of  the  Matthews 
home  is  greatly  enjoyed  by  a  host  of  friends. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Matthews  hold  membership  in  the  Presbyterian  church  and  he 
has  been  one  of  the  trustees  and  the  treasurer  of  the  board  of  the  McGee  Presbj'- 
tery.  He  is  also  prominent  in  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and 
he  takes  a  most  keen  and  helpful  interest  in  everything  that  pertains  to  the  wel- 
fare and  progress  of  his  native  city.  His  political  allegiance  has  been  unfalteringly 
given  to  the  democratic  party  since  age  conferred  upon  him  the  right  of  franchise 
and  even  before  that  period  he  had  become  an  earnest  and  effective  worker  for 
the  success  of  his  political  organization.  In  1904  he  was  the  democratic  candidate 
for  the  office  of  prosecuting  attorney  but  was  defeated  at  the  primary  election.  This 
by  no  means  decreased  his  loyalty  to  his  party,  however,  and  he  has  been  un- 
faltering in  his  support  of  every  legitimate  plan  and  measure  for -its  advancement. 
Municipal  welfare  has  ever  been  a  matter  of  deep  concern  to  him  and  his  labors 
in  behalf  of  the  city's  upbuilding  and  his  knowledge  of  its  needs  gave  him  great 
hold  on  the  confidence  and  regard  of  his  fellow  townsmen  and  secured  for  him 
a  very  substantial  support  when  he  became  candidate  for  mayor  of  Macon  in  1910. 
He  was  elected  to  the  office  by  a  majority  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  votes  over  his 
republican  opponent,  although  the  city  was  normally  republican  by  a  majority  of 
from  eighty  to  one  hundred.  His  fellow  townsmen  knew  him  as  a  man  of  thorough 
reliability,  of  progressive  spirit  and  sound  judgment,  whose  interest  in  the  welfare 
of  the  city  was  above  partisanship  and  whose  capacity  for  wise  administration  was 
pronounced.  His  course  in  office  showed  that  public  approval  and  confidence  had 
not  been  misplaced,  as  he  discharged  his  duties  with  strict  adherence  to  the  best 
interests  of  the  city  at  large  and  introduced  many  needed  reforms  and  improve- 
ments. His  life  might  be  termed  uneventful  if  judged  by  the  absence  of  spec- 
tacular phases,  but  throughout  his  career  there  ha?  been  displayed  a  marked  devo- 
tion to  duty  and  a  high  sense  of  personal  and  professional  honor  that  has  made 
him  one  of  the  most  valued  citizens  of  Macon. 


CHARLES    W.    DISBROW. 


Charles  W.  Disbrow,  president  of  the  American  Automobile  Insurance  Com- 
pany, with  ofllces  in  the  Pierce  building  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  New  York  city, 
.luly  4,  1S74,  and  comes  of  English  ancestry,  although  the  family  was  founded  in 
Connecticut  in  1664,  and  thus  from  early  colonial  days  was  represented  in  New 
England.  Members  of  the  family  participated  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  the  War 
of  1812  and  in  the  Civil  war. 

The  eldest  in  a  family  of  three  children,  Charles  W.  Disbrow  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools  of  New  York  city  and  in  the  New  York  Law  School,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  with  the  LL.  B.  degree  in  the  class  of  1896.  He  then  entered  upon  the 
practice  of  law  in  the  American  metropolis,  there  remaining  until  1899,  when  he 
removed  to  Denver,  Colorado,  where  he  practiced  his  profession  until  19  04.  He  then 
turned  his  attention  to  the  general  casualty  insurance  business  and  operated  suc- 
cessfully along  that  line  until  1908,  w-hen  he  removed  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  be- 
came interested  in  the  insurance  business  in  this  city.  In  1911  he  organized  the 
American  Automobile  Insurance  Company,  which  is  the  largest  concern  of  the  kind 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  833 

in  the  United  States,  its  many  clients  making  its  patronage  today  one  of  mammoth 
proportions. 

On  the  15th  of  April,  1897,  Mr.  Disbrow  was  married  in  Hoboken,  New  Jersey, 
to  Miss  Anna  M.  Oesterreich.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Disbrow  have  five  children:  Ruth, 
Marie,  Charles,  Prances  and  John.  They  reside  at  No.  533  East  Argonne  Drive  in 
Kirkwood  and  Mr.  Disbrow  is  a  director  of  the  Kirkwood  Trust  Company.  He 
is  the  author  of  "Disbrow's  Digest  of  the  New  York  Code  of  Civil  Procedure"  and  also 
"Periodic  Financial  Panics."  His  membership  connections  are  broad,  showing  a 
variety  of  interests  and  activities.  He  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Club,  the  Noonday 
Club,  the  Racquet  Club  and  the  University  Club,  all  of  St.  Louis,  the  Kirkwood 
Country  Club,  and  the  St.  Louis  Chamber  of  Commerce.  His  religious  belief  is  mani- 
fest in  his  connection  with  Grace  Episcopal  church  of  Kirkwood.  Politically  he  is  a 
republican  and  takes  an  active  interest  in  the  success  of  his  party,  while  his  aid  and 
support  are  ever  given  to  those  plans  and  projects  which  seek  to  promote  public 
welfare  and  advance  civic  ideals.  Personally  he  possesses  initiative  and  enterprise, 
which  have  gained  him  prominence  in  insurance  circles,  while  his  geniality  is  the 
basis  of  a  wide  friendship. 


MARSHALL  HALL. 


Marshall  Hall,  president  of  the  Marshall  Hall  Grain  Company,  with  offices  in 
the  Merchants  Exchange  building  in  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  North  Fork,  Macon 
county,  Kentucky,  Januai'y  13,  1875.  He  comes  of  English  ancestry,  the  progenitor 
of  the  family  having  settled  in  New  England  during  the  colonial  epoch  of  our 
country's  history.  Representatives  of  the  name  participated  in  the  Revolutionary 
war  and  one  was  a  lieutenant.  Carey  J.  Hall,  father  of  Marshall  Hall,  was  a 
native  of  Virginia,  where  members  of  the  family  early  took  up  their  abode,  remov- 
ing from  New  England  to  the  south.  After  the  close  of  the  Civil  war  Carey  Hall 
removed  to  Kentucky,  where  he  resided  until  his  death  in  1901,  when  he  was 
sixty-five  years  of  age.  He  had  served  as  a  captain  in  the  Confederate  army 
throughout  the  entire  period  of  hostilities  and  was  wounded  in  the  face  at  the 
battle  of  Chancellorsville,  carrying  the  scar  thereof  to  his  grave.  For  many  years 
he  was  a  successful  educator  and  superintendent  of  schools  at  Fort  Thomas,  Ken- 
tucky, up  to  the  time  of  his  demise.  In  politics  he  was  a  stanch  democrat  and 
was  a  devout  Christian,  holding  membership  in  the  Baptist  church.  He  married 
Eudora  E.  Sydnor,  who  was  born  in  Virginia,  her  father  being  Judge  Sydnor,  a 
prominent  lawyer  and  jurist  of  Richmond  county,  Virginia,  and  a  representative 
of  one  of  the  old  families  of  that  state  of  English  lineage.  Mrs.  Hall  passed  away 
in  1906  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight  years.  There  were  five  sons  and  three  daughters 
in  the  family,  of  whom  six  are  yet  living. 

Marshall  Hall,  the  seventh  child,  pursued  his  education  in  private  schools  of 
Kentucky  and  when  he  started  out  in  the  business  world  secured  employment  with 
the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Railroad  Company.  In  189  4  he  turned  his  attention  to 
the  grain  trade,  being  first  employed  by  the  W.  L.  Green  Commission  Company, 
an  old  and  prominent  grain  company  of  St.  Louis.  In  1903,  having  won  various 
promotions  through  intermediate  positions,  he  was  called  to  the  presidency  of 
this  company  and  in  1915  the  former  firm  was  succeeded,  through  the  reorganiza- 
tion of  the  business,  by  the  Marshall  Hall  Grain  Company,  of  which  Mr.  Hall  re- 
mains the  president.  He  is  likewise  the  president  of  the  Burlington  Grain  & 
Elevator  Company  and  the  vice  president  of  the  Graham  Lumber  Company  of  St. 
Louis.  His  business  connections,  therefore,  are  extensive  and  important,  placing 
him  in  a  position  of  leadership  in  connection  with  commercial  control. 

On  the  27th  of  April.  1897,  Mr.  Hall  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss  Inez 
Bethune,  a  daughter  of  James  H.  and  Julia  P.  (Bridges)  Bethune,  the  former  a 
native  of  southeastern  Missouri  and  the  latter  of  Tennessee.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hall 
have  become  the  parents  of  four  children,  Sydnor.  Bethune,  Marshall,  Jr.,  and  Inez. 

In  politics  Mr.  Hall  maintains  the  position  of  an  independent  democrat,  usually 
voting  for  the  principles  of  the  party  yet  not  considering  himself  bound  by  party 
ties.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Noonday  Club,  the  Bellerive  and  Sunset  Hill  Country 
Clubs  and  also  of  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  his  chief  diversion  being  golf. 


834  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

but  he  makes  his  activity  on  the  links  subservient  to  the  more  important  interests 
of  life.  During  the  war  he  was  active  in  support  of  all  measures  to  finance  the 
country  and  promote  the  welfare  of  the  soldiers  and  therefore  took  active  part  in 
the  sale  of  Liberty  Bonds  and  in  furthering  the  Red  Cross,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  other 
drives. 


JOHN  H.   POLLOCK. 


John  H.  Pollock,  who  since  1917  has  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  law  in 
Kansas  City,  was  born  at  Decatur,  Iowa,  February  3,  1884,  a  son  of  James  Hender- 
son and  Mary  E.  (Pollock)  Pollock.  The  father,  a  native  of  Ireland  and  a  veteran 
of  the  Civil  war,  was  a  farmer  by  occupation.  He  died  when  his  son,  John  H.,  was 
seven  years  of  age  and  the  mother  passed  away  when  he  was  but  two  years  old. 
He  was  thus  left  an  orphan  when  very  young  and  was  adopted  and  reared  by  his 
grandmother  in  the  maternal  line.  He  obtained  a  public  school  education  at  Cassel- 
ton.  North  Dakota,  and  afterward  attended  the  University  of  Minnesota,  in  which  he 
pursued  a  law  course,  later  taking  additional  instruction  and  a  degree  of  LL.  B. 
from  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Minnesota, 
Iowa,  Arkansas,  Kansas  and  Missouri.  Following  his  graduation,  however,  he  did 
not  at  once  take  up  professional  work,  but  turned  his  attention  to  newspaper  activity 
and  was  special  writer  for  the  New  York  American,  the  Chicago  Tribune,  the  Kansas 
City  Post,  the  Minneapolis  Tribune  and  the  Des  Moines  Register  and  Leader,  con- 
tinuing his  journalistic  activities  until  1914.  In  the  latter  year  he  was  elected  a 
Justice  of  the  Kansas  City  district  court  for  a  four-year  term  and  reelected  in  1918 
for  a  term  expiring  in  1922. 

In  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  in  1908,  Mr.  Pollock  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Vesta 
Burbank,  whose  parents  are  natives  of  Iowa,  her  father  following  farming  in  that 
state.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pollock  have  become  parents  of  one  daughter,  Evelyn.  Mr. 
Pollock  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Club  and  is  a  member  of  the  law  fraternity,  Phi 
Alpha  Delta,  and  has  been  prominently  identified  in  national  and  state  councils  of 
the  democratic  party. 


S.   GRAHAM  WILSON. 


S.  Graham  Wilson  is  the  vice  president  of  the  Carleton  Dry  Goods  Company,  at 
St.  Louis.  Business  enterprise  and  executive  ability  have  ever  been  dominant  quali- 
ties in  his  life,  and  by  reason  thereof  he  has  steadily  progressed  to  a  point  where 
he  is  active  in  control  of  a  leading  commercial  interest  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  born 
at  Petersburg,  Virginia,  June  14,  1852.  The  ancestry  of  the  family  dates  back  to 
the  time  of  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  at  which  time  representatives  of  the  name 
came  to  the  new  world  and  settled  in  Virginia.  The  family  was  one  of  close  con- 
nection with  the  Washington  family,  and  the  wife  of  George  Washington  was  a 
member  of  the  Macon  family,  to  which  Mr.  Wilson  traces  his  ancestry.  His  parents 
were  the  Rev.  William  Venable  and  Grace  A.  Wilson.  The  former,  who  won  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity,  was  a  Presbyterian  minister,  and  was  born  in  Prince 
Edward  county,  Virginia^  January  18,  1819.  He  was  a  son  of  Dr.  Goodridge  Wilson, 
one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Hampden  Sidney  College,  of  Virginia.  The  life  record  of 
Rev.  William  V.  Wilson  covered  eighty-nine  years,  his  death  occurring  January  22, 
1908,  in  Lynchburg,  Virginia.  His  wife  was  also  a  Wilson  prior  to  her  marriage! 
She  was  born  in  Cumberland  county,  Virginia,  was  a  daughter  of  Judge  Daniel  Wilson! 
of  Lynchburg,  Virginia,  and  passed  away  in  1906.  In  the  family  of  Rev.  and  Mrs! 
W.  V.  Wilson  there  were  six  children:  Rev.  Goodridge  A.  Wilson,  D.  D.,  a  Presby- 
terian minister,  of  Lexington,  Virginia;  S.  Graham;  William  Venable,  an  attorney 
of  Lynchburg,  Virginia;  R.  C,  who  is  now  living  retired  in  Belton,  Missouri;  Grace 
M.,  also  of  Lynchburg;  and  Mrs.  Bettie  G.  Sale,  of  Lynchburg,  who  is  now  deceased. 

In  his  youthful  days  S.  Graham  Wilson  attended  private  schools  in  Lynchburg' 
Virginia,  until  1871,  when  at  the  age  of  nineteen  years  he  came  to  St.  Louis  and 
entered  the  employ  of  J.  Weil  &  Brothers,  wholesale  dry  goods  merchants,  whom 
he  represented  upon  the  road  as  a  traveling  salesman,  his  territory  covering  northern 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  835 

Missouri  and  Iowa.  He  continued  with  that  firm  for  four  years  and  later  began 
traveling  in  the  same  territory  for  the  Chase  &  Cabot  Dry  Goods  Company,  with 
whom  he  continued  for  about  four  years.  He  then  became  a  representative  of  the 
Crow-Hargadine  Dry  Goods  Company  and  traveled  through  the  same  territory  for 
this  Arm.  That  he  was  capable  and  efficient  is  indicated  in  the  tact  that  he  re- 
mained with  the  house  for  twelve  years,  and  at  length  left  their  employ  to  travel  for 
the  Wear-Boogher  Company,  which  was  reorganized  in  1894,  becoming  the  Carleton 
Dry  Goods  Company.  At  that  date  Mr.  Wilson  was  made  the  treasurer  and  con- 
tiiiued  to  serve  in  that  official  connection  until  1916  when  he  was  elected  to  the  vice 
presidency.  He  left  the  road  upon  the  reorganization  of  the  business  and  has  since 
bent  his  efforts  to  administrative  direction  and  executive  control.  In  the  manage- 
ment of  the  business  he  has  always  employed  constructive  methods  and  has  ever  been 
a  close  student  of  the  trade  and  of  business  conditions  in  general.  He  has  thus  been 
able  to  direct  his  efforts  along  progressive  lines,  meeting  the  demands  of  the  time, 
and  his  labors  have  been  a  substantial  contributing  element  to  the  success  of  the 
house. 

On  the  6th  of  January,  1876,  Mr.  Wilson  was  united  in  marriage  in  Greensboro, 
Georgia,  to  Miss  Sarah  N.  Poullain,  who  passed  away  in  1882,  and  on  the  19th  of 
June,  1883,  he  wedded  her  sister,  Felixina  Poullain,  of  Greensboro,  Georgia.  Mrs. 
Wilson  is  a  daughter  of  Felix  and  Evaline.  (Foster)  Poullain,  who  resided  in  Greens- 
boro, but  have  now  passed  away.  Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wilson  have  been  born  the 
following:  S.  Graham,  Jr., -who  is  department  manager  for  the  Carleton  Dry  Goods 
Company;  Mrs.  Grace  Evalina  Nickell,  the  wife  of  Henry  A.  Nickell  of  St.  Louis; 
Mrs.  Thomas  C.  Hennings,  whose  husband  Is  vice  president  of  the  Mercantile  Trust 
Company  of  St.  Louis;  William  Venable,  who  is  engaged  in  the  silk  business  In 
St.  Louis;  Mrs.  Reed  M.  Brown,  of  Germantown,  Ohio,  whose  husband  is  in  charge 
of  the  Miami  Military  Academy  there;  and  Eula  who  is  at  home  with  her  parents 
and  Is  the  youngest  of  the  family.  There  are  also  seven  grandchildren.  S.  Graham 
Wilson,  Jr.,  has  two  children,  Frances  S.  and  Marie  Peckham  Wilson;  Mrs.  Hennings 
has  two  children,  Thomas  C,  Jr.,  and  Ruth  Hennings;  William  Venable  Wilson  has 
one  child,  Miriam;  and  Mrs.  Brown  has  two  children.  Reed  M.,  Jr.,  and  Celeste 
Foster  Brown. 

Mr.  Wilson  is  a  man  of  fine  physique,  large  and  well  proportioned,  and  enjoys 
excellent  health  for  he  has  always  been  a  lover  of  the  out-of-doors,  and  has  spent 
much  time  In  the  open.  He  belongs  to  the  Bellerive  Country  Club.  His  political 
endorsement  is  given  to  the  democratic  party  and  his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the 
Presbyterian  church.  His  interests  and  activities  have  always  been  in  those  chan- 
nels through  which  flow  the  greatest  good  to  the  greatest  number  and  his  activities 
have  ever  been  so  directed  that  not  only  his  private  business  has  prospered,  but  the 
public  has  also  been  a  direct  beneficiary  of  his  efforts. 


JAMES   GLOVER  SMART. 


James  Glover  Smart,  who  since  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  18  85  has  engaged 
in  the  practice  of  law  in  Kansas  City,  has  ever  manifested  those  sterling  qualities 
which  are  requisite  to  success  and  advancement  at  the  bar — thoroughness,  close 
application  plus  the  business  sense  and  wide  familiarity  with  principle  and  prece- 
dent. Missouri  numbers  him  among  her  native  sons,  his  birth  having  occurred  at 
Independence,  February  5,  18  63.  His  father,  Elisha  A.  Smart,  was  a  native  of  Ken- 
tucky who  followed  the  occupation  of  farming  and  later  became  a  merchant  of 
Independence,  Missouri.  He  removed  to  this  state  with  his  father,  James  Smart, 
also  a  native  of  Kentucky,  who  at  an  early  day  brought  his  family  to  Missouri,  settling 
at  Independence.  Elisha  A.  Smart  married  Sallie  E.  Rogers,  a  native  of  Virginia, 
and  they  became  the  parents  of  eight  children,  three  of  whom  are  yet  living.  The 
wife  and  mother  passed  away  in  1880,  while  the  father  survived  until  1893. 

James  G.  Smart  attended  the  public  schools  of  Lee  Summit,  Missouri,  and  then 
continued  his  education  in  Woodland  College  of  Independence,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  on  the  completion  of  a  classical  course  in  1883.  For  a  year  he  engaged 
in  teaching  school  but  regarded  this  merely  as  an  initial  step  to  other  professional 
activity,  for  it  was  his  firm  purpose  to  become  a  member  of  the  bar.  He  then  entered 
the  law   office  of   Judge  James   Slover,   of   Independence,   Missouri,    with   whom    he 


836  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

continued  his  reading  for  a  brief  period.  He  afterward  removed  to  Kansas  City 
and  was  associated  with  the  law  firm  of  Tichenor,  Warren  &  Dean  for  two  and  a 
half  years  as  a  law  student.  In  1885  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  has  since 
actively  engaged  in  practice  in  Kansas  City,  serving  as  assistant  prosecuting  attorney 
of  Jackson  county  in  1890  and  1891  and  throughout  the  remainder  of  the  period 
giving  his  attention  to  the  private  practice  of  law.  His  clientage  has  constantly 
grown  in  volume  and  importance  and  his  name  figures  in  connection  with  some 
of  the  most  important  litigation  tried  in  the  courts  of  Missouri.  In  1911  he  became 
partner  of  the  firm  of  Smart  &  Strother,  which  has  since  existed  and  which  has 
ever  maintained  a  foremost  position  at  the  Kansas  City  bar. 

In  1890  Mr.  Smart  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  B.  Royster,  of  Kansas  City,  and 
they  occupy  an  enviable  position  in  the  social  circles  here,  the  number  of  their 
friends  being  almost  coextensive  with  the  number  of  their  acquaintances.  Mr.  Smart 
is  serving  as  a  trustee  of  the  Bar  Library  of  Kansas  City  and  he  belongs  to  the 
Kansas  City,  the  Missouri  State  and  the  American  Bar  Associations.  He  keeps  in 
touch  at  all  times  with  the  trend  of  modern  professional  thought  and  progress  and 
Is  one  of  the  most  thorough  exponents  of  the  highest  professional  ethics  and 
standards. 


FRANCIS  M.  McCALLUM,  M.  D.,  F.  A.  C.  S. 

Kansas  City  certainly  has  reason  to  be  proud  of  the  representatives  of  the 
medical  profession  who  have  located  within  her  borders.  On  the  whole,  they  are 
men  of  high  professional  standing  and  of  splendid  ability,  a  reputation  which  has 
been  won  by  a  class  of  whom  Dr.  Francis  M.  McCallum  is  a  worthy  representative. 
He  was  born  in  Decatur,  Illinois,  June  10,  1867,  his  parents  being  George  L.  and 
Mary  E.  (McMikel)  McCallum,  the  former  a  native  of  Iowa,  while  the  latter  was 
born  in  Indiana.  The  father  was  a  farmer  by  occupation,  and  in  1868  removed  to 
Missouri,  settling  near  Trenton  until  1872.  He  then  removed  to  Junction  City, 
and  was  actively  interested  in  promoting  the  public  welfare  and  progress  of  that 
district,  and  for  some  time  served  as  a  member  of  the  school  board. 

Dr.  McCallum  began  his  education  at  the  usual  age  as  a  public  school  pupil  and 
afterward  attended  the  high  school  at  Junction  City,  Missouri.  He  came  to  Kansas 
City  in  1887,  and  accepted  a  position  as  bookkeeper  with  the  firm  of  Wheel  Broth- 
ers, with  whom  he  remained  for  about  six  months.  He  next  became  connected  with 
the  Hannibal  &  St.  Joseph  Railroad  Company,  and  was  made  fireman  on  an  engine, 
devoting  his  attention  to  railroading  for  about  two  and  a  half  years.  He  determined, 
however,  to  take  up  professional  work,  and  with  this  end  in  view  he  entered  the  A. 
Ensworth  Medical  College  at  St.  Joseph.  Missouri,  which  he  attended  for  three 
years,  being  graduated  in  1892,  with  the  M.  D.  degree.  He  then  went  to  Chicago, 
and  pursued  a  three  months'  post-graduate  course  in  Rush  Medical  College  of  that 
city.  His  preliminary  preparation  for  the  profession  was  made  while  he  was  still 
in  the  railroad  service  during  which  period  he  studied  in  St.  Joseph.  In  1893  he 
came  to  Kansas  City  and  entered  upon  active  practice.  For  four  years  he  was 
connected  with  St.  Margaret's  Hospital  as  assistant  surgeon  and  he  has  done  much 
valuable  hospital  work.  In  1898,  however,  he  put  aside  all  business  and  personal 
considerations  and  enlisted  tor  service  in  the  Spanish  American  war  as  a  member 
of  the  Fifth  Regiment  of  the  Missouri  Volunteers,  going  out  as  assistant  surgeon. 
He  was  stationed  at  Chickamauga,  until  November,  1898,  when  the  country  no 
longer  needing  his  aid,  he  returned  to  Kansas  City.  On  the  7th  of  December,  1898, 
he  joined  the  regular  army  as  assistant  surgeon,  with  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant 
and  was  in  the  service  tor  twelve  years,  during  which  time  he  was  stationed  in  the 
Philippines  for  four  years,  and  for  five  years  at  various  forts  in  the  United  States 
and  in  Honolulu  for  three  years. 

He  then  resigned  in  1910,  and  returned  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  took  up  active 
practice  and  has  since  specialized  in  genito-urinary  surgery.  He  has  continued  to 
give  his  attention  to  this  branch  of  the  profession  and  has  won  a  notable  success  in 
this  department  of  practice.  He  was  the  promoter  of  genito-urinary  service  in  the 
City  Hospital,  of  which  he  is  now  the  chief.  During  the  World  war  period  Dr.  McCal- 
lum became  a  member  of  the  State  Council  of  Defense  and  had  charge  of  all  exami- 


DE.    FRANCIS     M.    lleCALLUM 


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nations  and  was  chairman  of  the  medical  advisory  hoard  of  Kansas  City.  He  now 
has  a  large  private  practice  and  in  addition  is  genito-urinary  surgeon  for  the  Chris- 
tian Church  Hospital. 

Dr.  McCallum  was  married  in  Kansas  City,  to  Miss  Juanita  Johnson,  on  the  18th 
of  April,  18  91.  Her  people  were  natives  of  Pennsylvania,  but  came  to  Missouri 
many  years  ago.  Dr.  McCallum  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  member  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine.  His  political  faith  is  that  of  the  republican  party,  and  his  religious  belief  is 
that  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  has  various  membership  relations  along  profes- 
sional lines,  belonging  to  the  American,  Missouri  State,  and  Jackson  County  Medical 
Associations,  the  American  College  of  Surgeons,  The  American  Urological  Society  and 
the  American  Social  Hygiene  Association.  He  is  a  man  of  many  sterling  qualities, 
fearless  and  progressive,  and  to  his  marked  scientific  knowledge  and  skill  he  adds 
a  most  kindly  and  sympathetic  nature,  and  above  all  has  absolute  control  of  himself, 
so  that  in  his  surgical  work  he  has  been  particularly  capable. 


REV.  TIMOTHY  FRANCIS  O'SULLIVAN. 

Rev.  Timothy  Francis  O'Sullivan,  pastor  of  St.  Brendan's  church  at  Mexico, 
was  born  in  County  Tipperary,  Ireland,  May  26,  1880,  and  is  a  son  of  John  and 
Margaret  (Maher)  O'Sullivan.  The  father  still  makes  his  home  in  Ireland  but 
the  mother  has  passed  away.  Rev.  Timothy  F.  O'Sullivan  attended  the  parochial 
schools  of  his  native  country  and  afterward  became  a  student  at  Rockwell  College 
in  Tipperary,  Ireland,  where  he  pursued  his  classical  course.  He  later  entered  the 
Ecclesiastical  Seminary  at  All  Hallows  College  of  Dublin,  where  he  studied  phil- 
osophy and  theology.  In  August,  1904,  he  came  to  the  United  States  and  spent 
a  year  at  Kenrick  Seminary  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  after  which  he  was  ordained 
to  the  priesthood  on  the  10th  of  June,  1905,  Archbishop  John  J.  Glennon  officiating. 

Having  taken  holy  orders.  Father  O'Sullivan  was  appointed  assistant  to  Father 
Timothy  Dempsey  of  St.  Patrick's  church  at  St.  Louis  and  subsequently  served  as 
assistant  to  Father  McGlynn  of  the  St.  Rose  parish  in  St.  Louis.  He  was  next 
appointed  pastor  of  St.  Eustace  church  at  Portageville,  Missouri,  where  he  remained 
in  charge  from  February,  1909,  until  July,  1918,  when  he  was  assigned  to  St. 
Brendan's  church  at  Mexico.  Here  he  is  now  laboring  earnestly  for  the  develop- 
ment and  growth  of  the  parish  and  his  work  is  being  attended  with  excellent  re- 
sults. While  presiding  over  St.  Eustace  church  at  Portageville  he  was  instrumental 
in  building  a  new  parochial  school  and  since  coming  to  Mexico  he  has  purchased 
a  residence  property  directly  across  the  street  from  the  church  and  will  establish 
a  school  there  in  the  fall  of  1920.  St.  Brendan's  church  and  St.  Brendan's  rectory 
over  which  he  now  presides,  were  built  in  187  8  by  Rev.  C.  F.  O'Leary,  late  pastor 
of  the  church  at  Wellston,  Missouri,  and  the  first  resident  pastor  of  the  church 
at  Mexico.  The  parish  now  numbers  one  hundred  and  five  families,  about  one-half 
of  whom  reside  in  the  city  and  the  other  half  in  the  surrounding  country. 


PIERRE  RITTENHOUSE  PORTER. 

Pierre  Rittenhouse  Porter  was  born  December  24,  1874,  in  Kansas  City.  He 
was  the  only  child  of  Dr.  David  Rittenhouse  and  Olive  (Smith)  Porter,  more  ex- 
tended mention  of  whom  is  made  on  another  page  of  this  work.  After  attending 
the  public  schools  Pierre  R.  Porter  prepared  for  college  in  Hanover,  Germany, 
where  he  studied  for  two  years.  He  then  returned  to  his  native  country  and  en- 
tered Phillips  Academy  at  Andover,  Massachusetts,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
with  the  class  of  189  4.  He  next  entered  Yale  University  and  won  his  Bachelor 
of  Arts  degree  in  189  8.  He  thus  laid  broad  and  deep  the  foundation  upon  which 
he  builded  the  superstructure  of  his  professional  learning.  He  prepared  for  the 
bar  in  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law  and  won  his  LL.  B.  degree  in  189  9.  In  June 
of  that  year  he  was  admitted  to  practice  but  afterward  entered  the  Harvard  Law 
School,  in  which  he  studied  for  two  years.  Taking  up  the  active  work  of  his 
profession,  he  was  associated  for  a  time  with  the  firm  of  Lathrop,  Morrow,  Fox  & 
Moore  and  in   189  9   became  connected  with  the   firm   of  Scarritt,   Grifiith  &  Jones, 


840  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

both  distinguished  firms  at  the  Kansas  City  bar.  He  is  now  associated  in  his 
practice  with  Washington  Adams.  He  devotes  his  attention  to  general  practice 
but  specializes  in  corporation  law  and  is  regarded  as  both  a  good  trial  and  office 
lawyer,  industrious  and  attentive  to  business,  reliable  and  trustworthy  at  all  times 
and  ever  a  close  student  of  his  profession.  He  was  a  member  of  Governor  Hadley's 
commission  on  Workmen's  Compensation  in  1910  and  has  been  active  in  legis- 
lation  on   that  subject. 

In  1916  Mr.  Porter  was  married  to  Miss  Dorothy  Lee,  who  was  born  in  St. 
Louis,  Missouri,  a  daughter  of  Francis  Corydon  Lee,  and  they  now  have  one  daugh- 
ter, Suzanne,  who  is  in  her  first  year. 

Mr.  Porter  is  actively  interested  in  amateur  theatricals  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Comedy  Club.  He  belongs  also  to  the  University  Club,  the  Kansas  City  Country 
Club  and  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  his  professional  relations  are  with  the 
Kansas  City  and  Missouri  State  Bar  Associations.  He  is  chairman  of  the  legisla- 
tive committee  of  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association.  In  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
he  is  now  and  for  the  past  ten  years  has  been  an  active  member  of  the  legislative 
committee,  having  several  times  acted  as  chairman  of  that  committee.  Since  his 
college  days  he  has  been  keenly  interested  in  tennis,  was  at  one  time  president 
of  the  Kansas  City  Tennis  Association  and  is  now  vice  president  of  the  Western 
Tennis  Association.  He  attends  Grace  Episcopal  church.  His  political  support  is 
given  to  the  republican  party,  but  while  a  firm  believer  in  its  principles,  he  never 
allows  partisanship  to  transcend  patriotism  and  during  the  period  of  the  World 
war  was  most  earnest  in  his  support  of  all  war  activities.  He  served  as  a  member 
of  Draft  Board  No.  1  during  the  entire  war  and  as  a  member  of  the  military  train- 
ing camp  committee,  while  from  1914  until  1916  he  was  the  secretary  of  the 
National   Security  League. 


JUDGE  WILLIAM  THOMSON. 

Judge  William  Thomson,  of  Kansas  City,  who  has  devoted  his  life  to  the  practice 
of  law,  was  born  in  Linlithgow,  Scotland,  February  24,  1845,  being  a  son  of  Thomas 
and  Marion  (Somerville)  Thomson,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Scotland  and 
descendants  of  old  and  respected  families  of  that  land.  When  five  years  of  age  he 
came  with  his  parents  from  Scotland  to  the  new  world,  the  family  home  being  estab- 
lished in  Chicago,  where  for  years  his  father  was  a  manufacturer,  continuing  in 
business  there  to  the  time  of  his  death  in  1863. 

Judge  Thomson  attended  the  Dearborn  school  of  Chicago  to  the  age  of  four- 
teen years,  when  he  became  a  high  school  pupil,  attending  the  first  high  school  of 
that  city.  He  afterward  entered  the  preparatory  department  of  the  old  Chicago 
University  in  1862  and  the  following  year  became  a  freshman  in  the  college,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  in  June,  1867,  as 
salutatorian  of  his  class.  During  his  college  days  the  nation  was  at  war  and  Judge 
Thomson  responded  to  the  call  and  with  others  from  the  university  enlisted  in  the 
One  Hundred  and  Thirty-fourth  Regiment  of  Illinois  Volunteers  in  May,  1864, 
but  upon  his  discharge  resumed  his  studies  in  November  of  that  year.  Subsequent 
to  his  graduation  he  was  called  to  the  position  of  superintendent  of  schools  at  Toulon, 
Illinois,  and  during  the  following  year  occupied  a  similar  position  in  Astoria,  Illinois. 
He  had  always  entertained  a  great  desire  to  become  a  lawyer  and  during  the  years 
of  his  school  teaching  Blackstone  and  Kent  were  his  companions. 

Upon  his  return  to  Chicago  in  May,  1869,  Judge  Thomson  entered  the  law 
offices  of  Judge  S.  M.  Moore  and  Barney  Caufield,  who  afterward  represented  his 
district  in  congress.  He  also  became  a  student  in  the  law  school  of  Chicago  Univer- 
sity and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  October,  1869.  He  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  Chicago  with  Robert  W.  Moore,  but  soon  the  advice  of  Horace  Greeley 
and  the  attractions  of  the  growing  west  influenced  him  to  leave  the  city  by  the 
lake  and  in  April,  1870,  he  went  to  Burlingame,  Kansas.  Before  the  autumn  of  the 
same  year  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Harvey  to  the  oftice  of  probate  judge  of 
Osage  county  and  after  serving  his  appointed  term  he  was  elected  to  the  office  of 
county  attorney,  which  position  he  filled  with  vigor  and  energy.  His  law  practice 
had  so  increased  while  he  was  filling  that  position  that  he  declined  to  be  a  candidate 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  843 

for  reelection,  but  his  friends  presented  his  name  to  the  republican  convention  as 
a  candidate  for  the  office  ot  state  senator.     However,  he  was  defeated  by  one  vote. 

In  1878  he  was  elected  secretary  of  the  republican  state  committee  of  Kansas 
and  served  in  that  capacity  for  two  years.  He  was  secretary  ot  the  state  delegation 
to  the  republican  national  convention  of  1880,  which  became  memorable  as  the 
battle  ground  between  the  old  guard,  the  three  hundred  and  six  of  Grant,  and  the 
enthusiastic  forces  ot  Blaine  and  resulted  in  the  nomination  and  the  subsequent 
election  ot  the  revered  but  unfortunate  Garfield.  During  the  same  year  Mr.  Thom- 
son was  given  a  handsome  vote  at  the  Kansas  republican  state  convention  for  the 
nomination  for  attorney  general  of  that  commonwealth.  During  the  presidential 
campaigns  of  1884  and  1888  he  was  an  active  republican  and  campaigned  the  state 
for  the  nominee  of  his  party.  In  1889  the  legislature  created  the  thirty-fifth  judi- 
cial district,  composed  of  Osage,  Wabaunsee  and  Pottawattamie  counties,  and 
Governor  Humphrey  appointed  Mr.  Thomson  to  be  its  first  judge  and  in  the  fall  of 
that  year  he  was  unanimously  elected  to  the  office,  even  the  democrats  in  their 
convention  endorsing  the  nomination  he  had  received  from  the  republican  party. 
In  the  next  judicial  election  in  1893  so  great  was  his  popularity  that  although  the 
populist  majority  in  the  district  was  overwhelming  and  every  other  republican  can- 
didate went  down  to  defeat,  he  was  elected  by  a  large  majority.  In  189  7  he  again 
received  the  nomination  and  was  reelected  without  serious  opposition  and  served 
to  the  end  of  his  term  in  1902,  when  he  retired  from  the  bench  to  resume  the  prac- 
tice of  law.  He  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  supreme  court  of  the  United  States 
in  January,  1898.  He  stood  in  the  front  rank  of  the  judges  of  his  state  and  his 
opinions  were  so  well  considered  that  they  rarely  met  reversal.  He  is  active  in 
mind  and  while  upon  the  bench  was'  most  industrious  and  painstaking  in  the 
preparation  of  his  decrees.  He  is  a  student  by  habit,  a  scholar  in  address  and 
possesses  great  broadness  in  his  processes  of  reasoning. 

Judge  Thomson  was  president  of  the  Kansas  State  Bar  Association  during  the 
years  1897  and  1898  and  chose  civil  service  as  the  topic  of  his  annual  address, 
which  was  entitled.  Not  to  the  Victor,  and  was  largely  quoted  by  the  press  throughout 
the  nation.  The  Chicago  Times-Herald  editorially  declared  that  it  was  by  far  the 
strongest  and  ablest  presentation  of  the  cause  of  civil  service  reform  that  any  of 
its  friends  had  thus  far  made.  He  is  a  pleasing  and  eloquent  speaker  of  graceful 
delivery  and  his  prepared  addresses  are  models  of  English  composition.  In  1898 
he  was  strongly  urged  by  the  bar  ot  the  state  of  Kansas  upon  the  attention  of  Presi- 
dent McKinley  for  appointment  as  federal  judge,  but  the  United  States  senator  o£ 
Kansas,  whose  will  by  custom  was  supreme,  secured  the  appointment  for  a  former 
law  partner  of  the  senator. 

Judge  Thomson's  entire  life  has  been  devoted  to  his  profession  and  he  has 
accepted  only  such  public  positions  as  have  been  in  line  with  it.  He  has  never  been 
defeated  at  the  polls  for  any  office  to  which  he  aspired  and  though  repeatedly  re- 
quested by  many  of  his  party  to  become  a  candidate  for  congressional  honors,  he 
has  often  refused  so  to  do  because  such  a  course  would  have  interfered  with  hla 
professional  career.  In  1904  he  was  one  of  the  forty  republicans  of  Kansas  who  met 
at  Topeka  and  inaugurated  the  Boss  Buster  movement,  which  culminated  in  the 
overthrow  of  the  old  regime  in  republican  politics  and  led  to  the  subsequent 
success  of  the  Hon.  Walter  Roscoe  Stubbs  and  Governor  E.  W.  Hoch.  It  is  said 
that  at  that  meeting  of  the  immortals,  when  it  seemed  that  success  could  not  be 
won  and  the  members  of  the  body  were  becoming  discouraged.  Judge  Thomson, 
filled  with  enthusiasm  and  determination,  in  an  impassioned  speech  of  twenty  min- 
utes so  aroused  the  body  that  they  determined  to  proceed  on  the  lines  contemplated, 
which  led  to  ultimate  victory. 

Desiring  a  wider  field  of  activity  and  to  specialize  his  work.  Judge  Thomson 
removed  to  Kansas  City  in  19  04,  having  previously  had  important  interests  here. 
He  established  the  law  firm  of  Thomson,  Stanley  &  Price  and  has  assiduously 
devoted  his  time  to  the  practice  o£  corporation  law,  attaining  an  enviable  success. 
The  present  firm  is  Thomson,  Dew  &  Brasher,  with  offices  in  the  Scarritt  building. 

At  Burlingame,  Kansas,  on  the  26th  of  March,  1874,  Judge  Thomson  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Sarah  E.  Hudnall,  of  Astoria,  Illinois,  who  had  been  one  of  his  pupils 
when  he  was  teaching  at  that  place.  They  have  one  daughter,  Maud  Somerville, 
a  graduate  of  St.  Cecilia  Seminary  at  Holden,  Missouri,  of  the  class  of  1898,  and  in 
June,  1906,  she  was  married  in  Kansas  City  to  William  LeRoy  Holtz,  a  Latin  pro- 
fessor of  the  Kansas  State  Normal  at  Emporia,  where  he  now  resides. 


844  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Judge  Thomson  is  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  and  of  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  also  of  the  college  association  of  Phi  Delta  Theta.  His  religious 
faith  is  that  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  In  his  social  character  the  Judge  is  winning 
and  companionable  and  is  genial  and  hospitable  in  his  home.  He  is  vigorous,  active 
and  energetic  and  carries  his  years  lightly. 


JAMES  R.   BISSELL. 


James  R.  Bissell  is  the  president  of  the  J.  R.  Bissell  Dry  Goods  Company,  of 
St.  Louis.  The  family  home  on  the  Bellefontaine  road  was  built  a  hundred  and 
twelve  years  ago  by  his  grandfather,  James  R.  Bissell,  and  three  generations  of 
the  family  have  occupied  it.  The  grandfather  removed  to  Missouri  from  the  state 
of  Connecticut  at  an  early  period  in  the  development  of  the  middle  west.  He  waa 
horn  in  Connecticut,  and  his  parents  were  natives  of  England,  settling  in  Connecti- 
cut upon  coming  to  the  new  world.  The  parents  of  James  R.  Bissell  are  living, 
and  occupy  the  old  home. 

A  native  son  of  St.  Louis  county,  James  R.  Bissell,  was  born  November  11, 
1877,  and  after  attending  the  public  schools  continued  his  education  in  the  Smith 
Academy.  In  1897  he  made  his  initial  step  in  the  business  world  by  entering  the 
employ  of  the  Hargadine-McKittrick  Dry  Goods  Company,  for  whom  he  traveled 
throughout  southeastern  Missouri.  He  gained  broad  experience  of  the  trade  in 
this  connection,  and  prompted  by  a  laudable  ambition  put  forth  every  effort  that 
would  enable  him  eventually  to  engage  in  business  on  his  own  account.  He  care- 
fully saved  his  earnings  until  he  felt  that  his  capital  and  experience  justified  the 
organization  of  the  J.  R.  Bissell  Dry  Goods  Company,  which  came  into  existence 
in  1910.  They  are  direct  shippers  of  dry  goods,  and  when  the  business  was  first 
organized  they  were  represented  on  the  road  by  four  traveling  salesmen,  while 
their  force  of  traveling  men  now  numbers  twenty,  covering  all  the  western  states. 
The  business  has  developed  along  the  most  satisfactory  and  substantial  lines  and 
the  house  is  now  well  known  to  the  trade  throughout  the  west. 

In  Kansas  City,  on  the  5th  of  June,  1906,  Mr.  Bissell  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Maude  Stokely,  a  daughter  of  S.  B,  and  Sarah  Stokely.  Her  father  was 
the  president  of  the  Eagle  Manufacturing  Company,  manufacturers  of  farm  ma- 
chinery in  Kansas  City.  He  passed  away  in  June,  1912,  at  the  age  of  seventy-one 
years,  and  is  survived  by  his  widow,  who  now  resides  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bissell 
in  St.  Louis.  Mr.  Bissell's  parents,  D.  R.  and  Evelyn  R.  Bissell,  are  also  living. 
The  father  was  for  many  years  engaged  in  farming  but  is  now  retired,  enjoying 
in  well  earned  rest  the  fruits  of  his  former  labor.  There  is  also  a  brother,  D.  R. 
Bissell,  who  is  engaged  in  the  oil  business  in  St.  Louis,  and  a  sister,  Mrs.  H.  P. 
Hilliard,  whose  husband  is  a  banker  at  Santa  Rosa,  California,  where  they  are  now 
living,  and  who  formerly  was  president  of  the  Central  National  Bank  of  St.  Louis. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  R.  Bissell  has  been  born  a  son,  James  R.,  Jr.,  who  is 
now  twelve  years  of  age,  and  is  with  his  pai-ents  in  their  new  attractive  home  at 
No.  6939  Waterman  avenue.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bissell  hold  membership  in  the  Meth- 
odist church,  and  his  political  support  is  given  to  the  democratic  party.  He  also 
has  membership  in  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  in  the  City  Club  and  in  the 
Riverview  Club.  He  occupies  an  enviable  social  position  as  well  as  a  most  credit- 
able place  in  business  circles,  and  the  sterling  worth  of  his  character  and  the 
high  ideals  of  manhood  to  which  he  holds  are  evidenced  in  the  fact  that  his  circle 
of  friends  includes   many  of  St.   Louis'   best  citizens. 


C.  W.  GOSNEY,  M.  D. 


Dr.  C.  W.  Gosney,  oculist  and  aurist  of  Kansas  City,  was  born  in  Hardin, 
Missouri.  October  13,  1873,  his  parents  being  John  R.  and  Belle  (Dougherty)  Gos- 
ney, both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Kentucky.  The  father  came  to  Missouri  fifty- 
one  years  ago,  and  engaged  in  farming  and  live-stock  raising.  He  was  very  active 
in  t'>e  public  life  of  the  community  particularly  in  behalf  of  the  school  system,  the 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  845 

cause  of  education  ever  finding  in  him  a  stalwart  champion.  For  several  terms 
he  filled  the  office  of  mayor  of  Hardin,  and  gave  to  the  city  a  businesslike  and 
progressive  administration.  For  four  years  he  served  in  the  Civil  war  as  a  member 
of  the  Seventeenth  Kentucky  Cavalry,  of  the  Confederate  army,  under  Brecken- 
ridge,  and  throughout  his  entire  life  he  was  absolutely  fearless  in  defense  of  his 
honest   convictions. 

Dr.  Gosney  obtained  a  public  school  education,  passing  through  consecutive 
grades  to  his  graduation  from  the  high  school  of  Hardin,  with  the  class  of  1893. 
He  later  spent  three  years  upon  a  ranch  in  Arizona,  and  then  went  to  St.  Louis, 
and  there  he  entered  the  Beaumont  Hospital  Medical  College,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1900  with  the  M.  D.  degree.  At  once  he  began  practice  in  that  city, 
where  he  remained  for  a  year,  and  afterward  returned  to  Hardin,  where  he  spent 
two  years.  On  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  went  east  to  New  York  city,  where 
he  resided  for  a  year,  devoting  his  time  to  special  work  on  diseases  of  the  eye, 
ear  and  nose.  He  then  returned  to  Hardin  where  he  remained  until  19  05  when 
he  came  to  Kansas  City,  and  here  opened  an  office,  since  which  time  he  has  con- 
tinued in  practice  along  the  line  of  his  specialty,  gaining  a  well  deserved  repu- 
tation, as  an  oculist,  aurist  and  rhinologist. 

In  1909,  in  Kansas  City,  Dr.  Gosney  was  married  to  Miss  Jennie  Sanford,  whose 
people  were  natives  of  Iowa,  and  her  father  is  now  engaged  in  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness in  Kansas  City.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Gosney  are  members  of  the  Christian  church, 
and  take  an  active  and  helpful  interest  in  various  projects  for  moral  progress  and 
improvement.  They  make  their  home  in  Mission  Hill,  where  their  attractive  resi- 
dence is  surrounded  by  beautiful  flowers.  Dr.  Gosney  is  particularly  fond  of  his 
garden,  and  in  fact  is  a  lover  of  all  phases  of  nature  and  the  out-of-doors.  He 
greatly  enjoys  a  game  of  golf,  and  he  belongs  to  the  Automobile  Club,  the  Rotary 
Club,  the  City  Club  and  the  Elks  Club,  and  in  Masonry  he  has  attained  high  rank, 
being  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  a  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  His  political 
endorsement  is  given  to  the  republican  party,  but  aside  from  exercising  his  right 
of  franchise,  he  is  never  active  in  politics.  His  profession  demands  his  time  and 
energy,  and  he  keeps  in  touch  with  modern  thought  and  progress,  through  his 
connection  with  the  Jackson  County,  Missouri  State  and  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciations, and  the  American  Society  of  Oto-Laryngology.  He  is  a  man  of  most 
progressive  spirit,  of  fine  address  and  a  pleasing  personality.  He  easily  wins  the 
confidence  of  his  patients,  and  his  frankness  and  honesty  make  strong  appeal  to 
them.  They  know  that  his  word  can  be  depended  upon,  and  that  he  is  at  all  times 
conscientious  in  the  performance  of  his  professional  duties. 


DAVID  RITTENHOUSE  PORTER,  M.  D. 

Dr.  David  Rittenhouse  Porter  was  at  the  time  of  his  demise,  which  occurred  on 
the  14th  day  of  December,  1916,  the  oldest  representative  of  the  medical  profession  in 
Kansas  City,  where  he  had  practiced  continuously  for  a  half  century.  A  native  of 
SteuTjenville,  Jefferson  county,  Ohio,  he  was  born  November  23,  1838,  being  a  descendant 
of  the  Rittenhouse  family  of  Germantown  and  Philadelphia.  His  father,  Thomas  A. 
Porter,  born  in  eastern  Pennsylvania,  was  of  Scotch  Irish  parentage,  while  the  mother, 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Fry)  Porter,  of  Maryland,  was  of  Holland  lineage,  being  descended 
from  David  Rittenhouse. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  county.  Dr.  Porter  acquired  his  preliminary 
education  and,  with  the  desire  to  become  a  practitioner  of  medicine,  he  matriculated 
in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Keokuk,  while  later  he  studied  in  Bellevue 
Hospital  Medical  College  in  New  York  city.  The  year  1859  witnessed  his  arrival  In 
the  middle  west,  and  early  in  1861  he  enlisted  for  service  as  a  private  in  the  Fifth 
Kansas  Volunteer  Cavalry  at  Fort  Leavenworth  under  Colonel  Powell  Clayton,  since 
United  States  ambassador  to  Mexico.  He  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  assistant 
surgeon  of  his  regiment,  with  which  he  was  honorably  discharged  on  the  10th  of  Jan- 
uary, 1865,  having  never  lost  a  single  day  through  furlough,  leave  of  absence  or  other- 
wise. On  the  contrary  he  was  ever  found  at  his  post  of  duty  whether  as  a  soldier  in 
the  ranks  or  in  his  professional  capacity  in  ministering  to  the  needs  of  the  sick  and 
suffering. 


846  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Dr.  Porter  located  tor  the  active  practice  of  his  profession  in  Kansas  City  on  the 
6th  of  June,  1865,  and  there  resided  continuously  throughout  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  In  1865  there  were  only  about  ten  physicians  practicing  in  the  city.  The  rapid 
development  of  the  municipality  gave  him  ample  opportunity  to  prove  his  ability  and 
worth  in  the  line  of  his  chosen  labor.  In  1869  he  became  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Kansas  City  Medical  College  and  he  long  filled  chairs  in  that  institution,  having  at 
different  times  been  professor  of  materia  medica,  genito  urinary  surgery  and.  prin- 
ciples and  practice  of  medicine,  also  emeritus  professor  of  the  principles  and  practice 
of  medicine  and  clinical  medicine  in  that  institution.  He  also  lectured  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Kansas  and  became  examining  physician  for  a  dozen  or  more  insurance 
companies,  in  addition  to  which  he  had  a  large  general  practice.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  dean  of  the  Kansas  City  Medical  College  and  a  member  of  the  faculty 
of  the  University  of  Kansas.  He  had  been  secretary  and  vice  president  of  the  Missouri 
State  Medical  Association  and  representative  of  the  same  at  the  International  Medical 
Congress  in  Philadelphia  in  1876  and  in  Berlin  in  1890.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Jackson  County  Medical  Society  and  at  one  time  served  as  its  president.  He  had  been 
city  physician  and  was  president  of  the  Kansas  City  board  of  health  in  1878-9.  His 
labors  as  an  active  practitioner  and  as  an  educator  were  of  far-reaching  effect  and  of 
great  benefit  to  his  fellowmen.  He  continually  advanced  in  his  profession,  not  only 
keeping  abreast  with  its  leaders,  but  also  contributing  to  the  sum  total  of  knowledge 
which  has  promoted  the  efficiency  of  the  physician  and  surgeon. 

In  1870  Dr.  Porter  was  married  to  Miss  Olive  J.  Smith,  of  Kalamazoo,  Michigan. 
She  is  a  native  of  New  York  and  yet  makes  her  home  in  Kansas  City.  A  sketch  of  their 
son,  Pierre  Rittenhouse  Porter,  may  be  found  elsewhere  in  this  work.  Dr.  Porter  was 
identified  with  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  and  with  the  Loyal  Legion,  but  the 
constantly  increasing  demands  of  his  profession  left  him  little  leisure  for  social  in- 
terests. However,  he  possessed  a  very  jovial  nature  and  attractive  personality,  winning 
the  warm  friendship  and  regard  of  young  and  old,  rich  and  poor  to  such  an  extent 
that  the  public  was  unwilling  to  allow  him  to  put  aside  his  professional  duties  in  any 
degree  and  enjoy  the  retirement  which  he  so  well  merited.  In  all  of  his  practice  he 
manifested  a  humanitarian  spirit  that  was  one  of  the  strong  elements  in  his  success. 
For  a  half  century  connected  with  the  medical  fraternity  in  Kansas  City,  his  ability 
not  only  gained  for  him  a  large  private  practice  but  won  him  the  attention  of  the 
profession  throughout  the  state  and  in  other  sections  of  the  country.  He  was  remark- 
ably successful  in  early  days  in  the  treatment  of  malarial  and  contagious  diseases 
and  active  in  advancing  modern  sanitary  conditions.  When  he  passed  away  Kansas 
City  mourned  the  loss  of  one  of  her  distinguished  medical  practitioners  and  educators 
and  his  memory  will  long  be  cherished  in  the  hearts  of  many  who  knew  him. 


JAMES  CAMPBELL. 


An  eminent  educator,  lecturer  and  sociologist  has  said:  "Why  feel  proud  of 
the  ancestry  behind  you;  rather  glory  in  the  opportunities  that  are  before  you" — 
and  such  did  James  Campbell.  He  began  earning  his  living  when  a  boy  of  eleven 
years.  Poverty  and  lack  of  educational  training  seemed  no  handicap  to  him. 
With  industry  he  gained  wealth,  with  experience  he  gained  knowledge  and  in  the 
course  of  years  he  became  one  of  the  most  forceful  factors  in  the  business  and  finan- 
cial circles  of  St.  Louis,  while  as  an  investor  and  as  a  promoter  of  important  interests 
he  was  known  in  the  business  circles  of  many  states. 

James  Campbell  was  born  on  a  little  twelve-acre  farm  in  Ireland  in  1848 
and  it  is  said  that  "His  inheritance  was  two  fine  blue  eyes,  a  saving  sense  of  humor 
and  an  extraordinary  capacity  for  work."  He  was  but  two  years  of  age  when  his 
parents  crossed  the  Atlantic,  settling  in  Wheeling,  Virginia,  in  1850,  and  to  sup- 
port his  family  of  wife  and  six  children  the  father  began  working  as  a  drayman, 
but  his  spirit  of  enterprise  soon  made  him  the  owner  of  a  trucking  outfit.  The 
mother's  interests  and  efforts  largely  centered  in  the  education  of  her  children  and 
the  parents  gave  to  them  all  possible  school  advantages.  Business  ambition,  however, 
was  stirring  within  the  boy  and  when  but  eleven  years  of  age  James  Campbell 
secured  a  situation  in  a  grocery  store  at  a  wage  of  eight  dollars  per  month,  his 
duties  beginning  at  daybreak,  when  he  swept  out  the  store,  and  continuing  as  deliv- 


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ery  boy  through  the  day.  While  thus  working  he  went  to  deliver  groceries  at  a 
military  camp  at  Wheeling,  Virginia,  o£  which  General  John  C.  Fremont  was 
in  charge.  He  noted  the  industry,  alertness  and  adaptability  of  the  young  lad  and 
offered  him  a  position  as  messenger  boy  at  double  the  pay  he  had  been  receiving 
in  the  store.  He  displayed  such  tact  and  judgment  in  admitting  one  caller  and  turn- 
ning  away  another  that  General  Fremont  took  him  as  a  messenger  to  New  York 
when  duties  called  him  to  the  latter  field,  and  with  the  general  he  came  to  St.  Louis 
to  build  railroads  in  Missouri. 

Several  years  before  he  attained  his  majority  James  Campbell  began  carrying 
the  chain  with  surveying  parties  and  studied  engineering  by  practice,  remaining  in 
the  field  until  twenty-five  years  of  age,  by  which  time  he  had  become  chief  of  an 
engineering  corps.  He  aided  in  the  preliminary  survey  work  of  considerable  sec- 
tions of  the  Frisco  and  of  the  Missouri,  Kansas  &  Texas  Railroads,  and  while  thus 
engaged  he  picked  up  much  valuable  information  concerning  the  natural  resources 
of  the  state  and  its  possibilities  of  development.  His  earnings  were  therefore  wisely 
invested  in  Missouri  land  in  advance  of  immigration,  and  with  the  settlement  of  the 
state  his  property  was  sold  at  a  profitable  figure  and  he  was  the  possessor  of  a 
fortune  of  nearly  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  when  he  took  up  his  abode  in  St. 
Louis  in  1876,  his  last  railroad  position  having  been  that  of  chief  engineer  of  what 
was  known  as  the  Kansas  City  &  Mobile  Railway. 

In  St.  Louis  Mr.  Campbell  turned  his  attention  to  the  bond  and  stock  brokerage 
business,  making  investment  in  bonds,  which  through  the  financial  depression  o£ 
1873  had  become  almost  Seemingly  worthless,  seventy-four  counties  of  the  state 
defaulting  in  interest  on  county  and  township  bonds  during  that  period  of  wide- 
spread financial  depression.  Mr.  Campbell,  however,  believed  that  these  bonds 
would  reach  par  value  with  better  times  and  bought  some  of  these  securities  as 
low  as  ten  cents  on  the  dollar  and  made  it  a  rule  not  to  go  beyond  a  quarter  of  a 
dollar.  He  became  known  as  an  expert  on  such  bonds  and  when  he  had  invested  all 
of  his  ready  capital  in  that  way  he  persuaded  bankers  that  such  bonds  would  ulti- 
mately be  redeemed,  borrowed  money  on  those  he  held  as  collateral  and  bought 
still  more.  The  policy  which  he  pursued  proved  the  wisdom  of  his  judgment  and 
sagacity,  as  he  lived  to  realize  in  substantial  measure  upon  these  commercial  papers 
which  he  held.  All  this  time  Mr.  Campbell  was  studying  conditions  in  St.  Louis 
with  a  view  to  making  investment.  He  was  appointed  receiver  of  a  little  street 
railroad,  the  motive  power  of  which  was  mules  and  which  had  been  built  into 
North  St.  Louis  before  the  population  needed  such  transit  facilities.  After  a  time 
Mr.  Campbell  acquired  the  ownership  of  the  little  road  and  from  time  to  time 
he  increased  his  street  railway  holdings  and  in  connection  with  John  Scullin  adopted 
a  transfer  system  whereby  one  might  ride  on  the  carline  for  two  or  three  hours 
for  a  single  nickel.  With  the  improvement  of  street  railway  systems  he  was  asso- 
ciated with  Mr.  Scullin  in  the  electrification  of  the  St.  Louis  line.  Throughout  his 
life  it  was  his  custom  to  study  into  every  business  situation  and  problem  and  his 
work  in  the  electrification  of  the  railroad  led  him  to  learn  much  of  the  power  and 
value  of  electricity  for  lighting  purposes.  A  contemporary  writer  said  of  him 
in  this  connection:  "He  forecast  the  future,  when  electric  utilities  in  St.  Louis  were 
in  their  infancy.  He  invested  in  plant  after  plant — lighting  and  power — until  his 
holdings  enabled  him  to  bring  about  developments  and  economies  to  the  point  of 
profitable  operation.  'It  pays  to  hold  the  hand  of  an  infant  venture  until  it  can 
stand  alone,'  he  once  said.  His  comprehensiveness  in  business  is  notable  and  fol- 
lowing his  engineering  investigations  he  became  much  interested  in  the  use  of  natural 
water  power  for  supplying  heat,  power  and  light,  especially  in  the  western  mining 
regions,  where  coal  had  been  used  before.  Large  investments  have  followed  faith 
in  this  direction  until  Mr.  Campbell  became  one  of  the  principal  promoters  of  this 
use  of  water  power  for  the  creation  of  high  tension  electric  currents  and  the  appli- 
cation of  them  to  reduce  the  cost  of  mining.  In  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition 
Mr.  Campbell  as  a  director  and  member  of  the  executive  committee  was  a  forceful 
factor.  He  gave  his  time  and  his  thought  unsparingly  and  with  a  measure  of  public 
spirit  not  generally  known.  When  Festus  Wade  laid  the  foundation  of  the  Mer- 
cantile Trust  Company,  James  Campbell  was  one  of  the  men  who  backed  and  en- 
couraged the  enterprise  until  it  has  reached  its  present  great  proportions.  Never  los- 
ing his  first  love  for  the  railroads,  Mr.  Campbell  has  steadily  increased  his  invest- 
ments in  stock  and  bonds  of  systems  which  have  grown  with  the  great  southwest. 
Sitting  in  many  boards  of  directors,  he  was  known  as  the  silent  member,  waiting  for 


852  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

sentiment  to  crystallize  and  usually  forming  one  of  the  great  majority.  He  was 
not  stubborn  in  his  individual  opinions.  He  used  to  say:  'No  man  can  go  contrary 
to  the  direction  in  which  his  fellow  beings  are  moving  and  be  a  success.  Pull  in  the 
same  direction  with  the  other  fellow,  but  pull  longer  and  stronger."  " 

On  the  5th  of  November,  1887,  Mr.  Campbell  was  married  to  Florence  A. 
Van  Platner,  a  daughter  of  Hon.  George  W.  Van  Platner,  who  for  years  was  one  of 
the  foremost  lawyers  of  New  York  city.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Harvard  and  of 
Heidelburg  University  and  was  a  noted  scholar  and  linguist,  speaking  ten  languages. 
He  married  Lois  Schelloud.  who  became  a  notable  figure  in  literary  circles,  writing 
under  her  maiden  name,  and  she,  too,  was  a  linguist  of  renown.  Mrs.  Campbell  has 
inherited  not  a  little  of  her  parents'  intellectual  ability,  speaks  four  languages,  is  a 
broad  reader  and  a  woman  of  inherent  refinement  and  culture.  She  owns  a  country 
estate,  known  as  Mullrick,  at  Meads  Point,  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  and  one  of  the 
finest  residences  in  St.  Louis,  located  at  No.  2  Westmoreland  Place,  also  a  magnifi- 
cent residence  in  Pasadena,  California.  She  spends  about  three  months  each 
year  in  New  York  city,  at  her  country  home  at  Meads  Point,  in  St.  Louis  a-nd  in 
Pasadena.  She  owns  a  private  railway  car,  a  new  steel  car,  which  was  given  to 
her  by  her  husband  shortly  before  his  death,  which  occurred  June  12,  1914.  They 
have  only  one  surviving  child,  Lois,  now  the  wife  of  E.  G.  Burkham,  of  St.  Louis.  A 
daughter,  Lois,  died  at  the  age  of  four  and  one  half  years  and  a  son,  James  Camp- 
bell, Jr.,  passed  away  at  the  age  of  two.  The  companionship  between  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Campbell  was  of  the  closest  nature.  He  remained  a  lover  from  his  marriage 
until  his  death  and  found  his  greatest  happiness  at  hiJ  own  fireside.  He  would 
never  go  anywhere  without  being  accompanied  by  his  wife,  their  interests  being  one 
in  everything,  each  one's  happiness  being  augmented  only  when  the  other  shared 
it.     Mr.  and  Mrs.  Burkham  have  two  children. 

Mr.  Campbell  belonged  to  the  St.  Louis,  Noonday  and  Country  Clubs  and  was 
one  of  the  earliest  promoters  of  the  University  Club.  He  prized  true  friendship 
highly  and  genuine  worth  could  always  win  his  regard.  Unlike  many  men  who  attain 
wealth,  he  never  forgot  the  friends  of  his  youth.  At  the  time  of  his  demise  his 
holdings  were  estimated  at  from  forty  to  sixty  millions,  his  interests  including  hold- 
ings in  banks,  railroads,  trust  companies,  public  utility  corporations,  mines  and  real 
estate,  and  he  was  a  director  of  thirty-five  different  corporations.  The  estate  was 
left  in  trust  for  a  period  of  twenty-one  years  after  the  death  of  the  wife  and  daughter 
and  then  bequeathed  in  its  entirety  to  the  St.  Louis  University  for  the  advancement 
of  the  sciences  of  medicine  and  surgery  and  for  the  building  of  a  hospital  tor  sick 
and  injured  persons,  said  to  be  the  largest  donation  ever  given  for  a  single  purpose 
by  any  one  man. 


JUDGE  GEORGE  COLLIER  HITCHCOCK      ' 

Judge  George  Collier  Hitchcock,  lawyer  of  St.  Louis,  whose  activities  have  also 
extended  to.  other  fields  outside  the  strict  path  of  his  profession,  for  he  has  done 
important  work  in  public  office  and  in  connection  with  the  charitable  institutions  of 
the  city,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  December  28,  1867,  his  parents  being  Henry  and  Mary 
(Collier)  Hitchcock.  His  father  was  a  distinguished  representative  of  the  legal  pro- 
fession, his  name  being  on  the  roll  of  the  leading  jurists  of  Missouri.  His  example 
has  always  been  an  inspiring  force  in  the  life  of  his  son,  stimulating  him  in  his 
efforts  to  reach  the  highest  professional  ideals. 

In  1880  George  C.  Hitchcock  became  a  pupil  in  Smith  Academy  of  St.  Louis,  where 
he  pursued  his  studies  until  1882,  when  he  entered  St.  Paul's  School  at  Concord,  New 
Hampshire,  remaining  a  student  there  until  1886,  in  which  year  he  matriculated  in 
Yale.  He  completed  his  classical  course  by  graduation  in  1890  with  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Arts  and  in  preparation  for  a  professional  career  he  entered  the  St.  Louis 
Law  School,  while  from  1891  until  1893  he  was  a  student  in  the  Harvard  Law  School. 

Following  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  February,  1894,  Mr.  Hitchcock  entered  at 
once  upon  the  practice  of  law  in  his  native  city  and  so  continued  until  the  4th  of  August, 
1908,  when  he  was  one  of  three  lawyers  nominated  on  the  republican  ticket  for  the 
office  of  circuit  Judge  for  the  city  of  St.  Louis.  On  the  3d  of  November  he  was  elected 
for  a  term  of  six  years  and  took  his  place  upon  the  bench  on  the  1st  of  January,  1909. 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  855 

His  course  as  a  judge  was  in  harmony  with  his  record  as  a  man  and  a  lawyer,  char- 
acterized by  the  utmost  fidelity  to  duty.  With  his  retirement  from  the  bench  he 
resumed  the  private  practice  o£  law  and  has  since  given  his  attention  to  the  demands 
o£  a  constantly  increasing  practice. 

Throughout  the  period  of  his  manhood  Judge  Hitchcock  has  remained  a  stalwart 
supporter  of  the  republican  party  and  aside  from  serving  as  circuit  judge  he  has 
filled  various  other  offices.  He  was  assistant  United  States  attorney  from  1899  until 
April  1,  1902,  and  in  1905  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  city  council  of  St.  Louis  for 
a  two  years'  term,  during  which  time  he  was  chairman  of  the  ways  and  means  committee. 

On  the  12th  of  February,  1901,  Mr.  Hitchcock  was  married  to  Miss  Elizabeth  L. 
Fiske  and  their  children  are  as  follows:  Anne  W.,  born  in  St.  Louis  in  1902;  Mary, 
born  in  St.  Louis  in  1904;  Henry,  born  in  Milton,  Massachusetts,  in  1906;  Ethan  Allen, 
born  in  Milton,  Massachusetts,  in  1909;   and  Elizabeth  F.,  born  in  St.  Louis  in  1917. 

Judge  Hitchcock  has  figured  largely  in  connection  with  public  interests  of  St.  Louis 
and  has  been  identified  with  many  movements  of  direct  benefit  to  city  and  state. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Missouri  Botanical  Garden,  has  served 
as  a  member  of  the  board  of  commissioners  on  charitable  institutions  in  St.  Louis, 
filling  that  position  from  1896  until  1900,  and  during  the  period  of  the  World  war 
took  an  active  part  in  promoting  the  interests  of  the  government  in  all  those  branches 
of  service  which  furthered  the  cause  of  the  American  troops  and  the  allies  in  camp 
and  field.  He  was  chairman  of  the  legal  advisory  board  of  Division  No.  24  in  St. 
Louis  and  labored  most  earnestly  and  effectively  in  connection  with  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association,  Red  Cross  and  Liberty  Loan  drives.  He  is  the  president  of  the 
Mercantile  Library  Association  and  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Academy  of  Science. 
An  Episcopalian  in  religious  faith,  he  is  a  communicant  of  Christ  Church  cathedral 
and  was  appointed  by  Bishop  Daniel  B.  Tuttle  as  chancellor  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
diocese  -of  Missouri  and  confirmed  by  the  general  convention  in  May,  1918.  He  belongs 
to  the  leading  clubs  of  St.  Louis,  including  the  University,  Country,  Florissant  Valley 
and  City  Clubs,  also  to  the  University  Club  of  New  York  and  the  Yale  Club  of  New  York. 


ALBERT  I.  BEACH. 


Albert  I.  Beach,  who  since  1907  has  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in  Kansas  City, 
■was  born  in  Olathe,  Kansas,  July  30,  1883,  and  is  a  son  of  George  H.  and  Eva  (Hull) 
Beach,  the  former  a  native  of  Connecticut,  while  the  latter  was  born  in  Ohio.  The 
father  was  long  engaged  in  the  hardware  and  implement  business  at  Olathe  and  is  now 
deceased.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  being  for  many  years  a  faithful 
follower  of  its  teachings  and  a  liberal  supporter  of  the  cause. 

Albert  I.  Beach  was  the  second  in  order  of  birth  in  a  family  of  three  children. 
After  attending  the  graded  and  high  schools  at  Olathe,  Kansas,  he  continued  his  edu- 
cation in  the  State  University  of  Kansas,  which  conferred  upon  him  the  Bachelor  of 
Arts  degree  in  1905.  While  a  student  there  he  also  became  a  member  of  Beta  Theta  Phi. 
His  interest  in  the  profession  determined  him  to  qualify  for  active  practice  at  the 
bar  and  he  matriculated  in  Washington  University  at  St.  Louis  as  a  law  student, 
receiving  his  LL.  B.  degree  in  1907.  During  his  college  days  there  he  was  taken  into 
Phi  Delta  Phi,  a  legal  fraternity.  Since  the  time  of  his  graduation  he  has  engaged 
in  the  practice  of  law  in  Kansas  City  and  has  been  quite  successful.  He  began  practice 
in  the  office  of  the  firm  of  Ward,  Hadley  &'  Neal  and  is  now  following  his  profession 
independently.  He  is  a  valued  representative  of  the  Kansas  City  and  Missouri  State 
Bar  Associations.  In  all  of  his  professional  career  he  has  held  to  high  standards,  and 
while  his  devotion  to  his  clients'  interest  is  proverbial,  he  never  forgets  that  he  owes 
a  still  higher  allegiance  to  the  majesty  of  the  law.  In  addition  to  his  professional 
activities  Mr.  Beach  is  a  director  of  the  Westport  Avenue  Bank,  of  the  Southwest 
Boulevard  State  Bank  of  Kansas  City,  and  the  Business  Men's  Assurance  Company 
of  America. 

In  1908  Mr.  Beach  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Marjorie  Marshall,  of  Lawrence, 
Kansas,  daughter  of  Samuel  R.  Marshall  of  that  state.  They  have  two  children,  Eleanor 
and  Marshall.  Mr.  Beach  is  a  member  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  church  of  Kansas 
City,  in  which  he  has  served  as  trustee.  He  was  reared  in  this  faith,  his  grandfather, 
the  Rev.  Isaac  Beach,  having  been  a  pioneer  Presbyterian  minister  of  this  state  who 


856  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

came  to  the  west  in  the  '50s.  Politically  Mr.  Beach  is  a  republican  and  gives  unfal- 
tering support  to  the  party,  for  he  believes  that  its  platform  contains  the  best  elements 
of  government.  He  was  tor  several  years  a  member  of  the  upper  house  of  the  common 
council,  of  which  he  served  as  president  from  1916  to  1918.  He  stands  for  all  those 
things  which  pertain  to  civic  progress  and  are  matters  of  civic  virtue  and  civic  pride. 
He  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  along  more  strictly  social  lines  his 
connection  is  with  the  Mission  Hills  Country  Club,  of  which  he  is  now  secretary,  and 
the  Kansas  City  Club.  Mr.  Beach  is  an  excellent  speaker,  possessing  superior  oratorical 
powers,  and  he  was  the  chairman  of  the  speakers'  division  of  all  the  war  drives  in 
Kansas  City,  including  the  Red  Cross,  Liberty  Bond  and  all  charity  drives,  handling 
the  speaking  for  these  campaigns  not  only  in  Kansas  City  but  throughout  the  adjoining 
states  in  a  most  commendable  way.  His  American  training  and  belief  have  found  their 
expression  in  a  one  hundred  per  cent  patriotism,  which  was  indicated  by  deeds  as  well 
as  by  words. 


ARTHUR  A.  BLUMEYER. 


Arthur  A.  Blumeyer,  as  president  of  the  Industrial  Loan  Company,  has  organized 
and  developed  a  business  that  is  meeting  conditions  in  the  business  world  at  large 
and  thus  contributing  to  the  general  progress  along  the  lines  of  trade  and  commerce. 
St.  Louis  numbers  him  among  her  native  sons,  his  birth  having  here  occurred  De- 
cember 27,  1886.  His  father,  the  late  Conrad  Blumeyer,  was  a  native  of  Germany  and 
came  to  America  with  his  parents  in  1844,  the  family  home  being  established  In  St. 
Louis,  where  his  parents  spent  their  remaining  days.  Conrad  Blumeyer  was  reared 
and  educated  in  this  city  and  during  his  active  life  was  engaged  in  the  real  estate 
business  and  in  the  grocery  trade,  conducting  a  store  at  Tenth  and  Madison  streets. 
Ten  years  prior  to  his  death  he  also  became  the  vice  president  and  one  of  the  directors 
of  the  Northwestern  Bank  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  a  very  energetic  and  successful  busi- 
ness man  and  in  politics  was  a  stanch  republican.  He  passed  away  in  1902  at  the  age 
of  sixty-three  years,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Hamburg,  Germany,  in  1839.  In 
early  manhood  he  married  Elizabeth  Spillman,  who  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  a  daughter 
of  Henry  Spillman  and  a  representative  of  one  of  the  old  families  of  the  city.  Mrs. 
Blumeyer  is  still  living  and  yet  makes  her  home  in  St.  Louis.  By  her  marriage  she 
became  the  mother  of  ten  children,  eight  of  whom  survive,  the  family  originally 
numbering  seven  sous  and  three  daughters. 

The  youngest  of  this  household  was  Arthur  A.  Blumeyer,  who  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  when  twenty  years  of  age  started  out  to  earn  his 
own  livelihood.  He  was  trained  for  commercial  activity  by  a  course  in  the  Perkins 
&  Herpel  Business  College,  from  which  he  was  graduated.  He  was  first  employed  in 
mercantile  lines  and  afterward  spent  six  years  in  the  real  estate  and  brokerage 
business  on  his  own  account.  On  the  1st  of  January,  1913,  he  became  connected  with 
the  Industrial  Loan  Company  as  its  secretary  and  on  the  1st  of  January,  1918,  he 
succeeded  William  J.  Kinsella  as  president.  In  this  undertaking  he  is  associated  with 
a  board  of  directors,  including  some  of  the  prominent  business  men  of  the  city,  deeply 
interested  in  affafrs  affecting  the  betterment  of  St.  Louis.  The  members  of  the  board 
are  Paul  Brown,  Arthur  A.  Blumeyer,  W.  Frank  Carter,  Henry  L.  Cornet,  F.  B.  Eisetoan, 
J.  Hugh  Powers,  Edgar  B.  McDonald,  Charles  Rebstock,  Frank  C.  Rand,  A.  L.  Shapleigh, 
S.  L.  Swarts,  Frank  A.  Thompson  and  M.  L.  Wilkinson.  In  addition  to  his  connection 
with  the  Industrial  Loan  Company,  Mr.  Blumeyer  is  a  director  of  the  A.  Geisel  Manu- 
facturing Company,  a  tinware  manufacturing  organization  which  has  long  been  an 
established  business  of  St.  Louis.  The  greater  part  of  his  time  and  attention,  however, 
is  concentrated  upon  the  interests  of  the  Industrial  Loan  Company  and  he  has  accom- 
plished splendid  results  along  that  line.  He  is  likewise  a  vice  president  and  a  member 
of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Morris  Plan  Bankers  Association. 

On  the  9th  of  October,  1908,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Blumeyer  was  married  to  Miss  Ada  V. 
Geisel,  a  native  of  St.  Louis,  and  a  daughter  of  Adelbert  and  Matilda  (Bokern)  Geisel, 
both  representatives  of  prominent  old  families  of  this  city.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Blumeyer  have 
become  parents  of  three  children:    Ada  Jane,  Mary  Ann  and  Frank  Carter. 

During  the  war  period  Mr.  Blumeyer  was  very  active  in  the  sale  of  Liberty  Bonds 
and  Thrift  Stamps  and  otherwise  was  most  helpful   in  promoting  the  work  necessary 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  857 

tor  the  support  of  the  government  during  that  critical  period.  In  politics  he  has  always 
been  a  republican.  He  is  well  known  in  club  circles,  belonging  to  the  Century  Boat, 
Sunset  Hill  Country,  City  and  Advertising  Men's  Clubs.  He  is  also  a  member  ot  the  St. 
Louis  Credit  Men's  Association  and  a  member  of  the  Chamber  ot  Commerce.  He  takes 
a  most  active  and  helpful  interest  in  all  that  has  to  do  with  the  upbuilding  and 
progress  of  St.  Louis  and  his  aid  and  cooperation  can  be  counted  upon  to  further  any 
plan  or  movement  for  the  general  good.  His  labors  along  these  lines  have  been  far- 
reaching  and  effective  and  St.  Louis  classes  him  with  her  substantial  citizensj 


WILSON   B.   PLANCK. 


Arriving  In  Kansas  City  In  February,  1913,  Wilson  B.  Planck  became  identified 
with  banking  Interests  here  and  Is  now  the  president  of  the  Gate  City  National  Bank. 
He  brought  to  the  initial  point  of  his  connection  with  the  business  Interests  of  Kansas 
City  excellent  training,  which  he  had  received  in  connection  with  a  bank  of  Bethany, 
Missouri,  and  in  public  service  as  an  employe  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  state. 
Adaptable  and  enterprising,  prompted  at  all  times  by  a  laudable  ambition,  he  has 
steadily  advanced  and  his  orderly  progression  has  brought  him  to  a  point  of  adminis- 
trative direction  and  executive  control  in  association  with  one  of  the  strong  and 
prominent  financial  institutions  of  western  Missouri. 

Mr.  Planck  is  one  of  the  native  sons  of  the  state,  his  birth  having  occurred 
upon  a  farm  in  Harrison  county,  December  15,  1873.  His  father,  Joseph  E.  Planck, 
was  born  in  Kentucky,  but  came  to  this  state  In  his  boyhood  days  with  his  parents, 
who  established  their  home  in  Harrison  county.  There  he  took  up  agricultural  pur- 
suits, which  he  always  followed  as  a  source  of  maintaining  his  family  and  winning 
that  substantial  success  which  is  the  laudable  goal  of  all  business  endeavor.  During 
the  Civil  war  he  served  In  the  Union  army  as  a  member  of  the  First  Missouri  State 
Cavalry  and  was  wounded  in  battle  near  Kansas  City.  He  was  long  a  devoted 
member  of  the  Christian  church  and  passed  away  in  that  faith  in  1892.  In  early 
manhood  he  wedded  Amanda  J.  Thompson,  a  native  of  Indiana,  and  she,  too,  was 
a  devoted  follower  ot  the  teachings  ot  the  Christian  church.  She  passed  away  In 
1918,  leaving  six  children,  of  whom  Wilson  B.  Is  the  youngest. 

In  the  district  schools  near  his  father's  farm  and  in  the  high  school  at  Bethany, 
,  Missouri,  Wilson  B.  Planck  obtained  his  early  education  and  afterward  attended  the 
Normal  College  at  Stanberry,  Missouri.  He  then  took  up  the  profession  of  teaching. 
He  had  worked  his  way  through  college  and  thus  early  displayed  the  elemental 
strength  of  his  character,  which  has  carried  him  steadily  forward  and  brought  him 
into  prominence  in  this  connection.  In  1895  he  obtained  a  position  in  the  Bethany 
Savings  Bank  at  Bethany,  Missouri,  with  which  institution  he  was  associated  until 
1909,  save  for  a  period  of  two  years,  which  he  spent  in  Jefferson  City  in  the  office 
of  the  secretary  of  state,  the  Hon.  John  E.  Swanger  being  at  that  time  the  incum- 
bent in  the  position.  The  latter  soon  discovered  his  exceptional  ability  and  made 
him  clerk  of  the  banking  department.  In  1909  he  appointed  Mr.  Planck  deputy 
bank  commissioner  and  again  he  made  a  most  commendable  record  through  the 
period  of  his  public  service.  He  Is  not  only  endowed  with  rare  banking  ability 
but  Is  a  student  always  and  keeps  abreast  ot  the  times  in  connection  with  every 
feature  of  his  business.  In  February,  1913,  he  came  to  Kansas  City  and  after  a 
brief  period,  or  in  the  month  of  April,  was  made  vice  president  of  the  Gate  City 
National  Bank,  thus  serving  until  July,  1916,  when  he  was  elected  to  the  presidency 
and  now  remains  at  the  head  ot  the  bank.  Honored  and  respected  by  all,  there  is 
no  man  who  occupies  a  more  enviable  position  in  the  business  and  financial  circles 
of  western  Missouri,  not  alone  by  reason  of  the  success  which  he  has  accomplished, 
but  also  owing  to  the  straightforward  business  principles  which  he  has  ever  followed. 

In  1897  Mr.  Planck  was  married  to  Miss  Olive  M.  Devers,  a  daughter  ot  John 
Devers,  of  Bethany,  Missouri,  and  they  have  one  son,  Russell  S.,  twenty-one  years 
of  age,  who  is  now  a  student  in  the  Missouri  State  University  and  who  for  two  years, 
during  the  World  war,  was  a  member  ot  the  navy,  serving  on  the  George  Washington 
when  President  Wilson  made  his  trip  to  Europe  to  attend  the  peace  conference. 

Mr.  Planck  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club,  the  Meadow  Lake  Country 
Club  and  to  the  Bankers  Club.     His  political  allegiance  -is  given  to  the  republican 


858  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

party  and  he  has  been  very  active  as  a  worker  in  its  ranks.  When  twenty-one  years 
of  age  he  was  made  secretary  of  the  republican  committee  of  Harrison  county  and 
later  was  its  chairman.  He  is  a  loyal  member  of  the  Christian  church,  doing  every- 
thing in  his  power  to  promote  its  growth  and  extend  its  influence.  Actuated  by  a 
broad,  humanitarian  spirit,  he  gives  liberally  to  philanthropic  and  charitable  inter- 
ests, yet  without  ostentation.  He  is  a  most  public-spirited  man,  an  entertaining 
talker  whose  conversational  powers  add  much  to  the  pleasure  of  social  occasions, 
and  an  able  banker  whose  success  is  due  to  close  application  and  industry. 


SARPY  JOSEPH   PRATTE  NOONAN. 

Sarpy  Joseph  Pratte  Noonan,  a  St.  Louis  lawyer  successfully  practicing  in  his 
native  city,  was  born  June  27,  1888,  a  son  of  Thomas  S.  and  Josephine  (Bogy) 
Noonan.  The  father  was  a  native  of  Boston  and  a  representative  of  one  of  the 
old  families  of  Massachusetts  of  Irish  lineage.  He  was  reared  and  educated  in  Bos- 
ton and  about  1850  came  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  entered  into  business  associations 
with  the  D.  A.  January  Company,  dealers  in  woodenware.  Later  in  life  he  turned 
his  attention  to  the  real  estate  business,  in  which  he  successfully  engaged  to  the  time 
of  his  death,  which  occurred  February  1,  1890,  when  he  was  forty-four  years  of 
age.  His  wife  was  born  in  St.  Louis  and  was  a  daughter  of  Senator  Lewis  Vital 
Bogy,  who  served  as  a  member  of  the  United  States  Senate  in  1877  and  represented 
a  prominent  old  French  family  of  this  city.  Her  maternal  grandmother  was  Pelagie 
Pratte,  whose  parents  were  Count  and  Countess  Pratte.  Mrs.  Noonan  is  still 
living,  making  her  home  in  her  native  city.  By  her  marriage  she  became  the  mother 
of  eight  children,  two  sons  and  six  daughters,  of  whom  seven  are  yet  living. 

S.  J.  P.  Noonan,  the  youngest  of  the  family,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  St.  Louis  until  he  left  the  Central  high  school,  after  which  he  entered  the  St. 
Louis  University,  while  his  law  course  was  pursued  in  Washington  University,  where 
he  won  his  LL.  B.  degree  upon  graduation  with  the  class  of  1910.  He  then  entered 
upon  active  practice,  in  which  he  has  since  been  continuously  and  successfully 
engaged.  He  remains  a  general  practitioner  of  law,  devoting  his  attention 
to  both  criminal  and  civil  cases.  He  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association 
and  enjoys  the  respect  and  confidence  of  his  colleagues  and  contemporaries  in  the 
profession. 

On  the  24th  of  November,  1910,  Mr.  Noonan  was  married  to  Miss  Frances  Cook, 
a  native  of  Missouri  and  a  daughter  of  Charles  F.  and  Margaret  (Call)  Cook,  repre- 
senting a  well  known  and  prominent  St.  Louis  family.  They  have  one  son,  Sarpy 
Joseph    Pratte   Noonan,    Jr.,    who    was    born    in    St.    Louis,    April    8,    1912. 

During  the  World  war  Mr.  Noonan  was  a  member  of  the  legal  advisory  board 
of  the  eighth  ward.  His  military  service  covers  three  years'  experience  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Missouri  National  Guard.  His  political  endorsement  is  given  to  the 
republican  party  and  he  is  a  communicant  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church. 


ROBERT  CHILTON  ATKINSON,  M.  D. 

Dr.  Robert  Chilton  Atkinson,  physician  and  scholar,  whose  most  pronounced 
characteristic  perhaps  was  his  broad  humanitarianism,  for  he  was  constantly  reach- 
ing out  a  helping  hand  to  the  unfortunate,  speaking  a  word  of  encouragement  and 
serving  as  a  stimulus  to  the  best  and  highest  in  others,  passed  away  in  St.  Louis, 
December  31,  1917,  mourned  by  all  who  had  known  him.  He  was  at  that  time 
about  seventy-six  years  of  age,  his  birth  having  occurred  at  Smithfield,  in  Isle  of 
Wight  county,  Virginia,  October  3,  1841.  His  father,  the  Hon.  Archibald  Atkin- 
son, was  a  distinguished  citizen  of  Tidewater,  Virginia,  who  for  twenty  years  rep- 
resented his  district  in  the  house  of  representatives  and  in  the  senate  of  the  Vir- 
ginia legislature.  He  was  also  at  one  time  mayor  of  Smithfield,  Virginia,  was  a 
prominent  member  of  the  bar  and  was  called  upon  to  represent  his  district  in  con- 
gress. He  married  Elizabeth  Ann  Chilton,  of  Leesburg,  Virginia,  and  thus  Dr. 
Atkinson   of  this   review   was   connected   through   paternal  and   maternal   lines   with 


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the  Powells,  Peytons,  Harrisons,  Chiltons,  Atkinsons  and  other  of  the  most  promi- 
nent families  of  the  Old  Dominion — families  that  furnished  their  representatives 
to  the  early  Indian  wars,  to  the  Revolutionary  war  and  again  to  the  Confederacy. 
General  Robert  H.  Chilton,  in  the  maternal  line,  was  chief  of  staff  to  General 
Robert  E.  Lee  and  was  an  uncle  of  Dr.  Atkinson  of  this  review.  Dr.  Archibald 
Atkinson,  the  only  brother  of  Robert  C.  Atkinson,  was  brigade  surgeon  under  Gen- 
eral Jubal  Early.  Colonel  George  D.  Wise,  brother-in-law  of  Dr.  Atkinson,  was 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Petersburg  and  our  subject's  aged  father,  Archibald  Atkin- 
son, gave  most  of  a  comfortable  fortune  to  the  Confederate  government. 

It  was  not  strange  therefore  that  Dr.  Robert  C.  Atkinson  should  also  become 
a  stalwart  champion  of  the  cause  of  his  loved  southland.  He  was  educated  in  the 
Lynchburg  Military  Institute  and  in  William  and  Mary  College.  In  fact  he  was 
a  student  in  the  latter  institution  at  the  time  of  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  and, 
offering  his  services  to  the  Confederacy,  was  commissioned  a  lieutenant  of  Vir- 
ginian troops  and  assigned  to  General  Roger  A.  Pryor  as  drillmaster.  This  occa- 
sioned him  to  be  left  behind  to  await  assignment  when  the  Virginian  troops  were 
taken  over  by  the  Confederate  government,  as  he  was  not  actually  in  command 
of  any  specific  body  of  troops.  He  did  not  relish  this  inactivity  and,  riding  off, 
enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  first  command  he  came  across,  which  happened  to  be 
the  Prince  George  County  troop  of  the  Thirteenth  Virginia  Cavalry.  He  remained 
with  the  army  throughout  the  period  of  the  war,  was  once  disabled  in  action  and 
afterward  reenlisted  in  the  famous  Chew's  Battery.  He  was  at  Gettysburg  with 
the  Tenth  Virginia  Cavalry  and  participated  also  in  the  battles  of  Malvern  Hill, 
Williamsburg  and  many  other  engagements,  his  entire  course  being  marked  by  an 
efficiency  and  bravery  that  proved  him  the  possessor  of  the  most  soldierly  qualities. 

Following  his  return  from  the  war  Dr.  Atkinson  prepared  for  the  practice  of 
medicine  as  a  student  in  the  University  of  Virginia  and  In  Tulane  University  at  New 
Orleans.  For  a  brief  period  he  maintained  an  office  in  the  Crescent  City  and  in 
1868  removed  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  came  almost  at  once  into  prominence  as  a 
member  of  the  medical  profession,  being  regarded  for  many  years  as  one  of  the 
best  diagnosticians  of  the  city.  Throughout  his  professional  career  he  kept  in  the 
closest  touch  with  the  advancing  thought,  research  and  investigation  of  the  pro- 
fession and  he  was  regarcled  not  only  as  a  most  successful  and  able  practitioner  but 
also  as  an  eminent  educator  in  his  chosen  field.  He  became  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Marion  Simms  Medical  College  of  St.  Louis,  in  which  he  occupied  the  chair  of 
practice  of  medicine  and  of  hygiene.  He  was  afterward  assigned  to  the  chair  of 
pediatrics,  or  diseases  of  children,  and  for  eighteen  years  remained  a  member  of  the 
faculty  in  that  connection.  He  continued  with  the  college  after  it  was  incorporated 
Into  the  St.  Louis  University  and  he  was  a  most  popular  lecturer,  there  never  being 
any  lack  of  attendance  at  his  classes.  He  imparted  clearly  and  readily  to  others  the 
knowledge  that  he  had  acquired  and  never  failed  to  hold  the  keen  interest  of  his 
pupils.  It  is  said  that  he  succeeded  in  reducing  the  death  rate  in  St.  Ann's  Orphan 
Asylum  to  a  remarkable  degree  when  serving  as  medical  director  there.  He  had 
the  keenest  interest  in  little  children  and  displayed  a  wonderful  mastery  over  them. 
For  eight  years  during  the  last  decade  in  his  life  he  was  medical  and  hygiene  officer 
of  the  St.  Louis  public  schools,  in  daily  care  of  many  thousands  of  children,  so  serving 
under  a  republican  board  although  he  was  a  stalwart  advocate  of  democratic  prin- 
ciples. He  likewise  did  other  important  public  work.  He  was  sanitary  officer  of 
St.  Louis,  assistant  superintendent  of  the  city  hospital,  a  member  of  the  board  of 
health.  United  States  pension  examiner,  coroner  of  St.  Louis  and  secretary  and  active 
officer  of  the  state  board  of  health.  He  likewise  served  on  the  school  board  and 
manifested  the  keenest  interest  in  the  cause  of  public  education. 

Dr.  Atkinson  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  Tandy  Bull,  a  native  of 
Kentucky  and  a  daughter  of  John  Cardwell  and  Eliza  Sprigg  (Payne)  Bull.  They 
became  the  parents  of  four  children,  of  whom  two  are  living,  Chilton  and  May,  with 
whom  the  mother  lives  in  St.  Louis.  The  son  is  now  a  prominent  attorney  of  the 
city.  Dr.  Atkinson  was  commander  of  the  St.  Louis  Camp  of  Confederate  Veterans. 
He  had  no  time  for  active  club  life  for  his  attention  was  given  to  his  professional 
interests  and  a  large  part  of  his  practice  was  among  those  from  whom  he  received 
no  remuneration.  He  was  generous  to  a  fault,  if  such  a  thing  can  be,  and  like  the 
preacher  in  Oliver  Goldsmith's  "Deserted  Village,"  "e'en  his  failings  leaned  to 
virtue's  side."     His  friends  declared  that  he  must  have  taken  the  "vow  of  poverty," 


862  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

so  strongly  did  he  hesitate  in  asking  patients  tor  what  was  his  just  due.  He  was 
constantly  reaching  out  a  helping  hand,  and  no  matter  how  much  personal  discom- 
fort or  sacrifice  was  involved,  he  never  hesitated  to  respond  to  the  call  of  the  sick 
and  suffering.  A  modern  philosopher  has  said:  "Not  the  good  that  comes  to  us, 
but  the  good  that  comes  to  the  world  through  us,  is  the  measure  of  our  success," 
and  judged  by  this  standard  Dr.  Atkinson  was  a  most  successful  man. 


CHILTON  ATKINSON. 


Admitted  to  the  bar  before  he  had  attained  his  majority,  Chilton  Atkinson  has 
since  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in  St.  Louis  and  through  the  intervening  period 
of  a  quarter  of  a  century  has  been  accorded  a  large  and  important  clientage.  He  was 
born  in  St.  Louis,  December  10,  1875,  a  son  of  Dr.  Robert  C.  Atkinson,  who  came  to 
this  city  in  18  68  from  New  Orleans,  but  was  originally  from  Virginia.  He  practiced 
medicine  for  many  years  and  was  coroner  of  St.  Louis  for  some  time.  He  made  a 
specialty  of  children's  diseases  and  was  instructor  in  that  branch  of  medicine  in 
various  colleges.  He  was  also  secretary  of  the  state  board  of  health  and  a  member 
of  the  city  board  of  health  under  Mayor  Francis.  He  likewise  served  on  the  United 
States  pension  examining  board  and  was  a  member  of  the  school  board  of  St.  Louis 
and  thus  contributed  in  many  ways  to  the  welfare  of  his  adopted  city,  in  which  he 
passed  away  December  31,  1917.  In  early  manhood  he  had  wedded  Mary  T.  Bull, 
a  daughter  of  John  Cardwell  and  Eliza  (Payne)  Bull.  Mrs.  Atkinson  survives  and 
resides  with  her  son  Chilton,  in  St.  Louis.  In  the  family  were  four  children,  of 
whom  only  two  are  living,  Chilton  and  May. 

The  former  was  graduated  from  Smith  Academy  and  also  from  Washington  Uni- 
versity, in  which  he  completed  a  course  in  law  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1895, 
winning  the  LL.  B.  degree.  On  the  5th  of  September,  1895,  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  although  he  had  not  yet  attained  his  majority.  He  has  since  engaged  in  "prac- 
tice and  from  1896  until  1898  was  associated  with  Colonel  Given  Campbell.  Since 
that  time  he  has  practiced  alone  and  has  been  connected  with  much  important  liti- 
gation heard  in  the  courts  of  the  district.  In  1918  he  was  nominated  for  the  office 
of  probate  judge  but  was  defeated,  although  he  had  the  support  of  the  attorneys 
of  the  city.  He  belongs  to  the  Missouri  Bar  Association  and  his  contemporaries  in 
practice  recognize  his  close  conformity  to  the  most  advanced  standards  of  the 
profession. 

Mr.  Atkinson  is  a  man  of  wide  and  varied  interests,  as  indicated  in  his  con- 
nection with  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  the  Sons  of  Confederate  Veterans,  Sigma 
Alpha  Epsilon,  a  fraternity  of  Washington  University,  and  the  Episcopal  church. 
For  twenty  years  he  was  a  vestryman  in  Mount  Calvary  church.  During  the  period 
of  the  World  war  he  was  United  States  government  attorney,  in  charge  of  the  selec- 
tive draft  in  the  first  ward  of  St.  Louis.  For  recreation  he  turns  to  tennis  and 
horseback  riding.  His  political  allegiance  has  always  been  given  to  the  democratic 
party,  but  while  keeping  well  informed  on  the  questions  and  issues  of  the  day,  he 
has  on  the  whole  given  his  attention  not  to  politics  but  to  his  professional  duties 
and  his  devotion  to  the  interests  of  his  clients  is  proverbial.  His  friends  speak  of 
him  as  an  exceptionally  broadly  read  man  upon  history,  religion  and  the  law,  excelling 
in  ofllce  practice  or  business  law,  especially  in  regard  to  trusts  and  real  estate. 


ROBERT   MORGAN   WHITE. 


Robert  Morgan  White,  who  has  made  the  Mexico  Ledger  both  the  mirror  and 
the  molder  of  public  opinion  and  who  has  gained  for  himselj:  an  enviable  position  as 
one  of  the  leading  journalists  of  northeastern  Missouri,  was  born  in  New  York  and 
comes  of  an  ancestry  which  in  its  lineal  and  collateral  lines  has  been  distinctively 
American  through  ten  generations.  The  progenitor  of  the  family  in  the  new  world  was 
Thomas  White,  who  was  born  in  1599  and  on  coming  to  America  settled  at  Weymouth, 
Massachusetts,  while  his  son,  John  White,  became  the  founder  of  the  Southampton, 
Long  Island,  branch  of  the  family.  John  White  and  his  wife,  Ann,  were  the  parents 
of  James   White,   who  on   the   24th  of  November,   1675,   wedded    Ruth   Shetton.     Their 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  863 

son  Ephraim,  whose  military  service  won  him  the  rank  ot  captain,  married  Sarah 
Herrick  and  they  were  parents  ot  John  White.  To  the  latter  and  his  wife,  Jerusha 
White,  was  born  a  son  to  whom  they  gave  the  name  ot  John  and  the  line  ot  direct 
descent  was  carried  down  through  his  son,  Ephraim  White,  who  wedded  Mary  Reeves. 
A  son  ot  this  marriage  was  Nathan,  who  wedded  Mary  Bishop  and  they  became  parents 
of  Albert  White,  to  whom  and  his  wife,  Catherine  Jane  (Morgan)  White,  was  born  a 
son,  Robert  Morgan  White,  the  well  known  editor  and  owner  ot  the  Mexico  Ledger. 

In  both  the  paternal  and  maternal  lines  he  comes  of  an  ancestry  long  prominent  in 
connection  with  the  Colonial  and  Revolutionary  war  history  of  the  country.  The 
Morgan  family  was  represented  in  Pennsylvania,  but  the  White  family  for  many  gen- 
erations continued  to  occupy  the  old  home  at  Southampton,  Long  Island,  where  they 
were  widely  known  as  farmers  and  soldiers  of  unpretentious  but  reliable  and  morally 
superior  stock,  holding  to  the  faith  ot  the  Presbyterian  church. 

It  was  at  Southampton,  Long  Island,  that  Robert  Morgan  White  was  born.  May  3, 
1855,  and  following  the  removal  of  his  parents  to  the  west  with  their  family  about 
1866,  he  acquired  the  greater  part  of  his  education  in  the  schools  ot  his  adopted  state. 
He  studied  at  Westminster  College  in  Fulton,  Missouri,  being  there  graduated  with 
the  class  of  1876,  and  almost  immediately  afterward  he  entered  upon  his  career  as  a 
Journalist.  Practically  his  entire  life  has  been  given  to  editorial  labor  and  he  has 
become  one  of  the  most  prominent  representatives  of  the  newspaper  fraternity  in  Missouri. 
His  business  career  has  been  marked  by  steady  growth  and  progress.  He  has  familiar- 
ized himself  with  every  phase  of  newspaper  publication  and  composition,  has  acted  as 
reporter,  bookkeeper,  solicitor  for  the  weekly  and  daily  editions  of  his  paper,  and  as 
editorial  writer  he  has  wielded  a  wide  influence  over  public  thought  and  action.  The 
Ledger  has  been  termed  "the  optimistic  city's  optimistic  daily."  It  discusses  every 
question  of  local  and  national  interest  with  a  fairness  and  impartiality  that  gives  the 
opinions  expressed  due  weight  among  the  readers.  Associated  with  him  in  his  news- 
paper publication  is  his  only  son,  L.  Mitchell  White,  who  succeeded  his  father  in  the 
management  and  publishing  of  the  paper. 

The  History  of  Northeast  Missouri  said  of  Mr.  White  in  his  professional  connec- 
tion: "Distinguished  in  his  editorship  and  fortunate  as  well  as  admirable  in  family 
relations,  'Bob'  White,  as  he  is  affectionately  called,  is  most  ot  all  highly  esteemed  for 
his  own,  strongly  limned,  somewhat  unique  personality.  No  newspaper,  no  matter 
how  clever  or  'newsy,'  elicits  great  respect  unless  the  personality  behind  it  counts  tor 
the  things  that  are  substantially' worthy.  In  this  regard  it  is  well  to  let  one  of  those 
who  best  know  Editor  White  be  quoted  in  an  estimate  of  the  man.  We  append  here 
an  excerpt  from  an  article  by  ex-Governor  Lon  V.  Stephens,  in  the  Boonville  (Missouri) 
Advertiser:  "If  I  were  asked  to  name  the  editor  of  forty-six  years  of  age  who  has  been 
longest  prominently  before  the  people  ot  Missouri,  I  would  name'  Robert  M.  White  of 
the  Mexico  Ledger.  There  are  other  editors  as  well  known  now  perhaps,  but  none 
who,  like  Bob  White,  has  been  continuously  in  the  public  eye  since  the  days  of  his 
boyhood.  Nor  is  Bob  White  a  politician.  He  has  never  cared  for  political  life.  He 
has  attended  strictly  to  his  newspaper,  and  consequently  has  built  up  a  great  newspaper 
property.  Though  he  is  well  provided  for,  financially,  through  his  own  exertions,  he 
works  as  hard  as  anybody  in  his  employ.  So  hard  does  he  work,  indeed,  that  his 
physicians  were  compelled  to  send  him  abroad  to  prevent  a  nervous  collapse.  He  went 
abroad,  traveled  twenty-six  thousand  miles  in  four  months,  going  to  Europe  with  a 
single  negligee  shirt  as  baggage,  doing  Paris  in  four  days.  He  is  how  hard  at  work 
again  and  his  ill  health  Is  a  thing  of  the  past.  *  *  *  In  addition  to  these  varied  and 
exacting  duties,  he  fills  the  following  positions  in  public  matters:  deacon  in  the  Pres- 
byterian church,  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school,  member  of  the  building  com- 
mittee, eminent  commander  of  his  commandery,  secretary  ot  the  Missouri  Press 
Association,  and  member  of  its  executive  committee;  recording  secretary  of  the  National 
Editorial  Association,  vice  president  of  the  Western  Federation  of  Editors,  and  a 
member  ot  its  executive  committee;  member  from  the  state  ot  the  national  committee 
ot  the  anti-Mormon  movement;  member  of  the  board  of  directors  ot  the  Fulton  insane 
asylum;  member  ot  the  board  of  directors  ot  Westminster  College;  member  ot  the  board 
of  directors  of  the  Mexico  Waterworks  Company;  member  ot  the  board  of  directors  of 
a  fire  insurance  company;  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  two  banks;  member  of 
the  directors  ot  a  proposed  old  ladies'  home  which  is  in  course  of  erection;  member  of 
the  board  ot  a  business  men's  association;  member  of  the  board  ot  directors  of  a  bond 
and  trust  company;  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  a  building  and  loan  association; 

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member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Eugene  Field  Monument  Association;  member 
of  the  publicity  board  of  the  National  Traveling  Men's  anti-Trust  League;  member  of 
the  board  of  trustees  also  of  the  finance  committee  of  the  State  Historical  Society;  and, 
in  addition  to  these,  he  is  a  member  of  several  other  committees  of  more  or  less  im- 
portance. And  he  does  all  these  things  well,  too.  Bob  White  is  noted  for  generosity 
and  unselfishness.  Nobody  will  do  more  for  a  friend  than  he.  He  hunts  opportunities 
to  help  people,  and  is  never  afraid  of  hurting  himself.  Nor  is  he  at  all  politic.  He 
has  a  blunt,  straightforward  way  of  saying  and  doing  things  that  wins  people.  He  hits 
enemies  with  a  sledge-hammer  and  helps  friends  in  the  same  vigorous  fashion.  He  is 
easily,  personally,  the  most  popular  country  editor  in  the  state.  Bob  White  is  well 
appreciated  in  all  sections  of  Missouri.  In  Mexico,  where  he  resides,  he  has  one  of 
the  handsomest  homes  to  be  found  anywhere.  His  wife  is  a  most  charming  woman, 
and  his  only  son,  Mitchell,  is  a  chip  off  the  old  block,  fine  looking  and  sturdy.'  " 

The  above  indicates  the  great  breadth  of  the  interests  and  activities  of  Mr.  White. 
He  is  at  the  present  time  president  of  the  Savings  Bank  of  Mexico,  and  a  member  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  Bank  of  Slater,  Slater,  Missouri;  the  Mexico  Savings  Bank  and 
the  North  Missouri  Trust  Company,  also  of  Mexico.  It  is  no  exaggeration  to  say  that 
he  has  been  a  most  potent  factor  in  shaping  the  development  of  Missouri  for  many 
years. 

Mr.  White  is  most  happily  situated  in  his  home  relations.  More  than  tour  decades 
ago  he  wedded  Isabella  Dinsmore  Mitchell,  of  Alton,  Illinois,  whose  ancestral  line  is 
traced  back  to  the  early  colonial  days,  she  being  a  descendant  of  Captain  John  Hall,  of 
Cranberry  Hall,  Maryland,  who  was  one  of  the  members  of  the  provincial  congress,  also 
of  John  Tuthill  (1640)  and  of  Major  Piatt  Bay  less.  Her  education  was  largely  acquired 
in  St.  Mary's  School  at  Knoxville,  Illinois,  while  she  was  spending  her  girlhood  days 
in  the  home  of  her  parents,  Leander  and  Sophia  (Bayless)  Mitchell.  On  the  22d  of 
July,  1879,  she  became  the  wife  of  Robert  Morgan  White  and  to  them  were  born  two 
children,  but  only  one  reached  adult  age,  this  being  Leander  Mitchell,  whose  birth 
occurred  May  21,  1883,  and  who  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Mexico  and  also 
in  Westminster  College,  which  is  the  alma  mater  of  his  father.  Trained  to  the  news- 
paper business,  he  became  editorial  partner  of  his  father  and  the  two  have  since  been 
associated  in  the  ownership  and  conduct  of  the  Ledger.  The  son  married  Maud  See  and 
they  are  parents  of  one  child,  Jane  Isabelle. 

In  Masonry  Robert  M.  White  has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  As  indicated  in  the  foregoing  quotation,  he  has  been 
a  most  earnest  worker  in  the  church  and  a  recognized  leader  in  democratic  circles,  while 
his  post-graduate  studies  in  the  school  of  experience  have  made  him  a  most  forceful 
and  potent  factor  not  only  in  journalistic  circles  but  also  in  connection  with  those 
public  activities  which  have  constituted  the  foundation  upon  which  has  been  built  the 
prosperity  and  greatness  of  the  commonwealth. 


JUDGE    JOHN    A.    HARRISON. 

Since  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  early  manhood  Judge  John  A.  Harrison  has 
remained  an  active  representative  of  the  profession  and  one  who  throughout  his  entire 
career  has  held  to  the  highest  professional  ethics  and  standards.  This  is  due  to  the 
great  moral  principles  which  constitute  the  basic  elements  of  his  well  spent  life, 
guiding  him  in  every  relation  with  his  fellowmen.  Judge  Harrison  is  a  native  son 
of  Missouri,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Lexington.  November  9,  1850,  his  parents 
being  the  Rev.  John  A.  and  Emma  (Mauro)  Harrison.  The  ancestral  line  is  traced 
back  to  Virginia  and  in  the  year  1635  representatives  of  the  name  landed  at  James- 
town. The  Rev.  John  A.  Harrison  was  born  at  Lynchburg.  Virginia,  and  his  wife 
was  born  in  Washington,  D.  C.  Her  father,  Philip  Mauro.  resided  in  St.  Louis  in  1837 
and  continued  to  make  his  home  in  this  city  until  his  death  many  years  later. 

John  A.  Harrison  was  but  a  young  lad  when  his  parents  removed  from  Missouri 
to  Tennessee.  His  youthful  days  were  therefore  passed  in  Jackson  and  in  1869 
he  was  graduated  from  the  West  Tennessee  College  of  that  place,  receiving  the 
Master  of  Arts  degree.  Soon  afterwards  he  returned  to  Missouri  and  entered  upon 
the  study  of  law  in  St.  Louis  under  the  direction  of  his  uncle,  Charles  G.  Mauro, 
then  a  distinguished  member  of  the  bar  of  this  city.     After  being  admitted  to  prac- 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  867 

tice  Judge  Harrison  at  once  took  up  the  active  work  of  the  profession  and  in  1892-3 
he  served  an  ad  interim  term  upon  the  circuit  bench  by  appointment  of  Hon.  D.  R. 
Francis,  then  governor  of  Missouri.  Prior  to  his  appointment  as  judge  he  had  in 
1882  entered  into  partnership  relations  with  Mason  G.  Smith  under  the  firm  style 
of  Smith  &  Harrison  and  with  the  exception  of  the  period  of  Judge  Harrison's 
term  upon  the  bench  this  relation  was  continued  uninterruptedly  until  the  death 
of  the  senior  partner.  A  contemporary  biographer  has  said  in  this  connection:  "For 
fifteen  years  they  were  not  only  closely  associated  in  the  practice  of  law  but  in  the 
stronger  ties  of  warm  and  enduring  friendship  that  in  its  close  and  sacred  relation 
partook  of  the  nature  of  brotherhood.  Their  natures  were  congenial  and  each  showed 
for  the  ability  and  characteristics  of  the  other  appreciation  which  indicated  a  broad- 
minded  man.  The  death  of  Mr.  Smith,  therefore,  was  almost  an  unbearable  blow  to 
Judge  Harrison  as  it  always  is  when  the  ties  of  a  remarkably  strong  friendship  are 
thus    severed." 

In  1881  Judge  Harrisonwas  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Metta  F.  Hall,  of  St. 
Louis,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  seven  daughters  and  two  sons,  of  whom  one 
daughter,  Emma  Mauro,  became  the  wife  of  Oliver  D.  Jones  and  passed  away 
in  March,  1916,  at  the  age  of  thirty-one  years. 

Judge  Harrison  is  a  director  of  Josephine  Hospital.  His  interests  are  broad 
and  varied.  He  is  a  high  churchman,  belonging  to  Trinity  Episcopal  church  and  is 
a  firm  believer  in  the  teachings  of  that  denomination.  He  is  most  devoted  to  his 
family  and  finds  the  greatest  happiness  in  the  companionship  of  his  wife  and  chil- 
dren, their  home  life  being  largely  ideal.  Judge  Harrison  is  exceptionally  well 
read,  possesses  an  excellent  memory,  and  an  evening  spent  in  his  company  is  not 
only  one  of  pleasure  but  one  of  instruction  as  well.  His  literary  interests  aside 
from  his  profession  seem  to  be  along  historical  and  political  lines,  yet  he  is  also 
well  acquainted  with  the  works  of  most  of  the  prominent  writers.  He  seems  par- 
ticularly well  versed  in  historical  matters  pertaining  to  St.  Louis  and  the  state  of 
Missouri  and  his  many  anecdotes  of  prominent  men  of  this  section  of  the  country 
are  always  most  interesting  and  illuminating.  He  is  a  very  entertaining  speaker, 
whether  upon  the  public  platform  or  in  the  discussion  of  any  question  in  private  or 
drawing-room  conversation.  He  possesses  a  fine  voice,  with  splendid  command 
of  the  English  language,  and  his  pure  diction,  combined  with  his  earnestness,  never 
fails  to  impress  his  auditors  most  favorably.  He  was  at  one  time  president  of  the 
St.  Louis  Board  of  Education,  entering  upon  the  duties  of  that  position  in  1899 
for  a  period  of  six  years.  His  attitude  during  the  World  war  was  Spartan-like. 
He  advocated  a  declaration  of  war  against  Germany  long  before  the  actual  declara- 
tion took  place.  His  son  volunteered  very  soon  after  the  United  States  took  up 
arms  and  was  in  the  signal  service  of  the  Thirty-fifth  Division  and  was  wounded 
on  26th  of  September,  1918,  in  the  Argonne  forest,  being  unable  thereafter  to  arise 
from  his  bed  for  many  months.  Each  member  of  the  family  was  a  steady  worker 
in  the  Red  Cross  and  other  war  activities  and  Judge  Harrison  did  everything  in  his 
power  to  advance  the  interests  of  the  country  in  its  relation  to  the  allies  and  in 
support  of  its  splendid  soldiery.  He  is  a  man  of  very  strong  character  and  of 
most  genial  and  lovable  nature  to  those  who  know  him  intimately.  The  family 
resides  at  "Keith  Inch"  Creve  Coeur  line,  St.  Louis  county. 


FRED  P.  SCHELL. 


Fred  P.  Schell,  a  representative  of  real  estate  activities,  was  born  in  Kansas  City, 
where  now  stands  the  University  Club,  at  Eleventh  and  Baltimore  streets.  His  natal 
day  was  July  27,  1868,  his  parents  being  Jacob  S.  and  Mary  (Plitt)  Schell.  The  father 
journeyed  west  from  Pennsylvania  to  Kansas  during  the  Civil  war  and  settled  first  at 
Atchison.  He  afterward  removed  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  engaged  in  the  lumber 
business,  and  in  early  life  he  passed  away. 

Fred  P.  Schell  obtained  his  education  in  the  Kansas  City  schools  but  was  early 
thrown  upon  his  own  resources,  due  to  his  father's  early  death.  When  but  fourteen 
years  of  age  he  obtained  a  position  as  office  boy  with  the  Jacob  Dold  Packing  Company, 
and  through  his  capability,  industry  and  honesty,  worked  his  way  up  until  he  was 
made  agency  manager  for  the  company  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  when  but  nineteen  years 


868  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

of  age.  He  afterward  returned  to  Kansas  City  as  manager  of  city  sales,  remaining 
with  the  firm  altogether  for  eleven  years,  a  fact  indicative  of  his  thorough  reliability, 
efiSciency,  and  his  loyalty  to  the  firm.  He  afterward  organized  the  Fred  P.  Schell 
Furniture  Company,  of  which  he  was  the  president  and  manager  for  a  quarter  of  a 
century,  or  from  1893  until  1918.  While  still  engaged  in  the  furniture  business  he 
began  handling  real  estate  and  he  subdivided  and  platted  Schell's  Northeast  Addition, 
the  Smith  Brothers'  Addition,  the  Fred  P.  Schell  Highland  Addition  at  Fifty-third 
and  Troost  streets,  Schell's  Brooklyn  Addition  at  Fifty-fifth  and  Brooklyn  streets  and 
the  Prospect  avenue  addition.  All  of  these  are  residential  properties.  He  also  erected 
the  building  for  the  Northeast  Masonic  Lodge.  He  is  a  holder  of  large  tracts  of  land 
on  the  Excelsior  Springs  line  at  Ravena,  a  suburb  of  Kansas  City.  His  business  inter- 
ests have  become  very  extensive  and  of  a  most  important  character  and  he  ranks  with 
the  leading  realty  dealers  of  Kansas  City. 

In  1894  Mr.  Schell* was  married  to  Miss  Nellie  Coppock,  who  was  born  near 
Westport,  Kansas,  a  daughter  of  Henry  Coppock,  a  prominent  pioneer  stock  man,  and 
engaged  in  the  raising  of  Hereford  cattle.  He  was  recognized  as  a  leader  in  his  com- 
munity, where  he  was  highly  esteemed.  He  belonged  to  the  Quaker  church,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  Lodge  at  Rosedale. 

Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Schell  have  been  born  three  children:  Fred  P.;  Catherine;  and 
Henry  C,  whom  they  lost  when  he  was  about  twelve  years  old.  Mr.  Schell  gives  his 
political  support  to  the  democratic  party  and  he  is  well  known  in  Masonic  circles, 
belonging  to  the  York  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  Oriental  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.;  Missouri 
Consistory  and  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  a  loyal  follower  of  the  teachings  of  the  craft 
but  the  larger  part  of  his  time  and  attention  outside  of  business  hours  is  concentrated 
on  home  interests.  He  is  a  believer  in  Kansas  City  and  her  future  and  his  own 
activities  have  constituted  an  element  in  the  city's  growth,  development  and  improve- 
ment. 


SAMUEL   M.   BEGGS. 


Samuel  M.  Beggs  is  the  president  of  the  Beggs  Motor  Car  Company  of  Kansas 
City,  in  which  connection  he  has  developed  a  constantly  increasing  business  that 
now  constitutes  one  of  the  important  productive  industries  of  the  state.  His  youthful 
experiences  were  entirely  dissimilar  to  the  line  of  business  in  which  he  is  now  engaged, 
for  he  was  a  farm-bred  boy,  his  birth  having  occurred  upon  a  farm  in  Gentry  county, 
Missouri,  January  9,  18.51),  his  parents  being  James  M.  and  Taraar  (Poor)  Beggs, 
the  former  a  native  of  Virginia,  while  the  latter  was  born  in  Indiana.  The  father 
engaged  in  the  carriage  business  in  Cincinnati  in  early  life  and  in  the  '50s  removed 
to  Missouri,  where  he  took  up  the  occupation  of  farming  and  also  conducted  a  wagon 
shop  in  Gentry  county.  He  became  a  very  prominent  and  influential  resident  there 
and  one  of  the  school  districts  in  the  vicinity  of  King  City,  Missouri,  is  yet  known 
as  the  Beggs  district.  He  gave  his  political  allegiance  to  the  republican  party  and 
was  keenly  interested  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  general  welfare. 

Samuel  M.  Beggs  spent  his  boyhood  days  upon  the  home  farm,  early  becomihg 
familiar  with  the  best  methods  of  tilling  the  soil  and  caring  tor  the  crops.  But 
there  were  other  experiences  that  came  into  his  lite  at  that  period,  tor  he 
mastered  the  branches  of  learning  taught  in  the  country  schools  and  also  acquainted 
himself  with  the  trade  of  wagon  making  in  his  father's  shop.  He  found  this  more 
congenial  than  the  work  of  plowing,  planting  and  harvesting,  and  in  further  prepara- 
tion for  duties  in  the  business  world  he  attended  a  commercial  college  at  Quincy. 
Illinois,  and  on  Saturdays  worked  in  the  paint  department  of  the  carriage  works, 
learning  etching,  scrolling  and  the  making  of  sunburst  designs.  It  will  thus  be  seen 
that  there  were  few  idle  hours  in  his  youth.  He  was  making  excellent  use  of  his 
time  and  opportunities  and  developing  his  talents  along  a  line  that  has  eventually 
led  to  success.  Ambitious  to  engage  in  business  on  his  own  account,  in  1881,  when 
twenty-two  years  of  age,  he  established  wagon  works  at  King  City,  Missouri,  in  a 
small  way  and  there  continued  his  business  until  1887.  when  he  removed  to  Carroll- 
ton,  Missouri,  where  he  built  up  a  fine  trade.  He  was  also  active  in  all  civic  affairs 
of  the  community  and  became  one  of  the  leading  and  substantial  residents  of  that 
place. 


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Seeking  a  still  broader  field  of  labor,  he  removed  to  Kansas  City  in  1905  and 
here  organized  the  Beggs  Wagon  Company.  He  continued  the  business  along  that 
line  tor  a  number  of  years,  but  in  1917  began  the  manufacture  of  the  Beggs  Six, 
a  fine  motor  car,  and  has  since  come  into  prominence  as  a  motor  car  manufacturer 
of  the  state.  Upon  its  successful  performance  under  every  type  of  condition,  depends 
the  value  of  a  motor  car  to  its  owner.  A  car  that  will  throttle  down  to  the  snail's 
pace  of  city  traffic,  that  will  pick  up  instantaneously  at  the  slightest  impulse,  that 
will  climb  hills  with  ease,  that  will  stand  the  stress  of  transcontinental  travel — such 
a  car  inspires  and  justifies  confidence;  and  such  a  car  is  the  Beggs  Six.  Its  sturdy 
construction — a  product  of  conscientious  endeavor  and  skilled  workmanship — war- 
rants this  kind  of  reliance.  The  car  is  characterized  for  its  unusual  roominess,  its 
graceful  straight  lines,  its  easy  riding  qualities  and  other  features  which  are  thor- 
oughly desirable.  The  company  manufactures  touring  cars,  sedant,,  coupes  and 
roadsters  and  has  district  agencies  at  Los  Angeles  and  San  Francisco,  California; 
Denver,  Colorado;  Seattle,  Washington;  Minneapolis,  Minnesota;  and  Raleigh,  North 
Carolina.  The  home  office  also  supplies  the  highest  class  circus  wagons  on  the  mar- 
ket, including  band  wagons,  ticket  wagons,  cages,  calliopes,  racing  chariots,  tableau 
wagons,  baggage  wagons,  carnival  wagons,  gears  and  wagon  parts.  These  are  fur- 
nished in  most  attractive  design  as  to  the  build  of  the  wagon  and  to  the  ornamenta- 
tion as  well.  Thirty-five  years  of  experience  in  wagon  building  have  enabled  Mr. 
Beggs  to  do  the  finest  work  of  this  character  through  the  labors  of  several  hundred  em- 
ployes at  his  plant.  While  president  of  the  company  he  has  a  general  supervision 
over  the  business  and  his  own  practical  experience  well  enables  him  to  direct  the 
labors  that  are  performed  by  the  workmen  who  constitute  the  force  in  his  estab- 
lishment. 

Mr.  Beggs  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Lillie  B.  Woodside,  a  daughter  of 
J.  W.  Woodside,  a  prominent  business  man  connected  with  mercantile  interests  at 
King  City,  Missouri,  his  trade  covering  Missouri,  Kansas  and  adjoining  territory. 
To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Beggs  has  been  born  a  son,  J.  William,  who  is  associated  with  his 
father  in  business  as  secretary  of  the  Beggs  Motor  Car  Company. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Beggs  is  both  a  Mason  and  an  Elk  and  is  a  loyal  follower  of 
the  teachings  and  purposes  of  these  fraternities.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Automo- 
bile Club  and  he  has  many  friends  in  the  organizations  in  which  he  holds  membership. 
In  all  of  his  business  career  his  progressiveness  has  been  tempered  by  a  safe  con-, 
servatism  and  his  close  attention,  his  persistency  of  purpose,  his  integrity  and  his 
broad  vision  have  featured  largely  as  salient  elements  in  the  attainment  of  his  present- 
day  success. 


WILLIAM   K.   NORRIS. 


William  K.  Norris  is  the  president  of  the  McQuay-Norris  Manufacturing  Company, 
which  tor  ten  years  has  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  piston  rings  and  has  developed 
an  extensive  business  of  this  character,  with  office  and  plant  at  Cooper  and  Elizabeth 
streets  in  St.  Louis.  Mr.  Norris  is  a  native  son  of  Ohio,  his  birth  having  occurred  in 
Athens,  July  9,  1875,  his  parents  being  C.  D.  and  Elizabeth  (Potter)  Norris.  The  family 
is  of  Irish  origin  and  was  established  in  Maine  at  an  early  period  in  the  settlement 
of  the  new  world.  The  family  was  represented  in  the  Mexican  and  in  the  Civil  wars, 
the  grandfather  of  William  K.  Norris  having  served  as  a  captain  in  the  conflict  between 
the  north  and  the  south.  The  first  of  the  name  in  the  United  States  was  Kibby  Norris, 
who  on  crossing  the  Atlantic  from  England  settled  in  Maine,  where  the  father  of 
C.  D.  Norris  was  born.  C.  D.  Norris,  a  native  of  Maine,  became  a  resident  of  Ohio  and 
there  retired  from  business  in  1891,  spending  his  remaining  days  in  the  enjoyment 
of  well  earned  rest.  He  passed  away  in  1904,  at  the  age  of  sixty-three  years,  his  death 
occurring  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  while  interment  was  made  in  Athens.  In  early  manhood 
he  had  wedded  Elizabeth  Potter,  who  still  survives  him  and  now  makes  her  home  in 
St.  Louis  with  her  son,  William  K.  There  was  also  another  son  in  the  family,  Edward 
Greenleaf,  who  is  living  in  Seattle,  Washington,  and  a  daughter,  Eva  Alice,  who  is 
now   in   Russellville,   Arkansas. 

William  K.  Norris  was  reared  and  educated  in  his  native  state,  attending  the 
public  schools  of  Athens  and  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  also  the  University  of  Ohio  for 


870  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

two  years.  He  pursued  a  selected  course  there,  studying  those  branches  which  he 
deemed  would  be  ot  greatest  worth  to  him  in  a  business  career.  After  leaving  college  he 
went  to  Hutchinson,  Kansas,  where  he  became  manager  of  a  conservatory  of  music,  there 
continuing  tor  two  years.  He  afterward  returned  to  his  native  state,  where  he  engaged 
in  railroad  surveying.  In  1897  he  came  to  St.  Louis  and  entered  the  shops  ot  the 
Terminal  Railroad  as  a  machinist  apprentice,  being  thus  employed  tor  about  two  years. 
On  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  turned  his  attention  to  salesmanship  and  educated 
himself  along  the  line  of  merchandising  for  twelve  years.  In  1910  he  took  out  patents 
on  piston  rings  and  in  connection  with  Louis  E.  McQuay  organized  the  McQuay-Norris 
Manufacturing  Company,  of  which  Mr.  Norris  is  now  the  president,  with  Mr.  McQuay  as 
vice  president.  The  first  location  of  the  plant,  which  was  a  small  one,  was  at  1311  Chest- 
nut street,  where  they  had  four  thousand  square  feet  of  floor  space.  In  1914  they  were 
forced  to  expand  and  removed  to  Nos.  2808-2812  Locust  street,  enlarging  their  capacity  to 
ten  thousand  square  feet.  In  a  short  time,  however,  that  space  was  inadequate  and 
they  increased  it  to  thirty  thousand  square  feet  by  taking  over  the  entire  building. 
The  construction  of  a  new  plant  was  then  begun  and  in  1918  it  was  completed  on  the 
present  site,  being  opened  in  November,  1919.  It  is  one  ot  the  most  modern  plants  in 
Vhe  city  and  covers  six  acres.  When  the  firm  started  they  employed  a  force  of  twenty- 
five,  including  the  sales,  office  and  factory  force.  Now  their  employes  number  about 
six  hundred  and  they  sell  throughout  the  entire  world,  maintaining  a  branch  establish- 
ment in  Toronto,  Canada.  The  firm  is  capitalized  for  five  hundred  thousand  dollars  and 
its  present  officers  are:  William  K.  Norris,  president;  Louis  E.  McQuay,  vice  president; 
Louis  Safford,  second  vke  president;  C.  R.  Kalb,  treasurer;  and  G.  A.  Doering,  secretary. 

During  the  war  period  Mr.  Norris  spent  much  of  his  time  in  Washington  and  the 
firm  was  engaged  in  turning  out  war  conTracts.  He  indulges  in  just  enough  golf  to 
keep  him  physically  fit  and  he  maintains  pleasant  social  relations  through  his  mem- 
bership in  the  Missouri  Athletic  Club  and  the  Algonquin  Golf  Club. 

On  the  29th  of  June,  1915,  in  San  Francisco,  California,  Mr.  Norris  was  married  to 
Miss  Delia  Otstott,  of  St.  Louis,  and  they  now  reside  at  No.  6235  Waterman  avenue,  St. 
Louis.  They  are  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  in  politics  Mr.  Norris  main- 
tains an  independent  course.  He  and  his  wife  have  gained  a  wide  acquaintance  in  St. 
Louis  and  are  accorded  the  hospitality  ot  many  of  the  attractive  homes  of  the  city. 


CHARLES   P.   BLAND. 


Charles  P.  Bland  is  well  known  in  real  estate  circles  in  St.  Louis  as  a  partner 
in  the  Williams  &  Bland  Company.  Intense  activity,  intelligently  directed,  has 
constituted  the  basis  upon  which  he  has  builded  his  success  and  as  the  architect 
ot  his  own  fortune  he  has  builded  wisely  and  well.  He  was  born  in  Rolla,  Missouri, 
May  11,  1880,  his  parents  being  Charles  C.  and  Hattie  (Keene)  Bland.  The 
father,  a  native  ot  Kentucky,  became  a  member  ot  the  bar  and  practiced  law  in  St. 
Louis,  also  serving  as  judge  of  the  circuit  court  for  eighteen  years,  and  was  judge 
of  the  St.  Louis  court  of  appeals  tor  twelve  years,  serving  altogether  upon  the  bench 
for  thirty  consecutive  years,  thus  leaving  his  impress  indelibly  upon  the  judicial  his- 
tory ot  the  state.  His  political  endorsement  was  given  to  the  democratic  party  and 
he  was  a  recognized  leader  in  public  thought  and  opinion  in  Missouri.  He  served  as 
curator  in  the  University  ot  Missouri,  and  his  influence  was  ever  a  potent  element  for 
progress  and  improvement.  During  the  Civil  war  he  became  captain  of  Company  D 
ot  the  Thirty-second  Infantry  and  thus  rendered  active  aid  to  the  Union  cause. 
His  lite  was  indeed  one  ot  far-reaching  aid  and  benefit  to  his  state.  He  retired 
from  active  professional  life  in  1910  and  passed  away  in  St.  Louis  in  1917,  his 
remains  being  interred  in  Rolla,  Missouri,  where  his  wife  had  died  in  1888.  She 
was  a  native  of  Ohio  and  was  a  comparatively  young  woman  when  called  to  her  final 
rest,  but  Judge  Bland  reached  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-three  years.  Their  family 
numbered  four  sons  and  a  daughter:  Harry  Bland  being  now  an  attorney  at  Tulsa, 
Oklahoma,  while  Joseph  R.  is  a  mine  engineer  of  Custer,  South  Dakota,  and  Clark 
0.  is  engaged  in  the  insurance  business  at  St.  Louis;  the  daughter,  Mrs.  lone  Brown, 
is  the  wife  ot  Henry  Brown,  a  cotton  broker  of  Hope,  Arkansas. 

The  other  member  ot  the  family  is  Charles  P.  Bland,  of  this  review,  who 
pursued  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Rolla,  Missouri,  and  afterward 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  873 

attended  the  Kemper  Military  Institute,  at  Boonville,  Missouri,  and  later  the  School 
of  Mines,  at  Rolla.  He  then  came  to  St.  Louis  and  was  made  secretar.v  and  treasurer 
of  the  Junior  Realty  Company.  Through  the  intervening  period  he  has  been  engaged 
in  the  real  estate  business  and  has  become  thoroughly  familiar  with  every  phase 
thereof.  He  is  now  a  member  of  the  Williams  &  Bland  Real  Estate  Company.  This 
business  had  its  inception  in  1856.  being  organized  by  Charles  H.  Bailey  under  the 
name  of  the  Charles  H.  Bailey  Realty  Company.  In  1889  the  firm  name  was  changed 
to  the  Junior  Realty  Company  and  in  1906  the  present  firm  style  of  the  Williams 
&  Bland  Real  Estate  Company  was  adopted,  at  which  time  Robert  S.  Williams  and 
Charles  P.  Bland  became  partners.  They  conduct  a  general  real  estate  business 
and  specialize  in  the  rental  of  office  buildings.  They  have  branch  offices  in  the 
Wall  Building,  the  Granite  Building,  the  Mercantile-Laclede  Building,  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  Building  and  the  Victoria  Building,  all  in  St.   Louis. 

On  the  23d  of  September,  1911,  Mr.  Bland  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Isabelle  Heard,  of  St.  Louis,  a  daughter  of  S.  W.  and  Anna  (Harris)  Heard,  who  are 
still  residents  of  this  city,  where  the  father  is  now  living  retired.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Bland  have  become  the  parents  of  three  children,  Isabelle.  Harriette,  and  Catherine 
who  are  under  the  parental  roof  at  5061  Washington  avenue. 

Mr.  Bland  votes  with  the  democratic  party  which  he  lias  always  supported. 
His  religious  belief  is  that  of  the  Episcopal  church.  In  his  youthful  days  he  was 
active  in  baseball,  track  and  football  events,  but  in  later  years  has  found  diversion 
in  business  and  is  a  man  of  seemingly  untiring  industry.  He  has  an  interesting 
military  chapter  in  his  life  record,  for  he  was  a  sergeant  major  and  saw  active 
service  in  the  Philippine  Islands  during  the  Spanish-American  war.  He  was  a  cap- 
tain in  tlie  National  Guards  for  seven  years  and  during  the  World  war  was  a  captain 
in  the  Home  Guards.  He  took  an  active  part  in  advancing  all  war  interests  and  dur- 
ing the  liberty  bond  drives  was  a  four-minute  speaker  and  also  captain  of  one  of  the 
subscription  teams.  He  is  very  popular  and  has  many  friends.  He  is  always  actuated 
by  an  intense  patriotism  that  has  found  expression  in  the  heartiest  cooperation  in 
every  project  for  the' general  good. 


MEREDITH    B.    JOHNSON. 


Meredith  B.  Johnson,  manager  for  the  firm  of  T.  E.  Price  &  Company,  grain 
commission  merchants  and  also  dealers  in  provisions  and  stocks,  was  born  in  St. 
Louis.  November  2.  1864,  and  has  been  a  lifelong  resident  of  the  city.  His  father, 
Meredith  B.  Johnson,  was  a  native  of  Kentucky  and  of  Scotch  and  English  descent. 
His  boyhood  and  youth  were  passed  in  his  native  state,  where  he  pursued  his  educa- 
tion, and  in  1860  he  came  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  resided  until  his  demise.  He  was 
also  engaged  in  the  grain  business  and  was  among  the  charter  members  of  the  Mer- 
chants Exchange.  He  wedded  Mary  J.  Lenox,  a  native  of  Kentucky  and  also  of  Scotch 
lineage.  Their  marriage  was  celebrated  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  they  became 
the  parents  of  fifteen  children,  eight  sons  and  seven  daughters,  of  whom  five  are  yet 
living.  The  mother  passed  away  November  26,  1918,  at  the  notable  age  of  ninety- 
two  years. 

Meredith  B.  Johnson  was  the  seventh  child  in  the  family  and  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  city,  which  he  attended  to  the  age  of  fifteen  and  then 
started  out  to  provide  for  his  own  support.  He  first  became  connected  with  his 
father  in  the  grain  business  and  in  1885  entered  into  his  present  connection,  now 
serving  for  the  thirty-fifth  year  with  the  company.  Steadily  he  has  been  advanced 
and  has  long  occupied  the  position  of  manager  in  connection  with  an  extensive, 
profitable  and  steadily  growing  business.  In  business  affairs  he  is  very  aggressive 
and  honorable,  yet  he  is  never  too  busy  for  a  kindly  word  or  friendly  greeting  and 
his  uniform  courtesy  to  all  who  approach  him  has  undoubtedly  been  one  of  the  ele- 
ments of  his  success. 

On  the  16th  of  November,  1889,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Johnson  was  married  to  Miss 
Anna  Brentlinger  and  following  her  demise  he  was  married  in  St.  Louis,  in  February, 
1917,  to  Miss  Anna  Winter.  In  politics  he  is  a  democrat  where  national  issues  and 
questions  are  involved  but  at  local  elections  casts  an  independent  ballot.  He  finds 
his  chief  recreation  in  hunting  and  fishing  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Noble 


874  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Hunting  and  Fishing  Club  of  Noble,  Arkansas.  He  has  developed  marked  skill  as 
a  follower  of  both  Ximrod  and  of  Izaak  Walton  and  when  going  upon  hunting  or 
fishing  tripsusually  brings  back  the  limit.  He  is  philanthropic  in  a  quiet,  unassum- 
ing way  and  he  always  finds  interest  in  the  best  literature  and  in  those  magazines 
which  discuss  the  vital  questions  and  topics  of  the  times. 


CHESTER   NEWMAN. 


Chester  Newman,  vice  president  and  treasurer  of  the  Employers  Indemnity  Cor- 
poration and  thus  a  well  known  figure  in  the  insurance  circles  of  Kansas  City,  was 
born  at  Boonville,  Missouri.  December  31.  1881.  His  brother,  Ralph  Newman,  is 
also  with  the  Employers  Indemnity  Corporation.  They  were  the  only  children  of 
C.  G.  and  Mary  (Brewster)  Newman.  The  father  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  but 
lived  through  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in  Missouri,  where  for  a  long  period  he 
engaged  in  business  as  a  hardware  broker.  For  forty  years  he  was  a  devoted  fol- 
lower of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  was  long  a  faithful  member  of  the  Central  Pres- 
byterian church.  He  passed  away  in  March,  1920,  and  is  still  survived  by  his  widow, 
who  makes  her  home  with  her  son  Chester  in  Kansas  City. 

Spending  his  boyhood  days  under  the  parental  roof,  Chester  Newman  attended 
the  public  and  high  schools  of  Kansas  City  and  afterward  became  a  clerk  for  a  well 
known  wall  paper  house,  while  subsequently  he  spent  a  year  with  the  traffic  depart- 
ment of  the  Swift  corporation.  He  was  then  connected  with  the  chemical  business 
for  twenty  years  and  on  the  1st  of  January,  1919.  entered  into  association  with  the 
Employers  Indemnity  Corporation  and  has  since  figured  prominently  in  insurance 
circles.  He  is  now  devoting  his  entire  time  to  the  business  and  is  contributing  much 
to  its  success.  Aside  from  his  interests  in  the  insurance  field  he  is  a  director  of  the 
Gate  City  National  Bank.  He  is  likewise  a  director  of  the  Kansas  City  Laundry 
Service  Company,  a  two-million-dollar  concern.  He  has  thus  become  an  important 
factor  in  the  direction  and  control  of  many  of  the  business  interests  of  Kansas  City, 
and  at  all  times  displays  sound  judgment  and  indefatigable  enterprise,  which  feature 
as  elements  in  the  success  of  the  corporations  which  he  represents. 

In  1907  Mr.  Newman  was  married  to  Miss  Candace  Confer,  a  daughter  of  A. 
L.  Confer,  of  Minneapolis,  Minnesota.  They  have  three  children,  Mary,  Nancy  and 
John,  aged  nine,  five  and  three  years  respectively.  Mr.  Newman  is  a  member  of  the 
Central  Presbyterian  church.  He  belongs  to  the  Automobile  Club  and  the  Kansas 
City  Athletic  Club  and  is  very  active  in  work  among  boys,  being  connected  with 
various  boys'  clubs  and  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Outside  of  business  his  labors  have 
largely  been  directed  in  those  channels  of  helpfulness  which  take  recognition  of 
sociological  conditions  and  meet  the  needs  of  the  hour,  especially  in  placing  the 
young  in  a  proper  environment  and  providing  them  with  a  class  of  entertainment 
that  will  develop  the  best  in  their  physical,  mental  and  moral  make-up. 


FRANK  J.  HUNLETH. 


Frank  J.  Hunleth,  proprietor  of  the  Hunleth  Music  Company  of  St.  Louis 
and  one  of  the  foremost  dealers  in  musical  instruments  in  the  middle  west,  was  born 
in  this  city  November  1,  1857.  a  son  of  Franz  and  Elizabeth  (Viox)  Hunleth.  both 
of  whom  were  natives  of  Germany  and  came  to  this  country  in  young  manhood  and 
womanhood.  They  were  married  in  St.  Louis  in  1854.  The  father  engaged  in 
merchandising  in  this  city  for  many  years  and  here  passed  away  at  the  advanced 
age  of  eighty-eight,  while  the  mother  lived  to  be  eighty-seven  years  of  age. 

Frank  J.  Hunleth  was  educated  in  the  Christian  Brothers  College  and  at  the 
old  Jones  Commercial  College.  After  completing  his  studies  he  accepted  a  position 
as  bookkeeper  in  a  foundry  and  machine  shop  and  from  that  position  worked  his  way 
upward  in  connection  with  the  plant  until  he  became  proprietor  of  the  Standard 
Pulley  &  Foundry  Company  at  Collins  and  O'Fallon  streets,  now  the  site  of  the 
Rock  Island  freight  depot.  He  conducted  this  business  for  twenty-seven  years,  but 
not  wishing  his  sons  to  engage  in  that  line  of  business  he  sold  his  interests  and 
established  his   present   business,   which   has   been   developed   into   one   of   the   most 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  875 

important  music  liouses  in  the  middle  western  country,  the  firm  handling  every- 
thing known  in  the  music  line  and  occupying  seven  floors  of  the  building  in  which 
they  are  located.  They  draw  their  trade  from  a  large  territory  and  their  patronage 
is  constantly  increasing.  Mr.  Hunleth  has  also  been  a  large  investor  in  real  estate 
and  is  a  heavy  holder  not  only  of  St.  Louis  properties  but  also  has  thousands  of  acres 
of   farm   lands   throughout   Illinois  and   Missouri. 

On  the  19th  of  June,  1883,  Mr.  Hunleth  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Sophia 
Schilly,  a  daughter  of  Laureuz  Schilly.  well  known  clothing  merchant  of  St.  Louis. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hunleth  have  become  the  parents  of  eleven  children,  as  follows: 
Joseph  F.;  Marie  L.,  who  is  now  Sister  Sophia  Marie  of  the  Loretto  Order;  Alois 
J.;  Cecilia;  Agnes,  who  is  Sister  Vera  of  the  Loretto  Order;  Elizabeth;  Dora,  who  ia 
Sister  Frances  Alois  of  the  Loretto  Order;  Frank  C,  who  is  a  deacon  in  the  Jesuit 
Order  and  is  stationed  at  Florissant;  Adelaide,  who  is  now  Sister  Joecile,  also  of  the 
Loretto  Order;  Edward  R.,  a  student  in  the  St.  Louis  University;  and  Sophia  M. 
The  religious  faith  of  the  family  is  that  of  the  Catholic  church.  Mr.  Hunleth  is  also 
a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  is  interested  in  all  those  activi- 
ties which  feature  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  city  and  its  civic  development.  He 
has  had  a  remarkably  successful  career.  There  are  few  men  who  after  twenty- 
seven  years  of  concentration  upon  one  line  of  business  can  change  to  another  so  radi- 
cally different  as  the  foundry  business  and  the  music  trade  and  make  of  the  second 
as  great  a  success  as  of  the  first,  but  this  Mr.  Hunleth  has  done,  his  ready  adaptability 
being  manifest  in  all  that  he  undertakes,  while  his  determination  and  close  applica- 
tion feature  strongly  in  his  prosperity.  Moreover,  he  is  a  man  of  genial  disposition 
who  makes  friends  readily  and  has  the  happy  faculty  of  retaining  the  friendships 
which  he  wins  by  reason  of  an  upright  life  and  those  social  qualities  which  every- 
where make  for  popularity. 


R.  WILLMAN,  M.   D. 


Dr.  R.  Willman,  a  physician  and  surgeon  of  St.  Joseph,  who  is  also  well  known 
as- a  writer,  was  born  in  Erie  county.  New  York,  January  12,  1855,  and  is  a  son  of 
Charles  and  Frances  (Neininger)  Willman,  who  were  natives  of  Baden,  Germany, 
and  came  to  the  United  States  in  early  life.  They  had  previously  met  in  their  native 
country  and  their  acquaintanceship  was  resumed  in  Erie  county.  New  York,  where 
they  were  united  in  marriage  about  the  year  1853.  The  father  spent  his  life  as  a 
carpenter  and  farmer,  following  those  pursuits  in  Cattaraugus  county.  New  York, 
until  1872,  when  he  removed  with  his  family  to  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  being  accom- 
panied by  his  wife  and  three  sons  and  a  daughter,  namely:  Reinhold,  John  N., 
Leopold  and  Annie.  Here  in  1880  he  established  a  wholesale  fruit  and  commission 
business  at  Second  street  and  Market  square  under  the  style  of  R.  Willman  &  Com- 
pany. There  he  carried  on  business  until  1885  under  the  original  name  and  at  that 
date  the  style  of  the  Willman  Mercantile  Company  was  assumed.  They  conducted 
a  wholesale  commission  business  and  also  specialized  in  certain  lines  of  groceries. 
In  1895  the  business  was  reorganized  under  the  name  of  the  WillmaU'  Fruit  Com- 
pany as  the  successor  to  the  Willman  Mercantile  Company.  Through  all  the  passing 
years  the  trade  of  the  house  had  steadily  increased  under  the  capable  management 
of  its  proprietors  and  Mr.  Willman  was  recognized  as  one  of  the  progressive  and 
representative  merchants  of  the  city.  He  passed  away  in  St.  Joseph,  December  28, 
1898,  while  his  wife  survived  until  October,  1900. 

Dr.  R.  Willman  whose  name  introduces  this  review  pursued  a  public  school 
education  and  when  his  textbooks  were  put  aside  became  associated  with  his  father 
in  business  and  continued  with  the  Willman  Mercantile  Company  until  1895,  when 
he  withdrew  from  that  connection.  He  devoted  his  attention  to  various  business 
interests  through  the  succeeding  three  years,  or  until  1898,  when  he  entered  upon 
the  study  of  medicine  as  a  pupil  in  the  Ensworth  Medical  College  of  St.  Joseph. 
He  there  completed  his  course  on  the  17th  of  March,  1902,  at  which  time  he  was 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  He  then  went  before  the  state  board  and 
successfully  passed  the  required  examination  which  entitled  him  to  enter  actively 
upon  the  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery.  However,  he  later  attended  the  New 
York  Post  Graduate  School  &  Hospital,  thus  greatly  promoting  his  knowledge  and 


876  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

efficiency,  and  later  he  opened  an  office  tor  the  practice  ot  medicine  and  Surgery  in 
St.  Joseph,  where  he  has  remained  continuously  since   1903. 

Dr.  Willman  is  a  member  of  the  Buchanan  County  Medical  Society  and  the 
Missouri  State  Medical  Society.  He  is  likewise  a  medical  writer  o£  some  not«,  having 
compiled  two  different  works.  The  first  was  entitled  The  Errors  of  Mind  Healing. 
It  was  published  in  1909  and  points  out  the  errors  of  mind  healing  in  comparison 
with  the  miracles  of  Christ  and  his  disciples  in  the  healing  of  the  afflicted,  which 
miracles  were  performed  for  the  purpose  of  showing  that  Christ  was  the  son  of 
God  and  the  Saviour  of  mankind,  but  not  for  the  purpose  ot  establishing  a  healing 
cult.  Dr.  Willman's  second  work  was  issued  under  the  title  ot  Married  Life  in  1917 
and  was  the  result  of  many  years  of  study  of  the  subject  and  a  recognition  of  the 
need  of  instruction.  It  took  the  form  of  a  textbook,  treating  on  all  subjects  with 
which  those  contemplating  the  married  state  and  those  who  are  married  should  be 
familiar.  It  treats  of  the  dangers  of  marriage  when  there  is  ill  health.  It  instructs 
married  people  how  to  make  the  most  of  married  life  and  how  to  live  happily,  how 
to  train  children,  and  includes  the  discussion  ot  infant  psychology  and  the  develop- 
ment of  infantile  characteristics,  interests  and  impressions.  It  also  includes  a  well 
regulated  treatise  on  ordinary  diseases  such  as  one  meets  in  the  family  circle,  this 
treatise  being  particularly  helpful  to  the  mother  in  her  care  ot  the  household. 

On  the  24th  of  September.  1884,  Dr.  Willman  was  married  to  Miss  Josephine 
Aniser,  daughter  of  Anton  and  Katherine  Aniser.  He  and  his  wife  are  very  loyal 
to  the  Catholic  church  and  are  communicants  of  the  Immaculate  Conception  church 
of  St.  Joseph,  Dr.  Willman  doing  everything  in  his  power  to  promote  the  interests 
of  the  church  and  extend  its  influence.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Columbus 
Council,  No.  571,  of  St.  Joseph,  while  his  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  demo- 
cratic party,  which  finds  in  him  an  earnest  supporter  and  ardent  worker.  Through- 
out his  career  he  has  held  to  high  professional  ideals  and  liberal  education  and 
subsequent  study  have  made  him  most  efficient  in  checking  the  ravages  of  disease 
and  promoting  conditions  of  health. 


JOSEPH    PULITZER,   Jr. 


The  name  of  Pulitzer  has  long  figured  most  prominently  and  honorably  in  con- 
nection with  the  history  of  journalism  in  St.  Louis.  Stimulated  by  the  example  of 
his  father,  long  a  distinguished  figure  in  journalistic  circles  in  the  middle  west, 
Joseph  Pulitzer,  Jr.,  turned  to  the  same  profession  and  is  now  the  president  of  the 
Pulitzer  Publishing  Company,  owners  and  publishers  of  the  St.  Louis  Post-Dispatch. 
He  was  born  in  New  York  city,  March  21,  1885.  and  is  a  son  of  Joseph  and  Kate 
(Davis)  Pulitzer.  He  attended  St.  Mark's  School  at  Southboro,  Massachusetts, 
and  entered  Harvard  College  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1908,  but  was  not  gradu- 
ated, for  after  two  years  spent  at  Harvard  he  put  aside  his  textbooks  to  become  the 
active  assistant  of  his  father,  owner  and  publisher  of  the  St.  Louis  Post-Dispatch. 
Since  that  time  he  has  been  continuously  connected  with  the  paper,  and  the  efforts 
.of  father  and  son  have  always  been  exerted  in  the  direction  of  maintaining  the  highest 
"standards  of  journalism  and  embodying  the  most  progressive  methods  in  the  pub- 
lication of  the  journals  which  they  have  owned.  On  the  14th  of  February,  1912, 
Joseph  Pulitzer,  Jr.,  was  elected  to  the  presidency  of  the  Pulitzer  Publishing  Com- 
pany and  he  is  also  the  secretary  of  the  Press  Publishing  Company,  owners  of  the 
New  York  World.  He  is  likewise  a  trustee  of  the  Estate  of  Joseph  Pulitzer,  Sr.,  and 
displays  all  of  the  essential  qualities  of  the  successful  business  man  whose  sound 
judgment  enables  him  to  embrace  opportunities  and  utilize  the  advantages  which 
are  continually  unfolding  before  all. 

On  the  1st  of  June,  1910,  at  No.  28  Vandeventer  Place,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Pulitzer 
was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Elinor  Wickham,  a  daughter  of  Mrs.  Edmond  F. 
Wickham.  They  have  two  children,  Joseph  Pulitzer  (HI)  and  Kate  Davis  Pulitzer. 
In  his  political  views  Mr.  Pulitzer  has  maintained  an  independent  course  with  demo- 
cratic sympathies,  but  is  not  a  partisan.  In  November,  1918,  he  was  commissioned 
an  ensign  in  the  United  States  Naval  Aviation  Corps.  He  is  keenly  interested  in  all 
those  things  which  have  to  do  with  the  welfare  of  St.  Louis,  the  upbuilding  of  the 
city  and  the  advancement  of  its  cultural  interests.     His  appreciation   of  the   social 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  879 

amenities  of  life  finds  expression  in  liis  connection  with  the  University,  Noonday 
and  St.  Louis  Country  Clubs  of  St.  Louis  and  in  the  Harvard  Club  of  New  York 
city. 

A  few  days  after  his  father's  death,  in  November,  1911,  Mr.  Pulitzer  was  in- 
strumental in  placing  at  the  head  of  the  editorial  columns  of  the  St.  Louis  Post-'Dis- 
patch  and  the  New  York  World  the  platform  known  to  readers  of  the  Post-Dis- 
patch as  "The  Post-Dispatch  Platform,"  as  follows: 

"I  know  that  my  retirement  will  make  no  difference  in  its  cardinal  principles, 
that  it  will  always  fight  for  progress  and  reform,  never  tolerate  injustice  or  cor- 
ruption, always  fight  demagogues  of  all  parties,  never  belong  to  any  party,  always 
oppose  privileged  classes  and  public  plunderers,  never  lack  sympathy  with  the 
poor,  always  remain  devoted  to  the  public  welfare,  never  be  satisfied  with  merely 
printing  news,  always  be  drastically  independent;  never  be  afraid  to  attack  wrong, 
whether   by  predatory  plutocracy  or   predatory  poverty. 

"JOSEPH  PULITZER." 
April   10,    1907." 

The  principles  expressed  in  that  platform  have  guided  Mr.  Pulitzer  of  this 
review  in  the  publication  of  the  two  newspapers  with   which  he  is  now  connected. 


WILLIAM  F.  HAMMES. 


William  F.  Hammes,  who  was  well  known  in  the  business  circles  of  St.  Louis  as  a 
merchant  tailor  and  importer  of  tailors'  woolens,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
October  4,  1848,  his  parents  being  Theodore  and  Mary  (Breggelworth)  Hammes.  He 
pursued  his  more  advanced  education  in  St.  Mary's  College  at  Williamsburg  (Brooklyn), 
New  York,  and  in  early  manhood  came  to  the  west.  However,  he  learned  the  tailor's 
trade  in  his  native  city  and  later  went  to  Chicago,  where  he  remained  until  1878,  and 
then  carae  to  St.  Louis.  After  following  his  trade  in  a  number  of  the  principal  cities 
of  the  United  States  he  accepted  a  position  as  a  cutter  in  a  St.  Louis  tailoring  estab- 
lishment, there  remaining  from  1878  until  1880.  In  the  latter  year  he  engaged  in 
business  on  his  own  account  under  his  own  name  and  in  1904  he  was  joined  in  a 
partnership  relation  by  his  son,  William  Eugene  Hammes,  under  the  firm  style  of 
William  K.  Hammes  &  Company,  a  relation  that  was  continued  until  the  partnership 
was  terminated  by  death. 

In  the  year  following  his  arrival  in  St.  Louis,  on  the  30th  of  June,  1879,  Mr. 
Hammes  was  married  to  Miss  Ida  Bernardin  and  they  became  the  parents  of  two 
children:  Maude  E.,  now  the  wife  of  Dennis  Dawling;  and  William  Eugene,  mentioned 
elsewhere  in  this  work. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Hammes  was  a  republican.  His  religious  faith  was  that 
of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  he  was  also  prominent  in  Masonic  circles,  becoming  a 
Knight  Templar  and  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  likewise  belonged  to  the  Mis- 
souri Athletic  Association  and  found  his  recreation  in  fishing  and  hunting.  His  life 
record  was  that  of  the  thorough-going  business  man  who  recognized  that  enterprise, 
industry  and  close  application  are  the  basic  elements  of  success  and  by  the  cultivation 
of  these  qualities  made  for  himself  a  creditable  place  among  the  representatives  of 
commercial  activity  in  St.  Louis. 


JOSEPH  A.  KELLY. 


Joseph  A.  Kelly,  engaged  in  the  real  estate  and  investment  business  in  Kansas  City, 
was  born  upon  a  farm  in  Johnson  county,  Kansas,  October  4,  1870.  His  father,  William 
E.  Kelly,  was  a  native  of  Ireland  and  when  nine  years  of  age  was  brought  by  his  parents 
to  the  new  world,  the  family  home  being  established  at  Brimfield,  Illinois.  He  after- 
ward removed  to  Middletown,  Ohio,  and  was  there  married  to  Miss  Katherine  Dowd,  also 
a  native  of  the  Emerald  isle.  Subsequently  he  followed  farming  in  Illinois  and  afterward 
removed  to  Olathe,  Kansas,  where  he  departed  this  lite  in  1915. 

Joseph  A.  Kelly  was  the  eighth  in  a  family  of  twelve  children,  all  of  whom  are  yet 
living.     He  attended  the  district  schools  of  Johnson  county,  Kansas,   in   his   boyhood 

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and  youth  and  when  not  busy  with  his  textbooks  his  attention  was  given  to  the  farm 
work.  He  early  became  familiar  with  the  duties  of  the  fields  and  continued  to  aid  in 
the  cultivation  of  the  crops  for  some  years,  and  then  thinking  to  find  other  pursuits  more 
congenial  than  farming,  he  obtained  a  position  in  a  dry  goods  store  at  Olathe,  Kansas, 
in  which  he  was  employed  for  five  years. 

In  1893  Mr.  Kelly  arrived  in  Kansas  City  and  purchased  an  interest  in  the  men's 
furnishing  goods  store  at  Xo.  902  Main  street,  where  he  remained  for  two  years.  He  then 
sold  his  interest  in  that  undertaking  and  entered  real  estate  circles,  being  associated  with 
J.  P.  Houlehan  for  six  years.  He  has  since  operated  alone  as  a  real  estate  dealer  and 
investment  broker  and  has  well  appointed  offices  in  the  New  England  building.  He  is 
thoroughly  familiar  with  every  phase  of  real  estate  activity,  is  an  excellent  valuator 
of  property  and  has  negotiated  many  important  realty  transfers.  Aside  from  his  business 
of  that  character  he  is  a  director  of  the  Gate  City  National  Bank  and  is  the  owner  of  a 
tarm  of  four  hundred  acres,  the  cultivation  and  development  of  which  is  to  him  a  real 
delight. 

Mr.  Kelly  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Club,  which  is  the  most  prominent  business 
men's  club  of  the  city.  His  religious  faith  is  indicated  by  his  connection  with  the 
Cathedral  Parish  church  and  he  is  a  fourth  degree  Knight  of  Columbus.  He  is  a  gentle- 
man of  pleasing  personality  and  attractive  social  qualities  as  well  as  of  marked  business 
enterprise  and  ability,  and  both  have  combined  to  win  him  warm  friendships. 


■WILLIAM  HENRY  DULANY. 

William  Henry  Dulany  is  the  vice  president  and  treasurer  of  the  St.  Louis 
Lumber  Company  and  throughout  his  entire  business  career  has  been  identified 
with  the  lumber  industry,  with  every  phase  of  which  he  is  thoroughly  familiar, 
while  his  progressive  spirit,  powers  of  organization  and  initiative  have  been 
contributing  factors  to  the  successful  conduct  of  every  enterprise  with  which  he 
has  been  associated.  He  was  born  at  Salisbury.  Chariton  county,  Missouri,  June 
16,  1S74.  His  father.  Thomas  G.  Dulany,  is  a  native  of  Middlegrove,  Monroe  county, 
Missouri,  his  natal  day  being  July  9,  1841.  He  joined  the  Confederate  army  at  the 
time  of  the  Civil  war,  serving  as  a  corporal  during  the  first  two  years  of  hostilities. 
He  was  then  sent  home  owing  to  the  fact  that  he  had  contracted  army  measles, 
which  had  so  impaired  his  health  that  he  was  unfit  for  field  duty.  He  then  en- 
gaged in  the  lumber  business  at  Salisbury,  Missouri,  from  1868  until  1888,  when 
he  removed  to  Hannibal,  Missouri,  where  he  has  since  continued  in  the  same 
line.  'While  there  residing  he  became  a  warm  personal  friend  of  Samuel  Clemens, 
better  known  as  Mark  Twain,  and  their  personal  resemblance  was  such  that  they 
were  quite  frequently  mistaken  for  each  other.  Thomas  G.  Dulany  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Mary  Dulany,  a  daughter  of  'William  H.  Dulany,  who  was  a  promi- 
nent lumber  merchant  of  Hannibal.  He  was  born  in  Howard  county,  January 
9,  1818,  while  Missouri  was  still  a  territory,  and  he  resided  continuously  in  the 
state  until  his  death  at  the  ripe  old  age  of  ninety-six  years.  He  was  a  very 
charitable  man,  especially  generous  in  his  support  of  church  and  school  work. 
He  was  numbered  among  the  pioneers  of  the  lumber  industry  in  Missouri  and 
throughout  all  the  intervening  period  the  family  name  has  been  associated  with 
the  lumber  trade.  Mrs.  Thomas  G.  Dulany  passed  away  in  1918.  She  had  become 
the  wife  of  Thomas  G.  Dulany  in  Randolph  county,  Missouri,  in  1868  and  had  she 
lived  a  few  months  longer  they  would  have  completed  fifty  years  of  wedlock. 
Three  children  survive:  William  Henry;  Mrs.  T.  R.  Schofield  of  Hannibal,  Missouri; 
and  Mrs.  Tom  Murphy  of  St.  Louis. 

William  Henry  Dulany,  whose  name  introduces  this  review,  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  Salisbury  and  of  Hannibal  and  spent  two  years  in  the  Mis- 
souri Military  Academy  of  Mexico,  Missouri,  where  he  was  graduated.  He  also 
attended  the  University  of  Virginia  and  the  University  of  Missouri  at  Columbia, 
and  thus  liberal  educational  advantages  well  qualified  him  for  life's  practical  and 
responsible  duties.  Since  leaving  school  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  lumber  busi- 
ness at  Hannibal.  Missouri,  Kansas  City,  Missouri.  Everett,  Washington,  and  St. 
Louis  and  is  now  a  representative  of  the  St.  Louis  Lumber  Company,  holding 
the  dual  position  of  vice  president  and  treasurer.     He  is  likewise  a  director  of  the 


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Mound   City   Trust   Company   and   is   regarded    as   a   man    of   most    sound    business 
ability  and  lieen  discrimination. 

Politically  Mr.  Dulany  is  an  independent  democrat,  for  while  lie  usually 
supports  the  party,  he  does  not  hesitate  to  cast  an  independent  ballot  if  his  judg- 
ment so  dictates.  He  belongs  to  the  Beta  Theta  Pi,  a  college  fraternity.  His 
membership  relations  also  extend  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  the  Glen 
Echo  Country  Club  and  the  Sunset  Hill  Country  Club.  At  the  time  of  the  World 
war  he  was  captain  of  the  supply  company  in  the  Home  Guards  of  St.  Louis  and 
he  also  solicited  the  sale  of  Liberty  bonds  and  lent  assistance  to  the  Red  Cross 
and  various  other  drives.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Union  Avenue  Christian  church, 
serving  on  its  official  board,  and  he  is  keenly  interested  in  all  those  forces  which 
take  recognition  of  the  higher  and  holier  duties  of  life.  As  a  representative  of  one 
of  the  old  pioneer  families  of  Missouri  he  is  well  known.  From  an  early  period  in 
the  colonization  of  the  new  world  the  Dulany  family  was  represented  in  Virginia 
and  afterward  in  Kentucky,  whence  a  removal  brought  representatives  of  the  name 
to  Missouri,  here  to  become  prominent  as  factors  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  state. 
They  aided  in  laying  broad  and  deep  the  foundation  upon  which  has  been  built 
the  present  progress  and  prosperity  of  the  commonwealth  and  throughout  all  the 
intervening  years  they  have  maintained  a  most  creditable  place  in  business  circles 
and  a  most  enviable  social  position. 


JUDGE   CHARLES   P.   HESS. 

There  is  a  little  coterie  of  venerable  citizens  in  Macon,  Missouri,  whose  activities 
constitute  one  of  the  brilliant  pages  of  Missouri's  history.  This  number  includes 
Judge  Charles  P.  Hess,  long  one  of  the  most  distinguished  and  honored  residents  of 
his  section  of  the  state.  While  a  native  of  Germany,  he  was  but  seventeen  years 
of  age  when  he  crossed  the  Atlantic  to  the  new  world  to  become  an  American  in 
thought,  in  spirit  and  in  action.  His  contribution  to  the  development  of  Missouri 
has  been  a  most  valuable  one  through  his  efforts  as  a  member  of  the  bar  and  as 
one  of  the  political  leaders  of  the  state.  Politics  has  never  been  to  him  a  "game," 
hut  a  high  duty  and  noble  opportunity  of  serving  his  adopted  land  and  in  days  of 
peace  he  has  rendered  to  the  state  just  as  effective  and  earnest  service  as  he  gave 
to  the  government  when  he  defended  the  Union  during  the  dark  days  of  the  Civil  war. 

Charles  Philip  Hess  was  born  in  Langenlonsheim,  near  Bingen  on  the  Rhine, 
Prussia,  on  the  9th  of  September,  1837,  bis  parents  being  Johannes  and  Katherine 
(Stern)  Hess,  who  spent  their  entire  lives  in  that  locality,  the  father  there  following 
the  occupation  of  farming  as  a  life  work.  In  his  youthful  days  Judge  Hess  attended 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  place,  hut  when  seventeen  years  of  age,  attracted  by 
the  favorable  reports  which  he  had  heard  concerning  America,  its  conditions  and  its 
opportunities,  he  severed  home  ties  and  sailed  for  the  new  world  in  1854,  leaving 
Havre  de  Grace  on  one  of  the  old-time  sailing  vessels  which  was  thirty-two  days  in 
reaching  the  port  of  New  York.  From  the  eastern  metropolis  he  proceeded  to  Buffalo, 
New  York,  and  there  served  an  apprenticeship  to  the  carriage-making  trade,  becom- 
ing a  skilled  workman.  He  was  employed  in  mercantile  pursuits  until  the  outbreak 
of  the  Civil  war,  when  he  responded  to  President  Lincoln's  first  call  for  aid  and 
became  a  member  of  the  regular  army,  going  to  Philadelphia,  where  in  October, 
1861,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company  A  of  the  Sixth  United  States  Cavalry. 
Judge  Hess  was  a  member  of  the  army  tor  three  years  and  proved  a  most  loyal  and 
valiant  soldier,  as  he  participated  in  many  of  the  most  sanguinary  conflicts  of  the 
war,  including  the  battles  of  Williamsburg,  Hanover  Court  House,  Chickahominy 
Swamp,  Savage  Station,  Glendale,  Malvern  Hill,  Gettysburg  and  the  battle  of  the 
Wilderness.  He  was  also  in  various  other  minor  engagements  and  skirmishes  and 
he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  sergeant  of  Company  A  of  his  regiment,  while  in 
1862  he  was  transferred  to  Company  C  as  first  sergeant.  He  sustained  severe  in- 
juries in  the  engagement  at  Fairfield,  Pennsylyania,  July  4,  1863,  when  his  left 
knee  was  dislocated  by  a  horse  falling  upon  him  after  the  animal  had  been  shot. 
Judge  Hess  was  forced  to  remain  in  a  hospital  for  nine  weeks  and  then  rejoined  his 
command  at  Fairfax,  Virginia,  where  he  was  detailed  as  forage  master  at  the  head- 
quarters of  the  Cavalry  Corps  of  the  Department  of  the  Potomac.     He  was  honorably 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

discharged  at  Harrisonville,  near  Winchester,  Virginia,  October  10,  1864,  after 
which  he  was  appointed  second  lieutenant  of  the  Twenty-seventh  United  States 
Reserves  at  Alexandria,   Virginia. 

When  the  war  was  over  and  his  adopted  country  no  longer  needed  his  military 
aid  Judge  Hess  in  1865  returned  to  his  native  land  on  a  visit  and  again  enjoyed 
the  hospitality  of  the  homes  which  he  was  wont  to  visit  in  his  boyhood  days.  He 
spent  six  months  in  Germany  and  in  October,  1865,  again  came  to  the  new  world, 
this  time  accompanied  by  his  sister  Katherine  and  her  husband,  Frederick  W.  Muff. 
It  was  not  long  after  his  second  arrival  that  Judge  Hess  became  a  resident  of  Macon 
county,  Missouri,  taking  up  his  abode  on  a  tract  of  land  in  Eagle  township,  to  the 
development  and  improvement  of  which  he  gave  his  energies  for  two  years.  In 
1867,  however,  he  became  a  resident  of  Macon  and  entered  upon  the  study  of  law, 
applying  himself  with  such  diligence  and  industry  to  the  mastery  of  the  principles 
of  jurisprudence  that  he  secured  admission  to  the  bar  in  1868.  The  same  year  he 
was  elected  county  judge  of  Macon  county  and  he  had  previously  had  some  ex- 
perience in  passing  upon  cases  as  a  justice  of  the  peace.  He  continued  his  labors 
as  jurist  until  1873  and  in  1876  was  elected  city  attorney  of  Macon,  in  which  office 
he  was  continued  for  fourteen  consecutive  years,  a  fact  which  stands  in  unmistakable 
evidence  of  the  value  of  the  service  which  he  rendered  to  the  city  in  this  connection. 
Thus  much  of  his  professional  career  was  passed  in  office,  yet  at  the  same  time  he 
was  accorded  a  good  private  practice  and  in  the  conduct  of  his  cases  as  county 
attorney  and  through  his  course  on  the  bench  he  displayed  not  only  marked  fidelity 
to  duty  but  a  comprehensive  knowledge  of  law  with  ability  to  apply  accurately  its 
principles. 

Again  and  again  has  Judge  Hess  been  called  upon  for  public  service.  He  was 
tor  twelve  years  secretary  of  the  Macon  board  of  education  and  has  ever  been  a 
stalwart  champion  of  the  public  school  system,  doing  everything  in  his  power  to 
promote  the  standards  and  advance  the  efficiency  of  the  schools.  From  the  beginning 
of  his  connection  with  American  interests  Judge  Hess  has  been  a  stalwart  champion 
of  republican  principles  and  in  1888  was  made  a  delegate  to  the  republican  national 
convention  in  Chicago  which  nominated  General  Benjamin  Harrison  for  the  presi- 
dency. In  1892  the  republican  convention  of  his  district  made  Mr.  Hess  the  nominee 
for  circuit  judge  and  then  occurred  an  unfortunate  train  of  circumstances  that 
prevented  his  gaining  the  office.  A  short  time  after  his  nomination  a  part  of  the 
University  of  Columbia  was  destroyed  by  fire  and  by  reason  of  this  a  special  legis- 
lature was  convened.  At  that  time  the  circuit  for  which  Judge  Hess  was  nominated 
as  candidate  for  the  bench  comprised  the  counties  of  Macon,  Adair,  Schuyler  and 
Putnam,  to  which  the  special  legislature  added  the  county  of  Shelby,  which  had  a 
democratic  majority  of  one  thousand,  this  being  done  through  the  influence  of  Judge 
Ellison,  who  was  the  opposing  candidate  of  Judge  Hess  and  an  able  jurist,  but  also 
a  good  politician,  who  foresaw  what  results  could  be  secured  by  adding  Shelby 
county  to  the  circuit.  The  present  circuit  is  now  composed  of  Macon  and  Shelby. 
The  result  of  the  election  was  that  Judge  Hess  was  defeated  in  the  old  circuit.  Not- 
withstanding his  loss  of  that  election  Judge  Hess  has  been  a  potent  factor  in  direct- 
ing public  opinion  in  his  section  of  the  state.  In  1899  he  became  associated  with 
the  late  F.  W.  Blees  in  the  publication  of  the  Macon  Citizen,  of  which  he  became 
manager  and  editor.  His  progressive  editorial  policy  made  the  paper  an  influential 
force  in  political  affairs  and  at  the  same  time  an  effective  exponent  of  local  interests. 
He  continued  to  edit  the  paper  until  1902,  when  he  severed  his  connection  with  the 
Macon  Citizen.  Through  the  intervening  period  he  has  lived  largely  retired  yet 
has  given  his  support  to  all  the  interests  which  he  has  believed  of  real  and  genuine 
benefit  to  his  city  and  state. 

The  home  life  of  Judge  Hess  has  ever  been  most  attractive.  On  the  28th  of 
October,  1869,  he  wedded  Miss  Caroline  Sophia  Maftry,  who  was  born  in  Germany 
but  was  at  that  time  a  resident  of  Macon.  They  became  parents  of  eight  children, 
of  whom  six  are  living:  Alma,  the  wife  of  Edward  A.  Deraeter,  of  Macon;  Caroline, 
who  married  Bert  H.  Collins,  of  New  York;  Hertha,  who  is  the  wife  of  Clarence 
Henley,  of  Oklahoma  City,  Oklahoma;  Annette,  the  wife  of  C.  C.  Collette,  of  Cali- 
fornia; Olga,  who  is  the  wife  of  Charles  T.  Sears,  of  Brookfield,  Missouri;  and  Ralph, 
who  travels  out  of  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  and  who  married  Miss  Mabel  Shipp,  of  Win- 
chester, Kentucky.  Charles  P.  died  in  infancy  and  Louisa  died  at  the  age  of 
twenty-six. 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  889 

Judge  Hess  still  retains  membership  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  remains 
a  valued  member  o£  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  He  belongs  to  P.  A.  Jones 
Post,  No.  23,  of  Macon,  of  which  he  has  served  as  commander  and  also  as  junior 
department  commander  of  Missouri.  Writing  of  him,  a  contemporary  biographer 
has  said:  "He  has  won  for  himself  definite  success  in  a  material  way  and  at  the 
same  time  has  so  guided  and  governed  his  course  as  to  merit  and  receive  the  un- 
qualified confidence  and  regard  of  those  with  whom  he  has  come  in  contact  in  the 
various  relations  of  his  signally  active  and  useful  life.  He  gave  to  his  adopted 
country  loyal  service  as  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  war  and  none  could  manifest  greater 
patriotism  than  this.  In  the  'piping  times  of  peace'  his  loyalty  has  been  of  the  same 
insistent  order  and  he  deserves  well  of  the  nation  whose  integrity  he  aided  in  per- 
petuating. His  intellectual  powers  are  of  a  high  type,  though  he  gained  his  training 
largely  in  the  school  of  experience  and  through  effective  self-discipline,  and  he  has 
proved  amply  qualified  for  leadership  in  both   thought  and  action." 


EDWARD    D.    ELLISON. 


Edward  D.  Ellison,  one  of  the  keenest  and  most  diligent  lawyers  of  Kansas 
City  and  dean  of  the  Kansas  City  Law  School,  is  a  Princeton  man  and  back  of  his 
success  at  the  bar  is  his  thorough  preparation,  which  may  be  said  to  be  continuous, 
for  he  is  still  a  close  student  of  the  principles  of  jurisprudence.  He  was  born  in 
Kansas  City,  December  5,  1869,  a  son  of  David  and  Elizabeth  C.  (Garrett)  Ellison. 
The  father  was  born  in  England,  but  in  early  childhood  came  to  the  new  world, 
the  family  home  being  established  in  southeastern  Ohio.  He  afterward  became  an 
attorney  of  Iowa  and  practiced  there  for  many  years.  He  is  now  engaged  in  the 
real  estate  business,  making  his  home  in  Kansas  City.     His  wife  is  a  native  of  Ohio. 

Edward  D.  Ellison  was  the  youngest  of  their  three  children.  He  obtained  a 
public  and  high  school  education  in  Kansas  City  and  his  college  course  was  pursued 
in  Princeton  University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1892  with  the  Bachelor 
of  Science  degree.  He  studied  law  under  the  direction  of  C.  O.  Tichenor  and  in 
1893  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  has  largely  specialized  in  corporation  law,  his 
comprehensive  knowledge  thereof  enabling  him  to  speak  with  authority  upon  any 
question  relative  thereto.  He  has  for  twelve  years  been  dean  of  the  Kansas  City 
School  of  Law  and  he  is  the  author  of  many  papers,  and  holds  memberships  in 
the  local,  state  and  American  Bar  Associations.  He  is  an  impressive  and  convinc- 
ing speaker,  whether  discussing  points  of  law  or  any  current  topic. 

In  1894  Mr.  Ellison  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  W.  Stone,  daughter  of  Water- 
man Stone,  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  and  they  have  one  child,  Elizabeth  Garrett, 
twenty-one  years  of  age,  now  attending  Smith  College. 

Mr.  Ellison  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club,  the  Blue  Hills  Country  Club, 
and  Phi  Delta  Phi  law  fraternity.  His  political  endorsement  is  given  to  the  repub- 
lican party  and  he  keeps  thoroughly  informed  concerning  the  issues  and  vital  prob- 
lems of  the  day.  He  is  a  member  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  church  and  is  the  president 
of  the  Princeton  Alumni  Association.  In  fact  his  dominant  qualities  make  for 
leadership  and  his  support  of  any  measure,  by  reason  of  his  influence,  draws  to 
it  a  large  following. 


MAT   J.    HOLLAND. 


Mat  J.  Holland,  attorney  at  law  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  in  the  city  of  Limerick, 
Ireland,  December  18,  1867,  a  son  of  Patrick  and  Johanna  (King)  Holland.  The 
father  spent  his  entire  life  on  the  Emerald  isle,  as  did  the  mother,  and  there  they 
reared  their  family  of  six  sons  and  three  daughters. 

Mat  J.  Holland  was  educated  in  the  public  and  private  schools  of  Limerick, 
spending  some  time  in  a  private  academy  of  Ireland.  When  sixteen  years  of  age  he 
started  out  to  provide  for  his  own  livelihood  and  was  first  employed  as  a  clerk  in 
St.  Louis,  where  he  settled  in  the  early  '80s.  He  worked  along  clerical  lines  for 
several  years  and  then  took  up  the  study  of  law,  being  admitted  to  practice  in  1901. 


890  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Through  the  intervening  period,  covering  almost  two  decades,  he  has  successfully 
engaged  in  general  practice  and  has  used  his  time  wisely  and  well,  gaining  a  large 
and  creditable  clientele.  His  course  has  won  for  him  the  respect  and  admiration 
of  many  of  his  professional  colleagues  and  contemporaries  and  he  is  a  member  of 
the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association,  the  Missouri  State  Bar  Association  and  the  American 
Bar  Association. 

Mr.  Holland  is  also  recognized  as  an  active  factor  in  democratic  circles,  doing 
all  in  his  power  to  promote  the  legitimate  success  of  the  party.  He  represented  the 
sixth  district  of  St.  Louis  in  the  forty-first  general  assembly  and  was  chairman  of 
the  committee  on  penitentiary  and  reform  school,  also  vice  chairman  of  the  Louisiana 
exposition  committee  for  the  state  legislature.  He  gave  thoughtful  and  earnest 
consideration  to  all  vital  questions  coming  up  for  settlement  and  thus  showed  his 
patriotic  devotion  to  the  welfare  of  the  state.  During  the  period  of  the  World  war 
he  was  a  member  of  the  twelfth  ward  legal  advisory  board  and  he  was  also  an 
active  worker  in  support  of  the  Red  Cross,  War  Savings  Stamps  and  Liberty  Loan 
drives. 

In  St.  Louis.  February  14,  1899,  Mr.  Holland  was  married  to  Miss  Margaret 
O'Connor,  of  Salem.  West  Virginia,  a  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  ( Shaughnessey) 
O'Connor,  also  natives  of  West  Virginia.  Four  children  have  been  born  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Holland:  Joseph  Francis,  William  King,  Gerald  Mathew  and  Mary  Virginia, 
all  born  in  St.  Louis.  The  religious  faith  of  the  family  is  that  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  church.  The  Holland  family  traces  its  ancestry  in  Ireland  back  through 
three  centuries  and  prior  to  that  back  to  England.  Mr.  Holland  has  made  steady 
progress  during  the  years  of  his  residence  here  and  has  gained  a  creditable  position 
among  the  lawyers  of  St.  Louis. 


G.  WILSE  ROBINSON,  M.  D. 

Dr.  G.  Wilse  Robinson,  actively  engaged  in  medical  practice  in  Kansas  City, 
where  he  specializes  in  the  treatment  of  nervous  diseases,  was  born  in  St.  Clair, 
Missouri,  1871,  a  son  of  George  W.,  and  Cornelia  (Beckwith)  Robinson,  the  former 
a  native  of  Virginia,  while  the  latter  was  born  in  Missouri.  The  father  served  In 
the  Confederate  army  during  the  Civil  war,  and  after  the  close  of  hostilities,  came 
to  this  state  where  he  turned  his  attentions  to  farming  and  stock  raising  in 
St.   Clair  county,   becoming  a  prominent  citizen   of  that   community. 

Dr.  Robinson  spent  his  boyhood  days  on  the  home  farm  and  attended  the 
schools,  while  later  he  became  a  student  in  the  Appleton  City  Academy,  and  after- 
ward entered  the  University  of  Missouri,  which  he  attended  for  a  year.  He  thus 
acquired  a  broad  education  to  serve  as  the  foundation  upon  which  to  build  profes- 
sional knowledge,  and  with  a  desire  to  engage  in  medical  practice,  he  entered  the 
Beaumont  Hospital  Medical  College  of  St.  Louis,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1896,  with  the  M.  D.  degree.  In  the  same  year  he  entered  upon  the  general 
practice  of  medicine  at  Appleton  City,  where  he  remained  for  only  a  few 
months.  He  spent  the  year  1897  in  Butler,  Missouri,  and  from  1898  until  1900 
was  engaged  in  active  practice  at  Joplin,  Missouri.  At  the  end  of  that  time  he  re- 
moved to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  since  specialized  in  the  treatment  of  nervous 
diseases.  From  1907  until  1909  he  was  superintendent  of  the  State  Hospital  at 
Nevada,  Missouri.  In  1909  and  1910  he  served  as  superintendent  of  the  Kansas 
City  General  Hospital,  and  is  now  superintendent  of  the  Punton  Sanitarium,  a 
private  home  for  nervous  people.  He  has  long  specialized  in  all  forms  of  nervous 
diseases  and  is  recognized  as  an  authority  on  this  branch.  He  is  still  serving  on  the 
staff  of  the  Kansas  City  General  Hospital,  St.  Joseph's  Hospital,  the  Research  Hospital, 
Christian  Church  Hospital,  and  the  Alfred  Benjamine  Dispensary.  Aside  from  his 
profession,  he  is  stockholder  in  the  Fidelity  Bank  &  Trust  Company  and  has  other 
extensive  business  interests.  In  1917  Dr.  Robinson  was  commissioned  a  captain 
of  the  Medical  Corps  and  in  February,  1918,  went  to  Fort  McPherson.  He  was  on 
active  duty  at  Base  Hospital  No.  28  in  Limoges,  Prance,  and  was  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  major  while  serving  at  the  hospital  in  October,  1918. 

Dr.  Robinson  belongs  to  the  Jac'kson  County  Medical  Society  of  which  he  was 
president  in  1918.     In  the  previous  year  he  had  served  as  president  of  the  Tri-State 


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Medical  Society  and  in  1920  was  president  of  tiie  Kansas  City  Academy  of  Medicine 
and  vice  president  o£  the  Medical  Association  of  the  Southwest.  He  also  belongs 
to  the  Missouri  Valley  and  Southern  Medical  Association,  to  the  American  Medical 
Psychological  Association,  the  Missouri  State  Medical  Association,  and  the  Ameri- 
can Medical  Association.. 

Dr.  Robinson  was  married  to  Miss  Olive  Bradley,  and  they  have  two  sons: 
G.  Wilse,  Jr.,  and  Paul  E.  Dr.  Robinson  belongs  to  the  American  Legion  and  is 
well  known  in  club  circles,  having  membership  in  the  University  Club,  Kansas 
City  Club,  City,  Athletic,  Mission  Hills  Country  and  Rotary  Clubs  and  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce.  He  is  a  man  whose  life  measures  up  to  high  standards  in  both  professional 
and  public  connection,  and  he  has  made  for  himself  a  most  creditable  position  as  a 
neurologist. 


IRA  BURTON   BURNS. 


Ira  Burton  Burns,  a  most  thorough,  painstaking  and  conscientious  lawyer  of 
Kansas  City,  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Mitchell  county,  Kansas,  July  19,  1886,  and  is 
one  of  the  nine  children,  eight  of  whom  survive,  born  to  the  marriage  of  Robert 
and  Emma  C.  (Sewell)  Burns,  the  former  a  native  of  Ottawa  county,  Kansas,  and 
the  latter  of  Missouri.  The  father  has  devoted  his  life  to  the  occupation  of  farm- 
ing, in  which  he  is  still  active.  Removing  to  Idaho,  he  is  there  engaged  in  the  cul- 
tivation of  a  large  alfalfa  farm.  His  wife,  although  born  in  Missouri,  was  quite 
young  when  taken  to  Kansas.  They  are  members  of  the  Baptist  church,  having 
long  been  faithful  followers  of  its  teachings. 

Ira  B.  Burns,  after  attending  the  public  schools  of  Kansas,  studied  in  the 
Fremont  Normal  School  and  then  entered  the  University  of  Kansas.  He  pursued  his 
law  studies  in  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law  and  in  1911  the  LL.  B.  degree  was  con- 
ferred upon  him.  In  the  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Kansas  City, 
where  he  has  since  continued  in  practice.  He  is  now  associated  with  Prank  M. 
Lowe,  with  offices  in  the  Scarritt  building.  They  enjoy  a  large  clientage  of  an 
important  character  and  Mr.  Burns  is  at  all  times  found  competent  and  courteous  in 
business.  In  the  early  days  of  his  professional  career,  when  he  was  gaining  a  start 
he  also  occupied  a  civil  service  position,  the  duties  of  which  he  discharged  at  night 
while  working  as  a  member  of  the  bar  in  the  daytime,  putting  in  sixteen  or  more 
hours  per  day  at  his  various  labors.  He  has  worked  as  few  men  have  done  to  fit 
himself  for  the  practice  of  his  profession  and  he  is  untirifig  in  his  efforts  in  behalf 
of  bis  clients.  He  belongs  to  the  Missouri  State  and  American  Bar  Associations  and 
enjoys  the  high  regard  of  his  colleagues  and  contemporaries  in   the  profession. 

In  1913  Mr.  Burns  was  married  to  Miss  Irene  Shultice,  of  Salina,  Kansas,  a 
daughter  of  Charles  H.  Shultice,  who  removed  from  Ohio  and  became  one  of  the 
pioneers  of  the  Sunflower  state.  Mr.  Burns  is  a  democrat  in  his  political  views 
but  has  never  been  a  politician  in  the  sense  of  office  seeking.  He  is  likewise  a  rep- 
resentative of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  belonging  to  Ivanhoe  Lodge  No.  446,  A.  F. 
&  A.  M.,  in  which  he  is  senior  deacon,  while  he  has  also  filled  the  chairs  in  the 
chapter  and  belongs  as  well  to  the  council  and  to  the  commandery  and  to  Ararat 
Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  Outside  of  his  profession  his  interest  centers  in  his 
home  and  his  only  activity  besides  is  along  the  line  of  his  Masonic  and  church 
work,  he  being  a  faithful  follower  of  the  Linwood  Avenue  Presbyterian  church. 


WILLIAM   J.    BLESSE. 


William  J.  Blesse,  member  of  the  St.  Louis  bar,  practicing  as  senior  partner 
In  the  firm  of  William  J.  &  C.  T.  Blesse,  was  born  at  Elgin,  Illinois.  February  28, 
1882,  a  son  of  Henry  Blesse,  a  native  of  Denmark,  who  came  to  America  in  his 
teens,  settling  in  Illinois,  where  he  was  reared  and  educated.  He  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  commercial  pursuits  and  was  successful  in  the  conduct  of  his  business.  He 
passed  away  at  Elgin,  Illinois,  in  November,  1898,  at  the  age  of  sixty-four  years. 
His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Mina  Soost,  was  born  in  Germany  and  came 
to  America  with  her  father  when  sixteen  years  of  age.     They  settled  at  Belvidere, 


894  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Illinois,  and  in  Elgin  the  (laughter  became  the  wife  of  Henry  Blesse.  They  had  a 
family  of  four  sons  and  a  daughter. 

William  J.  Blesse,  the  eldest,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Elgin 
and  in  the  Washington  Manual  Training  School  of  St.  Louis.  Determining  upon 
the  practice  of  law  as  a  lite  work,  he  afterward  entered  the  St.  Louis  University, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1913  with  the  LL.  B.  degree.  Prior  to  the  com- 
pletion of  his  law  course  he  had  followed  electrical  work  and  electrical  contract- 
ing and  with  his  earnings  he  paid  his  way  through  the  university.  He  was  admitted 
to  practice  in  December,  1913,  and  opened  an  office  in  St.  Louis,  where  he  has  since 
continued.  He  has  been  elected  to  the  office  of  justice  of  the  peace  and  the  fair- 
ness of  his  decisions  and  his  judicial  temperament  have  gained  him  the  confidence 
of  the  members  of  the  local  bar.  He  bears  a  reputation  at  the  bar  of  being  thor- 
oughly honest,  conscientious,  capable  and  diligent  in  the  work  of  his  profession.  He 
belongs  to  the  St.  Louis.  Missouri  State  and  American  Bar  Associations. 

On  the  25th  of  September,  1907,  at  Clayton,  Missouri,  Mr.  Blesse  was  married 
to  Miss  Celeste  M.  Tracy,  a  native  of  St.  Louis  and  a  daughter  of  Theodore  Papin 
and  Margaret  (Boyce)  Tracy,  both  representatives  of  prominent  old  families  of 
St.  Louis.  The  father  is  now  deceased.  Mrs.  Blesse  is  also  a  lawyer  by  profession, 
having  been  graduated  from  the  Benton  College  of  Law  after  spending  some  time 
as  a  student  in  the  State  Normal  School  at  Warrensburg,  Missouri,  and  in  the 
University  of  Missouri.  She  was  admitted  to  practice  in  1915,  having  completed 
her  course  at  the  Benton  College  of  Law  in  June  of  that  year  with  the  LL.  B. 
degree.  She  has  since  been  associated  with  her  husband  in  active  professional  work. 
She  is  recognized  as  a  woman  of  brilliant  intellectual  qualities.  Her  mind  being  of  a 
strong,  logical  and  inductive  trend,  her  efforts  have  ably  supplemented  and  rounded 
out  the  labors  of  her  husband  in  professional  connections.  Both  are  prominent  rep- 
resentatives of  the  republican  party  in  Missouri  and  Mrs.  Blesse  is  a  member  of  the 
state  and  city  republican  committees  and  is  very  active  as  a  worker  among  women 
in  support  of  republican  principles.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Blesse  were  members  of  the 
legal  advisory  board  of  the  twentieth  ward  during  the  World  war  and  were  active 
in  support  of  the  bond  drives,  the  Red  Cross  and  other  interests  having  to  do 
with  the  successful  prosecution  of  the  war.  Mr.  Blesse  has  been  a  most  earnest  sup- 
porter of  the  republican  party  since  attaining  his  majority  and  was  a  member  of  the 
forty-ninth  general  assembly  of  Missouri,  representing  the  sixth  district  of  St. 
Louis.  While  a  member  of  the  house  he  supported  and  promoted  numerous 
important  bills  and  was  a  member  of  a  number  of  the  leading  committees,  including 
that  on  commerce  and  manufacturing  and  on  criminal  procedure.  He  also  served 
on  the  committee  on  justices  of  the  peace.  During  the  summer  of  1918  he  filled 
the  office  of  police  judge  of  St.  Louis  and  in  November  of  that  year  was  elected 
justice  of  the  peace  of  the  fifth  district  for  a  four  years'  term.  Fraternally  he  is  con- 
nected with  the  Masons,  having  membership  with  Magnolia  Lodge  No.  626,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  and  is  also  a  member  of  Alhambra  Grotto  and  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias.  His 
membership  relations  extend  likewise  to  the  Twentieth  Ward  Republican  Club,  of 
which  he  is  president,  and  to  the  West  End  Business  Men's  Association,  of  which 
he  is  the  second  vice  president.  His  interests  are  broad  amd  varied  and  both  he  and 
his  wife  belong  to  that  class  which  exerts  a  wide  influence  over  public  thought  and 
action,  prompted  thereto  by  a  most  emulative  pride  in  their  city  and  state. 


GEORGE    L.    BRETING. 


Well  known  among  the  representatives  of  the  automobile  trade  in  Kansas  City 
is  George  L.  Breting,  who  is  now  conducting  a  profitable  and  growing  business  under 
the  name  of  the  George  L.  Breting  Motor  Truck  Company,  and  as  he  is  yet  a  young 
man  his  future  career  will  be  undoubtedly  well  worth  watching,  for  he  has  already 
displayed  business  qualifications  and  characteristics  that  point  to  growing  powers 
attendant  on  success.  He  was  born  in  Bellevue,  Campbell,  county.  Kentucky,  April 
2,  1887,  his  parents  being  Henry  A.  and  Emily  (Schrooll)  Breting.  The  father  was 
born  in  the  Alpine  country  between  Switzerland  and  France,  and  the  mother's  birth 
occurred  in  Newport,  Kentucky.  When  a  young  man  of  eighteen  years  Henry  A. 
Breting    came    to    the    United    States.      He    learned    engraving    and    watchmaking. 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  895 

following  his  trade  in  La  Crosse,  Wisconsin,  for  a  time  and  afterward  becoming 
superintendent  for  the  Wadsworth  Watchcase  Company  of  Newport,  Kentucky.  He 
was  not  only  active  in  business  life  there  but  also  in  connection  with  the  public 
interests  of  the  place  and  at  one  time  served  as  a  member  of  the  city  council.  In 
1902  he  removed  to  Kansas  City  and  is  now  connected  with  the  Meyer  Jewelry 
Company. 

George  L.  Breting  attended  the  high  school  of  his  native  city  and  when  a  lad 
of  only  thirteen  years  started  out  to  earn  his  living  by  becoming  a  messenger  for 
the  Cincinnati  Mill  Machine  Company,  in  which  connection  he  worked  his  way 
steadily  upward.  When  the  family  came  to  Kansas  City  he,  too,  established  his 
home  here  and  in  1902  entered  the  employ  of  the  American  Radiator  Company  as 
cashier  of  the  Kansas  City  branch.  He  remained  with  that  house  for  Ave  years 
and  in  1907  became  associated  with  the  Ford  Motor  Company  as  cashier  and  later 
had  charge  of  the  division  of  profits.  He  was  likewise  in  the  paymaster's  department 
and  his  connection  with  the  Ford  plant  constituted  his  initial  step  toward  engaging 
In  the  automobile  business  on  his  own  account.  He  first  entered  into  partnership 
with  M.  A.  Flynn,  under  the  firm  style  of  Breting  &  Flynn,  an  association  that  was 
maintained  for  two  and  a  half  years.  He  is  now  at  the  head  of  the  George  L.  Breting 
Motor  Truck  Company,  handling  the  Oneida  truck,  and  theirs  is  the  only  company 
making  both  gas  and  electric  trucks.  Mr.  Breting's  territory  covers  Missouri  and 
Kansas  and  he  is  rapidly  building  up  a  good  trade  in  these  states  through  his 
pleasing  personality,  his  absolute  integrity  and  good  business  ability.  He  is  still 
only  a  young  man  with  the  greater  part  of  his  business  lite  before  him,  and  no  one 
who  knows  him  doubts  as  to  the  outcome  of  the  future.  He  belongs  to  the  Automo- 
bile Association  and  is  well  known  in  motor  trade  circles  in  this  part  of  the  country. 

Mr.  Breting  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Marie  Manahan,  a  daughter  of 
Thomas  L.  Manahan,  who  is  associated  with  the  Jenkins  Music  Company  of  Kansas 
City.  They  now  have  two  children,  Mary  Jane  and  Landry  George.  Mr.  Breting 
and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Visitation  Catholic  church.  He  is  interested  in 
politics  as  a  supporter  of  democratic  principles  and  he  is  also  well  known  in  club 
circles  as  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Club  and  the  Knife  &  Fork  Club. 


CHESTER  B.  MAGILL. 


Chester  B.  Magill,  manager  of  the  Dort  Sales  Company,  wholesale  automobile 
dealers  of  Kansas  City,  was  born  December  19,  1882,  in  Moline,  Illinois,  a  son  of 
James  A.  and  Ella  (Edwards)  Magill.  The  father,  a  native  of  Vermont,  removed  to 
the  middle  west  after  the  Civil  war,  in  which  he  had  I'endered  valiant  service  in 
defense  of  the  Union.  He  was  a  traveling  salesman  and  after  coming  to  the  Missis- 
sippi valley  established  and  maintained  his  home  in  Moline,  Illinois,  for  many  years. 
Chester  B.  Magill  was  a  pupil  in  the  Moline  high  school,  thus  completing  his 
education,  and  in  1902  he  started  upon  his  business  career  as  an  office  boy  with  the 
Moline  Plow  Company.  In  that  connection  he  won  steady  advancement  as  the  result 
of  his  industry,  capability  and  fidelity  until  he  was  given  charge  of  the  billing  depart- 
ment. In  1909  he  went  with  the  Velie  Motor  Vehicle  Company  as  paymaster  and 
was  afterward  connected  with  the  service,  sales  and  cost  departments  and  was 
also  in  the  production  department  for  a  time,  so  that  in  his  various  positions  he 
thoroughly  learned  the  business.  He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1916  and  entered  into 
association  with  the  Bush-Morgan  Motor  Company  and  is  now  manager  of  the  Dort 
Sales  Company,  handling  motor  cars,  their  territory  covering  Kansas,  Oklahoma  and 
western  Missouri.  They  sell  only  to  the  wholesale  trade  and  in  this  connection 
have  built  up  a  business  of  substantial  proportions.  Mr.  Magill's  thorough  knowledge 
of  the  automobile  trade  in  every  department  has  well  qualified  him  for  the  profitable 
conduct  of  his  present  undertaking.  His  thorough,  all-round  experience,  his  strict 
attention  to  business  and  his  habit  of  looking  ahead  for  opportunities  are  strong 
elements  in  his  growing  success.  He  is  recognized  as  a  straight,  clean-cut,  ener- 
getic and  shrewd  business  man,  eminently  fair  in  his  dealings  with  customer,  com- 
petitor and  employe. 

In   1907   Mr.   Magill   was  united   in  marriage  to  Miss  Luella   Beselin,  a  daughter 
of  H.  J.  Beselin,  a  cigar  manufacturer  who  has  long  been  a  resident  of  Rock  Island, 

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Illinois,  and  has  been  active  and  prominent  in  civic  and  lodge  affairs.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Magill  have  one  son,  Robert.  Mr.  Magill  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
he  took  a  very  active  part  in  all  war  work  and  liberally  supported  all  projects  con- 
tributing to  the  successful  prosecution  of  the  war.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Meadow 
Lake  Golf  &  Country  Club  and  his  associates  In  the  organizaton  find  him  a  genial 
companion,  with  a  keen  sense  of  humor,  and  a  man  of  most  obliging  disposition. 
He  is  a  fluent  conversationalist,  with  an  extensive  and  well  chosen  vocabulary,  and 
the  breadth  and  nature  of  his  interests  make  him  a  most  agreeable  companion. 


JEFF  WALLACE   HANDY. 


Jeff  Wallace  Handy  is  one  who  has  taken  advantage  of  the  rapid  development 
of  the  automobile  trade  and  has  found  in  this  connection  a  profitable  field  of  busi- 
ness, his  interests  being  conducted  at  Kansas  City  under  the  name  of  the  Handy- 
Warne  Company.  Mr.  Handy  is  a  western  man  by  birth,  training  and  preference 
and  the  spirit  of  western  enterprise  and  progress  finds  expression  in  his  record.  He 
was  born  near  Independence,  in  Chautauqua  county,  Kansas,  April  22,  18S0,  and  is  a 
son  of  Orin  W.  and  Alice  (Booth)  Handy,  the  former  a  native  of  Pennsylvania  and 
the  latter  of  Kentucky.  The  father  removed  with  his  parents  to  Kansas,  the  family 
home  being  established  near  lola,  and  later  he  was  engaged  for  many  years  in, 
mercantile  pursuits  at  Caney,  Kansas. 

It  was  there  that  Jeff  Wallace  Handy  pursued  a  public  school  education  and 
later  he  attended  the  Baker  University  at  Baldwin,  Kansas.  In  1898,  when  eighteen 
years  of  age,  he  started  out  in  the  business  world  by  securing  employment  in  a 
bank  at  Caney  and  in  1900  he  became  interested  in  the  Handy-Booth  Mercantile 
Company  in  connection  with  his  maternal  grandfather.  While  there  residing  he 
was  also  actively  interested  in  the  public  welfare  and  did  much  for  the  civic  upbuild- 
ing and  progress  of  the  city. 

In  1909  Mr.  Handy  removed  to  Kansas  City  and  became  associated  with  the 
Rock  Island  Implement  Company,  with  which  he  remained  for  four  years.  In  1913 
he  became  associated  with  the  Ford  Motor  Company  here  and  was  soon  transferred 
to  Wichita,  Kansas,  as  assistant  manager.  He  next  went  to  Augusta,  Kansas,  as  a 
dealer  in  Ford  cars  and  in  1919  he  became  associated  with  the  Warne  Motor  Com- 
pany of  Kansas  City  as  dealers  in  Ford  cars  and  tractors,  and  the  firm  name  was 
changed  to  Handy-Warne  Company.  They  are  steadily  building  up  a  very  substan- 
tial trade.  Mr.  Handy  is  a  member  of  the  Automobile  Association  and  is  greatly 
interested  in  the  question  of  good  roads,  working  earnestly  to  improve  the  public 
highways. 

In  1899  Mr.  Handy  was  married  to  Miss  Jeanette  E.  Louthan,  of  Findlay, 
Ohio,  a  daughter  of  Henry  Louthan,  who  was  clerk  of  the  court  at  Findlay,  Ohio, 
and  very  prominent  in  public  affairs  there.  He  gave  his  political  allegiance  to  the 
democratic  party  and  was  active  in  molding  thought  and  opinion  along  civic 
lines.  In  19  08  he  removed  to  Caney,  Kansas,  where  he  has  farming  and  grain 
interests.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Handy  has  been  born  one  child,  Marion  Winifred.  Mr. 
Handy  belongs  to  the  Hillcrest  Country  Club  and  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Ivanhoe 
Lodge  and  to  other  Masonic  bodies,  which  have  enabled  him  to  reach  the  Mystic 
Shrine. 


DAVID   ANDREW   MURPHY. 

David  Andrew  Murphy,  a  vigorous  and  able  attorney  who  has  specialized  in 
insurance  and  corporation  law.  taking  care  of  the  interests  of  several  large  insur- 
ance, bonding  and  liability  companies  and  other  interests,  is  one  of  the  substantial 
citizens  that  Wisconsin  has  furnished  to  Kansas  City.  He  was  born  in  Dodge  county, 
in  the  Badger  state,  March  27,  1876.  His  father,  Thomas  W.  Murphy,  was  also  a 
native  of  Wisconsin  and  afterward  removed  to  South  Dakota  when  his  son  David 
A.  was  a  lad  of  eight  years.     He  made  farming  his  lite  work  and  his  death  occurred 


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,  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  899 

in  1919.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Margaret  Hogan,  was  also  a  native 
of  Wisconsin  and  her  death  occurred  in  the  year  in  which  her  husband  passed  away. 
They  were  the  parents  of  nine  children,  five  of  whom  survive. 

David  A.  Murphy  received  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Turner  county, 
South  Dakota,  and  in  Creighton  University,  where  he  obtained  the  Bachelor  of  Arts 
degree  in  1900.  He  studied  law  at  Georgetown  University,  Washington,  D.  C,  and 
in  1902  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Kansas  City  and  entered  upon  the  practice  of 
law,  becoming  associated  with  the  firm  of  Brown,  Harding  &  Brown.  A  change  in 
the  personnel  of  the  firm  led  to  the  adoption  of  the  firm  style  of  McCune,  Harding, 
Brown  &  Murphy  in  1909.  Throughout  the  years  of  his  connection  with  the  bar 
Mr.  Murphy  has  made  steady  progress  and  has  a  large  clientage,  the  interests  of 
which  he  ably  represents  in  his  professional  capacity.  He  is  now  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Harding,  Detheridge,  Murphy  &  Stinson,  one  of  the  leading  law  firms  of 
Kansas  City. 

In  1902  Mr.  Murphy  was  united  in  marriage  to  Mary  Alice  Coffey,  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  and  they  have  three  children:  Dorothy,  seventeen  years  of  age;  Ursula, 
fifteen;  and  John,  twelve.  All  are  now  in  school.  The  family  are  communicants 
of  the  Visitation  Roman  Catholic  church  and  Mr.  Murphy  is  a  fourth  degi-ee  member 
of  the  Knights  of  Columbus.  He  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  Hillcrest 
Country  Club  and  to  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association.  His  political  endorsement 
is  given  to  the  democratic  party  and  at  one  time  he  was  police  commissioner  of 
Kansas  City  under  Governor  Major,  but  has  not  been  ambitious  to  hold  public  office. 
His  friends  bear  testimony  to  the  fact  that  he  always  has  a  good  story  to  tell  and 
tells  it  well.  They  esteem  him  as  a  most  genial  and  companionable  man,  but  he 
does  not  seek  to  figure  prominently  in  club  life,  preferring  to  devote  his  time  out- 
side of  business  to  his  family. 


CHARLES  HENRY  DUNCKER. 

Charles  Henry  Duncker,  the  president  of  the  Trorlicht-Duncker  Carpet  Company 
of  St.  Louis,  and  identified  with  other  business  interests  of  importance,  all  of  which 
have  felt  the  stimulus  of  his  cooperation,  sound  judgment  and  clear  insight  into 
business  affairs,  was  born  May  1,  1865,  in  the  city  which  is  still  his  home,  his  parents 
being  Henry  and  Mary  (Bergesch)  Duncker.  He  attended  the  public  schools  and 
also  Smith  Academy  before  entering  Washington  University,  thus  receiving  liberal 
educational  training  which  well  qualified  him  for  life's  practical  and  responsible 
duties  and  activities.  He  started  upon  his  buiness  career  in  1882  in  connection  with 
the  wholesale  and  retail  carpet,  rugs  and  draperies  house  of  Trorlicht  &  Duncker, 
which  had  been  established  in  1863,  and  through  the  intervening  period  he  has 
continued  with  the  company,  advancing  steadily  to  the  presidency,  which  he  has 
occupied  since  1906.  He  has  thus  been  connected  with  the  business  for  thirty- 
eight  years  and  has  been  at  the  head  of  the  house  for  fourteen  years.  In  January, 
1907,  the  firm  style  was  changed  to  the  Trorlicht-Duncker  Carpet  Company.  An 
extensive  business  has  been  developed  but  does  not  altogether  claim  the  time  and 
attention  of  Mr.  Duncker,  for  he  is  the  vice  president  of  the  Franklin  Bank,  presi- 
dent of  the  Central  Warehouse  &  Realty  Company  and  president  of  the  Central 
Transfer  Company. 

On  the  20th  of  April,  1892,  Mr.  Duncker  was  united  in  marriage  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  to  Miss  Pauline  E.  Doerr,  a  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Philip  Doerr, 
of  St.  Louis.  Her  father,  now  deceased,  was  prominent  in  banking  circles  on  the 
south  side  of  the  city.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Duncker  were  born  two  sons,  Charles  Henry 
and  Henry  Philip.  The  former  was  married  May  14,  1918,  to  Miss  Ada  Nicholson, 
a  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Nicholson.  He  entered  the  First  Officers'  Training 
Camp  at  Fort  Riley,  Kansas,  was  commissioned  a  first  lieutenant  in  the  Three 
Hundred  and  Fortieth  Field  Artillery  and  was  made  a  captain  in  France,  where  he 
gave  his  life  for  his  country  on  the  17th  of  October,  1918,  being  numbered  with  those 
heroic  figures  who  wrote  a  new  glory  page  into  American  history. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Duncker  has  always  been  a  republican.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  St.  Louis  Club,  also  of  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  the  Sunset  Hill 
Country  Club,  the  City  Club,  the  Midland  Valley  Country  Club  and  the  Republican 


900  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Club  of  New  York.  He  is  wide-awake  and  alert  not  only  to  every  question  that 
affects  his  business  but  to  all  those  which  affect  public  welfare,  and  a  spirit  of 
progress  actuates  him  in   every   relation. 


CLEARY  M.   DETLING. 


Cleary  M.  Detling.  member  of  the  Kansas  City  bar  and  veteran  of  the  World 
war,  was  born  in  St.  Charles.  Missouri,  February  15,  1894.  His  father,  John  B. 
Detling,  was  a  native  of  eastern  Pennsylvania  and  became  a  merchant.  When 
twenty-five  years  of  age  he  removed  to  Missouri  and  throughout  his  remaining 
days  devoted  his  attention  to  mercantile  interests  in  St.  Charles,  where  he  passed 
away  in  1903.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Agnes  Cleary,  was  born  in 
St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  and  is  now  living  in  Kansas  City. 

Cleary  M.  Detling,  their  only  son,  was  educated  in  parochial  schools  of  St. 
Charles  to  the  age  of  eleven  years  and  afterward  attended  parochial  schools  of 
Kanas  City,  while  for  two  years  he  was  instructed  by  a  private  tutor.  He  afterward 
became  a  student  in  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
with  the  LL.  B.  degree  in  1917.  In  the  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
and  on  the  2d  of  June,  1917,  feeling  that  his  duty  to  his  country  was  paramount 
to  every  other  interest,  he  joined  the  colors  and  remained  with  the  army  until  May 
6,  1919,  being  a  member  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-ninth  Field  Artillery  of 
the  Thirty-fifth  Division.  He  was  in  France  for  eleven  months.  From  the  25th  of 
August  to  the  2d  of  September,  1918,  he  was  in  the  Vosges  sector  and  from  the 
11th  to  the  15th  of  September  was  at  St.  Mihiel.  He  then  participated  in  the 
Meuse-Argonne  offensive  from  the  25th  of  September  to  the  3d  of  October,  and 
from  the  16th  of  October  until  the  8th  of  November  was  in  the  Verdun  sector  and 
through  the  three  succeeding  days  at  Verdun-Conflans.  The  armistice  was  then 
signed,  terminating  active  hostilities,  in  the  most  important  of  which  where  the 
American  army  figured,  Mr.  Detling  was  engaged. 

When  the  country  no  longer  needed  his  aid  he  returned  to  Kansas  City  and 
has  here  entered  upon  the  practice  of  law.  He  is  making  steady  progress  and  dis- 
playing increasing  ability  as  experience  comes  to  him  in  the  work  of  the  courts. 
He  is  a  third  degree  member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  belongs  also  to  the 
Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians.  His  religious  faith  is  manifest  in  his  connection  with 
St.  Alpysius'  Roman  Catholic  church.  He  finds  recreation  and  diversion  in  baseball 
and  has  been  one  of  the  players  of  the  game  in  this  section. 

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MARK  McCAUSLAND  ANDERSON. 

Mark  McCausland  Anderson,  president  of  the  Title  Guaranty  Trust  Company 
of  St.  Louis,  having  long  since  won  a  most  creditable  position  in  financial  circles, 
was  born  in  this  city  February  2,  1873.  His  father  was  Richard  S.  Anderson,  a 
native  of  Virginia,  who  came  to  St.  Louis  in  his  boyhood  days  with  his  father,  Rev. 
Samuel  J.  P.  Anderson,  who  was  pastor  of  the  old  Central  Presbyterian  church. 
Richard  S.  Anderson  was  married  to  Laura  McCausland.  who  died  in  1917,  having 
long  survived  her  husband  who  passed  away  in  1883.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  Mark  and  Sarah  (Branham)  McCausland.  The  father,  born  in  Ireland,  came 
to  the  United  States  in  1828,  and  was  one  of  those  who  rushed  to  the  gold  fields  of 
California  in'1849.  He  afterward  settled  in  St.  Louis,  where  his  remaining  days 
were  spent. 

Mark  McCausland  Anderson  acquired  his  public  school  education  in  St.  Louis  and 
in  Columbia,  Missouri,  and  afterward  attended  the  State  University.  During  his 
college  days  he  became  a  member  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta.  Following  the  death 
of  his  father  the  family  had  removed  to  Columbia,  and  there  he  resided  from  1884 
until  1893  when  he  came  to  St.  Louis  and  entered  the  title  department  of  the 
Union  Trust  Company,  being  thus  employed  until  1901.  In  that  year  the  Title 
Guaranty  Trust  Company  was  formed  and  the  former  corporation  sold  its  title 
department  to  the  new  organization.  Mr.  Anderson  then  became  connected 
with  the  Missouri  Trust  Company  in  order  to  assist  in  the  formation  of  an  opposi- 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  901 

tion  company.  This  concern  sold  out  to  the  Lincoln  Title  &  Trust  Company  in 
1905.  and  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  latter  as  assistant  manager.  .  In  time  this 
company  was  absorbed  by  the  Title  Guaranty  Trust  Company  in  1909,  and  he 
became  manager  of  the  title  department.  In  1911  he  was  elected  vice  president 
of  the  Title  Guaranty  Trust  Company  and  in  1920  elected  to  the  presidency. 
On  the  4th  of  December,  1912.  Mr.  Anderson  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss 
Isla  Sloan,  a  daughter  of  James  M.  and  Molcie  (Carter)  Sloan.  Her  father  was 
for  many  years  connected  with  the  Hamilton-Brown  Shoe  Company,  of  which  he 
became  vice  president.  Mr.  Anderson  is  a  member  of  the  Algonquin  Country  Club. 
He  has  no  lodge  relations  yet  is  not  unappreciative  of  the  social  amenities  of  life 
for  he  holds  friendship  inviolable  and  his  own  record  proves  the  philosophy  "that 
the  way  to   win   a  friend   is   to   be   one." 


CHARLES   EDWIN   COOLEY. 

Charles  Edwin  Cooley,  who  since  1913  has  practiced  at  the  bar  of  Kansas 
City,  where  he  was  born  January  26,  1886,  is  a  son  of  Charles  Edwin  and  Eliza 
Jane  (Britt)  Cooley,  the  father  being  a  native  of  Illinois,  while  the  mother  was 
born  in  Danville,  Montgomery  county,  Missouri,  and  represented  one  of  the 
pioneer  families  of  that  section  of  the  state.  Charles  E.  Cooley,  Sr.,  was  a  cabinet 
maker  by  trade.  At  the  time  of  the  Civil  war  he  put  aside  all  business  and  per- 
sonal considerations  and  responded  to  the  country's  call  for  troops  to  aid  in  the 
preservation  of  the  Union,  going  to  the  front  as  a  volunteer  in  an  Illinois  regiment. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  and  passed   away  in   that   faith   in   1899. 

Charles  E.  Cooley  of  this  review  was  one  of  a  family  of  four  children.  His 
parents  died  when  he  was  still  attending  the  grade  schools,  and  his  education  has 
been  upon  his  own  initiative  without  financial  assistance  outside  his  own  efforts. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  and  the  Kansas  City,  Kansas,  high 
school.  He  next  entered  the  University  of  Kansas,  in  which  he  pursued  his  more 
specifically  literary  course,  winning  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  as  a  member  of 
the  class  of  1910.  He  then  took  up  the  study  of  law  at  Harvard  and  in  1913  the 
LL.  B.  degree  was  conferred  upon  him.  The  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  Kansas  City  and  has  since  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  always 
remaining  alone  in  his  legal  work.  His  progress,  therefore,  can  be  attributable 
only  to  his  ability,  enterprise,  thorough  preparation  and  close  conformity  to  high 
professional  standards.  He  has  been  connected  with  much  important  litigation 
tried  in  the  courts  of  the  district  and  he  is  attorney  for  the  Kansas  City  Railway 
Company. 

In  1912  Mr.  Cooley  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Dawn  Childs,  a  daugh- 
ter of  C.  P.  Childs,  of  Herington,  Kansas,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of 
two  daughters,  Lorna  Dawn,  now  five  years  of  age;  and  Kathryn  Louise,  born 
in  1920.  Mr.  Cooley  is  a  member  of  the  Prospect  Avenue  Presbyterian  church 
and  is  greatly  interested  in  all  those  forces  which  make  tor  moral  progress,  for  the 
uplift  of  the  individual  and  the  betterment  of  the  community.  With  that  end  in 
view  he  has  spent  five  years  in  active  Boy  Scout  work.  His  political  allegiance  is 
given  to  the  republican  party,  but  while  thoroughly  conversant  with  the  leading 
political  principles  and  conditions  of  the  country,  he  does  not  seek,  nor  desire  office. 
He  belongs  to  the  City  Club  and  along  strictly  professional  lines  his  connection  is 
with  the  Jackson  County  and  Missouri  State  Bar  Associations.  Actuated  by  a 
laudable  ambition,  he  has  concentrated  his  efforts  and  attention  largely  upon  his 
professional  interests  with  the  result  that  he  has  made  for  himself  a  creditable 
name  and  place  at  the  bar  of  his  native  city. 


THOMAS  JOHNSTON  GREEN. 

Prominent  among  the  leading,  influential  and  enterprising  business  men  of 
Kansas  City  is  Thomas  Johnston  Green,  the  treasurer  of  the  Kansas  City  Life  Insur- 
ance Company,  who  for  forty  years  has  been  actively  identified  with  real  estate 
operations,  particularly  the  development  of  subdivisions,  in  which  point  he  has  at- 


902  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

tained  a  place  of  leadership,  being  now  one  of  the  largest  operators  in  handling 
subdivision  property  in  Kansas  City.  Step  by  step  he  has  progressed  in  business 
circles  and  his  life  record  should  serve  as  a  source  of  inspiration  and  encouragement 
to  others,  showing  what  may  be  accomplished  through  individual  effort. 

Mr.  Green  is  a  native  of  County  Cavan,  Ireland.  His  father,  Robert  Green,  was 
a  landowner  of  that  country,  where  he  spent  his  entire  life.  The  mother  bore  the 
maiden   name  of  Eliza   Johnston   and   both   have   passed  away. 

Thomas  J.  Green  acquired  a  classical  education  in  Ireland  and  in  1874  came  to 
the  United  States,  landing  in  New  York  city,  where  he  resided  for  four  years.  He 
has  been  identified  with  Kansas  City  since  1878  and  immediately  after  his  arrival 
turned  his  attention  to  the  real  estate  business,  in  which  he  has  since  been  promi- 
nently and  profitably  engaged.  His  contribution  to  the  upbuilding  and  improve- 
ment of  the  city  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  has  been  instrumental  in  opening, 
developing  and  selling  ninety-eight  subdivisions.  He  has  conducted  his  real  estate 
operations  in  partnership  with  his  brother,  J.  J.  Green,  and  in  1910  he  extended 
the  scope  of  his  activities  when  he  accepted  the  treasurership  of  the  Kansas  City 
Life  Insurance  Company.  He  is  a  well  known  and  valued  member  of  the  Real  Estate 
Board  and  his  opinions  concerning  realty  conditions  here  are  largely  accepted  as 
authority. 

In  1898  Mr.  Green  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  Hartley,  a  daughter 
of  James  Hartley,  of  Cavan,  Ireland,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  one  child, 
Gwendolen,  now  twenty-one  years  of  age.  Mr.  Green  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas 
City  Country  Club,  greatly  enjoying  a  game  of  golf  as  a  means  of  relaxation.  He 
cooperates  heartily  in  every  plan  and  project  for  the  upbuilding  and  improvement 
of  the  city  and  at  all  times  adheres  to  high  civic  standards.  His  leisure  is  largely 
devoted  to  reading  and  he  is  a  well  informed  and  broad-minded  man  who  takes  a 
progressive  stand  upon  many  vital  questions  of  the  day.  His  political  allegiance  is 
given  to  the  republican  party  and  his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church,  the  teachings  of  which  guide  him  in  all  the  relations  of  life. 


HOWARD  VANDERSLICB. 


Howard  Vanderslice,  president  of  The  Vanderslice-Lynds  Company,  grain  dealers, 
with  offices  in  the  Board  of  Trade  building  at  Kansas  City,  was  born  in  Georgetown, 
Kentucky,  April  8,  1853,  a  son  of  Thomas  Jefferson  and  Sarah  J.  (Birchfield)  Vander- 
slice. The  father's  birth  occurred  November  10,  1827,  in  the  same  house  in  which 
Howard  Vanderslice  later  opened  his  eyes  to  the  light  of  day.  The  mother  was  born, 
in  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  February  20,  1834,  and  they  were  married  June  5,  1851. 
They  had  a  family  of  fourteen  children,  of  whom  four  are  yet  living.  John  is  a  resi- 
dent of  Pueblo,  Colorado;  Samuel  I.  resides  in  Denver,  Colorado;  and  Maggie  is  a 
resident  of  Kansas  City.  Russell  M.,  another  member  of  the  family,  passed  away 
in  Memphis,  Tennessee.  The  death  of  the  father  occurred  March  18,  1902.  He  had 
long  survived  his  wife,  who  passed  away  November  12,  1878.  In  support  of  his 
family  he  had  always  followed  the  occupation  of  farming  and  was  one  of  the 
respected  residents  of  his  section  of  Kentucky  and  later  of  Kansas,  to  which  state 
he  removed  with  his  family  and  with  his  father.  Major  Daniel  Vanderslice,  on  the 
1st  of  August,  1853.  The  family  home  was  established  in  Doniphan  county,  Kansas, 
where  Major  Vanderslice  was  sent  as  an  Indian  agent  for  the  Sac  and  Fox  tribes. 
Thomas  J.  Vanderslice  there  engaged  in  farming  and  in  connection  with  his  agri- 
cultural pursuits  conducted  a  general  store. 

Howard  Vanderslice  was  but  a  few  months  old  when  the  family  went  to  Kansas 
so  that  he  spent  his  boyhood  days  on  the  western  plains.  After  mastering  the 
elementary  branches  of  learning  in  the  district  schools  he  attended  the  Highland 
University  of  Highland,  Kansas,  and  when  nineteen  years  of  age  he  left  home,  going 
to  Iowa  Point,  Kansas,  in  1872.  There  he  remained  for  nine  years,  acting  as  tele- 
graph operator  and  depot  agent,  and  in  1881  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Milton 
Emmerson  of  that  place,  under  the  firm  name  of  Emmerson  &  Vanderslice,  to 
engage  in  grain  buying.  They  conducted  business  at  White  Cloud,  Kansas,  until 
1890,  When  Mr.  Vanderslice  removed  to  Kansas  City,  where  two  years  before  he  had 
established  a  feed,  coal  and  ice  business.     After  taking  up  his  abode  here  he  extended 


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the  scope  of  his  commercial  activities  by  establishing  a  grain  commission  house  and 
entering  into  partnership  with  John  H.  Lynds  under  the  firm  name  of  the  Vander- 
slice-Lynds  Mercantile  Company,  of  which  he  is  the  president.  They  began  busi- 
ness in  a  small  way  but  today  rank  with  the  largest  grain  commission  firms  of  Kansas 
City.  They  own  an  extensive  ice  plant  at  Eighteenth  and  Olive  streets  and  in  June, 
1907,  purchased  the  controlling  interest  in  the  Central  Ice  Company,  while  later 
they  increased  the  capital  stock  of  the  City  Ice  Company  and  bought  the  Eighth  and 
Hickory  Street  plant  of  the  Peoples  Ice  Company,  also  the  Sheffield  Ice  Company 
and  The  Vanderslice-Lynds  Company.  In  1913  all  of  the  above  mentioned  were 
formed  into  one  company  under  the  name  of  the  City  Ice  &  Storage  Company,  which 
is  now  doing  about  eighty  per  cent  of  the  ice  business  in  Kansas  City,  and  of  this 
company  Mr.  Vanderslice  is  the  president.  They  conduct  the  largest  business  of  this 
character  in  Kansas  City.  Mr.  Vanderslice  is  also  extensively  interested  in  mining 
and  oil  properties  and  is  treasurer  ot  the  Lucky  Tiger  Mining  Company,  with  mines 
located  sixty-flve  miles  south  of  Douglas,  Arizona,  in  the  Montezuma  district  of 
Mexico,  and  with  offices  in  Sonora,  Mexico.  This  is  one  of  the  most  profitable 
mining  concerns  of  the  United  States.  Mr.  Vanderslice  is  also  a  stockholder  and 
director  ot  the  White  Eagle  Oil  &  Refining  Company  of  Augusta,  Kansas,  and  Fort 
Worth,  Texas.  He  also  has  many  other  important  interests  and  by  reason  of  the 
extent  of  his  activities  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of  Kansas 
City.  He  is  a  representative  of  its  financial  interests  as  a  director  of  the»  National 
Bank  of  Commerce. 

In  June,  1876,  Mr.  Vanderslice  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Minnie  E.  Flinn, 
a  daughter  of  William  D.  Flinn,  of  Iowa  Point,  Kansas,  and  the  family  occupies  a 
prominent  social  position.  Mr.  Vanderslice  is  well  knowji' in  Masonic  circles,  belong- 
ing to  Smithton  Lodge,  No.  1,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Highlahfl^Park,  Kansas,  which  was 
the  first  lodge  organized  in  that  state,  his  father  and  grandfather  becoming  charter 
members.  He  is  also  connected  with  Orient  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.;  Oriental  Comman- 
dery,  K.  T.;  and  Ararat  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  at  Kansas  City.  He  belongs  to 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  to  the  Americab  Meroh*nts  &  Manufacturers  Association, 
the  Kansas  City  Club  and  the  Mid-Day  Club.  In  politics  he  maintains  an  independent 
course,  hut  while  living  at  White  Cloud,  Kansas,  wa,s  appointed  by  President 
Cleveland  and  served  as  postmaster  there.  He  is  liberal  in  charity,  unassuming  and 
genial  in  manner  and  has  a  host  of  friends,  while  wherever  he  is  known  he  Is 
spoken  of  in  terms  of  the  highest  regard. 


ROBERT  MORRIS  HUBBARD. 

For  more  than  six  decades  Robert  Morris  Hubbard  was  a  prominent  figure  in 
the  grain  trade  of  St.  Louis,  although  in  his  later  years  his  connection  was  largely 
financial  rather  than  active.  He  attained  the  venerable  age  of  eighty-nine  years. 
He  was  born  in  Charlestown,  New  Hampshire,  September  21,  1830,  and  was  de- 
scended from  English  ancestry  in  both  the  paternal  and  maternal  lines.  He  traced 
the  Hubbard  line  back  to  John  Hubbard,  who  came  from  England  to  the  new  world 
in  1633,  settling  in  Massachusetts.  His  grandfather,  Jonathan  Hubbard,  fought 
with  the  Continental  forces  in  the  American  Revolution  and  his  great-grandfather, 
Ensign  Moses  Wheeler,  and  Adjutant  Jonathan  Hubbard,  took  part  in  the  Colonial 
wars.  The  latter  was  one  of  the  early  grantees  of  land  in  Charlestown,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  was  one  of  the  surveyors  who  laid  out  the  town  which  up  to  that  time 
had  been  known  as  "Number  4,"  a  fort  on  the  Connecticut  River.  In  the  maternal 
line  Mr.  Hubbard  traced  his  descent  from  a  number  of  New  England  families  ot 
standing  during  the  early  colonial  period.  Among  these  ancestors  are  numbered 
three  who  came  to  this  country  on  the  Mayflower,  John  Howland,  John  Tilley  and 
Richard  Warren.  Through  the  line  of  Richard  Warren,  Mr.  Hubbard  traced  his 
descent  from  William  the  Conqueror.  Other  ancestors,  well  known  as  soldiers, 
office  holders  and  clergy  in  New  Hampshire,  Massachusetts  and  Connecticut  during 
the  early  days  of  the  colonies  are  Tristram  Coffin.  Captain  John  Gorham,  Rev.  James 
Fitch,  Captain  James  Fitch,  Major  John  Mason,  Captain  Christopher  Hussey,  Rev. 
Stephen    Bacheler,    Richard    Swain,    Edmund    Rice,    Hon.    Peter    Coffin    and    Edward 


906  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Starbuck,    whose   achievements    are   mentioned    in    the   records    of   the   states    above 
mentioned. 

Robert  M.  Hubbard  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Charlestown, 
New  Hampshire,  and  in  the  Springfield  (Vermont)  Academy.  He  came  to  St.  Louis 
in  1849,  a  youth  of  nineteen  years,  and  he  started  upon  his  career  as  a  bookkeeper 
for  a  wholesale  grocery  house.  He  afterwards  served  as  teller  in  the  banking  house 
of  E.  W.  Clark  &  Brothers  and  subsequently  was  connected  with  the  banking  house 
of  Darby  &  Barksdale.  In  185  6  he  entered  the  grain  business,  with  which  he  was 
actively  connected  until  1861.  He  removed  to  the  country,  where,  owing  to  business 
conditions  in  St.  Louis,  he  remained  until  the  war  was  over,  and  then  reentered  the 
grain  trade,  with  which  he  was  identified  until  his  death.  He  organized  the  Hub- 
bard &  Bartlett  Commission  Company  .  (later  the  Hubbard  &  Moffitt  Commission 
Company),  continuing  its  president  until  his  death.  In  this  connection  he  built  up 
one  of  the  large  grain  interests  of  the  Mississippi  valley  and  was  regarded  as  a  most 
prominent,   enterprising   and   progressive  business  man. 

In  St.  Louis,  on  the  5th  of  August,  1858,  Mr.  Hubbard  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Sarah  Blunt  Ross,  originally  of  Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  a  daughter  of 
Captain  John  T.  and  Eliza  (Hardy)  Ross.  Her  ancestry  was  also  English.  Her 
father  served  in  the  War  of  1812  and  her  grandfather,  Captain  Alexander  Ross,  was 
a  soldier  of  the  Revolutionary  war,  as  was  her  maternal  grandfather,  Dudley  Hardy, 
and  her  great-grandfather.  Lieutenant  Eliphalet  Hardy.  Mrs.  Hubbard  died  in 
1879.  while  his  children,  Henry  Pitch  Hubbard  and  Eliza  Ross  (Hubbard)  Brown, 
passed  away  in  19  03  and  1890  respectively.  In  1881  Mr.  Hubbard  married  Mary 
Woart  Ross,  with  whom  he  traveled  life's  journey  for  thirty-seven  years.  He  passed 
away  October  15.  1918.  in  his  eighty-ninth  year,  being  survived  by  his  widow  and 
two  granddaughters.  Mrs.  Dorothy  Hubbard  Sims  and  Mrs.  Sarah  Ross  Brown  Cole. 

Mr.  Hubbard  was  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Merchants  Exchange  and 
also  a  director  of  the  Mechanics-American  Bank.  He  belonged  to  the  Society  of 
Colonial  Wars,  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  the  New  England  Society.  His 
religious  faith  was  that  of  the  Unitarian  church.  He  was  keenly  interested  in  all 
matters  that  had  to  do  with  the  progress  and  upbuilding  of  St.  Louis  and  his 
cooperation  was  often  a  patent  factor  in  furthering  plans  and  measures  for  the 
general  good.  Throughout  his  business  career  he  maintained  an  unassailable  reputa- 
tion, while  his  progressiveness  led  to  the  constant  expansion  of  his  interests.  He 
left  behind  him  an  untarnished  name  and  a  memory  that  is  enshrined  in  the  hearts 
of  many  who  knew  him. 


ROBERT  A.  BURNS. 


Robert  A.  Burns,  the  president  of  the  Bush-Burns  Realty  Company,  has  been 
identified  with  the  real  estate  business  in  St.  Louis  since  19  09,  and  with  the  develop- 
ment of  his  powers  has  built  up  a  business  of  substantial  proportions.  He  is  a  native 
son  of  St.  Louis,  his  birth  having  here  occurred,  July  25,  1874,  his  parents  being 
Patrick  and  Ann  (McCubbin)  Burns,  the  former  a  native  of  Ireland,  while  the  latter 
was  born  in  Missouri.  The  father  organized  the  P.  Burns  Saddlery  Company  and 
conducted  a  profitable  business  along  that  line  for  many  years,  or  until  1917  when 
he  retired  with  a  gratifying  competence  that  now  supplies  him  with  all  of  the 
comforts  and  some  of  the  luxuries  of  life.  He  and  his  wife  reside  at  4924  Pershing 
avenue,  St.  Louis.  They  are  the  parents  of  three  sons,  the  brothers  of  Robert  A. 
Burns  being  Edward  V.,  who  is  now  the  president  of  the  P.  Burns  Saddlery  Company, 
and  Hugh  J.,  who  is  engaged  in  the  insurance  business  at  St.  Louis. 

After  attending  the  public  schools,  Robert  A.  Burns  continued  his  education  in 
the  Christian  Brothers  College,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1894. 
He  then  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  the  St.  Louis  Law  School,  but  did  not  complete 
his  course  there,  turning  his  attention  to  other  pursuits.  It  was  in  1894  that  he 
entered  the  employ  of  the  P.  Burns  Saddlery  Company,  at  No.  713-15  Lucas  avenue, 
his  father  being  at  that  time  at  the  head  of  the  business,  which  is  that  of  wholesale 
harness  manufacturing.  In  time  Robert  A.  Burns  became  vice  president  of  the 
company,  with  which  he  continued  for  fifteen  years,  or  until  1909,  when  he  with- 
drew in  order  to  enter  the  i-eal  estate  field,  and  with  Wade  H.  Bush  organized  the 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OE  MISSOURI  907 

Bush-Burns  Realty  Company,  of  which  he  is  the  president  and  Mr.  Bush  is  the  vice 
president.  The  firm  specializes  in  the  building  and  sale  of  homes,  and  as  speculative 
builders  have  contributed  in  a  large  measure  to  the  improvement  o£  the  city.  They 
have  erected  five  hundred  different  houses  in  St.  Louis,  and  they  maintain  a  branch 
office  at  Tulsa,  Oklahoma.  Mr.  Burns  is  likewise  a  stockholder  in  the  Mercantile 
Trust  Company,  and  also  In  the  Mortgage  Trust  Company  and  has  thus  become  well 
known  in  financial  as  well  as  in  real  estate  circles. 

On  the  17th  of  December,  1902,  Mr.  Burns  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Mary  Carter,  of  Aberdeen,  Mississippi,  a  daughter  of  James  W.  and  Mary 
(Tindall)  Carter.  Her  father,  now  living  retired,  was  for  a  long  time  a  hardware 
merchant  of  Aberdeen,  the  mother  having  passed  away  in  19  07.  Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Burns  have  been  born  two  children,  Robert  Carter  and  Jane  Carter,  who  are  with 
their  parents  at  No.  3  0  Lenox  place. 

In  politics  Mr.  Burns  maintains  an  independent  course,  voting  according  to 
the  dictates  of  his  judgment.  He  belongs  to  the  Catholic  church  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Sunset  Hill  Country  Club,  also  of  the  Triple  A  Golf  Club,  of  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  and  of  the  Real  Estate  Exchange.  He  has  become  well  known  in  the 
business  circles  of  the  city  and  is  recognized  as  one  whose  cooperation  has  long 
been  a  resultant  factor  in  public  benefit  and  improvement. 


BYRON  GEORGE  BLISS. 


Byron  George  Bliss,  treasurer  of  the  J.  B.  Welsh  Realty  &  Loan  Company  of  Kansas 
City,  where  he  was  born  November  27,  1887,  is  a  son  of  George  S.  and  Lilla  (Snell) 
Bliss,  the  former  a  native  of  Grinnell,  Iowa,  and  the  latter  of  Rock  Island  county,  Illinois. 
The  father  was  a  long-time  resident  and  prominent  business  man  of  Kansas  City,  where 
he  carried  on  interests  as  the  owner  of  the  Bliss  Syrup  Refining  Company,  which  is  still 
in  existence.  He  passed  away  in  1890  and  is  still  survived  by  his  widow,  who  yet  resides 
in  Kansas  City,  and  by  their  two  sons,  the  brother  of  Byron  G.  Bliss  being  George  N. 
Bliss,  the  president  of  the  Bliss  Construction  Company  of  Kansas  City. 

Byron  G.  Bliss,  after  attending  the  private  schools  of  Connecticut  and  California, 
matriculated  at  Yale  and  was  there  graduated  in  1910  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree. 
Returning  to  his  native  city,  he  has  since  been  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business.  For 
a  year  he  was  associated  with  B.  H.  Hagerman  and  then  became  connected  with  his 
present  company,  accepting  the  office  of  treasurer  of  the  J.  B.  Welsh  Realty  &  Loan 
Company,  of  which  Mr.  Welsh  is  the  president,  while  Mr.  Hagerman  holds  the  position 
of  vice  president.  The  business  of  the  firm  is  most  carefully  and  successfully  conducted. 
They  are  big  operators  In  real  estate  and  loans  and  Mr.  Bliss  enjoys  the  reputation  of 
being  a  man  of  absolute  honesty  and  dependability,  careful  and  conservative,  yet  pos- 
sessed of  great  initiative.  He  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Real  Estate  Board  and  is  widely 
known  as  a  man  of  the  soundest  judgment  concerning  realty  valuation  and  the  opportuni- 
ties for  realty  investment. 

In  1913  Mr.  Bliss  was  married  to  Miss  Marguerite  Stone,  a  daughter  of  Mrs.  Water- 
man Stone,  and  they  have  one  daughter,  Caroline,  and  a  son,  Marshall.  Mr.  Bliss 
belongs  to  the  Mission  Hills  Country  Club,  also  to  the  Mid-day  Club  and  he  greatly  enjoys 
hunting,  fishing  and  golf.  He  is  also  an  expert  tennis  player  and  is  the  holder  of  many 
tennis  honors  won  at  Yale. 


EDWIN  COOPER  RENAUD,  M.  D. 

Dr.  Edwin  Cooper  Renaud,  a  distinguished  oculist  and  aurist  of  northwestern  Mis- 
souri practicing  in  St.  Joseph,  is  a  native  of  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  and  a  representa- 
tive of  an  old  and  prominent  southern  family  of  French  lineage.  He  is  a  son  of  William 
H.  and  Eliza  (Mix)  Renaud.  The  father  was  a  veteran  of  the  Confederate  army  and  a 
prominent  merchant  of  New  Orleans  who  was  directly  descended  from  Aaron  Burr.  The 
mother  and  grandmother  of  Dr.  Renaud  were  secret  service  agents  of  the  Confederate 
army  during  the  Civil  war. 

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graduation  with  the  class  ot  1896.  He  has  since  taken  post  graduate  work  in  Phila- 
delphia, where  he  studied  for  a  year,  and  later  he  spent  three  years  in  study  in  Europe, 
spending  that  period  at  Paris,  Utrecht,  Vienna,  Zurich.  London  and  Berlin.  He  made 
a  second  trip  abroad  in  1899,  when  he  discussed  a  paper  at  Utrecht  before  the  Inter- 
national Congress  of  Ophthalmology — a  fact  indicative  ot  the  high  rank  which  he  has 
won  in  the  field  of  practice  in  which  he  specializes.  He  was  for  two  years  ambulance 
surgeon  and  interne  at  the  Charity  Hospital  in  New  Orleans. 

Removing  to  Missouri.  Dr.  Renaud  located  first  in  St.  Louis,  where  he  practiced 
for  four  years,  and  then  removed  to  St.  Joseph,  where  he  has  since  remained,  lieing 
recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  eye  and  ear  specialists  ot  northwestern  Missouri.  While 
twenty-three  years  have  passed  since  his  graduation  he  has  continued  a  most  earnest 
student  of  his  profession  throughout  the  intervening  period  and  has  at  all  times  kept  in 
touch  with  the  trend  of  modern  scientific  investigation  and  research.  He  was  formerly 
assistant  surgeon  of  the  Naval  Reserves  in  1895-96.  For  many  years  he  has  enjoyed 
an  extensive  private  practice,  and.  continually  promoting  his  efficiency  along  the  line 
of  his  specialty,  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  ablest  aurists  and  oculists  of  the  state. 

On  the  24th  of  April.  1903,  Dr.  Renaud  was  married  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  to  Miss 
Frances  McGwinn,  a  daughter  ot  James  McGwinn,  of  Fulton,  Missouri.  In  politics  Dr. 
Renaud  is  a  democrat  but  has  never  been  an  active  party  worker  and  is  very  liberal  in 
his  views.  He  is  a  member  ot  Phi  Delta  Theta,  a  college  fraternity,  and  his  religious 
faith  is  that  of  the  Episcopal  church.  He  has  ever  maintained  a  consistent  Interest  in 
the  public  welfare  and  his  cooperation  can  be  counted  upon  to  further  various  plans  and 
projects  for  the  general  good,  but  his  attention  is  mainly  directed  in  the  path  of  his 
profession,  and  he  is  most  conscientious  as  well  as  capable  in  the  discharge  ot  all  of  his 
professional  duties. 


JOHN    R.    HARKINS. 


John  R.  Harkins.  president  of  the  John  R.  Harkins  Insurance  Agency,  was 
born  in  St.  Louis.  Missouri.  October  3,  1871.  His  father,  John  A.  Harkins,  was  a 
native  of  Philadelphia  and  of  Irish  descent.  Removing  to  the  middle  west  he  became 
superintendent  in  the  office  of  the  St.  Louis  Cotton  Mills  and  during  the  Civil  war 
he  took  active  part  as  a  soldier  at  the  front.  He  wedded  Mary  J.  Williams,  who  was 
ot  English  lineage,  their  marriage  being  celebrated  in  St.  Louis.  They  became  the 
parents  of  three  sons  and  a  daughter,  of  whom  John  R.  was  the  second  in  order  of 
birth.  His  elder  brother,  James  W.,  is  sales  manager  for  the  Dearborn  Chemical 
Company  and  he  married  Lucy  Walsh.  His  younger  brother,  Thomas  G.,  is  in  the 
insurance  business  in  St.  Louis,  being  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Harkins  &  Tontrup. 
The  daughter  Frances  became  the  wife  of  Frank  H.  Fain,  who  is  state  agent  in  Okla- 
homa for  the  Hartford  Steam  Boiler  Inspection  &  Insurance  Company. 

John  R.  Harkins  was  educated  in  the  Peabody  public  school  of  St.  Louis  and 
when  thirteen  years  of  age  secured  a  position  as  office  boy  with  General  J.  S.  Ful- 
lerton  and  Truman  A.  Post,  attorneys,  with  whom  he  remained  until  he  reached 
the  age  of  seventeen.  He  then  started  in  the  insurance  business  as  a  clerk  for  Charles 
L.  Crane  of  St.  Louis,  with  whom  he  continued  until  he  reached  the  age  ot  thirty- 
one,  and  in  the  intervening  time  he  had  risen  to  the  position  of  manager.  He  then 
started  in  business  for  himself  and  established  the  John  R.  Harkins  Insurance  Agency 
of  which  he  is  the  president.  He  has  operated  continuously  and  successfully  to  the 
present  time  and  is  now  conducting  a  large  general  insurance  business.  He  is  also 
a  director  of  the  Chippewa  Bank  of  St.  Louis  and  is  recognized  as  a  man  of  sount! 
business  judgment  and  unfaltering  enterprise. 

On  the  ^d  of  September,  1896,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Harkins  was  married  to  Miss 
Esther  C.  Hodges,  a  daughter  of  Captain  W.  R.  Hodges,  who  served  through  the 
Civil  war  as  a  captain  in  the  Union  army.  He  is  now  recorder  lor  the  Military  Order 
of  the  Loyal  Legion,  and  he  was  formerly  auditor  of  St.  Louis  and  a  member  of  the 
city  council.  His  wife  bore  the  maiden  name  ot  Emma  Jean  Ward.  To  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Harkins  have  been  born  tour  children,  three  sons  and  a  daughter.  Ward  R., 
who  is  engaged  in  the  automobile  business  and  who  married  Doris  Crites;  John 
Sterling,  seventeen  years  of  age  and  now  a  student  in  the  State  University  at 
Columbia,  Missouri;   Thomas  H.,  a  lad  ot  fifteen,  who  is  also  attending  the  Soldan 


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high  school;  and  Ruth  Esther,  the  wife  of  Lieutenant  C.  E.  Morrison,  U.  S.  A.,  who 
during  the  World  war  was  stationed  at  Camp  Stotsenburgh  in  the  Philippine  Islands, 
being  in  command  of  a  company  in  the  Ninth  Cavalry. 

In  politics  Mr.  Harkins  is  an  independent  republican,  voting  according  to  the 
dictates  of  his  judgment  rather  than  according  to  party  ties.  He  belongs  to  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  and  to  the  Credit  Men's  Association.  During  the  period  of 
the  war  he  was  most  active  in  support  of  all  those  drives  and  interests  which  led  to 
financing  the  army  and  promoting  the  welfare  of  the  soldiers  in  this  country  and 
overseas.  He  belongs  to  the  Midland  Valley  Country  Club,  of  which  he  is  the  secre- 
tary and  a  member  of  the  board  of  governors.  His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the 
Baptist  church,  his  membership  being  in  the  Delmar  Baptist  church  at  Washington 
and  Skinker  road,  St.  Louis.  He  is  widely  known  and  the  sterling  traits  of  his  char- 
acter have  established  him  firmly  in  the  warm  regard  of  all  with  whom  he  has  come 
in  contact. 


HARRY  NEWMAN. 


Harry  Newman,  attorney  at  law,  with  offices  in  the  Merchants  Laclede  building  in 
St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  December  28,  1881.  His  father  was 
the  late  Barney  Newman  and  his  mother  Lena  (Wohlgemuth)  Newman,  both  natives  of 
Hungary.  The  father  passed  away  in  1882  and  in  1903  the  mother  with  the  family 
came  to  St.  Louis,  where  she  resided  until  her  death,  which  occurred  March  18,  1920. 
She  reached  the  age  of  seventy-five  years  and  was  cared  for  by  her  son  Harry,  who  with 
most  filial  devotion  looked  after  the  needs  and  comfort  of  his  mother.  She  had  a 
family  of  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  of  whom  three  are  living. 

Harry  Newman,  who  is  the  youngest,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  New 
York  city  and  by  private  tutors.  When  sixteen  years  of  age  he  entered  the  composing 
room  of  the  Trotter  &  Pacer  Publishing  Company  of  New  York,  there  serving  an  appren- 
ticeship and  thoroughly  learning  the  trade,  which  he  followed  until  1903  in  New  York 
city.  He  then  came  to  St.  Louis  and  entered  the  circulation  department  of  the  St.  Louis 
Republic,  with  which  he  was  connected  for  about  six  years.  After  leaving  the  printing 
oflBce  he  represented  the  Royal  Union  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Des  Moines, 
Iowa,  spending  two  years  in  that  connection.  He  next  became  a  law  student  in  the  office 
of  Adolph  Abbey,  a  well  known  attorney  of  St.  Louis,  and  likewise  studied  with  other 
firms.  On  the  30th  of  December,  1914,  he  was  admitted  to  practice  and  has  since  success- 
fully followed  his  profession.  He  has  ever  recognized  that  thoroughness,  earnestness  and 
close  application  must  precede  advancement  at  the  bar.  He  prepares  his  cases  most 
carefully  and  his  clear  reasoning  and  sound  deductions  have  been  potent  elements  in' 
the  attainment  of  his  success.     He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association. 

In  politics  Mr.  Newman  is  a  republican,  somewhat  active  in  party  ranks.  He  belongs 
to  the  Woodmen  of  the  World  and  is  commander  of  Liberty  Camp  No.  340  of  St.  Louis, 
an  office  which  he  has  filled  for  the  fifth  term,  and  he  has  attended  every  state  convention 
of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  being  very  active  in  its  affairs.  He  belongs  to  the  Jewish 
church  and  during  the  period  of  the  World  war  he  was  chief  registrar  of  the  draft 
board  of  the  fourth  ward  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  sale  of  Liberty  Bonds,  War 
Savings  Stamps  and  in  Red  Cross  and  other  drives,  being  most  keenly,  helpfully  and 
patriotically  interested  in  everything  tending  to  support  American  interests  at  home  and 
abroad. 


WILBUR   F.    HALL. 


Starting  out  in  early  boyhood  to  earn  his  living  by  working  in  a  grocery  store, 
Wilbur  F.  Hall,  actuated  by  a  desire  to  progress  and  make  the  best  of  his  oppor- 
tunities, has  reached  a  creditable  position  as  an  attorney  at  the  Kansas  City  bar, 
practicing  now  as  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Hall  &  Dallam.  He  was  born  in 
Gower,  Clinton  county,  Missouri,  August  20,  1885,  and  is  a  son  of  John  W.  and 
Eliza  J.  (Wheatley)  Hall,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Kentucky.  The  father 
in    his    childhood    days    accompanied    his    parents    to    Cliifton    county,    Missouri,    and 

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912  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

there  after  reaching  manhood  engaged  in  the  insurance  business.  He  was  a  Baptist 
in  religious  faith  and  fraternally  was  connected  with  the  Masons,  while  his  political 
support  was  given  to  the  democratic  party. 

Wilbur  F.  Hall  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  and  also  of 
St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  and  afterward  attended  the  Northwestern  Territorial  Normal 
School  at  Alva,  Oklahoma.  In  early  life  he  was  thrown  upon  his  own  resources  and 
has  since  been  dependent  upon  his  effort  and  ability  for  the  progress  he  has  made 
and  the  success  he  has  won.  He  was  first  employed  in  a  grocery  store  in  St.  Joseph, 
Missouri,  and  on  the  24th  of  September,  1906,  he  went  to  Kansas  City  where  he 
engaged  in  clerking  in  a  shoe  store.  In  1907  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Kansas 
City  Gas  Company  as  a  collector  and  while  thus  employed  attended  the  night  ses- 
sions of  the  Kansas  City  Law  School,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1909.  He 
was  then  admitted  to  the  bar  and  at  once  began  practice.  In  1911  he  became 
associated  with  Colonel  Ruby  D.  Garrett,  but  the  partnership  continued  for  only 
a  brief  period  and  later  he  became  associated  with  Samuel  Sparrow  and  James  R. 
Page.  In  1917  he  became  senior  partner  of  the  firm  of  Hall  &  Dallam  and  in  this 
connection  is  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  law,  with  a  good  clientage  that 
is  indicative  of  the  creditable  name  and  place  he  has  made  for  himself  at  the 
Kansas  City  bar. 

Mr.  Hall  was  married  to  Miss  Fannie  McCormick,  a  daughter  of  F.  D.  McCor- 
mick,  a  furniture  dealer  of  Holliday,  Missouri,  who  since  his  retirement  from 
business  life  makes  his  home  in  Florence,  Colorado.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hall  has  been 
born  a  son,  Wilbur  F.,  Jr. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Hall  is  a  democrat  and  from  the  8th  of  February, 
1915,  until  1917  served  as  secretary  to  the  board  of  police  commissioners.  He 
belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association  and  fraternally  is  connected  with  the 
Masons,  belonging  to  York  Lodge  No,  563.  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  also  to  the  Consistory  and 
to  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  a  loyal  follower  of  the  teachings  of  the  craft  and 
exemplifies  in  his  life  its  beneficent  spirit.  He  deserves  much  credit  for  what  he 
has  accomplished,  having  made  for  himself  an  enviable  name  as  a  citizen,  and  in 
professional  circles  has  gained  a  most  creditable  place  as  a  lawyer  who  holds  strictly 
to  the  ethical  standards  of  the  profession  and  ever  makes  it  his  purpose  to  promote 
justice  as  tar  as  lies  within  his  power. 


LUTHER  N.  MUSSER. 


Luther  N.  Musser,  a  Kansas  City  lawyer,  who  was  born  at  Pine  Grove  Mills,  Center 
county,  Pennsylvania,  September  5,  1856,  is  a  son  of  Jonathan  and  Matilda  (Stover) 
Musser,  the  former  a  native  of  the  Keystone  state,  while  the  latter  was  born  in  Hagers- 
town,  Maryland.  The  father  was  a  tanner  by  trade,  afterward  took  up  the  business 
of  merchandising  and  in  the  later  years  of  his  life  followed  farming.  He  belonged  to 
the  Lutheran  church  and  in  that  faith  passed  away  in  1882.  His  widow  long  survived 
him,  her  death  occurring  in  1915.  They  were  the  parents  of  eleven  children,  ten  of  whom 
are  yet  living. 

At  the  usual  age  Luther  N.  Musser  became  a  pupil  in  the  primary  schools  of  Center 
county,  Pennsylvania,  and  afterward  attended  the  Pine  Grove  Academy.  He  then  resumed 
his  studies  in  the  Pennsylvania  State  College  but  left  that  institution  in  the  sophomore 
year  and  later  took  up  the  study  of  law  under  the  direction  of  Colonel  John  H.  Stover, 
of  Aurora  Springs.  Miller  county,  Missouri.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Versailles, 
Morgan  county,  Missouri,  in  the  spring  of  1885  and  through  the  intervening  period  has 
continued  in  the  practice  of  law.  He  first  opened  a  law  office  in  Miller  county,  where  he 
remained  from  1885  until  1911  and  during  that  period  he  served  for  three  terms  as 
county  prosecuting  attorney.  He  won  a  liberal  clientage  and  became  recognized  as  a 
leader  in  political  circles  as  well,  being  a  stanch  champion  of  the  republican  party, 
on  the  ticket  of  which  he  was  elected  from  Miller  county  to  the  fortieth  general  assembly 
of  Missouri.  At  length  he  sought  a  broader  field  for  his  professional  labor  and  in 
October,  1911,  removed  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  since  engaged  in  practice.  He  is 
especially  proficient  in  land  titles  and  abstracting  and  is  also  a  good  pleader  in  court 
cases.  He  is  very  careful  and  conscientious  with  the  business  matters  of  his  clients  and 
his  integrity  is  unquestioned. 


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In  1880  Mr.  Musser  was  married  to  Miss  Catherine  Krebs,  who  died  leaving  a  daugh- 
ter, Anna  Modra,  who  is  now  the  widow  ot  Harold  J.  Temple,  and  has  one  child,  Harold 
J.,  Jr.  In  1890  Mr.  Musser  was  again  married,  his  second  union  being  with  Lucy  Bacon, 
of  Tuscumbia,  Missouri.  They  have  three  children:  Ludwell  L. ;  Mildred;  and  Lyman 
B.,  who  married  Clarice  Doolin,  of  Kansas  City,  Kansas. 

Mr.  Musser  is  a  member  of  Veich  Lodge  No.  704,  I.  0.  0.  F.,  in  which  he  has  filled 
all  of  the  chairs  and  of  which  he  was  treasurer  for  four  years.  He  still  remains  an  active 
worker  in  the  ranks  of  the  republican  party.  He  served  as  chairman  ot  the  republican 
county  convention  while  living  at  Tuscumbia  and  was  president  of  the  school  board.  He 
is  now  president  ot  the  Fourteenth  Ward  Republican  Club  of  Kansas  City.  He  belongs 
to  the  Linwood  Presbyterian  church  and  is  an  active  worker  in  the  church  and  in  the 
Sunday  school,  of  which  he  was  superintendent  for  many  years.  His  friends  find  him 
a  most  genial  and  companionable  gentleman,  a  good  entertainer  and  one  who  speaks  most 
interestingly  upon  any  subject  which  he  discusses. 


GEORGE  AMOS  NEWCOMB. 

In  a  history  of  those  who  have  contributed  to  the  development  of  St.  Louis  in 
connection  with  business  activity  and  to  the  progress  of  the  city  along  civic,  intel- 
lectual and  moral  lines,  mention  must  be  made  of  George  Amos  Newcomb,  who 
always  maintained  the  highest  standards  of  personal  conduct  and  of  citizenship  and 
who  long  ranked  with  the  valued  and  honored  men  of  Missouri's  metropolis.  He 
came  of  an  ancestry  distinctively  American  in  both  its  lineal  and  collateral  lines 
and  one  characterized  by  marked  patriotic  devotion  to  the  country.  The  Newcomb 
family  was  founded  on  American  soil  in  1639  and  Captain  Richard  Brackett,  also 
a  direct  ancestor  of  Mr.  Newcomb  in  another  line,  was  a  member  of  the  Ancient 
and  Honorable  Artillery  Company  of  Boston  in  1636,  while  Isaac  Newcomb  served 
as  a  private  of  the  Massachusetts  troops  in  1747.  In  the  Revolutionary  war 
the  family  was  represented  by  Thomas  Newcomb,  great-grandfather  of  George  A. 
Newcomb,  who  was  a  captain-lieutenant  in  Colonel  Paul  Revere's  Artillery,  and 
serving  with  him  in  this  company  were  his  three  sons,  one  of  whom  was  but  four- 
teen years  of  age.  Another  of  the  great-grandfathers  of  George  A.  Newcomb  was 
William  Brackett,  who  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  troops,  serving  from 
1775  until  17  81,  or  from  the  beginning  until  the  practical  close  of  the  Revolu- 
tionary war. 

George  A.  Newcomb  was  born  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  February  14,  1841, 
his  parents  being  Norton  and  Lydia  (Christy)  Newcomb.  He  pursued  a  public 
school  education  in  his  native  city,  while  spending  his  youthful  days  under  the 
pafental  roof,  and  was  also  a  high  school  pupil  in  Medford,  Massachusetts,  from 
1854  until  1857.  In  1859  he  was  graduated  from  the  Wilbraham  (Mass.)  Academy 
and  continued  his  education  in  the  Wesleyan  University  of  Middletown,  Connecti- 
cut, which  conferred  upon  him  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  in  1863.  During  the 
following  year  he  engaged  in  teaching  at  Billerica,  Massachusetts,  and  in  January, 
1864,  became  admiral's  clerk  in  the  North  Atlantic  Squadron  of  the  United  States 
navy,  serving  on  the  United  States  battleships  Minnesota  and  Malvern.  Thus  his 
own  record  in  the  country's  hour  of  need  was  in  harmony  with  that  of  a  long  line 
of  patriotic  ancestors.  Forced  to  resign  from  the  navy  in  the  fall  of  1864,  owing 
to  illness,  Mr.  Newcomb  then  came  to  St.  Louis  and  entered  the  employ  of  his 
brother,  Norton  Newcomb,  who  was  proprietor  of  a  wholesale  and  retail  wall 
paper  house.  In  September,  1866,  he  was  admitted  to  a  partnership  in  the  busi- 
ness under  the  style  of  Newcomb  Brothers,  and  when  his  brother  passed  away  in 
1882  the  business  was  incorporated  under  the  name  of  the  Newcomb  Brothers 
Wall  Paper  Company,  with  George  A.  Newcomb  as  the  president.  He  continued 
as  the  executive  head  of  the  business  until  his  death,  which  occurred  on  the  12th 
of  December,  1906,  and  was  long  a  prominent  figure  in  the  business  circles  of  St. 
Louis.  He  was  watchful  of  every  opportunity  pointing  to  success  and  in  no  business 
transaction  was  there  ever  a  shadow  cast  upon  his  good  name.  He  not  only  em- 
ployed honesty  because  it  was  the  best  policy  but  because  he  had  no  desire  to  do 
anything  which   would  bring   upon    him   the   least   shadow   of   reproach.      Straight- 


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forward  in  all  his  dealings,  his  success  was  the  direct  outcome  o£  his  enterprise, 
careful  management  and  laudable  ambition.  ^ 

On  the  3d  of  February,  1869,  in  Medford,  Massachusetts,  Mr.  Newcomb  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Julia  Augusta  Floyd  and  their  children  were:  Edna; 
Norton;  Charles  Lawrence;  George  Amos;  Chester,  who  passed  away  in  infancy; 
Harold   Barnes;    Floyd   Turner;    and   Dorothy    Christy. 

Mr.  Newcomb  was  ever  keenly  interested  in  all  that  pertained  to  public 
progress  and  improvement  and  at  all  times  supported  the  highest  standards  in 
civic  affairs,  firmly  maintaining  all  of  those  interests  which  are  a  matter  of  civic 
virtue  and  civic  pride.  He  acted  as  foreman  of  the  grand  jury  in  April,  1904, 
when  so  many  indictments  were  returned  in  connection  with  the  celebrated  boodle 
cases.  He  was  awarded  a  commemorative  diploma  and  medal  for  services  pertain- 
ing to  the  wall  paper  exhibits  of  America  and  foreign  countries  at  the  Louisiana 
Purchase  Exposition.  He  belonged  to  various  fraternities,  including  Tuscan 
Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  the  Royal  Arcanum  and  the  Legion  of  Honor.  He  also 
belonged  to  Phi  Nu  Theta,  a  college  fraternity  of  the  Wesleyan  University,  and 
he  was  a  past  commander  of  Ransom  Post,  G.  A.  R.  He  was  president  of  the  New 
England  Society,  deputy  governor  of  the  Missouri  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  and  was 
vice  president  of  the  Missouri  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution. 
In  the  latter  he  took  a  most  active  and  helpful  interest,  doing  everything  in  his 
power  to  promote  the  organization.  He  belonged  to  the  Methodist  church  and  his 
entire  life  was  actuated  by  the  highest  and  most  honorable  principles,  so  that  he 
stood  as  a  man  among  men,  esteemed  by  all  who  knew  him. 


CARL   A.   NOWAK. 


Carl  A.  Nowak,  a  chemist  of  ability,  who  Is  now  proprietor  of  the  Nowak  Chemi- 
cal Laboratories  of  St.  Louis,  is  a  son  of  the  late  Dr.  O.  H.  Nowak,  Ph.  D.,  who  was 
a  resident  of  New  Rochelle,  New  York,  and  attained  eminence  in  professional  circles 
as  a  prominent  chemist  of  the  Empire  state.     He  married  Olga  Sakh. 

Their  son,  Carl  A.  Nowak,  a  native  of  New  York,  was  educated  in  private  schools 
of  that  state,  in  the  Lewis  Institute  of  Chicago,  and  in  the  University  of  Chicago, 
being  graduated  from  the  last  named  institution  as  an  Associate  in  Arts  in  1908 
and  with  the  Bachelor  of  Science  degree  in  1910.  He  specialized  in  chemistry  and 
literary  pursuits,  studying  largely  under  the  direction  of  his  father,  and  later  entered 
upon  professional  duties  as  a  chemist  in  Chicago  in  1910,  continuing  successfully 
there  in  professional  relations  until  1915,  during  which  time  he  was  chief  research 
chemist  in  the  Wahl-Henius  Institute,  analytical  chemists,  with  whom  he  did  chemi- 
cal and  bacteriological  work. 

In  1915  Mr.  Nowak  removed  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  became  secretary  of  the 
Master  Brewers  Association  of  the  United  States  and  so  continued  until  1917,  when 
he  established  the  Nowak  Chemical  Laboratories,  which  he  has  since  profitably  con- 
ducted, specializing  in  organic  chemistry,  food  and  beverage  industries  and  the 
manufacture  of  beverage  specialties.  Mr.  Nowak  is  a  well  known  contributor  to 
scientific  journals.  He  is  the  author  and  publisher  of  a  volume  entitled,  "New 
Fields  for  Brewers,"  an  octavo  publication  of  three  hundred  and  seventeen  pages, 
which  is  a  complete  and  comprehensive  text  and  reference  book  for  beverage  manu- 
facturers, bottlers,  brewers,  brewing  chemists,  distillers,  food  chemists,  malsters 
and  students.  He  is  likewise  editor  of  "Communications,"  published  by  the 
Master  Brewers  Association  of  the  United  States.  He  is  a  contributor  to  Chemical 
Abstracts,  published  by  the  American  Chemical  Society,  and  to  the  Journal  of  In- 
dustrial &  Engineering  Chemistry,  published  at  Easton,  Pennsylvania.  He  is  like- 
wise the  patentee  of  a  number  of  chemical  products  and  his  steady  advancement 
in  the  line  of  his  chosen  profession  has  brought  him  to  an  eminent  position  in  con- 
nection therewith.  , 

Mr.  Nowak  is  a  republica'n  in  his  political  views.  Fraternally  he  is  identified 
with  the  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He  belongs  also  to  the  University 
Club,  and  his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church.  He  has  become 
as  well  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  which  admits  to  its  membership  only 
those  of  Catholic  faith.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  he  has 
many  professional  society   relations,   being  a   member   of   the  American   Association 


CABL  A.  NOWAK 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  917 

of  Science,  the  American  Chemical  Society,  of  which  he  is  abstractor,  and  a  fellow 
of  the  Chemical  Society  of  London.  During  the  World  war  he  did  much  scientific 
research  work  for  the  government  gratuitously.  His  eminent  professional  position 
is  the  direct  outcome  of  his  persistency,  his  earnest  study  and  constantly  broaden- 
ing experience.  He  worked  his  way  through  college,  prompted  by  laudable  ambi- 
tion, and  his  success,  due  entirely  to  his  own  efforts,  has  brought  to  him  the 
proud  American  title  of  a  self-made  man. 


JAMES  MONROE  SEIBERT. 


James  Monroe  Seibert, .  real  estate  and  tax  commissioner  for  the  Missouri 
Pacific  Railroad,  with  offices  in  the  Railway  Exchange  building  in  St.  Louis,  was 
born  in  Perry  county.  Missouri,  February  3,  1847.  He  comes  of  an  old  Virginian 
family  that  was  founded,  however,  in  Missouri  at  an  early  period  in  the  develop- 
ment of  this  state.  His  grandfather  was  Henry  Seibert,  a  native  of  the  Old  Domin- 
ion, who  served  in  the  War  of  1812,  holding  a  commission  as  general  from 
Governor  Atkinson  of  Virginia.  In  1816  Henry  Seibert  came  with  his  family 
to  Perry  county,  Missouri,  and  was  not  long  in  winning  a  place  of  prominence  in 
the  public  life  of  this  state.  He  represented  his  county  in  the  general  assembly 
and  left  the  impress  of  his  individuality  and  ability  upon  many  questions  of  public 
moment.  He  was  a  strong  supporter  of  Senator  Benton  during  all  his  career  and 
the  families  were  closely  associated  socially  as  well  as  politically.  James  M.  Seibert 
distinctly  remembers  when  as  a  child  Senator  Benton  held  him  upon  his  knee  and 
talked  to  him.  Henry  Seibert  was  a  millwright  and  constructed  the  first  gristmill 
west  of  the  Mississippi.  It  stood  on  the  banks  of  Apple  creek,  which  was  the 
dividing  line  between  the  counties  of  Perry  and  Cape  Girardeau,  and  the  site 
was  continuously  occupied  by  a  mill  until  about  1915.  In  later  years  this  was 
known  as  Wilkenson's  mill. 

Daniel  Seibert,  father  of  James  M.  Seibert,  was  born  in  Berkeley  county, 
Virginia,  and  was  brought  to  Perry  county  as  a  child  by  his  parents  while  Missouri 
was  still  a  territory.  He  became  a  farmer  by  occupation,  devoting  his  life  to  the 
tilling  of  the  soil  in  Missouri.  His  twin  brother,  David,  however,  went  to  Cali- 
fornia in  the  gold  rush  of  1849,  but  returned  to  Missouri  in  1856  and  made  his 
home  with  Daniel  until  his  death  in  1866.  The  death  of  Daniel  Seibert  occurred 
in  1874.  His  wife  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Sarah  Ann  Melissa  McCombs  and  was 
born  in  Cape  Girardeau  county,  Missouri,  her  death  occurring  in  1875.  She  was 
the  daughter  of  John  McCombs,  a  farmer,  who  came  to  this  state  from  North 
Carolina   in   the  early   part   of   the   nineteenth   century. 

James  Monroe  Seibert  obtained  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  and 
afterward  attended  McKendree  College  at  Lebanon,  Illinois,  at  which  time  the 
father  of  Governor  Deneen  of  Illinois  was  one  of  the  professors  in  that  school. 
Mr.  Seibert  later  became  a  resident  of  Cape  Girardeau  county,  Missouri,  and  took 
an  active  part  in  the  public  life  of  that  district,  serving  for  four  years  as  sheriff 
and  collector  and  as  collector  alone  for  two  years  more.  In  1884  further  political 
honors  were  accorded  him  in  his  election  to  the  position  of  state  treasurer  and  at 
the  close  of  his  term  in  1889  he  was  elected  state  auditor,  in  which  position  he 
continued  to  serve  for  twelve  years  or  until  1901.  Again  he  was  called  upon  for 
public  service  through  appointment  to  the  position  of  excise  commissioner  of  St. 
Louis  under  Governor  Dockery  and  acted  in  that  capacity  from  1901  until  19  05. 
He  then  withdrew  from  the  political  field  and  in  1906  became  connected  with  the 
Missouri  Pacific  Railroad.  He  was  in  the  law  department  until  1910  and  was  gen- 
eral agent  in  the  passenger  department  in  1910  and  1911.  In  the  following  year 
the  tax  department  and  real  estate  department  were  combined  and  Mr.  Seibert  was 
placed  at  the  head  of  this  new  department,  which  position  he  has  since  filled  with 
great  ability  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  all  having  business  with  that  department. 
At  the  age  of  seventy-three  he  is  still  vigorous  physically  and  mentally,  always  alert 
and  with  a  genial  humor  and  a  fund  of  anecdotes  concerning  the  people  and  the 
state  which  renders  him  a  most  interesting  and  entertaining  companion.  His  native 
integrity  and  his  proven  fidelity  make  him  a  man  whom  to  know  is  to  esteem  and 


918  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

honor,  and  all  who  come  within  the  circle  o£  his  acquaintance  are  proud  to  call 
him   friend. 

On  the  27th  of  December.  1866.  James  M.  Seibert  was  married  to  Emma  Abigail 
Wilson,  daughter  of  Jacob  F.  and  Melissa  Wilson,  of  Perry  county,  who  came  from 
North  Carolina  early  in  the  nineteenth  century,  about  the  time  of  the  arrival  of 
the  Seibert  family.  Her  brother.  R.  M.  Wilson,  was  a  successful  banker  of  Perry 
county  and  for  one  term  served  as  county  collector.  He  died  in  1914.  The  Wilson 
family  came  from  Scotland  and  is  of  Scotch  Irish  ancestry.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James 
M.  Seibert  were  born  four  children:  Alpha  M.,  the  wife  of  Daniel  J.  Hancock,  of 
St.  Louis;  Daniel  F.,  deceased;  Robert  M.,  who  has  passed  away;  and  Alma  M., 
who  resides  with  her  parents. 

Mr,  Seibert  has  always  given  his  political  allegiance  to  the  democratic  party  and 
is  a  most  firm  believer  in  its  principles.  His  religious  faith  is  evidenced  in  his 
membership  in  the  Westminster  Presbyterian  church.  He  was  made  a  Mason  in 
Mystic  Tie  Lodge.  No.  221.  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Oak  Ridge,  Missouri,  but  demitted  and 
joined  Excelsior  Lodge,  No.  441,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Jackson,  Missouri.  He  is  a 
past  master  of  both  lodges  and  he  also  belongs  to  Wilson  Chapter,  No.  75,  R.  A.  M., 
of  Cape  Girardeau,  and  to  Prince  of  Peace  Commandery,  K.  T.,  of  Jefferson  City. 
He  is  likewise  a  member  of  the  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen.  He  finds  rest  and  diversion  in  reading,  hunting  and 
fishing.  He  is  a  remarkably  well  preserved  man  and  in  appearance  and  activity 
seems  yet  in  his  prime,  occupying  as  he  does  a  responsible  position  in  connection 
with  one  of  the  great  railway  systems  of  the  country. 


JAMES   MADISON   FRANCISCUS. 

No  name  in  St.  Louis  is  more  uniformly  regarded  as  a  synonym  for  business 
progressiveness  and  integrity  than  that  of  James  Madison  Franciscus.  As  financial 
agent  he  has  controlled  some  of  the  most  important  moneyed  interests  of  the  city 
and  as  a  real  estate  dealer  has  handled  some  of  the  largest  properties  trans- 
ferred. While  legitimate  success  has  been  an  object  of  his  labors,  he  has  ever 
regarded  an  honest  name  and  his  own  self-respect  as  even  more  valuable  and 
throughout  his  career  there  has  been  nothing  esoteric  and  nothing  to  conceal. 
Appreciation  of  his  ability  and  fidelity  led  to  his  retention  in  the  office  of  city 
treasurer  for  a  period  of  eight  years,  and  with  the  progress  and  development  of 
St.  Louis  he  has  been  closely  associated  in  many  ways. 

The  life  record  of  James  Madison  Franciscus  compasses  the  period  from  the 
15th  of  March,  1866,  when  he  first  opened  his  eyes  to  the  light  of  day  in  St.  Louis. 
His  father.  James  M.  Franciscus,  now  deceased,  came  to  Missouri  from  Baltimore 
in  1835  and  was  one  of  the  pioneer  bankers  of  the  city  and  a  prominent  factor 
in  commercial  life.  He  passed  away  September  17,  1900,  at  the  notable  age  of 
ninety-two  years,  while  his  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Jane  E.  Huffaker, 
died  in  December,  1918,  at  the  age  of  eighty-eight. 

After  pursuing  his  collegiate  course  in  Washington  University.  James  M.  Fran- 
ciscus became  an  employe  of  the  Simmons  Hardware  Company,  with  which  he  con- 
tinued for  two  years.  He  was  next  in  the  office  of  the  auditor  of  the  Wabash  Rail- 
road, occupying  a  clerical  position  there  for  a  year  and  a  half,  at  the  end  of  which 
time  he  became  bookkeeper  for  the  Third  National  Bank,  remaining  with  the  bank 
for  three  years.  His  first  independent  business  venture  was  made  as  junior  partner 
in  the  real  estate  firm  of  Moffett  &  Franciscus  and  since  that  time  he  has  operated 
in  real  estate  circles,  where  his  energy,  his  capability  and  his  enterprise  have  brought 
him  prominently  to  the  front.  He  is  now  conducting  his  interests  under  the  firm 
style  of  Franciscus  &  Kunz.  A  contemporary  biographer  has  said  of  him:  "In  his 
early  career  Mr.  Franciscus  displayed  many  of  the  qualities  which  distinguished  his 
honored  father  and  made  him  a  leader  in  commercial  and  financial  circles.  The 
recognition  of  his  own  personal  worth  and  capability  led  to  the  selection  of  James 
M.  Franciscus  on  two  different  occasions  to  act  as  special  commissioner  for  the 
Lindell  estate,  and  in  control  of  its  affairs  he  manifested  such  sound  judgment  and 
business  enterprise  that  all  concerned  expressed  their  entire  satisfaction.  He  was 
placed   under   two   bonds   of   nine   hundred   thousand   and   seven   hundred   thousand 


JAMES  M.  FRANCISCUS 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  921 

dollars  respectively,  and  that  he  could  give  them  without  delay  shows  the  high  con- 
fidence reposed  in  him  by  the  business  community,  and  especially  by  those  who 
stood  as  sponsors  tor  him  in  this  financial  connection.  He  also  acted  as  special 
commissioner  for  the  D.  A.  January  estate,  giving  a  bond  of  four  hundred  and 
eighty-five  thousand  dollars,  and  served  also  as  executor  of  his  father's  estate  and 
as  co-executor  of  the  estate  of  Mrs.  Jane  Lindsay,  the  mother  of  Mrs.  Franciscus. 
In  many  other  ways  Mr.  Franciscus  has  given  proof  of  his  unusual  ability  for  the 
management  of  important  business  interests  and  the  firm  of  which  he  Is  now  the 
head  bears  an  unassailable  reputation  for  reliability  and  for  sound  judgment.  In 
addition  to  what  may  be  termed  as  the  realty  brokerage  department,  the  company 
also  acts  in  a  confidential  capacity  tor  its  clients  and  enjoys  the  unqualified  trust  of 
thos"te  whom  it  represents." 

Aside  from  his  important  interests  in  the  conduct  of  a  real  estate  and  financial 
agency,  Mr.  Franciscus  is  one  of  the  directors  of  the  American  Trust  Company  and 
also  vice  president  and  director  of  the  Title  Guarantee  Trust  Company.  There  is 
no  name  better  known  in  financial  circles  in  St.  Louis  than  that  of  James  M.  Fran- 
ciscus and  none  which  more  uniformly  awakens  confidence  and  respect. 

It  was  a  -natural  sequence  of  his  business  career  that  Mr.  Franciscus  should  be 
chosen  to  handle  public  funds  and  at  the  democratic  convention  in  St.  Louis  on  the 
12th  of  February,  1901,  he  was  nominated  for  the  position  of  city  treasurer.  His 
personal  popularity  and  the  confidence  reposed  in  him  were  indicated  in  the  fact 
that  he  ran  twenty-two  hundred  votes  ahead  of  his  ticket  and,  moreover,  he  was  the 
youngest  man  ever  elected  to  the  office  in  St.  Louis.  His  course  justified  the  sup- 
port of  his  constituents  and  on  the  expiration  of  a  four  years'  term  he  was  reelected, 
continuing  in  the  oflace  until  1909.  He  is  not  infrequently  seen  in  the  conventions 
of  his  party  and  has  had  an  infiuencing  force  in  shaping  democratic  activities  in 
city  and  state. 

A  most  happy  and  interesting  home  lite  had  its  beginning  when  on  the  12th 
of  June,  1890,  Mr.  Franciscus  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Katherine  G.  Lindsay, 
daughter  of  the  late  Colonel  A.  J.  Lindsay,  a  retired  army  ofiicer.  She  is  a  grand- 
daughter of  John  MuUanphy,  a  scholar  and  jurist,  who  received  his  education  in 
•  France  and  came  to  St.  Louis  immediately  afterward,  in  1799.  He  is  yet  remem- 
bered as  one  of  the  most  benevolent  men  of  the  city.  His  son,  Bryan  Mullanphy, 
was  the  founder  of  the  Mullanphy  Emigrant  Relief  Fund.  The  father  of  Mrs.  Fran- 
ciscus was  General  Andrew  J.  Lindsay  of  Confederate  fame,  who  was  a  West  Point 
graduate  in  the  same  class  with  General  Grant.  In  1857  he  wedded  Jane  Delamey, 
a  reigning  belle  and  beauty,  well  known  not  only  in  the  United  States  but  in  foreign 
lands  as  well.  The  youngest  daughter  of  this  marriage  was  Katherine  G.,  who 
became  the  wife  of  James  M.  Franciscus,  and  to  them  have  been  born  five  children. 
The  eldest,  James  Lindsay,  married  Kathleen  Newhouse,  of  South  Orange,  New 
Jersey.  He  is  captain  of  the  Seventh  United  States  Cavalry,  Custer's  old  regi- 
ment, and  is  now  serving  on  the  Mexican  border.  The  younger  members  of  rhe 
family  are  Jane,  Marian  E.,  James  M.  and  John  D.  The  family  is  one  of  notable 
social  prominence  and  the  daughter  Marian  was  chosen  as  queen  of  the  Veiled 
Prophet's  ball  in  1919.  For  years  this  has  been  the  most  important  social  event  in 
St.  Louis  and  when,  after  an  interim  of  two  years,  during  which  the  ball  was  not 
held  on  account  of  the  World  war,  the  custom  was  revieved  it  was  made  the  most 
brilliant  affair  that  has  been  held  in  this  city  perhaps  within  its  entire  history. 
Miss  Franciscus  has  long  been  prominently  known  through  her  social  activities  and 
charitable  work.  She  was  reared  at  Lindsayhurst,  the  family  homestead,  in  the 
Florissant  valley,  and  attended  the  Academy  of  the  Sacred  Heart  and  Miss  Wright's 
School  at  Bryn  Mawr  and  during  the  war  period  was  very  active  in  the  conduct  of 
the  Allies'  Tea  Shop,  which  supplied  money  for  the  American  fund  for  the  French 
wounded,  and  which  was  conducted  by  the  leading  representatives  of  the  foremost 
social  circles  of  St.  Louis.  Her  beauty,  grace,  education  and  character  well  fitted 
her  to  be  chosen  as  queen  of  the  carnival,  which  equaled  in  grandeur  many  an  old- 
time  oriental  celebration. 

Mr.  Franciscus  and  his  family  were  all  active  war  workers.  His  wife  was 
chairman  of  the  American  Fund  for  French  Wounded,  which  maintained  a  tea  shop 
and  because  of  its  very  liberal  patronage  was  able  to  turn  over  a  very  substantial 
sum  for  the  benefit  of  convalescents  of  the  French  army  and  navy,  to  which  the 
proceeds   of   the   shop    were    devoted.      Mr.    Franciscus'    military    experience    covers 


922  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

service  as  a  member  of  Company  B  of  the  National  Guard  of  Missouri  in  188S  and 
as  captain  of  a  division  of  the  war  workers  during  the  Liberty  bond,  Red  Cross  and 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  drives,  and  in  all  such  his  district  exceeded  its  quota.  The  family  are 
communicants  of  the  Catholic  church.  Mr.  Franciscus  is  president  of  the  Florissant 
Valley  Club  and  holds  membership  in  the  St.  Louis  Country  Club,  the  Noonday,  the 
St.  Louis  and  Racquet  Clubs.  In  1892  he  was  appointed  a  member  o£  the  Mul- 
lanphy  board,  but  resigned  the  following  year.  He  has  filled  the  office  of  vice 
president  of  the  St.  Louis  Real  Estate  Exchange  and  he  is  keenly  interested  in 
everything  that  has  to  do  with  the  city's  development  and  progress.  Throughout 
his  entire  career  he  has  been  actuated  by  the  spirit  of  Abraham  Lincoln's  words: 
"There  is  something  better  than  making  a  living — making  a  life."  He  meets  every 
obligation  willingly  and  courageously,  performs  every  duty  to  the  best  of  his  ability 
— and  that  ability  is  of  a  notably  high  order — and  in  the  long  years  of  his  residence 
in  St.  Louis  his  course  has  reflected  honor  and  credit  upon  an  untarnished  family 
name  that  for  eight  decades  and  a  half  has  figured  ipost  conspicuously  in  connection 
with  the   financial   interests   of   the   city. 


JAMES  R.  LEAVELL. 


James  R.  Leavell,  vice  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  St.  Louis,  was 
born  October  12,  1884,  in  Montgomery  City,  Missouri,  and  his  father,  James  A. 
Leavell,  was  a  native  of  Montgomery  county,  descended  from  one  of  the  old 
pioneer  families  of  the  state,  of  French  Huguenot  origin.  The  family  was  founded 
in  America  by  John  Leavell.  who  originally  settled  in  Virginia,  while  later  repre- 
sentatives of  the  name  removed  to  Kentucky  and  eventually  the  family  was  planted 
on  Missouri  soil.  The  great-grandfather  of  James  R.  Leavell  came  to  Missouri 
and  in  this  state  James  A.  Leavell  was  reared  and  educated,  receiving  his  early 
educational  training  in  Montgomery  county,  while  later  he  attended  the  William 
Jewell  College  at  Columbia.  Missouri.  In  1881  he  organized  the  Home  Savings 
Bank  at  Fulton,  of  which  he  was  president.  Prior  to  this  he  had  organized  the 
bank  at  Montgomery  City  and  has  been  continuously  and  successfully  engaged  in 
the  banking  business  from  that  time  until  a  recent  date,  when  he  retired  from 
active  life.  He  was  early  left  an  orphan,  his  parents  dying  when  he  was  quite 
young,  and  he  was  then  reared  by  relatives.  His  success  has  come  as  the  legiti- 
mate i-esult  of  his  industry  and  perseverance.  Step  by  step  he  has  worked  his 
way  upward,  utilizing  every  available  opportunity  for  the  attainment  of  honor- 
able prosperity,  and  his  record  is  one  of  which  he  has  every  reason  to  be  proud. 
He  married  America  Davis,  who  was  born  in  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  and  was 
of  English  descent.  They  became  the  parents  of  two  children:  James  R.,  of  this 
review;  and  Sarah,  now  the  wife  of  William  G.  Coxhead,  a  resident  of  San  Juan, 
Porto  Rico. 

James  R.  Leavell  was  educated  in  Westminster  College  at  Fulton,  Missouri, 
and  in  the  Randolph-Macon  College  at  Ashland,  Virginia.  When  twenty-one  years 
of  age  he  entered  the  Mechanics  American  National  Bank  in  St.  Louis  in  a  clerical 
capacity  and  remained  in  that  institution  until  its  consolidation  with  the  First 
National  Bank  of  St.  Louis  on  the  7th  of  July,  1919,  at  which  time  Mr.  Leavell 
was  elected  one  of  the  vice  presidents  of  the  newly  created  bank.  On  October  15, 
1920,  Mr.  Leavell  was  elected  vice  president  of  the  Continental  &  Commercial 
National  Bank  of  Chicago.  Throughout  his  entire  business  career  he  has  been 
identified  with  banking  interests  and  has  closely  studied  all  financial  problems 
having  to  do  with  the  successful  conduct  of  a  banking  business.  He  is  a  man  of 
resolute  purpose  who  never  stops  short  of  the  successful  accomplishment  of  his 
plans,  for  he  has  ever  recognized  that  when  one  avenue  of  opportunity  seems 
closed  he  can  carve  out  other  paths  whereby  to  reach  the  desired  goal. 

On  the  15th  of  May,  1916,  Mr.  Leavell  was  married  at  Fort  Worth,  Texas, 
to  Miss  Lorna  Doone  Carr,  a  native  of  the  Lone  Star  state  and  a  daughter  of  C.  C. 
and  Ida  (McLean)  Carr,  both  of  whom  have  passed  away.  The  mother  was  a  rep- 
resentative of  an  old  and  prominent  pioneer  family  of  Texas.  Mrs.  Leavell  being  the 
granddaughter  of  the  Hon.  William  P.  McLean,  a  well  known  and  prominent 
jurist  of  Texas,  who  is  living  at  the  age  of  eighty-six  years,  being  now  a  resident 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  923 

of^  Fort  Worth.      Mr.   and   Mrs.   Leavell   reside   at   No.    4915   Argyle   avenue,    in   St. 

the   s.Ve"ot   Libem'Bonf^'^'"""    ""'"   '''"•    ^^"^^"    ^^'   Particularly   active   in 
ine   saie    ot    i^iberty    Bonds   and    in    many    other    ways    did    effective    work    fnr    ti,„ 


"CHARLES   ROBERT   BURRELL. 
Charles    Robert    fiurrell.    who    since    Optnhor    i      loio      i         i 

Charles    R     Burrell    attended   the   district   schools    and    also    the    State   Norm=,l 
School,  in  which  he  was  a  student  in  1902  anH  iqn'?      v^       7    \,  wormal 

he  came  to  Kansas  City  and   entered  upon   the   duties  of  president  nf  tZ  r-^ 
Savings   Trust   Company.      In   April     iq^n     he   Ji=   ^oi^     Pres  dent  of  the   Citizens 

=,rt.r,r.-A- Sir,".- »— --• -^^ 

In  1906  Mr.  Burrell  was  married  to  Miss  Eva  Welden    nf  r.iT^o^  r.-*      ,,• 


HORACE    GERSHOM    POPE. 


Personality,    application    and    ability    are    qalient    foat,,^,.  ,    • 
career  of  Horace   Gershom   Pope    representaHve   nf  tl  f^^^^'^®^'    ''^    the    successful 
born  in   Cawker   City,   Mitcheirjoun?"  Kans^'  July    15     I87T  ^n'J   '"•     ""'  "'^^ 
lour  Children  who  were  born  to  James' A.  and  Eliza  L.fwarne;)   Pope"    TLtl!"" 
was  a  native  of  Watkins,  New  York    while  the  mother';  hirti,  .  ^"'®'' 

ville,  Ohio.  Two  of  their  children  ha;e  passed  a wrvThl  fitv,  ^'""""^  ^'  ""'°°- 
Pioneer  residents  of  Kansas,  settling  in'  the  Sunflower  state  ,n  llsT'  p"  °'  '"' 
years    he   engaged- in    business   as   a    merchant    and    insuraL    reLesentaUve  """""^ 

rm^ir:^ScSii-y;^-r:fl°ii^;;r^i;r=^ 

tTriafriirr.  ^"^  '^^  ^^-^   ^^   ^  ^-"^  "ith^  wlsThat   o7trS^sh^y! 

Horace  G.  Pope  has  but  one  living  brother    ThaHoo  a     wi,„   ■ 
Topeka,     Kansas.      In     the     public     school  Horace    GPn^en     ''  ^  ^?^^'''  °' 
education  and  afterward  attended  the  Kansas  State  CoU.l^Z   m    T^.     ""'     "^"'^ 
from  Which  he  was  graduated  in  1894  ^ttTZZleTo^An^^^^^^^ 
to  enter  upon  a  professional  career,  he  then   became  a  law  student "n  tht  Un  le" 
s.ty  of  Kansas  and  was  graduated  in  1897  with  the  LL.  B.  degree      The  same  v^r 
he  secured  admission  to  the  bar  of  both  Kansas  and  Missouri.     After  his  gra^uaHon 
he  came  to  Kansas  City  and   for  twenty  years  was  associated   with   L    I    R^rH  ^n 
the  practice  of  law  under  the  firm  style  of  Bird  &  Pope.'  llfs  practice 'has  steadily 


924  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

grown  in  volume  and  importance  as  the  years  have  passed.  Careful  preparation 
ot  his  cases  has  always  characterized  his  career  and  he  never  enters  the  court 
without  being  well  qualified  to  meet  the  attacks  of  the  opposing  counsel.  He 
seems  to  lose  sight  of  no  point  that  has  bearing  upon  his  case  and  he  always 
gives  due  stress  to  the  important  point  upon  which  the  decision  of  every  case 
finally  turns. 

On  the  1st  of  January,  1902,  Mr.  Pope  was  married  to  Miss  AUena  Jewell, 
daughter  of  William  R.  Jewell,  of  Golden  City,  Missouri,  where  he  is  well  known 
as  a  banker  and  merchant.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pope  have  one  son,  Halford  Jewell, 
who  is  a  graduate  of  the  Westport  high  school,  class  of  1920,  and  is  much  inter- 
ested in  athletics. 

Mr.  Pope  and  his  wife  are  consistent  members  of  the  Grace  Presbyterian 
church,  taking  a  most  active  and  helpful  part  in  its  work,  doing  everything  in  their 
power  to  promote  its  influence,  Mr.  Pope  serving  now  as  president  of  the  board  o£ 
trustees.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  democratic  party  and  he  was 
formerly  active  in  politics  but  now  confines  his  activity  merely  to  the  exercise  o£ 
his  right  of  franchise.  He  belongs  to  Phi  Delta  Phi,  a  legal  fraternity,  and  he  has. 
membership  in  both  the  Kansas  City  and  Missouri   State  Bar  Associations. 


FLINT   GARRISON. 


The  term  "battle  of  life"  has  not  been  merely  a  figure  of  speech  to  Flint 
Garrison  but  has  been  a  reality.  When  a  lad  of  thirteen  necessity  forced  him 
into  the  business  world.  He  has  since  fought  every  inch  of  the  way  toward  suc- 
cess and  at  no  point  could  he  be  said  to  have  met  defeat.  Though  obstacles  may 
have  barred  his  path  at  times,  they  have  seemed  to  serve  but  as  an  impetus  for 
renewed  effort  on  his  part,  and  his  belief  in  the  righteousness  of  a  course  or  of  a 
cause  makes  him  a  faithful  follower  thereof  until  the  desired'  result  is  accom- 
plished. Mr.  Garrison  is  now  well  known  in  the  business  circles  of  St.  Louis 
as  publisher  of  The  Drygoodsman  and  as  a  factor  in  various  corporations  con- 
ducting successful  business  interests.  He  was  born  in  De  Witt,  Arkansas,  Septem- 
ber 20,  1876,  his  parents  being  James  Buchanan  and  Gulnare  (Halli  Burton) 
Garrison.  After  attending  public  schools  of  Arkansas  and  of  Texas  he  started  out 
in  the  business  world  as  a  lad  of  thirteen  years  by  securing  the  position  of  stock 
boy  in  the  mercantile  house  of  B.  Kahn  at  Beeville,  Texas,  in  1889.  He  was 
afterward  in  the  employ  of  D.  H.  Regan  at  Victoria,  Texas,  and  still  later  with 
Mistrot  Brothers  and  the  Fellman  Dry  Goods  Company,  at  ,Galveston,  Texasi 
As  the  years  passed  he  won  promotion  from  time  to  time,  serving  successively 
as  stock  clerk,  buyer,  assistant  manager,  advertising  manager  and  general  man- 
ager. On  leaving  the  Lone  Star  state  he  made  his  way  northward  to  Des  Moines, 
Iowa,  and  there  became  an  employee  of  the  Younker  Brothers. 

Mr.  Garrison  dates  his  residence  in  St.  Louis  from  1899,  in  which  year  he 
came  to  this  city  as  special  writer  on  The  Drygoodsman,  and  later  he  was  made 
editor.  His  next  promotion  brought  him  to  the  position  of  managing  editor  and 
subsequently  he  was  called  to  official  position  as  secretary,  then  as  vice  president 
and  in  January,  1911,  to  the  presidency  of  the  company,  in  connection  with  which 
office  he  continues  as  general  manager.  In  this  connection  the  St.  Louis  Post- 
Dispatch  once  wrote  of  him:  "Editing  a  trade  paper  has  not  meant,  in  his  case, 
merely  office  work  and  an  occasional  visit  to  the  wholesale  houses.  He  has  made 
it  his  business  to  know  the  St.  Louis  trade  territory,  and  has  learned  that  territory 
by  going  over  it  as  systematically  as  a  salesman  would.  He  has  been  a  member 
of  nearly  every  trade  extension  party  that  the  Sales  Managers'  Bureau  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  has  sent  out.  On  these  trips  he  is  always  used  as  a  speaker 
to  commercial  clubs  and  other  organizations.  At  such  times  he  talks  facts,  and 
leaves  the  story-telling  to  other  members  of  the  party.  *  *  *  jje  has  studied 
business  conditions  as  part  of  his  own  business  equipment.  He  has  also  studied 
labor  conditions,  social  problems  and  economics,  as  things  which  a  writer  on  trade 
subjects  needs  to  know.  He  knows  bankers  and  wholesalers,  and  he  knows 
laboring  men  and  labor  leaders,  and  has  the  acquaintance  of  a  number  of  radicals. 
He  has  been  able   to  get  the  point   of  view  of  both   sides,   without   losing   the  con- 


FLINT  GARRISON 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  927 

fldence  of  either  side."  For  the  past  six  years,  in  addition  to  his  editorial  and 
trade  extension  work,  Mr.  Garrison  has  been  the  head  of  a  printing  firm  which 
occupies  three  floors  of  the  new  Advertising  building  at  Seventeenth  and  Locust 
streets  and  which  draws  its  business  largely  from  the  wholesale  district  of  Wash- 
ington avenue.  This  business  is  conducted  under  the  name  of  the  Garrison- 
Wagner  Printing  Company  and  he  is  also  vice  president  of  the  Textile  Publishing 
Company   of  New   York,   which   publishes   The  Dry   Goods   Kconomist. 

On  the  30th  of  April,  1904,  Mr.  Garrison  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Katharine  Hewit,  of  St.  Louis,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  three  children: 
Paul,  Flint,  Jr.,  and  Mary.  Mr.  Garrison  finds  his  recreation  in  athletic  sports. 
Life,  however,  has  been  largely  to  him  a  serious  matter,  for  duties  and  responsi- 
bilities early  came  to  him  and  throughout  his  entire  career  he  has  been  an  active 
force  in  seeking  to  right  conditions  and  bring  into  play  that  justice  which  is 
every  man's  due.  He  is  a  member  of  the  advisory  board  having  in  charge  the 
course  in  salesmanship  in  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association.  He  belongs  to 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  St.  Louis  Sales  Managers'  Association,  the  Ad- 
vertising Men's  League,  the  City  Club,  of  which  he  has  served  as  president,  the 
Missouri  Athletic  Association  and  the  Public  Question  Club.  In  politics  he  is  a 
liberal  democrat.  He  could  not  be  hound  by  party  ties,  for  he  is  an  independent 
thinker,  but  he  will  ally  his  interests  with  the  organization  that  he  believes  is 
making  the  most  determined  stand  to  bring  into  power  the  will  of  the  many 
rather  than  of  the  few  and  that  recognizes  the  rights  of  people  as  being  superior 
to  the  rights  of  property.  In  the  Business  Men's  League,  the  predecessor  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  he  was  an  active  .factor  in  what  was  termed  the  revolu- 
tionary movement,  wlien  a  number  of  the  members  became  dissatisfied  with  the 
system  of  official  organization  and  put  up  an  independent  candidate,  whom  they 
succeeded  in  electing.  He  had  previously  been  a  member  of  the  league's  indus- 
trial committee  and  took  an  earnest  and  determined  stand  against  a  proposed 
plan  which  would  have  placed  the  league  as  an  antiunion  organization.  He  has 
b^en  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Business  Men's  League  and  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  continuously  for  eight  years.  He  has  served  for  a  number 
of  years  on  the  governing  body  of  the  Business  Men's  League  and  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  has  been  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  and  president  of  the 
Civic  League  and  in  these  and  other  connections  has  studied  most  closely  the  trend 
of  the  times  and  the  tendencies  which  seem  to  be  dominating  the  world.  He  has 
never  hesitated  to  express  an  honest  conviction  and  his  position  upon  any  vital 
question  is  never  an  equivocal  one.  He  speaks  clearly  and  forcibly,  baaing  his 
arguments  upon  facts  and  tangible  evidence.  He  has  been  a  leader  in  the  fight 
against  the  United  Railways  Company,  and  though  others  may  oppose  him  and  have 
no  sympathy  with  his  opinions,  they  do  not  doubt  the  honesty  of  his  convictions  nor 
the  courage  with  which  he  defends  them.  On  one  occasion  a  local  newspaper,  after 
giving  the  dictionary  definition  of  "flint"  as  "a  hard,  sharp  substance,  which  strikes 
fire  readily"  and  of  "garrison"  as  "a  strong  force"  said:  "Seldom,  in  the  lottery  by 
which  our  names  befall  us,  does  a  name  fit  its  bearer  more  snugly  than  does  that  of 
Flint  Garrison." 


JOHN   P.    PRESCOTT. 


John  P.  Prescott.  no  little  of  whose  sustained  power  is  due  to  the  moral  and 
social  characteristics  of  this  many-sided  man,  occupies  today  an  enviable  position  in 
Kansas  City.  In  social  intercourse  he  is  genial,  kindly  and  humanly  sympathetic; 
in  business  he  is  the  personification  of  its  highest  ethics  and  the  most  rigid  integrity. 
Success  has  come  to  him  as  the  outcome  of  marked  ability  in  organizing  and  direct- 
ing important  interests  and  the  most  envious  cannot  grudge  him  his  prosperity,  so 
wisely  has  it  been  won  and  so  worthily  used.  He  is  now  the  president  of  the  Kansas 
City  Terminal  Warehouse,  and  is  also  the  president  of  the  Carnes  Artificial  Limb 
Company. 

John  P.  Prescott  was  born  at  Spirit  Lake,  Iowa,  February  4,  1859,  his  parents 
being  John  S.  and  Mary  E.  (Harris)  Prescott.  The  father  was  a  native  of  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  and  the  mother's  birth  occurred  at  Brandywine,  Delaware.  The 
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928  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

father  was  a  lawyer  by  profession  and  was  graduated  from  Harvard  University.  In 
1857  he  made  an  overland  trip  to  Iowa,  settling  at  Spirit  Lake,  and  he  became  a 
large  holder  of  swamp  lands  and  speculated  extensively  in  property  in  Illinois,  Iowa, 
Mississippi  and  Kansas.  In  1872  he  removed  to  Fort  Zarah,  now  Great  Bend, 
Kansas,  and  there  passed  away  the  same  year. 

John  P.  Prescott  obtained  only  a  public  school  education  and  when  but  thirteen 
years  of  age  broke  the  sod  on  the  Kansas  prairies.  From  a  very  early  age  he  has 
been  dependent  upon  his  own  resources,  and  when  fifteen  years  of  age  he  began  learn- 
ing telegraphy,  securing  a  position  as  operator  on  the  Texas  Pacific  Railroad,  being 
employed  in  that  connection  for  about  three  years.  He  afterward  started  for 
Colorado,  but  on  reaching  the  Panhandle  of  Texas,  he  accepted  a  position  as  a  cattle- 
herder,  being  employed  in  that  way  for  a  few  months.  He  next  turned  his  attention 
to  railroad  survey  work  on  the  Santa  Fe  into  old  Mexico  and  when  in  that  service 
worked  on  the  survey  of  the  new  lines  from  Wichita  south  to  Caldwell  and  Arkansas 
City,  and  later  on  the  survey  of  the  main  line  extension  in  New  Mexico  and  on  the 
Sonora  Railroad  in  old  Mexico.  In  fact,  few  roads  in  active  building  in  old  Mexico 
in  those  days  were  completed  without  Mr.  Prescott  having  had  charge  of  some  part 
of  the  work.  In  1892  he  was  engaged  in  railroad  construction  in  Central  America 
and  in  Guatemala.  After  five  years'  residence  in  that  country  he  returned  to  the 
United  States  and  became  a  resident  of  Kansas  City  in  1898.  Here  he  entered  into 
active  association  with  the  Kansas  City  Milling  Company,  as  secretary  and  later 
was  made  manager  for  the  company.  Some  years  subsequent  the  plant  of  th« 
Kansas  City  Milling  Company  was  destroyed  by  fire.  The  site  was  regarded  as  too 
valuable  for  flouring-mill  purposes  and  Mr.  Prescott  then  organized  the  Terminal 
Warehouse  Company  and  built  a  six-story  concrete  warehouse  on  the  land.  He 
continues  as  president  of  this  concern  to  the  present  time,  but  in  recent  years  has 
largely  concentrated  his  efforts  and  attention  upon  the  business  of  the  Carnes 
Artificial  Limb  Company. 

It  was  on  the  16th  of  December,  1908,  that  Mr.  Prescott  was  caught  in  a  freight 
elevator  in  his  warehouse  and  suffered  the  loss  of  his  left  arm  and  right  leg.  When 
recovering  from  the  accident  he  looked  about  to  see  if  by  any  chance  he  could  secure 
some  sort  of  a  usable  substitute  arm.  He  heard  of  W.  T.  Carnes,  who  was  engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  artificial  limbs  at  Warren,  Pennsylvania,  and  in  May,  1909, 
while  in  California  regaining  his  strength,  Mr.  Prescott  sent  in  his  order  for  an  arm. 
The  following  November,  however,  he  went  to  Warren  to  have  the  member  fitted 
and  found  it  to  be  entirely  satisfactory  for  the  purpose,  but  he  also  learned  that 
Mr.  Carnes  could  not  meet  the  requirements  for  arms  as  he  had  not  the  necessary 
capital  to  finance  and  develop  the  enterprise.  Up  to  that  time  Mr.  Prescott  was 
experienced  in  railway  construction,  engineering  and  the  milling  business.  He 
knew  nothing  of  the  manufacture  of  artificial  limbs  but  he  felt  that  a  man  who 
could  turn  out  satisfactory  artificial  limbs,  like  that  furnished  by  Mr.  Carnes,  should 
be  in  a  position  to  further  aid  humanity  in  this  connection.  Accordingly,  he  made 
a  proposition  to  Mr.  Carnes  to  establish  a  factory  in  Kansas  City,  with  the  result 
that  the  Carnes  Artificial  Limb  Company  was  formed,  and  a  branch  opened  in 
Kansas  City.  Of  this  Mr.  Prescott  is  the  president  and  Mr.  Carnes  the  secretary. 
The  business  developed  rapidly,  the  plant  was  equipped  with  the  most  modern  ma- 
chinery and  today  the  company  furnishes  a  large  number  of  artificial  limbs  to  the 
United  States  and  allied  governments,  the  superiority  of  their  manufacture  being 
such  as  to  lead  to  the  development  of  a  business  of  mammoth  proportions.  The 
company  now  maintains  sales  oflSces  at  Cleveland,  Portland,  Washington,  Los 
Angeles,  Atlanta  and  Minneapolis.  Every  salesman  of  the  firm  and  many  of  the 
employees  are  users  of  the  artificial  limbs,  manufactured  by  the  company.  It  was 
a  humanitarian  impulse  that  led  to  the  organization  of  the  Carnes  Artificial  Limb 
Company,  and  when  such  a  quality  is  added  to  business  enterprise  and  organizing 
ability,  the  result  is  certain.  The  business  has  become  one  of  the  foremost  of  its 
kind  not  only  in  America,  but  in  the  world,  its  output  being  sent  to  various  foreign 
countries,  as  well  as  to  all  parts  of  America.  They  are  today  producing  the  most 
perfect  arms  in  use,  combining  the  natural  principle  of  the  human  arm  in  an  arrange- 
ment of  steel  levers,  ratchet  gearing  and  crank,  in  such  a  way  that  the  artificial 
limb  readily  responds  to  the  muscle  force  and  the  nerve  impulses  of  the  stump  to 
which   the   arm   is  attached,   and   at  the   will   of   the   operator   the   arm   is   flexed   or 


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straight  and  the  fingers  open  and  close  in  a  natural  manner,  enabling  the  wearer  to 
carry  a  weight  o£  fifty  pounds  with  ease. 

Mr.  Prescott  was  married  in  1892  at  Chase  City,  Virginia,  to  Miss  Martha 
Anderson,  who  was  born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  a  daughter  of  John  Anderson, 
a  native  of  England,  who  became  a  farmer  of  Pennsylvania  and  enlisted  tor  service 
in  the  Union  army  during  the  Civil  war  and  laid  down  his  life  on  the  altar  of 
freedom.  Mrs.  Prescott  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Young  Woman's  Christian 
Association  of  Kansas  City,  became  one  of  its  first  directors  and  has  been  identified 
with  every  phase  of  its  activity.  Mr.  Prescott  gives  his  political  allegiance  to  the 
republican  party,  and  both  he  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
church,  in  which  he  is  serving  as  trustee  and^in  the  work  of  which  they  have  taken 
an  active  and  helpful  interest.  Mr.  Prescott  is  connected  with  the  Kansas  City 
Club  and  with  the  Automobile  Club.  He  has  served  as  a  director  and  the  vice 
president  of  the  Manufacturers'  Association,  and  vice  president  of  the  Employers' 
Association  during  the  labor  troubles.  He  has  also  been  president  of  the  Kansas 
City  Millers'  Club  and  served  for  one  term  as  treasurer  of  the  Millers'  National 
Federation.  For  twenty  years  he  labored  earnestly  and  effectively  to  promote  the 
upbuilding  and  progress  of  Kansas  City  and  no  plan  or  project  for  the  public's  good 
failed  to  receive  his  endorsement  and  support.  He  is  a  man  of  strong  character, 
governed  by  high  principles  and  actuated  by  lofty  motives.  He  has  built  up  a 
business  that  is  a  boon  to  humanity,  and  the  keenest  joy  comes  to  him,  not  because 
of  his  success  as  viewed  from  a  financial  standpoint,  but  because  of  the  aid  he  has 
been   able   to  give   to   thousands   who   have   suffered   misfortune. 


CHAHLES  W.  SWINGLEY. 


Charles  W.  Swingley,  whose  career  has  been  characterized  by  steady  progress  sine? 
he  made  his  initial  step  in  the  business  world  when  a  youth  of  fourteen  years,  has  since 
1914  held  the  responsible  position  of  general  manager  of  the  Union  Fuel  &  Ice  Company, 
with  offices  in  the  Railway  Exchange  building  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis 
on  the  1st  of  August,  1872,  a  son  of  Charles  E.  and  Eliza  Swingley.  The  father  joined 
the  St.  Louis  fire  department  in  1869  and  after  filling  positions  in  each  branch  of  the 
service  was  promoted  to  the  office  of  fire  chief  in  April,  1895,  continuing  in  that  capacity 
until  1914.  In  the  latter  year  he  was  appointed  director  of  public  safety  and  in  that  con- 
nection made  a  most  enviable  record,  but  resigned  the  office  in  1917  and  retired  to  private 
life.  During  the  past  two  years  he  and  his  wife  have  made  their  home  at  Chesterfield, 
Illinois.  They  are  the  parents  of  three  sons:  Charles  W.,  of  this  review;  Edward  0. 
who  is  engaged  in  the  coal  business  in  St.  Louis;  and  Benjamin  E.,  who  is  also  a  business 
man  of  St.  Louis,  handling  automobile  insurance. 

Charles  W.  Swingley  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  to  the  age  of 
fourteen  years,  when  in  1886  he  secured  a  position  in  the  office  of  the  Woodward  & 
Tiernan  Printing  Company.  Two  years  later  he  left  that  employ  and  entered  the  office  of 
the  Union  Sign  Company.  Laudable  ambition  prompted  him  to  utilize  every  spare  moment 
in  study  and  he  devoted  his  evenings  to  reading,  thus  acquiring  a  knowledge  of  rail- 
roading and  traffic  work  that  in  1889  qualified  him  for  a  position  in  the  traffic  depart- 
ment of  the  Liggett  &  Myers  Tobacco  Company.  Recognition  of  his  ability  and  trust- 
worthiness soon  won  him  promotion  to  the  position  of  traffic  manager  of  the  Liggett 
&  Myers  Company,  which  he  thus  represented  until  1904,  when  he  was  made  traffic 
manager  for  the  St.  Louis  Car  Company.  Five  years  later  he  severed  his  connection  with 
that  corporation  to  become  southwestern  agent  of  the  Hart-Williams  Coal  Company, 
having  in  charge  the  district  from  St.  Louis  to  New  Orleans.  In  1912  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Consolidated  Coal  Company  of  St.  Louis  in  the  sales  department  and  in 
1914  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  Union  Fuel  &  Ice  Company,  a  subsidiary  concern,  which 
has  remained  under  his  able  management  during  the  past  six  years  and  has  a  record 
of  continued  growth  and  success. 

On  the  19th  of  February,  1898,  Mr.  Swingley  was  united  In  marriage  to  Miss  Grace 
Binnington,  a  daughter  of  Edward  and  Kate  Binnington,  the  former  a  retired  coffee  and 
tea  merchant  residing  at  No.  5149  Kensington  avenue  in  St.  Louis.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Swingley 
have  a  son,  Charles  E.,  who  is  now  twenty-one  years  of  age  and   is  a  student   in  the 


930  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

chemical  engineering  department  of  Yale  University.     The  family  home  is  at  No.  5149 
Kensington  avenue. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Swingley  is  a  stanch  republican,  while  his  religious  faith  is 
that  of  the  Methodist  church.  Fraternally  he  is  identified  with  Occidental  Lodge,  A.  F. 
&  A.  M.,  and  he  also  belongs  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association.  Baseball,  tennis, 
handball  and  swimming  are  his  chief  sources  of  recreation.  In  early  life  he  served 
as  a  member  of  the  Missouri  National  Guard  and  during  the  World  war  took  an  active 
part  in  the  promotion  of  the  various  Liberty  Loan  drives.  His  career  has  been  a  com- 
mendable one  from  every  standpoint,  winning  him  the  high  regard  and  esteem  of  all  with 
whom  he  has  been  associated  during  his  lifelong  residence  in  St.  Louis. 


JULIUS  A.  SCHLUETER. 


Julius  A.  Schlueter  was  numbered  among  those  men  who  were  promoters  and 
builders  of  the  commercial  development  and  greatness  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  the 
founder  of  the  Schlueter  Manufacturing  Company,  which  was  established  in  1902 
and  with  which  he  was  actively  connected  as  the  directing  head  until  his  demise. 
Born  in  Germany  on  the  17th  of  September,  1857,  he  came  to  the  United  States 
when  eleven  years  of  age  in  company  with  his  parents,  who  settled  in  St.  Louis.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  this  city  and  when  fifteen  or  sixteen  years  of 
age  became  a  wage  earner  as  an  employe  in  a  can  manufacturing  concern,  with 
which  he  remained  for  twelve  years,  winning  gradual  advancement  through  inter- 
mediate positions  to  that  of  foreman  with  this  firm.  In  1885  he  resigned  to  become 
superintendent  of  the  Standard  Stamping  Company  and  served  in  that  important 
capacity  continuously  for  seventeen  years.  His  sons  were  at  that  time  growing, 
into  manhood  and  with  a  view  of  providing  a  future  for  them  he  gave  up  his  position 
with  the  Standard  Stamping  Company  to  engage  in  business  on  his  own  account 
with  the  idea  of  preparing  a  place  tor  his  sons  in  the  business  world. 

Julius  A.  Schlueter's  first  factory  was  at  Ninth  and  Branch  streets  and  with 
the  growth  of  the  business  he  sought  more  commodious  quarters,  erecting  the  present 
modern  building  at  Nos.  4616-4630  North  Broadway.  This  was  erected  and  occupied 
In  1907.  The  business  at  that  time  was  owned  independently  by  Mr.  Schlueter  but 
as  his  trade  relations  expanded  and  his  business  became  one  of  greater  volume 
he  admitted  his  sons  to  a  partnership,  their  interest  being  incorporated  in  January, 
1915,  the  stock,  however,  all  being  held  by  the  family.  Mr.  Schlueter  became  the 
president  of  the  corporation,  with  Walter  H.  Schlueter  as  vice  president  and  treasurer 
and  Albert  J.  as  secretary.  The  business  has  enjoyed  a  continuous  growth  and 
remains  as  a  monument  to  the  enterprise,  progressive  spirit  and  devotion  of  the 
father  to  the  welfare  of  his  sons.  On  the  24th  of  December,  1916,  Mr.  Schlueter 
passed  away  and  was  succeeded  in  the  presidency  by  his  son  Walter  H.,  while 
Albert  J.  became  the  vice  president,  Herbert  C.  Schlueter  was  made  treasurer,  and 
Clifford  A.  became  the  secretary  of  the  company.  In  these  various  official  capaci- 
ties the  four  sons  are  now  serving  and  under  their  control  the  business  is  developing 
with  rapidity,  having  become  one  of  the  important  commercial  interests  of  the  city. 

Mr.  Schlueter  was  active  in  church  and  charitable  work,  holding  membership  in 
the  Zion  Lutheran  church,  while  his  contributions  to  its  support  were  most  sub- 
stantial. His  sterling  worth  was  recognized  by  all  who  knew  him  and  among  the  busi- 
ness men  of  St.  Louis  he  occupied  an  enviable  position  and  bore  an  unassailable 
reputation. 


WALTER  H.  SCHLUETER. 


Walter  H.  Schlueter  is  the  president  of  the  Schlueter  Manufacturing  Company 
of  St.  Louis  and  is  thus  in  control  of  large  and  important  business  interests,  but 
with  him  the  objective  and  subjective  forces  of  life  are  well  balanced  and  business 
constitutes  but  one  phase  of  his  career.  He  has  never  allowed  the  attainment  of 
wealth  to  monopolize  his  interests  and  activities  and  is  keenly  alive  to  many  of  the 
grave  and  important  sociological  and  economic  problems  of  the  country,  his  interest 
therein  being  indicated  in  the  unfolding  of  his  career  as  presented  in  this  review. 


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Walter  H.  Schlueter  was  born  January  5,  1884,  in  the  city  which  is  still  his 
home,  his  parents  being  Julius  A.  and  Julia  (Grote)  Schlueter,  a  sketch  of  whom 
precedes  this  of  the  son.  The  son  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  the  city 
and  after  completing  his  studies  became  actively  identified  with  his  father's  business 
when  nineteen  years  of  age  as  office  manager,  the  father  looking  after  the  manufac- 
turing interests  of  the  firm.  On  the  incorporation  of  the  business  in  January,  1915, 
under  the  name  of  the  Schlueter  Manufacturing  Company,  Walter  H.  Schlueter  be- 
came a  member  of  the  firm  and  was  made  vice  president  and  treasurer.  Following 
the  death  of  his  father  he  succeeded  him  in  the  presidency  of  the  company  and 
remains  as  the  chief  executive  head.  In  this  capacity  he  has  developed  a  business 
which  now  reaches  a  million  and  a  half  dollars  annually  and  furnishes  employment  to 
two  hundred  and  eighty  people.  The  company  manufactures  sheet  metalware  and 
has  a  splendidly  equipped  plant,  supplied  with  all  the  necessary  machinery  of  modern 
make.  His  forcefulness  and  resourcefulness  are  manifest  in  his  thoroughly  organized 
business  and  well  formulated  plans,  which  are  carried  forward  to  successful  comple- 
tion. This,  however,  is  only  one  feature  of  his  activity.  He  is  particularly  inter- 
ested in  welfare  work  of  various  kinds  and  more  especially  in  all  that  pertains 
to  the  best  interests  of  his  employes.  He  carries  lite  insurance  for  his  employes, 
secures  for  them  free  medical  attention  and  is  now  planning  to  erect  a  cafeteria 
and  reading  rooms  for  their  use  and  also  to  build  better  homes,  thus  aiding  in  solv- 
ing the  housing  condition  which  is  so  prevalent  throughout  the  country.  In  fact 
he  assists  his  employes  in  every  possible  way.  His  business  has  never  been  to  him 
a  well  organized  machine  in  which  the  individual  is  but  a  unit  of  energy  for  the 
purpose  of  accomplishing  a  given  result;  on  the  contrary  he  has  studied  their  needs 
and  interests  and  in  every  possible  way  has  sought  to  better  conditions  among  them. 

In  1906  Mr.  Schlueter  was  married  to  Miss  Clara  Jaggi  and  to  them  has  been 
born  a  son,  Walter  J.  Mr.  Schlueter  is  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Athletic  Club, 
the  Riverview  Country  Club  and  the  Optimists  Club.  His  political  allegiance  is  given 
to  the  republican  party  and  he  and  his  wife  are  active  members  of  the  Lutheran 
church.  To  this  end  he  is  serving  on  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Lutheran  Orphans' 
Home,  the  Lutheran  Charity  Association  and  the  Lutheran  Laymen's  League  and 
takes  an  active  interest  in  all  phases  of  church  work.  In  fact  nothing  done  in  the 
name  of  charity  or  religion  seeks  his  aid  in  vain. 


SAMUEL  0.  HARGUS. 


Samuel  O.  Hargus,  who  for  nine  years  has  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  law  in 
Kansas  City,  was  born  near  Roscoe,  St.  Clair  county,  Missouri,  March  28,  1885,  and  is  a 
son  of  George  W.  and  Elizabeth  Hargus,  the  former  being  mentioned  at  length  on  another 
page  of  this  work.  Spending  his  youthful  days  under  the  parental  roof  he  passed 
through  consecutive  grades  to  the  Osceola  high  school  and  when  he  had  completed  his 
course  there  he  attended  the  Washington  University,  devoting  two  years  to  academic 
work.  He  afterward  became  private  secretary  to  the  general  manager  of  the  Frisco  Rail- 
road and  subsequently  occupied  the  position  of  private  secretary  to  Senator  William  J. 
Stone.  His  sojourn  in  Washington  was  of  great  value  to  him  in  many  ways.  It  brought 
him  into  close  connection  with  the  important  interests  and  problems  before  the  country 
and  awakened  his  ambition  to  make  the  most  of  his  time  and  opportunities.  While  at 
the  national  capital  he  attended  the  Georgetown  University  and  in  1910  won  the  LL.  B. 
degree. 

In  the  following  year  Samuel  0.  Hargus  entered  upon  the  practice  of  law  in  Kansas 
City,  where  he  has  since  remained.  He  continued  in  general  practice  until  1913  and 
was  then  made  assistant  United  States  district  attorney,  most  capably  discharging  the 
duties  of  that  position  and  gaining  from  the  tasks  which  he  daily  performed  courage 
and  inspiration  for  the  labors  of  the  ensuing  day.  In  1915  he  became  a  member  of  the 
faculty  of  the  Kansas  City  Law  School,  as  assistant  instructor  on  contracts  and  torts. 
In  1919  he  became  lecturer  on  evidence  in  the  same  college  and  he  has  proven  himself 
a  capable  educator,  imparting  readily  and  clearly  to  others  the  knowledge  he  has  acquired. 
He  is  equally  strong  and  forceful  in  the  presentation  of  a  cause  before  the  courts  or  in 
the  preparation  of  briefs,  and  he  is  likewise  regarded  as  a  sate  counselor  whose  opinions 
are  most  valuable. 


934  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Mr.  Hargus  was  married  to  Miss  Camille  Reynords  and  they  are  well  known  in  Kansas 
City,  where  they  have  a  circle  of  friends  almost  coextensive  with  the  circle  of  their 
acquaintance.  Mr.  Hargus  belongs  to  the  Phi  Alpha  Delta,  a  Greek  letter  fraternity,  is  a 
member  of  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club  and  along  professional  lines  his  connection  is 
with  the  Kansas  City  and  Missouri  State  Bar  Associations. 


RICHARD   H.   LEVY. 


Richard  H.  Levy,  St.  Louis  manager  of  the  Union  Central  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany, was  born  January  22,  1876,  in  Louisa,  Virginia,  a  son  of  Leon  and  Nora  D. 
(Hudson)  Levy.  The  parents  are  also  natives  of  the  Old  Dominion  and  were  con- 
nected with  promment  families  of  Virginia,  the  mother  being  a  descendant  of  the 
well  known  Cary  family  of  Virginia  on  the  maternal  side.  Mr.  Levy  is  of  French 
descent,  while  his  wife  is  of  English  lineage.  The  father  was  a  Confederate  soldier 
in  the  Civil  war  and  served  with  Colonel  Mosby  during  the  latter  part  of  the  struggle. 

Richard  H.  Levy,  who  was  the  only  child  of  his  parents,  was  educated  in 
public  and  private  schools  of  Louisa  and  Richmond,  Virginia,  and  later  attended 
the  University  of  Virginia.  Starting  out  in  his  business  career,  he  devoted  several 
years  to  journalistic  insurance  work,  after  which  he  entered  the  life  insurance  busi- 
ness, becoming  connected  with  the  Travelers  Insurance  Company  of  Hartford, 
Connecticut.  For  five  years  he  filled  the  position  of  general  manager  for  that  com- 
pany at  Baltimore,  Maryland,  and  then  resigned  to  become  manager  of  the  Union 
Central  Life  Insurance  Company  at  St.  Louis,  taking  the  position  in  1914.  He  has 
continuously  been  connected  with  insurance  interests  since  starting  out  in  the 
business  world  on  his  own  account  and  he  was  thoroughly  acquainted  himself  with 
every  phase  ot  the  business  and  is  most  enterprising  and  progressive  in  managing 
the  interests  under  his  direction. 

At  Baltimore,  Maryland,  on  the  4th  of  June,  1902,  Mr.  Levy  was  married  to 
Miss  Margaret  L.  Robinson,  a  native  of  Virginia  and  a  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Monroe  Robinson,  who  were  representatives  of  one  ot  the  old  families  of  Fauquier 
and  of  Norfolk,  Virginia,  respectively.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Levy  have  one  son,  Richard 
H.,  Jr.,  born  in  Louisa,  Virginia.  October  28,  1904. 

During  the  period  of  the  World  war  Mr.  Levy  was  very  active  in  promoting 
the  sale  of  Liberty  bonds  and  War  Savings  stamps.  His  political  allegiance  is  given 
to  the  democratic  party  where  national  questions  and  issues  are  involved  but  he  casts 
an  Independent  ballot  at  local  elections,  supporting  the  men  and  measures  whom 
he  regards  as  best  qualified  for  office.  He  belongs  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Associa- 
tion and  also  to  the  Sunset  Hill  Country  Club.  He  Is  a  communicant  of  St.  George's 
Episcopal  church  and  he  may  be  said  to  be  strictly  a  home  man,  finding  his  greatest 
happiness  at  his  own  fireside,  where  his  leisure  hours  are  largely  passed. 


BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN  EDWARDS. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Edwards,  president  ot  the  Central  National  Bank,  which  under 
his  direction  has  enjoyed  a  most  substantial  growth  and  steadily  increasing  prosperity, 
is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  energetic  and  capable  representatives  ot  the  banking 
fraternity  in  St.  Louis.  A  native  son  of  the  city,  he  was  born  December  31,  1859, 
his  parents  being  Albert  Gallatin  and  Mary  Ewing  (Jenckes)  Edwards.  In  his  youthful 
days  he  attended  the  public  schools  until  graduated  from  the  Kirkwood  high  school 
with  the  class  of  1875.  When  sixteen  years  of  age  he  initiated  his  career  as  a  banker 
by  entering  the  St.  Louis  National  Bank,  with  which  he  remained  for  four  years.  He 
then  left  that  institution  to  become  assistant  correspondent  clerk  in  the  Bank  ot  Com- 
merce, with  which  he  continued  through  the  succeeding  four  years.  On  the  expiration 
of  that  period  he  joined  his  father.  General  Edwards,  in  organizing  the  A.  G.  Edwards 
&  Sons  Brokerage  tJompany,  of  which  he  is  still  a  director.  He  returned  to  the  banking 
business,  however,  in  1892,  when  elected  assistant  cashier  ot  the  National  Bank  of  Com- 
merce, and  seven  years  later  he  was  chosen  cashier.  He  continued  thus  to  serve  until 
1904,  when  he  was  made  vice  president  and  also  a  director.     In  1908  he  was  elected  to 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  937 

the  presidency  and  filled  the  office  until  April,  1913.  He  was  elected  to  the  presidency 
of  the  Central  National  Bank  on  the  1st  of  March,  1915,  and  has  since  guided  its  desti- 
nies, its  splendid  growth  and  prosperity  resulting  largely  from  his  business  enterprise, 
his  excellent  powers  of  organization  and  his  initiative,  combined  with  a  conservatism 
that  constitutes  an  even  balance  to  his  progressive  spirit. 

On  the  14th  of  March,  1888,  in  St.  Louis.  Mr.  Edwards  was  married  to  Miss  Isabel 
Woods  and  their  children  were:  Benjamin  Franklin  and  Archibald,  both  now  deceased; 
and  Albert  Gallatin.  On  the  8th  of  January,  1901,  Mr.  Edwards  was  again  married, 
his  second  union  being  with  Flora  G.  Woods,  and  they  have  three  children:  Mary 
Rebecca,   Presley  William  and  Nancy. 

Politically  Mr.  Edwards  is  a  republican,  while  his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the 
Presbyterian  church.  He  is  identified  with  many  important  organizations  of  St.  Louis. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  also  a  member  of  the  Bank  Clerks' 
Association,  and  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  Country  Club  and  the  Bankers  Club,  of  which 
he  was  the  first  president  and  of  which  he  is  called  the  father.  He  likewise  belongs  to 
the  Glen  Echo  Country  Club  and  finds  diversion  and  recreation  in  the  game  of  golf. 
However,  he  is  a  tremendous  worker  and  the  major  part  of  his  time  and  attention  is 
given  to  his  banking  interests,  while  in  financial  circles  he  has  made  steady  progress 
until  he  now  occupies  a  place  of  prominence  as  a  chief  executive. 


JOSEPH   M.   GARVEY. 

One  of  the  prominent  young  corporation  lawyers  oi  St.  Joseph  is  Joseph  M. 
Garvey,  a  native  son  of  the  city,  whose  record  stands  in  contradistinction  to  the  old 
adage  that  a  prophet  is  never  without  honor  save  in  his  own  country,  for  in  the 
city  of  his  birth  he  has  risen  to  distinctlOR  in  connection  with  a  profession  where 
advancement  depends  entirely  upon  individual  merit  and  capability.  Born  on  the 
27th  of  April,  1893,  he  is  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  J.  Garvey.  The  father  enjoyed 
a  state-wide  reputation  as  a  democratic  leader  and  served  in  the  forty-first  session 
of  the  general  assembly.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  city  council  of  St.  Joseph 
for  two  terms  and  was  a  member  of  the  democratic  state  central  committee. 

Joseph  M.  Garvey  whose  name  introduces  this  review  obtained  his  preliminary 
education  in  his  native  city  and  in  preparation  for  a  professional  career  entered  the 
Christian  Brothers  College,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1911  with  the  LL.  B. 
degree.  In  1913  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  he  has  since  practiced  in  his 
native  city,  where  he  is  now  recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  corporation  lawyers, 
representing  some  of  the  largest  corporate  interests  of  northwestern  Missouri,  in- 
cluding the  Grain  Belt  Mills,  the  Aunt  Jemima  Mills  and  the  Larrabee  Mills.  He 
has  made  a  very  close  and  earnest  study  of  corporation  law  and  few  men  of  his 
years  are  better  informed  concerning  this  branch  of  practice. 

In  1913  Mr.  Garvey  was  married  to  Miss  Cecil  M.  Richards,  daughter  of  L.  P. 
Richards  of  St.  Joseph,  and  they  have  one  son,  Richard  M.  (II).  Mr.  Garvey  is 
actively  interested  in  democratic  politics  and  like  his  father  is  becoming  widely 
known  throughout  the  state  in  this  connection.  He  served  on  the  draft  board  as 
associate  member  of  the  legal  advisers.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Elks 
Lodge,  No.  40,  of  St.  Joseph  and  he  belongs  also  to  the  Highlands  Golf  Club — con- 
nections which  Indicate  the  nature  of  his  interests  outside  of  his  profession.  His 
religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church.  '  He  has  a  very  wide  acquaint- 
ance in  St.  Joseph  and  his  well  spent  life  is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  many  of  his 
stanchest  friends  are  those  who  have  known  him  from  his  boyhood  to  the  present 
time. 


CHRISTIAN   BERNET. 


Christian  Bernet,  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Bernet,  Craft  &  Kauff- 
man  Milling  Company,  conducting  a  most  extensive  business  in  the  manufacture  of 
flour,  was  born  in  Canton  Berne,  Switzerland,  October  4,  1850.  His  father,  John 
Bernet,  a  native  of  that  country,  came  to  America  with  his  family  in  1856,  first 
settling   in   Muscatine,   Iowa,   and   afterward  at   La  Crosse,   Wisconsin,   where   he   re- 


938  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

sided  until  his  deatli,  which  occurred  in  1896,  when  he  was  seventy-seven  years  of 
age.  He  followed  farming  and  stock  raising,  thus  providing  a  comfortable  living 
for  his  family.  He  was  a  well  educated  and  well  read  man,  and  keeping  in  close 
touch  with  the  vital  principles  and  questions  of  the  day,  gave  his  political  support 
to  the  republican  party.  His  religious  faith  was  that  of  the  Methodist  church  and 
he  lived  a  devout  Christian  lite.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Elizabeth 
Bernet,  although  there  was  no  blood  relationship  between  them,  was  also  a  native 
of  Switzerland  and  passed  away  in  Wisconsin  in  September,  1871,  at  the  age  of 
forty-five  years. 

Christian  Bernet  was  the  second  in  order  of  birth  in  a  family  of  eight  sons 
and  three  daughters,  of  whom  five  sons  and  one  daughter  are  yet  living.  He  was 
in  his  sixth  year  when  his  parents  crossed  the  Atlantic  on  a  sailing  vessel  to  the 
new  world  and  his  education  was  acquired  in  the  public  schools  of  Wisconsin  and 
In  the  Atwood  Business  College  at  La  Crosse.  His  early  life  to  the  age  of  twenty 
years  was  spent  upon  the  home  farm,  with  the  usual  experiences  of  the  farmbred 
boy,  and  after  leaving  home  and  completing  his  studies  he  became  sales  manager 
for  a  La  Crosse  mill,  thus  gaining  initial  experience  along  the  line  in  which  he  is 
now  successfully  and  extensively  operating.  He  continued  with  that  firm  as  an 
agent  in  St.  Louis  until  1874,  when  the  mill  was  destroyed  by  fire. 

Mr.  Bernet  then  entered  the  flour  brokerage  business  on  his  own  account, 
continuing  active  in  that  line  until  1886,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  with  H.  G. 
Craft  under  the  firm  style  of  Bernet  &  Craft.  They  conducted  a  flour  commission 
business  from  that  time  until  190  3,  when  their  present  interests  were  organized 
and  incorporated  under  the  name  of  the  Bernet,  Craft  &  Kauffman  Milling  Company. 

The  firm  conducts  mills  at  Mount  Carmel  and  East  St.  Louis,  Illinois,  with  an 
average  output  of  four  hundred  to  four  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  barrels  of  flour 
annually.  There  is  no  phase  of  the  flour  trade  through  all  the  processes  of  manu- 
facture and  the  later  sales  with  which  Mr.  Bernet  is  not  thoroughly  familiar,  and 
in  all  of  his  business  career  he  has  displayed  a  spirit  of  enterprise  and  progressive- 
ness  that  has  brought  him  to  a  most  prominent  position  as  a  representative  of  the 
milling  interests  of  the  middle  Mississippi  valley.  Men  who  meet  him  constantly  in 
business  relations  have  the  highest  opinion  of  him  as  a  thoroughly  capable  and 
dependable  business  man. 

Mr.  Bernet  was  married  in  1874  to  Miss  Ella  Markle,  a  native  of  Wisconsin  and 
a  daughter  of  George  Markle  of  an  old  Indiana  family.  Two  sons  were  born  of  this 
marriage:  Harry  Markle,  now  of  Dallas,  Texas;  and  John,  who  died  in  1896.  The 
wife  and  mother  died  in  1878  and  in  1880  Mr.  Bernet  was  married  to  Sarah  Huttig, 
daughter  of  Christ  Huttig.  They  have  a  family  of  four  sons  and  a  daughter:  Albert 
E.,  who  is  associated  with  his  father  in  business,  being  secretary  and  general  man- 
ager of  the  sales  department  of  the  Bernet,  Craft  &  Kauffman  Milling  Company; 
Arthur  C,  who  is  also  with  his  father  as  assistant  secretary  and  department  man- 
ager; Fred  Huttig,  who  is  superintendent  of  the  plant  at  East  St.  Louis;  and  Milton 
E.,  advertising  writer  and  chief  of  the  art  department  of  the  Western  Advertising 
Company  in  St.  Louis.  The  youngest  member  of  the  family  is  the  only  daughter, 
D.  Ester  Bernet,  a  graduate  of  Mary  Institute  and  now  a  freshman  at  Washington 
University. 

The  youngest  son,  Milton  E.,  was  twenty-four  years  of  age  at  the  outbreak  of 
the  war.  The  day  after  the  declaration  of  war  he  put  in  his  application  for  one 
of  the  Officers'  Training  Camps  which  the  government  had  announced  would  be 
commenced  to  provide  leaders  for  the  new  and  immense  army  which  it  was  realized 
would  have  to  be  recruited. 

His  call  to  duty  came  May  12,  1917,  and  he  immediately  proceeded  to  Port 
Riley,  Kansas,  where  for  the  next  three  months  he  went  through  the  strenuous  drill 
and  preparation  which  had  been  outlined  by  the  War  Department  for  the  first 
training  camps.  Military  life  was  not  entirely  new  to  him,  however,  for  as  a  student 
at  Missouri  University  a  few  years  before,  he  had  gained  the  rudiments  of  a  military 
•  education   in  the  cadet  corps. 

Commissioned  a  second  lieutenant  on  August  15,  he  was  immediately  called 
to  duty  and  assigned  to  the  89th  Division  which  was  being  organized  by  Major 
General  Leonard  Wood.  His  assignment  was  to  the  314th  Motor  Supply  Train, 
which  was  under  the  command  of  Lieutenant  Colonel  George  M.  Grimes,  just  re- 
turned from   the   Philippines.      First   as   supply   officer  and   later  as   adjutant.   Lieu- 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  939 

tenant  Bernet  discharged  his  duties  with  his  organization  through  the  nine  months 
of  preparation  of  the  division  to  go  overseas,  being  promoted  to  a  first  lieutenancy 
March  1,  1918.  The  314th  Motor  Supply  Train  left  Camp  Funston,  Kansas  (near 
Fort  Riley),  for  the  port  of  embarkation  on  June  4,  1918,  Major  Walter  C.  Cole 
being  in  command,  and  Lieutenant  Bernet  acting  as  his  adjutant. 

One  month  of  completing  equipment  and  the  314th  Motor  Supply  Train  sailed 
from  Hoboken,  New  Jersey,  on  the  28th  of  June  on  the  steamer  "Lapland,"  in  a 
convoy  of  fourteen  ships.  Tvro  thousand  six  hundred  troops  and  one  hundred  and 
seventy-five  officers  were  aboard  the  Lapland.  The  commanding  officer  of  the 
United  States  troops  aboard  the  Lapland  placed  Lieutenant  Bernet  on  special  duty 
and  appointed  him  adjutant  of  all  the  troops  aboard  the  ship.  Twelve  days  on  the 
Atlantic  ocean,  during  which  time  a  bevy  of  German  submarines  was  sighted  off 
the  Irish  coast,  but  successfully  eluded,  and  the  Lapland  arrived  at  Liverpool. 
Traveling  across  England  and  the  English  channel  Lieutenant  Bernet  reached  Le 
Havre,  Prance,  with  his  organization  on  the  13th  of  July,  the  day  before  the  great 
battle  which  commenced  at  Chateau-Thierry,  in  which  the  Americans  for  the  first 
time   distinguished   themselves. 

Down  the  French  coast  to  St.  Nazaire  the  organization  went,  waiting  there  for  a  week 
until  orders  finally  came  directing  the  impatient  soldiers  to  proceed  to  the  front.  The 
concentration  point  of  the  89th  Division  was  at  Rimaucourt,  about  forty  miles  behind  the 
front  in  the  St.  Mihiel  sector.  The  great  movement  up  to  the  actual  front  took  place  on 
August  2-3-4,  headquarters  of  the  89th  Division  being  established  at  Lucey,  and  Lieu- 
tenant Bernet  with  his  organization  being  stationed  first  at  Menil-la-Tour  and  later  at 
Grosrouvres.  After  taking  a  very  active  part  in  the  St.  Mihiel  drive,  attacking  on  a 
large  front  and  driving  the  Germans  back  before  them,  the  89th  Division  was  ordered  over 
to  the  Meuse-Argonne  sector. 

The  314th  Motor  Supply  Train  started  over  to  the  Meuse-Argonne  sector  on  October 
8,  1918,  Lieutenant  Bernet  preceding  the  movement  one  day,  as  he  had  a  special  detail 
as  a  billeting  officer,  and  it  was  his  duty  to  prepare  for  the  coming  of  the  troops.  Through 
the  Meuse-Argonne  offensive,  in  which  the  89th  Division  commenced  its  big  attack  at 
Bantheville  on  November  1st,  and  eleven  days  later  the  Germans  unconditionally  sur- 
rendered to  Marshall  Foch's  terms,  and  the  war  was  over.  In  this  latter  offensive  the 
314th  Motor  Supply  Train  lost  four  men  killed  and  twenty-nine  wounded. 

On  November  23,  orders  were  received  at  Train  Headquarters  for  the  movement  of 
the  organization  into  Germany  to  make  up  a  part  of  the  Army  of  Occupation.  Lieutenant 
Bernet,  still  in  the  capacity  of  billeting  officer,  preceded  the  rest  of  the  organization 
in  the  advance  into  Germany,  locating  the  train  first  at  Montmedy,  France,  then  at 
Chatillon  and  Arlon  in  Belgium,  then  Mersch  and  Echternach  in  Luxemburg,  and  across 
the  Sauer  river  at  Oberkail,  Germany,  the  1st  of  December.  Later  the  train  was  ordered 
to  occupy  Bitburg,  Germany,  and  Lieutenant  Bernet  was  located  here  with  his  organiza- 
tion from  December  7,  1918,  until  May  13,  1919. 

On  this  date  Lieutenant  Bernet  was  detached  from  his  organization  by  special  order 
from  General  Pershing's  headquarters.  His  organization  started  home,  but  Lieutenant 
Bernet,  who  in  civil  life  had  been  a  newspaper  man,  was  assigned  to  make  an  inspection 
of  the  entire  work  of  the  American  Expeditionary  Forces,  going  very  carefully  over  all 
the  battle-fields,  the  base  ports,  and  the  Service  of  Supplies.  The  trip  was  on  a  special 
train,  and  lasted  nineteen  days.  At  the  conclusion  of  the  tour.  Lieutenant  Bernet  started 
back  through  Germany  and  FVance  to  Paris,  and  then  down  to  Marseilles,  France,  where 
on  June  28  he  sailed  for  home  on  the  Italian  ship,  S.  S.  "Re  D'ltalla."  Arriving  in 
New  York  on  July  9,  he  secured  his  discharge  from  the  service  on  July  11,  having 
been  in  the  service  exactly  twenty-six  months. 

Mr.  Christian  Bernet  has  been  a  member  of  the  Merchants  Exchange  of  St.  Louis 
for  forty-eight  years,  and  has  always  taken  an  active  part  in  its  management.  He  has 
served  on  all  its  committees  for  many  years;  was  elected  a  director  of  the  body  in 
1907;  served  as  first  and  second  vice  president  in  1909  and  1910;  and  served  as  its 
president  in  1912.  His  administration  was  a  most  successful  one.  He  was  elected  on  an 
economy  platform  and  at  once  went  to  work  to  make  good  his  campaign  pledge.  He  re- 
organized all  the  departments  of  the  Exchange,  such  as  the  office  force,  employes  in  the 
building,  weighing  bureau  and  traffic  department,  placing  all  departments  on  a  self- 
sustaining  basis  wherever  it  was  possible.  He  saved  during  the  year  of  his  administra- 
tion over  thirty  thousand  dollars  for  the  Exchange  by  spending  over  ten  thousand  dol- 
lars on  Improvements  to  the  building,  which  put  it  in  splendidly  habitable  condition; 


940  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

also  investing  the  same  year  twenty  thousand  dollars  in  government  bonds.  AH  presi- 
dents since  have  followed  his  example  and  have  put  some  money  away  for  a  rainy  day. 

Mr.  Bernet  is  a  member  of  Rose  Hill  Lodge,  No.  550,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  has  attained 
the  thirty-second  degree  of  the  Scottish  Rite  Masonry  and  is  also  a  Shriner.  He  takes 
a  keen  interest  in  the  Chautauqua  movement,  and  has  been  president  of  New  Piasa 
Chautauqua,  (situated  about  thirteen  miles  above  Alton  in  a  beautiful  valley  on  the 
Illinois  shore  of  the  Mississippi  river)  for  the  past  nine  years  and  was  the  organizer  of 
the  association.  For  the  past  forty  years  he  has  been  very  active  in  the  St.  Louis 
Provident  Association  and  has  been  one  of  its  directors  for  many  years  and  served  as 
vice  president  and  as  its  president  1914  to  1916,  inclusive.  He  has  also  been  president 
of  the  Children's  Home  Society  of  Missouri  tor  the  past  nine  years  and  has  been  a 
director  for  a  period  of  fifteen  years.  The  prohibition  movement  also  has  found  in  him 
a  most  earnest  supporter.  He  has  fought  its  battles  for  thirty  years  and  filled  the  posi- 
tion of  president  of  the  Missouri  Anti-Saloon  League  for  ten  years  and  is  its  president 
today.  He  was  president  of  the  Citizens  Dry  Alliance  of  St.  Louis  in  1919,  during  the 
prohibition  campaign. 

Mr.  Bernet  has  been  an  ardent  worker  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  all  his  life 
He  and  all  his  family  are  members  of  the  Maple  Avenue  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  He 
financed  the  building  of  their  beautiful  auditorium  fifteen  years  ago  and  was  chairman 
of  the  building  committee  and  has  been  president  of  its  board  of  trustees  for  the  past 
twenty  years.  He  was  active  in  organizing  the  church  and  has  been  most  earnest  in 
religious  and  philanthropic  work  and  most  loyal  in  his  support  of  civic  interests,  cooperat- 
ing heartily  in  all  plans  and  projects  for  the  city's  upbuilding  and  development.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  of  the  St.  Louis  Commercial  Club,  and  of  the 
City  Club.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  republican  party  where  national 
questions  and  issues  are  involved,  but  at  local  elections  he  casts  an  independent  ballot. 
His  business  career  has  ever  balanced  up  with  the  principles  of  Justice  and  honor  and 
he  has  done  important  public  work  for  the  uplift  of  mankind,  not  merely  from  a  sense 
of   duty,   but   from   the   deepest    interest    in   the   welfare   of    his   fellowmen. 


HENRY   POLK  LOWENSTEIN. 

Henry  Polk  Lowenstein,  a  man  of  strict  integrity,  untiring  energy  and  great 
natural  ability,  the  latter  being  constantly  manifest  in  his  law  practice  as  a  member 
of  the  Kansas  City  bar,  was  born  in  Monroe  county,  Tennessee,  March  14,  1859. 
His  father,  Isaac  Lowenstein,  was  for  many  years  a  leading  citizen  of  White  Hall, 
Illinois,  where  he  long  engaged  in  merchandising.  He  was  born  in  Gimsheim,  a 
suburb  of  Worms,  Germany,  December  19,  1833,  but  the  militarism  of  that  country 
was  repugnant  to  him  and  when  but  nineteen  years  of  age  he  came  to  America  in 
a  sailing  vessel,  landing  on  the  shores  of  this  country  after  a  voyage  of  fifty-two 
days.  For  a  year  or  two  he  remained  with  an  aunt  at  Philadelphia  and  then  made 
his  way  to  east  Tennessee.  There  about  1854  he  married  Elizabeth  Ann  Ghormley, 
daughter  of  Pleasant  Miller  and  Ann  Ghormley,  of  Monroe  county,  Tennessee. 
When  the  Civil  war  broke  out  he  had  the  contract  for  carrying  mail  between 
Loudon,  Tennessee,  and  Dalton,  Georgia.  He  was  not  in  favor  of  secession,  but  being 
a  resident  of  the  south,  there  was  little  to  do  but  join  the  Confederate  army  and 
he  became  a  cavalryman.  He  was  captured  twice  and  twice  was  slightly  wounded. 
Following  his  second  capture  he  was  sent  to  the  military  prison  at  Rock  Island, 
Illinois,  where  he  spent  the  last  thirteen  months  of  the  war  period.  His  relations 
with  the  G.  A.  R.  veterans  in  after  years  were  always  the  most  cordial  and  a  source 
of  reminiscences  of  historic  value.  He  remained  in  Murray  county,  Georgia,  until 
the  fall  of  1869,  when  he  removed  with  his  family  to  Washington  county,  Arkansas, 
and  in  1872  left  that  place  to  become  a  resident  of  a  little  hamlet  called  St.  Martha, 
near  Pierce  City,  Missouri.  On  the  24th  of  July,  1873,  he  established  his  home 
at  Patterson,  Greene  county,  Illinois,  and  there  engaged  in  the  grocery  business. 
In  1877  he  removed  to  White  Hall,  attracted  by  the  opportunities  of  the  town,  and 
for  many  years  was  prominent  in  its  commercial  circles  as  senior  partner  in  the  firm 
of  Lowenstein  &  Sons,  where  the  business  is  still  carried  on.  To  him  and  his  wife 
were  born  eleven  children  and  their  care  and  training  was  of  the  utmost  interest 
to   him.      His   son,    Louis   Lowenstein,   was   a    pioneer   in    reclamation    work    in    the 


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Illinois  valley  and  became  one  of  the  leading  landholders  of  that  section  of  the  state. 
His  sons  Mark  and  Claude  are  now  carrying  on  the  store  at  White  Hall,  while 
William  P.  Lowenstein,  long  connected  with  the  firm,  has  now  passed  away.  He 
was  also  associated  for  twelve  years  with  his  brother  Louis  in  the  farming  and  live 
stock  business.  The  father  was  a  man  of  the  highest  integrity  of  character  and  most 
upright  purposes.  His  life  was  characterized  by  a  kindly  spirit  and  a  generous 
disposition  that  was  manifest  in  his  relations  to  all.  He  was  a  most  devoted  follower 
of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  at  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred 
September  30,  1895,  was  serving  as  noble  grand  of  Benevolent  Lodge.  He  has  been 
described  as  "small  of  statue,  somewhat  stooped,  with  dark  brown  eyes,  weighing 
one  hundred  and  twenty-five  or  thirty  pounds,  with  black  hair  in  younger  days  and 
gray  when  old.  He  was  a  very  modest  person,  was  extremely  unassuming  and  died 
respected  by  all  citizens  of  every  class  and  station  in  life."  His  widow  survived  him 
for  a  decade  and  a  half,  passing  away  in  1910. 

Henry  Polk  Lowenstein  was  the  third  in  order  of  birth  in  the  family.  The 
others  are:  Louis  Lowenstein,  of  White  Hall,  Illinois;  Mrs.  Louise  Fishback,  of 
Carrollton,  Illinois;  Mark  Lowenstein  and  Claude  Lowenstein,  of  White  Hall,  Illi- 
nois, and  Mrs.  Lena  Eberhart,  of  Austin,  Minnesota.  Two  brothers  died  in  infancy, 
Davis  and  Herman.  Two  sisters,  Mrs.  Caroline  C.  Smith  and  Mrs.  Laura  Gardiner, 
of  White  Hall,  Illinois,  died  several  years  ago.  Mrs.  Smith  left  one  son,  Lynn  C. 
Smith  of  MTiite  Hall,  Illinois. 

Henry  P.  Lowenstein  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of 
White  Hall,  Illinois,  and  there  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  an  attorney 
of  that  place.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Springfield,  Illinois,  in  1881  and  entered 
upon  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  that  state,  there  remaining  until  1884,  when 
he  removed  to  Ottawa,  Kansas.  Later  he  returned  to  Illinois,  where  he  again 
resided  for  two  years,  and  on  the  20th  of  December,  1886,  arrived  in  Kansas  City 
where  he  has  since  made  his  home.  He  is  a  valued  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Bar 
Association,  enjoying  the  high  respect  and  confidence  of  his  colleagues  and  contem- 
poraries in  the  profession.  His  unerring  Judgment  and  wide  knowledge  of  the  law, 
and  more  especially  the  law  in  relation  to  real  estate,  have  brought  him  prominence 
in  that  field.  His  success  Is  attributable  to  his  strict  integrity,  his  good  natural 
ability  and  his  judgment  along  the  line  in  which  he  has  specialized. 

Mr.  Lowenstein  was  one  of  the  examining  attorneys  of  the  Lombard  Investment 
Company  from  1888  until  1893  and  after  the  company  failed  he  remained  with 
Frank  Hagerman,  sole  receiver  of  the  company,  until  its  assets  were  sold  to  the 
Fidelity  Trust  Company  in  1894.  He  examined  all  of  the  titles  for  the  extension  of 
the  Missouri,  Kansas  &  Texas  Railroad  yards  a  few  years  ago  and  all  of  the  new 
Union  station  titles.  He  is  now  counsel  for  the  Kansas  City  Title  &  Trust  Company 
and  has  a  large  private  practice,  being  regarded  throughout  the  state  as  an  authority 
on  real  estate  law. 

Mr.  Lowenstein  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Temple  Lodge,  No.  299,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
while  in  the  Scottish  Rite  he  has  taken  the  degrees  in  the  Adoniram  Lodge  of  Per- 
fection, the  Areopagus  Chapter  of  the  Rose  Croix,  De  Molai  Council  of  the  Knights 
of  Kadosh  and  the  Consistory  of  western  Missouri.  His  York  Rite  connections 
are  with  Orient  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.;  Shekinah  Council,  R.  &  S.  M.;  and  he  has  also 
crossed  the  sands  of  the  desert  with  the  nobles  of  Ararat  Temple  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine.  He  is  very  prominent  and  widely  known  in  the  order  and  is  a  man  who  is 
most  liberal  in  connection  with  charitable  and  philanthropic  work. 

He  was  married  July  2,  1891,  to  Miss  Rebecca  C.  Dempsey,  of  Danville,  Indiana. 
One  child  was  born  of  that  marriage,  Henry  Polk  Lowenstein,  Jr.,  who  is  a  lawyer 
at  Long  Beach,  California.  He  enlisted  in  the  navy  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  war, 
and  was  made  ensign,  and  later  lieutenant,  j.  g.  Mrs.  Lowenstein  died  July  7, 
1900.  Mr.  Lowenstein  was  married  to  Mrs.  Belle  Van  Natta  Dom,  of  Kansas  City, 
formerly  of  Burlingame,  Kansas,  June  25,  1907. 

It  would  be  to  give  an  impartial  and  one-sided  view  of  Mr.  Lowenstein  to  write 
of  him  merely  as  a  most  successful  lawyer.  There  is  another  side  to  his  nature 
which  has  found  expression  in  clear  prose  and  exceptional  verse.  Some  of  his  poems 
have  been  extensively  copied  in  this  country  and  Europe.  Notably  his  answer  to 
Lieutenant  Colonel  John  McCrae's  "In  Flanders  Fields,"  also  his  "Welcome  to  Our 
Soldiers."  He  has  recently  composed  a  very  beautiful  poem,  entitled,  "O  Let  Me 
Sleep  in  Flanders  Fields,"  which  has  attracted  much  attention.     He  has  reached  high 

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poetic  heights  in  some  of  these,  the  beauty  and  spirit  of  his  poem  as  au  answer  to 
"In  Flanders  Fields"  causes  the  historian  to  select  that  and  "O  Let  Me  Sleep  in 
Flanders  Fields"  tor  presentation  here: 

IN  FLANDERS   FIELDS. 

Sleep  on,  brave  soldiers,  sleep,  sleep  where  the  poppies  grow. 

Sleep  on,  brave  soldiers,  in  your  places,  row  on  row. 

The  lark's  still  soaring  in  the  sky. 

Still  bravely  singing,  soaring  high. 

Away  above  the  cannon's  roar. 

Scarce  heard  amid  the  guns  as  yore. 

Before  you  slept  in  Flanders  Fields. 

The  faith  with  you  we've  kept  and  battled  with  the  foe; 

On  crimson  fields  by  you  we've  slept  where  popples  blow. 

The  torch  you  flung  to  us  we  caught; 

With  blist'ring  hands  we've  bravely  fought 

To  hold  it  high  to  guard  you  through  the  Night, 

And  at  the  Dawn  to  guide  you  to  the  Light. 

When  you  awake  from  Flanders  Fields. 

LET  ME  SLEEP  IN  FLANDERS  FIELDS. 

In  Flanders  Fields,  O  let  me  sleep. 
And  wake  me  not  and  never  weep 

For  me.     I  rest  in  perfect  peace; 

And  till  all  earthly  strife  shall  cease, 
I  shall  in  silence  slumber  deep. 

You  do  me  wrong  to  stir  and  sweep 
Away  my  fondest  hopes  and  keep 

Me  from  my  rest  and  just  release. 

In  Flanders  Fields. 

Disturb  me  not,  but  let  me  sleep 
Right  where  I  am  and  never  weep 

Again,  for  I  shall  never  cease 

To  live  and  make  my  light  increase, 
As  Time  rolls  on  in  silence  deep. 

In  Flanders  Fields. 


OTTO   WILLIAM    CROY. 


Otto  William  Croy,  vice  president  of  the  Central  Exchange  National  Bank  of 
Kansas  City,  who  by  close  application  has  risen  from  a  minor  clerkship  and  whose 
future  career  seems  well  worth  watching,  was  born  in  Buchanan  county,  Missouri, 
April  1,  1886.  His  father,  William  H.  Croy,  was  born  in  Michigan  and  from  that 
state  removed  to  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  where  he  spent  his  remaining  days,  ranking 
for  many  years  as  an  honored  and  representative  resident  there.  For  an  extended 
period  he  was  county  assessor  of  Buchanan  county  and  was  very  active  in  public 
and  political  affairs.  He  belonged  to  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and 
his  life  was  characterized  by  sterling  qualities  of  heart  and  mind.  He  died  in  1898 
and  is  still  survived  by  his  wife,  who  is  now  living  in  Kansas  City.  In  her  maiden- 
hood she  was  Miss  Caroline  Martens,  a  native  of  Hamburg,  Germany,  who  came  to 
the  United  States  with  her  parents  in  her  early  girlhood.  By  her  marriage  she  has 
become  the  mother  of  five  children. 

Otto  W.  Croy  was  a  public  school  pupil  in  St.  Joseph,  where  he  passed  through 
consecutive  grades  to  the  high  school.  When  fourteen  years  of  age  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Tootle-Lacy  National  Bank  at  St.  Joseph  and  remained  with  that 
Institution    for   sixteen    years,    rising    from    the   position    of    errand    boy    to    that    of 


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assistant  cashier  through  various  intermediate  promotions,  won  through  diligence, 
faithfulness  and  ability.  He  came  to  Kansas  City  as  cashier  of  the  Stock  Yards 
National  Bank  in  June,  1918.  and  in  July,  1919,  was  elected  to  the  vice  presidency 
of  the  Central  Exchange  National  Bank  of  Kansas  City,  in  which  position  he  yet 
continues.  His  aggressiveness  is  tempered  by  a  safe  conservatism  and  he  displays 
sound  judgment  in  all  business  affairs.  The  progress  that  he  has  already  made 
indicates  that  there  is  a  bright  future  before  him. 

In  1909  Mr.  Croy  was  married  to  Miss  Effie  Thorne,  a  daughter  of  W.  P.  Thorne, 
president  of  the  Citizens  Bank  of  Linneus,  Missouri,  and  a  representative  of  a 
prominent  old  family  there.  Mrs.  Croy  is  a  graduate  of  Central  College  of  Lexing- 
ton,  Missouri,   and   has   been   very   active   in  social   service,   civic  and   church   work. 

Mr.  Croy  is  much  interested  in  golf  and  theatricals  as  a  means  of  recreation 
and  diversion.  He  belongs  to  the  Milburn  Country  Club,  also  to  the  City  Club 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Fraternally  he  is  identified  with 
the  Masons,  having  membership  in  Ivanhoe  Lodge,  No.  446,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  while 
in  the  Scottish  Rite  he  has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree  and  is  a  member  of 
Ararat  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  a  man  of  fine  personal  appearance, 
affable  and  genial,  and  has  many  friends  wherever  known. 


GEORGE  NELSON  LOCKRIDGE. 

Deeds  of  valor  have  ever  been  the  tjieme  of  song  and  story  through  countless 
ages.  The  heroism  that  makes  a  man  face  death  in  defense  of  home,  country  and 
principle  has  justly  won  for  him  the  honor  and  reverence  of  his  fellows.  For  a  long 
period  the  American  citizen  thrilled  with  the  story  of  the  "boys  in  blue,"  and  then  a 
new  glory  page  was  added  to  the  country's  history  when  four  million  of  her  sons 
responded  to  the  call  to  the  colors,  one-half  of  this  number  being  sent  overseas  for 
active  service  in  the  World  war.  Among  the  youth  of  Missouri  who  thus  manifested 
their  patriotic  loyalty  was  George  Nelson  Lockridge.  who  with  the  quietude  and 
unpretentiousness  of  the  American  soldier  has  resumed  the  pursuits  of  civil  life 
and  is  now  the  president  of  the  Kansas  City  Automobile  Supply  Company.  He  is  a 
native  son  of  this  city,  his  birth  having  here  occurred  June  30,  1891.  His  father, 
Charles  R.  Lockridge.  was  also  born  in  Kansas  City,  in  1860,  his  parents  having 
located  here  in  the  early  '50s.  The  grandfather  homesteaded  where  is  now  Santa 
Fe  Place  and  built  the  first  hall  in  Kansas  City,  known  as  Lockridge  Hall.  He  had 
large  holdings  on  Walnut  and  Main  streets  and  Grand  avenue  and  continued  as  one 
of  the  prominent  residents  of  the  western  metropolis  through  the  ensuing  period  of 
development  and  upbuilding. 

George  N.  Lockridge  attended  the  high  school  and  afterward  became  a  student 
in  the  University  of  Missouri,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1912,  having  com- 
pleted his  law  course  when  twenty  years  of  age,  at  which  time  the  LL.  B.  degree 
was  conferred  upon  him.  He  was  admitted  to  practice  on  the  2d  of  July  of  the 
same  year  and  entered  upon  the  active  work  of  the  profession,  devoting  five  years 
to  general  law  practice  in  Kansas  City.  After  serving  two  years  in  the  army  he 
became  interested  in  the  Kansas  City  Automobile  Supply  Company,  the  oldest 
company  of  the  kind  in  the  city,  established  in  1900.  He  is  now  the  president, 
treasurer  and  general  manager  of  this  business,  which  is  conducted  along  wholesale 
and  retail  lines.  In  May,  1919,  Mr.  Lockridge  was  also  one  of  the  organizers  of 
the  Motors  Loan  Company,  of  which  he  is  the  secretary.  He  has  thus  been  associated 
with  the  motor  car  trade  in  Kansas  City  for  fifteen  months  and  has  been  active  in 
the  development  of  a  business  which  is  now  one  of  the  extensive  and  important 
Commercial  enterprises  of  western   Missouri. 

Mr.  Lockridge  enlisted  In  the  United  States  army  in  June,  1917,  and  shortly 
after  enlistment  he  was  transferred  to  the  Air  Service,  becoming  a  cadet  at  the 
University  of  Ohio.  After  completing  an  eight  weeks  course  he  was  commissioned 
and  ordered  to  report  to  Kelly  Field,  San  Antonio,  Texas.  In  June,  1918,  he  was 
sent  overseas  as  a  casual  and  for  a  short  time  was  adjutant  of  a  company  of  motor 
mechanics  stationed  at  the  Second  Aviation  Instruction  Center.  Tours,  France. 
He  was  later  made  commanding  officer  of  a  radio  detachment  stationed  at  the  same 
camp,  and  shortly  thereafter  was  ordered  to  report  to  the  Third  Aviation   Instruc- 


946  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

tion  Center,  Issoudun.  France,  to  take  flying  instruction.  After  receiving  a  short 
course  in  flying  he  was  disqualified  as  the  medical  board  decided  he  could  not 
stand  a  high  altitude.  He  was  then  made  assistant  adjutant  of  the  headquarters 
detachment  of  the  Third  Aviation  Instruction  Center  which  detachment  at  one  time 
consisted  of  1020  flying  officers.  In  January,  1919,  he  was  ordered  to  report  to 
the  assistant  chief  of  Air  Service,  at  Tours,  where  he  assisted  in  compiling  the 
history  of  the  Air  Service  of  the  American  Expeditionary  Forces.  Upon  returning 
to  America  in  April,  1919,  he  received  his  discharge  at  Mitchell  Field,  Long  Island. 

Mr.  Lockridge  is  a  member  of  the  Rotary  Club.  He  belongs  to  the  Phi  Delta 
Theta  fraternity  and  the  Phi  Alpha  Delta  Law  fraternity,  and  he  has  given  his 
political  allegiance  to  the  democratic  party  since  early  manhood.  He  served  for 
some  time  as  a  member  of  the  central  committee  of  Jackson  county  and  has  done 
everything  in  his  power  to  further  the  interests  and  secure  the  adoption  of  the 
political  principles  in  which  he  so  firmly  believes. 


CHARLES  LOUIS  NIEMEIER. 

On  the  7th  of  January.  1920,  Charles  Louis  Niemeier  was  elected  to  the  presi- 
dency of  the  Merchants  Exchange,  of  which  he  has  been  a  member  for  twenty  years 
and  in  which  he  has  held  other  offices  indicative  of  his  high  standing  in  the  business 
circles  of  St.  Louis,  where  lie  is  widely  known  as  the  president  and  treasurer  of 
the  Schultz-Niemeier  Commission  Company.  He  has  long  been  identified  with 
the  grain  trade  of  the  city,  and  the  company  of  which  he  is  the  chief  executive 
officer  also  handles  a  general  commission  business.  Mr.  Niemeier  is  a  native  of 
the  neighboring  state  of  Illinois,  his  birth  having  occurred  at  Columbia,  Monroe 
county,  November  28,  1867,  his  parents  being  Christian  and  Katharine  (Kraus) 
Niemeier,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Germany.  The  father,  coming  to  America 
during  the  '5  0s,  settled  at  Columbia,  Monroe  county,  Illinois,  where  he  resided 
throughout  his  remaining  days.  He  was  a  butcher  by  trade  and  during  the  Civil 
war  period  engaged  in  the  purchase  and  sale  of  horses  and  mules,  which  he  provided 
for  the  army.  In  later  years  he  met  with  substantial  success  in  the  real  estate 
and  land  business  and  passed  away  at  Columbia,  January  14,  1904,  at  the  age 
of  seventy-four  years.  His  wife  also  came  to  the  new  world  during  the  '50s 
and  they  were  married  at  Columbia,  becoming  the  parents  of  six  children,  five 
daughters  and  a  son,  all  of  whom  are  yet  living.  The  mother,  whose  birth  occurred 
in  1845,  sitll  makes  her  home  at  Columbia. 

Charles  L.  Niemeier.  the  only  son,  was  educated  in  private  and  public  schools 
of  his  native  city  and  in  the  Bryant  &  Stratton  Business  College  of  St.  Louis.  He 
was  graduated  from  the  high  school  at  Columbia  in  1882  and  from  the  Bryant  & 
Stratton  Business  College  with  the  class  of  1884.  When  seventeen  years  of  age 
he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Schwartz  Brothers  Commission  Company  of  St. 
Louis  in  the  capacity  of  office  boy  and  continued  with  the  firm  for  thirteen  years. 
He  then  formed  a  partnership  with  Henry  C.  Schultz  in  March,  1897,  and  in  1900 
the  business  was  incorporated  under  the  name  of  the  Schultz-Niemeier  Commis- 
sion Company.  Since  the  death  of  Mr.  Schultz  on  the  3d  of  March,  1916,  Mr. 
Niemeier  has  been  the  president  and  treasurer,  having  formerly  served  as  the 
secretary  and  treasurer.  An  extensive  business  has  been  built  up,  the  firm  having 
long  figured  prominently  in  connection  with  the  grain  trade  of  St.  Louis  and  in 
the  conduct  of  a  general  commission  business.  Mr.  Niemeier  is  also  the  vice 
president  of  the  Lindell  Fair  Grounds  Realty  &  Investment  Company  and  in  all 
business  matters  displays  sound  judgment  and  keen  discrimination.  He  has 
worked  his  way  upward  entirely  through  his  own  efforts  and  the  exercise  of  his 
powers  is  keeping  him  alert.  He  combines  scrupulous  honesty  with  sound  judg- 
ment, is  watchful  over  every  detail  of  his  business  and  manifests  a  most  progressive 
spirit  in  all  that  he  undertakes,  while  his  genial  personality  must  always  be 
reckoned  as  a  substantial  feature  in  his  success.  For  twenty  years  he  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Merchants  Exchange  and  in  1913  and  1914  served  as  one  of  its 
directors,  while  in  1917  and  1918  he  was  the  second  vice  president,  in  1919  was 
first  vice  president  and  on  the  7th  of  January,  1920,  received  the  well  merited 
honor  of  election  to  the  presidency. 


CHARLES  L.  NIEMEIEE 


THI  KIW  TORI 
POBUCLI^JURY 


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On  the  14th  of  January,  1891,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Niemeier  was  married  to 
Miss  Emma  K.  Wissmath,  a  native  of  Waterloo.  Illinois,  but  reared  from  infancy 
in  St.  Louis.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Charles  and  Wilhelmina  (VoUhardt)  Wissmath, 
both  representatives  of  old  St.  Louis  families. 

Mr.  Niemeier  is  very  prominent  in  Masonic  circles  and  is  vice  president  of 
the  Scottish  Rite  Cathedral  Association.  He  has  membership  with  Anchor  Lodge, 
No.  443,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  St.  Louis  Chapter,  No.  8,  R.  A.  M.;  Hiram  Council,  No.  1, 
R.  &  S.  M.;  Ascalon  Commandery,  No.  16,  K.  T.;  and  is  a  Knights  Commander 
Court  of  Honor  of  the  Ancient  &  Accepted  Scottish  Rite;  Moolah  Temple  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine;  Alhambra  Grotto  No.  47;  and  Belletontaine  Chapter  No.  69,  of  the 
Eastern  Star.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Royal  Order  of  Scotland  at  Washing- 
ton, D.  C.  He  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  to  the  Zoological  Society, 
to  the  Auto  Club  of  St.  Louis,  the  Travelers  Protective  Association,  the  Zion 
Evangelical  Church  and  Brotherhood  and  is  a  director  of  the  north  end  branch  of 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  of  St.  Louis.  All  these  connections  indicate 
most  clearly  the  nature  of  his  interests  and  the  rules  which  govern  his  conduct. 
During  the  war  period  he  was  active  in  support  of  all  Interests  which  upheld  the 
government  or  maintained  the  welfare  of  the  soldiers  in  camp  and  field.  He 
served  on  dvery  Liberty  Loan,  Red  Cross  and  Y.  M.  C.  A.  drive  and  he  can  always 
be  counted  upon  to  take  a  leading  part  in  social  and  political  interests  and  par- 
ticularly in  the  work  of  those  organizations  which  tend  to  uplift  mankind. 


ANDREW   J.   HAVERSTICK. 


Andrew  J.  Haverstick,  a  member  o£  the  St.  Louis  bar  since  1900,  was  born  in 
Victoria,  Jefferson  county,  Missouri,  January  9,  1878.  He  is  a  son  of  William  J. 
Haverstick,  a  native  of  Missouri,  and  a  grandson  of  George  W.  Haverstick,  who  be- 
came one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Jefferson  county,  where  he  took  up  his  abode 
about  1835.  He  was  a  farmer  who  also  engaged  in  wagon  making  and  in  teaming. 
He  hauled  freight  from  the  Mississippi  river  in  the  early  days  before  the  railroads 
were  built.  His  son,  William  J.  Haverstick,  was  reared  and  educated  in  Jefferson 
county  and  there  followed  farming  and  stock  raising,  winning  substantial  success. 
He  served  as  a  member  of  the  Home  Guard  during  the  Civil  war  and  he  reached 
the  age  of  seventy-five  years,  passing  away  October  29,  1911.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Vinyard,  who  was  born  in  Jefferson  county,  Missouri,  a  daughter  of  Bellevlew  Vin- 
yard,  a  representative  of  an  old,  wealthy  and  prominent  pioneer  family  of  Jeffer- 
son county.  The  maternal  grandfather  of  Andrew  J.  Haverstick  was  the  owner  of 
large  farm  and  land  Interests  at  Victoria  and  in  Jefferson  county.  His  daughter, 
Mrs.  Haverstick,  passed  away  in  April,  1919,  at  the  age  of  seventy-six  years. 

Andrew  J.  Haverstick  was  the  eighth  in  order  of  birth  in  a  family  numbering 
six  sons  and  three  daughters.  He  was  educated  In  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
county  and  in  the  State  University  at  Columbia,  in  which  he  studied  for  two  years 
before  entering  upon  preparation  for  a  professional  career  as  a  law  student  in  Wash- 
ington University,  which  conferred  upon  him  the  LL.  B.  degree  in  1901.  He  had  been 
admitted  to  practice  in  December  of  the  previous  year  and  at  once  opened  a  law  office 
in  St.  Louis,  where  he  has  since  remained  an  active  representative  of  the  profession. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association  and  during  the  World  war  he  served 
as  a  member  of  the  legal  advisory  board  of  the  eighteenth  ward  and  was  active  in 
promoting  the  sale  of  Liberty  bonds,  in  advancing  the  Red  Cross  drives  and  other 
war  measures. 

On  the  9th  of  October,  1907,  Mr.  Haverstick  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss 
Henrietta  Bischoff,  a  native  of  this  city  and  a  daughter  of  Henry  and  Henrietta 
(Geismann)  Bischoff,  a  family  well  known  in  St.  Louis  from  an  early  day,  Henry 
Bischoff  being  the  founder  of  the  St.  Louis  Dressed  Beef  Company,  one  of  the  largest 
packing  industries  of  the  city.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Haverstick  have  been  born  two 
children:  Andrew  Henry,  born  In  St.  Louis,  December  29,  1911;  and  Ida  Janet, 
born  May  12,  1918. 

Mr.  Haverstick  deserves  much  credit  for  what  he  has  accomplished.  No  special 
a^antages  aided  him  at  the  outset  of  his  career.  Following  his  graduation  from 
high  school  he  took  up  the  profession  of  teaching,  which  he  followed  for  two  years, 


950  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

and  from  his  earnings  he  paid  his  way  through  the  university.  While  a  student 
there  he  served  with  the  State  Cadets  for  a  year.  He  has  two  brothers  who  are 
also  professional  men,  George  W.  Haverstick  being  a  prominent  physician  and  sur- 
geon, while  Dr.  Edward  E.  Haverstick  is  equally  well  known  as  a  dentist.  All  of 
his  brothers  and  sisters  are  living  with  the  exception  of  Samuel  T.  Haverstick  and 
the  three  brothers  mentioned  have  made  for  themselvs  a  prominent  place  in  pro- 
fessional circles,  each  choosing  a  different  line  but  all  gaining  success  in  their  par- 
ticular fields.  Mr.  Haverstick  is  a  democrat  in  his  political  views,  but  the  honors 
and  emoluments  of  ofRce  have  had  no  attraction  for  him  as  he  has  preferred  to  con- 
centrate his  energy  and  his  attention  upon  his  professional  interests.  He  has  been 
actuated  by  a  singleness  of  purpose  that  has  resulted  in  close  application  to  his  pro- 
fession and  the  thoroughness  and  earnestness  with  which  he  has  prepared  his  cases 
have  constituted  potent  elements  in  the  attainment  of  success  for  his  clients  before 
the  courts. 


C.  W.   BECK. 


This  is  an  electrical  age  and  back  of  the  mammoth  machinery  which  is  proving 
the  motive  power  in  the  world  is  a  dynamo  that  is  sending  its  currents  into  every 
piece  of  machinery.  This  force  finds  its  counterpart  in  many  men — men  who  are 
human  dynamos  in  their  skill  in  organization  and  in  their  power  of  construction. 
Such  a  one  is  0.  W.  Beck,  the  president  of  the  Beck  Realty  Development  Company, 
who  never  measures  anything  by  the  inch  rule  of  self  but  by  the  standard  gauge 
of  opportunity  and  possibility.  In  the  conduct  of  his  business  affairs  he  is  not  only 
attaining  substantial  financial  results  for  himself  but  is  proving  an  element  in  the 
growth  and  progress  of  the  city  that  is  recognized  by  all  who  know  aught  of  his 
career.  St.  Louis  numbers  him  among  her  native  sons,  his  birth  having  here 
occurred  November  12,  1892,  his  parents  being  John  T.  and  Catherine  (Pfeiffer) 
Beck,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  this  city  and  representatives  of  pioneer  families. 
The  father  was  prominently  connected  with  the  distillery  business  in  St.  Louis  in 
an  early  day  and  was  the  first  man  to  distill  whiskey  from  oats,  being  pensioned  by 
his  firm  in  recognition  of  this  discovery.  He  passed  away  in  189  5,  but  the  mother 
is  still  living  and  is  now  the  wife  of  Joseph  Resico,  who  for  thirty-three  years  has 
been  connected  with  the  American  Car  &  Foundry  Company. 

C.  W.  Beck  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  also  promoted 
his  knowledge  largely  through  reading  and  home  study.  When  he  was  but  seventeen 
years  of  age  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Ruby  Florence  Langley,  of  Pueblo, 
Colorado,  this  being  a  school  boy  and  school  girl  elopement.  He  was  at  that  time 
the  possessor  of  but  ten  dollars.  Following  his  marriage  he  began  work  at  the 
construction  business  and  four  years  later,  or  by  the  spring  of  1914,  he  had 
amassed  a  fortune  of  one  hundred  and  tour  thousand  dollars.  By  the  following 
fall,  however,  he  was  not  worth  a  dollar,  having  lost  the  entire  amount  in  the 
construction  business  owing  to  conditions  brought  about  by  the  outbreak  of  the 
European  war.  He  then  went  to  Colorado  with  his  wife  to  visit  her  people,  who 
resided  upon  a  cattle  ranch  near  Pueblo.  The  spirit  of  the  young  couple  was  not 
broken  by  their  financial  reverses  and  their  pride  would  not  allow  them  to  let  their 
financial  condition  be  known.  After  their  available  funds  were  completely  exhausted 
they  slipped  into  Pueblo,  rented  a  couple  of  cheap  housekeeping  rooms  and  Mr.  Beck 
went  to  work  as  a  day  laborer  in  the  steel  mills  at  a  dollar  and  seventy-five  cents 
per  day,  which  pittance  was  granted  him  in  recognition  of  twelve  hours'  labor.  It 
required  an  iron  will  and  a  strong  heart  to  weather  the  adversities  of  that  winter, 
but  by  the  spring  of  1915  the  young  couple  had  saved  enough  to  buy  a  ticket  to 
St.  Louis.  Soon  after  reaching  the  home  city  Mr.  Beck  was  employed  to  help 
finance  the  Langham  Cotton  Cultivator  Company  of  Atlanta,  Georgia,  and  thus  he 
found  his  niche  in  life,  for  he  is  a  born  salesman  and  organizer.  His  work  took 
him  all  through  the  southern  states  and  after  the  successful  completion  of  the 
organization  of  the  company  he  found  himself  in  the  following  fall  solidly  landed 
on  his  feet  once  more  financially.  Returning  to  St.  Louis,  he  then  engaged  in  the 
real  estate  business  and  is  today  one  of  the  dominant  figures  in  connection  with  realty 
activity  in  Missouri's  metropolis.     In  December,  1919,  he  organized  the  Beck  Realty 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  953 

Development  Company,  of  which  he  is  president  and  principal  owner.  He  is  now 
handling  extensive  property  interests  both  for  himself  and  others,  and  with  the 
thoroughness  that  has  characterized  him  in  everything  that  he  has  undertaken  he 
has  acquainted  himself  with  every  phase  of  the  real  estate  market  and  is  directing 
his  activities  along  most  progressive  lines.  Moreover,  he  displays  marked  initiative 
and  originality  in  the  conduct  of  his  affairs.  He  looks  beyond  the  exigencies  of  the 
moment  to  the  opportunities  and  possibilities  of  the  future,  and  it  is  this  quality 
which  has  led  him  upon  a  campaign  of  advertising  that  has  no  direct  influence  upon 
his  business  but  will  bring  about  direct  results  in  the  upbuilding  and  benefit  of  the 
city.  He  has  started  a  plan  of  advertising  that  will  cause  him  to  expend  $12,000.00 
in  the  year.  He  is  placing  four  different  signs  in  the  street  cars  and  in  the  coaches 
of  the  commutation  trains  of  the  Frisco  and  Missouri  Pacific  Railroads,  urging 
cooperation  of  all  citizens  in  an  attempt  to  upbuild  St.  Louis.  The  cards  for  one 
month  read  as  follows:  "All  pull  together  now  for  St.  Louis."  "There  are  some 
who  knock  St.  Louis.  Nail  them  when  and  where  you  meet  them."  "The  old 
knockers  are  about  through.  St.  Louis  forges  on  in  spite  of  them."  "The  sickly 
knocker  with  the  weak  chin  and  slanting  forehead  has  had  his  day.  St.  Louis  moves 
on  and  a  new  spirit  is  abroad  in  this  city."  The  second  month  brought  out  the 
following:  "Knocking  your  own  city  easily  becomes  a  bad  habit.  Don't  get  that 
way."  "The  loose-tongued,  thoughtless  citizen  who  knocks  St.  Louis  does  not 
realize  that  he  is  almost  invariably  wrong — all  wrong."  "When  you  see  something 
wrong  don't  go  about  knocking  the  town.  A  good  citizen  will  try  to  remedy  the 
condition.  What  are  you  doing  for  St.  Louis  along  this  line?"  "The  greatness  of 
a  city  is  in  the  hearts  of  her  citizens.  When  you  knock  St.  Louis  you  expose  your 
own  weakness  and  show  that  your  heart  is  in  the  wrong  place."  Each  card  bore  the 
name  "Beck."  People  began  to  question  "Who  is  Beck?"  but  the  man  behind  the 
name  had  no  object  of  advertising  himself  in  this,  being  prompted  by  a  true  spirit 
of  altruism  in  behalf  of  his  native  city. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Beck  have  become  parents  of  a  son,  William  H.,  who  was  born 
April  5,  1914.  Politically  Mr.  Beck  is  a  republican  and  he  is  active  in  all  civic 
affairs,  having  membership  with  the  St.  Louis  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  both  the 
senior  and  junior  bodies.  He  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church 
and  occupy  an  attractive  home  at  No.  25  East  Big  Bend  road  in  Webster  Groves. 


THOMAS  JESSE  THORNHILL. 

Thomas  Jesse  Thornhill,  attorney  at  law  of  Kansas  City  since  1883,  each  intervening 
year  chronicling  progress  in  his  profession,  was  born  in  Appomattox  county,  Virginia, 
October  8,  1849,  and  is  a  representative  of  an  old  southern  family.  His  grandfather, 
Thomas  Thornhill,  v/as  one  of  the  early  residents  of  the  Old  Dominion  and  served  as  a 
soldier  in  the  War  of  1812.  His  father,  Albert  Thornhill,  was  also  born  in  Virginia 
and  through  his  active  business  life  followed  farming,  milling  and  tanning.  He  served 
as  a  soldier  in  the  Confederate  army.  He  belonged  to  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  was  a 
past  master  of  Monroe  Lodge,  No.  212,  A.  P.  &  A.  M.  He  was  also  a  faithful  follower 
of  the  Baptist  church,  was  a  member  of  the  advisory  board  and  for  forty-four  years  served 
as  one  of  the  church  deacons.  He  passed  away  in  1886.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden 
name  of  Lucinda  A.  Lowry,  was  also  born  in  Virginia  and  by  her  marriage  became  the 
mother  of  eight  children,  of  whom  six  are  yet  living,  two  having  passed  away  in  infancy. 

Thomas  J.  Thornhill,  the  eldest  of  the  family,  began  his  education  in  the  country 
schools  of  his  native  county  and  afterward  attended  Richmond  College,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  1872.  He  had  qualified  for  the  bar,  and,  being  admitted  to  practice, 
entered  upon  the  active  work  of  the  profession  in  Buckingham  and  Appomattox  counties 
of  Virginia,  where  he  remained  until  1883.  The  opportunities  of  the  growing  middle  west 
led  him  then  to  leave  his  own  home  and  become  a  resident  of  Kansas  City,  where  he 
has  since  remained  in  practice.  He  is  regarded  as  a  lawyer  of  superior  ability,  who 
finds  ready  and  correct  solution  for  the  most  intricate  and  involved  legal  problems.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association  and  he  enjoys  the  highest  respect  and 
esteem  of  his  colleagues  and  contemporaries  in  the  practice  of  law. 

Like  his  father,  Mr.  Thornhill  is  prominent  in  Masonry  and  has  come  to  be  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  leading  representatives  of  the  fraternity  in  the  state.    He  belongs  to 


954  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Rural  Lodge,  No.  316,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  which  he  is  serving  as  secretary  for  the  twenty- 
fourth  consecutive  year;  to  Kansas  City  Chapter,  No.  28,  R.  A.  M.;  Shekinah  Council, 
R.  &  S.  M.,  and  in  the  Scottish  Rite  Consistory  has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  Ararat  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  and  he  likewise  belongs  to 
the  Eastern  Star.  The  principles  which  have  governed  his  life  are  further  indicated  in 
the  tact  of  his  membership  in  the  Calvary  Baptist  church,  in  which  he  is  now  serving 
as  usher.  He  possesses  the  courtliness,  dignity  and  courtesy  of  the  southern  gentleman, 
is  acknowledged  an  eminent  memlier  of  the  Kansas  City  bar  and  one  who  in  all  matters 
of  citizenship  stands  for  progress  and  improvement. 


EDWARD   DAY   RAE. 


Edward  Day  Rae,  district  agent  at  St.  Louis  for  the  Travelers  Insurance  Company 
of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  was  born  April  17,  1859,  in  the  city  which  is  still  his  home, 
his  parents  being  Edward  James  and  Ellen  (Morrissie)  Rae,  who  were  natives  of  Ire- 
land. The  father  came  to  the  United  States  in  young  manhood,  following  his  graduation 
from  Trinity  College  of  Dublin.  The  mother  crossed  the  Atlantic  with  her  parents  when 
a  little  maiden  of  eight  summers.  Edward  James  Rae  located  in  St.  Louis  where  he  en- 
gaged in  the  wholesale  liquor  business  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Rae  &  Kirby. 
His  military  experience  connected  him  with  the  Continental  Greys,  with  which  he 
served  as  a  lieutenant,  and  he  took  part  in  the  Know  Nothing  riots,  and  later  served  in 
the  Confederate  army.    He  died  in  1876,  at  the  age  of  forty-four  years. 

His  son,  Edward  Day  Rae,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  attending  the  original 
Carroll  school,  which  was  then  a  four-room  log  building.  He  later  became  a  student 
in  the  St.  Louis  University  and  in  St.  Mary's  College  at  St.  Marys,  Kansas.  After 
completing  a  commercial  course  he  accepted  a  position  as  assistant  bookkeeper  with  the 
wholesale  grocery  house  of  Dyas,  Hewitt  &  Stone  and  afterward  held  various  clerkships 
until  1888,  when  he  and  his  brother,  "William  J.  Rae,  engaged  in  the  feed  and  commis- 
sion business,  with  which  Edward  Day  Rae  was  connected  for  seven  years.  In  1895 
he  entered  insurance  circles  as  general  agent  for  the  United  States  Casualty  Company  and 
in  1900  was  made  district  agent  for  the  Travelers  Insurance  Company,  which  he  has 
since  represented.  He  is  now  one  of  the  best  known  insurance  men  of  St.  Louis,  spe- 
cializing in  Life,  Liability  and  Accident  Insurance. 

On  the  12th  of  November,  1885,  Mr.  Rae  was  married  to  Miss  Clare  E.  Stein- 
wender,  of  St.  Louis,  and  to  them  have  been  born  a  daughter  and  a  son:  Olive  Lucille, 
who  is  the  wife  of  Charles  Burnham  Squier,  of  New  York  city;  and  Elmer,  who  is  a 
graduate  of  Cornell  University,  is  a  mechanical  and  electrical  engineer,  and  is  now 
president  of  the  Metal  &  Alloy  Specialties  Company,  Inc.,  of  Buffalo,  New  York. 

Mr.  Rae  is  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association.  He  also  belongs  to 
the  Sunset  Hill  Country  Club  and  has  membership  in  St.  Louis  Lodge  No.  9,  B.  P.  O.  E. 
He  is  likewise  identified  with  the  St.  Louis  Railway  Club,  is  a  member  of  the  Million 
Population  Club  and  a  member  of  the  Sugar  Tree  Club,  which  has  its  headquarters 
on  the  Gasconade  river,  and  there  he  spends  much  of  his  leisure  time  in  hunting  and 
fishing,  tor  he  is  a  lover  of  both  sports.  His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Catholic 
church,  while  his  wife  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church. 


WILLIAM   BRANTNER  FINNEY. 

William  Brantner  Finney,  president  of  the  W.  B.  Finney  Advertising  Company  of 
Kansas  City,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  November  7,  1879.  His  father,  Alexander 
Finney,  also  a  native  of  St.  Louis,  represented  one  of  the  old  families  of  that  city,  his 
father  being  Bernard  Finney,  who  came  as  a  pioneeer  to  this  state,  traveling  across  the 
country  with  a  cattle  team.  The  father  was  for  many  years  actively  engaged  in  the  insur- 
ance business.  He  belonged  to  the  Roman  Catholic  church  and  in  that  faith  passed 
away.  In  early  manhood  he  married  Louise  Dixon,  a  native  of  Illinois  and  now  a  resident 
of  St.  Louis.     They  were  parents  of  three  children  who  are  yet  living. 

William  B.  Finney  was  educated  in  the  St.  Louis  University  and  in  Georgetown 
University  of  Washington,  D.  C,  in  which  he  completed  his  course  by  graduation  with 


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the  class  of  1898,  at  which  time  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  was  conferred  upon  him. 
In  his  early  business  career  he  was  connected  with  newspaper  and  magazine  work  and 
was  associated  with  the  Post  Dispatch  and  the  Globe  Democrat.  Fourteen  years  ago  he 
came  to  Kansas  City  and  a  year  later  he  established  the  W.  B.  Finney  Advertising 
Company,  of  which  he  has  since  been  the  head.  He  is  honest,  energetic,  very  forceful  and 
in  every  sense  capable.  These  qualities,  combined  with  a  thorough  university  education 
and  marked  literary  ability,  peculiarly  quality  him  for  success  in  his  business. 

Mr.  Finney  also  has  an  interesting  military  chapter  in  his  lite  record.  He  served 
as  captain  of  infantry  on  General  Wood's  staff  of  the  Tenth  Division  and  was  upon  the 
Mexican  border  with  the  Third  Infantry,  his  service  winning  him  a  medal.  Eighteen 
months  ago  her  resigned  from  the  army. 

In  1896  Mr.  Finney  was  married  to  Miss  Kathleen  McNally,  of  Chillicothe,  Missouri. 
Their  children  are:  Betty,  thirteen  years  of  age;  Patsy,  aged  nine;  and  Mimi,  aged  four. 
The  parents  are  members  of  St.  James  Roman  Catholic  church  and  Mr.  Finney  is  well 
known  in  club  circles  as  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Club  and  the  Hillcrest  Golf  Club. 
Aside  from  his  advertising  agency  business  he  is  a  director  of  the  Home  Trust  Company. 
Whatever  he  undertakes  he  carries  forward  to  successful  completion,  but  business  has 
by  no  means  been  the  sole  end  and  aim  of  his  life.  He  has  always  been  an  extensive 
reader  of  poetical,  historical  and  philosophic  literature.  He  has  taken  active  part  in  gen- 
eral philanthropic  work  and  has  long  been  a  liberal  contributor  to  various  charities. 
Thus  he  recognizes  the  duties  and  obligations  as  well  as  the  opportunities  and  the  privi- 
leges of  life,  and  the  subjective  and  objective  forces  in  his  career  are  well  balanced. 


LOUIS   E.   DENNIG. 


Louis  E.  Dennig,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  St.  Louis  Independent  Pack-  !"( I ^ ct^t.^^ 
ing  Company  of  St.  Louis  and  identified  with  other  important  corporate  interests 
of  the  city,  belongs  to  that  class  of  representative  business  men  who  promote  public 
progress  while  advancing  their  individual  interests,  his  business  activities  having  ever 
been  of  a  character  that  have  contributed  to  the  general  good.  Mr.  Dennig  was 
born  in  St.  Louis,  December  22,  1860,  and  is  of  German  descent.  His  grandfather 
in  the  paternal  line  was  a  probate  judge  in  the  province  in  which  he  lived.  His 
father,  E.  G.  Dennig,  was  born  in  Bavaria,  Germany,  and  came  to  America  in  1848, 
settling  in  New  York  city.  In  185  6  he  came  to  St.  Louis  and  here  engaged  in 
book  binding  and  map  making  and  also  dealt  in  leather  goods.  His  articles  took 
first  premium  at  the  first  exhibit  of  the  St.  Louis  Fair  &  Agricultural  Association. 
He  afterward  turned  his  attention  to  the  wholesale  liquor  and  wine  business  in 
connection  with  John  Boeringer,  organizing  the  firm  of  John  Boeringer  &  Company, 
in  which  he  was  a  partner.  He  continued  with  that  business  until  his  death  in 
April,  1877.  He  had  left  the  university  in  Germany  to  join  the  Revolutionary 
army  that  was  attempting  to  make  Germany  a  republic  in  1848,  being  associated 
with  the  party  of  which  Carl  Schurz  and  Frederick  Hecker  were  leading  figures. 
He  was  thus  in  thorough  sympathy  with  the  republican  government  in  the  land  of 
his  adoption,  of  which  he  always  remained  a  loyal  and  devoted  citizen.  He  married 
Margaret  Juengst,  who  was  born  in  Bavaria  and  was  brought  to  America  when 
thirteen  years  of  age  by  her  father,  who  settled  in  New  York  city.  He  was  engaged 
in  the  flour  milling  business  and  operated  the  first  farina  mill  in  the  United  States. 
He  had  learned  the  milling  business  in  Germany,  where  his  people  conducted  ex- 
tensive flour  manufacturing  plants.  The  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  G.  Dennig 
occurred  in  New  York  city  in  1856  and  they  became  the  parents  of  a  son  and  three 
daughters.     The  mother  survived  her  husband  for  a  number  of  years,  passing  away 

in  1894.  .^     ,      .,  A 

Louis  E  Dennig,  who  was  the  second  in  order  of  birth  in  the  family,  was  edu- 
cated in  private  schools  of  St.  Louis  and  started  out  on  his  business  career  on  the 
3d  of  September,  1877,  with  C.  Conrad  &  Company,  while  later  he  occupied  a 
clerical  position  with  that  firm,  which  was  succeeded  by  the  Budweiser  Beer  & 
Wine  Company,  of  which  Adolphus  Busch  was  president.  Mr.  Dennig  was  made 
the  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  company  and  in  1895  went  to  the  Anheuser 
Busch  Brewing  Association  as  local  manager,  so  continuing  until  1910  He  after- 
ward devoted  his  attention  to  his  duties  as  president  of  the  Busch-Everett  Company. 


956  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

engaged  in  the  oil  business.  He  was  thus  connected  until  1914,  when  he  sold  out 
to  concentrate  his  efforts  and  attention  upon  the  management  of  his  private  busi- 
ness affairs.  In  October,  1918,  when  the  former  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
St.  Louis  Independent  Packing  Company,  F.  H.  W.  Krenning  passed  away,  Mr.  Dennig 
was  elected  to  fill  the  vacancy.  He  had  held  the  vice  presidency  in  this  company 
from  its  organization  in  1906  and  he  is  now  devoting  his  time  and  energies  largely 
to  administrative  direction  and  executive  control  in  this  connection,  the  St.  Louis 
Independent  Packing  Company  being  one  of  the  important  corporate  interests  of 
the  city.  Mr.  Dennig  is  also  a  director  and  vice  president  of  the  E.  H.  Bardes 
Range  &  Foundry  Company  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  he  Is  a  director  of  the  St. 
Louis  Life  Insurance  Company,  which  is  the  oldest  insurance  organization  of  the  state. 

On  the  21st  of  November,  1898,  Mr.  Dennig  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss 
Marie  Schaefer,  who  was  born  and  reared  in  this  city  and  is  a  daughter  of  Louis 
and  Bertha  (Dierberger)  Schaefer,  the  former  the  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Dressed 
Beef  Company  to  the  time  of  his  death  in  1912.  Her  mother  is  still  living.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Dennig  have  one  son,  Louis  S.,  who  is  now  attending  the  Washington 
University  of  St.  Louis  and  was  formerly  a  student  in  the  United  States  Naval 
Academy  at  Annapolis,  Maryland. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Dennig  has  long  been  a  stalwart  republican  and  was 
alderman  of  the  fifth  ward  of  the  Brentmoor  district  in  Clayton,  Missouri.  During 
the  war  period  he  was  active  in  the  sale  of  Liberty  bonds,  serving  as  captain  of 
his  district  in  Clayton,  which  district  had  the  highest  percentage  record  tor  sales. 
Fraternally  he  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  the  Scottish  Rite  bodies  and  the  Mystic 
Shrine,  and  he  is  also  identified  with  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 
He  belongs  to  the  Racquet  Club,  Noonday  Club,  to  the  Missouri  Athletic  Associa- 
tion, to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  with  which  he  was  also  identified  when  It  was 
known  as  the  Business  Men's  League,  to  the  Sunset  Hill  Country  Club,  to  the 
Dardenne  Shooting  Club  and  the  Canteen  Hunting  &  Fishing  Club.  His  interests 
are  thus  broad  and  comprehensive  and  aside  from  all  these  he  is  a  protestant. 
His  entire  life  has  been  passed  in  St.  Louis,  where  his  sterling  traits  of  character 
have  won  for  him  the  high  respect  of  his  fellowmen,  many  of  his  stanchest  friends 
being  those  who  have  known  him  from  his  boyhood  to  the  present  time. 


JOSEPH  C.  MINTEER. 


When  one  meets  Joseph  C.  Minteer,  a  most  substantial,  progressive  and  well 
poised  business  man  of  Chillicothe,  where  for  many  years  he  has  been  identified 
with  the  hardware  trade,  it  is  difBcult  to  picture  him  hauling  stones  for  the  bridge 
east  of  Chillicothe  with  three  yoke  of  oxen,  but  such  labor  featured  as  factors  in 
his  life  in  early  manhood.  It  is  characteristic  of  Mr.  Minteer  that  he  has  never 
scorned  any  honest  employment  that  would  bring  about  his  advancement,  and 
step  by  step  through  an  orderly  progression  he  has  reached  a  prominent  place  in 
the  commercial  circles  of  Chillicothe.  He  was  born  in  Harrison  county,  Kentucky, 
August  20,  1840,  his  parents  being  William  and  Sarah  (Davis)  Minteer,  the  former 
passing  away  in  1S50,  while  the  death  of  the  latter  occurred  in  1889.  The  father 
was  well  known  as  an  influential  factor  in  the  public  life  of  Harrison  county, 
Kentucky,  and  was  a  stalwart  advocate  of  democratic  principles. 

At  the  usual  age  Joseph  C.  Minteer  became  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  state,  continuing  his  studies  to  the  age  of  eighteen.  He  initiated 
his  business  career  as  clerk  in  a  dry  goods  store,  where  he  was  employed  for  three 
years.  He  afterward  clerked  in  another  dry  goods  establishment  in  Chillicothe, 
Missouri,  for  four  months  and  then  returned  to  Kentucky,  where  he  resided  until 
January,  1863.  Once  more  he  came  to  Missouri  and  at  that  time  secured  a 
clerkship  in  the  store  of  Colonel  R.  P.  Dunn,  with  whom  he  remained  for  thirteen 
years,  eventually  resigning  his  position  to  engage  in  business  on  his  own  account 
as  proprietor  of  a  grocery  store.  A  year  later  he  entered  the  employ  of  a  whole- 
sale house  in  St.  Joseph  and  represented  that  concern  for  a  period  of  eleven  years, 
at  the  end  of  which  time  he  established  the  business  of  which  he  is  now  the  head. 
However,  in  the  early  days  of  his  residence  in  Chillicothe,  when  the  Hannibal  & 
St.   Joseph   Railroad   was   being   built   into   this   city,    he   hauled   the   stone    for   the 


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bridge  east  of  Chillicothe,  using  three  yoke  of  oxen  for  the  purpose.  He  also 
broke  sod  on  land  that  is  now  within  the  corporation  limits  or  adjacent  to  Chilli- 
cothe with  six  yoke  of  oxen.  During  his  commercial  experience,  too,  he  repre- 
sented the  Wyeth  Hardware  &  Manufacturing  Company  of  St.  Joseph  as  a  traveling 
salesman  for  ten  years  and  then  established  the  hardware  business  of  which  he 
has  since  been  proprietor.  For  some  time  past  he  and  his  nephew,  Harry  W. 
Minteer,  have  conducted  the  store.  This  nephew  Mr.  Minteer  reared  and  educated 
and  has  had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  him  develop  into  a  substantial  business  man 
who  is  now  of  great  assistance  to  the  uncle.  In  addition  to  his  commercial  inter- 
ests Joseph  C.  Minteer  was  also  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  for  many  years, 
owning  a  large  acreage  adjacent  to  Chillicothe.  Under  his  supervision  the  land 
was  made  highly  productive  and  all  modern  improvements  were  added,  and  in 
addition  to  the  cultivation  of  the  soil  his  farms  were  likewise  devoted  extensively 
to  the  raising  of  live  stock.  Mr.  Minteer  has  also  figured  prominently  in  banking 
circles,  having  become  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Citizens  National  Bank,  of  which 
for  many  years  he  has  been  the  vice  president. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Minteer  is  a  democrat  and  always  keeps  well  in- 
formed on  the  questions  and  issues  of  the  day  but  has  never  been  a  politician  in 
the  sense  of  office  seeking.  His  time  and  energies  have  been  concentrated  upon 
his  business  affairs  and  he  has  made  for  himself  a  most  creditable  position  in  the 
commercial  circles  of  Chillicothe,  being  respected  and  honored  for  his  enterprise, 
his  progressiveness  and  his  thorough  reliability.  For  sixty  years  he  made  his 
home  with  his  brother,  James  C.  Minteer,  who  was  born  in  1833  and  who  passed 
away  in  1900.  James  C.  Minteer  came  to  Missouri  in  the  spring  of  1857,  settling 
in  Chillicothe,  where  he  engaged  in  merchandising  and  also  for  many  years  held 
public  office.  He  wedded  Ellen  F.  Jones,  who  passed  away  in  1898.  They  were 
the  parents  of  six  children,  of  whom  three  are  yet  living,  the  youngest  being  Harry 
W.  Minteer,  who  acquired  his  education  in  the  schools  of  Chillicothe  and  in  the 
University  of  Missouri  at  Columbia.  He  then  entered  the  Minteer  hardware  store 
as  a  clerk  and  so  continued  until  admitted  to  a  partnership  by  his  uncle.  In 
1902  he  married  Miss  Delia  McGill  and  they  have  one  daughter,  Lois,  who  is  now 
In  school. 


JOHN   HIRAM   LATHROP. 


John  Hiram  Lathrop,  a  distinguished  member  of  the  Kansas  City  bar  who  is 
practicing  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Lathrop,  Morrow,  Fox  &  Moore,  was  born 
October  3,  1884,  in  the  city  which  is  still  his  home,  his  father  being  Gardiner  Lath- 
rop, a  wealthy  and  able  Chicago  lawyer.  The  son  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Kansas  City  and  afterward  became  a  student  in  St.  Paul's  school  at  Concord,  New 
Hampshire,  there  pursuing  his  preparatory  course.  He  next  entered  Yale  and  won 
his  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  in  1905.  At  Harvard  he  pursued  his  law  course  and  the 
LL.  B.  degree  was  conferred  upon  him  in  1908.  He  became  a  member  of  Alpha 
Delta  Phi  at  Yale.  Having  thus  enjoyed  most  liberal  educational  opportunities, 
which  he  wisely  improved,  Mr.  Lathrop  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Kansas  City 
in  January,  1910.  In  the  previous  year  he  had  been  admitted  to  practice  in  the 
courts  of  California,  remaining  an  active  representative  of  the  legal  profession  in 
Los  Angeles  tor  fourteen  months.  Returning  to  his  native  city,  he  here  took  up 
law  practice  and  has  become  the  associate  of  a  number  of  the  strongest  representa- 
tives of  the  legal  profession  in  this  city.  The  personnel  of  the  firm  of  Lathrop.  Mor- 
row, Fox  &  Moore  includes  Gardiner  Lathrop,  Thomas  R.  Morrow,  John  M.  Fox, 
Samuel  W.  Moore,  O.  W.  Pratt.  Cyrus  Crane,  T.  H.  Reynolds,  George  J.  Mersereau, 
Samuel  W.  Sawyer  and  John  H.  Lathrop.  Like  the  older  members  of  the  firm, 
Mr.  Lathrop  of  this  review  is  making  steady  progress,  his  powers  developing  through 
his  work  in  the  courts  and  through  his  constant  reading  and  wide  study.  Since 
1911  he  has  been  assistant  attorney  for  the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railroad 
and  he  is  also  assistant  general  solicitor  ot  the  Kansas  City  Terminal  Railroad.  His 
identification  with  his  present  firm  dates  from  September  1,  1914.  This  is  one  of 
the  most  prominent  law  firms  not  only  of  Kansas  City  but  of  the  state  and  of  the 
Mississippi  valley,  with  a  very  large  clientele.     Mr.  Lathrop  belongs  to  the  Kansas 

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960  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

City  Bar  Association  and  he  has  won  favor  with  his  colleagues  and  contemporaries 
in  the  profession,  wliile  the  recognition  of  his  ability  is  coming  to  him  in  his  con- 
stantly increasing  practice. 

On  the  14th  of  July,  1908,  Mr.  Lathrop  was  married  to  Miss  Florence  Alice 
Smith,  of  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  a  daughter  of  Irving  F.  and  Alice  (Cooper)  Smith. 
The  children  of  this  marriage  are:  Elaine,  born  October  7,  1913;  Jessie,  October 
27,  1914;  and  Gardiner,  September  7,  1915. 

Mr.  Lathrop  has  always  been  a  supporter  of  the  republican  party  since  age 
conferred  upon  him  the  right  of  franchise.  He  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Athletic 
Club,  also  to  the  City  Club  and  his  interest  in  community  affairs  is  indicated  in  his 
identification  with  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  That  he  is  not  unmindful  of  other 
and  higher  obligations  is  manifest  In  his  connection  with  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  church. 


HON.   WEB.    M.    RUBEY. 


Hon.  Web.  M.  Rubey,  who  since  1866,  or  for  a  period  of  almost  fifty-four  years 
has  made  his  home  in  Macon,  was  born  in  Montgomery  county,  Missouri,  October  19, 
1835,  and  has  therefore  passed  the  eighty-fourth  milestone  on  life's  journey.  He 
came  to  Macon  county  in  February,  1855,  and  filled  the  office  of  deputy  clerk  of 
the  circuit  court  and  that  of  county  court  clerk  and  recorder  from  1856  until  1861. 
He  has  been  prominently  identified  with  many  of  the  activities  which  have  led  to 
the  development  and  upbuilding  of  this  section  of  the  state,  his  efforts  at  all  times 
being  far-reaching  and  beneficial.  In  1859  he  opened  the  first  bank  in  Macon  county 
at  Bloomington.  While  serving  as  deputy  clerk  of  the  circuit  court  he  gave  his 
attention  to  the  study  of  law  and  in  1865  was  admitted  to  the  bar  upon  examination 
by  Judge  Burkhart,  circuit  court  judge.  The  following  year  he  took  up  his  abode 
in  Macon  city,  where  he  has  since  remained,  and  through  the  intervening  years  he 
has  been  a  prominent  member  of  the  legal  profession.  While  he  was  well  grounded 
in  the  principles  of  common  law  when  admitted  to  the  bar,  he  continued  through 
the  whole  of  his  professional  life  a  diligent  student  of  those  elementary  principles 
that  constitute  the  basis  of  all  legal  science  and  this  knowledge  served  him  well  in 
many  a  legal  battle  before  the  superior  and  the  appellate  courts,  where  he  won 
many  cases.  As  few  men  have  done,  he  seemed  to  realize  the  importance  of  the 
profession  to  which  he  devoted  his  energies  and  the  fact  that  justice  and  the  higher 
attribute  of  mercy  he  often  held  in  his  hand.  His  reputation  as  a  lawyer  was  won 
through  earnest,  honest  labor  and  his  standing  at  the  bar  was  a  merited  tribute 
to  his  ability. 

In  1874  Mr.  Rubey  was  elected  to  the  state  senate  of  Missouri,  of  which  he 
remained  a  member  for  the  four  years'  term.  In  1896  he  was  again  called  upon 
for  legislative  service,  being  elected  to  the  Missouri  house  of  representatives  and 
reelected  in  1898.  He  has  made  a  special  study  of  our  American  system  of  govern- 
ment and  has  in  the  last  two  years  made  a  vigorous  fight  against  the  doctrine  of 
communism  as  held  by  the  supreme  court  of  Missouri  and  nearly  all  other  states. 
He  opposes  as  unconstitutional  and  un-American  the  matter  of  inheritance  laws, 
holding  that  the  doctrine  of  Americanism,  as  stated  in  the  Declaration  of  In- 
depence  of  1776,  maintains  as  "an  inalienable  right"  the  right  of  property — a  right 
which  can  never  be  taken  away  from  the  citizen.  The  inheritance  laws  of  the  states 
take  the  property  of  the  citizen  without  due  consideration  and  are  criminally  anti- 
American.  Mr.  Rubey  expects  to  fight  communism  while  it  is  within  his  power  to 
do  so,  continually  opposing  the  attempt  to  force  it  upon  the  countiy. 


ROY   DRAFFEN   WILLIAMS. 

Roy  Draffen  Williams,  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Warner,  Dean,  Langworthy, 
Thomson  &  Williams  of  Kansas  City,  was  born  in  Boonville.  Missouri,  January  1, 
1881.  He  is  a  son  of  Judge  William  Muir  Williams,  of  whom  it  has  been  said  "than 
whom  Missouri  had  no  greater  lawyer."  The  father  was  judge  of  the  supreme  court 
of  Missouri  and  one  of  the  most  eminent  and  distinguished  jurists  who  has  ever  sat 


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upon  the  bench  of  the  court  ot  last  resort  in  this  state.  He  passed  away  in  Sep- 
tember,   1916. 

Roy  D.  Williams,  after  completing  his  more  specifically  literary  education  in 
the  Kemper  Military  Academy  and  the  University  ot  Missouri,  read  law  under  the 
direction  of  his  father,  who  was  always  an  inspiration  to  him,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1903.  He  then  practiced  law  in  Boonville  until  1920.  when  he  came 
to  Kansas  City  and  entered  the  firm  with  which  he  is  now  associated.  He  is  also 
a  lecturer  in  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law,  on  guarantee  and  suretyship.  He 
possesses  much  natural  ability  withal,  and  added  to  his  other  qualifications  is  an 
untiring  industry  that  has  made  him  a  careful  and  conservative  lawyer.  He  is  always 
punctual  and  more  than  willing  to  carry  his  end  ot  the  load.  He  continues  in 
general  practice,  is  a  forceful  speaker  and  strong  before  a  jury.  Moreover,  he  is 
a  close  student  and  always  prepares  his  cases  well,  while  at  all  times  he  is  absolutely 
loyal  to  his  clients  and  to  his  friends. 

In  1911  Mr.  Williams  was  married  to  Miss  Adda  Williams,  who  although  of 
the  same  name  was  not  a  relative.  They  are  rearing  an  adopted  daughter,  Mary 
Margaret,  who  is  six  years  of  age.  Mr.  Williams  gives  his  political  allegiance  to 
the  democratic  party,  of  which  he  is  an  active  supporter,  and  is  a  man  of  considerable 
influence  in  political  connections.  He  was  particularly  diligent  in  his  support  of  war 
activities  and  as  chairman  very  successfully  conducted  a  number  of  the  drives  in 
Cooper  county.  He  belongs  to  the  Masonic  order,  having  membership  in  the  lodge, 
in  all  the  York  Rite  bodies  and  in  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  now  serving  as  chair- 
man of  the  .Missouri  state  tax  commission  at  Jefferson  City.  His  religious  faith 
is  that  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  he  has  always  been  most  liberal  in  chari- 
table work.  A  wide  reader,  he  is  particularly  fond  of  Kipling.  He  belongs  to  the 
University  Club,  also  to  the  Knife  &  Fork  Club  of  Kansas  City,  while  along  strictly 
professional  lines  his  identification  is  with  the  Kansas  City,  Missouri  State  and 
American  Bar  Associations  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  committee  of  the  State  Bar 
Association  on  the  new  state  constitution.  He  is  a  man  of  fine  personality  whose 
record  as  a  man  and  citizen  is  in  harmony  with  that  of  his  distinguished  father. 


WILLIAM  A.  SHELTON,  M.  D. 

Dr.  William  A.  Shelton,  who  since  1904  has  been  a  representative  ot  the 
medical  profession  in  Kansas  City,  and  is  specializing  in  the  practice  of  surgery, 
was  born  in  Lebanon,  Tennessee,  March  6,  1879,  his  parents  being  William  and 
Hattie  (Bass)  Shelton,  who  were  also  natives  of  Tennessee.  The  father  was  a 
Baptist  minister  and  at  one  time  was  pastor  of  the  Nashville  Baptist  church,  and 
also  of  the  Edgefield  Baptist  church,  filling  the  latter  pulpit  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  1904.  He  was  also  well  known  in  educational  circles 
being  at  one  time  in  charge  of  the  Franklin  Street  church,  in  Louisville,  and  a 
graduate  of  the  Theological   Seminary  of   Louisville,  Kentucky. 

Dr.  William  A.  Shelton,  of  this  review,  obtained  a  common  school  education 
in  Dalton,  Georgia,  and  afterward  removed  to  Missouri,  where  he  pursued  a  course 
in  the  academic  department  of  Westminster  College,  at  Pulton,  Missouri.  Later 
he  became  a  student  in  the  William  Jewell  College,  of  Liberty,  Missouri,  and  was 
graduated  therefrom  in  1900  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree.  He  next  came  to 
Kansas  City  and  entered  the  University  Medical  College  of  Kansas  City,  being 
numbered  among  its  alumni  of  1904,  for  in  that  year  he  won  his  professional 
degree.  He  entered  upon  active  practice  in  Kansas  City,  and  through  the  inter- 
vening years  has  specialized  in  surgery.  From  19  06  until  1910  he  was  surgeon 
on  the  staff  of  the  Kansas  City  General  Hospital,  and  is  still  a  member  of  its  staff, 
and  also  of  the  staff  of  the  Research  Hospital  of  Kansas  City.  He  has  made  steady 
professional  progress,  as  the  result  of  his  broad  experience,  his  constant  study  and 
his  continuous  research  and  investigation.  He  has  at  all  times  kept  in  touch  with 
the  trend  of  modem  thought  and  progress,  and  this  has  been  effected  in  part 
through  his  membership  in  the  Jackson  County,  Southwest  Medical,  and  Missouri 
State  Medical  Societies,  and  the  American  Medical  Association,  and  he  is  a  Fellow 
in  the  American  College  of  Surgeons.  During  the  World  war  Dr.  Shelton  was 
•commissioned    captain    of    the    Medical    Corps,    U.    S.    A.,    and    was    connected    with 


962  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Surgical  Group  No.  2,  A.  E.  F.,  being  stationed  at  Evacuation  Hospital  No.  1,  at 
Toul,  France.  He  went  overseas  in  August,  1918,  returning  in  May,  1919,  and 
upon  his  return  was  commissioned  major. 

On  the  1st  of  April,  1904,  in  Kansas  City,  Dr.  Shelton  was  married  to  Miss 
Charlotta  Ellen  Prior,  whose  people  were  natives  of  Missouri,  and  at  one  time  were 
identified  with  farming  interests  at  Marshall.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Shelton  have  become 
parents  of  a  son  and  a  daughter:  William  Prior,  who  was  born  February  25,  1905, 
and  is  now  a  junior  in  the  Central  high  school:  and  Virginia  Harriett,  who  was 
born  May  16,  1907,  and  is  also  a  pupil  in  the  Central  high  school.  Dr.  Shelton's 
interest  centers  in  his  family,  and  he  has  every  reason  to  be  proud  of  a  most  in- 
teresting little  family  group.  He  belongs  to  the  First  Baptist  church  of  Kansas  City, 
and  is  well  known  in  club  circles-  having  membership  in  the  Kansas  City,  City, 
Rotary,  Meadow  Lake  and  Automobile  Clubs.  He  is  a  Mason  belonging  to  Ivanhoe 
Lodge  and  to  the  Scottish  Rite  bodies,  and  he  likewise  has  membership  in  Ararat 
Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  Politically  he  maintains  an  independent  course, 
voting  according  to  the  dictates  of  his  judgment.  The  results  which  he  has  achieved 
have  been  most  satisfactory,  and  he  enjoys  a  deserved  reputation  which  many  an 
older  representative  of  the  profession  might  well  envy. 


ROBERT  A.  BARNES  WALSH. 

Robert  A.  Barnes  Walsh,  vice  president  of  the  Mississippi  Glass  Company  and  also 
officially  connected  with  a  number  of  other  important  business  enterprises  of  St. 
Louis,  his  native  city,  was  born  December  25,  1877,  and  is  a  son  of  Julius  S.  Walsh, 
who  is  mentioned  at  length  on  another  page  of  this  work.  Liberal  educational 
opportunities  were  accorded  him.  He  attended  the  St.  Louis  University,  also  the 
Georgetown  University  of  Georgetown,  D.  C,  and  then  entered  Princeton  College. 
He  initiated  his  business  career  as  an  assistant  in  the  superintendent's  office  of  the 
Mississippi  Glass  Company  and  as  his  powers  developed  he  was  advanced  until  in 
1902  he  was  made  secretary  of  the  company,  while  later  he  was  elected  to  the  vice 
presidency,  which  position  he  still  fills.  He  has  also  extended  his  efforts  into  other 
connections,  being  now  a  director  and  the  vice  president  of  the  Mississippi  Wire 
Glass  Company  of  New  York;  vice  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Walsh 
Fire  Clay  Products  Company  of  St.  Louis;  a  director  of  the  Universal  Arch  Com- 
pany of  Chicago,  Illinois;  president  of  the  Vandalia  Land  &  Home  Company  of 
Vandalia,  Missouri;  and  a  director  of  the  Vandalia  Lumber  &  Realty  Company,  also 
of  that  place. 

In  St.  Louis,  on  the  15th  of  October,  1917,  Robert  A.  Barnes  Walsh  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Stella  Schnaider,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  Schnaider,  the 
former  now  deceased,  while  the  latter  resides  at  Portland  Place.  They  have  one 
daughter,  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  July  7,  1920.  Mr.  Walsh  finds  his  chief  diversions 
In  golf  and  horseback  riding.  He  is  of  the  Catholic  faith  and  attends  the  cathedral. 
He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  Country  Club,  the  St.  Louis  Club,  the  Missouri  Athletic 
Association  and  the  University  Club.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  republican  party  and  he  is  a  member 
of  the  Protective  League,  while  during  the  war  period  he  was  actively  interested 
in  the  Liberty  Loan  and  Red  Cross  drives.  While  his  business  interests  are  exten- 
sive and  important,  he  has  always  found  time  to  cooperate  in  those  measures  which 
have  to  do  with  the  upbuilding  and  progress  of  community,  commonwealth  and 
country  and  he  has  ever  stood  for  the  highest  ideals  in  matters  of  citizenship. 


MARVIN  EARLY  HOLDERNESS. 

Marvin  Early  Holderness,  a  keen  business  man,  always  courteous,  a  tireless  worker 
who  it  most  attentive  to  details,  is  now  the  vice  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
St.  Louis.  He  was  born  in  Calhoun  county,  Arkansas,  a  son  of  the  late  Dr.  A.  S. 
Holderness,  a  native  of  North  Carolina  and  of  Scotch-Irish  descent.  The  father  was 
graduated    from    the    University   of    Pennsylvania   and    in    1857    removed    to   Arkansas, 


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where  he  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine  throughout  his  remaining  days.  At  the 
time  of  the  Civil  war  he  joined  the  Confederate  army  and  held  the  commission  of  major. 
He  died  at  Pordyce,  Arkansas,  in  1904,  when  seventy-one  years  of  age,  while  his 
wife  is  still  living  at  Fordyce  and  reached  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-four  years. 
She  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Catherine  Dixon  and  is  a  native  of  Alabama  and  of 
English  lineage.  By  her  marriage  she  became  the  mother  of  six  sons  and  three 
daughters. 

Marvin  E.  Holderness,  who  was  the  sixth  in  order  of  birth  in  this  family,  is  In- 
debted to  the  public  schools  of  Fordyce,  Arkansas,  for  the  early  educational  advan- 
tages he  enjoyed.  He  afterward  matriculated  in  Vanderbilt  University  of  Tennessee  and 
there  completed  his  more  specitlcally  literary  course,  winning  the  Bachelor  of  Arts 
degree  in  1902.  In  the  meantime  after  completing  his  grade  studies,  or  in  1897,  he 
came  to  St.  Louis  and  was  employed  as  an  oflBce  boy  in  the  wholesale  dry  goods  and 
notions  business,  with  which  he  was  connected  for  a  year.  He  later  spent  four  years 
in  college  and  after  completing  his  studies  there  was  elected  treasurer  of  Vanderbilt 
University,  which  office  he  filled  until  1906,  when  he  resigned  his  position  and  became 
connected  with  F.  0.  Watts,  the  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  St.  Louis,  who 
at  that  time  organized  the  First  Savings  Bank  &  Trust  Company  at  Nashville,  an 
institution  affiliated  with  the  First  National  Bank  of  Nashville,  of  which  Mr.  Watts 
was  the  president.  Prior  to  leaving  the  First  Savings  Bank  &  Trust  Company,  which 
he  assisted  in  organizing,  Mr.  Holderness  was  advanced  to  the  position  of  cashier  and 
so  continued  to  serve  until  February,  1915,  when  he  became  assistant  cashier  of  the 
Third  National  Bank  of  St.  Louis  and  afterward  was  elected  to  the  vice  presidency 
in  May,  1918.  He  continued  to  fill  that  position  until  "the  consolidation  of  the  Third 
National  with  the  First  National  Bank  of  St.  Louis  in  July,  1919,  at  which  time  he 
was  chosen  vice  president  of  the  latter  institution.  He  has  thus  spent  practically  his 
entire  life  in  active  connection  with  the  banking  business  and  his  developing  powers 
and  increasing  ability  have  brought  him  prominently  to  the  front. 

On  the  7th  of  October,  1916,  Mr.  Holderness  was  married  in  Nashville,  Tennessee,  to 
Miss  Eunice  Baxter  Jackson,  a  native  of  Nashville  and  a  daughter  of  Robert  F.  and 
Mamie  B.  (Baxter)  Jackson,  connected  with  the  old  and  prominent  Jackson  families 
of  Tennessee.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Holderness  have  one  daughter,  Eunice  Jackson,  born 
August  16,  1917. 

In  politics  Mr.  Holderness  has  always  maintained  an  independent  course.  Fra- 
ternally he  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  is  also  connected  with  Sigma  Alpha 
Epsilon,  a  Greek  letter  society,  and  was  its  national  president  from  1908  until  1912. 
During  the  World  war  he  conducted  two  offices,  one  at  Evinston,  Illinois,  and  the 
other  in  the  Railway  Exchange  building  at  St.  Louis,  for  men  who  held  national  offices 
and  were  in  active  service.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Liberty  Loan  organization  and 
worked  in  connection  with  the  advertising  department  thereof.  He  orgmized  the 
Financial  Advertisers  Association  and  was  its  president  from  1916  until  1917.  He  was 
also  one  of  the  prime  movers  in  the  first  organization  of  Boy  Scouts  and  served  as 
scout  master.  His  interests  are  thus  broad  and  varied  and  his  activities  have  often 
been  of  a  most  helpful  and  beneficial  character  to  mankind.  In  banking  circles  he  is 
widely  known  throughout  the  country,  for  he  has  spoken  in  almost  every  state  in 
the  Union,  largely  upon  the  subjects  of  bank  advertising  and  savings.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  American  Bankers  Association  and  at  present  is  serving  on  its  public  relations 
committee.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  St.  Louis,  is  a  member  of 
its  advertising  committee  and  cooperates  heartily  in  all  the  plans  of  that  organization 
for  the  benefit  and  progress  of  St.  Louis,  the  extension  of  its  trade  relations  and  the 
upholding  of  its  civic  standards.  He  has  addressed  various  audiences  upon  the  question 
of  city  build.ing  and  upon  many  phases  of  civic  life  and  activity  he  is  thoroughly  well 
informed.  He  is  also  the  vice  president  of  the  Tennessee  Society  of  St.  Louis  and  he 
finds  his  chief  diversion  in  trap  and  field  shooting.  His  characterization  has  been 
expressed  by  an  acquaintance  of  long  standing,  who  said  of  him:  "Mr.  Holderness  is  a 
man  who  gives  the  most  thorough  and  careful  attention  to  any  matter  in  hand  and  yet 
does  it  with  an  ease  that  conceals  the  deep  wisdom  of  his  decision.  He  h-js  a  rare 
knowledge  of  his  fellowmen  and  a  comprehension  of  the  better  ways  to  meet  them.  In 
his  activities  he  is  always  the  high-minded  gentleman.  He  has  been  national  president 
of  the  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  fraternity,  has  served  it  in  many  other  ways,  and  in 
his  college  fraternity  connections  he  is  greatly  beloved  and  has  been  of  great  usefulness 
to  the  organization  in  constructive  work.     A  lover  of  good  reading,  he  is  also  a  writer 


966  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

of  considerable  ability  and  is  an  exceptional  speaker.  His  language  is  choice,  his 
diction  faultless  and  his  delivery  most  charming  and  he  is  in  great  demand  as  a 
speaker."  He  is  a  member  of  St.  John's  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  South,  in  St. 
Louis  and  is  interested  in  and  a  liberal  contributor  to  all  worthy  city  charities.  Mr. 
Holderness  is  president  of  the  Advertising  Club  of  St.  Louis  and  Is  well  known  socially 
as  a  member  of  the  Normandy  Golf  &  Country  Club,  the  Sunset  Hill  Country  Club,  the 
Missouri  Athletic  Association  and  the  Kiwanis  Club  and  of  the  last  named  is  serving 
as  vice  president. 


WILLIAM  ZACHRITZ. 


William  Zachritz.  who  has  attained  prominence  in  the  practice  of  law,  par- 
ticularly in  criminal  law,  in  St.  Louis,  where  he  was  born  August  28,  1859,  is  a 
son  of  Frederick  William  and  Elizabeth  (Strauss)  Zachritz,  both  of  whom  were 
natives  of  Bavaria,  Germany.  Coming  to  the  new  world  in  early  life,  they  met 
and  were  married  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  in  the  early  '50s  removed  to  St.  Louis. 
The  father,  who  was  a  barber  by  trade,  passed  away  in  1901,  having  long  survived 
his  wife,  who  died  of  cholera  in  1866. 

William  Zachritz  attended  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis  until  graduated 
from  the  old  Central  high  school,  then  at  Fifteenth  and  Olive  streets,  with  the 
class  of  1878.  Determining  upon  the  practice  of  law  as  a  life  work,  he  entered 
the  law  school  of  Washington  University  and  completed  his  course  in  1881.  He 
also  read  with  the  firm  of  Finkelnberg  &  Rassieur  and  was  admitted  to  practice 
in  the  year  of  his  graduation.  By  appointment  he  became  assistant  city  attorney 
in  January,  1885,  for  an  unexpired  term  of  two  years  in  the  old  second  district  police 
station,  then  at  Broadway  and  Biddle  streets,  and  served  until  the  close  of  the 
term.  He  went  out  of  office  in  July,  1887,  when  a  democratic  administration 
succeeded  a  republican  one,  after  which  he  remained  in  private  practice  until 
January,  1889.  He  was  then  elected  assistant  circuit  attorney  in  the  election 
of  November,  1888,  and  in  1892  was  elected  circuit  attorney,  being  one  of  two 
elected  on  the  republican  ticket,  this  being  the  year  in  which  Grover  Cleveland 
was  reelected  to  the  presidency,  the  democrats  sweeping  the  city,  state  and  country. 
Mr.  Zachritz'  election  was  certainly  indicative  of  his  personal  popularity  and  the 
confidence  reposed  in  him  by  his  fellow  citizens.  During  his  four  years'  incumbency 
in  the  office  of  circuit  attorney  he  was  prosecutor  in  some  of  the  most  celebrated 
cases  and  won  all  of  the  important  cases,  including  that  of  the  state  vs.  Arthur 
Duestrow,  a  millionaire,  who  murdered  his  wife  and  child  in  a  drunken  fury.  This 
case  was  taken  on  change  of  venue  on  application  of  the  defense  to  Union,  Franklin 
county,  Missouri,  and  was  tried  there  four  times  before  there  was  a  conviction, 
which  trials  lasted  over  three  weeks,  from  eight  o'clock  in  the  morning  until  eleven 
o'clock  at  night.  The  first  two  hearings  were  on  the  question  of  present  insanity 
and  in  the  first  trial  there  was  a  mistrial,  while  in  the  second  the  jury  found  him 
sane.  The  first  trial  on  the  indictment  resulted  In  a  mistrial  and  the  second  trial 
in  January,  1896,  resulted  in  a  conviction  and  the  supreme  court  affirmed,  Dues- 
trow being  hung  in  January,  1897,  in  Union,  Franklin  county,  Missouri.  Mr. 
Zachritz  also  had  nine  capital  convictions  in  four  years  and  five  of  the  number  were 
hung,  the  others  being  commuted  or  pardoned  through  executive  clemency.  In 
1896  Mr.  Zachritz  was  elected  circuit  judge  for  a  term  of  six  years  and  during  his 
service  upon  the  bench  tried  many  important  cases,  including  the  injunction  suit 
brought  by  two  citizens  to  restrain  the  holding  of  the  World's  Fair  in  Forest  Park, 
the  judgment  being  against  the  plaintiffs,  so  that  the  fair  was  held  in  Forest  Park. 
That  case,  however,  was  decided  on  a  law  question  and  did  not  concern  the  issue 
as  to  whether  Forest  Park  was  the  proper  place  in  which  to  hold  the  exposition. 
Judge  Zachritz  also  occupied  the  bench  at  the  time  of  the  Delmar  race  track  case, 
in  which  the  judgment  was  affirmed  by  the  supreme  court.  Since  retiring  from 
the  bench  in  January,  1903,  he  has  engaged  in  the  private  practice  of  law  and  has  an 
extensive  clientage  of  an  important  character. 

It  was  after  his  first  appointment  to  office  that  Mr.  Zachritz  was  married  on 
the  12th  of  August,  1885,  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis  to  Miss  Emma  Hinzpeter,  daughter 
of  Ferdinand  and  Theresa  (Kinimi)  Hinzpeter,  who  were  natives  of  Germany,  while 
their  daughter,   Mrs.  Zachritz,   was  born   in  St.   Louis.     To   the  judge  and   his  wife 


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have  been  born  three  sons,  William  O.,  married  Leona  Endres  and  has  a  daughter, 
Marjorie  Helen,  tour  and  a  half  years  of  age.  They  reside  with  Judge  Zachritz 
at  No.  2921  Lafayette  avenue.  Edgar  F.,  who  was  a  law  partner  of  his  father 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  March  27,  1915,  left  a  widow,  Mrs.  Emily  (Died- 
erich)  Zachritz.  who  has  since  remarried.  Walter,  who  is  agent  of  the  Lion  Bond- 
ing Company,  married  Eveline  Hickel,  by  whom  he  has  a  son,  Walter  Howard,  two 
years  ot  age.      Their  home  is  at  No.  4323  Shaw  avenue. 

Judge  Zachritz  is  a  member  of  the  Royal  Arcanum  and  has  been  a  represen- 
tative of  the  local  lodge  in  the  Grand  Council  of  Missouri.  He  has  also  been  the 
general  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Public  School  Patrons  Alliance,  in  which  office 
he  served  in  1914  and  1915  and  has  recently  been  reelected  to  the  position.  He 
has  also  been  president  of  the  Old  Union  Club  and  a  member  for  many  years  ot 
the  Liederkranz  Club.  He  likewise  has  membership  in  Meridian  Lodge,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  and  is  a  member  of  Thomas  Jefferson  Council  of  the  Junior  Order  ot  United 
American   Mechanics. 

As  a  matter  of  political  faith  Judge  Zachritz  has  always  been  a  republican 
in  politics  and  more  or  less  active  in  party  ranks  in  connection  with  city,  state 
and  national  politics.  He  is  a  member  of  the  various  republican  organizations  in 
the  locality  in  which  he  has  resided,  having  for  twenty-live  years  been  a  member 
of  the  Fifteenth  Ward  Republican  Club,  of  which  he  was  president  for  seven  years. 
He  served  tor  four  years  as  a  member  ot  the  republican  state  committee  and  for 
a  part  ot  a  term  as  a  member  of  the  republican  city  committee.  From  the  time 
when  he  attained  his  majority  he  was  for  many  years  a  delegate  to  numerous  city 
and  state  conventions  and  in  1916  was  a  delegate  from  the  twelfth  congressional 
district  to  the  republican  national  cpnvention  in  Chicago,  where  he  voted  all  the 
way  through  for  Charles  E.  Hughes.  He  is  keenly  interested  in  the  vital  questions 
and  problems  that  affect  the  welfare  of  city,  commonwealth  and  country  and  keeps 
abreast  with  the  best  thinking  men  of  the  age  concerning  the  important  political, 
sociological  and  economic  problems.  His  has  been  an  active  life  of  far-reaching 
effect.  He  has  practiced  law  since  leaving  the  circuit  bench,  giving,  his  attention 
to  general  practice,  and  has  successfully  defended  many  cases,  including  important 
felony  and  civil  cases  and  will  contests,  all  of  which  he  has  won  when  in  the  de- 
fense. He  has  been  active  in  the  St.  Louis  Public  School  Patrons  Alliance  for 
twenty  years  or  more,  long  after  his  children  left  the  schools,  and  for  a  number 
of  years  was  the  head  of  the  organization.  He  has  also  been  active  in  charitable 
work  and  has  assisted  financially  and  otherwise  in  numerous  benevolent  projects, 
especially  the  St.  Louis  Protestant  Orphans  Home  on  the  St.  Charles  rock  road, 
and  the  Old  Peoples  Home  of  the  same  organization,  his  life  thus  reaching  out  in 
constant  usefulness  and  benefit  to  others. 


GEORGE  DULANY  HURLEY. 


George  Dulany  Hurley  has  been  a  resident  of  Kansas  City  since  1897  and  is  now 
engaged  in  the  lumber  business  in  connection  with  his  father  under  the  style  of  the 
R.  J.  Hurley  Lumber  Company.  He  was  born  in  Butler,  Missouri,  July  1,  1881,  and  is 
a  son  of  Robert  James  Hurley,  whose  birth  occurred  in  Schenectady,  New  York,  March 
23,  1844.  The  father  of  R.  J.  Hurley,  James  Hurley,  was  a  native  of  Ireland  who  on 
coming  to  the  United  States  settled  in  New  York  and  afterward  reaioved  to  Wisconsin, 
establishing  his  home  neat  Milwaukee,  where  he  eng-aged  in  farming.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Roman  Catholic  church  and  was  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  the  community, 
serving  as  county  superintendent  for  twenty  years.  He  married  Ellen  Donovan,  also 
a  native  of  the  Emerald  isle,  in  which  country  their  marriage  was  celebrated.  They 
became  the  parents  of  eight  children,  of  whom  but  two  are  not  living,  the  surviving 
daughter  being  Mrs.  Mary  Vetter,  of  Fond  du  Lac,  Wisconsin. 

Robert  J.  Hurley  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Wisconsin  and  in  early 
lite  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  which  was  the  initial  step  that  took  him  in  the 
course  of  a  progressive  business  career  into  lumber  circles,  leading  eventually  to  his 
notable  success  as  a  prominent  lumberman  of  Missouri.  He  came  to  Kansas  City  in 
1868  and  after  a  year  removed  to  Fort  Scott,  Kansas.  Later  he  took  up  his  abode 
at    Butler     Missouri,   where   he   spent   fifteen   years,   and    during   that   period    was    pro- 


970  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

prietor  of  a  lumberyard  at  that  place.  For  forty  years  he  has  been  continuously  con- 
nected with  the  lumber  business.  In  1882  he  incorporated  the  R.  J.  Hurley  Lumber 
Company,  of  which  he  has  continuously  served  as  an  officer  and  is  now  president. 
This  is  now  one  of  the  mammoth  concerns  of  the  kind  in  the  state,  owning  a  chain 
of  lumberyards  and  hardware  stores  at  various  points  in  Missouri.  Robert  J.  Hurley  is 
today  one  of  the  outstanding  figures  in  commercial  circles  in  Kansas  City  and  Missouri, 
his  life  illustrating  clearly  what  can  be  accomplished  through  individual  effort  when 
guided  by  sound  judgment.  His  political  allegiance  has  always  been  given  to  the 
republican   party. 

Robert  J.  Hurley  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Louella  Hall,  a  native  of  Green- 
castle,  Indiana,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  eight  children,  of  whom  three  survive: 
George  D.,  of  this  review;  Mrs.  W.  E.  Pi-uett,  of  Kansas  City,  who  has  one  child,  Clari- 
belle;  and  Alice  Hurley. 

George  D.  Hurley  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Bates  and  Jackson 
counties  and  received  his  early  business  training  under  his  father's  direction.  In  tact 
he  has  been  continuously  connected  with  his  father  since  making  his  initial  step  in 
the  business  world.  He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1897  and  as  his  business  qualifications 
and  powers  have  developed  he  has  more  and  more  largely  assumed  authority  and 
responsibility  in  connection  with  the  interests  of  the  R.  J.  Hurley  Lumber  Company, 
of  which  he  is  now  the  active  secretary,  director  and  general  manager.  This  is  a 
million  dollar  corporation  which  has  been  built  up  from  a  small  beginning  by  the 
ability  and  efforts  of  Robert  J.  and  George  D.  Hurley,  the  enterprise,  enthusiasm  and 
progressiveness  of  the  son  ably  supplementing  and  rounding  out  the  splendid  powers 
of  organization,  the  sound  judgment  and  the  keen  business  discrimination  of  the  father. 
The  firm  stands  very  high  in  the  trade  and  its  business  has  steadily  been  one  of  grow- 
ing importance.  In  addition  to  his  other  interests  George  D.  Hurley  is  a  director  of 
the  Central  Exchange  National  Bank  and  a  director  of  the  Albert  Johnson  Chain  Stores. 

In  1908  Mr.  Hurley  was  married  to  Miss  Elmina  Williams,  of  Roscoe,  Missouri.  Mr. 
Hurley  is  well  known  in  the  leading  club  and  social  organizations  of  the  city,  having 
membership  in  the  City  Club,  the  Automobile  Club  and  the  Kansas  City  Club,  also 
in  the  Optimists  Club  of  America.  He  is  likewise  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce and  is  keenly  interested  in  all  those  projects  and  movements  put  forth  by  the 
organization  for  the  benefit  and  upbuilding  of  Kansas  City  and  the  extension  of  its 
trade  relations.  He  is  likewise  secretary  of  the  Good  Roads  Association  and  he  gives 
his  cooperation  to  all  those  forces  and  interests  which  are  a  matter  of  civic  virtue 
and    civic   pride. 


HARRY  JAMES   NELSON. 


Harry  James  Nelson,  who  since  1917  has  been  district  attorney,  in  charge  of  the 
Missouri  district  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  at  St.  Joseph  and 
who  has  been  connected  with  railroad  service  as  a  representative  of  the  same  line  since 
1886,  was  born  in  Canton,  Ohio,  June  9,  1869,  a  son  of  William  J.  and  Katherine 
(Kahler)  Nelson.  In  the  paternal  line  he  comes  of  English  ancestry  through  his 
grandfather  Nelson  and  of  Pennsylvania  Dutch  stock  through  the  latter's  wife.  In 
the  maternal  line  he  is  of  German  descent,  his  grandparents  having  been  natives  of 
Germany.  Both  William  J.  Nelson  and  Katherine  Kahler  were  reared  near  Canton, 
Ohio,  and  were  there  married.  They  are  now  residing  in  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  at 
the  ages  of  eighty-one  and  eighty-two  years  respectively.  William  J.  Nelson  is  a 
veteran  of  the  Civil  war  and  after  the  cessation  of  hostilities  he  removed  to  central 
Nebraska  and  in  1882  became  a  resident  of  Nodaway  county,  Missouri,  while  at  the 
present  time  he  resides  in  St.  Joseph.  He  has  devoted  his  life  to  law  practice  but  is 
now  living  retired. 

Harry  J.  Nelson  is  indebted  to  the  public  school  systems  of  Nebraska  and  Missouri 
for  the  early  education  which  he  acquired,  while  later  he  attended  the  Northwestern 
Normal  College  at  Shenandoah,  Iowa.  Throughout  his  subsequent  career  he  has  given 
his  attention  to  law  and  railroad  business.  He  entered  the  service  of  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  at  St.  Joseph  in  1886  and  in  1893  was  appointed  to  a 
position  in  the  law  department  of  the  company,  with  which  he  has  since  been  identified. 
He  advanced  through  various  promotions  until  in  1917  he  was  made  district  attorney 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  971 

in  charge  of  the  Missouri  district,  becoming  the  successor  of  Judge  Spencer,  who  was 
made  general  counsel  tor  the  railroad  at  Chicago. 

At  St.  Joseph,  in  October,  1894,  Mr.  Nelson  was  married  to  Miss  Ella  May  De  Clue, 
daughter  of  John  De  Clue,  of  this  city,  who  was  one  of  the  earliest  residents  here  and 
engaged  in  business  as  a  building  contractor  and  planing  mill  operator.  To  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Nelson  have  been  born  a  son  and  a  daughter,  Howard  D.  and  Grace  R.  The 
family  is  well  known  in  the  social  circles  of  the  city  and  the  hospitality  of  many  of  the 
best  homes  in  St.  Joseph  is  freely  accorded  them.  Mr.  Nelson  belongs  to  the  Commerce 
Club  of  St.  Joseph  and  through  his  cooperation  with  its  plans  and  purposes  contributes 
to  the  upbuilding  of  the  city,  the  extension  of  its  trade  relations  and  the  upbuilding 
of  its  civic  standards.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  republican  party  where 
national  questions  and  issues  are  involved,  but  at  local  elections  he  casts  an  inde- 
pendent ballot. 


CLAUDE   R.  FOOSHE. 


Claude  R.  Fooshe,  manager  at  St.  Louis  for  the  Prudential  Insurance  Company, 
was  born  in  Greenwood,  South  Carolina,  April  12,  1886.  His  father,  James  D.  Fooshe, 
was  a  native  of  North  Carolina  but  was  descended  from  one  of  the  old  families  of 
South  Carolina  of  French  origin.  James  D.  Fooshe  became  a  successful  planter  but 
at  the  time  of  the  Civil  war  he  put  aside  business  and  personal  considerations  and 
Joined  the  Third  South  Carolina  Battalion  in  defense  of  the  cause  in  which  he  believed. 
He  served  throughout  the  period  of  the  war,  was  a  part  of  the  time  a  courier  on 
General  Lee's  staff  and  he  participated  also  in  many  of  the  leading  battles.  In  one 
engagement  he  was  wounded  and  taken  prisoner  but  afterwards  was  exchanged.  At 
the  close  of  the  war  he  resumed  the  development  of  his  plantation  but  is  now  living  near 
Augusta,  Georgia,  enjoying  the  fruits  of  a  well  spent  life.  He  wedded  Mary  Ann 
Fuller,  who  was  born  in  South  Carolina  and  was  of  English  lineage.  She  passed  away 
March  21,  1918,  at  the  age  of  sixty-six  years.  Their  family  numbered  twelve  children, 
five  sons  and  seven  daughters,  of  whom  nine  are  yet  living. 

Charles  R.  Fooshe,  who  was  the  tenth  in  order  of  birth,  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Coronaca,  South  Carolina,  and  in  Wofford  College  at  Spartanburg,  South 
Carolina,  which  he  attended  for  a  year.  When  eighteen  years  of  age  he  started  out  to 
earn  his  livelihood  and  his  first  position  was  that  of  insurance  solicitor  for  the  Pru- 
dential Insurance  Company  at  St.  Paul.  He  entered  upon  active  connection  with  this 
company  in  1904  and  continuously  and  successfully  served  as  solicitor  for  seven 
years.  He  was  then  appointed  general  manager  for  the  Minneapolis  office  and  occupied 
that  position  for  a  year,  after  which  he  was  obliged  to  resign  on  account  of  ill  health, 
largely  caused  by  the  close  confinement  of  the  office.  Returning  to  the  south,  he  then 
took  up  field  work  as  a  solicitor  in  Virginia  and  continued  thus  to  represent  the  com- 
pany for  five  years,  the  outdoor  life  proving  greatly  beneficial  to  him.  On  the  expira- 
tion of  that  period  he  again  accepted  the  position  of  manager,  being  placed  at  this 
time  in  charge  of  the  office  at  Denver,  Colorado,  successfully  and  capably  directing  the 
interests  of  the  business  at  that  point  until  August  4,  1919,  when  the  company  trans- 
ferred him  to  the  larger  field  offered  by  the  St.  Louis  office,  where  his  course  has  steadily 
been  marked  by  progress  and  advancement  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  business. 

On  the  17th  of  March,  1913,  Mr.  Fooshe  was  married  to  Miss  Lura  Denkman,  a 
native  of  Iowa  and  a  daughter  of  John  A.  and  Ella  (Shrope)  Denkman,  representa- 
tives of  one  of  the  pioneer  families  of  Iowa.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fooshe  have  already  gained 
many  warm  friends  during  the  period  of  their  residence  in  St.  Louis  and  the  circle  of 
their  acquaintance  is  constantly  broadening.  They  are  members  of  St.  John's  Methodist 
Episcopal  church.  South.  Mr.  Fooshe  was  formerly  a  member  of  the  Denver  Athletic 
Club,  and  now  has  membership  with  the  St.  Louis  City  Club..  Throughout  his  lite, 
however,  his  attention  has  been  largely  concentrated  upon  his  business  interests. 
He  has  risen  to  his  present  position  through  strict  application,  through  honest  effort 
and  hard  work.  He  inspires  one  with  confidence  after  they  have  had  a  few 
minutes'  conversation  with  him.  He  has  an  extremely  genial  disposition  and  re- 
markable self-control,  rarely  allowing  anger  to  make  itself  manifest.  He  is  well 
known  throughout  the  army  and  navy  and  many  officers  can  testify  to  his  business 
acumen  as  well  as  to  his  courtesy  and  kindly  spirit.     Since  entering  the  field  of  insur- 


972  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

ance  he  has  made  steady  progress  and  from  June,  1916,  until  June,  1917,  he  wrote  over 
a  million  dollars  worth  of  insurance,  all  among  army  and  naval  officers.  He  possesses 
marked  executive  ability,  is  skillful  as  a  salesman  and  is  thoroughly  acquainted  with 
every  phase  of  insurance,  while  throughout  his  career  his  honesty  has  never  been 
questioned.  That  he  is  a  man  of  philanthropic  spirit  all  recognize  and  yet  his  benevo- 
lences are  of  a  most  quiet  and  unostentatious  nature,  for  he  is  one  who  practices  the 
admonition,  "Never  let  your  left  hand  know  what  your  right  hand  doeth." 


SAMUEL   F.   BAKER. 


Samuel  F.  Baker  is  the  president  of  the  Sam  F.  Baker  Motor  Company  of  Kansas 
City  and  is  a  self-made  man  who  deserves  great  credit  for  what  he  has  accomplished. 
He  has  but  just  completed  the  third  decade  on  the  journey  of  life  but  already  has 
attained  a  measure  of  success  that  many  an  older  man  might  well  envy.  Kansas 
City  is  proud  to  number  him  among  her  native  sons.  He  was  here  born  May  24, 
1890,  his  parents  being  Charles  W.  and  Emma  Florence  (Lapsley)  Baker,  who 
were  natives  of  Ohio  and  Alabama  respectively.  On  removing  to  Missouri  the 
father  settled  in  Mexico  and  became  very  prominent  in  public  affairs.  He  was 
keenly  interested  in  educational  matters  and  became  treasurer  of  Hardin  College. 
In  the  early  'SOs  he  removed  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  entered  upon  the  practice  of 
law  and  was  soon  recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  attorneys  here.  He  also  became 
a  member  of  the  Lapsley-Baker  Company,  real  estate  dealers,  and  thus  he  was  well 
known  in  professional  and  business  circles. 

Samuel  F.  Baker,  however,  was  but  a  young  lad  when  left  an  orphan  and  at 
ten  years  of  age  he  started  out  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world.  After  attending 
the  public  schools  he  continued  his  education  in  Park  College,  working  his  way 
through  that  institution  and  also  through  the  University  of  Kansas,  for  he  early 
recognized  the  value  and  worth  of  education  as  a  factor  in  a  successful  business 
career.  He  completed  his  university  course  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree.  The 
qualities  which  he  displayed  in  acquiring  his  education  indicated  the  elemental 
strength  of  his  character,  his  firm  purpose  and  his  laudable  ambition.  In  1910  he 
was  appointed  to  the  United  States  Military  Academy  at  West  Point,  but  illness 
prevented  him  from  completing  his  course.  He  finished  his  education  in  1912  and 
on  the  8th  of  June  of  that  year  became  associated  with  the  Union  Depot  Bridge  & 
Terminal  Company  of  Kansas  City.  In  the  following  year  he  turned  his  attention 
to  the  automobile  business,  being  first  a  representative  of  the  Packard  car  and 
later  of  the  Ford.  He  has  made  it  his  purpose  to  thoroughly  master  every  element 
that  relates  to  the  automobile  trade  and  he  has  gained  notable  success.  He  started 
with  practically  no  funds  and  his  close  application,  indefatigable  energy  and  thor- 
oughness have  constituted  the  basis  of  his  present  prosperity.  He  has  never  been 
afraid  of  hard  work  and  strict  attention  has  been  the  foundation  upon  which  he 
has  built  his  present  business. 

After  America's  entrance  into  the  World  war,  however,  Mr.  Baker  put  every 
interest  aside  save  that  of  a  military  nature.  In  1917  he  was  called  from  civil  life 
and  appointed  a  second  lieutenant  of  engineers.  He  was  sent  as  an  instructor  to  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  at  Boston  to  give  instruction  in  signal  work 
and  in  August.  1918,  sailed  overseas,  commanding  the  American  detachment  of 
the  Fifty-fifth  Division  of  the  British  army.  He  served  in  England,  won  promotion 
to  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant  and  afterward  to  a  captaincy.  He  rendered  valuable 
aid  to  his  countrv  in  this  connection  and  he  is  still  identified  with  military  interests 
as  captain  of  Company  H  of  the  Third  Infantry  Regiment  of  the  Missouri  National 
Guard.  With  his  return  home  he  resumed  his  connection  with  the  automobile  trade 
of  Kansas  City  and  has  not  only  won  success  in  this  connection  but  has  also  become 
a  director  of  the  Kansas  City  Terminal  Trust  Company  and  of  the  South  Side  Bank. 

In  1914,  in  Kansas  City,  Mr.  Baker  was  married  to  Miss  Irene  Neal,  a  daughter 
of  Charles  T.  Neal,  the  vice  presdient  of  the  United  States  grain  commission  and 
representative  of  the  United  States  when  the  first  cargo  of  wheat  was  taken  to 
Europe.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Baker  have  been  born  two  children:  Nancy  Alice,  whose 
birth  occurred  September  11,  1915;  and  Emily  Florence,  born  April  15,  1919.  The 
parents  are  members  of  the  Westport  Presbyterian  church  and  Mr.  Baker  is  much 
interested  in  all  those  forces  which  make  for  material,  intellectual,  social  and  moral 


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progress.  He  is  an  active  member  o£  the  Chamber  o£  Commerce  and  in  his  college 
days  he  became  a  member  of  the  Alpha  Tau  Omega  and  is  now  president  of  the 
Kansas  City  chapter  of  that  fraternity.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Club, 
the  Lions  Club,  of  which  he  is  a  director,  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club,  the  Auto- 
mobile Club  and  the  Hillcrest  Country  Club.  He  is  a  Mason,  having  membership 
in  Ivanhoe  Lodge,  and  he  has  likewise  taken  the  degrees  of  the  chapter,  commandery 
and  Mystic  Shrine  and  in  the  latter  is  a  member  of  the  Shrine  patrol.  The  salient 
features  in  his  career  are  most  commendable.  He  worked  his  way  through  college, 
held  high  rank  in  the  service  during  the  World  war  and  has  made  notable  success 
in  business,  being  recognized  today  as  a  dynamic  force  in  the  motor  trade  circles  of 
the  west. 


FRANK   HURWITT,   M.  D. 


Dr.  Prank  Hurwitt  of  Kansas  City,  specializing  in  internal  medicine,  was  born 
in  New  York  City,  January  15,  1882.  His  parents,  Harris  and  Frances  Hurwitt, 
were  natives  of  Germany,  in  which  country  they  were  reared  and  married,  and  their 
son  Frank  was  the  youngest  of  several  children.  He  obtained  his  early  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  New  York,  and  afterward  attended  the  New  York  City  Col- 
lege, in  which  he  pursued  his  specifically  literary  course,  being  graduated  in  1904 
with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree.  He  later  pursued  his  medical  studies  in  the 
National  University  of  St.  Louis,  and  was  graduated  in  1909  with  the  M.  D.  degree. 
He  located  for  practice  in  that  city  in  the  same  year  but  remained  there  tor  only 
three  months,  after  which  he  removed  to  Kansas  City  and  here  took  up  professional 
work  in  which  he  has  since  continued,  giving  his  attention  largely  to  internal  medi- 
cine. He  has  the  confidence  of  his  professional  colleagues  and  contemporaries,  as 
well  as  of  his  patients,  and  his  practice  has  steadily  grown  in  volume  and  importance. 

When  America  entered  the  World  war,  Dr.  Frank  Hurwitt  enlisted  in  June,  1917, 
and  was  commissioned  captain  in  command  of  Ambulance  Company  No.  137,  Divi- 
sion No.  35.  He  was  first  stationed  at  Camp  Riley,  and  then  went  to  Camp  Doniphan, 
Oklahoma,  whence  he  was  sent  overseas,  landing  in  England.  He  proceeded  to 
France,  going  first  to  Vosges  Mountains,  in  Alsace,  then  to  St.  Mihiel,  being  on  active 
duty  in  that  sector,  and  later  in  the  Argonne.  There  he  ,was  gassed  and  was  in  a 
hospital  for  six  weeks,  but  recovered  so  that  he  resumed  his  command  and  went  to 
Verdun.  After  the  armistice  was  signed  he  was  sent  to  a  quiet  sector  where  he  re- 
mained until  he  received  his  honorable  discharge,  returning  home  in  May,  1919.  He 
has  been  commissioned  major  and  well  deserved  the  advancement  that  came  to  him. 

In  1910,  in  St.  Louis,  Dr.  Hurwitt  was  married  to  Miss  Josephine  Kowalski,  and 
they  have  two  children,  Irwin  E.  and  Fayette.  Dr.  Hewitt  is  a  Mason,  belonging 
to  Westport  Lodge,  No.  220,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  he  has  also  taken  the  Scottish  Rite 
degrees,  at  Guthrie,  Oklahoma.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Ararat  Temple  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine,  and  of  the  Grotto  at  Kansas  City.  His  religious  faith  is  manifest  in  his 
connection  with  the  Jewish  Temple.  He  belongs  to  the  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association,  to  the  Young  Men's  Hebrew  Association  and  to  the  B'nai  B'rith.  His 
political  endorsement  is  given  to  the  democratic  party,  and  along  strictly  profes- 
sional lines  he  has  connection  with  the  Jackson  County,  Missouri  State  and  Ameri- 
can Medical  Associations. 


LIEUTENANT  A.  EVAN  HUGHES. 

Lieutenant  A.  Evan  Hughes,  who  won  his  commission  as  an  aeroplane  pilot  and 
served  until  the  summer  of  1919,  is  now  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in  St.  Louis, 
his  native  city.  He  was  born  October  12,  1893,  and  is  a  son  of  William  H.  Hughes, 
a  native  of  England,  who  came  to  America  in  1885  and  first  settled  in  Canada, 
whence  he  came  to  St.  Louis  about  1890.  Here  he  has  since  resided  and  at 
present  is  a  government  official.  He  is  active  in  politics  as  a  supporter  of  the 
democratic  party  and  was  a  member  of  the  house  of  delegates  and  its  speaker  in 
1904.  He  married  Ida  Evans,  who  was  born  in  Ailsa  Craig,  Ontaria,  Canada,  and 
was  descended  in  the  maternal   line   from  an   old  Canadian  family  of  Welsh  origin. 

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976  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hughes  have  been  born  two  children,  the  younger  being  Miss 
Georgia   Hughes. 

The  son,  A.  Evan  Hughes,  after  attending  the  public  schools  continued  his 
education  in  St.  Louis  University  and  completed  his  studies  by  attending  the  night 
classes  of  the  Benton  Law  School,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1915  with  the 
LL.  B.  and  LL.  M.  degrees.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  began  practice,  how- 
ever, in  December,  1914,  and  has  since  been,  closely  associated  with  the  work  of 
the  profession  save  during  the  two  years  of  his  military  service.  Immediately 
after  America's  entrance  into  the  World  war  he  enlisted,  in  April.  1917,  for  the 
aviation  service  and  went  to  the  officers'  training  camp  at  Fort  Riley,  and  later 
was  sent  to  various  camps  and  fields  in  the  United  States.  He  was  then  sent  to 
France  as  a  casual  officer  and  later  became  a  member  of  the  Twenty-sixth  Aero 
Squadron,  originally  the  first  Aero  Reserve  sent  from  America.  He  was  stationed 
at  Issoudun,  France,  and  was  in  active  service  until  the  signing  of  the  armistice, 
serving  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant.  He  continued  abroad  until  the  summer  of 
1919,  when  he  returned  home  and  reentered  the  practice  of  law. 

On  the  10th  of  January,  1920,  Mr.  Hughes  was  appointed  e::ecutive  secretary 
and  attorney  for  the  St.  Louis  Real  Estate  Exchange.  He  con;inues  in  the  general 
practice  of  law  and  his  clientage  is  one  of  growing  extent  and  importance.  He 
belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association  and  many  of  his  contemporaries  and  col- 
leagues in   the  profession  acknowledge  him   to  be  one   of  its  rising  representatives. 

In  politics  Lieutenant  Hughes  is  a  democrat  and  during  James  Hagermau's 
term  of  office  was  assistant  circuit  clerk.  He  is  a  member  of  Tower  Grove  Lodge, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  also  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World  and  his  religious  faith  is  that 
of  the  Presbyterian  church.  One  who  knows  him  well  sa'd  of  him:  "He  is  a 
man  of  excellent  mentality,  ambitious  and  fearless,  which  coupled  with  a  willing- 
ness to  work  and  a  generous,  helpful  spirit,  bids  fair  to  make  of  him  a  most  valuable 
asset  to  the  life  of  any  community." 


E.  STANTON  STOFER,  M.  D. 

For  ten  years  Dr.  E.  Stanton  Stofer  has  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine 
in  Kansas  City,  save  for  the  period  of  his  active  overseas  service  as  a  member  of 
the  Medical  Corps.  Dr.  Stofer  is  a  native  of  Ohio,  his  parents  being  Samuel  R. 
and  Lucretia  F.  (Bowles)  Stofer,  who  were  residents  of  Knox  county,  Ohio,  for 
many  years.  The  father  was  born  in  1854,  and  for  forty-five  years  was  a  success- 
ful practicing  physician,  spending  twenty-eight  years  of  that  time  in  Kansas  City 
where  he  is  now  living  retired.  He  had  been  engaged  in  practice  at  Clarkdale 
and  Danville,  Ohio,  before  removing  to  the  west. 

Dr.  E.  Stanton  Stofer,  the  subject  of  this  review,  secured  his  education  in  the 
high  school  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  and  afterward  attended  the  University  Medi- 
cal College  at  Kansas  City,  from  which  he  was  graduated.  In  1910  he  entered 
upon  the  general  practice  of  his  profession  in  which  he  continued  successfully  until 
1917,  when  his  patriotic  spirit  dominated  every  other  impulse  and  he  joined  the 
army  as  a  member  of  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps,  going  to  Fort  Benjamin  Harrison, 
where  he  received  his  commission  as  first  lieutenant.  He  was  afterward  trans- 
ferred to  Camp  Grant,  and  from  there  was  sent  as  instructor  and  student  to  the 
School  of  Roentgenology  in  connection  with  the  Cornell  Medical  College  of  New 
York  City.  In  1918  he  went  overseas  as  a  member  of  Base  Hospital  Unit  No.  14, 
this  being  the  base  hospital  unit  organized  by  St.  Luke's  Hospital  of  Chicago.  He 
proceeded  to  Mars,  near  Nevers,  France,  and  later  was  transferred  to  Field  Hos- 
pital No.  163.  He  was  next  sent  to  Evacuation  Hospital  No.  9,  where  he  had 
charge  of  X-ray  work  and  was  there  promoted  to  the  rank  of  captain.  His  next 
assignment  was  to  Camp  Hospital  No.  138,  at  Chatillon,  sur-Seine  where  he  was 
in  general  work  and  then  went  to  Camp  Hospital  No.  148,  at  Recy-sur-Orce,  where 
he  had  charge  of  X-ray  work.  He  returned  home  on  the  23d  of  June,  1919,  after 
having  devoted  more  than  a  year  to  the  service  of  his  country,  and  in  Kansas  City 
is  now  engaged  in  practice,  many  of  his  old  patients  having  returned  to  him,  while 
many  new  ones  are  also  giving  him  their  patronage.  He  belongs  to  the  Jackson 
County,  the  Missouri  State  and  the  American  Medical  Associations. 

Dr.   Stofer  was  married  to  Miss  Estelle  B.  Greenwood,   a  daughter  of  William 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  977 

Greenwood,  now  deceased,  who  was  a  railroad  engineer  of  Kansas  City.  They  have 
two  children,  Russell  Stanton  and  Harriett  Louise.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Stofer  occupy 
an  enviable  social  position  and  he  is  well  known  among  the  younger  representa- 
tives of  the  medical  profession,  his  ability  being  attested  in  the  liberal  profes- 
sional support  given  him,  and  in  the  high  regard  of  his  professional  colleagues 
and  contemporaries. 


HON.   WALTER   J.    G.    NEUN. 

Hon.  Walter  J.  G.  Neun,  an  official  of  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association  and  a  promi- 
nent practitioner  in  the  courts  of  Missouri,  specializing  largely  in  corporation  law, 
is  also  well  known  because  of  the  activity  which  he  has  displayed  in  support  of  many 
agencies  looking  to  the  benefit  and  uplift  of  his  fellowmen  and  the  upbuilding  of 
the  city  and  state  in  which  he  lives.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  June  17,  1881.  and 
is  a  son  of  Charles  H.  Neun,  also  a  native  of  St.  Louis.  Charles  H.  Neun  was  reared 
and  educated  in  this  city  and  after  attaining  man's  estate  joined  his  older  brother, 
John  Neun.  in  founding  and  conducting  a  mercantile  enterprise  under  the  name  of 
the  John  Neun  Dry  Goods  Company.  Theirs  was  for  many  years  one  of  the  leading 
dry  goods  houses  of  the  city,  their  business  reaching  extensive  proportions.  Charles 
H.  Neun  was  married  to  Miss  Augusta  Scherringhausen,  also  a  native  of  St.  Louis 
and  a  representative  of  one  of  the  old  families  of  the  city.  Her  father  was  a  warm 
personal  friend  of  General  Ulysses  S.  Grant.  For  many  years  he  conducted  a  brick 
manufacturing  plant  and  also  a  large  mercantile  establishment  at  Twelfth  and  Cal- 
houn streets,  at  which  General  Grant  was  ofttimes  a  purchaser.  Mrs.  Charles  H. 
Neun  is  still  living  and  Mr.  Neun  since  retiring  from  the  dry  goods  business  has 
been  actively  and  successfully  engaged  in  other  commercial  pursuits.  • 

Walter  J.  G.  Neun  was  the  only  son  in  a  family  of  five  children.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  in  his  early  youth  and  afterwards  became  a  pupil  in  the  Smith 
Academy  of  St.  Louis,  while  still  later  he  attended  the  Washington  University  and 
following  the  completion  of  his  more  specifically  literary  course  entered  the  St.  Louis 
Law  School,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  honors  with  the  LL.  B.  degree  in 
1902.  In  July  of  the  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  practice  and  has  since  been 
an  active  representative  of  the  bar  here,  specializing  largely  in  corporation  law.  He 
has  a  keen  legal  mind  and  is  absolutely  just  and  fair  on  all  questions.  He  is  cap- 
able and  many  who  know  him  class  him  with  the  best  in  the  profession  in  his  native 
city,  his  life  record  therefore  standing  in  contradistinction  to  the  old  adage  that  a 
prophet  is  never  without  honor  save  in  his  own  country.  In  1918  he  was  elected 
judge  of  the  circuit  court  to  fill  out  an  unexpired  term.  In  the  same  year  he  was 
elected  secretary  of  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association  and  his  prominence  and  popularity 
among  his  fellow  representatives  of  the  law  in  St.  Louis  is  indicated  in  the  fact 
that  he  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  Bar  Association  in  1919.  He  likewise  belongs 
to  the  Missouri  State  and  American  Bar  Associations.  In  January,  1919,  he  became 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  D'Arcy  &  Neun  and  they  are  serving  as  counselors  for  the 
Bank  of  Commerce  and  in  addition  have  an  extensive  clientage  which  includes  many 
of  the  important  corporation  interests  of  the  city.  Mr.  Neun  had  previously  served 
as  assistant  counsel  of  the  Bank  of  Commerce  from  1911  until  1916  and  for  two 
years,  in  1910  and  1911,  was  assistant  circuit  attorney. 

On  the  23d  of  January,  1909,  Mr.  Neun  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss  Marie 
Edna  Nagel,  a  daughter  of  Frank  and  Marie  (Tomlinson)  Nagel,  representatives  of 
one  of  the  old  families  of  St.  Louis.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Neun  have  become  the  parents 
of  tv/o  sons:  Frank  A.,  born  in  St.  Louis,  November  7,  1909;  and  Walter  J.  G.,  Jr., 
on  the  7th  of  May,  1913. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Neun  is  a  stalwart  republican,  active  in  support  of 
the  party  because  of  his  firm  belief  in  its  principles.  He  belongs  to  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  and  is  interested  in  all  that  pertains  to  the  welfare  and  progress  of 
St.  Louis.  An  Episcopalian  in  religious  faith,  he  is  a  communicant  of  the  Church 
of  the  Ascension.  He  is  well  known  in  Masonic  circles,  belonging  to  Tuscan  Lodge, 
No.  360,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  also  to  the  Royal  Arch  Chapter  and  to  the  Mystic  Shrine. 
He  has  likewise  taken  the  Scottish  Rite  degrees,  is  the  orator  of  the  Lodge  of  Per- 
fection, is  now  a  potentate  of  Moolah  Temple  of  the  Shrine.     His  interests  are  broad 


978  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

and  have  to  do  largely  with  the  welfare  and  progress  of  the  race  and  of  the  indi- 
vidual. He  is  now  president  of  the  Hamilton  School  Parent-Teachers  Association, 
an  organization  doing  effective  work  to  bring  the  parents  into  closer  relations  with 
the  schools  that  both  may  be  mutually  benetited. 

During  the  World  war  Mr.  Neun  served  as  a  member  of  the  legal  advisory  board 
of  the  twenty-second  ward  and  was  most  helpful  in  support  of  all  war  activities.  He 
was  chairman  of  Thrift  Stamp  meetings  and  also  chairman  of  a  subcommittee  on  the 
Liberty  Loan  drives.  He  is  a  lover  of  music,  plays  the  violin  and  nearly  all  stringed 
instruments  and  in  1910  was  the  leader  of  the  Washington  University  Glee  &  Man- 
dolin Club.  He  also  enjoys  a  well  earned  reputation  as  a  forceful,  entertaining  and 
convincing  speaker  and  his  social  qualities  make  for  popularity  among  a  host  o£ 
warm  friends. 


JOHN   NELSON   DENNY. 


John  Nelson  Denny,  agent  for  the  Southern  Surety  Company  of  St.  Louis,  was 
born  in  Bond  county,  Illinois,  July  22,  1851.  His  father,  Andrew  Sheppard  Denny, 
who  was  a  farmer  of  Bond  county  and  also  a  native  son  of  Illinois,  belonged  to  one 
of  the  old  American  families  which  was  represented  by  three  generations  in  the 
new  world  before  the  Revolutionary  war.  The  great-grandfather  in  the  Denny 
line  was  one  of  the  heroes  in  the  war  for  independence.  The  mother  of  John 
Nelson  Denny  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Sarah  Jane  White  and  was  a  daughter  of 
William  and  Agnes  (Johnson)  White  and  a  relative  of  Captain  Isaac  White,  who 
was  a  Revolutionary  war  soldier,  while  in  the  Civil  war  Edward  White  served  as  a 
first  lieutenant  in  McAlister's  Battery  of  the  Second  Artillery  and  Frank  White 
was  captain  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirtieth  Illinois  Infantry,  thus  valiantly- 
aiding  in 'the  Union  cause.  It  was  in  March,  1848,  that  Sarah  Jane  White  became 
the  wife  of  Andrew  Sheppard  Denny,  the  ceremony  being  performed  at  Greenville, 
Bond  county,  Illinois.  The  marriage  was  blessed  with  three  sons  and  five  daugh- 
ters, of  whom  John  N.  Denny  of  this  review  is  the  eldest.  The  others  are: 
Henrietta,  Ida  and  Martha,  all  now  deceased;  Emma;  Agnes,  who  is  the  widow 
of  Robert  D.  Hoyt  of  Clearwater,  Florida;  William,  who  manages  a  grape  fruit  and 
orange  plantation  in  Florida,  having  been  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the  production 
of  citrous  fruits  in  that  part  of  the  country;  and  Edward,  who  passed  away  at  the 
age  of  twenty  years. 

John  N.  Denny  began  his  education  in  the  country  schools  at  Chapel  Hill, 
Illinois,  and  afterward  attended  high  school  at  Greenville,  Illinois.  He  later  entered 
the  Kentucky  University  at  Lexington,  Kentucky,  and  in  1881  became  a  student  in 
Washington  University  of  St.  Louis,  where  he  took  up  the  study  of  law,  winning 
his  LL.  B.  degree  in  1883.  During  his  college  days  he  was  also  a  teacher  in  the 
Jones  Commercial  College.  Following  his  admission  to  the  bar  of  the  circuit, 
state  and  federal  courts  in  June,  1883,  he  at  once  entered  upon  practice  and  for 
two  years  thereafter  was  associated  with  Frank  E.  Richey  and  A.  M.  Berry. 
From  1885  until  1887  he  was  employed  as  an  attorney  for  the  firm  of  Brookmire 
&  Rankin  of  St.  Louis  and  in  1887  and  1888  was  attorney  for  the  James  M.  Hayes 
Woolen  Company.  In  the  latter  year  he  began  practicing  independently  and  so 
continued  for  two  years,  while  from  1890  until  1895  he  engaged  in  the  real  estate 
business  under  his  own  name.  On  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  became  clerk 
of  the  circuit  court  of  St.  Louis,  occupying  the  position  for  thirteen  years  or  until 
1911,  when  he  became  identified  with  the  Southern  Surety  Company  and  has  since 
been  associated  therewith.  He  handles  surety,  fidelity  and  contract  work  in  the 
capacity  of  agent  for  the  corporation. 

The  happy  home  life  of  Mr.  Denny  had  its  inception  in  his  marriage  on  the 
25th  of  June,  1884,  in  St.  Louis,  to  Miss  Ottilie  Schierstein,  a  daughter  of  Jacob 
and  Rose  H.  (Renner)  Schierstein.  They  have  become  parents  of  two  daughters: 
Elsie  Renner,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  Robert  June,  sales  and  advertising  manager 
with  the  Diamond  Power  Specialty  Company  of  Detroit,  Michigan;  and  Ethel,  who  is 
the  wife  of  William  Wilson  Burden,  who  during  the  World  war  was  a  major  of  the 
Twelfth  Engineers  and  was  on  duty  in  France  for  two  years. 

Mr.  Denny  is  a  stanch  supporter  of  the  republican  party  and  in  1894  was 
nominee   for   the   office   of   justice   of    the   peace.      He   belongs    to   Westgate   Lodge, 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  '  981 

No.  445,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  having  been  initiated  into  the  order  in  1893.  He  served 
as  master  of  his  lodge  in  1899  and  has  taken  the  degrees  of  the  chapter  and  com- 
mandery.  He  belongs  to  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association  and  enjoys  the  high  regard 
of  his  contemporaries  in  the  profession.  His  religious  faith  ,is  that  of  the  Pres- 
byterian church  and  he  is  now  serving  as  deacon  in  the  Second  Presbyterian 
church,  in  the  work  of  which   he  takes  active  and  helpful  part. 


HON.  NATHANIEL  MEACON  SHELTON. 

Hon.  Nathaniel  Meacon  Shelton,  jurist  and  statesman  of  Macon,  Missouri,  occupied 
the  circuit  court  bench  for  eighteen  consecutive  years  and  as  a  member  of  the  general 
assembly  he  aided  in  directing  the  policy  and  shaping  the  destiny  of  the  state.  He 
occupies  an  exalted  place  in  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the  people  of  Missouri.  His 
record  is  an  honor  to  the  commonwealth  in  which  he  lives  and  his  personal  worth 
makes  him  an  ornament  in  any  social  circle  of  which  he  is  a  part. 

Judge  Shelton  was  born  near  Troy,  Lincoln  county,  Missouri,  March  17,  1851,  his 
parents  being  Meacon  A.  and  Anna  (Berger)  Shelton.  He  comes  of  English  ancestry  in 
the  paternal  line,  the  progenitors  of  the  family  in  the  new  world  emigrating  from 
Great  Britain  to  America  early  in  the  seventeenth  century.  Abraham  Shelton,  the 
great-grandfather  of  Judge  Shelton,  was  a  member  of  the  last  house  of  burgesses  in 
Virginia  and  served  as  a  member  of  the  lower  house  of  the  legislature  of  the  new 
regime  of  1778,  when  Patrick  Henry  was  governor,  and  also  served  in  the  house  of 
delegates  after  America  had  won  her  independence.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the 
agitation  leading  up  to  the  Revolutionary  war  and  was  widely  and  favorably  known 
throughout  Virginia  and  other  American  colonies  as  a  wise  counselor,  a  pure  patriot 
and  a  tearless  defender  of  his  faith.  His  son,  Crispin  Shelton,  grandfather  of  Judge 
Shelton,  was  a  prominent  planter  of  Virginia  and  at  length  passed  away  on  the  old 
plantation  on  which  he  had  lived  a  life  of  usefulness,  contributing  to  the  welfare  and 
progress  of  his  community  in  a  more  quiet  but  none  the  less  effective  way  than  had 
his  father.  His  widow  afterward  came  to  Missouri  and  died  some  years  later  at  the 
home  of  her  son,  Meacon  A.  Shelton.  The  last  named  was  a  native  of  Pittsylvania 
county,  Virginia,  and  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name 
of  Ann  Evans,  passing  away  in  her  native  state  of  Virginia.  In  the  Old  Dominion 
Meacon  A.  Shelton  was  afterward  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Anna  Berger,  who  was 
likewise  born  in  Pittsylvania  cotTnty.  At  length  they  determined  to  become  residents 
of  what  was  then  the  far  west  and  in  1834  bide  adieu  to  their  ancestral  home  and 
started  for  Missouri,  traveling  across  the  country  with  teams  and  bringing  with  them 
a  good  herd  of  cattle  and  a  number  of  their  negroes.  Mr.  Shelton  entered  government 
land  in  what  is  now  Lincoln  county  and  bent  his  energies  to  the  development  and  im- 
provment  of  an  extensive  farm,  which  he  further  cultivated  until  1870,  when  he  sold 
the  property,  and  he  and  his  wife  thereafter  made  their  home  with  their  daughters 
until  called  to  their  final  rest:  The  death  of  Mr.  Shelton  occurred  in  1873.  when  he 
was  seventy-six  years  of  age,  while  his  wife  survived  until  1887  and  had  reached  the 
advanced  age  of  eighty  years  when  she  passed  to  the  home  beyond.  They  were  the 
parents  of  three  sons  and  six  daughters,  of  whom  Judge  Shelton  is  the  only  one  sur- 
viving. One  of  their  sons  joined  the  Confederacy  as  a  surgeon  and  lost  his  life  in 
the  Civil  war.  Mr.  Shelton  had  given  his  political  allegiance  to  the  whig  party  until 
Its  dissolution,  after  which  he  joined  the  ranks  of  the  democratic  party  and  was  one 
of  its  foremost  leaders  in  Missouri.  For'  more  than  twenty  years  he  was  the  presiding 
judge  of  the  Lincoln  county  court  and  his  name  is  revered  throughout  the  state  as 
that  of  a  capable  and  upright  jurist  and  as  that  of  a  citizen  whose  career  was  above 
reproach. 

Judge  Nathaniel  M.  Shelton  was  reared  to  the  age  of  eighteen  years  on  the 
paternal  homestead  in  Lincoln  county  and  had  the  advantage  of  training  in  private 
schools,  attending  the  Parker  Seminary  of  Troy,  Missouri,  and  also  the  William  Jewell 
College,  located  at  Liberty,  Missouri,  where  he  remained  as  a  student  for  two  years. 
He  afterward  taught  school  for  a  year  and  on  the  expiration  of  that  period  was  appointed 
deputy  clerk  and  recorder  of  Montgomery  county.  He  capably  served  in  that  capacity 
for  two  years  and  throughout  the  entire  period  devoted  every  leisure  moment  to  the 
study  of  law  under  the  direction  of  Judge  Elliott  M.  Hughes.     In  1874  he  matriculated 


982  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

as  a  law  student  in  the  Missouri  State  University  and  after  a  year  devoted  to  most 
thorough  and  earnest  study  ther,e  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Montgomery  county 
in  1875,  before  Judge  Gilchrist  Porter,  at  Danville. 

Judge  Shelton  entered  upon  the  active  practice  of  his  profession  in  Schuyler 
county,  Missouri,  in  the  same  year  and  continued  there  to  practice  successfully  until 
his  elevation  to  the  bench.  Prior  to  entering  upon  judicial  duties  he  served  as  attorney 
for  the  Wabash  Railroad  for  a  number  of  years  in  Schuyler  county,  rendering  the  corpo- 
ration faithful  and  capable  service,  and  at  the  same  time  he  had  an  extensive  private 
practice  that  connected  him  with  much  of  the  important  litigated  interests  heard  in 
the  courts  of  the  district.  On  the  1st  of  January,  1899,  he  was  elected  judge  of  the 
circuit  court  and  on  the  expiration  of  his  first  term  was  reelected,  liis  popularity  steadily 
growing  with  the  people  owing  to  the  confidence  awakened  by  his  prompt  and  faithful 
discharge  of  judicial  duties.  For  eighteen  consecutive  years  he  remained  upon  the 
bench  by  the  vote  of  the  people.  He  has  always  had  great  respect  for  the  dignity 
of  judicial  place  and  power  and  no  man  ever  presided  in  a  court  with  more  respect 
for  his  environment  than  did  Judge  Shelton.  At  a  result  of  that  personal  characteristic 
the  proceedings  were  always  orderly  upon  the  part  of  everyone — audience,  bar,  and  the 
officers,  from  the  highest  to  the  lowest.  His  opinions  are  fine  specimens  of  judicial 
thought,  always  clear,  logical  and  as  brief  as  the  character  of  the  case  would  permit. 
He  never  enlarged  beyond  the  necessities  of  the  legal  thought  in  order  to  indulge  in  the 
drapery  of  literature.  His  mind,  during  the  entire  period  of  his  course  at  the  bar 
and  on  the  bench,  has  been  directed  in  the  line  of  his  profession  and  his  duty,  and 
by  reason  of  his  preeminent  judicial  ability  his  name  is  carved  high  on  the  keystone 
of  Missouri's  legal  arch. 

Judge  Shelton  was  also  able  to  render  his  state  valuable  public  service  in  another 
direction — that  of  legislator.  In  1884  he  was  elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the  general 
assembly  and  was  reelected  in  1886.  In  that  body  he  was  made  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittees on  education  and  criminal  jurisprudence  and  he  so  wisely  directed  the  committee 
work  and  the  legislative  interests  under  his  control  that  in  1888  he  was  chosen  to 
represent  his  district  in  the  state  senate.  In  the  upper  house  he  was  made  chairman 
of  the  judiciary  committee  and  his  record  reflected  credit  and  honor  upon  the  state.  He 
has  always  given  his  political  allegiance  to  the  democratic  party  and  prior  to  his 
elevation  to  the  bench  he  was  active  in  its  councils,  delivering  many  campaign  addresses 
and  putting  forth  every  possible  effort  to  promote  the  success  of  the  party.  He  always 
carefully  studied  the  vital  problems  and  issues  of  the  day  and  supported  his  position 
by  clear  reasoning  and  logical  deductions.  The  interests  of  the  American  people, 
individually  and  collectively,  have  ever  been  dear  to  his  heart  and  throughout  his 
entire  life  he  has  clung  closely  to  the  highest  standards  of  American  citizenship. 

On  the  21st  of  November,  1878,  Judge  Shelton  was  married  to  Miss  Belle  T.  Garges, 
a  native  of  Missouri,  and  they  have  become  parents  of  four  children,  of  whom  three 
are  living:  Mabel  C,  the  wife  of  Wilbur  M.  French,  a  practicing  physician  of  Chicago; 
Charles  W.,  who  recently  entered  into  partnership  with  his  father  under  the  style 
of  Shelton  &  Shelton  for  the  practice  of  law;  and  Anna  E.,  at  home.  All  of  the  family 
are  consistent  and  faithful  members  of  the  Christian  church  and  Judge  Shelton  is 
an  exemplary  representative  of  tlie  Masonic  fraternity  and  of  the  Modern  Woodmen 
of  America.  The  judicial  and  legislative  records  of  the  state  bear  testimony  of  his 
pronounced  ability,  and  of  his  character  one  who  knew  him  well,  said:  "Well  descended 
and  well  bred,  his  life  is  that  of  a  high-souled,  large-minded,  noble-hearted  Christian 
gentleman  whom  no  taint  of  dishonor  or  dishonesty  ever  touched." 


GEORGE  THOMAS  O'MALEY. 

George  Thomas  O'Maley,  connected  with  the  automobile  business  in  Kansas 
City,  was  born  in  Hartwell,  Ohio,  a  suburb  of  Cincinnati,  March  13,  1889,  and  is  a 
son  of  P.  J.  and  Sarah  Cecilia  (Grogan)  O'Maley,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of 
Ireland,  where  they  were  reared  and  married.  The  father  was  a  graduate  of  Dublin 
University  and  after  coming  to  the  United  States  at  once  took  up  the  profession  of 
teaching  in  New  Jersey.  He  served  in  the  Confederate  army  during  the  Civil  war 
as  aide-de-camp  to  General  Sidney  Johnston  and  participated  in  many  battles  in 
Tennessee.     After  an  active  and  useful  life  devoted  to  contracting,  he  having  built 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  985 

part  of  the  Queen  and  Crescent  Railroad  through  Kentucky,  he  retired  and  spent 
his  last  days  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  However,  on  coming  to  the  United  States  in  the 
'40s  he  had  settled  in  New  Jersey  and  later  removed  to  Shiloh,  Tennessee,  and  it  was 
while  residing  in  the  south  that  he  became  a  supporter  of  the  Confederate  cause. 
To  him  and  his  wife  were  born  seven  children. 

The  youngest  of  the  family,  George  Thomas  O'Maley.  was  educated  in  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio,  where  after  attending  the  public  schools  he  was  graduated  from  St. 
Xavier's  College.  He  early  entered  the  drug  business  as  a  clerk  and  after  being  thus 
employed  in  Kansas  City  he  studied  pharmacy  in  the  Kansas  City  Pharmaceutical 
College,  from  which  he  was  graduated.  He  went  to  Covington,  Kentucky,  in  1898, 
where  for  nine  and  a  half  years  he  successfully  conducted  a  drug  store  at  the  corner 
of  Eighth  and  Greenup  streets.  For  a  year  he  was  a  student  of  medicine  in  Kansas 
City  but  gave  this  up  to  enter  the  automobile  business  on  the  7th  of  February, 
1910,  as  a  salesman  for  the  Ford  Motor  Company,  in  which  connection  he  was  very 
successful.  In  1916  he  established  business  on  his  own  account  as  sales  agent  for 
the  Ford  cars  and  in  1918  was  also  made  distributor  for  the  Fordson  Tractors  for 
the  state  of  Missouri.  He  occupies  a  very  fine  building  at  McGee  and  Eighteenth 
streets  and  employs  ninety-six  people  in  the  various  departments  of  his  business. 
He  attacks  everything  with  a  contagious  enthusiasm  and  has  splendid  salesmanship 
qualities,  combined  with  courage  and  ability  to  handle  this  business.  He  is  con- 
sidered one  of  the  best  salesmen  in  the  automobile  trade  of  the  state,  fte  has  the 
authorized  sales  and  service,  handling  genuine  Ford  parts  and  legitimate  accessories 
in  his  establishment  at  McGee  and  Eighteenth  streets,  while  at  No.  1717  Walnut 
street  he  is  conducting  business  as  a  dealer  in  the  Fordson  farm  tractors  under  the 
name  of  the  G.  T.  O'Maley  Tractor  Company. 

In  1910  Mr.  O'Maley  was  married  to  Miss  Lucy  Evelyn  Burke,  a  daughter  of 
Edward  Burke,  of  Florence,  Kentucky,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  four 
children,  Sarah  Natalie,  George  T.  (II),  Janet  Gale  and  Robert  Garth.  Mr.  O'Maley 
is  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church.  He  belongs  to  the  Automobile  Club 
and  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  to  the  Kansas  City  Club,  Kansas  City  Athletic 
Club,  the  Mid-Day  Club  and  the  Hillcrest  Country  Club.  He  is  a  golfer  and  hunter, 
a  man  of  jovial  disposition  with  a  ready  laugh,  and  a  most  genial  companion  whose 
friendship  is  highly  prized  by  all  who  know  him. 


ALFRED    MORTON    SEDDON. 

Alfred  Morton  Seddon.  born  in  Kansas  City,  August  10,  1881,  has  in  the  place 
of  his  nativity  risen  to  prominence  as  one  of  the  younger  members  of  the  bar,  now 
practicing  law  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Scarritt,  Jones,  Seddon  &  North.  His 
father,  John  T.  Seddon,  was  a  native  of  England  and  was  brought  to  the  United  States 
in  his  childhood  days  by  his  parents.  He  was  reared  near  Salem,  Illinois,  spending 
his  youth  on  a  farm  there,  and  in  18  6  6  he  came  to  Kansas  City.  He  afterward  took 
up  the  business  of  a  building  contractor  and  for  many  years  was  identified  with  build- 
ing operations  in  Kansas  City  but  is  now  living  retired,  enjoying  in  well  earned  rest 
the  fruits  of  his  former  toil.  He  wedded  Mary  Jane  Morton,  who  was  born  in  Grand 
Rapids,  Michigan,  and  both  are  consistent  members  of  the  Westport  Avenue  Pres- 
byterian church.  They  have  become  the  parents  of  three  children,  of  whom  two  are 
living.     One  son,  Arthur  H.  Seddon,  is  a  resident  of  Baltimore,  Maryland. 

The  other  son,  Alfred  M.  Seddon  of  this  review,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Central 
high  school  of  Kansas  City  and  of  the  University  of  Kansas,  in  which  he  completed 
a  law  course  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1903.  During  his  college  days  he  became 
a  member  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  and  Phi  Delta  Phi  fraternities.  He  was  admitted  to 
practice  at  the  bar  of  Kansas  at  the  time  of  his  graduation  and  to  the  bar  of  Missouri 
in  the  fall  of  1903.  Since  locating  here  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of 
~  Scarritt,  Jones,  Seddon  &  North,  now  ranking  with  the  most  prominent  at  the  Kansas 
City  bar.  He' is  a  lawyer  of  fine  standing,  a  hard  worker,  who  as  an  attorney  is 
actively  engaged  in  counsel  and  trial  and  appellate  court  practice,  and  in  the  prepara- 
tion of  briefs.  He  gives  painstaking  attention  to  detail  in  all  matters  intrusted  to 
his  care.  His  success  may  be  attributed  to  his  good  character,  the  advantages  of  a 
thorough  education  and  a  fine  spirit  of  service. 


986  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

On  December  6,  1911,  Mr.  Seddon  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Virginia  Lee 
Lipscomb,  a  daugliter  of  Professor  Millard  Lipscomb,  who  for  twenty-three  years 
was  one  of  the  faculty  of  the  Missouri  State  University.  Mrs.  Seddon  received  her 
education  at  the  Missouri  State  University  and  has  talien  an  active  part  in  church 
work,  as  does  Mr.  Seddon,  their  membership  being  in  the  Westport  Avenue  Presby- 
terian church,  in  which  church  Mr.  Seddon  is  now  serving  as  an  elder  and  also  as 
superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school.  He  had  previously  been  teacher  of  a  boys' 
class  in  the  Sunday  school  for  a  number  of  years  and  is  now  at  the  head  of  one  of 
the  largest  Sunday  schools  of  the  city.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Tralle  Bible 
School,  is  prominent  in  the  Sunday  School  Association,  in  the  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian Association  and  other  organizations  of  this  kind  and  his  qualities  of  leadership 
in  this  direction  have  been  well  proven.  He  is  an  enthusiastic  golf  player  and  is 
an  all-round  good  companion  for  men  and  boys.  He  thoroughly  understands  the 
nature  of  youth  and  has  the  happy  faculty  of  directing  the  exuberance  and  energy 
of  boys  into  a  healthful  channel  toward  character  development.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  City  Club  and  Westport  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  while  along  professional  lines 
he  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  and  the  Missouri  State  Bar  Associations  and  the 
Kansas  City  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  has  used  his  time,  his  talents  and  his 
opportunities  wisely  and  well  and  is  connected  with  all  that  makes  for  honorable 
manhood  and  citizenship. 


JOHN  HODGMAN  HOLLIDAY. 

John  Hodgman  Holliday,  specializing  in  corporation  and  insurance  law  as  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Fordyce,  Holliday  &  White,  has  throughout  his  professional 
career  been  a  practitioner  of  the  St.  Louis  bar  and  his  record  stands  in  contra- 
distinction to  the  old  adage  that  a  prophet  is  not  without  honor  save  in  his  own 
country,  for  he  has  so  directed  his  labors  that  his  developing  powers  as  a  lawyer 
have  brought  him  into  prominence  in  the  line  of  his  specialty.  He  was  born  in 
St.  Louis,  April  16,  1879,  a  son  of  Joseph  Henry  and  Anne  Wade  (Hodgman)  Holli- 
day. The  father  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  where  he  resided  until  his  death  in  1885. 
The  mother,  born  in  this  city  April  5,  1850,  died  December  6,  1919.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Eliza  (Wade)  Hodgman,  while  Mr.  Holliday  was  a  son 
of  John  J.   and   Lucretia    (Foree)    Holliday. 

John  Hodgman  Holliday  attended  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis  until  1890, 
when  he  went  abroad,  remaining  until  the  year  189  2  and  attending  school  in  Berlin 
and  Vevey.  Following  his  return  to  his  native  city  he  entered  the  Belmont  school 
at  Belmont,  Massachusetts,  where  he  studied  until  the  spring  of  1895,  preparing 
for  Harvard  College,  to  which  he  was  admitted  at  the  opening  of  the  school  in  the 
tall  of  that  year.  Again,  however,  he  went  abroad  for  a  year  and  studied  during 
that  period  in  Paris.  In  the  fall  of  1896  he  came  again  to  the  United  States  and 
entet^pd  Harvard  College,  where  he  completed  his  course  in  19  00.  He  next  be- 
came a  student  in  the  Harvard  Law  School,  where  he  remained  until  1903,  and 
after  his  graduation  he  immediately  returned  to  St.  Louis  and  entered  upon  the 
practice  of  law.  He  was  associated  with  the  firm  of  Johnson  &  Richards  from 
1903  until  the  1st  of  January,  1908,  when  he  entered  into  partnership  with  S.  W. 
Fordyce,  Jr.,  and  Thomas  W.  White,  under  the  firm  style  of  Fordyce,  Holliday  & 
White,  with  offices  at  No.  506  Olive  street,  St.  Louis.  While  well  versed  in  the 
general  principles  of  jurisprudence,  he  has  largely  specialized  in  his  practiice  in 
corporation  and  insurance  law  and  has  an  important  clientage  of  this  character. 

On  the  1st  of  September,  1909,  at  Rye  Beach,  New  Hampshire,  Mr.  Holliday 
was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Marjorie  Plimpton  Thornburgh,  daughter  of  William 
H.  and  Florence  P.  Thornburgh.  Their  religious  faith  Ms  that  of  the  Episcopal 
church  and  in  politics  Mr.  Holliday  is  a  liberal  republican.  He  is  keenly  inter- 
ested in  the  vital  political  problems  of  the  age  and  is  a  well  known  factor  in  local 
political  circles,  having  been  a  member  of  the  house  of  delegates  as  representative 
from  the  twenty-eighth  ward  from  1909  until  1911.  He  became  an  honorary  mem- 
ber of  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  at  Harvard  in  1899  and  he  belongs  to  the  Harvard 
Club  of  New  York,  the  Harvard  Club  of  St.  Louis,  the  Racquet  Club,  St.  Louis 
Country   Club    and    the   Noonday    Club.      He    possesses   considerable    literary    ability 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  987 

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and  not  infrequently  expresses  his  thought  in  poetic  form,  several  of  his  poems, 
written  during  his  college  days,  having  appeared  in  Lite  and  other  publications. 
He  is  a  good  talker  and  his  public  addresses  always  command  attention.  During 
the  war  period  he  was  an  active  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Chapter  of  the  Red  Cross 
and  his  cooperation  can  at  all  times  be  counted  upon  to  further  those  interests 
which  work  for  the  benefit  of  humanity  and  the  advancement  of  civic  standards. 


GEORGE  BLACKWELL  RICHARDS. 

For  many  years  the  name  of  Richards  has  been  a  synonym  for  progressivenesa 
in  -the  commercial  circles  of  Kansas  City,  and  the  mammoth  wholesale  hardware 
business  now  conducted  under  the  name  of  the  Richards  &  Conover  Hardware  Com- 
pany had  its  inception  In  a  humble  way  in  1857,  having  been  founded  by  John 
Francisco  Richards,  the  father  of  George  Blackwell  Richards,  who  is  now  vice 
president  of  the  company.  The  son  was  born  in  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  January  7, 
186  6,  his  parents  being  John  Francisco  and  Martha  A.  (Harrelson)  Richards,  who 
are  mentioned  at  length  on  another  page  of  this  work  in  connection  with  the  sketch 
of  Walter  B.  Richards.  The  father  is  still  active  in  business  circles  at  the  advanced 
age  of  eighty-six  years  and  is  one  of  the  most  honored  merchants  of  the  city. 

In  the  acquirement  of  his  education  George  B.  Richards  attended  the  public 
and  high  schools  of  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  and  afterward  entered  Cornell  Uni- 
versity at  Ithaca,  New  York,  where  he  completed  a  course  in  letters  and  won  the 
Bachelor  of  Letters  degree  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1887.  Returning  then  to 
the  family  home  in  Kansas  City,  he  entered  the  hardware  business  now  conducted 
under  the  name  of  the  Richards  &  Conover  Hardware  Company,  and  through  the 
Intervening  period  he  has  bent  his  energies  to  the  further  development  of  the 
house  and  the  extension  of  the  trade.  Theirs  is  today  a  mammoth  wholesale  con- 
cern, scarcely  exceeded  in  the  west,  and  George  B.  Richards  is  very  active  in  direct- 
ing the  policy  and  promoting  the  interests  of  the  enterprise.  He  has  also  become 
a  director  in  various  financial  and  commercial  organizations  that  have  brought  him 
prominently  before  the  public  as  a  leading  business  man  of  Kansas  City. 

In  1889  Mr.  Richards  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Belle  Hastings,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Stewart  Hastings,  of  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  and  they  have  two  children 
living.  The  daughter,  Alice,  is  now  the  wife  of  C.  N.  Seidlitz,  of  Kansas  City,  and 
they  have  one  son,  George  Richards  Seidlitz.  The  son,  Stewart  Hastings,  who  was 
educated  at  Yale  University,  is  now  with  his  father  in  business.  Another  son. 
First  Lieutenant  John  Francisco  Richards  (II),  enlisted  in  the  aviation  service  at 
Washington,  D.  C,  May  22,  1917,  and  attended  the  ground  school  at  Austin,  Texas, 
from  the  28th  of  May  until  the  15th  of  July,  1917.  Six  days  later  he  sailed  tor 
France,  landing  on  the  15th  of  August,  1917.  He  was  commissioned  first  lieu- 
tenant December  1,  1917,  and  assigned  to  Aero  Squadron  No.  1,  the  Pioneer  Corps 
of  the  army.  Sent  to  the  Toul  sector  for  active  service  as  pilot,  he  then  worked 
over  the  lines  there  until  the  1st  of  July,  1918.  He  was  on  the  Marne  front  in 
July  and  August  of  that  year  and  participated  in  the  St.  Mihiel  engagement  from 
the  12th  to  the  18th  of  September.  On  the  23d  of  September,  1918,  he  went  to 
the  Argonne,  where  he  was  killed  in  action  three  days  later — one  of  the  noble 
heroes  who  gave  their  lives  for  the  democratization  of  the  world. 

Mr  Richards  is  a  member  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  church  and  he  is  identified 
with  various  benevolent  organizations.  He  is  serving  on  the  executive  board  of 
St  Luke's  Hospital,  he  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  Kansas  City,  of  Alpha 
Delta  Psi    a  college  fraternity,  and  also  of  the  Kansas  City  Country  Club. 


JOHN  WILLIAM  HOLTMAN. 


John  William  Holtman,  president  of  the  Holtman  &  Sons  Commission  Company  of 
St  Joseph  has  throughout  the  entire  period  of  his  residence  in  this  city,  continuing 
since  1897*  been  connected  with  live  stock  interests.  Broadminded  and  enterprising, 
his  labors  have  been  wisely  directed  and  the  soundness  of  his  Judgment  has  been  demon- 
strated in  the  success  which  has  continually   rewarded   his  labors.     Mr.  Holtman  was 


988  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

born   in  Quincy,  Illinois,  November  7,   1867,  and   is  a  son  of   Henry  John  and   Vandine 
(Hallan)   Holtman,  the  former  a  merchant  of  Quincy. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  John  W.  Holtman  pursued  his  education 
and  after  his  textbooks  were  put  aside  he  worked  on  a  farm  near  Quincy  for  several 
years.  In  1887,  when  about  eighteen  years  of  age,  he  went  to  Kansas  City,  Missouri, 
where  he  was  employed  for  a  time  in  a  machine  shop  and  then  engaged  in  the  live 
stock  business  in  Kansas  City  until  1897,  when  he  removed  to  St.  Joseph,  Missouri. 
Here  he  has  since  continued  to  handle  live  stock  and  tor  c.everal  years  was  manager  of 
the  Crider  Brothers  Live  Stock  Commission.  Later  he  acquired  all  of  the  capital 
stocK  of  that  company  and  changed  the  nume  to  the  Holtman  &  Sons  Commission 
Company,  under  which  style  he  has  since  operated,  the  stock  of  the  company  being 
owned  entirely  by  himself  and  his  sons. 

On  the  16th  of  January,  1889,  Mr.  Holtman  was  married  at  Quincy,  Illinois,  to 
M'ss  Dora  W.  Fleer,  a  daughter  of  William  P.  and  Dorothea  Charlotte  Fleer,  her  father 
having  been  engaged  in  the  cooperage  business  at  Quincy.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Holtman  be- 
ca-ne  the  parents  of  the  following  named:  Frank  William,  who  married  Ruth  Clevelmd 
Ellis;  Virginia  Vandine,  the  wife  of  Lieutenant  Reinhold  Rifenbary;  Helen  Wilamine; 
Louise  Sophia;    Henry  John;    and  Dorothy  Pearl. 

The  parents  are  members  of  the  First  English  Lutheran  church  of  St.  Joseph  and 
Mr.  Holtman  also  belongs  to  the  Elks  lodge  and  to  various  social  clubs  of  the  city. 
He  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  Masons  of  northwestern  Missouri.  He  belongs  to 
King  Hill  Lodge,  No.  376.  A.  V.  &  A.  M..  of  which  lodge  he  served  as  worshipful  master 
during  the  year  1908;  King  Hill  Chapter,  No.  55,  O.  E.  S.,  of  which  he  served  as  worthy 
patron  during  the  year  1906;  Mitchell  Chapter,  No.  14,  R.  A.  M.;  St.  Joseph  Council, 
No.  9,  R.  &  S.  M.;  and  Hugh  de  Payens  Commandery,  No.  4,  K.  T.  On  November  20, 
1903.  he  received  the  thirty-second  degree  in  Missouri  Consistory,  No.  1,  at  St.  Louis, 
after  which  he  moved  his  membership  to  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  and  is  now  a  member 
of  all  the  Scottish  Rite  Masonic  bodies  in  St.  Joseph.  On  March  20,  1908,  he  was  made 
knight  commander  of  the  Court  of  Honor  and  on  October  22,  1909,  he  received  the 
thirty-third  degree  and  became  an  honorary  member  of  the  Supreme  Council  for  the 
southern  jurisdiction  of  the  United  States.  On  October  20,  1913,  he  received  the  Royal 
Order  of  Scotland  at  Washington,  D.  C.  On  February  10,  1904,  he  became  a  member 
of  Moila  Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.,  at  St.  Joseph  and  was  elected  high  priest  and 
prophet  of  that  temple  in  December,  1919.  On  June  6,  1918,  at  Atlantic  City,  New 
Jersey,  he  was  elected  an  honorary  life  member  of  the  Imperial  Council,  Ancient  Arabic 
Order  of  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  of  North  America.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  Scottish  Rite  Cathedral  Association  of  St.  Joseph  and  a  charter 
member  of  the  National  Masonic  Research   Society,  organized  January  1,   1915. 

Mr.  Holtman  was  elected  a  member  of  the  city  council  of  St.  Joseph  in  1910  and 
is  still  a  member  of  that  body,  having  served  for  a  decade,  and  he  was  president  of 
the  council  in  the  years  1914  and  1916.  In  politics  he  has  always  been  a  democrat  and 
takes  an  active  interest  in  the  support  of  the  party.  He  has  been  associated  with 
many  charitable  and  patriotic  movements  and  during  the  World  war  he  served  as  a 
member  of  the  draft  board  in  South  St.  Joseph,  having  been  appointed  by  the  president 
on  the  20th  of  October,  1917.  He  was  also  prominent  in  all  of  the  local  activities  incident 
to  the  war  and  is  a  recognized  leader  in  many  lines  which  constitute  important  elements 
in  the  life  of  his  adopted  city,  while  as  a  business  man  his  capability  and  intelligently 
directed  efforts  have  brought  him  to  a  point  of  leadership. 


FRED  WEHMILLER. 


Since  1894  Fred  Wehmiller  has  been  connected  with  the  business  of  which  he 
is  now  president  and  which  is  now  conducted  under  the  name  of  the  Barry-Weh- 
miller  Machinery  Company.  His  entire  life  has  been  passed  in  St.  Louis,  where 
he  was  born  November  10,  1873.  His  father,  John  Henry  Wehmiller,  was  a  native 
of  Free  State  of  Hanover,  born  in  1826,  and  was  a  youth  of  fourteen  years  when 
in  1840  he  came  to  America,  settling  in  St.  Louis.  Here  he  filled  various  positions 
until  1849,  when  he  started  with  an  ox  team  to  California  and  remained  for  three 
years  upon  the  Pacific  coast,  returning  by  way  of  the  Panama  route  and  New 
Orleans.     After  again  reaching  St.  Louis  he  engaged  in  the  flour  brokerage  business,. 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  991 

in  which  he  continued  successfully  until  he  retired  about  five  years  prior  to  his 
death.  He  was  one  ot  the  original  defenders  of  Camp  Jackson  in  St.  Louis  during 
the  Civil  war.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  German  Turnverein,  which  captured 
the  St.  Louis  arsenal  in  1861  and  turned  it  over  to  President  Lincoln.  He  passed 
away  in  1889,  while  his  wife  died  in  1909.  She  bore  the  maiden  name  o£  Henrietta 
Jebker  and  was  born  in  Osnabruck,  Free  State  of  Hanover,  in  1833,  coming  to 
St.  Louis  in  1848.  They  were  married  in  this  city  and  to  them  were  born  four 
daughters. 

Their  only  son  and  youngest  child  is  Fred  Wehmiller,  who  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  and  in  the  Manual  Training  School  of  St.  Louis.  In  1891  he 
became  assistant  surveyor  for  the  Terminal  Railroad  Company  in  connection  with 
the  construction  of  the  Merchants  bridge  and  remained  with  that  company  until 
1894.  He  then  secured  a  position  as  draughtsman  for  Essmueller  &  Barry  and  a 
change  in  the  organization  in  1897  led  to  the  adoption  of  the  firm  style  of  the 
Barry-Wehmiller  Machinery  Company.  Mr.  Wehmiller  became  the  secretary  thereof 
and  so  continued  until  1903,  when  he  was  elected  to  the  presidency  and  has  now 
for  more  than  seventeen  years  been  at  the  head  of  the  business.  They  are  the 
largest  bottle-washing  machine  manufacturers  in  the  world  and  they  ship  their 
products  not  only  throughout  the  United  States  but  to  all  foreign  lands,  their 
business  having  now  reached  mammoth  proportions.  Mr.  Wehmiller  is  also  the 
president  of  the  Barry-Wehmiller  Machinery  Company  of  Fort  Worth,  Texas, 
president  of  the  Barry  Realty  Company  of  St.  Louis  and  vice  president  of  the 
Union  Station  Trust  Company.  The  new  plant  of  the  Barry-Wehmiller  Machinery 
Company  was  erected  in  1912  and  is  a  model  of  its  kind,  having  been  built  with 
a  view  to  the  conrfort  and  convenience  of  the  employes.  It  contains  bathrooms, 
lunchrooms  and  every  facility  to  provide  comfort  and  entertainment  for  employes 
during  the  rest  hours. 

In  May.  1905,  Mr.  Wehmiller  was  married  to  Miss  Llllie  Widmann,  who 
was  a  daughter  of  Fred  Widmann,  a  prominent  architect  of  St.  Louis.  Their  chil- 
dren are  Eleanor,  Dorothy,  Frederick  W.  and  Paul  K.  Mr.  Wehmiller  finds  his 
chief  rest  and  recreation  in  sea  voyages  and  in  touring,  greatly  enjoying  every 
form  of  travel.  He  has  traveled  extensively,  has  visited  in  nineteen  countries,  and 
is  now  preparing  to  make  another  trip  around  the  world.  He  is  well  known  in 
Masonic  circles,  belonging  to  the  Scottish  Rite  bodies  and  Moolah  Temple  ot  the 
Mystic  Shrine,  and  he  is  also  a  valued  member  of  the  Liederkranz  Club  and  the 
Cedar  Crest  Country  Club. 


CHARLES  ANDRUS  RISLEY. 

Charles  Andrus  Risley  has  been  connected  with  the  management  of  the  Gate  City 
National  Bank  of  Kansas  City  since  1918  and  is  now  one  of  the  directors  and  vice 
president.  He  was  born  in  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  January  21,  1861.  His  father,  Dr.  A. 
O.  Risley,  a  native  of  Ohio,  became  a  prominent  physician  who  practiced  successfully 
in  Minnesota,  Ohio  and  Missouri.  He  came  to  the  latter  state  in  1867,  settling  at 
Cameron,  where  he  followed  his  profession  for  many  years,  passing  away  there  in  1905. 
He  belonged  to  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  was  a  consistent  and  loyal 
member  of  the  Christian  church.  He  married  Jennie  S.  Coulthard,  who  was  born  in 
Rochester,  New  York,  and  who  still  survives.  She  had  a  family  ot  five  children,'  two 
of  whom  are  living,  Charles  A.  and  his  brother.  Dr.  C.  H.  Risley. 

Charles  A.  Risley  was  but  six  years  of  age  when  the  family  home  was  established 
at  Cameron,  where  he  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  schools,  passing  through 
consecutive  grades  to  his  graduation  from  the  high  school.  Starting  out  upon  his 
business  career,  he  became  identified  with  mercantile  interests  and  for  thirty-five 
years  was  engaged  in  the  general  dry  goods  trade  at  Cameron,  having  one  of  the  leading 
stores  of  that  section  of  the  state.  He  carried  a  large  and  well  selected  line  of  goods 
and  his  enterprise  and  progressive  spirit  were  dominant  factors  in  the  upbuilding  of 
his  trade.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Farmers  Bank  of  Cameron  and  also  president  of 
the  Cameron  Building  &  Loan  Association.  His  knowledge  of  business  methods  made 
him  a  valuable  member  of  the  above  mentioned  companies.  He  was  always  very  atten- 
tive to  business  and  was  always  most  highly  regarded   by  his   associates   in  business 

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992  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

circles.  At  length  he  left  Cameron  and  in  1912  removed  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has 
since  made  his  home.  In  1918  he  entered  the  Gate  City  National  Bank,  of  which  he 
had  formerly  been  a  stockholder  and  of  which  he  became  an  active  manager  in  the 
year  indicated.  He  is  now  one  of  the  directors  and  also  vice  president  of  the  institution 
and  his  previous  connection  with  banking  interests  at  Cameron  had  well  qualifled  him 
to  undertake  the  duties  and  responsibilities  that  now  rest  upon  him. 

On  the  4th  of  May,  1887,  Mr.  Risley  was  married  to  Miss  May  Rogers,  a  daughter 
of  Captain  Rogers,  of  Cameron.  They  have  become  the  parents  of  six  children:  Mae, 
now  the  wife  of  C.  E.  Zeigenbiue,  of  Kansas  City;  Palmer  C.  and  Ogden,  who  are 
connected  with  their  father  in  business  in  the  savings  department  of  the  Gate  City 
National  Bank;  Helen;  Glenda;  and  Rothwell.  Mr.  Risley's  devotion  to  his  family  is 
ideal.  Few  fathers  give  as  much  time  to  the  direction  and  welfare  of  their  children 
as  has  Mr.  Risley,  whose  home  is  to  him  a  sacred  place  and  who  displays  the  most 
filial  love  and  devotion  to  his  aged  mother.  He  finds  his  greatest  happiness  in  providing 
for  the  welfare  and  comfort  of  the  members  of  his  own  household. 

Mr.  Risley  is  also  prominently  known  in  Masonic  circles.  He  belongs  to  Vincil 
Lodge  No.  62,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  has  taken  the  York  Rite  degrees.  He  also  belongs 
to  Moila  Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.,  of  St.  Joseph,  Missouri.  He  is  likewise  a  member 
of  the  Commercial  Club  and  in  politics  he  is  a  democrat  who  has  long  been  active  in 
support  of  the  principles  of  the  party.  In  1900  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  democratic 
national  convention.  He  has  filled  many  offices  in  the  Masonic  lodges,  being  thor- 
oughly familiar  with  the  work  in  every  particular,  and  he  was  also  one  of  the  most 
active  promoters  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  lodge  while  at  Cameron.  He  is  optimistic 
by  nature,  looking  upon  the  bright  side  of  things,  and  he  is  a  man  of  pleasing  per- 
sonality who  always  greets  one  with  a  smile.  His  unfeigned  cordiality  is  the  outcome 
of  his  genuine  interest  in  his  fellowmen  and  their  welfare  and  his  aid  can  be 
counted  upon  to  further  any  plan  or  project  which  tends  to  uplift  humanity  or  estab- 
lish higher  ideals  for  the  community.  He  stands  as  a  splendid  type  of  American  manhood 
and  citizenship. 


BERNARD  E.  GRIDLEY. 


Bernard  E.  Gridley  of  the  Gridley  Motor  Company,  handling  the  Locomobile,  Peer- 
less, Auburn  and  other  cars,  has  built  up  a  notable  business  and  occupies  a  fine  new 
building  of  his  own  recently  completed  at  the  corner  of  Twentieth  and  McGee  Traffic 
Way,  in  Kansas  City.  This  structure  stands  as  a  monument  to  his  enterprise  and 
progressiveness  and  he  has  won  the  well  deserved  reputation  of  being  one  of  the  best 
automobile  salesman  of  the  country.  He  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Hancock  county,  Illi- 
nois, near  Hamilton,  June  5,  1883,  his  parents  being  Ellsworth  and  Clara  (Jolidon) 
Gridley.  The  father,  who  was  also  a  native  of  Hancock  county,  Illinois,  successfully 
devoted  his  attention  to  the  occupation  of  farming  to  the  time  oi  his  death,  which 
occurred  in  1887.  His  widow  survives  and  still  resides  at  Hamilton,  Illinois.  The 
family  numbered  two  sons,  a  half  brother,  Warren  Iliff,  being  a  member  of  the  United 
States  navy. 

Bernard  E.  Gridley  pursued  his  education  in  the  schools  of  Portland,  Oregon,  and 
in  the  Bishop  Scott  Military  Academy,  which  he  attended  in  1897-8.  He  later  became 
a  student  in  the  Montana  Western  University  and  he  pursued  a  medical  course  in  the 
Keokuk  Medical  College  of  Iowa  and  was  graduated  on  the  completion  of  a  pharma- 
ceutical course  there  in  1905.  He  afterward  was  engaged  in  the  drug  business  at  Ham- 
ilton, Illinois,  and  subsequently  at  Okeene,  Oklahoma.  Since  1909  he  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  automobile  trade  and  in  1911  removed  to  Wichita,  Kansas,  where  he 
remained  until  1912  and  then  came  to  Kansas  City.  He  was  associated  with  the  Kansas 
City-Auburn  Auto  Company  as  a  salesman  until  September,  1914,  when  he  established 
an  agency  on  his  own  account,  and  through  the  intervening  years  has  won  notable 
success.  He  has  sold  more  Peerless  cars  than  any  other  agency  in  the  United  States 
and  he  handles  as  well  the  Locomobile  and  the  Auburn.  The  success  of  his  enterprise  is 
indicated  in  the  fact  that  in  order  to  secure  more  space  and  larger  facilities  he  had 
erected  a  building  one  hundred  by  one  hundred  and  nineteen  feet  at  the  corner  of  18th 
street  and  McGee  Traffic  Way,  where  he  has  four  floors  and  a  basement,  giving  him 
fifty  thousand  square  feet  of  floor  space  for  show  rooms,  storage,  etc.     He  has  a  splen- 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  993 

didly  equipped  establishment,  handling  high-priced  cars,  and  his  trade  is  continually 
increasing.  Nor  has  he  confined  his  attention  solely  to  this  line,  tor  he  is  a  director 
of  the  Central  Exchange  National  Bank,  a  director  ot  the  Kansas  City  Automobile 
Dealers  Association  and  chairman  of  the  board  of  United  States  Insurance  Exchange. 

In  1905  Mr.  Gridley  was  married  to  Miss  Jennie  Spence  representing  a  family 
that  has  maintained  an  acquaintance  with  the  Gridley  family  for  eighty  years.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Gridley  have  two  children:    Florence,  born  in  1907;  and  Bernard,  in  1910. 

Mr.  Gridley  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  Hillcrest  Country  Club,  the 
Blue  Hills  Country  Club,  the  Kiwanis  Club  and  the  Automobile  Club  and  is  an  ardent 
golfer.  He  belongs  as  well  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  is  interested  in  all  of  the 
activities  of  that  organization  for  the  benefit  and  upbuilding  of  the  city.  During  his 
residence  in  Missouri  he  has  made  an  enviable  position  in  business  circles  and  is  today 
at  the  head  of  one  of  the  largest  agencies  of  Kansas  City. 


WILLIAM   HENRY   HUNT. 


WilHam  Henry  Hunt  Is  one  of  the  pioneer  business  men  of  St.  Joseph,  who  for 
the  past  twenty  years  has  been  connected  with  the  Wheeler  &  Motter  Mercantile 
Company  as  department  manager  in  their  wholesale  dry  goods  house.  He  has  ever 
sustained  an  unassailable  reputation  in  commercial  circles  and  enjoys  the  confidence 
and  goodwill  of  all  who  know  him.  He  is  likewise  prominent  in  connection  with 
civic  affairs  and  his  aid  and  influence  are  always  given  on  the  side  of  progress  and 
improvement.  ' 

Mr.  Hunt  was  born  in  Weston,  Missouri,  November  4,  1868,  and  in  the  spring 
of  1876  accompanied  his  parents  on  their  removal  to  St.  Joseph,  where  he  has  since 
made  his  home.  He  is  a  son  of  Richard  Madison  Hunt  of  Platte  county,  Missouri, 
whose  forefathers  were  originally  from  Kentucky.  His  mother  bore  the  maiden 
name  of  Susan  Cox  and  was  a  native  of  Jackson  county,  Tennessee. 

Mr.  Hunt  acquired  his  preliminary  education  in  the  public  schools,  passing 
through  consecutive  grades  to  the  high  school,  and  later  he  pursued  a  course  ot  study 
In  the  Bryant  Business  College  and  in  the  Queen  City  Business  College.  Throughout 
his  business  career  he  has  been  connected  with  commercial  interests.  He  was  engaged 
In  the  retail  grocery  trade  for  a  number  of  years  and  through  the  last  two  decades 
has  been  connected  with  the  Wheeler  &  Motter  wholesale  dry  goods  house,  which  Is 
the  largest  establishment  of  the  kind  in  northwestern  Missouri.  He  represents  this 
house  as  department  manager  and  by  his  business  capability  and  enterprise  is  con- 
tributing in  no  small  measure  to  the  success  of  the  concern. 

In  1916  Mr.  Hunt  was  elected  to  the  vice  presidency  of  the  National  Sample 
Men's  Association  at  Its  annual  convention  In  Detroit.  His  political  allegiance  is 
given  to  the  democratic  party  and  in  April,  1917,  he  was  elected  to  the  ofl5ce  of  city 
councilman  of  St.  Joseph  and  has  been  striving  continuously  throughout  the  inter- 
vening period  for  a  cleaner,  brighter  and  better  "City  worth  while."  He  cooperates 
heartily  in  all  measures  for  civic  advancement  and  his  labors  in  this  connection  are 
far-reaching  and  resultant.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Elks  Lodge  ot 
St.  Joseph  and  he  has  the  high  regard  of  his  brethren  of  the  fraternity  and  the 
respect  and  goodwill  ot  all  with  whom  he  has  been  associated  through  social  or 
business  relations. 


ROBERT  McE.   SCHAUFFLER,  M.  D. 

Dr.  Robert  McE.  Schauffler,  a  graduate  ot  Columbia  University  of  New  York 
and  a  successful  practitioner  in  Kansas  City  for  some  time,  has  during  the  past  five 
years  specialized  in  orthopedic  surgery.  He  was  born  June  26,  1871,  in  the  city 
which  is  still  his  home,  his  parents  being  Edward  W.  and  Martha  (Haines)  Schauffler. 
The  mother  belonged  to  one  of  the  old  Quaker  families  of  Philadelphia.  The  father, 
though  ot  American  parentage,  was  born  in  Vienna,  Austria.  His  father  was  a  mis- 
sionary to  Turkey  and  translated  the  Bible  into  the  Turkish  language,  being  for 
twenty  years  engaged  in  this  work,  in  connection  with  which  he  went  to  Vienna 


994  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

where  the  printing  and  publishing  of  the  work  was  done.  It  was  on  one  of  these 
trips  from  Turkey  to  Austria  that  Edward  W.  Schauffler  was  born. 

Dr.  Schautfler  of  this  review,  after  obtaining  a  high  school  education  in  Kansas 
City,  became  a  student  in  the  Williams  College  of  Massachusetts,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1893  with  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree.  He  next  entered  Columbia 
University  of  New  York  and  completed  his  course  with  the  M.  D.  degree  in  1896.  He 
then  entered  the  New  York  City  Hospital  as  interne  and  served  there  for  a  year  and 
a  half.  On  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  returned  to  Kansas  City  and  entered 
upon  active  practice,  in  which  he  has  since  continued,  and  has  made  a  most  enviable 
reputation  as  a  skillful  orthopedic  surgeon.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  the  secre- 
tary and  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  the  Kansas  City  Medical  College.  After  the 
medical  colleges  here  were  merged  he  was  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  the  University 
of  Kansas  in  the  surgical  department.  He  is  also  serving  on  the  staft  of  the  Chil- 
dren's Mercy  Hospital,  the  Kansas  City  General  Hospital,  the  Research  Hospital 
and  the  Christian  Church  Hospital.  Dr.  Schauffler  belongs  to  the  Jackson  County, 
Missouri  State,  American  and  Southwestern  Medical  Associations.  He  is  a  Fellow 
of  the  American  College  of  Surgeons  and  he  is  also  connected  with  the  Delta  Psi,. 
a  college  fraternity,  and  the  Nu  Sigma  Nu.  a  medical  fraternity. 

In  Baltimore,  Maryland,  Dr.  Schaufiler  wedded  Elizabeth  Tough,  a  member  of 
an  old  Maryland  family,  and  they  have  one  child,  Robert  McE.,  Jr.  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Schauffler  attend  the  Westport  Avenue  Presbyterian  church.  Dr.  Schauffler  is  a 
member  of  the  University  Club,  of  which  he  has  served  as  president,  and  he  is  also 
identified  with  other  club  organizations.  In  national  politics  he  is  a  republican. 
For  recreatiqn  he  turns  to  hunting  and  fishing. 


JOHN  A.  NOLAN. 


John  A.  Nolan,  attorney  at  law  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Jefferson 
county.  Missouri,  April  25.  1884.  His  father,  John  P.  Nolan,  was  also  born  in 
Jefferson  county  and  belonged  to  one  of  the  old  pioneer  families  of  the  state,  being 
a  son  of  Nelson  Nolan,  who  was  a  native  of  Ohio  and  was  of  Scotch-Irish  descent. 
Neison  Nolan  came  to  Missouri  in  1850.  establishing  his  home  in  Jefferson  county, 
where  he  followed  farming  and  there  continued  to  reside  througliout  his  remaining 
days,  passing  away  in  1870,  when  thirty-eight  years  of  age.  He  was  a  Civil  war 
veteran,  having  served  with  the  Confederate  army. 

John  P.  Nolan  was  reared  and  educated  in  Jefferson  county  and  in  young 
manhood  learned  the  cooper's  trade,  which  he  followed  during  his  early  life.  In 
his  later-  years  he  was  active  in  political  affairs  in  Jefferson  county  and  filled  the 
offices  of  constable,  assessor  and  sheriff,  while  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1894 
he  was  acting  as  deputy  assessor.  He,  too,  departed  this  life  when  a  comparativel.v 
young  man,  being  but  thirty-nine  years  of  age.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden 
name  of  Martha  Johnston,  was  born  in  Jefferson  county,  Missouri,  and  was  a 
daughter  of  Russell  and  Mary  (Neu)  Johnston,  the  latter  a  representative  of  an 
old  Tennessee  family,  the  Neus  being  of  French  descent.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  P. 
Nolan  were  born  two  children:  Ida,  the  wife  of  Frederick  Ehrhardt;  and  John  A., 
of  this  review.  The  mother  departed  this  life  on  the  5lst  of  March,  1919,  at  the 
age  of  sixty-four  years. 

John  A.  Nolan  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  county  and 
afterward  attended  the  Benton  College  of  Law,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with 
the  LL.  B.  degree  in  1909.  Prior  to  his  graduation  he  acted  as  private  secretary 
to  George  W.  Davis,  general  freight  agent  for  the  Pennsylvania  lines,  with  head- 
quarters at  St.  Louis.  It  was  in  this  way  that  he  provided  the  means  for  his  legal 
education  and  in  May,  19  09,  he  was  admitted  to  practice.  Since  then  he  has  been 
active  as  a  member  of  the  bar,  enjoying  a  large  general  practice,  in  the  conduct 
of  which  he  has  been  very  successful.  In  addition  to  his  professional  interests  he 
is  the  secretary  and  assistant  treasurer  of  the  Annapolis  Lead  Company  and  is  a 
dii'ector  of  the  H.  R.  Ameling  Prospecting  Company. 

On  the  18th  of  March,  1903,  Mr.  Nolan  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Miss  Viola 
George,  a  native  of  St.  Louis  and  a  daughter  of  Robert  L.  and  Agnes  (McMillan) 
George.     They    have    become    the    parents    of    three    children,    Walter    Ellsworth, 


JOHN  A.  NOLAN 


THI  MW  izu 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  997 

William  Milton  and  John  Robert,  all  natives  of  Webster  Groves.     The  family  resi- 
dence is  maintained  at  No.  660  Atlanta  avenue,  in  Webster  Groves. 

Mr.  Nolan  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Webster  Groves  Presbyterian 
church  and  he  is  serving  on  its  official  board.  In  politics  he  is  a  stanch  republican 
and  he  filled  the  office  of  city  attorney  of  Webster  Groves  and  for  one  term  was  a 
member  of  the  city  council  there.  He  belongs  to  Webster  Groves  Lodge,  No.  84, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  to  the  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  No.  131,  R.  A.  M.,  of  Webster 
Groves,  also  to  Ascalon  Commandery,  No.  16,  K.  T.,  o£  St.  Louis.  He  has  served 
as  junior  steward  of  the  blue  lodge  and  as  principal  sojourner  of  the  Royal  Arch 
Chapter.  Along  professional  lines  his  connection  is  with  the  Missouri  State  Bar 
Association.  During  the  World  war  he  was  a  member  of  the  Kirkwood  legal 
advisory  board  and  was  active  in  connection  with  other  war  movements,  serving 
on  the  speakers'  committee  and  doing  everything  in  his  power  to  advance  the  in- 
terests of  the  government  in  its  connection  with  the  allies  and  the  prosecution  of 
hostilities.  From  the  age  of  ten  years  he  has  been  dependent  upon  his  own 
resources  and  his  success  and  prominence  are  attributable  entirely  to  hia  own  labors. 


STANLEY  NBWHOUSE,   M.   D. 

Dr.  Stanley  Newhouse,  who  since  his  graduation  from  the  University  Medical 
College  of  Kansas  City  has  engaged  in  active  practice,  making  a  specialty  of  sur- 
gery, was  born  at  Kansas  Station,  Ohio,  May  20,  1877,  his  parents  being  Jacob 
and  Dena  (David)  Newhouse.  The  father  was  a  native  of  Ohio,  while  the  mother 
was  born  at  Coblenz,  on  the  Rhine.  The  father  is  engaged  in  the  insurance  busi- 
ness in  Kansas  City. 

Dr.  Newhouse  of  this  review  obtained  a  common  and  high  school  education 
in  Kansas  City  and  afterward  entered  the  University  Medical  College  in  which  he 
completed  his  professional  course  on  the  23d  of  March,  1898,  the  M.  D.  degree 
being  at  that  time  conferred  upon  him.  He  at  once  began  practice  in  Kansas  City, 
where  he  has  remained  through  the  intervening  period  of  twenty  years,  and  he  is 
now  specializing  in  surgery  and  has  won  exceptional  skill  in  this  connection.  He 
has  been  particularly  active  in  hospital  practice,  especially  in  connection  with  St. 
Joseph's  Hospital,  and  he  is  still  serving  on  its  staff.  He  is  likewise  a  member  of 
the  staff  of  the  Jewish  Institute  of  Kansas  City. 

In  1900,  Dr.  Newhouse  was  married  in  Kansas  City  to  Miss  Hazel  Lorie,  whose 
parents  were  born  in  Kansas  City.  By  her  marriage  she  has  become  the  mother 
of  three  children:      Stanley,  Virginia  and  Lorie  Jay. 

Dr.  Newhouse  is  a  member  of  the  Jewish  Temple,  holding  to  the  religious  faith 
of  his  fathers.  He  belongs  to  the  Progress  Club,  to  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club 
and  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  is  a  Mason,  having  taken  the  Scottish  Rito 
degrees,  and  he  is  also  a  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  Along  professional  lines 
his  connection  is  with  the  Jackson  County  Medical  Society,  the  Missouri  State  Medi- 
cal Society  and  the  American  Medical  Association.  He  is  everywhere  spoken  of  as 
a  man  of  splendid  traits,  a  clean-cut  gentleman  and  an  expert  surgeon,  who  en- 
joys the  highest  regard  of  his  colleagues  and  contemporaries  in  the  profession. 


ARCHIBALD  B.   LEWIS. 


Archibald  B.  Lewis,  the  vice  president  and  one  of  the  directors  of  the  George 
D.  Barnard  Stationery  Company  of  St.  Louis,  became  connected  with  this  business 
as  an  errand  boy  and  his  lite  illustrates  the  fact  that  opportunity  is  open  to  the 
individual  who  possesses  energy,  ambition  and  determination.  Born  in  St.  Louis, 
April  9,  1878,  he  is  a  son  of  Charles  and  Charlotte  V.  (Perryman)  Lewis,  the  latter 
now  deceased.  The  father  is  an  agriculturist  and  in  late  years  has  resided  In 
Pulaski  county,  Missouri.  The  family  numbered  but  two  children,  the  daughter 
being  Maud,  now  the  wife  of  J.  M.  McKernan,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Kant- 
Break  Spark  Plug  Company  of  St.  Louis.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McKernan  have  two  chil- 
dren, Archibald  and  Alice. 


998  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

Archibald  B.  Lewis  attended  the  Lincoln  public  school  of  St.  Louis  to  the  age 
of  thirteen  and  then  started  out  to  earn  his  own  living,  securing  a  position  as 
errand  boy  with  the  George  D.  Barnard  Stationery  Company.  Since  that  time  he 
has  been  in  all  departments  of  the  concern  save  that  of  auditing  and  accounting. 
He  has  represented  the  house  as  traveling  salesman,  his  territory  covering  the 
entire  west  to  the  Pacific  coast.  He  possesses  splendid  qualities  of  salesmanship 
and  throughout  his  business  career  has  displayed  close  application  and  a  proper 
conception  of  the  subjects  handled.  He  seems  almost  intuitively  to  understand 
human  nature  and  therefore  knows  how  to  meet  any  individual  with  whom  busi- 
ness brings  him  in  contact.  He  has  thoroughly  acquainted  himself  with  every  phas^ 
of  the  trade  and  step  by  step  has  been  advanced  until  he  is  now  one  of. the  ex- 
ecutives of  the  company,  serving  as  vice  president  and  director.  He  is  also  the 
secretary  of  the  St.  Louis  Leather  Specialty  Company,  vice  president  of  the  Asso- 
ciation of  Manufacturing  Bank  &  Commercial  Stationers  and  a  director  of  the 
Lithographic   Cooperative  Association. 

On  the  31st  of  August,  1899,  Mr.  Lewis  was  married  to  Miss  Octavia  Straat,  a 
daughter  of  Harmon  V.  D.  Straat,  now  deceased,  and  a  sister  of  John  Straat,  who 
was  a  well  known  attorney  of  St.  Louis  but  has  also  passed  away.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Lewis  have  three  children:      Elizabeth  Virginia,  Charles  H.  and  Wilfred  O. 

Mr.  Lewis  belongs  to  the  Elks  Lodge  No.  9  and  to  Rose  Hill  Lodge,  No.  550, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  is  also  connected  with  Vandeventer  Council,  No.  1235,  of  the 
Royal  Arcanum,  and  with  Red  Cross  Lodge,  No.  54,  K.  P.  He  belongs  as  well  to 
the  United  Commercial  Travelers,  being  connected  with  Mound  City  Lodge,  No.  207, 
and  with  Post  A  of  the  Travelers  Protective  Association.  His  membership  relations 
further  extend  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association,  the 
Sunset  Hill  Country  Club,  the  Old  Colony  Club  and  the  Zoological  Society  o|  St. 
Louis.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the  democratic  party  and  his  religious 
faith  is  that  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  is  a  broad-gauged,  democratic  man 
who  possesses  a  genial  manner,  sheds  around  him  mucli  of  life's  sunshine  and  is 
rich  in  his  host  of  friends. 


GEORGE     L.     DYER. 


George  L.  Dyer,  manager  of  the  St.  Louis  office  of  the  Columbian  National  Life 
Insurance  Company  of  Boston,  Massacliusetts.  and  one  of  the  outstanding  figures  in 
Insurance  circles  in  the  state,  was  born  October  16,  1878,  in  Franklin  county,  Kansas, 
and  is  a  son  of  Martin  and  Mary  Ann  (Meade)  Dyer.  His  grandfather  came  from 
Ireland  to  this  country  in  1834  and  the  family  home  was  established  at  Racine.  Wis- 
consin. There  the  grandfather  was  engaged  in  the  contracting  business,  in  wliich 
he  met  with  substantial  success,  making  a  specialty  of  canal  and  railway  construction. 
His  son,  Martin  Dyer,  father  of  George  L.  Dyer,  was  born  March  1,  1846,  and  went 
from  Wisconsin  to  Kansas  with  his  parents  in  1856,  where  on  attaining  his  majority 
he  became  engaged  in  farming  and  stock  raising,  winning  substantial  prosperity 
especially  in  the  latter  line.  He  passed  away  June  5,  1914.  His  wife  was  born 
in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  April  9,  1854,  and  they  were  married  in  Kansas  in  1877. 
They  became  the  parents  of  three  sons:  George  L. ;  Thomas  A.,  deceased:  and 
Oscar,    who   follows   farming. 

George  L.  Dyer  attended  St.  Marys  College  at  St.  Marys,  Kansas,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  with  honors  in  1898,  and' subsequently  entered  the  Kansas  State 
Normal  School,  at  Emporia,  Kansas.  "When  twenty-three  years  of  age  he  embarked 
in  the  life  insurance  business  in  connection  with  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  Kansas  and  was  soon  afterward  promoted  to  the  position  of  supervisor, 
continuing  with  the  company  until  1905.  In  that  year  he  accepted  the  general 
agency  of  the  Union  Central  Life  Insurance  Company,  with  headquarters  at  Kansas 
City,  where  he  remained  until  1911,  when  he  was  requested  to  undertake  the 
management  and  reorganization  of  the  Columbian  National  Life  Insurance  Company 
office  in  St.  Louis.  The  success  whicli  has  attended  his  efforts  is  indicated  in  the 
fact  that  the  business  has  increased  far  beyond  all  expectations,  Mr.  Dyer  and  his 
agents  having  written  nearly  twenty  million  dollars  of  insurance.  He  occupies 
offices  in  the  La  Salle  building,  utilizing  the  entire  seventh  iloor.  Closely  studying 
every    phase    of    insurance,    his    increasing    powers    and    ability    have    brought    him 


GEORGE  L.  DYER 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  1001 

prominently  to  the  front  and  he  is  today  accounted  one  of  the  foremost  life  in- 
surance men  of  the  state.  He  was  formerly  president  of  the  Life  Underwriters' 
Association  of  St.  Louis  and  was  secretary  of  that  organization  in  Kansas  City. 
He  was  also  the  secretary  of  the  National  Life  Underwriters'  Association  and  is  now 
a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  National  Life  Association,  representing 
life  insurance  agents.     The  period  of  his  residence  in  Missouri  covers  fifteen  years. 

On  the  20th  of  December,  1905,  Mr.  Dyer  was  married  to  Miss  Katharine  Mary 
Dobson,  whose  father  was  a  banker  of  Ottawa,  Kansas,  for  25  years  and  there 
passed  away  June  30,  1911.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dyer  have  become  parents  of  four  chil- 
dren:     George  L.,  Jr.,  Katharine  Mary,  Frederick  Charles  and  John  Martin. 

The  religious  faith  of  the  family  is  that  of  the  Catholic  church  and  Mr.  Dyer 
is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus.  He  belongs  also  to  the  Elks,  to  the 
Zoological  Society  of  St.  Louis,  to  the  St.  Louis  Club,  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the 
Sunset  Hill  Country  Club  and  the  Algonquin  Club.  In  politics  he  is  a  republican 
but  not  an  active  party  worker.  His  military  record  covers  service  as  captain  of 
Company  B  of  the  School  Battalion.  During  the  period  of  the  World  war  he  par- 
ticipated most  helpfully  in  all  war  activities,  including  the  five  Liberty  Bond  sales, 
the  Red  Cross  and  Y.  M.  C.  A  drives.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  insurance 
committee  having  in  charge  the  War  Savings  Stamps  sales.  He  is  a  supporter 
of  all  plans  and  projects  looking  to  the  betterment  and  upbuilding  of  the  city  and 
his  efforts  along  these  lines  have  been  far-reaching  and  resultant.  A  friend  said  of 
him:  "He  is  a  man's  man — willing  to  give  of  his  time  and  means  for  those  things 
which  help  to  make  this   world   better." 


CHARLES   NOEL. 


Charles  Noel,  investment  banker  of  St.  Louis,  of  the  firm  of  H.  M.  Noel  &  Com- 
pany, was  born  in  this  city  July  26,  1877.  His  father,  Henry  M.  Noel,  was  a  native 
of  Missouri  and  became  the  founder  of  the  firm  of  H.  M.  Noel  &  Company  in  1879. 
The  business  was  established,  however,  under  the  firm  style  of  Nelson  &  Noel,  the 
senior  partner  being  a  brother-in-law  of  Hon.  Lon  Stephens.  Henry  M.  Noel  was 
connected  with  the  business  until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  January,  1919,  when 
he  had  reached  the  age  of  seventy-seven  years.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  nam© 
of  Julia  E.  Graves,  was  a  granddaughter  of  the  Hon.  Jonathan  Edward  Graves,  a 
judge  of  the  supreme  court  of  Missouri  and.one  of  the  early  governors  of  the  state. 
Mrs.  Noel  passed  away  in  St.  Louis  in  1910  at  the  age  of  sixty-six  years.  By  her 
marriage  she  had  become  the  mother  of  three  sons  and  three  daughters. 

Charles  Noel  of  this  review,  who  was  the  fourth  in  order  of  birth,  supplemented 
his  public  school  training  by  study  in  Smith  Academy  of  St.  Louis,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  1893.  After  leaving  the  academy  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Simmons  Hardware  Company  of  St.  Louis  and  there  remained  for  three  years.  He 
then  entered  the  banking  establishment  of  his  father,  with  whom  he  was  associated 
until  the  latter's  death,  when  he  succeeded  to  the  business.  He  has  since  been  at 
the  head  of  the  firm  of  H.  M.  Noel  &  Company,  investment  bankers,  and  is  a  well 
known  and  highly  respected  figure  in  the  financial  circles  of  the  city  and  he  has  many 
friends  among  the  Investment  Bankers  Association,  to  which  he  belongs.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Stock  Exchange. 

On  the  2d  of  June,  1902,  Mr.  Noel  was  married  in  New  York  city  to  Miss  Mar- 
garet E.  Currie,  a  native  of  St.  Louis  and  a  daughter  of  Thomas  L.  and  Sarah  0. 
(Weis)  Currie,  the  former  a  native  of  St.  Louis  and  the  latter  of  Peoria,  Illinois. 
Her  mother  died  in  1919  and  her  father  has  also  passed  away.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Noel  has  been  born  a  son,  Thomas  C,  whose  birth  occurred  in  St.  Louis,  April  1,  1903. 

During  the  Woi-ld  war  Mr.  Noel  served  as  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Home  Guard, 
belonging  to  Company  A  of  the  First  Regiment,  in  which  he  was  a  first  sergeant, 
and  he  also  acted  as  jitney  driver  for  the  Red  Cross,  while  Mrs.  Noel,  who  was 
equally  active  in  war  work,  served  as  a  lieutenant  with  the  Red  Cross  canteen. 
Politically  Mr.  Noel  is  a  republican  where  national  questions  and  issues  are  involved 
but  at  local  elections  casts  an  independent  ballot.  He  is  well  known  in  club  circles, 
belonging  to  the  Algonquin  Club  and  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association.  He  is  also 
connected  with  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  heartily  endorses  and  supports  all 


1002  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

of  the  plans  and  projects  put  forth  by  that  organization  for  the  benefit  and  upbuild- 
ing of  the  city.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Webster  Groves  Presbyterian  church  and 
throughout  his  lite  he  has  commanded  the  respect  and  confidence  of  his  fellow- 
men  and  his  stanchest  friends  are  those  who  have  known  him  from  his  boyhood 
to  the  present  time. 


HENRY   D.   LEE. 


Henry  D.  Lee  is  active  in  the  control  of  a  mammoth  enterprise  which  has  been 
built  up  under  the  name  ot  the  H.  D.  Lee  Mercantile  Company.  While  he  has  be- 
come a  prominent  capitalist  of  the  west,  he  is  also  one  who  has  long  recognized  his 
duties  and  obligations  to  his  fellowmen  and  is  one  of  the  foremost  philanthropists  of 
Kansas  City.  Moreover,  he  early  learned  the  lesson  that  true  philanthropy  consists 
most  largely  in  enabling  others  to  help  themselves  and  he  has  thus  made  it  possible 
for  hundreds  of  his  employes  to  advance,  stimulating  and  encouraging  all  to  put 
forth  the  best  that  is  in  them.  He  has  always  attributed  much  of  his  success  to 
the  lessons  early  impressed  upon  his  mind  by  his  mother  and  his  entire  policy  and 
career  might  be  summed  up  in  a  mention  of  the  five  dominant  qualities  of  his  lite 
- — absolute  honesty,  desire  to  help  others,  keen  foresight,  ability  to  know  men  and 
ability  to  organize. 

The  story  of  his  earnest  endeavor  has  much  of  stimulating  interest  and  value, 
to  those  who  read  it.  Something  of  the  marvelous  growth  of  the  business  ot  the 
H.  D.  Lee  Mercantile  Company  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  on  the  1st  of  January, 
1916,  the  capital  stock  was  increased  from  eight  hundred  to  twelve  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars  and  on  the  same  date  a  cash  dividend  of  twenty-five  per  cent  was  paid. 
On  the  1st  of  January,  1917,  the  capital  stock  was  increased  to  three  million,  five 
hundred  thousand  dollars  and  a  cash  dividend  of  fifty  per  cent  was  paid.  On  the 
1st  of  January,  1919,  the  capital  stock  was  advanced  to  six  million,  five  hundred 
thousand  dollars  and  while  on  the  1st  of  January.  1918,  a  cash  dividend  of  fifteen 
per  cent  was  paid,  on  the  1st  of  the  following  year  the  dividend  amounted  to  seven- 
teen and  fifteen-hundredths  per  cent.  On  the  1st  of  July,  1920,  the  capital  stock 
was  increased  to  ten  million  dollars  and  a  cash  dividend  of  ten  per  cent  was  declared. 
Mr.  Lee  has  thus  made  valuable  contribution  to  the  world's  work.  An  eminent 
American  statesman  has  said:  "The  thing  supremely  worth  having  is  the  opportunity 
and  the  capacity  to  do  a  piece  of  work,  the  doing  of  which  shall  be  of  vital  signifi- 
cance to  mankind."  This  opportunity  has  come  to  Mr.  Lee  and  today  the  Lee  Mer- 
cantile Company  stands  as  a  monument  to  his  enterprise  and  business  ability  and 
no  less  as  a  monument  to  his  humanitarian  spirit. 

Mr.  Lee  is  a  member  of  the  Mission  Hills,  the  Blue  Hills  Country  Clubs,  the 
Kansas  City  Club  and  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club.  He  likewise  belongs  to  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  and  is  interested  in  all  those  forces  which  make  tor  a  greater 
and  better  city  with  higher  civic  standards  and  ideals.  In  politics  he  is  a  republican, 
while  his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Episcopal  church. 


MORD    M.    BOGIE. 


Mord  M.  Bogie,  an  attorney  of  the  firm  of  Sebree  &  Sebree,  with  offices  in  the 
Scarritt  building  in  Kansas  City,  was  born  in  Huntsville,  Missouri,  June  22,  1869. 
His  father,  Thomas  D.  Bogie,  was  a  native  of  Kentucky  and  became  one  of  the  early 
settlers  of  Huntsville,  where  he  was  well  known  as  editor,  owner  and  publisher 
of  a  newspaper.  He  afterward  engaged  in  the  same  business  in  Richmond,  in  Car- 
thage and  in  other  points  in  Missouri  and  Texas,  becoming  owner  of  the  Huntsville 
Herald,  the  Richmond  Democrat  and  the  Carthage  Democrat.  He  was  an  active 
supporter  of  the  democratic  party  and  his  papers  were  always  utilized  to  further 
the  interests  of  the  political  cause  in  which  he  believed.  He  was  a  most  successful 
publisher  and  was  the  founder  of  the  three  papers  mentioned.  At  the  time  of  the 
Civil  war  he  gave  his  allegiance  to  the  Union  cause.  He  belonged  to  the  Masonic, 
fraternity  and  held  membership  in  the  Christian  church.  His  last  days  were  spent 
in  Richmond,  Missouri,  where  his  widow  still  resides.      She  bore  the  maiden  name 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  1003 

of  Dorothy  Maughs  and  is  a  representative  of  one  of  the  prominent  early  families 
of  the  state.  By  her  marriage  she  became  the  mother  of  four  children:  D.  T., 
living  in  Lexington,  Missouri;  Mord  M.,  of  this  review;  and  Rector  S.,  of  Chicago. 
They  also  had  one  child  who  died  in  infancy. 

Mord  M.  iBogie  was  educated  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  Carthage,  Mis- 
souri, and  in  the  State  University  of  Missouri,  where  he  became  a  law  student. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1891  and  for  a  time  he  engaged  in  newspaper  work 
but  has  since  given  his  attention  to  the  active  work  of  the  profession.  He  came 
to  Kansas  City  in  1904  and  is  now  associated  with  a  prominent  law  firm  practic- 
ing under  the  style  of  Sebree  &  Sebree.  From  1907  until  1913  he  filled  the  posi- 
tion of  assistant  prosecuting  attorney.  His  practice  is  one  of  growing  importance 
and  his  ability  is  displayed  in  his  capable  handling  of  many  intricate  and  involved 
legal   problems. 

In  1894  Mr.  Bogie  was  married  to  Miss  Olympia  Stauch,  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 
During  his  college  days  Mr.  Bogie  was  given  the  Varsity  M  in  football  and  baseball 
while  at  the  State  University.  In  politics  he  is  a  democrat  and  has  been  active  in 
party  work  but  has  never  been  an  otfice  seeker,  holding  no  public  positions  outside 
the  strict  patli  of  his  profession.  He  became  the  second  member  of  the  Elks  Lodge, 
No.  834,  and  he  has  ever  been  loyal  to  the  high  teachings  and  purposes  of  the  order. 
Those  who  know  him,  and  he  has  a  wide  acquaintance,  esteem  him  highly  as  a  man 
of  ability  in  his  profession  and  as  one  whose  personal  and  social  qualities  entitle 
him  to  the  regard  which  is  uniformly  accorded  him. 


AMOS  THEODORE  FISHER,  M.  D. 

Dr.  Amos  Theodore  Fisher,  a  most  successful  diagnostician,  his  labors  being 
at  all  times  crowned  with  success  in  the  practice  of  medicine,  is  now  located  in 
Kansas  City,  where  he  has  done  much  important  hospital  work  in  addition  to  his 
private  practice.  He  was  born  upon  a  farm  in  Pettis  county,  Missouri,  November 
22,  186  6,  and  is  a  son  of  Rhodes  C.  and  Laura  (Ramey)  Fisher,  both  of  whom  were 
natives  of  Pettis  county.  The  grandfather,  Samuel  Fisher,  made  an  overland  trip 
to  Missouri  and  secured  a  homestead  claim  in  pioneer  times.  He  was  a  very 
prominent  and  influential  citizen  and  contributed  much  to  the  upbuilding  of  this 
section  of  the  country.  He  acted  as  a  pilot  on  boats  on  the  river  in  the  early  days 
and  was  pilot  on  a  steamer  that  was  sunk  near  Boonville  with  a  cargo  of  two  and 
a  half  million  dollars  in  money  and  whisky.  Stout  Ramey,  the  maternal  grand- 
father of  Dr.  Fisher,  was  presiding  judge  of  Pettis  county  and  his  daughter,  Mrs. 
Fisher,  was  acting  as  county  clerk  when  for  the  last  time  a  negro  was  burned  at 
the  stake  in  Missouri.  Rhodes  C.  Fisher,  father  of  the  Doctor,  followed  the  occu- 
pation of  farming  as  a  life  work.  He  gave  his  political  allegiance  to  the  democratic 
party  and  was  very  prominent  in  community  affairs.  He  belonged  to  the  Baptist 
church,  which  stood  on  the  county  line  between  Pettis  and  Johnson  counties,  and 
in  every  possible  way  he  contributed  to  the  moral  progress  of  the  community.  Dur- 
ing the  Civil  war  he  served  as  a  scout  for  General  Price.  He  belonged  to  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  was  very  progressive  in  all  things  and  was  particularly  untiring 
in  his  efforts  to  advance  good  roads.  He  passed  away  in  September,  1919,  when 
more  than  eighty-five  years  of  age. 

Dr.  Amos  Theodore  Fisher  of  this  review  attended  the  district  schools  and  in 
early  manhood  began  teaching,  while  later  he  resumed  his  studies  in  the  State 
Normal  School  at  Warrensburg,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  Bachelor 
of  Science  degree  in  1894.  For  six  years  he  was  superintendent  of  the  high  school 
at  HarrisonvUle,  Missouri,  but  regarded  this  merely  as  an  initial  step  to  other 
professional  labor,  for  it  was  his  desire  and  ambition  to  become  a  member  of  the 
medical  profession.  He  bent  every  energy  toward  this  end  and  at  length  matricu- 
lated in  the  medical  department  of  the  St.  Louis  University,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  M.  D.  in  1903.  He  then  opened  an  office  in  that  city,  where  he  remained 
for  five  years,  after  which  he  removed  to  Maryville,  Missouri,  and  for  six  years 
filled  the  position  of  city  health  officer  there.  He  has  always  been  a  close  student 
of  the  profession  and  a  great  believer  in  preventive  medicine.  While  he  engaged 
in   general   practice  at  Maryville,   he  also  specialized  to  a  large  extent  on   diseases 


1004  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

of  the  eye,  ear.  nose  and  throat.  He  was  also  prominent  in  religious  work  there 
and  served  as  a  deacon  of  the  First  Christian  church. 

Dr.  Fisher  afterward  pursued  post-graduate  work  through  two  sessions  in 
the  Chicago  Post  Graduate  College.  He  was  then  appointed  to  the  office  of  path- 
ologist  of  the  State  Hospital  (No.  2)  for  the  Insane  at  St.  Joseph.  This  gave  him 
opportunity  for  much  scientific  study  and  research  work  and  he  has  always  been 
recognized  as  a  very  keen  student  and  careful  diagnostician.  While  there  he  dis- 
covered by  the  tabulation  of  1,380  blood  tests  the  fact  that  thirty  and  six-tenths 
per  cent  of  the  cases  of  insanity  are  due  to  venereal  diseases.  He  has  always  been 
a  teacher  and  is  a  firm  believer  in  preventive  medicine.  In  1916  he  came  to  Kansas 
City  and  through  the  intervening  period  has  confined  his  attention  to  diseases  of 
women,  in  which  his  success  has  been  remarkable,  especially  in  bringing  about  cures 
that  have  protected  women  from  operations  which  other  physicians  have  claimed 
were  necessary  for  cure.  He  believes  that  the  knife  should  be  used  most  sparingly 
and  that  many  other  methods  of  treatment  can  be  used  with  equally  successful 
results. 

Dr.  Fisher  has  made  a  special  and  careful  study  of  diabetic  conditions,  and 
has  come  to  believe  that  diabetes  is  due  to  the  attack  of  bacteria  on  the  organs  of 
metabolism.     Many  cases  treated  from  this  point  of  view  have  entirely  cleared  up. 

On  the  13th  of  January,  1918,  Dr.  Fisher  was  commissioned  a  first  lieutenant 
In  the  Medical  Corps  of  the  United  States  army  and  went  to  Fort  Omaha  as  sanitary 
officer  of  the  post.  During  the  influenza  epidemic  his  efforts  to  prevent  the  disease 
greatly  lessened  the  mortality.  He  is  now  professor  of  neurology  and  gynecology 
in  the  Kansas  City  University  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.  He  belongs  to  the 
Jackson  County  Medical  Society,  the  Missouri  State  Medical  Association  and  the 
American  Medical  Association  and  through  these  avenues  keeps  in  touch  with  the 
trend  of  modern  professional  thought  and  progress. 

Dr.  Fisher  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Florence  M.  McKee,  who  was  born 
in  Nodaway  county,  Missouri.  Her  father,  a  native  of  Ireland,  emigrated  to  Canada 
in  young  manhood  and  later  took  up  the  occupation  of  farming  in  Missouri.  Dr. 
Fisher  and  his  wife  have  one  daughter,  Hermion,  now  the  wife  of  E.  N.  Fisher, 
of  Cleveland,  Ohio.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Fisher  are  well  known  in  Kansas  City  and  the 
hospitality  of  many  of  the  best  homes  is  freely  accorded  them.  Dr.  Fisher  has  won 
the  recognition  of  his  professional  brethren  for  his  achievements  in  his  chosen 
line  of  work.  While  attending  post-graduate  courses  in  Chicago  he  specialized  on 
bacteriology  and  genecology  and  as  the  years  have  passed  has  made  steady  progress 
in  these  fields  of  practice.  He  gives  thorough  study  to  each  individual  case  which 
comes  under  his  attention,  is  careful  and  accurate  in  diagnosis  and  that  his  ability 
has  secured  recognition  is  found  in  the  large  practice  now  accorded  him. 


VINCENT  HENRY  GLOSEMEYER. 

A  multitude  of  business  enterprises  of  most  varied  character  enter  into  the 
make-up  of  every  city,  but  there  are  always  those  who,  by  reason  of  close  applica- 
tion, indefatigable  enterprise  and  sound  judgment,  advance  beyond  their  fellows 
and  become  prominent  in  the  line  of  activity  which  they  choose  as  a  life  work.  In 
this  connection  mention  should  be  made  of  Vincent  Henry  Glosemeyer,  who  Is 
the  president  of  the  Glosemeyer  Flour  Company,  with  offices  in  the  Merchants 
Exchange  building  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  born  near  Dutzow,  Warren  county,  Mis- 
souri, February  12,  1869.  His  father,  Joseph  Glosemeyer,  who  passed  away  in 
1911,  was  also  born  in  Warren  county,  his  natal  year  being  1834.  His  parents 
came  up  the  river  from  New  Orleans  and  settled  in  Missouri  at  a  time  when  Indians 
still  inhabited  the  state.  Joseph  Glosemeyer  devoted  his  life  to  farming  in 
Warren  county  until  1884,  when  he  removed  to  Franklin  county,  settling  near 
Washington,  Missouri,  where  he  continued  to  engage  in  general  agricultural  pur- 
suits until  1910.  During  the  Civil  war  he  was  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Home 
Guard.  He  married  Caroline  Krekel,  a  daughter  of  Captain  Francis  Krekel,  who 
was  with  the  Missouri  volunteers  during  the  Civil  war,  serving  as  a  captain  In 
the  Union  army.  Their  marriage  was  celebrated  in  Dutzow,  Missouri,  November 
25,    1863,    and    they   became    parents    of    four   sons    and    five    daughters,    of    whom 


VINCENT  H.  GLOSEMEYEE 


I     TH!  KITf  '«>** 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  1007 

Theodore  J.  passed  away  at  the  age  of  eight  years,  while  Johanna  died  at  the 
age  of  six  years.  Vincent  H.  was  the  third  in  order  of  birth.  His  brother  Frank, 
who  passed  away  at  the  age  of  thirty-six,  was  a  soldier  of  the  Spanish-American 
war  with  the  Heavy  Coast  Artillery  and  was  stationed  in  San  Francisco.  For  six 
years  he  remained  a  member  of  the  navy  before  again  entering  civil  life.  Frances 
is  the  widow  of  Bernard  Hotmer.  Mary  is  the  wife  of  Powell  Ross,  of  Washington, 
Missouri.  Helen  is  the  widow  of  George  Carrel  of  St.  Louis.  Clara  is  the  wife 
of  Herbert  Jones,  of  Washington,  Missouri.  The  youngest  of  the  family  is  John  A., 
a  traveling  salesman  representing  the  Glosemeyer  Flour  Company.  He  married 
Genevieve  Busen,  of  St.  Louis,  and  makes  his  home  in  this  city. 

Vincent  H.  Glosemeyer  was  educated  in  the  parish  schools  of  his  native  town 
and  also  spent  two  years  in  the  high  school  at  Washington,  Missouri,  while  sub- 
sequently he  attended  the  Jones  Commercial  College  of  St.  Louis.  While  in  school 
he  worked  on  the  farm  through  the  summer  months  in  order  to  provide  for  his 
own  support  and  thus  early  indicated  the  elemental  strength  of  his  character  and 
the  laudable  ambition  which  has  at  all  times  prompted  him  to  make  the  best  of 
his  opportunities.  At  the  age  of  twenty-two  he  started  as  a  solicitor  and  collector 
for  the  Metropolitan  Life  Insurance  Company  and  in  1892  accepted  a  clerkship  with 
A.  E.  Brucker  &  Company  of  St.  Louis.  In  the  following  year  he  established  an 
agency  in  St.  Louis  to  sell  the  products  of  different  flour  mills  of  Missouri,  estab- 
lishing the  business  without  capital  save  the  goodwill  of  his  customers.  Steadily 
his  trade  developed  and  at  length  the  business  was  incorporated  under  the  firm 
style  of  the  Zirnheld-Glosemeyer  Flour  Company,  under  which  name  operations 
were  profitably  conducted  until  1909.  In  that  y^ar  Mr.  Glosemeyer  sold  his  interest 
to  Mr.  Zirnheld  and  in  1910  he  established  business  under  the  name  of  the  Glose- 
meyer Flour  Company,  Incorporated,  of  which  he  became  the  president  and  general 
manager,  and  since  that  time  he  has  directed  the  interests  of  the  business,  which 
has  brought  to  him  substantial  success. 

On  the  26th  of  June,  1894,  Mr.  Glosemeyer  was  married  to  Miss  Catherine 
Wallrapp,  of  St.  Louis,  who  passed  away  in  November,  1908.  They  became  the 
parents  of  six  children,  two  sons  and  four  daughters.  Alphonse  J.,  who  served  for 
eight  months  in  the  World  war  as  a  member  of  the  staff  of  General  Wood,  joined 
the  army  as  a  private  and  rose  to  the  rank  of  sergeant.  He  had  charge  of  the 
bookkeeping  division  at  Camp  Funston;  Olivia  is  the  wife  of  Joseph  L.  Rehme, 
who  is  assistant  cashier  of  the  Lafayette  South  Side  Bank  of  St.  Louis;  Florence 
Adele,  Celeste  and  Raymond  are  at  home.  For  his  second  wife  Mr.  Glosemeyer 
chose  Miss  Veronica  Rengel  and  they  were  married  in  St.  Louis,  June  12,  1917. 
They  have  become  parents  of  a  daughter,  Agnes  Josephine,  and  reside  at  No.  2037 
Sidney  street. 

The  religious  faith  of  the  family  is  that  of  the  Catholic  church  and  Mr.  Glose- 
meyer is  a  fourth  degree  member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus.  He  is  also  vice 
president  of  St.  Peter  &  Paul's  Conference,  a  benevolent  society,  and  is  the  treas- 
urer of  the  German  St.  Vincent's  Orphan  Association  of  Normandy,  Missouri. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Merchants  Exchange  and  was  appointed  by  President 
Niemeyer  of  the  Exchange  to  serve  on  the  flour  committee  of  1920.  In  politics 
he  maintains  an  independent  course,  though  usually  giving  his  support  to  the 
republican  party.  He  is  interested  in  all  matters  of  progressive  citizenship  and 
his  public  spirit  is  manifest  in  his  cooperation  in  every  movement  which  tends  to 
promote  the  moral,  intellectual  and  material  welfare  of  the  community.  More- 
over, he  has  become  an  Important  factor  in  business  circles  and  his  prosperity  is 
well  deserved,  as  in  him  are  embraced  the  characteristics  of  an  unbending  integrity, 
unabating  energy  and  industry  that  never  flags. 


C.  E.  THOMAS,  M.  D. 


The   qualities   of   the   successful   physician   find  expression   in    the   activities   of 

Dr.  C.  E,  Thomas,  who  is  practicing  in  St.  Joseph,  with  oflices  in  the  Commercial 

building.     If  a  lawyer  is  brusque  and  crabbed  it  is  believed  that  he  is  engrossed 

with  professional  interests;   if  a  minister  seems  reserved  and  distant  it  is  supposed 

.that  he  is  engaged  with  things  beyond  the  ken  of  the  average  man,  but  the  public 

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demands  that  the  physician  be  always  genial,  courteous  and  cheerful  as  well  as  most 
capable  in  the  discharge  of  his  professional  duties. 

Born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  in  1867,  Dr.  Thomas  acquired  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools  of  that  city  and  then  completed  a  course  in  the  study 
of  pharmacy.  He  next  became  a  manufacturing  chemist  and  his  training  and 
experience  along  these  lines  led  to  his  determination  to  take  up  the  practice  of 
medicine  as  a  life  work.  In  1891  he  was  graduated  from  the  Keokuk  Medical 
College  with  the  M.  D.  degree  and  entered  at  once  upon  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession at  Harper,  Iowa,  where  he  married  Miss  Cora  E.  Newhouse.  In  1902  he 
removed  to  St.  Joseph,  where  he  has  since  remained,  and  at  different  times  he  has 
pursued  special  post-graduate  courses  in  various  schools  of  the  country.  He  is  an 
expert  in  electrical  treatment  and  is  an  especially  capable  consulting  physician. 
He  is  an  active  and  valued  member  of  the  local  and  state  medical  societies  and 
is  examiner  for  a  number  of  the  old  line  life  insurance  companies.  He  has  gained 
an  interstate  reputation  as  an  opponent  of  the  indiscriminate  use  of  the  surgeon's 
knife.  He  is  thoroughly  informed  concerning  the  broad  scientific  principles  which 
underlie  his  work  and  at  the  same  time  his  wide  experience  has  given  him  valuable 
knowledge  and  efficiency  in  the  practice  of  his  profession. 

Dr.  Thomas  is  a  consistent  member  of  the  Francis  Street  Methodist  church  and 
fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  various  Masonic  bodies,  including  the  Mystic 
Shrine,  also  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 
All  interests,  however,  are  made  subservient  to  his  professional  duties,  which  are 
most  faithfully  discharged,  with  a  sense  of  conscientious  obligation  that  produces 
most  satisfactoi;y   results. 


WILLIAM  M.   McCLURE. 


William  M.  McClure,  president  of  the  Stine  &  McClure  Undertaking  Company 
of  Kansas  City,  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Des  Moines  county,  Iowa,  March  21,  1869. 
In  1889  he  came  to  Kansas  City  and  was  employed  by  E.  Stine  as  his  assistant 
until  1906,  when  the  Stine  &  McClure  Undertaking  Company  was  incorporated, 
Mr.  McClure  becoming  vice  president.  This  business,  of  which  he  is  now  the  presi- 
dent, was  established  in  1861  and  is  one  of  the  leading  concerns  of  the  kind  In 
Kansas  City. 


THEODORE  BOTHMAN. 


Theodore  Bothman,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Broadway  Savings  Trust  Com- 
pany of  St.  Louis,  was  born  May  17,  1865,  his  parents  being  Frederick  W.  and  Mar- 
garet (Nissen)  Bothman,  who  years  ago  came  to  the  United  States.  The  father  was 
engaged  in  the  catering  business  and  in  St.  Louis  he  and  his  wife  reared  their  family 
of  ten  children,  of  whom  four  are  living — William,  Albert,  Theodore  and  Mrs.  Dora 
Brock,  the  six  others  having  died  in  early  childhood. 

Theodore  Bothman  acquired  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  western 
Missouri  and  entered  upon  his  bnsiness  career  as  an  employe  of  the  Fourth  Na- 
tional Bank  of  St.  Louis,  with  which  he  was  connected  from  1883  until  1893.  He 
afterward  spent  five  years  in  the  grocery  trade  and  for  seven  years  was  associated 
with  the  Mercantile  Trust  Company  in  various  positions  from  that  of  bookkeeper 
to  auditor.  He  later  spent  one  and  a  half  years  as  state  bank  examiner,  serving 
under  John  E.  Swanger,  and  on  the  expiration  of  that  period  became  the  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Broadway  Savings  Trust  Company,  which  was  organized  in 
November,  1904,  and  was  capitalized  for  one  hundred  thousand  dollars.  The  bank 
has  enjoyed  a  substantial  growth  from  the  beginning  and  now  has  a  surplus  equal 
to  its  capital  stock  and  undivided  profits  of  more  than  thirty  thousand  dollars.  Its 
officers  are  men  of  well  known  reliability  and  enterprise  and  the  success  of  the 
undertaking  is  due  in  no  small  measure  to  the  thoroughness,  determination  and 
organizing  powers  of  Theodore  Bothman. 

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Leola,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  I.  T.  Vierheller;  Minnette,  the  wife  of  H.  W.  Tilker; 
Margaret;  and  William,  who  is  now  attending  Washington  University,  where  he  Is 
pursuing  a  civil  engineering  course.  He  was  formerly  a  member  of  a  naval  unit 
at  the  university.  He  has  made  an  excellent  record  in  his  college  days  and  Is  a 
young  man  of  decided  promise. 

During  the  war  period  Theodore  Bothman  took  a  very  active  interest  in  pro- 
moting Red  Cross  and  bond  sales.  He  has  never  been  an  active  club  man  nor  a 
worker  in  political  ranks,  preferring  to  concentrate  his  time  and  energies  upon  his 
business  affairs,  and  those  who  know  him  regard  him  as  a  straightforward  man 
who  owes  his  success  to  close  application,  steadiness  and  reliability. 


DAVID  ARTHUR  BOWMAN. 

David  Arthur  Bowman,  who  is  engaged  in  the  investment  banking  business  as 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Bowman,  Cost  &  Company  in  St.  Louis,  was  born  In  this 
city  December  29,  1881,  a  son  of  Samuel  and  Tillie  (Schiele)  Bowman,  who  are 
mentioned  elsewhere  in  this  work.  The  son  after  attending  the  public  schools  of 
St.  Louis  continued  his  education  in  the  Western  Military  Academy  at  Upper  Alton, 
Illinois.  After  leaving  college  he  was  associated  as  a  representative  of  the  firm 
of  Max  Judd  &  Company,  with  members  of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange,  with 
whom  he  continued  until  1904.  He  then  became  connected  as  St.  Louis  manager 
with  the  firm  of  Farson,  Leach  &  Company  of  New  York  and  Chicago,  his  asso- 
ciation therewith  continuing  until  1906,  when  he  organized  and  established  his 
present  business  of  Bowman,  Cost  &  Company,  investment  bankers,  with  offices 
at  506  Olive  street.  The  firm  specializes  in  government  and  municipal  bonds  and 
other  high  class  securities  and  they  are  rated  among  the  leading  investment  bankers 
of  this  city. 

During  the  World  war  Mr.  Bowman  took  a  very  helpful  part  in  the  various 
activities  and  was  an  assistant  to  L.  L.  Leonard,  chairman  of  the  Four  Minute  men 
of  Missouri,  in  which  department  he  did  most  commendable  and  creditable  work. 
He  holds  membership  in  the  City  Club,  also  in  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  a 
number  of  charitable,  fraternal  and  civic  organizations,  as  well  as  the  Ethical 
Society  of  St.  Louis.  In  politics  he  maintains  an  independent  course,  voting  tor 
men  and  measures  rather  than  party.  He  has  for  many  years  been  a  member  of 
the  Public  Question  Club  and  can  discuss  entertainingly  and  convincingly  almost 
any  subject  of  general  interest.  He  is  a  highly  intelligent,  cultured  and  charming 
gentleman  who  has  won  for  himself  an  enviable  position  in  St.  Louis  and  who  has 
made  a  creditable  place  in  financial  circles  through  his  indefatigable  industry  and 
enterprise. 


SAMUEL  BOWMAN. 


Samuel  Bowman,  prominently  identified  with  the  real  estate  business  In  St. 
Louis  for  many  years,  was  born  in  Weston,  Missouri,  February  21,  1851,  a  son  of  the 
late  David  Bowman,  who  was  a  native  of  Bavaria,  Germany,  but  came  to  America  in 
1845  He  made  his  way  first  to  St.  Louis  and  thence  removed  to  Weston,  where  he 
was  "engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1854,  when  he 
was  but  twenty-five  years  of  age.  The  mother,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Hannah 
Bauman,  was  also  born  in  Germany  and  arrived  in  the  new  world  in  1847.  They 
were  married  in  Missouri  and  became  the  parents  of  a  son  and  daughter,  the  latter 
being  Mrs.  Leonard  Wolfort,  a  resident  of  St.  Louis.  The  mother  passed  away  in  1896 
in  St.  Louis  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven  years. 

Samuel  Bowman  was  a  lad  of  but  eight  years  when  he  became  a  resident  of  St. 
Louis,  where  he  attended  the  public  schools  to  the  age  of  thirteen  years  and  then 
started  out  to  provide  for  his  own  livelihood  and  aid  in  the  support  of  his  widowed 
mother.  His  first  position  was  with  the  old  established  real  estate  firm  of  Barlow, 
Valle  &  Bush.  Subsequently  he  became  connected  with  the 'wine  business  in  asso- 
ciation with  Isadore  Bush  and  when  nineteen  years  of  age  was  admitted  to  a  partnership. 


1010  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

He  continued  successfully  in  the  business  tor  many  years  and  about  1885  entered  real 
estate  circles,  to  which  line  his  attention  has  since  been  given.  He  has  met  with  very 
substantial  success  along  this  line  and  in  the  years  which  have  elapsed  has  negotiated 
many  important  property  transfers.  He  has  at  all  times  kept  in  touch  with  the  real 
estate  market,  has  long  been  regarded  as  an  excellent  valuator  of  property  and  there  is 
no  phase  of  the  business  with  which  he  is  not  thoroughly  familiar.  His  activities  have 
at  all  times  been  directed  by  a  most  progressive  spirit  and  the  measure  of  success 
which  he  has  accomplished  has  been  the  direct  and  legitimate  result  of  persistent 
effort,  intelligently  directed.  He  is  also  the  president  of  the  Automatic  Ticket  Selling 
Cash  Register  Company,  a  New  York  corporation. 

On  the  18th  of  December,  1878,  in  St.  Louis,  Mr.  Bowman  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Tillie  Schiele,  a  native  of  New  York  city  and  a  daughter  of  Sigmund  and 
Fanny  (Schulman)  Schiele,  the  latter  now  living  in  St.  Louis  at  the  age  of  eighty-five 
years.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bowman  became  the  parents  of  five  children:  David  Arthur,  of 
the  firm  of  Bowman.  Cost  &  Company,  investment  brokers,  who  is  mentioned  elsewhere 
in  this  work;  Edgar  S.,  who  is  secretary  and  sales  manager  of  the  Automatic  Ticket 
Company;  Amy,  the  wife  of  S.  H.  De  Roy,  a  resident  of  New  York  city  and  the  vice 
president  of  the  ticket  company;  Walter  H.,  who  is  engaged  in  the  bond  business  in 
St.  Louis;  and  Edith,  who  completes  the  family.  There  are  also  two  grandchildren,  who 
are  the  children  of  Amy  (Bowman)  De  Roy.  The  son,  Walter  H.  Bowman,  was  in  the 
navy  during  the  war,  while  D.  Arthur  Bowman  was  very  prominent  in  war  work, 
organizing  the  Four  Minute  men  of  the  state  and  becoming  one  of  the  principal  speakers. 

Politically  Mr.  Bowman  is  a  republican,  having  long  given  his  support  to  the 
party.  In  1900  he  was  the  president  of  the  District  Grand  Lodge,  No.  2,  I.  O.  B.  B.,  of 
which  he  is  still  a  member.  The  organization  is  one  of  the  prominent  philanthropic 
institutions  of  the  country,  having  established  orphan  asylums  and  promoted  other 
charitable  institutions.  In  this  work  Mr.  Bowman  has  taken  a  most  active  and  helpful 
part,  giving  generously  to  its  support.  He  belongs  al'so  the  Civic  League  and  to  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Historical  Society.  He  is 
likewise  connected  with  the  Columbian  Club  of  St.  Louis.  His  religious  faith  is 
indicated  by  his  connection  with  Temple  Israel.  He  has  been  loyal  to  the  principles 
which  he  has  espoused  and  he  has  ever  been  ready  to  extend  a  helping  hand  where  aid 
is  needed.  He  started  out  in  the  business  world  when  a  lad  of  but  thirteen  years  and 
has  since  been  dependent  entirely  upon  his  own  resources.  Whatever  success  he  has 
achieved  or  enjoyed  has  been  the  direct  result  of  his  labors  and  for  thirty-seven  years 
he  has  been  a  most  prominent  figure  in  real  estate  circles  in  St.  Louis. 


JOSEPH     J.     YAWITZ. 


Prompted  by  a  laudable  ambition.  Joseph  J.  Yawi'tz  made  his  start  in  the 
business  world  when  still  a  schoolboy,  obtaining  work  during  a  vacation  period. 
Later  he  inserted  an  advertisement  for  a  position  in  one  "of  the  St.  Louis  papers, 
which  led  to  his  entering  the  employ  of  the  mound  City  Chair  Company  and  thus 
acquiring  a  knowledge  of  the  line  of  business  in  which  he  is  now  engaged,  for  at 
the  present  time  he  is  at  the  head  of  the  National  Chair  Company  and  for  a 
number  of  years  in  this  connection  has  been  controlling  an  extensive  and  growing 
business.  He  is  now  but  thirty-three  years  of  age  and  yet  he  is  in  control  of  a 
business  that  many  a  man  of  twice  his  years  might  well  envy.  He  was  born  June 
15,  1887.  His  father,  David  Yawitz,  came  to  America  in  1893  and  here  followed 
the  tailoring  business  but  at  the  present  time  is  living  retired.  He  married  Jennie 
Holsman,  also  a  representative  of  a  Russian  family.  They  became  the  parents 
of  seven  children,  six  sons  and  a  daughter,  of  whom  Joseph  J.  is  the  fifth  in  order 
of  birth.  The  others  are:  Morris  J.,  who  married  Clara  Silverburg  and  resides  in 
St.  Louis;  Samuel,  who  wedded  Jennie  Greenblatt  and  is  also  living  in  this  city; 
Frank,  who  married  Mollie  Silverburg  and  makes  his  home  in  St.  Louis;  Harry, 
who  wedded  Clara  Morris;  Sarah  R..  the  wife  of  L.  O.  Tobias;  and  Ely  E.,  who 
married   Sarah   Hammerman.      All   are   residents   of   St.   Louis. 

Joseph  J.  Yawitz  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis,  to  which  city 
he  was  brought  duririg  his  early  boyhood.  When  a  youth  of  thirteen  years  he 
obtained    a   position    as    bundle    boy    in    a    dry    goods    store,    where   he   was    paid    a 


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dollar  and  seventy-five  cents  per  week.  He  resolved,  however,  that  he  would  be 
worth  much  more  than  that  and  when  he  resigned  his  last  salaried  position  before 
engaging  in  business  on  his  own  account  he  was  receiving  three  thousand  dollars 
per  year,  which  was  more  than  any  man  in  St.  Louis  doing  the  same  work  was 
receiving.  During  the  second  vacation  period  after  starting  out  in  the  business 
world  Mr.  Yawitz  worked  for  his  brother,  who  was  the  proprietor  of  a  dyeing  and 
cleaning  establishment,  and  when  the  vacation  period  was  over  he  had  proven 
himself  so  useful  that  his  parents  consented  to  allow  him  to  remain  at  work.  He 
continued  with  his  brother  until  the  following  spring  but  sought  better  chances  for 
advancement.  For  a  time  he  was  with  the  Heller  &  Hoffman  Chair  Company  of 
St.  Louis  as  office  boy.  In  response  to  an  advertisement  in  a  paper  he  secured 
a  position  with  the  Mound  City  Chair  Company  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years  and 
continued  with  them  until  he  reached  the  age  of  twenty-three.  During  that  period 
he  rose  from  the  position  of  oflice  boy  to  that  of  treasurer  of  the  concern  and  had 
become  a  stockholder  in  the  business.  He  held  successively  the  positions  of 
stenographer,  billing  clerk,  salesman  and  sales  manager.  He  was  very  ambitious 
to  go  upon  the  road  as  a  traveling  salesman  and  when  he  was  but  sixteen  years 
of  age  he  was  sent  out  by  the  firm,  making  his  first  trip  to  Belleville,  where  on  the 
first  day  he  sold  two  or  three  bills  of  goods.  On  the  second  day  he  was  sent  to 
Collinsville  and  Edwardsville,  where  his  sales  exceeded  those  of  the  preceding  day. 
He  continued  to  travel,  opening  up  territory  for  the  firm  in  a  dozen  states  in  the 
small  towns,  but  was  ambitious  to  work  the  larger  cites.  Accordingly  he  was  sent 
to  Quincy,  Omaha  and  St.  Joseph,  Kansas  City  and  Des  Moines,  finally  planned  a 
trip  to  Denver  and  eventually  began  working  the  cities  on  the  Pacific  coast,  es- 
tablishing business  connections  for  the  firm  in  each  city  he  visited.  He  also  made 
a  trip  to  Honolulu,  being  the  first  representative  of  furniture  manufacturers  from 
this  section   of  the   country   in   the   Hawaiian   islands. 

When  twenty-three  years  of  age  Joseph  J.  Yawitz  sold  his  interest  in  the 
Mound  City  Chair  Company  and  organized  the  National  Chair  Company  in  1910. 
Of  this  he  was  elected  president  and  has  so  continued  to  the  present  time.  The 
company  has  operated  successfully  and  has  had  largely  to  increase  its  quarters  in 
order  to  meet  the  demands  of  the  trade.  They  have  an  extensive  factory  at  Main 
street  and  Clark  avenue  in  St.  Louis  and  do  business  over  the  entire  country, 
being  the  largest  distributors  and  operators  in  their  line  in  this  part  of  the  United 
States.  Mr.  Yawitz  is  constantly  developing  his  interests  along  the  most  progres- 
sive lines  and  the  results  achieved  are  most  gratifying.  He  is  likewise  interested 
financially  in  the  Yawitz  Dyeing  &  Cleaning  Company  of  St.  Louis  and  in  the 
National  Film  Publicity  Corporation.  He  organized  the  United  States  Chair  Asso- 
ciation with  headquarters  in  Chicago,  served  as  president  in  1918,  and  is  now  one 
of  its  directors.  He  is  likewise  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Salesmanship  Associa- 
tion, of  the  Furniture  Board  of  Trade  and  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He 
belongs  to  the  Rotary  Club,  City  Club,  Art  League,  Automobile  Club,  and  to 
various  organizations  which  have  to  do  with  the  development  of  business  con- 
ditions. He  has  never  hesitated  to  take  a  forward  step  when  the  way  was  open 
and   his   ambition   and    energy   have   led   him    into   important   relations. 

Mr.  Yawitz  was  married  In  St.  Louis,  November  28,  1912,  to  Miss  Dollye 
Rubenstein,  a  daughter  of  Max  Rubenstein,  and  tljey  now  have  two  children: 
Marvin  Allen,  born  July  12,  1914;  and  Joseph  J.,  Jr.,  born  June  13,  1916.  The 
family   resides   at   5598   Waterman   avenue. 

During  the  World  war  Mr.  Yawitz  was  a  liberal  subscriber  to  the  various 
drives  and  assisted  in  securing  funds  for  the  Jewish  War  Relief.  He  is  well  known 
in  Masonic  circles,  belonging  to  St.  Louis  Lodge,  No.  20,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  also  to 
Kilwinning  Chapter,  No.  50,  R.  A.  M.;  and  to  Hiram  Council,  No.  1,  R.  &  S.  M., 
and  Order  of  the  Eastern  Star,  St.  Louis  Chapter,  No.  357.  He  has  likewise 
taken  the  degrees  of  the  Scottish  Rite,  attaining  the  thirty-second  degree  in  the 
Missouri  Consistory,  No.  1,  M.  R.  S.,  and  he  is  a  member  of  Moolah  Temple  of 
the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Pacific  Lodge,  No.  304,  Knights  of 
Pythias,  to  the  Independent  Order  of  B'nai  B'rith  and  to  the  Young  Men's  Hebrew  As- 
sociation, while  in  politics  he  is  a  republican  with  independent  tendencies.  His  reli- 
gious faith  is  indicated  in  his  connection  with  Temple  Israel.  His  life  has  been  well 
spent.  He  has  made  judicious  use  of  his  time,  his  talents  and  his  opportunities. 
Prompted  by  a  laudable  ambition  he  has  steadily  advanced,  nor  has  he  failed  to  take 
note  of  and  utilize  every  chance  that  has  come  to  him  for  legtitimate  progress  in  the 


1014  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI       • 

business  world.  His  life  record  should  serve  as  a  source  of  inspiration  and  en- 
couragement to  others,  showing  what  can  be  accomplished  when  there  is  the  will 
to   dare   and   to  do. 


PHILIP     H.     BROCKMAN. 


While  Philip  H.  Brockman  has  won  for  himself  a  notable  place  in  business 
circles  of  St.  Louis,  being  now  proprietor  of  the  De  Luxe  Automobile  Company 
and  interested  in  other  important  commercial  concerns,  it  would  be  to  give  but 
an  impartial  and  one-sided  view  of  his  career  to  speak  of  him  merely  in  business 
connections.  He  has  been  most  active  in  support  of  many  progressive  movements 
having  to  do  with  the  upbuilding  of  St.  Louis  and  his  labors  have  at  all  times  been 
far-reaching  and  resultant.  He  was  born  April  18,  1881,  in  the  city  which  is 
still  his  home,  his  parents  being  Philip  and  Emma  (Rohde)  Brockman.  The 
father  was  born  in  Germany  and  on  coming  to  the  new  world  settled  in  St.  Louis. 
In  the  course  of  years  he  became  the  head  of  one  of  the  largest  commission 
firms  doing  business  in  the  city.  He  early  turned  his  attention  to  the  grain  trade 
here  and  was  one  of  the  largest  handlers  of  barley  in  the  United  States,  conducting 
his  activities  under  the  style  of  the  P.  Brockman  Commission  Company.  Both  the 
paternal  and  maternal  grandparents  of  Philip  H.  Brockman  of  this  review  were 
highly  respected  in  a  social  way  in  St.  Louis  and  the  two  grandfathers  won  for 
themselves   a  creditable   place   in  business. 

Philip  H.  Brockman  attended  the  Toensfeldt  school,  also  the  Christian 
Brothers  College  and  the  Bryant  &  Stratton  Business  College,  thus  becoming  well 
qualified  tor  life's  practical  and  responsible  duties.  Early  in  his  business  career 
he  was  identified  with  banking  in  Chicago  and  in  1913  he  became  a  factor  in 
the  automobile  trade  in  St.  Louis.  He  organized  the  De  Luxe  Automobile  Com- 
pany, distributors  of  the  Oldsmobile,  and  in  this  connection  has  built  up  a  business 
of  most  gratifying  and  substantial  proportions.  In  the  St.  Louis  number  of  The 
Oldsmobile  Pacemaker  of  February,  1920,  issued  by  the  Olds  Motor  Works,  Ap- 
peared the  following  article:  "In  Missouri  or  Maine  or  anywhere  else  the  pre- 
dominant reasons  for  Oldsmobile  popularity  are  to  be  found  in  the  Oldsmobile 
itself  and  in  the  Oldsmobile  reputation  for  quality — quality  which  for  twenty- 
two  years  has  set  the  pace  in  American  motordom.  But  in  various  sections  of 
the  country  there  exist  special  reasons  for  Oldsmobile  popularity.  In  St.  Louis 
and  the  territory  surrounding  it  one  finds  that  the  names  Oldsmobile  and  De  Luxe 
Automobile  Company  are  almost  inseparable  and  that  the  name  De  Luxe  is  widely 
accepted  as  a  veritable  guarantee  of  fair  dealing.  To  understand  and  appreciate 
this  it  is  necessary  to  know  something  of  the  history  of  this  concern,  of  the  organi- 
zation and  of  the  ironclad  policies  pursued  to  maintain  the  lofty  standards  es- 
tablished for  all  business  dealings.  The  business  was  organized  in  a  small  way 
in  1913  as  a  partnership  in  which  the  present  owner,  P.  H.  Brockman,  was  a 
partner.  Within  two  years  this  young  concern  had  so  fittingly  demonstrated  its 
calibre  as  to  merit  the  Oldsmobile  distributing  franchise  for  the  very  large  terri- 
tory embraced  in  the  eastern  half  of  Missouri,  the  southern  part  of  Illinois  and 
a  small  section  of  Kentucky.  Within  the  year  following  the  organization  grew 
from  five  to  seventy  members,  and  has  never  ceased  growing  at  a  healthy  rate. 
While  the  reasons  'De  Luxe'  for  Oldsmobile  popularity  in  the  St.  Louis  territory 
are  various,  they  may  be  summed  up  under  the  single  head  SERVICE,  which  with 
Mr.  Brockman  is  little  short  of  a  religion.  First,  he  is  concerned  with  the  service 
the  dealers  under  his  supervision  render  the  Oldsmobile  owners  in  their  territories. 
Hence,  a  wholesale  department  is  njaintained  at  St.  Louis  under  the  head  of 
Z.  A.  Barker;  and  four  capable  representatives  are  kept  constantly  on  the  road 
tor  the  express  purpose  of  cooperating  with  dealers.  In  addition,  an  immense 
stock  of  service  parts  is  maintained  in  St.  Louis  so  that  any  dealer  may  be  served 
in  almost  any  of  his  requirements  on  a  few  hours'  notice.  Because  he  believes  in 
practicing  what  he  preaches  (and  by  way  of  setting  a  one  hundred  per  cent 
example  for  those  in  the  outlying  territory)  he  maintains  a  service  department  for 
the  city  of  St.  Louis  and  its  environs  that  is  a  model  of  completeness  and  efficiency. 
This  service  station,  which  is  separate  from  the  downtown  salesrooms  at  3128 
Locust  street,   is  very   centrally   located   at    3807-19    Laclede   avenue.      It   comprises 


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forty-five  thousand  feet  of  floor  space,  and  in  addition  to  the  equipment  usual  to  a 
first-class  service  station,  includes  a  complete  machine  shop  and  a  fine  upholstery 
shop.  The  handsome  service  wagons,  of  which  there  are  four,  are  always  on  the 
job  as  St.  Louis  Oldsmobile  owners  will  testify.  As  an  indication  of  the  esteem  in 
which  Mr.  Brockman  is  held  in  St.  Louis  automobile  and  civic  circles,  it  is  note- 
worthy that  he  is  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Automobile  Dealers'  and  Manufac- 
turers' Association,  president  of  the  Anti-Auto-Theft  Association,  member  of  the 
executive  committe  of  the  Million  Population  Club,  and  chairman  of  the  city  legis- 
lation bureau  of  the  Federated   Roads  Council." 

He  is  also  the  president  of  the  Industrial  Warehouse  Company  of  East  St. 
Louis.  His  plans  are  well  formulated  and  carefully  executed.  He  seems  to  recog- 
nize almost  intuitively  the  real  value  of  any  business  situation  or  condition  and  his 
eHorts    have    been    directed    along    lines    that    have    produced    substantial    returns. 

At  East  St.  Louis,  on  the  24th  of  December,  1912,  Mr.  Brockman  was  married 
to  Miss  Anna  Skibbe,  a  daughter  of  Mrs.  Victoria  Skibbe,  of  Chicago,  Illinois.  Mr. 
Brockman  is  widely  known  tor  his  many  charitable  acts,  for  he  is  constantly  ex- 
tending a  helping  hand  to  those  in  need,  especially  to  destitute  families  and  chil- 
dren through  the  cooperation  of  the  St.  Louis  Police  Department.  His  political 
endorsement  is  given  to  the  republican  party  and  he  is  active  in  all  civic  affairs 
for  the  betterment  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  chairman  of  the  automobile  committee 
for  the  twenty-four  million  dollar  bond  is.-iiue  for  St.  Louis  in  1920.  In  the  same 
year  he  was  made  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Safety  First  Council 
and  there  are  few  organized  efforts  for  the  benefit  and  improvement  of  St.  Louis 
which  do  not  receive  his  hearty  support  and  cooperation,  his  labors  at  all  times 
being  far-reaching  and  effective.  He  is  a  valued  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Auto- 
mobile Dealers'  and  Manuafacturers'  Association,  of  which  he  was  elected  a  director 
in  1917,  the  vice  president  in  1918  and  the  president  in  1919,  being  reelected  to 
the  highest  office  in  1920.  He  was  elected  to  the  executive  board  of  the  sales 
manager  bureau  of  the  St.  Louis  Chamber  of  Commerce  for  three  years  and  was 
made  district  chairman  of  the  state  legislative  committee  for  the  Missouri  Good 
Roads   Federation   in   the   twelfth   district. 

There  is  still  another  phase  in  the  life  record  of  Mr.  Brockman  which  is 
worthy  of  attention,  as  it  indicates  much  of  the  nature  of  his  interests  and  his 
character.  He  is  a  Master  Mason,  having  joined  the  order  on  the  2  6th  day  of 
July,  1902.  On  the  18th  of  September,  1903,  he  was  made  a  Royal  Arch  Mason 
and  on  the  14th  of  November,  1903,  a  Knight  Templar,  while  on  the  24th  of 
February,  1911,  he  became  a  Noble  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  His  appreciation  of 
the  social  amenities  of  life  is  indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  has  membership  in  the 
Missouri  Automobile  Club,  the  St.  Louis  Automobile  Club,  the  Liederkranz,  the 
Sunset  Hill, Country  Club,  the  City  Club  and  in  the  Missouri  Athletic  Association. 


JAMES  M.  MITCHELL. 


James  M.  Mitchell,  secretary  of  the  H.  D.  Lee  Mercantile  Company  of  Kansas  City, 
was  born  in  Hookstown,  Pennsylvania,  May  21,  1863.  His  father,  James  M.  Mitchell, 
also  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  was  a  farmer  by  occupation  but  at  the  time  of  the  Civil 
war  put  aside  all  business  and  personal  considerations  and  responded  to  the  country's 
call  for  troops,  enlisting  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Fortieth  Regiment  of  Pennsylvania 
Volunteers,  with  which  he  served  as  a  sergeant  until  killed  in  the  battle  of  Spottsyl- 
vania,  Virginia.  He  was  a  devout  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  married 
Sarah  McFerran,  also  a  native  of  the  Keystone  state,  who  passed  away  leaving  three 

children. 

James  M.  Mitchell  was  educated  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  his  native 
town  and  in  the  college  of  Commerce  of  Philadelphia.  On  removing  to  the  west  he 
made  his  way  to  Minneapolis,  Kansas,  where  he  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  for 
a  short  time.  He  later  became  a  resident  of  Salina,  Kansas,  and  was  a  traveling  salesman 
for  a  number  of  years  in  the  en^loy  of  the  E.  F.  Goodrich  Fruit  Company,  while  later 
he  became  associated  with  the  H.  D.  Lee  Mercantile  Company  of  Salina  and  has  now 
been  connected  with  the  business  since  1902.  Gradually  he  has  worked  his  way  upward 
until  today  he  Is  secretary  of  this  great  corporation,  which  has  its  headquarters  in 
Kansas  City  and  which  is  capitalized  for  ten  million  dollars.     The  company  maintains 


1018  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

brancb  houses  at  various  points  in  the  east  as  well  as  in  the  middle  west  and  its 
business  is  one  of  mammoth  proportions.  Mr.  Mitchell  is  a  man  of  the  strictest  business 
integrity  and  is  greatly  admired  for  his  indomitable  perseverance,  to  which  is  largely 
due  the  success  and  the  position   to  which  he  has  attained. 

In  1906  Mr.  Mitchell  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Harriet  Grier,  of  Charlotte, 
Michigan,  and  they  have  one  child,  Mell  Grier,  now  twelve  years  of  age.  Mr.  Mitchell 
turns  to  golf  and  motoring  for  rest  and  recreation.  He  is  well  known  in  the  club 
circles  of  Kansas  City  and  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
He  belongs  also  to  the  Advertising  Club,  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club,  the  Automo- 
bile Club  and  the  Lake  Forest  Club,  the  Knife  &  Fork  Club  and  the  Milburn  Golf 
&  Country  Club.  He  is  also  connected  with  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association, 
with  the  Good  Roads  Association,  and  with  the  Masonic  fraternity,  in  which  he  has 
taken  the  York  and  Scottish  Rite  degrees,  and  has  become  a  member  of  Isis  Temple 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  His  political  belief  is  that  of  the  republican  party  and  his  religious 
faith  that  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  His  life  has  ever  been  actuated  by  high  and 
honorable  principles  and  characterized  by  most  worthy  motives,  leading  to  the  successful 
achievement  of  his  purposes.  Ability,  faithfulness,  diligence  and  loyalty  have  con- 
stituted potent  forces  in  his  success  and  today  he  is  a  prominent  figure  in  mercantile 
circles  of  Missouri. 


JESSE  D.  DANA. 


Jesse  D.  Dana,  who  is  both  a  Yale  and  Harvard  man,  has  been  identified  with 
St.  Louis  since  1905  and  during  this  period  has  been  closely  associated  with  some  of 
the  most  important  business  interests  of  the  city.  At  the  present  time  he  is  president 
of  the  Boatmen's  Bank  Building  Company.  He  was  born  in  Lisbon,  Maine,  March  31, 
1877,  a  son  of  Frank  W.  Dana,  a  native  of  Maine  and  a  representative  of  one  of  the  old 
and  prominent  families  of  Massachusetts,  founded  in  America  during  early  colonial 
days  by  Richard  Dana,  who,  crossing  the  Atlantic  from  England,  settled  in  Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.  Among  his  descendants  were  those  who  participated  in  the  Revolutionary 
war.  Frank  W.  Dana  was  born  in  Eastport,  Maine,  was  graduated  from  Bowdoin  College 
of  Maine  with  the  LL.  B.  degree  and  tor  many  years  successfully  engaged  in  the  practice 
of  law,  being  one  of  the  best  known  and  most  prominent  attorneys  of  Boston  and  of 
Maine.  He  married  Emma  J.  Davis,  also,  a  native  of  the  Pine  Tree  state,  her  birth 
having  occurred  in  Webster.  She  belonged  to  one  of  the  well  known  old  families  of 
Maine  of  English  lineage,  her  first  American  ancestors,  however,  settling  in  Roxbury, 
Massachusetts.  The  original  American  ancestor  of  the  Davis  family  was  Jesse  Davis. 
This  family  was  also  represented  in  the  American  army  in  the  struggle  for  Tndependence 
and  likewise  in  the  War  of  1812.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  W.  Dana  have  passed  away, 
the  former  having  died  in  1916  and  the  latter  in  1917.  They  had  but  two  children,  Jesse 
D.  and  Payson,  the  latter  an  attorney  at  law  and  civil  service  commissioner  of  Massa- 
chusetts. 

Jesse  D.  Dana  was  educated  at  Andover,  also  at  Yale  and  at  Harvard.  He  completed 
his  more  specifically  literary  course  at  Yale,  winning  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree,  and 
then  pursued  the  study  of  law  at  Harvard,  being  admitted  to  the  Massachusetts  bar 
in  1902.  Since  1902  he  has  been  a  resident  of  the  middle  west,  taking  up  his  abode 
in  that  year  in  Sligo,  Missouri,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  operation  of  a  blast 
furnace.  In  1905  he  came  to  St.  Louis  and  for  five  years  thereafter  was  connected  with 
steel  and  iron  industries.  In  1910  he  became  connected  with  the  Commonwealth  Trust 
Company  as  treasurer  and  subsequently  was  promoted  to  the  oflBce  of  vice  president. 
He  was'  likewise  vice  president  of  the  Guardian  Trust  Company.  In  1914  he  became 
active  in  organizing  the  Mississippi  Valley  Iron  Company  and  in  the  same  year  he 
built  the  Boatmen's  Bank  building,  one  of  the  most  modern  oflBce  buildings  of  St.  Louis, 
at  which  time  he  was  the  vice  president  of  the  company.  Upon  the  death  of  the  President, 
Lawrence  P.  Pierce,  on  the  12th  of  December,  1919,  Mr.  Dana  was  elected  to  the  presidency 
and  is  now  the  chief  executive  officer  of  this  company,  which  controls  one  of  the  finest 
buildings  of  the  city. 

On  the  20th  of  September,  1902,  in  Jacksonville,  Illinois,  Mr.  Dana  was  married  to 
Miss  Clara  R.  Brown,  a  daughter  of  William  and  Clara  (Robb)  Brown.  Her  father  was 
solicitor  and  general  counsel  for  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad  at  Chicago  and  was  also 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  1019 

the  legal  associate  of  T.  B.  Blackstone,  a  distinguished  Chicago  attorney.  To  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Dana  have  been  born  two  children;  Richard,  born  in  Sligo,  Missouri,  in  1904; 
and  Robert  Brent,  in  St.  Louis,  in  1909. 

During  the  World  war  Mr.  Dana  took  active  part  in  promoting  every  Liberty 
Loan  and  Red  Cross  drive  and  in  many  other  ways  contributed  to  the  home  service, 
which  was  the  sustaining  influence  of  the  soldiers  in  the  field.  His  political  allegiance 
has  always  been  given  to  the  republican  party  and  fraternally  he  is  connected  with 
the  Masons.  He  belongs  to  the  Unitarian  church  and  is  prominently  known  in  the 
club  circles  of  St.  Louis  as  a  member  of  the  Noonday,  Racquet  and  Country  Clubs, 
also  of  the  New  York  Yale  Club  and  the  Boston  University  Club.  His  lite  record  is  a 
splendid  example  of  what  can  be  accomplished  when  New  England  training  is  grafted 
onto  western  enterprise  and  opportunity. 


E.  N.    (DICK)   SMITH. 


E.  N.  (Dick)  Smith,  is  the  managing  editor  of  the  Kansas  City  Post,  to  which 
position  he  was  called  in  1919,  and  he  has  always  devoted  his  attention  to  news- 
paper work  since  making  his  initial  step  in  the  business  world.  At  the  present 
time  he  is  likewise  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Prank  V.  Smith  &  Brothers,  conducting 
a  general  insurance  business  in  Kansas  City.  He  was  born  July  10,  1889,  in 
Leavenworth,  Kansas,  his  parents  being  Thomas  K.  and  Annie  A.  (Nugent)  Smith. 
He  obtained  a  public  school  education  in  his  native  state  and  in  the  city  in  which 
he  still  resides  and  early  took  up  newspaper  work.  He  is  widely  known  in  jour- 
nalistic circles  and  is  considered  a  newspaper  man  of  marked  ability,  who  is  uni- 
formly known  as  "Dick"  Smith  to  the  newspaper  fraternity.  In  modern  parlance 
he  is  a  "live  wire."  He  was  assistant  librarian  of  the  Kansas  City  Star,  afterward 
became  a  reporter  on  that  paper  and  later  a  reporter  for  the  Kansas  City  Post. 
He  next  filled  the  position  of  assistant  city  editor  on  the  Post  and  from  1913  until 
1919  was  city  editor,  while  in  the  latter  year  he  was  made  managing  editor.  His 
employers  said  that  he  was  one  of  the  youngest  city  editors  and  managing  editors 
in  the  country  at  the  time  of  his  promotion  to  the  respective  positions.  In  addi- 
tion to  his  activity  in  the  newspaper  world  he  joined  his  brothers,  Frank  V.,  Thomas 
K.  and  James  W.  Smith,  in  the  establishment  and  conduct  of  a  general  insurance 
business  which  is  being  carried  on  under  the  name  of  Frank  V.  Smith  &  Brothers. 

On  the  18th  of  May,  1910,  Mr.  Smith  was  married  to  Miss  Marion  E.  Ware, 
a  daughter  of  Joseph  F.  Ware,  and  they  now  have  one  son,  Richard,  who  is  eight 
years  of  age.  The  religious  faith  of  Mr.  Smith  is  that  of  the  Catholic  church. 
He  gives  his  political  allegiance  to  the  democratic  party  and  he  is  identified  with 
the  City  Club  of  Kansas  City,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Kansas  City  and  also 
the   Chamber   of   Commerce   of   Kansas   City,   Kansas. 


LUTHER  MARVIN  CALLAWAY,  M.  D. 

Dr  Luther  Marvin  Callaway,  largely  concentrating  his  efforts  and  energies  upon 
surgical  practice,  was  born  in  Marshfield,  Missouri,  February  15,  1883,  his  parents 
being  William  W.  and  Nancy  (Day)  Callaway,  who  were  early  settlers  of  Missouri. 
The  father  is  a  farmer  by  occupation  and  has  devoted  his  attention  to  the  raising 
of  mules  on  an  extensive  scale.  His  political  endorsement  is  given  to  the  demo- 
cratic party  and  his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Methodist  church.  During  the 
Civil  war  he  was  a  member  of  the  Eighth  Missouri  Militia  Regiment.  For  many 
decades  he  has  been  a  witness  of  the  growth  and  development  of  the  state  and  is 
now  living  retired  at  Marshfield,  enjoying  a  well  earned  rest. 

Dr  Luther  Marvin  Callaway,  of  this  review,  began  his  education  in  the  public 
schools'  of  Missiouri  and  attended  the  high  school  at  Seymour,  Missouri,  while 
later  he  became  a  student  in  the  Washington  University  Medical  School  at  St 
Louis  being  there  graduated  in  1910.  He  later  pursued  a  special  post-graduate 
cours4  in  surgery  in  the  General  Hospital  and  in  1911  began  practice  in  Kansas 
CUy     confining    his    attention   through    the    intervening   period    to    general    surgical 


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work.  He  is  splendidly  qualified  in  this  particular  and  his  practice  is  now  exten- 
sive and  of  a  most  important  character.  He  is  the  medical  director  of  the  National 
Bankers  Insurance  Company  and  is  serving  on  the  staff  of  St.  Mary's  Hospital. 

Dr.  Callaway  belongs  to  the  Jackson  County  Medical  Society,  the  Missouri  State 
Medical  Association  and  the  American  Medical  Association  and  through  the  pro- 
ceedings of  these  bodies  keeps  largely  in  touch  with  the  trend  of  advancement  made 
by  the  medical  profession.  In  politics  he  is  a  democrat.  During  the  World  war 
period  he  was  made  a  lieutenant  (j.  g.)  of  the  United  States  Navy  Medical  Depart- 
ment in  July,  1918,  and  served  with  the  Flying  Corps  at  Pensacola,  Florida,  as 
sanitary  officer  and  also  as  general  medical  officer  at  the  naval  station  there.  He 
was  discharged  froin  active  service  in  May,  1919,  but  still  retains  his  commission 
as  a  lieutenant  of  the  junior  grade  in  the  Naval  Reserve. 

In  1915,  at  Kansas  City,  Dr.  Callaway  was  married  to  Miss  Katherine  H. 
Sullivan,  a  daughter  of  Edward  and  Helen  (Riley)  Sullivan,  the  former  one  of  the 
inspectors  of  the  Ha'rtford  Steam  Boiler  Works  at  the  Kansas  City  branch.  Dr. 
Callaway  belongs  to  York  Lodge,  No.  563,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  is  a  loyal  follower 
of  Masonic  teachings  and  purposes.  He  recognizes  the  brotherhood  of  mankind 
and  is  continually  extending  a  helping  hand  to  a  fellow  traveler  on  life's  journey. 


EDWARD  L.  BAKEWELL. 


Edward  L.  Bakewell,  operating  in  real  estate  circles  in  St.  Louis,  is  numbered 
among  the  younger  business  men  in  this  field  of  activity,  yet  he  has  already  made 
for  himself  a  creditable  place  in  real  estate  circles  during  the  decade  in  which  he 
has  been  connected  therewith.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis  county,  August  27,  1890, 
and  is  a  son  of  Paul  Bakewell,  who  became  prominently  known  as  a  patent  law 
attorney.  The  ancestral  records  of  the  family  are  traced  back  to  Robert  Bake- 
well,  geologist,  who  was  born  at  Nottingham,  England,  March  10,  1767,  and  died 
August  15,  1843,  in  London,  England.  His  son,  William  Johnstone  Bakewell, 
was  born  in  Wakefield,  Yorkshire,  England,  July  4,  1794,  and  in  1839  came  to  the 
new  world,  settling  first  at  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  while  his  death  occurred  in 
Geneseo,  New  York,  August  2,  1861.  His  son,  Robert  Armytage  Bakewell,  was 
born  in  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  November  4,  1826,  and  died  in  St.  Louis,  June  30, 
1898.  He  became  a  distinguished  lawyer  and  jurist,  becoming  one  of  the  three 
first  judges  of  the  St.  Louis  court  of  appeals.  He  was  married  May  3,  1863,  in 
St.  Louis,  to  Marie  Anne  de  Laureal,  who  was  born  in  Guadaloupe,  West  Indies, 
August  26,  1832,  but  was  educated  in  France.  Her  people  were  owners  of  sugar 
plantations  in  Guadaloupe  for  several  generations.  Paul  Bakewell  was  a  son  of 
Judge  Robert  A.  Bakewell  and  like  his  father  became  a  distinguished  member  of 
the  bar,  largely  specializing  in  patent  law. 

Edward  L.  Bakewell  was  educated  in  the  St.  Louis  University  and  also  in  St. 
Mary's  College  at  St.  Marys,  Kansas,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1908.  His 
first  business  connection  was  with  the  insurance  firm  of  W.  H.  Markham  &  Com- 
pany, with  which  he  remained  for  a  year.  He  then  entered  the  general  real  estate 
business  in  1909  and  has  since  been  active  along  that  line.  He  has  become 
thoroughly  familiar  with  real  estate  values  and  the  property  upon  the  market  and 
has  negotiated  many  important  realty  transfers.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the 
Mound  City  Trust  Company. 

On  the  2  6th  of  November,  1912,  Mr.  Bakewell  was  married  to  Miss  Mildred 
C.  Anderson,  a  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lorenzo  E.  Anderson,  representatives  of  an 
old  and  prominent  St.  Louis  family.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bakewell  have  been  born 
five  children:  Anderson,  who  was  born  September  18,  1913;  Alexander  McNair, 
born  December  16,  1914;  Edward  L.,  Jr.,  August  S,  1916;  Mildred  C,  September 
4,  1918;  and  Nicholas,  December  1,  1919.  All  were  born  in  St.  Louis  and  reside 
with  their  parents  in  a  pleasant  home  at  No.  4459   Lindell  boulevard. 

The  religious  faith  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bakewell  is  that  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
church.  ■  Politically  he  is  a  republican  and  his  appreciation  for  the  social  amenitieg 
of  life  is  indicated  in  his  connection  with  the  Sunset  Hill  Country  Club  and  the 
Marsden  and  Coleman  Gun  Clubs.  During  the  war  period  Mr.  Bakewell  was  in 
charge  of  the  western  section  of  the  city  in  the  Liberty  Loan  drives  and  was  also 


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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  1023 

active  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  Red  Cross  worlc.  He  is  a  representative  of  two  of 
the  oldest  families  of  Missouri  and  his  record  is  in  harmony  with  that  of 
an  ancestry  honorable  and  distinguished.  Like  his  forebears,  he  has  always  been 
loyal  to  the  best  interests  of  his  community,  state  and  nation  and  his  cooperation 
and  aid  can  always  be  counted  upon  to  further  any  plan  or  measure  for  the  general 
good. 


FRANK   W.    IRVIN. 


Frank  W.  Irvln,  treasurer  of  the  H.  D.  Lee  Mercantile  Company  of  Kansas  City, 
one  of  the  most  important  commercial  interests  of  the  state,  was  born  in  Riley  county, 
Kansas,  August  11,  1875,  his  parents  being  C.  P.  and  Margaret  (Balderston)  Irvin,  the 
former  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  while  the  latter  was  born  in  New  York.  The  father 
served  in  the  Civil  war  in  defense  of  the  Union  cause.  He  belongs  to  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church  and  is  now  living  retired  in  Topeka,  Kansas. 

Frank  W.  Irvin  is  the  eldest  of  a  family  of  three  children.  He  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  county  and  in  the  State  Agricultural  College.  At  the 
age  of  seventeen  years  he  became  a  railway  clerk  in  New  Mexico,  where  he  was  em- 
ployed for  a  brief  period,  and  later  became  identified  with  the  operating  department 
of  the  Wear  Coal  Company,  which  he  thus  represented  for  thirteen  years  or  until  they 
sold  out.  In  1910  he  came  to  Kansas  City  with  a  mercantile  company  that  was  later 
absorbed  by  the  H.  D.  Lee  Mercantile  Company,  of  which  he  is  now  the  treasurer. 
This  is  a  gigantic  concern,  having  extensive  establishments  in  various  eastern  as  well 
as  western  cities  and  giving  employment  to  between  twenty  and  twenty-five  hundred 
people. 

In  1897  Mr.  Irvin  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Bernice  Carroll,  of  West  Virginia, 
and  they  have  three  children,  Carroll,  Jane  and  Martha.  Mr.  Irvin  is  a  man  of 
domestic  tastes  who  finds  his  greatest  pleasure  in  the  company  of  his  family.  He 
finds  recreation  in  a  game  of  golf  when  leisure  permits.  However,  he  closely  confines 
his  attention  to  his  business  affairs  and  is  now  active  in  control  of  one  of  the  mammoth 
commercial  interests  of  the  state.  No  matter  in  how  much  fantastic  theorizing  one 
may  indulge  as  to  the  cause  of  success,  he  must  ultimately  reach  the  conclusion  that 
advancement  is  won  through  industry,  perseverance  and  intelligently  directed  effort. 
The  life  record  of  Frank  W.  Irvin  is  proof  of  this  statement.  Without  special  advantages 
at  the  outset  of  his  career,  he  has  made  steady  progress  and  is  today  a  prominent  factor 
in  the  direction  of  commercial  affairs  whose  ramifying  interests  reach  out  to  all 
sections  of  the  country. 


THEODORE  E.   BRIELL. 


Theodore  E.  Briell,  president  of  the  Briell-Rodgers  Company,  converters  of 
cotton  goods  in  St.  Louis,  has  through  indefatigable  energy  and  enterprise  built 
up  a  business  of  extensive  proportions,  thus  gaining  a  place  among  the  prominent 
representatives  of  commercial  interests  in  his  native  city.  He  was  born  in  St. 
Louis,  October  6,  1884,  a  son  of  Frank  Briell,  a  native  of  New  York  and  of  German 
descent.  The  father  was  reared  and  educated  in  New  York  city  and  arrived  in 
St.  Louis  during  the  '70s.  Throughout  his  active  life  he  was  engaged  in  busi- 
ness as  a  florist.  He  passed  away  in  1886,  when  but  thirty-four  years  of  age.  His 
wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Hannah  Snody,  was  a  native  of  Vermont  and 
a  representative  of  an  old  New  England  family  of  Irish  lineage,  her  people  having 
come  from  the  north  of  Ireland  at  a  period  antedating  the  Revolutionary  war, 
in  which  some  of  her  ancestors  participated.  Mrs.  Briell  was  a  daughter  of  Duthan 
B.  Snody,  a  native  of  Vermont  and  a  Civil  war  veteran  who  soon  after  the  close 
of  hostilities  between  the  north  and  the  south  removed  to  Missouri,  in  which  state 
his  daughter  became  the  wife  of  Frank  Briell. 

Their  son,  Theodore  E.  Briell,  was  one  of  a  family  of  three  children,  one  of 
whom  has  passed  away,  while  the  sister  Ethel  is  now  the  wife  of  A.  H.  Morris,  of 
St.  Louis.  After  the  death  of  her  husband,  Mrs.  Briell  entered  educational  work 
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1024  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

and  for  the  past  thirty  years  has  taught  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis,  being 
still  numbered  among  the  most  capable  and  successful  educators  of  this  city. 

Theodore  E.  Briell  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  in  the  Manual 
Training  scliool  of  St.  Louis  before  entering  the  University  of  Missouri,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1907  upon  the  completion  of  a  course  in  mechanical  engineer- 
ing. He  started  upon  his  business  career  as  a  salesman  in  the  employ  of  the 
H.  Wenzel  Tent  &  Duck  Company,  with  which  he  continued  until  1910,  when  he 
took  up  the  sale  of  dry  goods  for  a  Texas  cotton  mills  company,  which  he  repre- 
sented in  this  territory.  In  1913  the  Briell-Rodgers  Cotton  Goods  Company  was 
incorporated,  of  which  Theodore  E.  Briell  is  the  president  and  treasurer,  with  A.  K. 
Rodgers  as  the  vice  president  and  also  as  manager  of  the  Chicago  branch  of  the 
business,  while  George  Leavitt  is  the  secretary  and  manager  of  the  New  York 
branch.  The  firm  are  dealers  in  and  converters  of  cotton  goods  and  engage  in 
the  bleaching  and  dyeing  of  cotton  goods,  having  the  only  exclusive  house  of  this 
kind   in    Missouri. 

During  the  World  war  Mr.  Briell  served  as  a  private  of  Company  B  of  the 
Second  Regiment,  Missouri  Home  Guard.  His  political  allegiance  is  given  to  the 
republican  party  and  fraternally  he  is  connected  with  Mizpah  Lodge,  No.  639,  A.  P. 
&  A.  M.,  of  which  he  is  now  worshipful  master.  He  also  belongs  to  the  chapter, 
commandery  and  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  likewise  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Athletic 
Association,  the  Midland  Valley  Country  Club  and  the  City  Club,  while  his  re- 
ligious faith  is  indicated  by  his  connection  with  the  Hope  Congregational  church, 
of  which  he  is  a  trustee. 

On  the  6th  of  July,  1910,  Mr.  Briell  was  married  to  Miss  Kitty  Griffith,  a 
native  of  St.  Louis  and  a  daughter  of  Richard  and  Salina  (Rhodes)  Griffith.  Three 
children  have  been  born  to  them:  Theodore  E.,  Jr.,  who  was  born  in  St.  Louis, 
July  13,  1911;  Richard  G.,  August  4,  1914;  and  Doris,  May  8,  1919.  The  family 
resides  at  No.   6925   San  Bonita  boulevard. 

Mr.  Briell  has  always  attributed  his  success  in  considerable  measure  to  his 
mother,  who,  after  the  father's  early  death,  was  thrown  upon  her  own  resources 
and  found  it  necessary  to  provide  for  her  little  family.  This  she  did  by  teaching. 
Prom  the  mother  Mr.  Briell  learned  habits  of  thrift  and  industry  that  have  char- 
acterized his  entire  career.  Since  starting  out  in  business  for  himself  he  has  made 
steady  progress,  improving  every  opportunity  and  utilizing  every  chance  for  legiti- 
mate advancement  until  he  stands  today  as  one  of  the  prominent  representatives 
of  industrial   and   commercial   activity   in   his  native  city. 


DAVID  V.  WHITNEY. 


David  V.  Whitney,  president  of  the  Kansas  City  College  of  Pharmacy,  was  born 
December  25,  1864,  in  the  city  which  is  still  his  home,  his  parents  being  Benjamin 
R.  and  Mary  (Conrad)  Whitney,  the  former  a  native  of  the  state  of  New  York  and 
the  latter  of  Pennsylvania.  The  father  was  a  civil  engineer  who  assisted  in  build- 
ing most  of  the  railways  that  enter  Kansas  City.  He  came  to  the  west  in  1858 
and  established  his  home  in  Kansas  City  in  1860.  He  assisted  in  the  engineering 
work  of  the  old  Hannibal  Railroad,  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad  and  other  lines. 
He  was  an  active  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  was  widely  and  prominently 
known  in  his  section  of  the  state.  He  served  for  two  terms  as  city  engineer  and 
stood  high  in  professional  connections.  He  passed  away  in  Kansas  City  in  1916 
and  is  still  survived  by  his  widow,  who  has  now  reached  the  age  of  eighty-two 
years.  By  her  marriage  she  became  the  mother  of  thirteen  children,  six  of  whom 
are  yet  living. 

David  V.  Whitney,  a  member  of  this  family,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Kansas  City,  passing  through  consecutive  grades  to  the  high  school,  and  later 
he  spent  three  years  as  a  student  in  the  Kansas  City  Medical  College,  pursuing  the 
course  from  1883  until  1885.  He  did  not  graduate  but  abandoned  his  studies  of  that 
character  in  order  to  take  up  the  study  of  pharmacy  and  was  graduated  from  the 
Kansas  City  College  of  Pharmacy  with  the  degrees  of  Ph.  G.  and  Ph.  C.  Por  thirty- 
two  years  he  was  actively  connected  with  the  drug  business  of  Kansas  City  and  for 
three-fourths  of  this  time  was  engaged  In  business  on  his  own  account  at  Twelfth 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  1025 

and  Cleveland  streets  and  at  Twelfth  and  Indiana,  ranking  with  the  leading  drug- 
gists of  Kansas  City  from  1888  until  1912.  He  is  now  the  president  of  the  Kansas 
City  College  of  Pharmacy,  which  had  its  origin  in  1885,  when  a  body  of  men  promi- 
nent as  pharmacists  and  physicians  met  and  formulated  plans  for  advancing  the 
science  of  pharmacy,  organizing  an  institution  to  be  known  as  the  pharmaceutical 
department  of  the  University  of  Kansas  City.  Four  years  later,  or  in  October, 
1889,  this  organization  was  incorporated  as  the  Kansas  City  College  of  Pharmacy 
under  the  state  laws  of  Missouri  and  in  1898  the  school  was  reorganized  and  in- 
corporated as  the  Kansas  City  College  of  Pharmacy  and  Natural  Sciences,  remov- 
ing to  its  present  quarters.  Through  the  thirty-one  years  of  its  existence  the 
school  has  enjoyed  a  most  successful  career.  The  college  confers  three  degrees — - 
that  of  Graduate  in  Pharmacy,  that  of  Bachelor  in  Pharmacy  and  Pharmaceutical 
Chemist.  The  last  named  is  conferred  upon  those  who  have  completed  the  regular 
two  years  course  and  in  addtion  attend  the  third  year  of  advanced  instruction  in 
chemistry  and  bacteriology,  thus  preparing  as  analysts  or  food  inspectors.  The 
school  is  splendidly  located  in  the  downtown  district  of  Kansas  City  and  an  ex- 
cellent faculty  has  been  organized,  giving  instruction  of  the  highest  order  in  phar- 
maceutical science.  As  president  of  the  institution  Mr.  Whitney  is  holding  to  the 
highest  professional  standards  and  the  graduates  of  the  school  are  splendidly  quali- 
fied for  their  chosen  profession. 

On  the  8th  of  February,  1887,  Mr.  Whitney  was  married  to  Miss  Minnie  M. 
Shively,  a  daughter  of  Andrew  J.  and  Anna  (Swearingen)  Shively,  representatives 
of  a  prominent  pioneer  family  of  Independence,  Missouri.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Whitney 
have  became  the  parents  of  two  children.  The  elder  son,  David  V.  Jr.,  who  is 
with  the  Eagle  Chemical  Company  as  manager  of  its  laboratories,  was  married  to 
Louise  Warrick,  of  Kansas  City,  and  they  have  two  children,  David  V.  (Ill)  and 
Samuel  Dupree.  The  younger  son,  Andrew  I.,  married  Miss  Enola  J.  Pauschert, 
of  Kansas  City. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Whitney  is  a  prominent  Mason,  belonging  to  York  Lodge  and 
Orient  Chapter.  He  is  also  connected  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  In- 
dependent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  along  the  line  of  his  profession  he  has  mem- 
bership with  the  Kansas  City  Drug  Club,  of  which  he  is  an  ex-president,  and 
of  the  Missouri  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  and  the  Kansas  State  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation and  his  high  standing  is  indicated  in  the  tact  that  he  has  been  honored 
with  election  to  the  presidency  of  the  Missouri  Pharmaceutical  Association.  Mrs. 
Whitney  was  also  at  one  time  president  of  the  Missouri  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion, being  the  only  woman  to  hold  such  a  position  in  the  United  States.  She  is 
the  active  assistant  of  her  husband,  being  the  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  college, 
and  an  honorary  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Drug  Club  and  the  Kansas  Phar- 
maceutical Association.  Like  her  husband,  she  shares  in  the  high  ideals  which  have 
always  actuated  him  in  the  conduct  of  his  commercial  interests  or  in  the  manage- 
ment of  the  splendid  school  organization  which  has  been  built  up. 


CHARLES   O.  JONES. 


Charles  O.  Jones,  who  as  a  contractor  and  builder  of  apartment  houses  and 
homes  has  contributed  much  to  the  improvement  of  Kansas  City,  his  labors  resulting 
In  transforming  unsightly  vacancies  into  attractive  residence  districts,  is  regarded  as 
a  sound  business  man  whose  transactions  are  always  directed  with  diplomacy,  whose 
sincerity  is  above  question  and  whose  judgment  is  a  matter  of  wide  public  recogni- 
tion. Forming  his  plans  carefully,  he  executes  them  with  readiness  and  the  results 
attained  are  most  gratifying. 

Charles  O.  Jones  was  born  in  Burlington,  Coffey  county,  Kansas,  January  17, 
1885,  a  son  of  James  Irving  and  Susan  (Beam)  Jones.  The  father,  who  became  a 
prominent  live  stock  dealer,  was  born  in  Indiana  and  in  early  life  removed  to  Kansas, 
where  he  conducted  extensive  and  important  business  Interests  as  a  dealer  in  live 
stock.  He  served  as  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  war.  He  belonged  to  the  Masonic  fra- 
ternity and  was  a  Quaker  in  religious  belief.  His  sterling  worth  of  character  and 
his  business  ability  gained  him  prominence  in  his  community.     His  death  occurred 


1026  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

in  1917.     His  wife,  who  was  born  in  Ohio,  has  also  passed  away.     Their  family  num- 
bered seven  children,  of  whom  five  are  yet  living. 

Charles  O.  Jones  was  educated  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  Burlington 
Kansas,  and  in  a  business  college,  from  which  he  was  graduated.  He  came  to  Kan- 
sas City  in  1904  and  tor  a  time  engaged  in  the  live  stock  commission  business  at 
the  Kansas  City  Stock  Yards,  operating  successfully  in  that  field.  In  1907  he  turned 
his  attention  to  the  business  of  building  and  financing  and  promoting  apartment 
buildings  and  homes  and  has  been  very  successful  in  this  field  of  labor.  He  has 
acquired  valuable  property  interests,  owning  now  some  of  the  finest  apartment  houses 
In  Kansas  City.  His  labors  have  been  a  potent  element  in  the  architectural  adorn- 
ment and  improvement  of  Kansas  City  and  his  enterprise  and  sound  judgment  mark 
him  as  a  leading  and  reliable  business  man. 

In  1906  Mr.  Jones  was  married  to  Miss  Inez  Piper,  a  daughter  of  William  S. 
Piper,  of  Lawrence  county,  Illinois,  and  they  have  become  the  parents  of  three  chil- 
dren, Dorothea,  Charles  and  Martha,  aged  respectively  twelve,  ten  and  four  years. 
Mr.  Jones  is  a  member  of  the  Linwood  Christian  church.  He  is  interested  in  litera- 
ture, keeping  well  informed  on  the  general  questions  of  the  day  and  upon  all  current 
topics.  He  finds  his  chief  recreation  and  diversion  in  hunting  and  is  a  lover  of 
various  phases  of  outdoor  life.  He  has  never  been  a  clubman  but  is  of  a  social  nature 
that  makes  him  a  delightful  companion.  His  attention,  however,  is  chiefly  concen- 
trated upon  his  business  and  he  is  known  as  a  most  successful  builder  and  real  estate 
operator,  due  to  his  ability  as  an  organizer,  buyer  and  seller,  to  his  close  application 
and  his  indefatigable  energy. 


A.   Z.    PATTERSON. 


A.  Z.  Patterson,  attorney  at  law  with  offices  in  the  Gloyd  building  in  Kansas 
City,  is  practicing  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Sparrow  &  Patterson.  He  is  one  of 
Missouri's  native  sons,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Butler,  October  28,  1887,  his 
parents  being  John  A.  and  Cora  O.  (Stanley)  Patterson.  The  father,  who  was  bom 
in  St.  Louis,  is  a  physician  and  farmer  of  Bates  county,  Missouri,  and  is  a  man 
of  prominence  in  the  local  affairs  of  that  county.  His  wife  was  born  in  Belleville. 
Illinois,  and  by  her  marriage  became  the  mother  of  four  children,  all  of  whom  are 
yet  living.. 

A.  Z.  Patterson  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Butler  until  graduated 
from  the  high  school,  after  which  he  went  to  Jefferson  City  as  secretary  to  Judge 
Waller  W.  Graves  of  the  Missouri  supreme  court,  occupying  that  position  for  three 
years.  In  1910-11  he  pursued  a  special  law  course  in  the  University  of  Chicago 
and  was  admitted  to  practice  at  the  Missouri  bar  in  the  latter  year.  He  was  ap- 
pointed assistant  attorney  general  of  Missouri  in  1912,  and  in  1913-14  was  private 
secretary  to  Governor  Elliott  W.  Major.  In  1916  he  was  appointed  assistant  counsel 
to  the  Public  Service  Commission,  and  in  the  same  year  was  appointed  as  general 
counsel  to  succeed  the  Hon.  William  G.  Busby,  who  had  resigned  to  accept  ap- 
pointment as  chairman  of  the  commission.  During  the  time  Mr.  Patterson  served 
as  the  head  of  the  commission's  legal  department,  about  three  years,  more  than 
one  hundred  and  fifty  court  review  proceedings  from  orders  of  the  commission  were 
tried  or  otherwise  pressed  to  final  disposition  by  the  department  in  the  circuit 
and  supreme  courts  of  the  state,  together  with  a  number  of  suits  in  the  United 
States  district  court,  and  in  the  supreme  court  of  the  United  States,  In  addition 
to  the  work  of  trying,  arguing  and  briefing  these  cases,  Mr.  Patterson  appeared 
on  behalf  of  the  public  in  a  large  number  of  proceedings  before  the  commission. 

Among  the  more  important  cases,  involving  judicial  interpretation  of  the  Public 
Service  Act  and  the  validity  of  the  proceedings  of  the  commission  under  such  law, 
were  the  Sedalia  Water  Company  case  and  the  Frisco  Train  Service  case,  in  both 
of  which  Mr.  Patterson  succeeded  in  sustaining  orders  of  the  Public  Service  Com- 
mission before  the  supreme  court.  In  the  first  named  case,  the  power  of  the  com- 
mission to  change  public  utility  rates,  fixed  by  municipal  franchises,  was  affirmed. 
This  question  had  been  the  subject  of  constant  controversy  in  Missouri  for  several 
years,  and  Mr.  Patterson  was  opposed  before  the  court  by  lawyers  of  exceptional 
skill  and  ability.     In   the  Frisco  case,   it  was   urged  by   the  Railway  Company  that 


CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI  1027 

the  state  commission  was  without  power  to  regulate  the  operation  of  interstate 
trains,  but  the  supreme  court  again  sustained  the  action  of  the  commission. 

Mr.  Patterson,  at  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  office,  entered  upon  active  gen- 
eral practice  of  law  in  Kansas  City,  in  partnership  with  Samuel  Sparrow,  under 
the  firm  style  of  Sparrow  &  Patterson.  Their  practice  is  extensive  and  of  an  im- 
portant character,  and  is  largely  confined  to  insurance  and  public  utility  corporation 
law. 

In  1911  Mr.  Patterson  was  married  to  Mrs.  Agatha  W.  Colt,  a  widow,  of  Clin- 
ton, Missouri.     They  have  one  son,  Stanley  Graves,  now  five  years  of  age. 

Mr.  Patterson  gives  his  political  allegiance  to  the  democratic  party  and  few 
men  are  more  thoroughly  in  touch  with  the  political  questions  and  issues  of  the 
day.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  cooperates  heartily  with 
all  of  the  plans  of  that  organization  for  the  upbuilding  of  the  city,  the  extension 
of  its  trade  relations  and  the  development  of  its  civic  standards.  He  has  a  large 
acquaintance  throughout  the  state,  where  he  is  recognized  as  a  most  successful 
attorney  and  as  an  extremely  popular  citizen. 


JAMES   F.   HOULEHAN. 


James  F.  Houlehan,  chairman  of  the  board  of  the  Midwest  National  Bank  of 
Kansas  City,  was  born  upon  his  father's  farm  in  Montgomery  county,  Indiana,  April 
3,  1865.  He  is  a  son  of  Patrick  Houlehan,  who  was  born  in  Ireland  and  in  young 
manhood  came  alone  to  the  United  States,  making  his  way  to  Indiana,  after  which 
he  devoted  his  life  most  successfully  to  farming  in  Montgomery  county,  where  he 
was  a  highly  respected  citizen.  He  wedded  Katharine  LlUis,  also  of  Irish  birth 
and  both  are  now  deceased. 

James  F.  Houlehan  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  Crawfordsville, 
Indiana,  and  in  Wabash  College  which  he  attended  in  1884  and  1885.  He  iifter- 
ward  came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  entered  the  real  estate  business  in  a  small 
way.  He  has  since  continued  his  activities  in  this  field  and  is  now  one  of  the  lead- 
ing real  estate  dealers  of  the  city  and  active  in  financing  various  projects.  He  was 
one  of  the  organizers  and  is  a  director  of  the  Midwest  National  Bank  and  in  1917 
he  was  made  chairman  of  the  board.  He  is  thus  an  active  factor  in  financial  circles 
and  one  whose  sound  judgment  is  manifest  in  every  business  transaction  in  which 
he  is  engaged.  He  is  likewise  a  director  of  the  Stewart  Sand  Company,  a  million 
dollar  corporation,  and  is  one  of  the  directors  or  oflicers  in  many  other  important 
financial  and  commercial  concerns. 

Mr.  Houlehan  belongs  to  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  also 
to  the  Loyal  Order  of  Moose  and  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus,, 
in  which  he  has  attained  the  fourth  degree.  He  was  reared  in  the  Catholic  faith 
and  has  always  been  a  loyal  supporter  of  its  teachings.  Moreover,  he  is  most 
active  in  the  work  of  the  church  and  its  charities.  He  likewise  belongs  to  the 
Kansas  City  Club  and  to  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club  and  he  is  a  man  whose 
genial  nature,  kindly  spirit  and  sterling  worth  have  won  for  him  an  extensive  circle 
of  friends. 


JOSEPH   W.   MOORE. 


Joseph  W  Moore,  well  known  in  financial  circles,  was  born  near  Linneus, 
Missouri  July  5,  1861,  and  is  a  son  of  James  A.  and  Sarah  F.  (True)  Moore.  His 
youthful  days  were  spent  upon  the  home  farm,  his  time  being  divided  between  the 
work  of  the  fields  the  duties  of  the  school  room  and  the  pleasures  of  the  playground. 
After  his  textbooks  were  put  aside  he  continued  to  assist  in  the  further  development 
and  improvement  of  the  farm  until  he  reached  the  age  of  twenty-five  years,  when  he 
became  a  resident  of  Brookfield  and  turned  his  attention  to  commercial  pursuits  as 
junior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Powers  &  Moore,  druggists.  He  was  connected  with 
this  firm  for  eighteen  years  and  later  concentrated  his  efforts  and  attention  upon 
banking      In  Julv,  1904,  he  and  his  father  organized  the  Moore  Bank  of  Brookfield, 


1028  CENTENNIAL  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI 

o£  which  he  was  made  cashier  and  manager,  filling  the  dual  position  until  the  death 
of  his  father  on  the  22d  of  November,  1919,  when  he  also  assumed  the  presidency 
of  the  bank  in  addition  to  his  other  duties.  The  Moore  Bank  was  opened  for  business 
July  1,  1904,  with  a  capital  of  fifteen  thousand  dollars  and  such  has  been  the  success 
of  the  institution  that  the  capital  stock  was  later  increased  to  twenty-five  thousand, 
while  at  present  the  bank  has  a  surplus  of  fifty  thousand  dollars.  Mr.  Moore  also  owns 
three  farms  under  a  high  state  of  cultivation  and  improved  with  all  modern  equipment 
and  accessories.  His  lands  are  operated  under  his  supervision  and  in  all  business 
affairs  he  is  recognized  as  a  man  of  sound  judgment  who  is  keeping  alert  through 
the  exercise  of  effort  and  whose  life  record  is  the  story  of  honest  industry  and  thrift. 

At  various  times  Mr.  Moore  has  figured  in  connection  with  the  public  life  of  his 
district.  He  occupied  the  office  of  city  treasurer  of  Brookfield  in  a  most  creditable 
and  satisfactory  manner  and  at  all  times  has  given  his  support  to  the  democratic  party 
where  national  questions  and  issues  are  involved  but  does  not  feel  the  necessity  of 
adhering  so  closely  to  party  lines  at  local  elections  and  never  under  any  circum- 
stances does  he  permit  partisanship  to  stand  in  the  way  of  the  public  good. 

On  the  25th  of  December,  1887,  Mr.  Moore  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Louie 
E.  Grain,  a  native  of  Illinois  and  a  daughter  of  Joseph  J.  and  Lydia  (Moore)  Grain. 
The  three  children  born  of  this  marriage  are:  Ruth  L.,  now  the  wife  of  Harry  Tidd 
of  Hutchinson,  Kansas;  Helen  E.,  at  home;  and  Harold  J.,  who  ia  now  a  senior  in  the 
Missouri  University  at  Columbia.  He  enlisted  in  the  United  States  navy,  going  to  the 
officers'  training  school  at  Ghicago  and  also  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  Pelham  Bay,  New 
York. 

Mr.  Moore  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  and  all  of  the  family 
are  active  in  Its  work,  contributing  to  the  material,  social,  intellectual  and  moral 
development  of  their  city  and  county. 


JOHN   BERIAH   HOLMAN. 


For  forty  years,  or  since  1880,  John  Beriah  Holman  has  engaged  in  paper  box 
manufacturing  in  St.  Louis  and  through  the  intervening  period  the  company  of  which 
he  is  the  president  has  developed  its  interests  until  the  concern  is  one  of  the 
largest  of  the  kind  in  the  United  States.  It  constitutes  a  most  valuable  element  in 
the  commercial  circles  of  the  city  and  ijt  stands  as  a  monument  to  the  business 
enterprise,  progressiveness  and  keen  sagacity  of  John  B.  Holman  and  his  brother,, 
who  were  its  founders.  A  native  of  Ohio,  Mr.  Holman  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  October 
11,  1853,  and  is  of  English  lineage,  his  ancestry  being  traced  back  to  David  Holman, 
a  native  of  England,  who  became  a  resident  of  Massachusetts  on  the  5th  of  January, 
1784.  His  son,  David  Holman,  Jr.,  was  born  in  September,  1776,  and  married 
Esther  Meeks.  They  were  the  parents  of  John  Beriah  Holman,  Sr.,  who  was  born 
April  5,  1825,  and  passed  away  in  St.  Louis  in  1862.  He  had  married  Jemima 
McFeeley,  daughter  of  Dr.  McFeeley,  of  Cincinnati,  and  she  had  reached  the  age  of 
seventy-one  years  when  she  passed  away  on  the  4th  o£  August,  1901,  her  birth 
having  occurred  in   1830. 

John  Beriah  Holman  was  a  young  lad  at  the  time  the  family  established  their 
residence  in  St.  Louis  and  he  completed  his  education  in  Washington  University. 
His  initial  step  in  the  business  world  was  made  as  a  clerk  in  the  general  ticket  office 
of  the  Iron  Mountain  Railway  Company,  with  which  he  was  thus  connected  from 
1870  until  1874.  He  then  became  interested  In  the  hay  and  grain  commission  busi- 
ness and  continued  his  operations  along  that  line  for  five  years.  In  1879  he  con- 
centrated his  efforts  upon  the  real  estate  business  and  in  1880  joined  his  brother, 
William  H.  Holman,  in  organizing  the  Holman  Paper  Box  Company  and  establishing 
a  factory  which  has  since  been  developed  into  one  of  the  chief  productive  industries 
of  the  Mississippi  valley.  The  business  was  incorporated  in  1885  and  John  B.  Hol- 
man succeeded  to  the  presidency  upon  the  death  of  his  brother  in  1891.  Throughout 
the  intervening  period,  covering  twenty-nine  years,  he  has  remained  as  the  chief 
executive  officer  of  this  enterprise,  occupying  a  position  of  leadership  in  trade  circles, 
for  his  plant  is  today  the  most  extensive  of  its  kind  in  the  country.  For  a  consid- 
erable period  the  business  occupied  the  site  of  the  famous  old  Brandt  House,  noted 
as  the  headquarters  of  General  Fremont  during  the  Civil  war,  and  from  this  house 


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was  issued  the  first  slavery  emancipation  proclamation.  The  present  location  of  the 
firm  is  at  Nos.  316  and  318  Clark  avenue.  A  most  progressive  policy  has  always 
been  maintained  in  connection  with  the  conduct  ot  the  business  and  the  work  has 
been  thoroughly  systematized,  so  that  there  is  no  waste  of  time,  effort  or  material. 
Its  reputation  has  been  built  upon  the  firm  foundation  of  reliability  and  enterprise 
and  from  the  beginning  the  company  has  recognized  that  satisfied  patrons  are  the 
best  advertisement.  A  contemporary  writer  has  said:  "The  prosperity  of  Mr.  Holman 
cannot  be  attributed  to  a  combination  ot  fortunate  circumstances,  but  has  arisen 
from  keen  perception  as  to  the  possibilities  in  trade  circles,  supplemented  by  unfal- 
tering enterprise  and  intelligent  effort  well  directed.  His  business  has  ever  been 
conducted  on  the  strictest  principles  of  honesty,  and  aside  from  his  commercial 
interests  Mr.  Holman  is  the  center  of  a  circle  of  friends  who  honor  and  esteem 
him  for  his  manly  virtues  and  genuine  worth." 

Mr.  Holman  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Fanny  W.  Wash,  a  daughter  of  Martin 
W.  and  Margaret  (Humphreys)  Wash,  and  to  them  was  born  a  son,  John  Edgar,  now 
a  business  man  of  New  York  city,  who  has  one  son,  John  Edgar,  Jr.,  now  second 
vice  president  of  the  Holman   Paper  Box  Company  of  St.   Louis. 

Mr.  Holman  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  belonging  to  Occidental 
Lodge,  No.  163,  A.  P.  &  A.  M.;  St.  Louis  Chapter,  No.  8,  R.  A.  M.;  and  St.  Aldemar 
Commandery,  No.  18,  K.  T.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Automobile  Club 
and  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  his  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Methodist 
church.  He  is  much  interested  in  agriculture  and  he  maintains  a  beautiful  country 
home  about  twenty-two  miles  from  St.  Louis,  in  St.  Louis  county,  where  he  has 
an  attractive  bungalow  called  Namloh,  standing  on  the  bank  of  the  Meramec  river, 
in  the  beautiful  Ozark  mountains.  Here  he  has  sixty-five  acres  with  a  frontage  ot 
nearly  a  mile  on  the  river,  and  the  high  bluffs  enable  him  to  enjoy  a  commanding 
view  of  the  beautiful  scenery  for  miles  around.  During  the  summer  months  Mr. 
Holman  gives  the  major  part  of  his  time  to  his  country  place  and  is  particularly 
interested  in  the  raising  of  fine  poultry  and  diversified  crops  for  home  needs.  He 
thus  finds  rest  from  the  onerous  duties  ot  a  commercial  career  that  made  heavy 
demand  upon  his  time  and  energies  for  many  years  as  he  developed  his  interests 
from  a  small  beginning  to  the  leading  business  of  the  kind  in  the  United  States. 


ROBERT  L.  MORTON. 


Robert  L.  Morton  is  general  agent  tor  the  Connecticut  Mutual  Lite  Insurance 
Company  of  Hartford  at  St.  Louis.  Like  the  company  which  he  represents  he  is  of 
New  England  origin,  for  his  birth  occurred  in  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  August  29, 
1859.  His  father,  Robert  L.  Morton,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  and  was  a  sea 
captain.  He  married  Ellen  Gotty,  a  native  of  London,  England,  and  both  have  now 
passed  away.  Captain  Morton  having  departed  this  life  in  1863,  while  his  wife  sur- 
vived until  1909. 

Robert  L.  Morton,  their  only  child,  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  his  native  city 
and  afterward  for  three  years  studied  law  under  the  direction  of  Samuel  C.  Mount,  ot 
New  York.  He  was  later  with  the  firm  of  J.  M.  Warren  &  Company  of  Troy,  New 
York,  in  charge  of  their  cutlery  department  until  1883  when  he  came  to  St.  Louis  and 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Simmons  Hardware  Company  as  a  traveling  salesman,  repre- 
senting this  house  on  the  road  until  1895.  He  then  took  charge  of  their  Broadway 
shop  as  manager  but  later  again  went  on  the  road,  covering  his  old  territory  in  Illi- 
nois until  1901.  He  was  then  made  sales  manager  for  the  territory  ot  Missouri,  Nebraska, 
Kansas,  Iowa,  and  South  Dakota.  Subsequently  he  became  manager  of  the  city  depart- 
ment with  the  Norvell-Shapleigh  Hardware  Company,  occupying  that  position  until 
1911.  He  is  a  brother-in-law  of  Mr.  Norvell  and  when  he  left  the  company  was  one 
ot  its  directors.  In  1911  he  turned  his  attention  to  the  insurance  business,  represent- 
ing the  Connecticut  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Hartford,  which  has  maintained 
an  agency  in  St.  Louis  since  1848,  being  the  first  old  line  company  to  be  represented 
here.  The  Connecticut  Mutual  Lite  Insurance  Company  has  been  in  existence  tor 
seventy-five  years  and  has  assets  amounting  to  eighty-five  million  dollars.  Mr.  Morton 
has  developed  a  large  business  as  representative  of  the  company  at  St.  Louis,  where 
he  is  carrying  on  the  business  under  the  firm  style  of  Morton  &  Morton,  the  junior 

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partner  being  his  son.  He  was  tlie  president  of  the  Life  Underwriters  Association  of 
St.  Louis  in  1919. 

On  the  29th  of  December,  1886,  Mr.  Morton  was  married  to  Miss  Ella  Stratford, 
who  passed  away  in  1895.  In  1898  he  wedded  Miss  Mary  Matthews,  a  daughter  of 
Leonard  Matthews,  a  prominent  resident  of  St.  Louis.  There  were  two  children  of  the 
first  marriage:  Mrs.  Arthur  Anderson;  and  Stratford  Lee,  who  is  now  in  business  with 
his  father.  By  the  second  marriage  there  were  born  three  children:  Mary,  now  twenty 
years  of  age;  Robert,  eighteen  yars  of  age,  who  is  now  attending  Columbia  College  at 
Columbia,  Missouri;  and  Elizabeth,  sixteen  years  of  age,  who  is  a  pupil  in  the  Mary 
Institute.  Mr.  Morton  and  his  family  occupy  a  beautiful  home  at  Webster  Groves, 
known  as  "Glenmorton." 

He  is  very  fond  of  farming  and  outdoor  life,  to  which  he  devotes  much  ot  his  leisure 
time  when  he  can  be  spared  from  his  office.  The  firm  of  Morton  &  Morton  occupies  a 
commodious  suite  of  rooms  on  the  tenth  floor  of  the  Chemical  building  in  St.  Louis.  Mr. 
Morton  is  identified  with  a  number  ot  organizations  of  St.  Louis,  including  the  Rotary 
Club  of  which  he  was  formerly  president,  and  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  which  he  is 
serving  as  chairman  of  the  membership  committee.  He  is  likewise  a  director  ot  the 
City  Club  and  in  1917  served  as  its  vice  president.  He  is  very  prominent  in  Masonic 
circles,  is  a  past  commander  of  St.  Aldemar  Commandery,  No.  18,  K.  T.,  has  filled 
various  chairs  in  the  Scottish  Rite  bodies  and  is  a  past  potentate  of  Moolah  Temple, 
A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.  His  political  endorsement  is  given  to  the  republican  party  and  he 
served  as  president  of  the  board  ot  education  of  Webster  Groves  in  1915-1918.  In 
religious  faith  he  is  an  Episcopalian  and  was  vestryman  ot  the  Church  of  the  Ascen- 
sion in  St.  Louis,  but  now  has  his  membership  at  Webster  Groves. 


DON  C.  MEYER. 


Don  C.  Meyer,  attorney  at  law  with  offices  in  the  Gloyd  building  In  Kansas  City, 
was  born  in  Holt  county,  Missouri,  July  24,  1877.  His  father,  Andrew  Meyer,  was 
a  native  ot  Germany,  born  April  28,  1821,  and  when  thirteen  years  of  age  came  to 
the  United  States,  making  his  way  to  Ohio,  while  soon  afterward  he  removed  to  Mis- 
souri, where  his  remaining  days  were  spent.  He  was  a  successful  farmer  who  care- 
fully tilled  his  fields  and  wisely  managed  his  business  interests.  He  served  in  the 
Mexican  war  from  1846  until  1848  and  again  defended  the  interests  ot  his  adopted 
country  as  a  Union  soldier  in  the  Civil  war.  In  the  summer  of  1849  he  went  to  Cali- 
fornia, where  he  was  engaged  in  mining  near  Sacramento  until  the  spring  of  1851. 
He  passed  away  September  29,  1910,  in  Holt  county,  Missouri.  He  was  an  hon- 
ored and  respected  citizen  and  a  devoted  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  On 
August  20,  1851,  in  Holt  county,  he  wedded  Mary  Secrist,  who  was  born  in  Ohio, 
July  13,  1834,  and  came  to  Holt  county,  Missouri,  in  1843  with  her  parents.  She 
passed  away  February  19,  1899,  in  that  county.  Their  family  numbered  thirteen 
children,  ten  of  whom  are  yet  living. 

Don  C.  Meyer  was  graduated  from  the  high  school  ot  Mound  City,  Missouri, 
and  spent  his  youth  as  a  farm  bred  boy,  devoting  his  attention  to  the  work  of  the 
fields  when  not  occupied  with  the  duties  of  the  schoolroom,  until  he  was  twenty-two 
years  of  age.  Being  desirous  of  entering  upon  a  professional  career,  he  then  became 
a  student  in  the  University  ot  Missouri  and  won  his  LL.  B.  degree  in  1901.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  Missouri  upon  examination  before  the  supreme  court  and  has 
been  actively  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in  Kansas  City  since  1902,  making  a 
specialty  of  corporation  and  real  estate  law.  He  has  never  been  very  active  as  a 
clubman,  preferring  always  to  devote  his  time  and  attention  to  his  professional  duties, 
and  he  has  gained  a  high  standing  as  a  successful  attorney. 

In  1907  Mr.  Meyer  was  married  to  Miss  Alma  L.  Duncan,  a  daughter  of  James 
M.  Duncan,  ot  Marshall,  Missouri,  and  they  have  two  children:  Donald  Duncan,  five 
years  ot  age;  and  Mary  Ruth,  three  years  ot  age.  Mr.  Meyer  turns  to  golf  tor  recrea- 
tion and  diversion  and  he  is  also  a  member  of  the  Knife  &  Fork  Club.  His  polit- 
ical allegiance  is  given  to  the  republican  party  and,  while  never  an  office  seeker,  he 
is  mindful  ot  the  duties  and  obligations  ot  citizenship  and  loyally  supports  the  in- 
terests In  which  he  believes. 


Index 


Abbott,  B.  A 311 

Abernathy,  H.  T 124 

Abernathy,  J.   L 150 

Adams,  A.   N.  Vrvt .  ^fVv^>i^p .'; .  •. ■;■-'; .-. .'.    169 

Adams,  E.  B I^ 62 

Adams,  Washington    45 

Adreon,  E.   L 46 

Adreon,  E.    E 52 

Allen,  C.  L 502 

Alves,  C.  S,   528 

Anderson,  J.  F 827 

Anderson,  M.   M 900 

Anderson,  T.  L 501 

Andrews,  L.  B 292 

Arensberg,   P 389 

Arnold,  H.  L 785 

Atkinson,  Chilton    862 

Atkinson,  K.  C 858 

Austin,  J.  M 619 

Baker,  S.   F 972 

Bakewell,  E.  L 1020 

Ballard,  E.  S 451 

Barnum,  Eaynolds 421 

Barrett,  T.  J 420 

Barron,  C.  B 586 

Bates,  C.  W 368 

Bates,  J.  S 555 

Bates,  W.  M 452 

Bay,  M.  C 393 

Beach,  A.  I 855 

Beasley,  T.  C 496 

Beck,  C.  W 950 

Beckmann,  W.  E 400 

Beggs,  S.  M 868 

Berghoff,  John  T 161 

Berghoff,  John  T.,  Jr 588 

Bemet,  Christian 937 

Beminghaus,  J.  A 495 

Bigger,  C.  C , 399 

Bird,  D.  E 740 

Bissell,  J.  B 844 

Bixby,  W.  K 14 

Black,  G.  E 665 

Black,  H.  W 473 

Blackwood,  J.  K 226 


Blair,  Albert    212 

Bland,  C.  P 870 

Blanton,  H.  H 295 

Blesse,  W.  J 893 

Bliss,  B.  G 907 

Bliss,  H.   J 500 

Bloodworth,  J.  M 774 

Blossom,  H.  M 789 

Blumeyer,  A.  A 856 

Bogie,  M.  M 1002 

Bolte,  A.  H 770 

Bond,  S.  P 675 

Bostwiek,  A.  E 532 

Bothman,  Theodore  1008 

Bowden,  R.  N 676 

Bowling,  C.  B \ 708 

Bo^™lan,  D.  A 1009 

Bowman,    Samuel    1009 

Bowyer,  J.  L 123 

Boxley,  F.   A 657 

Boyle,  Murat   808 

Bradford   Family    516 

Brady,  H.  L 743 

Branimer,  Hugh  115 

Bramwell,  W.  K 195 

Breting,  G.  L 894 

Brewer,  H.  W 398 

Briell,  T.  E 1023 

Brinkman,  A.  M 60 

Brockman,  P.  H 1014 

Brooks,  J.  S 775 

Brown,  C.  H 824 

Brown,  G.  W 18 

Brown,  N.  S 795 

Brown,  P.  S.,  Sr 186 

Brown,  P.   S.,  Jr 222 

Brownlee,  Walter    101 

Brownlee,  W.  H 145 

Brunswick,  David    17 

Bryson,  J.  M 614 

Buddy,  C.  A 713 

Buddy,  C.  F 685 

Burford,  C.  E 572 

Buruey,  C.  A 624 

Burns,  I.  B 893 

Bums,  B.   A 906 


1033 


1034 


INDEX 


Bumside,  J.    A.     664 

Burrell,   C.  E 923 

Burveaich,  Anton    607 

Butts,  W.  W 29 

Byers,  W.  E 760 

Cahill,  J.  B 681 

CaldweU,  E.  B 791 

Calhoun,  D.  E 151 

Callaway,  L.  M 1019 

Campbell,  James    846 

Carman,    C.    B 410 

Carter,  E.  T 247 

Carter,  J.  N 216 

Carter,  W.  F 244 

Case,  C.  T 479 

Chamier,  A.  B 690 

Chapman,  O.  J 686 

Cheney,  F.  N 299 

Childers,   Grover    457 

Chouteau  Family  601 

Christy,  C.  M 723 

Clarkson,  G.   W 109 

Clarkson,  W.   P 82 

Cloud,  W.  H 447 

Clymer,  H.  G 339 

Cobb,  E.  D 307 

Colnon,  E.  S 580 

Combs,  E.  P 315 

Comer,  C.  P 527 

Condie,  H.  D 654 

Cooley,  C.  E 901 

Cowen,  W.  B 76 

Crabbs,  F.  D 670 

Cramer,  F.  E 205 

Cramer,  Gustav    '. .  .  .  221 

Creel,  Wylie   211 

Crittenden,  H.  H 814 

Crittenden,  T.  T 544 

Croy,  O.  W 944 

Crump,  J.  P 751 

Curby,  C.  J 454 

Curry,  W.  B 689 

Dame,  J.  E 216 

Dameron,  W.  L 642 

Dana,  J.  D 1018 

Darr,  J.   M 257 

Darr,  S.  T 257 

Davidson,  J.  F 119 

Davies,  G.  A 253 

Davis,  B.    D 371 

Davis,  J.  J 340 

Davis,  W.  W 86 

Deacon,  A.  E 623 

Dean,  O.  H 98 

Dennig,  L.   E 955 


Denny,  J.  N 978 

Detling,  C.  M 900 

Disbrow,  C.  W 830 

Donahue,  W.  H 576 

Dooley,  T.  J 685 

Dougherty,  G.   P 410 

Druding,   T.   J 323 

Dubinsky,  C.  M 813 

Duckworth,  E.  C 462 

Dulany,  W.  H 880 

Duncker,  C.  H 899 

Dyer,  G.  L 99J 

Dysart,   T.  N 716 

Eagleton,  M.  D 371 

Ebersole,  Abraham   328 

Eddy,  H.  W 620 

Edlin,  F.  W 595 

Edmonson,  O.  M 340 

Edwards,  B.  F 934 

Edwards,  G.    H 387 

Edwards,  W.    J 209 

Edwards,  Waldo    743 

Eliot,  E.  C 570 

Elliott,    A.    J 726 

Ellison,  E.   D 889 

Eunis,  H.  E 818 

Evans,  G.  B 331 

Evans,  O.   D 526 

Evans,  W.  F 820 

Faessler,  W.  J 489 

Fairweather,   James    745 

Fauntleroy,  T.  T 130 

Faust,  A.  E 432 

Faust,  E.  A 432 

Fell,  J.  P 308 

Ferris,  F.   G 200 

Ferris,  W.    C 324 

Petty,  E.  6 414 

Petty,  M.   B 383 

Findly,  W.  T 232 

Finney,  W.  B 954 

Fisher,  A.  E 549 

Fisher,  A.  T 1003 

Fisher,  J.  M 61 

Fitts,  J.  C 647 

Fleming,  E.  J 290 

Flynn,  W.  C 308 

Fooshe,  C.    E 971 

Forney,  F.  B 611 

Pourt,  A.  M 575 

Fox,  C.  C 306 

Francis,  D.  E 33 

Franciscus,  J.  M 918 

Frank,  D.  A 374 

Frank,  H.  A 41 


INDEX 


1035 


Frank,  Nathan 8O4 

Freeland,  J.  L 413 

Fristoe,  J.  W 276 

Frost,  Lily  H 463 

Gage,  J.  C 592 

Garrett,  E.  D 483 

Garrison,  A.  C 663 

Garrison,  D.  E 669 

Garrison,  Flint 924 

Garvey,  J.  M 937 

Garvey,  J.  W. 285 

Gauss,  C.  F 769 

Gauss,  C.  W 768 

Gentry,  O.  H.,  Jr 227 

Giese,  W.  H 565 

Gilbreath,  "W.  T 338 

Giraldin,  W.  A 648 

Gist,  W.  L 811 

Gladney,  F.  Y 709 

Glennon,  J.  J .    467 

Glore,  F.  D 494 

Glosemeyer,  V.  H 1004 

Glover  Family    5I6 

Gocke,  Edward 425 

Goddard,   Warren    175 

Goodding,  J.  B 210 

Goodding,  E.  E 55 

Goodwin,  W.  W 533 

Gosney,  C.  W 844 

Grant,  J.   M 644 

Grant,  W.  T 403 

Granville,  J.  D 608 

Graves,  O.  C 448 

Green,  A.  P 752 

Green,  F.  M. 193 

Green,  J.  F 764 

Green,  T.  J 901 

Gridley,  B.  E 992 

Guthrie,  E.  J 289 

Hagerman,  B.  H 650 

Haid,  A.  E 441 

Hall,  C.    L 206 

Hall,  F.    A 264 

Hall,  .J.  K 120 

Hall,  Marshall    833 

Hall,  W.  F 911 

Hamilton,  Charles   735 

Hamilton,  J.  N 643 

Hammer,  O.  W 827 

Hammes,  W.  E 818 

Hammes,  W.    F 879 

Hammett,  J.  L 569 

Handy,  J.  W 896 

Harber,  E.  M 512 

Harding,  J.   T 94 


Hargus,  J.   C 715 

Hargus,  S.  0 933 

Harkins,  J.  E.   908 

Harlan,  T.  B 704 

Harris,  S.  F 674 

Harris,  V.  M 227 

Harrison,  J.  A 864 

Hartigan,  F.  X 648 

Harvey,  J.  G.  L '.  . .  .  604 

Hauseman,  W.  J 431 

Haverstick,  A.  J 949 

Hawes,   H.   B 173 

Haynes,  J.  1 682 

Hays,  E.   C 441 

Hays,  W.  H 406 

Heman,  A.  H 518 

Hensley,  W.  L 238 

Herbert,  J.  M 334 

Herding,  F.   J 414 

Hess,  C.  P 887 

Hickman,  F.  M 286 

Higgs,  T.  J 331 

Hildreth,  A.  G 701 

Hill,  Walker  30 

Hirsch,  H.  0 177 

Hitchcock,  G.  C 852 

Hocker,  L.  0 776 

Hodgman,  G.  A 618 

Hoerr,  L.  A 511 

Holderness,  M.  E 962 

Holland,  M.  J 889 

HoUiday,  J.  H 986 

Holman,  J.  B 1028 

Holmes,  J.  H 317 

Holtman,   J.  W 987 

Holtmann,  W.  F 483 

Horner,  W.  W 807 

Hornsby,  J.  L 119 

Hough,  Warwick    136 

Hough,  W.  M., 142 

Houghtlin,   D.   L 156 

Houlehan,  J.  F 1027 

Houts,  C.  A 296 

Hubbard,  E.  M 905 

Hudson,  Clark    Ij07 

Hudson,  iiouis,  588 

Hughes,  A.  E ' 975 

Hughes,  C.  W 739 

Hughes,  J.   G 534 

Humphrey,  G.  W 617 

Hunicke,  Herman    572 

Hunleth,   P.   J 874 

Hunt,  W.  H 993 

Hunter,   S.   0 707 

Hurley,  G.  D 969 

Hurwitt,  Frank   975 

Hyde,  B.  C 344 


1036 


INDEX 


Immaculate  Conception  Church 373 

Irvin,   F.  W 1023 

Jackes,  F.  R 691 

James,  John   515 

Jamison,  D.  A 689 

Johann,  F.  A 746 

Johnson,  J.  M 312 

Johnson,  M.  B 873 

Johnston,  J.  L 709 

Jones,  C.  0 1025 

Jones,  R.  M 757 

Jones,  S.  B 666 

Kauffman,   R.  K 560 

Kavanaugh,  T.  J 351 

Kavanaugh,  W.  K 486 

Keith,  C.  S. 104 

Keith,  R.   H 260 

Kelley,   H.   E 349 

Kelly,  J.  A 879 

Kemp,  H.  E 823 

Kennard,  J.  B 279 

Kiel,    h:.    W 125 

Kineade,  Dudley   389 

Klemm,  K.  D 157 

Knobeloch,  T.  A 317 

Knoche,  Joseph   792 

Knott,  J.  A 397 

Kralemann,  H.  C 415 

Kreismann,  P.  H 358 

Kroeger,  E.  R 638 

Krum,  G.  H 102 

Kurfiss,  S.  H 403 

Lacy,  N.  M 596 

Lathrop,  J.  H 959 

Lawler,  C.  A 526 

Leahy,  J.   S 442 

Leavell,  J.  R 922 

Leaver,  L.  E 783 

Lee,  H.  D 1002 

Levi,  A.  L 817 

Levy,  R.  H 934 

Lewis,  A.   B 997 

Lilly,  M.   J 548 

Lindsay,  H.   T 604 

Lockridge,  G.  N 945 

Logan,  J.  S 233 

Lomax,  E.  M 322 

Lomax,  H.    C 268 

Lonsdale,  J.  G 172 

Loomis,  C.  A 531 

Lowenstein,  H.  P 940 

Lund,  R.  L 563 

Lyda,  J.  W 301 

MeCallum,  F.  M 836 

McCarty,  V.  W 321 


McClure,  W.  M 1008 

McCullen,   E.   J 754 

McCune,  H.  L 158 

McDaniel,  Lex   819 . 

McFadden,  G.  W 445 

McGarvey,  B.  H 365 

McGregor,  W.  B 357 

Mclntire,  W.  H 555 

McLaughlin,  J.  J 269 

McLucas,  W.   S 680 

McPheeters,  S.  B 267 

McPheeters,  Rev.  S.  B 627 

McPheeters,  T.  S.,  Jr 633 

McPheeters,  T.  S.,  Sr 631 

McVey,    Archibald    556 

Maffitt,  T.  S ,   725 

Maffry,  C.  R T  .   679 

Magill,  C.  B 895 

Maloney,  W.  H 263 

Mann,  H.  B 436 

Manning,  J.  T 764 

Mare,  W.  H 149 

Markgraf ,  Rudolf   409 

Matthews,  O.  F 829 

Matthews,  R.   S 710 

Mauran,  J.  L 784 

May,  M.  J 135 

Mays,    J.  W 478 

Meagher,  A.  P 470 

Meigs,  R.  G 274 

Meyer,  D.  C 1032 

Milbank,  J.  T 155 

Miller,  J.  G 582 

Miller,  S.  J 332 

Milligan,   R.   M 185 

Minteer,  J.  C 956 

Mitchell,  F.  C 566 

Mitchell,  J.  M 1017 

Mitchell,  Orestes    559 

Moffitt,  C.  S 171 

Moffitt,  N.  L 171 

Moore,   Allen    355 

Moore,  B.   C 416 

Moore,  G.   T 243 

Moore,  J.  A 302 

Moore,  J.  W 1027 

Moore,  W.  L 406 

More,  E.  A 544 

Morton,  R.  L 1031 

Mosier,  A.    E 703 

Morsey,  Chase    581 

Muckermann,  C.  J 384 

Mudd,  H.  G 152 

Muehlebach,  G.  E 792 

MuUins,  A.  W 426 

Murphy,  D.  A 896 

Musser,  L.  N 912 


INDEX 


1037 


Myers,  B.  L 430 

Myers,  J.  L 429 

Myers,  W.  A 430 

Nagel,    Charles    446 

National  Bank  of  Commerce 381 

Nelson,  H.    J 970 

Nelson,  W.  R 6 

Neun,  W.   J.   G 977 

Newcomb,  G.  A 913 

Newhouse,   Stanley    997 

Newman,  Chester     874 

Newman,  Harry     911 

Nichols,  J.   C 248 

Nicolaus,  Henry    422 

Niemeier,  C.  L 946 

Niemoeller,  K.  F 373 

Noel,  Charles   1001 

Nolan,  J.  A .i 994 

Noonan,  S.  J.  P 858 

Norris,  W.  K 869 

Northcott,   C.   C 109 

Nowak,  C.  A 914 

Nugent,  A.  P 458 

Nugent,  J.  E 534 

O'Brien,  J.  J 377 

O  'Day,  John    650 

O  'Maley,  G.  T 982 

O  'Neil,  P.  A 692 

Orear,  M.  L 275 

Ormiston,  D.  B 435 

O'Sullivan,  T.  F 839 

Patterson,  A.   Z 1026 

Pearcy,  C.  O 759 

Peck,  C.   H 66 

Perry,    6.   0 521 

Pettengill,  H.  J 469 

Pew,  J.  B 438 

Pf eiffer,  Adolph 542 

Phelan,  F.  W 612 

Phelan,  W.   J 613 

Pierce,  T.  0 759 

Pinkerton,  D.  M 773 

Pitzman,  JuUus   228 

Planck,  W.  B 857 

Pollock,  J.  H 834 

Pope,  H.  G 923 

Porteous,  W.  M 350 

Porter,  D.  E 845 

Porter,  P.  B 839 

PoweU,  G.  F 291 

Powers,  F.  W 37 

Powers,  J.  H 814 

Presoott,  J.  P 927 

Price,  J.  E 735 


Priest,  H.  S 110 

Proud,  W.  C 495 

Pulitzer,  Joseph,  Jr 876 

Queeny,   J.   F 88 

Rae,  E.  T> 954 

Ray,  E.  L 218 

Reeves,  A.  L 585 

Reid,  J.  W 550 

Reid,  W.  M 399 

Reith,  C.  P 169 

Eeller,  A.  H 623 

Renaud,  E.  C 907 

Reynolds,   M.  G 660 

Rice,  CM 527 

Eice,  Jonathan 597 

Richards,  F.  G 280 

Richards,  G.  B 987 

Richards,  J.   F 78 

Richards,  J.   P. 327 

Richards,  W.   B.    . . ' .^ 828 

Ring,  John   194 

Eisley,  C.  A 991 

Ritter,  C.  A 176 

Bobbins,   A.   H 343 

Bobinson,  E.  C 1 242 

Bobinson,  G.  W 890 

Robinson,  O.  E 595 

Boeder,  C.  N.  E 452 

Boeder,  Francis   421 

Roessel,  R.   A 124 

Romliauer,  E.  R 587 

Rosskopf ,  H.  A .^ 361 

Rowland,  C.  K .' 752 

Rubey,  W.  M 960 

Ruf,  F.  A : 126 

Rutherford,  W.  T 480 

Salter,  J.  G 719 

Seanlon,  J.  S 812 

Scanitt,  C.  W 60 

Scarritt,  Nathan    234 

Scarritt,  W.   C 42 

Schachner,  W.  L 464 

Schauffler,  B.  M 993 

Schell,  P.  P 867 

Schewe,  W.  H 659 

Schlueter,  J.    A 930 

Schlueter,  W.  H 930 

Scott,  William    356 

Scott,  W.    S 134 

Scudder,  J.  W 289 

Sebree,  S.  B 510 

Seddon,  A.  M 985 

Sedgwick,  G.  W 799 

Sedgwick,  L.  M 753 


1038 


INDEX 


Seibert,  J.  M 917 

Senter,  C.  P 270 

Serena,  J.  A 790 

Shapleigh,  J.  B 736 

Sharon,   P.   C • 490 

Shea,  E.  D 614 

Sheldon,   F.   E 506 

Shelton,  N.  M 981 

Shclton,  W.  A 961 

Shields,  G.  H 92 

Shields,  T.  E 372 

Slociimb,  L.  Q 703 

Sluder,  Greenfield     462 

Smart,  J.  G 835 

Smith,  B.   H 146 

Smith,  C.  A 649 

Smith,  C.    E 217 

Smith,  E.   F 162 

Smith,  E.  N 1019 

Smith,  E.  Sanborn    763 

Smith,  Elsworth  S 166 

Smith,  J.   H ' 189 

Smith,  J.    S 258 

Smith,  J.  T., 184 

Snow,  E.  B 108 

Southern,  A.  C 316 

Standly,  Z.  T 362 

Stayton,  E.  M 196 

Steiner,  C.  W 658 

Stephens,  L.  V 72 

Stickney,  W.  A 780 

Still,  A.  T 720 

Stith,  W.  C 493 

Stockton,  E.  H 190 

Stofer,  E.  S 976 

Storer,  C.  E 642 

Stribling,  J.  0 468 

Strother,    A.    E 812 

Study,  Guy  719 

Smnmers,  J.  S 633 

Surbeck,  H.  C 453 

Surbeck,  J.   M 796 

Sweeney,  E.  J 474 

Swingley,  C.  W 929 

Swinney,  E.  F 502 

Tansey,  G.  J 510 

Thacher,   Arthur    405 

Thomas,  C.  E 1007 

Thomas,  W.  0 259 

Thomas,  W.    S 182 

Thompson,  G.  A 591 

Thomson,  E.  B 786 

Thomson,  William     840 

Thomson,  W.  H 634 

ThornhUl,  T.  J 953 


Tilton,  O.  S 388 

Toll,  P.  E 305 

Trimble,  E.    G 103 

Trimble,  W.  K 437 

Tumey,  J.  E 543 

Van  Cleve,  W.  C 461 

Vanderslice,  Howard 902 

Vitt,  E.   S 541 

Vrooman,  H.  J 378 

/ 

Waddell,  J.  A.  L 280 

Waddell,  E.  W 390 

Wade,  F.  J 56 

Wagner,  H.  K 598 

Walsh,  J.    S 5 

Walsh,  E.  A.  B 962 

Walther,  L.  E 123 

Warner,  G.  K 538 

Watson,  A.  E 225 

Watts,  M.  F 522 

Wehmiller,   Fred    988 

Weigle,  Florence  E 338 

Wells,  L.    P 454 

Welte,  Bella    38 

Welsh,  J.  B 352 

Westfall,  P.  K 580 

Whitaker,  Edwards  116 

White,  J.  B 24 

White,  E.  M 862 

White,  T.  W 779 

Whitney,  D.  V ■.  .  1024 

Wickham,  W.  F 241 

Wielandy,  P.  J 553 

Wight,  J.  W 729 

Wilfley,  X.  P 254 

Williams,  E.  L 525 

Williams,  E.  D 960 

Williams,  E.    P 333 

Willman,  E 875 

Wilson,  O.  A 571 

Wilson, .  S.  G 834 

Wislizenus,  F.  A 77 

Withers,  J.  W 419 

Withrow,  J.  E 202 

Witten,   T.   A 564 

Wood,  W.  D 337 

Woodhead,  John    273 

Woods,  W.   C :   318 

Woods,  W.    S '] 23 

Wright,  H.  P 394 

Yawitz,  J.  J 1010 

Zachritz,  William    966 


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